“If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up people to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea. “ -Antoine de Saint-Exupery {from the author of the little prince. phew. that one hits me in the gut, it’s so [...]
Posts Tagged ‘books’
quotes: on my philosophy towards teaching
Posted in 2009, tagged books, quotes, teaching on 15 December 2009 | Leave a Comment »
yes, please.
Posted in 2009, tagged books, lusts on 16 October 2009 | Leave a Comment »
tuesday plath.
Posted in 2009, tagged books on 12 May 2009 | Leave a Comment »
“vague as fog, and looked for like mail.” that’s just the best part, for me.
conversation on higher education.
Posted in 2009, tagged books, conversations, things i learned on 17 April 2009 | Leave a Comment »
[helping me study for my senior exam] mom: so what would you say is the main theme of this book? me: i’d say, centrally it is about the oppression of women in society by men. mom: okay, how about this one? me: how women’s lives are shaped and determined by men around them. in victorian [...]
and hemingway’s ‘the sun also rises’ is actually a weather report.
Posted in 2008, tagged books, boy, conversations, cringeworthy on 26 March 2009 | 1 Comment »
me: thanks for the tea, dear. you can just set it over here next to my book. boy: your book’s called Fasting, Feasting? what’s that for? me: a book for my english senior comprehensive exam. boy: oh. i thought it was a book from your nutritionist. * * * * we are currently in our [...]
hemingway.
Posted in 2008, tagged books, quotes, things i learned on 2 March 2009 | 2 Comments »
on the back of hemingway’s novel the sun also rises, there is a blurb from the new york times describing the author’s prose as “athletic”. because that’s not vague. his writing can bench 210, apparently. you have to read slow to get all the nuances of hemingway’s abrupt writing. as my professor said today, you [...]
After all, we set some limits to the amount of nonsense that we talk, or at least the amount of nonsense that we are prepare to admit we talk…” —J.L. Austin, on performative utterances. I think this, for me, is ENTIRELY untrue. I know no limits of nonsense, obviously.
six word stories.
Posted in 2008, tagged books, musings on 12 August 2008 | 1 Comment »
legend has it that Ernest Hemingway was once prodded to compose a complete story in six words. his answer? “For sale: baby shoes, never used.” some people say it was to settle a bar bet. others say it was a personal challenge directed at other famous authors. either way, it is considered some of his [...]
quote:
Posted in 2008, tagged books, quotes on 6 August 2008 | Leave a Comment »
she pined in thought, and with green & yellow melancholy, she sat like patience on a monument and smiled at grief…” –Twelfth Night, Shakespeare
rocketship underpants.
Posted in 2008, tagged books, quotes on 3 August 2008 | Leave a Comment »
What’s the point of wearing your favorite rocketship underpants if nobody ever asks to see ‘em?” – Calvin sublime. also? i think there is definitely reasons to wear them, regardless.
