January 2008
2 posts
BOOKMARKS
September 2007
8 posts
“When I raise my arm I do not usually try to raise it.”
– Wittgenstein - Philosophical Investigations - 622
“The composition is the thing seen by everyone living in the living they are...”
– Gertrude Stein
“His own consciousness of language was ebbing from his brain and trickling into...”
– James Joyce
“Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness”
– Samuel Beckett
“Once the illegibility of the fragment has been confirmed by the sheer numbers of...”
– Rod Mengham
“Language is a labyrinth of paths. You approach from one side and know your way...”
– Wittgenstein - Philosophical Investigations - 203
FIRST LINES AND SENTENCES
0 - 1 1801. Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte 1 “A manifesto is a communication made to the whole world, whose only pretension is to the discovery of an instant cure for political, astronomical, artistic, parliamentary, agronomical and literary syphilis. Manifesto 010101, babel 391 was reborn at 12:00:00 am, 01/01/00. Manifesto 000101, babel...
“Since we cannot get what we like, let us like what we get.”
– A Spanish proverb, quoted at the beginning of Chapter 46 of Middlemarch by George Eliot. You can find a link to the book on my links page.