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Tag Archives: life
Anna; An Introduction
i. I don’t want to prove anything. I simply want to live without hurting anyone but myself. I have a right to do that, haven’t I? I learned many things from Anna, but she didn’t really teach me anything. She’s … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Personal
Tagged anna karenina, death, essay, leo tolstoy, life, literature, love, madness, novel, suffering, women
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If I’m making myself clear enough, then good
It’s not even about you anymore. It’s about that time, that moment in time that is forever gone. – Richard Linklater, Before Sunset There are things in life that, because of the profound impact they had on me, I find … Continue reading
Posted in Films, Personal
Tagged annie hall, death, essay, film, happiness, life, love, nora ephron, romantic comedies, when harry met sally, woody allen
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Pluvial bebop
It’s funny. A friend told me that his girlfriend is a female version of me. “Babaeng ikaw” is how he puts it. My friend says that like me, his girlfriend is also an admirer of Ernest Hemingway, also a fan … Continue reading
Posted in Personal
Tagged armi millare, arthur schopenhauer, bebop, blues, david foster wallace, ennui, ernest hemingway, essays, f. scott fitzgerald, friends, health, jazz, jonathan franzen, life, literature, loneliness, misery, personal, pessimism, rain, rainy season, sadness, suffering, sylvia plath, writing
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Family blues
I was never close to my family. My mother, father, brother, and sister were to me just people who I live in the same house with, no more than that. Our being related by blood and our having the same … Continue reading
Very hot
This is the first time in my life that I’m hoping for June to come sooner and for summer to pass faster. The summer heat has become unbearable—all throughout the day, even at night, but particularly in the afternoon, it … Continue reading
Posted in Personal
Tagged epictetus, fear, graduation, heat, life, meden agan, misery, moderation, philosophy, regret, sadness, stoicism, summer, summer heat, university life, writing
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A few things (about poetry and this blog)
I started this blog last year, May 2013. The first two essays I’ve posted in this blog—entitled “Compromise” and “Skin over mind,” if I remember them correctly—were commentaries about our Republic’s recent diplomatic disagreement with Taiwan and the then upcoming … Continue reading
Posted in Announcements, Personal
Tagged blogging, bravery, courage, cowardice, essay, honesty, life, literature, manliness, poetry, prose, sincerity, truthfulness, writing
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Sleep tight, ya morons!
Alvy Singer: [the man behind him in line is talking loudly] What I wouldn’t give for a large sock with horse manure in it! Alvy Singer: [to audience] Whaddya do when you get stuck in a movie line with a … Continue reading
Tremors
Last year, Jonathan Franzen’s The Corrections set one month as the longest time it took me to finish a novel. A combination of busyness and not wanting to finish the novel to enjoy it more—and, incidentally, the sheer length of … Continue reading
Posted in Books
Tagged arthur schopenhauer, book review, capitalism, corporate greed, earthquakes, feminism, hatred, jonathan franzen, life, literature, misanthropy, novel, rottenness, society, spite, strong motion, women, writing
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