Posts tagged lit

Lothlorien! Here be where the elves live. 

Lothlorien! Here be where the elves live. 

Laugh till you weep. Weep till there’s nothing left but to laugh at your weeping. In the end it’s all one.
Frederick Buechner
Just finished reading. 

Just finished reading. 

Now Reading.

Now Reading.

Now Reading: The Water is Wide This happens to be the last of the Pat Conroy novels that I haven’t read. I’ve left it for far too long, but seeing as it was only one pound at a charity shop, I thought it was high time to take the plunge. Ah, puns. 

Now Reading: The Water is Wide

This happens to be the last of the Pat Conroy novels that I haven’t read. I’ve left it for far too long, but seeing as it was only one pound at a charity shop, I thought it was high time to take the plunge. Ah, puns. 

Now Reading: The Greater Journey by David McCullough

Now Reading: The Greater Journey by David McCullough

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Now Reading.  Reading a Tom Wright book is like spending the evening with a really wise old friend whose voice you have missed for many, many months. 

Now Reading. 

Reading a Tom Wright book is like spending the evening with a really wise old friend whose voice you have missed for many, many months. 

Now Reading.  Noam Chomsky, Hopes and Prospects

Now Reading. 

Noam Chomsky, Hopes and Prospects

“Would you hear of an old time sea-fight? 

Would you learn who won by the light of the moon and the stars? 

List to the yarn, as my grandmother’s father the sailor told it to me.

….. 

Serene stands the little captain, 

He is not hurried, his voice is neither high nor low, 

His eyes give more light to us than our battle-lanterns.”

- Walt Whitman

Song of Myself, 35. 

Here is a side benefit to my life: went to a Shakespeare lecture with a friend of mine. The guy who teaches the course is the head of the Shakespeare Institute, which is basically the seat of everything Shakespeare in the world. 

Anyway, we talked about King Lear. 

It has one of my favorite lines: 

“The weight of these sad times we must obey, to say what we feel, and not what we ought to say.” 

Aren’t you, like me, hoping that some person, thing, or event will come along to give you that final feeling of inner well-being you desire? Don’t you often hope: “May this book, idea, course, trip, job, country or relationship fulfill my deepest desire.” But as long as you are waiting for that mysterious moment you will go on running helter-skelter, always anxious and restless, always lustful and angry, never fully satisfied. You know that this is the compulsiveness that keeps us going and busy, but at the same time makes us wonder whether we are getting anywhere in the long run. This is the way to spiritual exhaustion and burn-out. This is the way to spiritual death.
Henry J.M. Nouwen
Now Reading. 

Now Reading. 

The principal difference between an adventurer and a suicide is that the adventurer leaves himself a margin of escape (the narrower the margin, the greater the adventure).
Tom Robbins