May 2009
31 posts
On Re-reading →
jingc:
The love of repetition seems to be ingrained in children. And it is certainly ingrained in the way children learn to read — witness the joyous and maddening love of hearing that same bedtime book read aloud all over again, word for word, inflection for inflection.
I miss the days when discovering a new and amazingly good book was so special that I would spend hours savoring it, and...
Watch“I Dream A Dream” from Les Miserables the Musical
One of the things i have to watch in this life time.
All time favorite book, movie, and musical
“Time is very slow for those who wait, very fast for those who are scared, very...”
– William Shakespeare (via aristobrat) (via krystie
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News: Honeybee Disappearing
“Domestic honeybee stocks have been waning since 2004 because of a puzzling illness scientists calledcolony collapse disorder, which causes adult bees to inexplicably forsake their broods.”
Can you imagine a book where every insect and animal started to learn from humans? what if all the animals also ate of the tree of good and evil? These adult bees are forsaking their colony and...
“And then, oddly enough, the symptom of true love in a man is timidity, in a...”
– Victor Hugo
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Les Miserables: Life and Suffering
Life became harsh for Marius. To eat his coats and watch was nothing. He chewed the inexpressible cud of bitterness—a horrible thing, which includes days without bread, sleepless nights, evenings without a candle, a hearth without a fire, weeks without labor a future without hope, a coat out at the elbows, an old hat that makes young girls laugh, the door found shut in your face at night because...
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Les Miserables: Courage
To dare; progress comes at this price.
All sublime conquest are, more or less, the rewards of daring. For revolution to exist, it was not enough that Montesquieu should foresee it, that Diderot should preach it, that Beaumarchais should announce it, that Condorcet should calculate it, that Arouet should prepare it that Rousseau should premeditate it; Danton had to dare it.
That cry of boldness is...
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Hugo: Les Miserables Animal Nature
It is our conviction that if souls were visible to the eye we would clearly see the strange fact that each individual of the human species corresponds to some species of the animal kingdom; and we would easily recognize the truth, scarcely perceived by thinkers, that from the oyster to the eagle, from the pig to the tiger, all animals are in man, and that each of them is in each man; sometimes...
First day triathlon training: swam 60 laps with...
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I never knew you
Nothing should frighten a Christian more than the words “I never knew you”, just as nothing should excite a Christian more than the compliment “well done.”
But what could this mean? Some have told me that it is when I put works above faith, to put ministry above prayer, to put man above God. But if indeed that is the sole reason why man is to be cast out, shouldn’t God’s reply to man be “Sorry you...
Ironic? 90 people get the swine flu and everybody...
krystie:
90 people get the swine flu and everybody wants to wear a mask. A million people have AIDS and no one wants to wear a condom.
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Les Miserables Human Conscience
Nowhere can the mind’s eye find anything more dazzling or more obscure than in man; it can focus on nothing more awe-inspiring, more complex, more mysterious, or more infinite. There is one spectacle greater than the sea; that is the sky; there is one spectacle greater than the sky: that is the interior of the soul.
To write the story of the human conscience, if only of one man, even the most...
Letter I wrote when my grandfather went into...
I was bawling my eyes out/semi wailing when I got to the second paragraph when I wrote this. Reading it anew still stirs up all this emotion.
Dear Grandfather:
Wow did you read that correctly? You are a Grand-Father, the father of a father, and not only to me but to 6 others. Out of your loins have birthed such a pool of young energetic, ambitious, talented, blessed, and happy children and...
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Victor Hugo Les Miserables Salvation
He stubbornly resisted the angelic deeds and the gentle words of the old man, “You have promised me to become an honest man. I am purchasing your soul. I withdraw it from the spirit of perdition, and I give it to God!” This kept coming back to him. In opposition to this celestial tenderness, he summoned up pride, the fortress of evil in man. He dimly felt that this priest’s pardon was the hardest...
