January 2011
12 posts
WatchCloud Nothings - “Should Have”
Amazing how many times I pass over an album, then see a video, then check out the album and love it.
Advance warning — there’s a fleeting moment of ponytail-induced vomiting.
Multa renascentur quae iam cecidere, cadentque quae nunc sunt in honore vocabula, si volet usus, quem penes arbitrium est et ius et norma loquendi
- Ars Poetica, Horace
Translation: Many words which have fallen will revive, and many which now are respected will fall, if custom wishes, in whose power is the judgment and law and principle of language.
Personally, I can’t wait for...
Insensibly he formed the most delightful habit in the world, the habit of reading: he did not know that thus he was providing himself with a refuge from all the distress of life; he did not know either that he was creating for himself an unreal world which would make the real world of every day a source of bitter disappointment.
- Of Human Bondage, M. Somerset Maugham
Reading this now.