His eyes, grey and wet like the belly of a fish, rolled back and forth in their place with every other breath he took. Once in a while he’d shake his head and let out a ‘wheeeeww’. A long kind of exhausted sigh that seemed to say this is the awfullest sort of work I’ve
Monthly Archives: April 2009
I’ve always wondered about the man’s mannerisms. This doesn’t quite satisfy that curiosity but it’s more than I ever thought I’d see. True, I’ve had a vague but incessant obsession with the lettered curmudgeon since reading Innocents Abroad some time back in the 90’s, but I can’t be alone in finding this little piece of
Ezra believed in God. He just didn’t believe in Brother Eugene Ledbedder. And it was Preacher Ledbedder who showed up every single Sunday morning to stomp and sweat around an old wood pulpit. Who threw open-palmed hands up into the air and pointed fingers at his congregation whenever he said words like eternal and damnation
Elizabeth Gilbert talks about the muse and ancient understanding – from the TED series.
”[Flannery] O’Connor is important to the way this movie [The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada] is constructed. What you do is you consider some so-called religious thinking without the didacticism of the classical approach. You look for the allegorical intentions of what we’re taught in the Bible, and then find some way to have it
Free online Yale video lectures for: Milton A study of Milton’s poetry, with some attention to his literary sources, his contemporaries, his controversial prose, and his decisive influence on the course of English poetry. The American Novel Since 1945 The reading list includes works by Richard Wright, Flannery O’Connor, Vladimir Nabokov, Jack Kerouac, J. D.
I’ve long since given up trying to emulate her elegant air. Partly because I have two left feet and hobbit shaped toes. Mostly because it takes a lot of effort to achieve effortless. And that’s the epitome of Mal. The one person I know who somehow manages to make labour look graceful. Like afternoon tea
My hair is chaotic. It curls naturally. But never in a soft or pretty way. On weekends I try to give it a break from T3s and ghds. The result is never satisfactory. But I digress. Today Steph and I ate ice cream in waffle cones and lay on the floor and enjoyed the rush.
Yesterday I said something about the EU and someone actually asked, “What’s the EU?” Yeah… The woman was from California and that made me feel a little better. But not much. There’s something seriously wrong with something, somewhere when you’re accused (and I was) of intellectual snobbery just because you can’t disguise the dumbfound when
