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Category Archives: reading & writing
Quoting Kurt Vonnegut
Writing allows mediocre people who are patient and industrious to revise their stupidity, to edit themselves into intelligence. —Kurt Vonnegut
Posted in quotes, reading & writing
Tagged: kurt vonnegut
Nooteboom
“People may be beautiful, but when there is absolutely no fault to be found… then perfect beauty becomes a yardstick by which one measures one’s own imperfections, and nobody likes that.” — Cees Nooteboom, In the Dutch Mountains (p. 10) … Continue reading
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Onion And Religion Soup
The Onion has updated their design and made their content and archives open to all. From the publisher’s message: Although democracy and the free exchange of ideas are notions that I have always staunchly opposed, it is clear that this … Continue reading
Posted in humour, reading & writing, religion
Tagged: islam, religion, religious matters, scientology, the onion
Moon Palace – Part 3
I just finished reading Paul Auster’s novel, Moon Palace. It’s the second novel of his I’ve read. The first was The Book of Illusions, which I thoroughly enjoyed. I wish I could come up with a better summation than that. … Continue reading
Posted in reading & writing, reviews
Tagged: paul auster
Moon Palace – Part 2
From page 170 of Paul Auster’s novel, Moon Palace, which I’ve been reading at a rate of perhaps five pages a day: The true purpose of art was not to create beautiful objects, he discovered. It was a method of … Continue reading
Posted in reading & writing
Tagged: paul auster
