Walking down the sidewalk towards my office building in one of my louder shirts, shades, and my indisputably awesome hat (not that you can't dispute its awesomeness, it's just that I won't listen), I feel so cool I can almost forget my geeky station in life. It's after hours but I'm at work because my life has made that the best strategy for the next few days. It's pretty sweet - no one is around but the security guard, and as I security-card my way through a multitude of doors and elevators I feel like a secret agent. The shades and the hat help, as does the clovey scent of my Djarums. It's back-to-work time, but first I have a few moments left to rant about the shitty book I'm reading. It's by a guy called Neal Stephenson, and it's called Snow Crash.
Books
Quotations: funny, but true!
I'm reading Eye in the Sky by Philip K. Dick, and I ran across a great quotation:
In all possible universes, Monday was the same.
Rather than post a miniscule journal entry, I thought I'd start a forum topic here, and see what everyone else can come up with. What funny, but oddly insightful quotations have you come accross in your readings? Let's try and keep it to quotations from novels - if we broadened it to any type of quotation, it would be far too easy, and this topic would go on forever! (oh, wait, would that be a bad thing?) :)
Shakespeare isn't so bad after all
I just read Shakespeare's 'The Tempest", and it was really really good! What's with all the complaining that students do about having to study it in English? I've read Macbeth, A Midsummer Night's Dream and Romeo and Juliet as well and I thoroughly enjoyed them. Maybe I only read the good ones? What does everybody else think?