Here’s my very first French essay! We’re supposed to write a story based on 2 characters in our textbook, a certain pupil named Hamlet, and his teacher. We have to introduce both characters, introduce a conflict, resolve that conflict in a humorous/ironic/philosophical/political manner. And due to linguistic limitations, we can only use words and phrases [...]
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i sympathize with dr. suess
Posted in hahas, lingo on September 15, 2009 | 2 Comments »
cummings and goings
Posted in books, lingo on October 30, 2008 | 1 Comment »
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 nonlecture six: i & am & santa claus, [...]
There are 2 kinds of NXs in the R-me.
The first is the End-Ex, which everyone loves. End of exercise.
The other is the annex…
Annexes are fine, as long as they stay within their limits. Annexes should at most go up till Annex X… why else would they be called NXs if they didn’t eNd at X [...]
lime
Posted in hahas, lingo, poetry on August 21, 2008 | 2 Comments »
My england belly powder one,
But peepur say too chim,
So i lite dis singlish song
Like dose in Jack Neo flim.
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I tly to ting of good idea,
I ting until head pain,
But got no idea come to me…
I ohmose gorhna fain!
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My flen deyor say, “CMI!
Liddat is cannot one!
Pohyem must be one languhlage,
You cannot chiap-pa-lan!”
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I noe my flens is [...]
Little Gidding
Posted in books, life, lingo, pensees, poetry on June 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
“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 voice of the hidden waterfall
And the children in [...]
“I have often had a fancy for writing a romance about an English yachtsman who slightly miscalculated his course and discovered England under the impression that it was a new island in the South Seas…
“What could be more delightful than to have in the same few minutes all the fascinating terrors of going abroad combined [...]
“In [Orthodoxy], [Chesterton] starts off by describing a book he did not write, a romance about a man who sets off to discover a new land, but who unknowingly gets turned around and ends up re-discovering his own land, seeing it as if for the first time, where everything strikes him as being at once [...]
a thirsty lion begs
Posted in hahas, lingo on April 9, 2008 | 1 Comment »
The latest entry on God Plays Dice led me to the Internet Anagram Server , where I found this interesting correspondence (nearly a decade ago!) about a book that purports to prove that Lewis Carroll was Jack the Ripper by finding (get this) anagrams in his poems.
The correspondence summarises the book neatly:
The book proceeds from [...]
Xristmas Xuotes
Posted in Logos, lingo, poetry, tagged poetry on December 25, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
A collection of words about the Word, from various sources:
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“For the light of Supernova Bethlehem is still flooding out through space; it has left Earth far behind in the twenty centuries that have elapsed since men saw it for the first and last time….
“At this very moment, therefore, the Star of Bethlehem may still be [...]
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