Monthly Archives: September 2014

Charlie Chaplin is not just The Tramp

During times where brutality and cruelty are invading today’s to-be-history, one longs for a kind word, a thoughtful gesture, and altruism.

In his first talking picture – “The Great Dictator”, Charlie Chaplin has captured the core of what human nature ought to be in a brilliant well-written speech. He mastered the delivery of such words and made me grieve the loss of morality and the absence of good will.

No matter how far-fetched it is for the whole conglomerate of humans to be good and do good,  one can only start and hope for the ripple effect to take place.

Hats off to you Mr. Chaplin, and thank you.

It’s OK to judge a book by its cover, sometimes.

To state the obvious, I have a soft spot for books or anything book-related. I obsess over
the  names of writers, especially if they’re known by their initials. Who is J. R.R Tolkien?

Not only does a book give you access to the author’s thoughts and imagination, but it
also allows you to build your own.

A book cover is as important as the book itself; a visual key that grabs your attention as
you step into a bookshop or a library. You wander about the isles looking for that book
a friend told you about, or you just give your instinct a go and guarantee a friend for the
coming weeks.

Anna Karenina“He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking.”

C.S. Lewis - The Lion, The Witch , and the Wardrobe“And so for a time it looked as if all the adventures were coming to and end; but that was not to be.”

Dostoyevsky“I love mankind, he said, “but I find to my amazement that the more I love mankind as a whole, the less I love man in particular.”

Fitzgerald“And I like large parties. They’re so intimate. At small parties there isn’t any privacy.”

Franz Kafka
“Was he an animal, that music could move him so? He felt as if the way to the
unknown nourishment he longed for were coming to light.”

Arabic

“لم يستطع سامبا أن يتحمل كل هذا، فاستيقظ في صباح أحد الأيام وركب حصانه الأسود وقد عقد العزم على الذهاب إلى بلد لا يعرف شعبه الحرب ولا العنف.”

Hemingway“Would you please please please please please please please stop talking?”

James Joyce“Too excited to be genuinely happy”

Lewis Carroll - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland“I’m not strange, weird, off, nor crazy, my reality is just different from yours.”

Lolita
“I knew I had fallen in love with Lolita forever; but I also knew she would not be forever Lolita.”

Mark Twain“That is just the way with some people. They get down on a thing when they don’t know nothing about it.”

Murakami
“I’m not so weird to me.”

Pride and Prejudice
“He is a gentleman, and I am a gentleman’s daughter. So far we are equal.”

Another Book Fever

library with face
Better remember where each book is placed.

The walking Library
A walking library? Yes, please!

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Now, that’s a party!

Book sniffing
Book sniffing, that can’t be illegal.

Sylvia Beach and James Joyce in Paris - Sylvia Beach – the owner of the bookshop Shakespeare and Company

Sylvia Beach and James Joyce in Paris. Sylvia Beach – the owner of Shakespeare and Company bookshop.

Shakespeare and Company in Paris

Shakespeare and Company bookshop.

rolling ladder
A rolling ladder to my home library. That is the goal.

two reading
That’ll work too.