March 2010
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“I never said I loved you, John:
Why will you tease me day by day,
And wax a...”
– Christina Rossetti, No Thank You, John
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“Word of the day (St. Patrick’s Day)
potable \POH-tuh-buhl\ ,...”
– http://www.reference.com/wordoftheday
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Not all negative things are… er…...
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“Next day, the 22nd of October, at eight o’clock in the morning ...”
– Jules Verne, 1868: In Search of the Castaways. CHAPTER XVI: THE NEWS OF THE LOST CAPTAIN.
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“Text
I tend the mobile now
like an injured bird.
We text, text, text
our...”
– Carol Ann Duffy, Rapture
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“You know, people kept telling me, Socrates, even before I met you, that all you...”
– Plato, Meno (402 B.C.)
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That’s what friends are for.
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Not just today, one hopes →
International Women’s Day has been observed since in the early 1900’s, a time of great expansion and turbulence in the industrialized world that saw booming population growth and the rise of radical ideologies
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“‘Of course’, she resumed combatively, ‘it’s the...”
– Saki, Reginald at the Theatre
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“You told me everything by saying...
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“Word of the Day:
fealty \FEE-uhl-tee\ , noun;
1. Fidelity to one’s...”
– http://dictionary.reference.com/wordoftheday
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“Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments. Love is not love...”
– William Shakespeare, Sonnet 116
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World Book Day →
Currently reading several books at the same time. The one on my bedside table at the moment: London, by Edward Rutherfurd
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Isn’t Wednesday afternoon a fine one to get...
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After the flu
Sore after a few days of fever, I pick up a book from my bedside table and read:
“Beauty is the moment of transition, as if the form were just ready to flow into other forms. Any fixedness, heaping, or concentration on one feature… is the reverse of the flowing, and therefore deformed.”
I feel better.
