Thursday 20 February 2014

BOOKS - READ - NOT READ AND READING NOW


SOME BOOKS I HAVE TRIED TO READ AND NEVER TRULY SUCCEDED:

May Sarton - Faithful are the wounds.

Charles Dickens - Pickwick Papers (first began when about 12 y.o.)


BOOKS READ AND RE-READ

John Cheever - The Wapshot Chronicle

                          The Wapshot Scandal

Robert Byron - The Road to Oxiana

                          The Station


BOOKS BEING READ NOW

Patrick Leigh Fermor - The Broken Road

G  Madan - Geoffrey Madan's Notebooks. A Selection.
                         

 

Monday 17 February 2014

***** IGNORANCE *****





                                  “Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.”
―Friedrich von Schiller

Sunday 16 February 2014

Solitude


“it is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must be a reason the more for us to do it.

Rilke

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