http://www.idlethink.com/media/ en-us Copyright 2007 Sat, 23 Jun 2007 15:28:19 +0000 Sat, 23 Jun 2007 15:29:13 +0000 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.01D http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://www.idlethink.com/media/archives/2007/06/angel.php http://www.idlethink.com/media/archives/2007/06/angel.php Art Sat, 23 Jun 2007 15:28:19 +0000 went to bayon in cambodia and came back inspired.... http://www.idlethink.com/media/archives/2007/01/face_of_bayon.php http://www.idlethink.com/media/archives/2007/01/face_of_bayon.php Art Mon, 15 Jan 2007 18:03:27 +0000 I'm usually a watercolourist, but thought I'd give acrylic a shot. this is a study of a girl from a renoir painting - the same one I've sketched before.... http://www.idlethink.com/media/archives/2007/01/study_of_a_girl.php http://www.idlethink.com/media/archives/2007/01/study_of_a_girl.php Art Sat, 13 Jan 2007 02:18:38 +0000 Kim Il-sung -- a.k.a. the Light of Human Genius, the Unequaled Genius, the Summit of Thought, the North Star of the People... Full Title: The Aquariums of Pyongyang: Ten Years in the North Korean Gulag Authosr: Kang Chol-Hwan &... http://www.idlethink.com/media/archives/2006/11/the_aquariums_o.php http://www.idlethink.com/media/archives/2006/11/the_aquariums_o.php Books Sat, 04 Nov 2006 22:13:52 +0000 Crabbe found himself set upon by starving rajahs who stabbed forks into his hand. They stabbed indiscriminately -- here a slice of dried-up beef, there a chicken-wing, here a dripping hunk of cold curried mutton, there a human hand.... http://www.idlethink.com/media/archives/2006/10/the_long_day_wa.php http://www.idlethink.com/media/archives/2006/10/the_long_day_wa.php Books Sat, 07 Oct 2006 22:37:41 +0000 To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's. Full Title: Crime and Punishment Author: Fyodor Dostoyevsky Genre: Fiction... http://www.idlethink.com/media/archives/2006/09/crime_and_punis.php http://www.idlethink.com/media/archives/2006/09/crime_and_punis.php Books Fri, 29 Sep 2006 10:49:45 +0000 The day Wittgenstein came back to Cambridge after nine years of absence, John Maynard Keynes, a great admirer of his works, wrote to his wife: "Well, God has arrived. I met him on the 5.15." Full Title: Zeno and... http://www.idlethink.com/media/archives/2006/09/zeno_and_the_to.php http://www.idlethink.com/media/archives/2006/09/zeno_and_the_to.php Books Fri, 29 Sep 2006 10:35:24 +0000 How ungenerously in later life we disclaim the virtuous moods of our youth, living in retrospect long, summer days of unreflecting dissipation, Dresden figures of pastoral gaiety! Our wisdom, we prefer to think, is all of our own gathering,... http://www.idlethink.com/media/archives/2006/09/brideshead_revi.php http://www.idlethink.com/media/archives/2006/09/brideshead_revi.php Books Fri, 29 Sep 2006 10:30:38 +0000 There's no beauty without poignancy and there's no poignancy without feeling that it's all going -- men, names, books, houses -- bound for dust -- mortal... Full Title: The Beautiful and Damned Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald Genre: Fiction... http://www.idlethink.com/media/archives/2006/09/the_beautiful_a.php http://www.idlethink.com/media/archives/2006/09/the_beautiful_a.php Books Fri, 29 Sep 2006 10:25:22 +0000 http://www.idlethink.com/media/archives/2006/09/the_master_and.php http://www.idlethink.com/media/archives/2006/09/the_master_and.php Books Fri, 29 Sep 2006 10:19:17 +0000 I don't want to repeat my innocence. I want the pleasure of losing it again. Full Title: This Side of Paradise Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald Genre: Fiction... http://www.idlethink.com/media/archives/2006/09/this_side_of_pa.php http://www.idlethink.com/media/archives/2006/09/this_side_of_pa.php Books Sun, 17 Sep 2006 10:31:35 +0000 We have an experience that transforms something inside us. When we examine ourselves later on, we discover that all the standards we've lived by have shot up another notch and the world's opened up in unexpected ways. Yes, I've... http://www.idlethink.com/media/archives/2006/09/kafka_on_the_sh.php http://www.idlethink.com/media/archives/2006/09/kafka_on_the_sh.php Books Sun, 17 Sep 2006 10:20:23 +0000 Perhaps all of life is no more than a long preparation for the leaving of it. Full Title: The Sea Author: John Banville Genre: Fiction... http://www.idlethink.com/media/archives/2006/09/the_sea.php http://www.idlethink.com/media/archives/2006/09/the_sea.php Books Sun, 03 Sep 2006 15:01:54 +0000 Our intentions make blackguards of us all; our weakness in carrying them out we call probity. Full Title: Les Liaisons Dangereuses Author: Pierre Choderlos de Laclos Genre: Fiction This isn't a review so much as a collection of quotes... http://www.idlethink.com/media/archives/2006/08/les_liaisons_da.php http://www.idlethink.com/media/archives/2006/08/les_liaisons_da.php Books Mon, 21 Aug 2006 14:43:20 +0000 It is no use telling me there are bad aunts and good aunts. At the core, they are all alike. Sooner or later, out pops the cloven hoof. Full Title: Code of the Woosters Author: P.G. Wodehouse Genre: Hilarity... http://www.idlethink.com/media/archives/2006/06/code_of_the_woo.php http://www.idlethink.com/media/archives/2006/06/code_of_the_woo.php Books Sun, 18 Jun 2006 18:25:31 +0000