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Having spent a week on an isolated Malaysian tropical island with NOONE to talk to, without a pen or even a book, I became so bored I started conversations with myself. A book is a form of...

Heart drumming, Adam prays. He flings the door open and shut. Coast is clear, noone's there. Re-open, fling door shut, and hasten down the stairs. Leave this party forthwith. Pity whoever enters...

The 1981 Brideshead Revisited mini-series was better than the book, in my opinion.

The posh accents, lush gardens, beautiful mansion... these are conveyed more forcefully in film. I thought the...

I enjoy reading:
- Encyclopaedias, dictionaries.
- Newspapers and current affairs journals.
- All Christopher Hitchens' books and essays; Orwell's essays.
- Revisionist/blasphemous history essays...

I loved Tess of the d'Urbevilles, but only watched not read it. Like Russia, it's gloomy. As is Frankenstein, which I didn't find scary at all but instead very sad.

I feel bored any time I read a novel. I love non-fiction because it's real, it's what people really experience. I enjoy fictional movies and mini series like Brideshead Revisited, but not reading...

These paradoxes are what Muslims in the modern world struggle with on a regular basis. Waging jihad against everyone while saying Islam is a religion of peace; infidel women are 'slaves' of men and...

Shariah law isn't "radical", nor is banning alcohol. It's simply what Islam requires.

I'm reading a book on Shakespeare and the author makes this statement but without further explanation. I've seen some of Chekhov's plays but I don't see how he's better than any other playwright.

The dictionary, because I never cease amazing how many new thoughts actually exist when I find a word I never knew of.

The complete works of Shakespeare, because it's a book I'll turn to from time...

When the play first showed in Russia, the audience cheered when the cherry orchard starts being hacked down. I think audiences at the time may have liked Lopakhin.

eg. When reading "I know a bank where the wild thyme blows" I don't know why it's stressed as Boom ba-ba Boom ba-ba Boom Boom Boom (like the William Tell Overture). I wouldn't pick it up unless it...

I found the movie very boring, so boring I don't even remember what happens in it. I hope the book's better. Having said that, when I force myself to finish a book I'm usually glad that I did as...

I relish acerbic criticism. I find this entertaining. If I get a decent rating I can build on this poem of the Botanic Park:

Through a small and gilded gate
I see a place of wonder,
Where people...

oh yours was much better. I was so focused on the last words rhyming I didn't think about cadence. That makes it much harder.

How about this Limerick of a Scot joke, which I suppose again lacks...

A limerick:

I once tried to make my own pasta,
But it all ended up in disaster.
The eggs fell on the floor,
Oh darn, dash it all
Let the ants then eat it for supper.

Garbage finds sanctuary in modern art but not in classical art. Eg. You could literally put the garbage presently residing in your trash can on the floor of a modern art museum and some people will...

I used to drink a bottle of cheap wine each night, and there are states of mind it creates that are far more passionate and creative than when sober. Coleridge was an opium addict and imagery in Rime...

Thanks for taking the time to write that post. Reading other people's thoughts on Shakespeare augments my own comprehension and appreciation of his work. Macbeth is the first Shakespeare work I read...

I hated Lit classes all through high school, as I was too cool for that. Some cool kids in the other lit class were learning a strange sounding book called Nineteen Eighty-Four and saying it was...

In my opinion a lot of alcohol culture as shown in Rv shows like Sex and the City is about showing off to others and even trying to impress one's self, like when a smoker holds a cigarette in his...

That's hilarious. I like the father in Brideshead Revisited, who is so academic yet so aloof he asks his son what age the son is whilst at the dinner table.

All too often when people say that kids...

Wow, so it isn't just in Australia then? Here it's illegal to even say that a man is a man and a woman is a woman.

Historically, shampoo was considered too feminine for a man to use.

Historically, Mongolians didn't bathe at all because it was a sin to pollute water. Ghenghis Khan said something like that....

Shakespeare's The Comedy of Errors. It has a hilarious fat joke that goes for several pages that adds nothing to plot. "That mountain of Mad Flesh!"