December 2010
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Rose: What do I do? Do I stay with him?
Sarah Jane: Yes. Some things are worth getting your heart broken for.
Dec 16th
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“I began with the desire to speak with the dead. This desire is a familiar, if...”
– Stephen Greenblatt, Shakespearean Negotiations
Dec 10th
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Taking a wrong turn
From casual conversation with Carl and some follow-up reading in the manual, Nita knew that there were always a certain number of wizards who cropped up on one world and seemed to spend their whole lives yearning for, and dealing with, some other one. The Powers That Be were notably silent on such subjects: privacy issues were a big deal with Them, and They didn’t go into detail on what...
Dec 7th
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“Books say: she did this because. Life says: she did this. Books are where things...”
– Julian Barnes And this is why books matter: because all books, even before they get overanalyzed by English PhD candidates, are all already about the “why” questions of the universe—the ones we fear to answer in real life (for what if we’re wrong?) but for which literature...
Dec 7th
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“Jane Eyre is a puzzling, complex, difficult text—because that’s what...”
– Peggy Reynolds, Lecturer, Queen Mary University of London This is exactly how I am feeling about Jane Eyre at the moment.
Dec 5th