Because every now and then one has to dip into the poetry of one's youth...

Ah, love, let us be true
To one another! for the world, which seems
To lie before us like a land of dreams,
So various, so beautiful, so new,
Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light,
Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain

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Two songs ran through my head today. Got up with KT Tunstall's "Suddenly I See" running through my head - a relic, one expects, from watching the guilty pleasure that is "So You Think You Can Dance" on Monday. (Yes, I know, I could troll the Net for spoilers, but hell, I'll let the show unfold on my own time.) "Everything around her is a silver ( Read more... )

Excerpts from nominees for the Literary Review Bad Sex award:
"And then before her inner eye, a tide of words leaped high and free, a chaotic joy like frothing rapids: truncate, adjudicate, fornicate, frivolous, rivulet, violet, oriole, orifice, conifer, aquifer, allegiance, alacrity ... all the words this time not a crowding but a heavenly chain, ( Read more... )

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So, even as a kid I've always thought "I Saw Mummy Kissing Santa Claus" was a song about adultery; then today E pointed out that it was a song about Daddy dressed up as Santa... which suddenly makes the song much cuter, I have to say.

Am now in Bonn. On Saturday, I took about the most ridiculous flight route in my life: Nairobi-Dubai-Singapore-Frankfurt-Vienna. 3 continents, 2 days.

Just when I was getting mad at Apple for totally screwing up my Macbook, Microsoft reliably screws up as well. So I get a message from my MSN saying that I have to change my e-mail ID to connect (I was using a yahoo account as my MSN e-mail ID, and I suspect the new integration of Windows Live Messenger with Yahoo Messenger was confusing for the ( Read more... )

Am in Bangkok now - ah the jetset life. :)

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