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May 17th, 2011
08:42 pm
in the process of reading "The Scarlet Letter." Favorite quote so far: "Dames of elevated rank ... were accustomed to distil drops of bitterness into her heart; sometimes through the alchemy of quiet malice, by which women can concoct a subtle poison from ordinary trifles..." How true, how it reminds me of certain co-workers! and of certain situations with teenagers at school! quiet malice, indeed.
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May 13th, 2011
09:01 pm - Jane Eyre
Finished reading Jane Eyre. End of the book, her description of the marital bliss with Mr. Rochester: "We talk, I believe, all day long: to talk to each other is but a more animated and an audible thinking. All my confidence is bestowed on him, and his confidence is devoted to me..."
I wonder what Mr. Rochester would've written. "came home tired, wanted to watch Celtics, Jane wants to talk AGAIN..."
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September 8th, 2009
04:58 pm
I noticed that habitual liars have a well-developed ability not to notice the suffering of people they lie to.
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March 24th, 2009
09:03 pm - cool middleaged snowboarders
![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif?v=92.1) danillo attempting a jump on his snowboard during the night snowboarding
session at Wachusetts... after two beers!
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July 13th, 2006
11:40 pm - Summer reading
This summer, I am reading NPR recommended books . Really strange stuff, but so far, their first book was a positive surprise:
"Adolescence is acknowledged to be the single most stressful and frightening period of human development--the stage when the adulthood we claim to crave begins to present itself as a real and narrowing system of responsibilities and limitations (taxes, death) and when we yearn inside for a return to the same childish oblivion we pretend to scorn--it's not difficult to see why we as a culture are so susceptible to art and entertainment whose primary function is escape, i.e. fantasy, adrenaline, spectacle, romance, etc. Do you think it's a coincidence that college is when many Americans do their most serious fucking and falling-down drinking and generally ecstatic Dionysian-type reveling? It's not... College students are adolescents, and they're terrified, and they're dealing with their terror in a distinctively US way. Those naked boys hanging upside-down out of their frat house's windows on Friday night are simply trying to buy a few hours' escape from the grim adult stuff that any decent school has forced them to think about all week."
from David Foster Wallace, "Consider The Lobster"
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May 6th, 2006
08:01 pm - Places to visit
"A small island near New Zeland, Fakaofo has no more than twenty tourists a year, and has a limited collective appetite for entertaining. When Billy Connoly, the Scottish actor, and his wife, Pamela Stephenson, recently sailed their yacht to Fakaofo, they were initially asked to leave; in Stephenson's new travel book, "Treasure Islands," the episode is remembered in a chapter entitled "Told to Fakaofo."
From The New Yorker, May 1st
I think krasniykhmer would love this island. For more travel info, go here
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January 17th, 2006
10:06 pm
посмотрели Cache в Вест Ньютон Синема, новый фильм Майкла Хайнеке.Мне очень понравилось, жена плевалась. Фильм из серии guilt trip, показывает, как европейцы лишают бедных арабов хорошего
образования. Зато как сделан! Последний кадр напоминает Профессия-репортёр Антаниони, долгий статичный взгляд на выходяших из школы белых детей. Осознаешь, что все мы немножко лошади... все мы виноваты.. У меня даже родилась такая идея--так как доказано, что евреи и арабы имеют наиболее схожию генетическую комбинацию, почему бы нам с женой не усыновить арабского ребёнка и не воспитать его на Торе? Этакий экспиримент. К сожалению, не всем в моей семье эта идея понравилась (так же, как и фильм).
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December 20th, 2005
07:09 pm - в этих странах я уже был
в этих странах я уже был ( Read more... )
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December 3rd, 2005
07:30 pm - Poem
Just found an amazing poem by Szymborska
NEGATYW
Na niebie burym
chmurka jeszcze bardziej bura
z czarna obwodka slonca.
( Read more... )
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November 25th, 2005
07:21 pm - The day after Thanksgiving...
племянники уехали домой, в Атланту, оставив нам после себя простуду и следующие записки ( Read more... )
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