1. 02 December 2007

    368 days ago

    … je me suis apercu que de tout temps j’ai ete obsede par l’impossibilite de me rendre compte de certaines actions ou pensees soudaines de l’homme sans l’hypothese de l’intervention d’une force mechante exterieure de lui.

    I realized that I’ve always been obsessed with my inability to understand certain abrupt actions or thoughts of man without hypothesizing the intervention of some malicious force acting outside of him.

    Charles Baudelaire on the Devil

  2. 23 April 2007

    Le Fantôme de l'Opéra

    Gaston Leroux

    591 days ago

    Phantom of the opera in french, for one of my french classes. I think I understood most of it, and could even read without a dictionary if I felt like it.

  3. 17 April 2007

    597 days ago

    L’existence n’est pas quelque chose qui se laisse penser de loin: il faut que ça vous envahisse brusquement, que ça s’arrête sur vous, que ça pèse lourd sur votre coeur comme une grosse bête immobile – ou alors il n’y a plus rien du tout.

    (Existence isn’t something that lets you think of it from afar: it must be that it abruptly invades, steps on you, weighs heavily on your heart like a large immobile beast – otherwise it’s no longer anything at all.)

    Jean-Paul Sartre, Le Nausée

  4. 09 June 2006

    909 days ago

    Three Weeks, Issue 1

    THREE WEEKS is a small publication, and we concede that our immediate effect will be proportional. But, whether naive or prescient, we also enjoy thinking that some small flame will be set by our actions now, and one day when our children, or their children, are despicable perversions of the ideal we represent, that flame will spread and incinerate human ignorance, petty fears, and this species’ unforgivable herd-like obsession with being fashionable.

    We shall elucidate trivia and minutiae in every branch of human knowledge, simply for the reason that it will be a revelation to the common mind. We shall frame ordinary thoughts with exquisite words, and dress the finest inspirations of human intelligence in monosyllabic dreck so that it can be grasped by the unfit. We shall soften the focus of the typical daily’s analysis, while yet seeing more sharply than the glossy monthlies of America’s doctor’s offices, or the dainty quarterlies of its coffee shops. We shall oppose prejudices and superstitions, and we shall assume a stance of provocation and skepticism.

    Kjell Olsen909 days ago

  5. 28 September 2005

    1164 days ago

    The Morning News - I Am Gary Benchley, by Paul Ford

    I never thought Benchley was a real person, but I did love the story. Now the book is out.

    One agency, ICM, figured out I was behind Benchley, and I decided if they could puzzle out my identity from the clues I left in Gary

    via Kjell Olsen1164 days ago

  6. 21 July 2005

    1232 days ago

    Wikisource

    Wiki* is tremendously neat. I (heart) free information.

    via Kjell Olsen1232 days ago

  7. 17 July 2005

    1237 days ago

    Potter pirated

    And just hours after the dead tree release.

    Kjell Olsen1237 days ago

  8. 05 December 2004

    1460 days ago

    Free Programming and Computer Science Books

    Wow – a collection of books available for free over the greatness which is the internet. All kinds of interesting books.

    Kjell Olsen1460 days ago

  9. 17 June 2004

    One Flew Over the Cukoo's Nest

    Ken Kesey

    1632 days ago

    I liked this book a lot – it deals with the margins of society, the residents of an insane asylum, and how they fight the woman who is trying to mold them back into normal human beings. “The Combine,” the societies institution to keep everyone in line, is headed by this nurse, and the inmates are none in line with the combine.

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