Quarter of pleasures where the rich are always waiting,
Waiting expensively for miracles to happen,
Dim-lighted restaurants where lovers eat each other,
Cafe where exiles have established a malicious village:
You with your charm and apparatus have abolished
The strictness of winter and spring’s compulsion,
Far from your lights the outraged punitive father,
The [...]
Archive for the 'More Than Scribbles' Category
The Capital
October 24, 2009
Following The Dust And Calling It More
October 21, 2009
love is a place
& through this place of
love move
(with brightness of peace)
all places
yes is a world
& in this world of
yes live
(skilfully curled)
all worlds
– E.E. Cummings, ‘Love Is A Place’
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“Wanting to meet an author because you like his work is like wanting to meet a duck because you like paté.”
– Margaret Atwood
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“YouTube, Twitter, and Facebook will [...]
Tracing The Origins of All Math Studies Jokes
October 15, 2009
From Lewis Carroll’s Through The Looking Glass, pg 300-302:
‘Manners are not taught in lessons,’ said Alice. ‘Lessons teach you to do sums, and things of that sort.’
‘Can you do Addition?’ the White Queen asked. ‘What’s one and one and one and one and one and one and one and one and one and one?’
‘I don’t [...]
The Twelve Years of ACS
October 13, 2009
On the last day of school, IBO had sent to me:
Twelve plus two test papers,
Eleven p.m. sleep times,
Ten fingers dying,
Nine non-Lear extracts,
Eight different subjects,
Seven SEVEN SEVEN,
Six hellish school years,
Five fingers left,
Four-ty-something points,
Three HLs,
Two lousy SLs,
And a night to fondly reminisce~
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At first I was happy that school was finally ending. And then I got sad over [...]
The Virtue Of Scissors, The Virtue of Matches
October 7, 2009
I do such a great job cutting people out of my life. It’s like pruning a bush. Or, to put it in economic terms (read previous post), the elimination of diseconomies of scale through downsizing. I suppose what’s particularly bothersome, is how the gradually increasing heartlessness that accompanies such a drastic action might turn this into a [...]
