Memorable Passages

[Boon Mee]

[rodeobob]

To be .. or not to be

[BaitongBoy]

In a Station of the Metro

The apparition of these faces in the crowd;
Petals on a wet, black bough.

― Ezra Pound

[BaitongBoy]

To sleep- perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub!
For in that sleep of death what dreams may come
When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,
Must give us pause. There's the respect
That makes calamity of so long life.

- Shakespeare, Hamlet

[BaitongBoy]

John Fowles, The French Lieutenant's Woman

[Boon Mee]

[BaitongBoy]

Sigmund Freud

[BaitongBoy]

Maeve Greyson, My Highland Bride

[BaitongBoy]

Stephen Crane, The Red Badge of Courage

[BaitongBoy]

James Jones, The Thin Red Line

[BaitongBoy]

There are strange things done in the midnight sun
By the men who moil for gold;
The Arctic trails have their secret tales
That would make your blood run cold;
The Northern Lights have seen queer sights,
But the queerest they ever did see
Was that night on the marge of Lake Lebarge
I cremated Sam McGee.

― Robert W. Service, The Cremation of Sam McGee

[johnnyrubba]

Carl Sagan, Cosmos

yet oddly I used to read a biting boy over on Deep Bore

[Boon Mee]

[Boon Mee]

[BaitongBoy]

Nikola Tesla