I read "The Da Vinci Code" yesterday. No, more precisely, I "listened to" it!

So, I bought the audiobook as well as the book itself. It was I enjoy them all.

Do you ever buy "audiobooks?" They are exciting, as far as I know!
Highly recommendable. Worth giving it a try.

Wow, this is the first entry in about five months!

What can I say? Busy? Quite true. Stressful? Not quite.

Right now, I go to interpreter's school. And yeah, I keep a blog but at LiveJournal.com instead of xanga.com.... But I keep this account anyway! I've got a very close friend on this xanga-sphere, and can't feel like just quitting and scrapping it!

Well, as time passed I realize I don't introduce quotes anymore. I used to a lot, but not more. Why? I dunno. One's interest keeps ever changing, and that's all I can say. You never know I may restart doing so again. But for the time if I ever post a new entry, that would be more personal and not just quotes... Exciting! No?

Whoever reads this? I have no clue for that too. But I sometimes come back here and more often than not may keep updating it for more hot news and stuff!

Everyone (who?), take care!

Taksan

Backward ran sentences until reeled the mind. -- Wolcott Gibbs, satirizing the style of TIME magazine, in New Yorker

Hugo - alas! -- Andre Gide, when asked who was the greatest 19th-century poet

History... is, indeed, little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind. -- Edward Gibbon, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

Abroad is bloody. -- George VI, W.H. Auden, A Certain World

La vida es duda,
y la fe sin la duda es solo muerte.
Life is doubt,
And faith without doubt is nothing but death. -- Miguel de Unamuno, Poesias

Here're some from Percy Bysshe Shelley

My soul is an enchanted boat,
Which, like a sleeping swan, doth float
Upon the silver waves of thy sweet singing. -- Prometheus Unbound (1820)

He is a portion of the loveliness
Which once he made more lovely. -- Adonais (1821)

Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world. -- A Defence of Poetry (1821)

Here're some from Shakespeare:

And so, from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe,
And then from hour to hour, we rot and rot:
And thereby hangs a tale. -- As you like it (1599)

O wonderful, wonderful, and most wonderful, wonderful!
and yet again wonderful, and after that, out of all whooping! -- do.

O how full of briers is this working-day world! -- do.

Boldness be my friend!
Arm me, audacity. -- Cymbeline (1609-10)

List, list, O, list! -- Hamlet (1601)

How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable
Seem to me all the uses of this world. -- do.

You come most carefully upon your hour. -- do.

It is a nipping and an eagar air. -- do.

A countenance more in sorrow than in anger. -- do.

For Hecuba!
What's Hecuba to him or he to Hecuba
That he should weep for her? -- do.

There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so. -- do.