Recent Quotes 📖

• For Oedipus excites himself too much
  at every sort of trouble, not conjecturing,
  like a man of sense, what will be from what was,
  but he is always at the speaker's mercy

  an excerpt from Oedipus the King, written by Sophocles in -426

• Oedipus: Do not take them from me.
  Creon: Do not seek to be master in everything,
  for the things you mastered did not follow you throughout your life.

  an excerpt from Oedipus the King, written by Sophocles in -426

• He might not realise that the sign of Nelson could be hung on high everywhere, because the reputation of Nelson was high everywhere, not because it was low anywhere; that his bad portrait was really a proof of his good name.

  an excerpt from The New Jerusalem, written by G. K. Chesterton in 1920

Recent Notes 📓

• I'm generally not a fan of short stories, but these are self-sufficient in a good way; and they're long enough for me to settle in - fifty pages on average in this copy!

  an note about Don't Look Now, written by Daphne du Maurier in 1971

• I knew of du Maurier from Rebecca but have never read anything - and kind of assumed she was in this midcentury New York group of writers that I never really enjoy. But a friend mentioned liking her as a writer and I picked up this collection of short stories. Within the first few pages it was clear: she's great. And by the end of the first story, which is appropriately creepy for October, I ran over to Trudy and recounted the tale like it was a campfire ghost story.

  an note about Don't Look Now, written by Daphne du Maurier in 1971

• And man, what a clunky translation. I don't speak or read Greek of course, but this is just very... unpoetickal.

  an note about Oedipus the King, written by Sophocles in -426

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