provocations

for the person who brought kierkegaard into my life: i hope know you’ll find this interesting Provocations, “arguably the most accessible and complete Kierkegaard volume to be published in decades.” And it’s free, too. I haven’t read it yet, though, so I can’t guarantee if it lives up to its promises, but the ball’s in [...]

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ingenious innings of inspiration

The alliterated title of this post is not by me, but by the William Hung of the literary world (she’s so bad, she’s good!): Amanda McKittrick Ros, a writer so great, she counts J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis amongst her followers! Who cares if they read her works just so they can see who can [...]

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poor richard’s almanack

Happened to see a copy lying around. Browsing revealed some interesting quotes: POOR RICHARD’S ALMANACK Being the choicest morsels of wisdom, written during the years of the Almanack’s publication, by that well-known savant, Dr. Benjamin Franklin of Philadelphia.

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wikipedia suggestion

Just a thought: It’d be useful if Wikipedia could include in each of it’s articles the Library of Congress Classification (and/or other library classification systems) number of the topic in question. For that matter, the classification tree of the topic in question would also be useful. Seems like this is done for some articles (or [...]

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to do

The bird has taken to the air!!! So many things I wanna do! Better list them out (O.O Did i just say “list them out”?? Ah! I mean, “list them down”… better start revising my phrasal verbs): Learn C++ LaTex Cryptography Number Theory Economics Mathematics of Finance Tai Chi Program Cryptogram solver Sudoku solver, implementing [...]

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cummings and goings

Death.  Something wrong, brother? Santa Claus.  Yes. Death. Sick? Santa Claus. Sick at heart. Death. What seems to be the trouble? Come – speak out. Santa Claus. I have so much to give; and nobody will take. Death. My problem is also one of distribution, only it happens to be the other way round. -from [...]

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what? you too?

Friendship arises out of mere Companionship when two or more of the companions discover that they have in common some insight or interest or even taste which the others do not share and which, till that moment, each believed to be his own unique treasure (or burden). The typical expression of opening Friendship would be [...]

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hit the road!

I’ve noticed that my blog contains more of other people’s words than my own. I quote too much. My excuse is that if other people have expressed it better than I ever will, then I might as well save myself the trouble. But perhaps it’s also because I have read about life more than I’ve [...]

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very bad poetry

Hilarious anthology! Read the introduction: I seemed to feel as it were a strange kind of feeling stealing over me, and remained so for about five minutes. A flame, as Lord Byron has said, seemed to kindle up my entire frame, along with a strong desire to write poetry… It was so strong I imagined [...]

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Little Gidding

“We shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time. Through the unknown, unremembered gate When the last of earth left to discover Is that which was the beginning; At the source of the longest river The [...]

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