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Old English for y'all
ƿis līf is lǣne, and ƿēos woruld drēoseƿ and fealleƿ.
This life is temporary, and this world declines and falls.
This is a practice reading sentence from my Old English grammar book, I thought it was beautiful. -
book quote [of the... week?]
The critic lives at second hand. He writes about. The poem, the novel, or the play must be give to him; criticism exists by the grace of other men's genius.The true critic is servant to the poet; today he is acting as master, or being taken as such. He omits Zarathustra's last, most vital lesson: "now, do without me ( Read more... ) -
undead, undead
Bauhaus, among the post-Punk bands associated with the inception of 'Goth' musical and sartorial styles in the late 1970s in Britain did not celebrate Dracula in their first single, but the actor: 'Bela Lugosi is Dead' and, of course, undead as well.
From Gothic by Fred Botting ( Read more... ) -
Percy Shelley should be my boyfriend.
"Fun I love, but too much fun is, of all things, the most loathesome."
- William Blake
"A poet participates in the eternal, the infinite, and the one; as far as relates to his conceptions, time and place and number are not."
- my dead boyfriend Shelley
"Beauty is truth, truth beauty; that is all
Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know."-Keats -
Paul Auster quote
In one of his books, Auster quotes the psychiatrist Oliver Sachs's belief that it is a sign of sanity to make an internal narrative of your life. Indeed, as Auster knows, although he has never been in therapy himself, the construction or reconstruction of such a narrative is the premise of psychoanalytic healing. When a writer makes up fictional ( Read more... ) -
meta-citas
Hoy estaba releyendo Las Babas de Diablo de Julio Cortázar, porque me encontré por un momento mirando a las torres y torres de libros frente a mi cama... como si no tuviera nada pendiente.
Inevitablemente me recordé de dead_eifersucht por varias razones.
i. Por la entrada de " meta-thingies: self reference"Nunca se sabrá cómo hay que contar esto, si en primera ( Read more... ) -
Decay of Lying quotes
"Life holds the mirror up to Art, and wither produces some strange type imagined by painter or sculptor, or realises in fact what has been dreamed in fiction ( Read more... ) -
New favorite badass:
Raymond ChandlerPersonally, I like the English style better. It is not quite so brittle, and the people as a rule, just wear clothes and drink drinks. There is more sense of background, as if Cheesecake Manor really existed all around and not just the part the camera sees; there are more long walks over the Downs and the characters don't all try to ( Read more... ) -
nothing is real
"I love you," Rachel said. "If I entered a room and found a sofa covered with your hide I'd score very high on the Voigt-Kampff test."
"Everything is true," he said. "Everything anybody has ever thought."
(Rick Deckard)
I've been reading Blade Runner over and over lately (because I'm using it for a test ( Read more... )