( Things I dog-eared in The Works of Plato (minus The Republic and Thaetetus) )

( Things I dog-eared in Cape Cod by Henry David Thoreau )

p107: "We have grown to trust blindly in our senses of balance and reason, and I can see where the mind might fight wildly to preserve its own familiar stable patterns against all evidence that it was leaning sideways." He turned away. "We have marvels still before us."

I'm now on to Artistotle's Ethics.

( Things I dog-eared in Victor Hugo's Notre Dame de Paris )

All my life the early sun has hurt my eyes, he thought. In the evening I can look straight into it without getting the blackness. It has more force in the evening too. But in the morning it is painful.

Hemingway, "The Old Man and the Sea"

Tom O'Roughley
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Muahahahahaha!

I am undefeated.

The guitar has strings. And they're bloody going to stay there. Bloody bloody.

While I'm here ...

( Things I dog-eared in Kafka's Metamorphosis and other stories )

I had a look at my old story notes, and they're a bit more epic than I'd realised. Must copy them in at some point. In the meantime, here's some from while I was on holiday ( Read more... )

( Things I dog-eared in The Wind in the Willows )