“Saying goodbye doesn’t mean anything. It’s the time we spent together that matters, not how we left it.”
— Trey Parker
Category: Non-fiction
Essay: A Look into the Lives of Sei Shōnagon and Hildegard of Bingen
“Pleasing things: finding a large number of tales that one has not read before. Or acquiring the second volume of a tale whose first volume one has enjoyed. But often it is a disappointment.”
— Sei Shōnagon, The Pillow Book
Essay: The Quest for Religion
The joy of love is too short, and the sorrow thereof, and what cometh thereof, dureth over long.
— Thomas Malory, Le Morte d’Arthur
Essay: La Quête du Sens de la Vie (or: Whistling in the Dark)
William: Father, I am afraid, I won’t know the way back home.
John Thatcher: Don’t be foolish, William, you just follow your feet.
~ A Knight’s Tale
Essay: Modern Alienation
“Behind the masks of total choice, different forms of the same alienation confront each other.”
— Guy Debord
Essay: Too Few Good Men
“Money, you think, is the sole motive to pains and hazard, deception and devilry, in this world. How much money did the devil make by gulling Eve?”
— Herman Melville, The Confidence-Man
Essay: Sentiment Breeds Contempt
“But this whole world is a preposterous one, with many preposterous people in it.”
— Herman Melville, Pierre: or, the Ambiguities
Essay: Masqueraders Anonymous – Freedom Now
“Love is merely a madness.”
— William Shakespeare, As You Like It
Essay: A Fish Called Moby
“Think not, is my eleventh commandment; and sleep when you can, is my twelfth.”
— Herman Melville, Moby-Dick; or, The Whale
Essay: Controversy of Melville’s ‘Typee’
I recommend all adventurous youths who abandon vessels in romantic islands during the rainy season to provide themselves with umbrellas.
— Herman Melville, Typee
