Showing posts with label bookclub. Show all posts
Showing posts with label bookclub. Show all posts

Sunday, January 4, 2009

An Excerpt from Orlando



"These selves of which we are built up, one on top of another, as plates are piled on a waiter's hand, have attachments elsewhere, sympathies, little constitutions and rights of their own, call them what you will (and for many of these things there is no name) so that one will only come if it is raining, another in a room with green curtains, another when Mrs. Jones is not there, another if you can promise it a glass of wine – and so on; for everybody can multiply from his own experience the different terms which his different selves have made with him."

Monday, December 22, 2008

Tuesday, October 28, 2008

I Swept!



Shakespeare haiku, of course. The last line of the Othello haiku was
"OOMF! OOMF! OOMF! OOMF! DEAD!"

Thursday, October 23, 2008

Sydneyisms



Sydney Carton: I love you, Prossy.

Miss Pross: I am not one your flibbertigibits!