"Have you ever, at this juncture in your life, considered moving to Paris and supporting yourself by playing French horn in a jazz band?"

I am standing upon the seashore. A ship at my side spreads her white sails to the morning breeze and starts for the blue ocean. She is an object of beauty and strength, and I stand and watch her until at length she hangs like a speck of white cloud just where the sea and sky come down to meet each other. Then someone at my side says, "There, she is ( Read more... )

"Scientific research was the lifeblood of civilization; it was the one investment that could be guaranteed to pay dividends for eternity..."
--Arthur C. Clarke, Earthlight

How is it already the final hour??

I won't be finishing Earthlight. This past hour has been slow going, thanks to the tiny, cramped type used in this book and frequent ( Read more... )

"As we looked with dreamy eyes out over the starlit ocean, from within the cavern faint music came to us softly through the darkness. Prosaic people would have said it was the sound of water lapping on the grotto walls. But we know that was not true. We knew it was the sweet soft voices of Ulysses' Sirens--singing."
--Richard Halliburton, The ( Read more... )

"I felt that, after all, nobody loved me, and decided in this blue mood to go off to the National Museum and eat worms."
--Richard Halliburton, The Glorious AdventureI sit here still, chilly and battling heavy eyelids. But I'm almost done with my Halliburton book, and I'm doing so well with this read-a-thon that I refuse to let it vanquish me this ( Read more... )

"He once said that for him there were only three good things in the world: one was to read poetry, one was to write poetry, and one was to live poetry. Had he lived poetry it would have mattered very little what else he did."
--Richard Halliburton, The Glorious AdventureCan there really be only six hours left? Time is starting to feel fluid and ( Read more... )

"Entirely ignoring the fact that the herd of bearded animals had just been sylvan demi-dieties, and recalling on the Capricornian propensity for linen and leather, I put all modesty aside and dashed in among them with bloodcurdling shouts to the heroic rescue of our pants."
--Richard Halliburton, The Glorious AdventureAlready more than seventeen ( Read more... )

"She was looking at me. Then all of a sudden she quit looking at me without moving her eyes at all. I knew she was going to lie."
--William Faulkner, The Sound and the FuryPizza eaten. Still reading. Nathan is almost finished with his Alanna book, and I'm almost finished with Faulkner. The light outside has disappeared and the breeze coming through ( Read more... )

"Stomach saying noon brain saying eat oclock..."
--William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury

Still working on Faulkner, and (appropriately, given the above quote) thinking about starting dinner. Frozen pizza is on the menu. Delicious, nutritious, and speedy.

Title of book(s) read since last update:
The Sound and the Fury, William Faulkner

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"His mother came down in a hired auto, and saw him off in a twenty-five mile wind and a steady drove of ice floes like dirty sheep. Ever since then I have believed that God is not only a gentleman and a sport; he is a Kentuckian too."
--William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury

The past two hours Nathan and I have spent alternately at the park and on ( Read more... )