One night, Peter Pan came and took Wendy and her brothers to the Neverland. There they had many grand adventures with Lost Boys, mermaids, redskins, a ticking crocodile and pirates, before safely returning home. If you know the Disney movie, you know what happens. What you should of course realize is that J.M. Barrie’s Peter [...]
Category Archives: 100 things
First Lines: Spirits of the Dead
August 17, 2010 – 23:07
Spirits of the Dead: Tales and Poems would have been significantly improved if its editors, in their inestimable wisdom, had put the story Mellonta Tauta at the very front of this collection of poems and tales of Edgar Allen Poe. You see, this story starts with an all too perfect description of this volume’s contents: [...]
First Lines: Lolita
May 3, 2010 – 22:53
Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita has been called sheer unrestrained pornography, the filthiest book I have ever read, perverse, repulsive, obscene and indecent. It has been banned in France, the United Kingdom, South Africa and Argentina. If you go with what I suspect is the common preconceived notion—i.e., that book about this older guy with his unhealthy [...]
#101: Getting Out
April 25, 2010 – 14:14
While going over my list of 100 Things, I noticed that by completing number 69 (run Linux as primary operating system on every computer I own) I rendered number 21 (find free/open source alternatives for all unlicensed programs on my PC) moot. So I came up with a new one: 101: Officially defect from the [...]
#50: 40 Books Before 40
April 14, 2010 – 18:00
This post in three months overdue. My original plan was to finalize my list of 40 books to read before my 40th birthday on my 30th birthday, so that I would have exactly ten years to complete them. But then life happened. Anyway, the list. (Those books I’ve read are bold.) J.M. Barrie – Peter [...]
