December 2010
1 post
Moorings Oceanfront RV Resort, Belfast, Maine →
The book is done...
Alex Donovan was once a warrior. Now he spends his days in a sedate and somewhat bitter existence combing Boston ’s used bookshops, drinking too much wine and cursing a knee crippled by a terrorist’s bullet. But when Alex’s grandfather dies, he discovers the old man has left him not only a vast fortune, but a mystical, ancient book which tells the story of an immortal Templar knight. A man named...
January 2010
16 posts
“Think’st thou there are no serpents in the world
But those who slide along the...”
– Joanna Baillie—De Montfort. Act I. Sc. 2. (via ontheborderland)
On the Death of the Book...John Updike
In imagining a huge, virtually infinite wordstream accessed by search engines and populated by teeming, promiscuous word snippets stripped of credited authorship, are we not depriving the written word of its old-fashioned function of, through such inventions as the written alphabet and the printing press, communication from one person to another—of, in short, accountability and intimacy?...
“Nothing must be postponed. Take time by the forelock. Now or never! You must...”
– Henry David Thoreau (via theswashbucklingconductor) (via americansatori) (via crashinglybeautiful)
December 2009
19 posts
Laughter......
“A face is beautiful because it reveals the presence of thought, whereas at the moment of laughter a man does not think…in the instant that he grasps the comical, man does not laugh; laughter follows afterward as a physical reaction, as a convulsion of the face, and a convulsed person does not rule himself, he is ruled by something that is neither will nor reason… A human being who does not rule...
“those who escape hell
however
never talk about
it
and nothing much
bothers...”
– Charles Bukowski (via crashinglybeautiful)
“The writing of some
men
is like a vast bridge
that carries you
over
the...”
– Charles Bukowski, “The Wine of Forever” (via crashinglybeautiful)
“The urge to save humanity is always a false front for the urge to rule...”
November 2009
63 posts
I wish I had a monkey........ →
Obviously having your own monkey would be fantastic for a whole host of reasons but as they are quite intelligent yet unable to speak, they have the advantage of learning very quickly through beatings while being unable to tell anyone. Below is a list of the kind of monkeys that would be good to have. The list is far from complete as it omits Jetski monkey, Boiling water monkey and Battlestar...
“Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally...”
– Aldous Huxley (via billyjane) (via crashinglybeautiful)
““Safe? Who said anything about safe? Course He isn’t safe, but He’s...”
“I had jumped off the edge, and then, at the very last moment, something reached...”
– Paul Auster (Moon Palace) (via crashinglybeautiful)