foucault's history of madness. its frigging impossible to find this in a shop, meh
foucault's history of madness. its frigging impossible to find this in a shop, meh
Hindu Scriptures
Here were we wretched creatures of men making for each other's throats, and outraging the good earth which God had made so fair a habitation [Prester John - John Buchan].
Originally Posted by weltanschauung
I'm reading a chapter of his Discipline and Punish book and I can't decide if I like him or not. Usually I can get a feel for the author, so to speak, by reading their works, but Foucault...is impregnable.
Currently it's Charles Wilbour's translation of Les Miserables.
"The time has come," the Walrus said,
"To talk of many things:
Of shoes--and ships--and sealing-wax--
Of cabbages--and kings--
And why the sea is boiling hot--
And whether pigs have wings."
Aside from the usual books that complement those needed for class, I borrow novels from the library. The last novel I've borrowed was Alexandre Dumas' "Twenty Years After".
I borrowed The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz. I finished it last night and really liked it. I listened to this interview and that's what made me want to read the book (at least I think it was this interview)
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/s...oryId=95764750
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess.
Tomorrow always holds the promise of something new and exciting. I am the Jetsons meet the Flintstones.
Mountain of Black Glass by Tad Williams (Volume Three of the Otherland Series) - also currently being used as a mousepad.
collected poems of Stephen Crane
(3/10)
Told by a fool, signifying nothing.
The Life and Times of Chaucer by John Gardner-- a required material for my reporting next week.
"The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise."
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Knights Templar: The History and Myths of the Legendary Military Order by Sean Martin
Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before. ~ Edgar Allan Poe
Kress and van Leeuwen, The Grammar of Visual Design
Where angels fear to tread -Forster
Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts.
- Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
The Art of Fiction - David Lodge
Practical Magic by: Alice Hoffman
"The most wasted day is that in which we have not laughed." - Chamfort
That must be A Tale of Love and Darkness by Amos Oz, but i haven`t read it yet though. Some friend recommended that book for me.
Always do that, wild ducks do. They shoot to the bottom as deep as they can get, sir — and bite themselves fast in the tangle and seaweed — and all the devil's own mess that grows down there. And they never come up again. - The Wild Duck, Henrik Ibsen.
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