“In these times of ours, though concerning the exact year there is no need to be precise, a boat of dirty and disreputable appearance, with two figures in it, floated on the Thames, between Southwark Bridge, which is of iron, and London Bridge, which is of stone, as an autumn evening was closing in.”
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LIGHT BOXES
The first word that comes to mind, after having read this something-like-a-déjà vu-feeling of a novel, is magical. The last time I remember reading such a unique style of writing was when I first met Griffin & Sabine – as introduced to me by Nick Bantock in 1991. Unlike Griffin & Sabine, however, which is […]
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A BRIEF HISTORY OF TIME
I believe in a Creator. I also believe in the evolution of the time-space continuum. To me, they are all-encompassing. A disjunctive proposition where one alternative does not and can not rule-out the other. “In the beginning, God created the heaven and the earth.” Genesis 1:1 KJV “And the earth was without form, and void: […]
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ROOMS
If ever there was fiction that should be read with an open heart, this one is at the top of my list. For those who believe in the Word, you assuredly know that the Word was written in parables. Thus said, Rooms is a parable for edification of the Higher Power, and not for the […]
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THE PECULIAR LIFE OF A LONELY POSTMAN
“Secretly steaming open envelopes and reading the letters inside, Bilodo has found an escape from his lonely and routine life as a postman. When one day he comes across a mysterious letter containing only a single haiku, he finds himself avidly caught up in the relationship between a long-distance couple, who write to each other […]
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THE SHADOW-LINE … A CONFESSION
“The sparkle of the sea filled my eyes ….. The sails hung motionless and slack, the very folds of their sagging surfaces moved no more ….. For a long, long time I faced an empty world, steeped in an infinity of silence, through which the sunshine poured and flowed for some mysterious purpose.” * I […]
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READING MAKES ME HAPPY
WB YEATS ~
Oscar Wilde ~
I LOVE TALKING ABOUT NOTHING. It is the only thing I know anything about.
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A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.
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Never love anyone who treats you like you’re ordinary.
A few Friends in my world…..
Christopher Paolini (1983- ) Inheritance Cycle
John Kennedy Toole (1937-1969) Neon Bible; Confederacy of Dunces
John Flanagan (1944- ) Ranger's Apprentice/Series;
Brotherband/Series
J.D. Robb (1950- ) In Death/Series
Orson Scott Card (1951- ) Ender's Game/Series
Eoin Colfer (1965- ) Artemis Foul/Series
Garth Nix (1963- ) Abhorsen/Trilogy
Jack London (1876-1916) The Star Rover +
Truman Capote (1924-1984) In Cold Blood +
Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) Mrs Dalloway +
Carlos Ruiz Zafón (1964- ) The Cemetery of Forgotten Books/Series
Oliver Potzsch (1970- ) The Hangman's Daughter/Series; The Ludwig Conspiracy/stand alone
Friedrich Nietzsche ~
And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.
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... If you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.
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I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved; all the cities I have visited.
TRUMAN CAPOTE ~
Sometimes when I think how good my book can be, I can hardly breathe.
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One day, I started writing, not knowing that I had chained myself for life to a noble but merciless master. When God hands you a gift, he also hands you a whip; and the whip is intended solely for self-flagellation...I'm here alone in my dark madness, all by myself with my deck of cards --- and, of course, the whip God gave me.
Are you a fan of Dickens? 🙂
This book is over 700 pages so I imagine I’ll be in Dickens’ company for some time, so yes, you could say that I am a ‘fan’, however, ‘fan’ is hardly a word I’d use. Dickens’ stories mesmerize. Passionate would better describe it.