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.
Monday, April 4, 2011
Syntax
"But oh, mesdames, if you are not allowed to touch the heart sometimes in spite of syntax, and are not to be loved until you all know the difference between trimeter and tetrameter, may all Poetry go to the deuce, and every schoolmaster perish miserably!" - Vanity Fair
... 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.
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