We caught the tread of dancing feet, We loitered down the moonlit street, And stopped beneath the harlot's house. Inside, above the din and fray, We heard the loud musicians play The "Treues Liebes Herz" of Strauss. Like strange mechanical grotesques, Making fantastic arabesques, The shadows raced across the blind. We watched the ghostly dancers [...]
Monthly Archives: November 2009
Chess-Men
K: Now that we are standing here, with some time remaining for the battle to begin, I'd like to know how you guys are feeling. It's very important that we act as a unit and everyone does what he's asked for. I remember the last time, because of your sheer incompetence, I was humiliated by [...]
Tim Burton's Doodlings
I came across this article from Wired and got fascinated by Tim Burton's sketches/drawings. I have included here the ones that I liked the most. If you want backgrounds on the images, better just go to the Wired article. But it's a hassle moving across pages to view all the images, ...and now that the [...]
Nabokov on Dostoevski
"My position in regards to Dostoevski is a curious and difficult one. In all my courses I approach literature from the only point of view that literature interests me - namely the point of view of enduring art and individual genius. From this point of view Dostoevski is not a great writer, but rather a [...]
Lord of the Flies
It was one of those moments of lucidity when you abruptly realize that most of the time during the last 10 days that you did not spend sitting in front of the computer screen in the lab were spent sitting in front of the computer screen at home. And then you read a bit of [...]
I wish...
In these horrid times of set schedules and clock-work precisioned timings, I, more than any other time, dream of a world devoid of all logic and rationale. A world anarchic in thought and color. With discordant notes permanently in the ambiance following gallant, glorified sonatas and garish, illogically colored sky. A world where sunset is [...]
Dissertation woes
Oh blast! This thesis writing business is really beginning to rile me up now. Because, you see, it's a whole lot of charade to begin with. Like any sort of bookkeeping, because that's what it really is, it's one daunting, limitless ocean of morbidity that is wetting my feet as I take my first steps [...]