This passage amused the heck out of me, so I thought I would share it. Cut away for extremely bad language and themes, you've been warned!

( An exert from Red Seas Under Red Skies, by Scott Lynch )

A quote:

"Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle."
~Plato

A poem:

( A Color of the Sky, by Tony Hoagland )

I'm glad that I'm not the only person who thinks that Coldplay's Viva la Vida goes excellently with Code Geass, but my first couple of tries on YouTube have shown me that none of them are on par with the one that runs in my head every time that song plays. Which is really a shame, because it's so damn perfect ( Read more... )

( there and back again )

First, some links . . .

This is the introduction to "The Curious Casebook of Inspector Hanshichi." Having read the whole thing, I am now very interested in reading the book itself, especially since I can't seem to find the promised serialization on the website of the Japan Times. Perhaps the serialization is finished and they took all the sites ( Read more... )

Because if greensilkchai is doing it, it must be worth doing! The Five Things meme:

( Reply to this, and I'll tell you five things I associate with you. Then you elaborate on them in your journal, like I did here. )