A Commonplace Book
A commonplace book: an old-fashioned literary diary for recording interesting items from reading you've done. I use mine to record snippets from reading, conversation and life in general. (The early 2003 entries are from a period some years ago -- before the blog age -- when I tried an online commonplace book as a straight web page.) To email me, send to DeaconBlue1103-blog@yahoo.com. Other blog: http://everythingrum.blogspot.com
Monday, December 07, 2009
Wednesday, November 25, 2009
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
Saturday, September 19, 2009
Wednesday, August 26, 2009
The history of the world is the history of a ten-thousand-year war of brains between the rich and the poor. Each side is eternally trying to hoodwink the other side: and it has been this way since the start of time. The poor win a few battles...but of course the rich have won the war for ten thousand years.
Aravind Adiga, The White Tiger
Tuesday, August 11, 2009
[E]veryone wants to be the center of the universe.
Colin Negrych as quoted by Nick Palmgarten
[A] mortal soul, the non-corporeal essence of ourselves lurking within our flesh...flourishing when we flourish, and dying when we die.
Salman Rushdie, "In the South"
Both in the May 18, 2009 New Yorker.
