Category: Song of the Day

I have just now come from a party where I was its life and soul; witticisms streamed from my lips, everyone laughed and admired me, but I went away -- and wanted to shoot myself... The greatest hazard of all, losing one’s self, can occur very quietly in the world, as...

Dear Eli, I’m in the middle of the ocean. I haven’t left my room in four days. I’ve never been more lonely in my life, and I think I’m in love with Margot... For the past year he had been traveling alone on an ocean liner called the Cote d’Ivoire and had seen both...

Etiolation is a process in flowering plants grown in partial or complete absence of light. It is characterized by long, weak stems; smaller leaves due to longer internodes; and a pale yellow color. -- Wikipedia When in the dark night of suffering sagacity cannot see a...

The world continues, and it continues because it is a repetition... If one does not have the category of recollection or of repetition, all life dissolves into an empty, meaningless noise. -- Søren Kierkegaard Kierkegaard contended that repetition - running the same...

Excerpts from Typhoon, by Joseph ConradSoundtrack by Christopher James The steering-gear leaked steam, and in the confined space the glass of the binnacle made a shiny oval of light in a thin white fog. The wind howled, hummed, whistled, with sudden booming gusts that...

In a certain sense the phrase 'I am still alive' can never be sent as it cannot be received by the addressee instantaneously. It is only valid at the very instant that it is being written, and in the very next second it is no longer a certainty... It is a sentence of...

Human relations are like the irregular verbs in a number of languages where nearly all verbs are irregular. -- Søren Kierkegaard Kierkegaard proposed to Regine Olsen as she played the piano. 'Oh! What do I care for music?' he shouted over the strains of nineteenth...

Aristotle defined a mixture as a substance whose ingredients alter each other until the individual elements cease to exist. Yet he also believed that it's possible to separate the components from the solution. Natural philosophers have struggled for the past...

Excerpts from Pnin, chapter four, by Vladimir Nabokov It rained all the way. It was raining when he arrived at the Waindell terminal... Pnin suggested leaving the luggage and walking one block - if Victor was not afraid of the rain (it was pouring hard, and the...