One Of Many Modern Prejudices
Modern fiction is fiction and not an image of real life precisely because there is character development. The characters of Homer, often called one-dimensional by modern critics, are vastly more accurate representatives of actual human behavior.
Misrepresentation
At times one suspects women exist solely so that they may contradict their aims with their actions.
City, n.
City, n. Where a nation’s ambitious come to wage war on one another.
Debilities
There are those who can find happiness only in self-sacrifice — that is to say, in misery.
The Well Of Love
The well of love in a friendship is fed by discourse and poisoned by secrecy.
Hope, n.
Hope, n. A disease for which success is but a palliative. The succession of failures that is a human life is the cure, but almost all patients die during treatment.
Trapped Within Vestigial Christianity
God wants you to be rich. In short, not only is modern Christian doctrine unrelated to what Jesus said, but plainly contradicts it. And a certain ruler asked him, saying, Good Master, what shall I do to inherit eternal life? And Jesus said unto him, Why callest thou me good? none is good, save one, [...]
Pessimism Through Optimism
I am a member of that class of men who have become pessimists because of an innate disposition to assume all will work out for the best, a disposition that makes of life such a continual succession of disappointments that one learns to expect failure in all those areas where one once most hoped.
Signs In Spanish In New York City
Every time I read signs in Spanish in New York City in the past, I assumed the signs were written so poorly because the authors were not native speakers, but today it occured to me that perhaps the signs are written that way because the intended audience would not otherwise understand them. In short, the [...]
iTunes Complaints
I just recently bought a video iPod after having finally converted all of my music library to MP3′s. The iPod has always seemed better than the Neuros I had and it has met all my hopes. And I am thoroughly addicted to my newfound ability to watch ripped DVD’s anywhere I go. Given my perfectionism [...]