( 2005, a year in review... )

"You have to fight for the things that don't have a voice." -Charlize Theron ( Read more... )

"Music is a strangely paradoxical thing. It is part of the human world, and yet somehow not part of it; when people are touched by it they are both reconciled to themselves (you could even say: revealed to themselves) and yet they're also lifted outside and beyond their own littleness. It is the most insubstantial thing in human life, mere ( Read more... )

"Musical suspense seems to have direct analogies in experience in general; it makes us feel something of the insignificance and powerlessness of man in the face of the inscrutable workings of destiny. The low, foreboding rumble of distant thunder on an oppressive summer afternoon, its growing intensity as it approaches, the crescendo of the ( Read more... )

Working on world lit theses... came across this. Depressing, but written so well:

"Chueh-hsin wiped his eyes. Mei lay like an icy stone. She wouldn't realy be able to hear him even if he shouted himself hoarse; she would remain motionless. All hope was gone. They were separated now by eternity, and they would never be able to bridge the gap. ( Read more... )

For english, I have to read a novel. Family by Pa Chin. Chapter 12 has an excerpt from another novel that one of the main characters recites aloud--it's connected to how all the three brothers feel about certain people in their lives, so it's not just a random thing--and I post it here, because I found it moving myself. Actually I will go further ( Read more... )

Internet surfing arose some interesting little things, eh ( Read more... )