For your amusement and edification...And so I don't forget this.

It was evidently there, at a party in Antibes, that [Louise Brooks] met Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald for the second and last time. It struck her that they were already considered a bit passé by the fickle breed that summered there: The smart set's literary conversation now ran more to ( Read more... )

I've been at The Golden Notebook for nearly a month, and not because it is a long book (although it is). Partly it is because Lessing divided it up oddly so I can't just pick it up and read it whenever - I have to know I have enough free time to get through a section. Partly it is passages like this one:

( pg 344-345 )

For some reason, TCM is not showing this movie today. But...Mr. Smith Goes To Washington will always be the movie that says the best things about our government and our political system (except, maybe, 1776). I do not universally adore all its polical opinions...but I do not universally adore all of Barack Obama's political opinions, either.

( Read more... )

( witticisms )

So, I am pretty terrified about my upcoming Yuletide assignment. Also trying to think of any last minute changes I want to make. But, no. That is the whole point of Yuletide, yes? But I better not get someone I know.

The news about McKellen and Stewart doing Waiting for Godot (and I made noise out loud when I read that) is pretty awesome. Why, why ( Read more... )

Finished The Bell at Sealey Head (and, yes, I finished The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter first).

( some thoughts about Bell )

For future reference, I guess? (Move along, now.)

( The Broken Crown )

And I never understand why.

( The Scarlet Pimpernel, Chapter XVI )

Anouilh, Jean. Antigone.

( ANOUILH: my thoughts on collaborating, let me show you them. )

Mantel, Hilary. A Place of Greater Safety. New York: Picador, 2006.

Some books are very quotable.

( like this one )