March 2010
1 post
People Who Write Novels
…are far more talented than I.
I’m an avid reader.
I gain more respect for novelists by the day.
The time, the dedication, the perseverance…it is staggering.
I’ve always wanted to write one.
I type in fits and starts, and then I move on to something else.
I’m not sure it’s a mountain I’ll ever climb.
October 2009
3 posts
me, me, me
My roommate scurried in from the wet weather with a crinkled bundle of photocopied papers under his arm. He plopped the thick pile of pages on the coffee table, and disappeared to his room.
Thirty minutes later, I’d finished watching “The Year of Living Dangerously”, and out of curiosity, lifted the ramshackle pile onto my lap, and began reading.
The pages appeared to be a...
Friends
“what do you think of these boots?”
“let’s be the next big thing!”
“I’m worried for my future.”
“I see storm clouds on the horizon.”
“For you, or for us?”
“Do you think of me?”
“Of course, I want to find someone just like you. I want to find you.”
“There’s nothing out there for...
September 2009
4 posts
let a smile be your Umbrella
“Ontario messed up the world with this,”
“You guys bankrupted Iceland.”
‘In the past, runs on banks took time as people left their homes, drove or walked to a branch and stood in line to withdraw money, Taleb said. Now, a run can be accomplished in seconds via the Internet and phones with Web-browsing capabilities like the BlackBerry, he said.
“In no time, Iceland is history,” Taleb...
according to merriam-webster
Main Entry: iro·ny
Pronunciation: \ˈī-rə-nē also ˈī(-ə)r-nē\
Function: noun
Inflected Form(s): plural iro·nies
Etymology: Latin ironia, from Greek eirōnia, from eirōn dissembler
Date: 1502
1 : a pretense of ignorance and of willingness to learn from another assumed in order to make the other’s false conceptions conspicuous by adroit questioning —called also Socratic irony 2 a :...
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