I Love Books And Reading"You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you" -Mr. Darcy I love Mr. Darcy ๐ still can't get enough of pride and prejudice after reading it for almost 10x ๐
I Love Books And Reading Pages 169 - 170 of the Princeton edition of Concluding Unscientific Postscript, this just was neat to read just now as it treats of an interesting thing, to tell whether someone is lying or not, couched within a larger discourse Kierkegaard's...See More ยป
I Love Books And Reading To ignite once again the pleasure of a classic existential text such as The Concluding Unscientific Postscript to Philosophical Fragments, it helps, at least for me to wade through the incomprehenisble jungle of esotericism for a fortnight or so, as...See More ยป
I Love Books And ReadingNietzsche's Daybreak, is full of perceptive little gems, like this one on the subject of politeness, the word salve however i think is a dated word, like a band aid, one is polite as opposed to being harsh, but how does it all work when one is two or...See More ยป
I Love Books And Reading In the to get category are a couple volumes by Unica Zurn Dark Spring and The Trumpets of Jericho. Also noteworthy are her drawings, 3 of which i share here, when i draw, this is the kind of thing i strive for ....:)
I Love Books And Readingpg's 280 - 281 of Stages on Life's Way is a little bit of a lengthy part called A Possibility, as it sets the scene of a mentally ill person who from 11 to 12 would be different from the rest of the day has a Fernando Pessoa feel to it, little...See More ยป
I Love Books And Reading Recently took up again the reading of La Bas by Joris-Karl Huysmans, it is a great thing to balance out the arduous task of tackling the Guilty/Not Guilty section of Kierkegaard's Stages on Life's Way, which by saying it is arduous is meant to...See More ยป
I Love Books And Reading The Pig by Oskar Panizza, while educating myself a little bit more on the films i need to see of Werner Schroeter, there is a film of his based on the court trial of Oskar who got into trouble for a play he had written, then looking at what can be...See More ยป
I Love Books And Reading Tucked away snugly in the new paragraph on page 172 of Stages on Life's Way is this delightful passage that just makes some things more clear immediately before it then goes back into the un-immediate fog of oooh and ahhh. (Quote) The next...See More ยป
I Love Books And Reading from W.G. Sebald's inspired introduction to Robert Walser's The Tanners "... The word-eddies and turbulence created in the middle of a sentence by exaggerated participial constructions, or conglomerations of verbs such as 'haben helfen dรผrfen zu...See More ยป
I Love Books And ReadingVocabulary comprehension attempt #1 Google may help me get more out of Kierkegaard. I'm in a delicious section of the Postscript which is about how direct communication would be obtuseness when inwardness is the thing, this a grand argument for the...See More ยป
I Love Books And ReadingThis was a fun two paragraph section in Kierkegaard's Either/Or in the section entitled The Tragic in Ancient Drama, the first of a few delivered to a society of the dead, it is in the greek language and has a few translation possiblities, excellent...See More ยป
I Love Books And ReadingA little reminder of what A the pseudonym of Either said, which i will share here not word for word. That dreams are best while awake, that sleeping is ideal without dreams, ... "for to sleep is the height of genius". A represents the esthetic...See More ยป
I Love Books And Reading Page 20 of Kierkegaard's Either/Or (1846), Diapsalmata section Tested Advice for Authors One carelessly writes down one's personal observations, has them printed, and in various proofs one will eventually acquire a number of good ideas. Therefore,...See More ยป
I Love Books And ReadingI like the wording here in Cioran's The Fall Into Time, chapter - Skeptic & Barbarian, page 87 - "Amid his seamless hebetude, a single thought still agonizes him, a single question - stupid, laughable, obsessive: "What did God do when He did...See More ยป
I Love Books And ReadingI just completed a novelette by Pia Juul. She is a Danish author and her book "The Murder Of Halland" was marvellous (although I'm not certain who the murderer was๐ค! - please feel free to private message me to avoid spoilers for other readers...See More ยป