Spears’ Spam & Broccoli Pie

we “appreciate” good “punctuation”..

The “Blog” of “Unnecessary” Quotation Marks

Cathy & Alberto

Nelly, I am Heathcliff! He is always, always in my mind — not as a pleasure, any more than I am always a pleasure to myself, but as my own being.

Cathy in Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë

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Damo-nos tão bem um com o outro
Na companhia de tudo
Que nunca pensamos um no outro,
Mas vivemos juntos e dois
Com um acordo íntimo
Como a mão direita e a esquerda

in VIII, Alberto Caeiro

Caeiro II

O Tejo é mais belo que o rio que corre pela minha aldeia,
Mas o Tejo não é mais belo que o rio que corre pela minha aldeia
Porque o Tejo não é o rio que corre pela minha aldeia,

[...]

Pelo Tejo vai-se para o Mundo.
Para além do Tejo há a América
E a fortuna daqueles que a encontram.
Ninguém nunca pensou no que há para além
Do rio da minha aldeia.

O rio da minha aldeia não faz pensar em nada.
Quem está ao pé dele está só ao pé dele.

XX, Alberto Caeiro

Caeiro I

Nem sequer o deixavam ter pai e mãe
Como as outras crianças.
O seu pai era duas pessoas–
Um velho chamado José, que era carpinteiro,
E que não era pai dele;
E o outro pai era uma pomba estúpida,
A única pomba feia do mundo
Porque não era nem do mundo nem era pomba.

in VIII, Alberto Caeiro

was Peter Pan in Neverland also a catcher in the rye?

I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye and all. Thousands of little kids, and nobody’s around — nobody big, I mean — except me. And I’m standing on the edge of some crazy cliff. What I have to do, I have to catch everybody if they start to go over the cliff — I mean if they’re running and they don’t look where they’re going I have to come out from somewhere and catch them. That’s all I’d do all day. I’d just be the catcher in the rye and all. I know it’s crazy.

in The Catcher in the Rye, J. D. Salinger

On Reading and Books, not by Schopenhauer

What really knocks me out is a book that, when you’re all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn’t happen much, though.

in The Catcher in the Rye, J. D. Salinger

well, yes and no.

The art of not reading is highly important. This consists in not taking a book into one’s hand merely because it is interesting the great public at the time. [...] Remember rather that the man who writes for fools always finds a large public: and only read for a limited and definite time exclusively the works of great minds, those who surpass other men of all times and countries, and whom the voice of fame points to as such. These alone really educate and instruct.

Arthur Schopenhauer, On Reading and Books

the fourth clockwork experiment

It’s interesting how great minds think alike. It seems both Kubrick and Kate find the thought of Pure gone Poisonous really terrifying, particularly when it applies to Music. Did A Clockwork Orange inspire Experiment IV?

This post contains A Clockwork Orange spoilers.

wish list

1. Alethiometer