"... but unmoved thou of force must one, and forced but one allow; and the right; ask thy father which is she, let him ask his, though truth and falsehood be near twins, yet truth a little elder is; be busy to seek her, believe me this, he's not of none, nor worst, that seeks the best to adore, or scorn an image, or protest, may all be bad; doubt wisely; in strange way to stand inquiring right is not to stray; to sleep or run wrong is."
-John Donne
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A notebook of thoughts, reviews, quotations and musings. This is an attempt to find the knowledge, solace and beauty of truth and art while living in a usually hostile world.
dcornelius
... an often cynical but not yet pessimistic English graduate student and wannabe novelist interested in many things, both serious and silly. Religion, politics, literature, philosophy, movies, television and even games--I think about them all.
The Shoulders of Giants
"What can we do more than govern ourselves by the temporary lights lent us?" - Clarissa
"Now, don't you see, my son: Only this wall keeps you from Beatrice." - Purgatorio XXVIII.35-6.
"Now, don't you see, my son: Only this wall keeps you from Beatrice." - Purgatorio XXVIII.35-6.
Reading
The Rainbow by D.H. Lawrence
Consider the Lobster by David Foster Wallace
Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
Bleak House by Charles Dickens
The Archive
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- Catch-22 (excerpt)
- Satire III (excerpt)
- The Problem with the Problem of Censorship
- Cancellation of Jericho
- Review :: Fido
- Summer Session Begins
- The Paradox of a Freethinking Revolution
- TV Year in Review :: Serialized Dramas
- Aphorisms :: The Heroic
- Polemical and Irenical
- Review :: Hot Fuzz
- Democracy and the Binary Myth
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