📖 Recent Quotes 📖

• There were two classes of charitable people: one, the people who did a little and made a great deal of noise; the other, the people who did a great deal and made no noise at all.

  an excerpt from Bleak House, written by Charles Dickens in 1853

• CHORUS: oh here's Haimon
  here's Haimon in pain and rage
  cheated of his future bride
  [Enter Haimon]
  KREON: in a rage about your future bride
  or are we still friends
  KAIMON: father, I'm yours
  KREON: good attitude, son
  good heart in your chest
  I need you like that

  an excerpt from Antigonick, written by Sophocles in -441

• [enter Kreon]
  KREON: here are Kreon's verbs for today
  Adjudicate
  Legislate
  Scandalize
  Capitalize
  here are Kreon's nouns
  Men
  Reason
  Treason
  Death
  Ship of State
  Mine
  CHORUS: "mine" isn't a noun
  KREON: it is if you capitalize it

  an excerpt from Antigonick, written by Sophocles in -441

📓 Recent Notes 📓

• I'd forgotten how much I like the characters Mr. George & Phil, and their shooting gallery.

  an note about Bleak House, written by Charles Dickens in 1853

• Reading this again, and I am struck all over by Mrs Jellyby. Sheesh, what a character, what a situation. This hits harder than ever, mostly because I know a person who could be the pattern here, and I’ve known them for a long time now and seen the long-term effects they've had on the world. Complicated!

  an note about Bleak House, written by Charles Dickens in 1853

• This is honestly a great guide to the kinds of reading you can do, and how and why to do them. My wife loves to joke about this book, pretending to hold it upside down and sound out the letters: hhooooowww tooooo rrreeeeaaad. That's a testament to its title, which is excellent. I read it first twenty years ago or more and with I had read it earlier!

  an note about How to Read a Book, written by Mortimer J. Adler in 1940

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