HE CHANGES TO MASCULINE PRONOUNS AT RANDOM. SO MUCH LOVE.

Quotes/notes:

Memorization is not knowledge, school is stupid. the teacher/student divide is
false, the teacher also learns and the students aren't vessels to be
filled. The more you memorize, the less you criticize.
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Opressors are happy to minimize students' creative powers and stimulate ( Read more... )

“Locked Room Mystery” by rivkat . [Smallville: Clark/President!Lex] . [N7,5]

13.04.2012 (chapter 1)

19.12.2012

This one is a product of Rivkat hanukkah fannish celebration where she posts drabbles based on her reader’s prompts for 8 days. It’s also a WIP, to which she just added a second part, but I’m certain you can go enjoy the rest of her extensive ( Read more... )

To be perfectly honest, Dickens' style is not to my cup of tea but he has his moments of greatness (in a book this long, on the other hand, it would be hard not to). Ironically, I do like the way he plays with language and goes on about things but I am not very interested in the things he goes on about and I wish he would take things seriously more ( Read more... )

‘A sentimental journey through France and Italy’ by Laurence Sterne

I have to say titling this France and Italy
seems a bit unfair when there’s about 10% of it that’s set in the
second. Also, what the hell is with it ending in the middle of a
sentence?

15.11.2012

A lot of quotes:

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PREFACE.  IN THE DESOBLIGEANT.

It ( Read more... )

24-11-12 (wow, 2 years without posting a Spn fic review...)

In this AU universe Sam and Adam are the Winchester brothers, sons of Mary and John. And Dean’s their half brother, whose mum got abandoned by John. So it was Dean got the occasional visits and baseball games. But Dean knows enough to call the number his father gave him when his mother ( Read more... )

Kind of wandering, topic-wise but very interesting all the same. A nightmare to find. I'd have thought all of Woolf's essays are findable online, not the case!

31.10.12
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I find Bion’s concept of a ‘container’(the caretaker, the mother) that receives the emotions (normally distress) of the ‘contained’ (patient, child) and regurgitates them, after processing them, in a way that makes it possible for the contained to accept them, very interesting. I normally have trouble finding people who know how to contain me and ( Read more... )

08.11.2012

The Romantics were creepy as fuck, their cult to the morbid and depression was bad enough but they were the ones that became enamoured with sickly looking people, too thin, too pale. It is not hard to understand why vampires became super popular with people who thought a debilitating illness (be it depression or tuberculosis) was sexy ( Read more... )

03.11.12

Comments: I listened to this and I really enjoyed it in that format because it’s a very poetic kind of prose (as one might expect from a professional poet’s first big prose work). Plot wise it is not that exciting or brilliant, Esther spends most of the book feeling disdainful, despairing or indifferent to pretty much everything and this is ( Read more... )

Can’t deny Mantel is a skilled writer, I read this in two days and really enjoyed it. Narrative wise is a bit disconnected, with lots of flashbacks and flashforwards, anecdotally and philosophically it was very interesting.

Read: 02.11.2012

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