Quote of the Day, Last Monday of September 2021: Dr. Yakunin administered medicines strictly in inverse proportion to their necessity. He kept chloroform from the dying and…… Read more “This One’s a Real Winner”
Tag: irony
Sentence of the Day, 2nd Wednesday of September 2021
Almost every man in Moscow has died but Mikhail.The End of Men, p. 182 And Mikhail, unfortunately, is a wife beater. Almost every day, his victimized wife…… Read more “Sentence of the Day, 2nd Wednesday of September 2021”
Sentence of the Day, p. 248
We are just a little past halfway, dear blog readers. So you will not be forever reading about WAR WAR WAR. Self’s next book is Rules of…… Read more “Sentence of the Day, p. 248”
Sentence of the Day: from a Letter by Don Pedro de Acuña, Governor General of the Philippines, Manila, 1608
Apologies, dear blog readers, self’s veering between the Philippines in 1600 and Grimdark must be causing whiplash! Anyhoo, here is the Sentence of the Day, from Blair…… Read more “Sentence of the Day: from a Letter by Don Pedro de Acuña, Governor General of the Philippines, Manila, 1608”
Your Daily Dose of Stendhal, Here
Sometimes her eager imagination concealed things from her, but she never entertained those deliberate illusions produced by cowardice. — Chapter Six, The Charterhouse of Parma
Alas! BR, Chapter III
I returned home for the Long Vacation without plans and without money.
Sentence of the Day: THE RUN OF HIS LIFE
p. 155: That night I took the red-eye home to New York (The in-flight movie was Naked Gun 33 1/3, starring, among others, O. J. Simpson) There…… Read more “Sentence of the Day: THE RUN OF HIS LIFE”
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