'What? I couldn't possibly follow Miss Treason!'
'Well, of course that's what Mrs Earwig is telling everyone,' said Annagramma, settling down a bit. 'Completely unacceptable, she says.'
I took the hiver through the Dark Door, Tiffany thought, as she viciously scraped food scraps onto the garden for the birds. The White Horse came out of the hill for ( Read more... )

 My review of the Wizarding World of Harry Potter (the new Harry Potter theme park).

"Welcome to the Wizarding World of Harry Potter! “Please respect the spell limits,” a sign reads. The Hogwarts Express greets you and the streets of Hogsmeade stretch out before you. In the distance the towers and spires of Hogwarts shoot up into the sky..."

 “Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And that no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams, because every second of the search is a second’s encounter with God and with eternity.” “Every second of the search is an encounter with God,” the boy told his heart. “When I have been truly ( Read more... )

Courage--just that; courage as a rule of life, and something to cling to always. I began to build up this enormous faith in myself. I began to see that in all my idols in the past some manifestation of courage had unconsciously been the thing that attracted me. I began separating courage from the other things of life. All sorts of courage--the ( Read more... )

"With cities, it is as with dreams: everything imaginable can be dreamed, but even the most unexpected dream is a rebus that conceals a desire or, its reverse, a fear. Cities, like dreams, are made of desires and fears, even if the thread of their discourse is secret, their rules are absurd, their perspectives deceitful, and everything conceals ( Read more... )

 Peter Handke's Repetition (Die Wiederholung, 1986 ( Read more... )

"One man scorned and covered with scars still strove with his last ounce of courage to reach the unreachable stars; and the world will be better for this."

kaoline

Kalahari 

 No one else, Love, will sleep in my dreams. You will go,
we will go together, over the waters of time.
No one else will travel through the shadows with me,
only you, evergreen, ever sun, ever moon.

Neruda

 Vedanta (Devanagari: वेदान्त, Vedānta) is a spiritual tradition explained in the Upanishads that is concerned with the self-realisation by which one understands the ultimate nature of reality (Brahman) and teaches the believer's goal is to transcend the limitations of self-identity and realize one's unity with Brahman. Vedanta is not restricted or ( Read more... )