Small Wonder
It is so wonderful when a single small action tells so much about a person’s character: the way a person moves in the subway when seeing another person move to find a seat can say volumes about a person. Yet one goes on hearing so much talk about how one does not know a person [...]
A New Year’s Project
This song still can bring tears to my eyes — and that makes me very happy. Your hands didn’t move, but neither did mine: New Year’s will bring. So much to say, but nothing comes out right — both of us left without words, both of us lost in this world. It’s softer than ever [...]
O, Imagination
You know what sucks? Reading lyrics and finding that what you’ve thought you’ve been hearing for so long is not the actual lyrics — and the actual lyrics are much worse than your imagined version.
Type 1: The Freedthinker
Let’s start to introduce a modern typology of human beings. We’ll begin with the type I’ll hereafter call the freedthinker. The freedthinker is distinguished by several simple features: first, above average intelligence being utterly wasted and going without proper training (hence, frequently, the freedthinker is found among the mass of Masters and Doctoral students in [...]
Enseamèd Bed
Nay, but to live In the rank sweat of an enseamèd bed, Stewed in corruption, honeying and making love Over the nasty sty–1 God, what a beautiful passage. The words drip with rage as if the speaker were spitting on his hearer with his words. William Shakespeare : Hamlet : 3.4.92-95↩
Girlfriend Application
One sees so many boyfriend applications, I thought I would add one of my own. A prospective girlfriend should 1. Revere Shai Hulud. 2. Regard all forms of selfishness as utterly evil. 3. Be capable of winning a duel. In short, my preferred applicants would be Fremen. I do also like Caladanian girls though.
Words Without Thoughts
My words fly up, my thoughts remain below. Words without thought never to heaven go.1 William Shakespeare : Hamlet : ↩
You Will Never
You will never think he’s wrong. She will never feel quite right. Reverse the genders in that line and you get a statement true equally often and vastly more unpopular since it is popular to view women as natural victims and deeply unpopular to view them as perpetrators. How much are some branches of feminism [...]
Revenge
Revenge is sweeter than honey.
Plast’ring Art
Polonius: ‘Tis too much proved that with devotion’s visage and pious action we do sugar o’er the devil himself. Claudius: O, ’tis too true. (Aside) How smart a lash that speech doth give my conscience. The harlot’s cheek, beautied with plast’ring art, is not more ugly to the thing that helps it than is my [...]