January 2010
81 posts
So helpful! →
“I am a playwright. I have been called the American Maeterlinck....”
– From Lolita
By Vladimir Nabokov
1955
To Sleep
O soft embalmer of the still midnight,
Shutting, with careful fingers and benign,
Our gloom-pleas’d eyes, embower’d from the light,
Enshaded in forgetfulness divine;
O soothest Sleep! if so it please thee, close,
In midst of this thine hymn, my willing eyes,
Or wait the amen, ere thy poppy throws
Around my bed its lulling charities;
Then save me, or the passed day will shine
Upon my...
“Florentino Ariza hung the mirror in his house, not for the exquisite frame but...”
– From Love in the Time of Cholera
By Gabriel Marcia Marquez
1985
Vashti Bunyan →
Nancy & Lee →
“Lend me some sugar, I AM your neighbour!”
– From Hey Ya
-Andre 3000 of Outkast
2003
C.R.A.Z.Y. →
I love this movie.
You Should Be Reading This. →
Rocket the Roger Ship →
Roger the Rocket Ship
By Markley
From Act I of The Importance of Being Ernest
Jack: Charming day it has been, Miss Fairfax.
Gwendolen: Pray don’t talk to me about the weather, Mr Worthing. Whenever people talk to me about the weather I always feel quite certain that they mean something else. And that makes me so nervous.
Jack: I do mean something else.
Gwendolen: I thought so. In fact, I am never wrong.
Jack: And I would like to be allowed to take advantage of...
I am my mother's only one →
Bon Iver
“My only grudge against nature was that I could not turn my Lolita inside out and...”
– From Lolita
By Vladimir Nabokov
1955
I'm too sad to tell you →
Bas Jan Ader.
