And there it was. On the white water. Under a black deserted sky, ominous and cloudy save the faint moon, abruptly punctuated by the dark lake in the distance. And still, breathless silence of a world dumbstruck at the sheer beauty, the bloody audacity of beauty, the painful intolerance of beauty, the insurmountable allure of [...]
Monthly Archives: January 2009
I was reading 'The Ballad of Reading Gaol'. A few lines worth sharing: Yet each man kills the thing he loves, By each let this be heard, Some do it with a bitter look, Some with a flattering word. The coward does it with a kiss, The brave man with a sword! Some kill their [...]
Mnemonically speaking
In thinking about my distant past I'm frequently surprised by the clarity with which certain small details, quite insignificant in the normal scheme of things, rush through the haze of at least 2 decades. It has the same effect of staring down into a valley on a particularly foggy day. Backgrounded by a blurry, vague [...]
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Foggy and Gloomy
Wilde once said that all bad poetry is a result of honest emotions. Well... at least my poetry is bad... it's in fact verse! I wonder what to write on in times of such distress, with gloomy days and foggy nights solitude lone buttress. Specters rise in ghostly dance from all engulfing mist, I raise [...]
Fry on Language
I recently came across this brilliant post on the subject of language by Stephen Fry and since I can never express my own feelings with the clarity and eloquence of the master, I will reproduce a part of his text here. From Stephen Fry's musings on the subject of language: "I’ve mentioned those French intellectuals [...]
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