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Source link All of Voltaire’s works contain memorable passages distinguished by elegance, perspicuity, and wit. His poetic and dramatic works, however, are marred often by too great a concentration on historical matter and philosophical propaganda. His other writings include the tragedies Brutus (1730), Zaire (1732), Alzire (1736), Mahomet (1741), and Merope (1743); the philosophical romance [...]

They All Want to Play Hamlet They all want to play Hamlet. They have not exactly seen their fathers killed Nor their mothers in a frame-up to kill, Nor an Ophelia lying with dust gagging the heart, Not exactly the spinning circles of singing golden spiders, Not exactly this have they got at nor the [...]

by D.H Lawrence When along the pavement, Palpitating flames of life, People flicker round me, I forget my bereavement, The gap in the great constellation, The place where a star used to be. Nay, though the pole-star Is blown out like a candle, And all the heavens are wandering in disarray, Yet when pleiades of [...]

December 4, 2006 21:37 I remember once when I was on the bus going to Manila, I was sitting with an old man.  He said his name was Will, a native of California but now residing in the Philippines.  Baguio City specifically.  He said, “How many passengers are on this bus? Forty? Forty people in [...]

12/04/2006 22:50 We again took some more of our stuff from our little niche in Aurora Hill to bring to Kias where we now reside. Along with these ‘stuff’ are bits and pieces of papers I had kept, well, they used to be pinned to the corkboard we had behind our bedroom door but when [...]

A transfer from my old blog… February 9, 2007 Hello, I’m back huh? It’s been a busy past few months but I’ve miraculously found the time to read (and this was at work). The next paragraphs you will be reading has been derived from the book “The World’s Greatest Secrets’ by Allan Hall; first published [...]

Written by Mark Helprin and published in 2005 (barnesandnoble.com), “Winter’s Tale” is a bloody well good book to read and experience.  Thank you very much to a friend who shared it with me.  I would never have known of this book if he hadn’t told me about it and lent me the book, too. It was [...]

On Reason and Passion Your soul is often time a battlefield, upon which your reason and judgement wage war against your passion and your appetite. Would that I could be the peacemaker in your soul, that I might turn the discord into rivalry of your elements into oneness and melody. But how shall I, unless you [...]

Footfalls echo in the memory Down the passage which we did not take Towards the door we never opened Into the rose garden. T.S Eliot, FOUR QUARTETS, 1943 Did you like this? Share it:Tweet

This is a poem which had two lines referred to in the novel A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini.  It is a poem by the 17th-century Persian poet Saib-e-Tabrizi and translated into English by Josphine Davis. Ah! How beautiful is Kabul encircled by her arid mountains And Rose, of the trails of thorns she [...]