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Of Marble Men and Hanged Men's Necks
She only requested a photograph from her husband who was traveling abroad, alas! instead she gets a full-size, god-like marble statue that is delivered many years later to her second husband's house...
Hardy, Hardy, Thomas Hardy, how I love thee! All the drama and unhappiness, the deaths and loneliness. Didn't I always say I prefer happy endings?
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Hej! Sverige!
Tonight I am travelling to Sweden! My mother and I will take the night train to Munich and then head to Rostok where we will take the ferry to Trelleborg. From there, we will explore the South of Sweden by car. So that means we won't visit Stockholm, unfortunately, but hej!, I'm very excited, nevertheless! -
Book List Meme
I cheated a bit, I guess. Some of them (e.g. "Wuthering Heights") I have only read in shortened `easy reader´ versions eight or seven years ago. At least I didn't bold the books I wasn't sure whether I had read them or not, like "Oliver Twist"and "David Copperfield".
1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien (I ( Read more... ) -
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My eyes hurt from staring at the computer screen for too long. Tomorrow I have a classroom presentation that still is quite unstructured. And it's one a.m., there are still some things to do and I've to get up at seven. Why the hell have I been so lazy during the day??? -
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After some lazy days that had really felt like holidays my life got busy again: University demands its share with presentations and examinations, my free time is filled with family gatherings like my grand-fathers birthday today, meeting friends (I attended a lovely grill party a few days ago and a rather lame party yesterday), theater and opera - ( Read more... ) -
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Today at nine o'clock in the morning my mother, Wilhelm and I paid our season's first visit to that emerald green lake to take a quick swim, just ten minutes or so by car from where we live. We went there a lot last autumn. The lake is surrounded by rocks and meadows that now are full with flowers and blooming trees ( Read more... ) -
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When I woke up today in the morning I craved some Mozart. I was especially in the mood to listen to his Entführung, but I found Le Nozze first and put it on. Happy happy Mozart sound, how it instantly excited me!
Then, after a shower, the whole day lying ahead of me, I decided to go to a bookshop, just to find it closed. So I went into Designer ( Read more... ) -
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Today I filled pages and pages of my diary, which had been neglected for a very long time. And for once, in my, if not continuous still respectable `career´ as a diary writer, I didn't get distracted by words.
One can say that today was the day were honesty entered my diary. It was a good experience. -
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I'm getting ready for my trip to Brussels! Or rather, I should! My flight goes at 6 p.m. and I still haven't packed.
I'm looking forward to discover the city. And the Belgian chocolate, oh my! The weather isn't supposed to be very nice, though! -
the teacup of experience
Before I returned E.M. Forster's novel "The Longest Journey" to the library, a book that took me a while to get into it but that nevertheless ended up being very dear to me, I copied out the following quote.
E.M. Forster on what he calls the `teacup of experience´ in his novel "The longest Journey":
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