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Virginia Woolf - 'How should one read a book?'
In the first place, I want to emphasize the note of interrogation at the end of my title. Even if I could answer the question for myself, the answer would apply only to me and not to you. The only advice, indeed, that one person can give another about reading is to take no advice, to follow your own instincts, to use your own reason, to come to ( Read more... ) -
Scenes from the Darjeeling Limited - Wes Anderson
Why do I like it so much? Excellent background music, artistic shooting, a movie that starts from nowhere and ends nowhere, it just is, being itself, characters that develop remarkably, the compassion that I never see anywhere else, deprived of nothing but love, searching for love, finding everything but it, characters I can relate to, scenes I ( Read more... ) -
A revision
I'm swamped with books to read, & recently I stopped marginalia after reading a book that had marginalia: it constricted my reading comprehension because someone else's thoughts coexisted with mine and contaminated my understanding of the same text. My withdrawal was quite abrupt, so I needed a separate book to write about the text, a reading ( Read more... ) -
What I am reading this week
1. Feeding the Mind - Lewis Carrol
2. The Common Reader - Virginia Woolf
3. The Game of Logic - Lewis Carrol
4. Leviathan - Thomas Hobbes
5. The Poetry of Architecture - John Ruskin
6. The Seven Lamps of Architecture - John Ruskin
7. The Vindication of the Rights of Women - Mary Shelley
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Trying LJ25 challenge for a change
1. LJ appeared in April 1999, the year when I…was not born yet, but totally thought I was going to end up somewhere in Andromeda.
2. As a child, I wanted to become a…dinosaur, specifically the Yi Qi, whose fossil was discovered around my childhood, I was obsessed with paleontology.
3. My favorite school subject was…Mathematics, until I discovered ( Read more... )
