The little white attic

In my previous post about The Exterminating Angel , I noted 8 repetitions:  - The group arrive twice.  - The 2 female employees try to l...

Originally published on 19/5.  I want more, but okay... Thank you, Caroline and Anna, for your questions .  What's your MBTI?  I do...

This is the scene where Mr Irwine communicates the bad news to Hetty's family. "Before ten o'clock on Thursday morning the ho...

Another trip- I just got back from Frankfurt, Heidelberg, Würzburg and Rothenburg. Heavenly.... but photos will come later.  _________...

War and Peace , volume II chapter III chapter 21.  A conversation between Andrey Bolkonsky and Vera Rostova, when she realises something...

The idea for this post comes from here: http://freds-ramblings.blogspot.no/2011/04/something-to-think-about.html "Know how to be all t...

"Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast....

Oh how I detest Bazarov. That annoyingly arrogant, sarcastic, cynical, narrow-minded, philistine, materialistic, shallow, mundane, egoistic,...

"All happy families are alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." * (1st sentence of "Anna Karenina"...

"It is 1 of the commonest and most widespread misconceptions that every person has a set of fixed qualities; he is said to be good, ba...

1/ Avoid depressing books (not in the sense that they have a pessimistic, misanthropic, depressing tone/vision, but in the sense that they d...

Dạo này trên facebook thấy nhiều người đăng những thứ đại loại như hãy suy nghĩ tích cực, vấn đề không phải là hoàn cảnh mà là thái độ, nên ...

On 30/3/2012 in the entry "2 films and 2 books" I wrote about "We Need To Talk About Kevin" , a film I'd watched a ...