Memorable Passages

[crazy dog]

Shelley

I met a traveller from an antique land,


Stand in the desert. . . . Near them, on the sand,

Half sunk a shattered visage lies, whose frown,

And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,

Tell that its sculptor well those passions read

Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,

The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed;

And on the pedestal, these words appear:

My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings;

Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!

Nothing beside remains. Round the decay

Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare

[Boon Mee]

[xiao mo]

In Xanadu did Kubla Khan

A stately pleasure-dome decree:

Where Alph, the sacred river, ran

Through caverns measureless to man

Down to a sunless sea.

So twice five miles of fertile ground

With walls and towers were girdled round;

And there were gardens bright with sinuous rills,

Where blossomed many an incense-bearing tree;

And here were forests ancient as the hills,

Enfolding sunny spots of greenery.



But oh! that deep romantic chasm which slanted

Down the green hill athwart a cedarn cover!

A savage place! as holy and enchanted


By woman wailing for her demon-lover!

Kubla Khan

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

(Or, a vision in a dream. A Fragment)

[xiao mo]

[Boon Mee]

[Chesty P.]

Carl Sagan, Cosmos

Whatever happened to BaitongBoy? He improved the forum.

[BaitongBoy]

and taste the people-

― Charles Bukowski, Play the Piano Drunk Like a Percussion Instrument Until the Fingers Begin to Bleed a Bit




― Hunter S. Thompson , The Rum Diary

[Chesty P.]

Welcome back!

[BaitongBoy]

Again, Cheers!...

― Wilfred Thesiger, Arabian Sands

[BaitongBoy]

― Vladimir Nabokov, Speak, Memory

[Boon Mee]

[BaitongBoy]

― Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Memories of My Melancholy Whores

[BaitongBoy]

― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

[Boon Mee]

[BaitongBoy]

― Herman Melville