[07 Jan 2010|05:16pm] verdantique "Dealing with failure is easy: Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle: You've solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve." - Alan Perlis READ

[05 Jan 2010|03:47pm] verdantique "There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till. The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried. Not for nothing one face, one character, one fact, makes much impression on him, and another none. This sculpture in the memory is not without preestablished harmony. The eye was placed where one ray should fall, that it might testify of that particular ray. We but half express ourselves, and are ashamed of that divine idea which each of us represents. It may be safely trusted as proportionate and of good issues, so it be faithfully imparted, but God will not have his work made manifest by cowards. A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best; but what he has said or done otherwise, shall give him no peace. It is a deliverance which does not deliver. In the attempt his genius deserts him; no muse befriends; no invention, no hope." READ

[02 Jan 2010|11:25am] verdantique Fiat veritas, et pereat mundus. Fiat iustitia, et pereat mundus. READ

[29 Dec 2009|08:49pm] verdantique It can be deeply frustrating to get to the point where your knowledge is so specialized that it's impossible to casually discuss it with anyone. After hours of trying to get advice from my parents, I give up. READ

Where are all the classy ladies? [28 Dec 2009|11:50pm] verdantique Seriously. COMMENT (2) READ

Every act of invention is an act of rebellion. [27 Dec 2009|03:35pm] verdantique Next semester will kill me. But not if I kill it first. READ

Life Essentials [26 Dec 2009|10:01pm] verdantique Jorge Luis Borges Writings The Book of Disquiet Bulleit Bourbon Frontier Whiskey Kiwi Shoe Polish THE Polaroid Topman Oxfords Old Spice Classic THE Americano Col. A SEE Glasses Grandpa's Boots Schweppes Ginger Ale THE Briefcase COMMENT (1) READ

The Eternal JLB [25 Dec 2009|02:12pm] verdantique "A man sets out to draw the world. As the years go by, he peoples a space with images of provinces, kingdoms, mountains, bays, ships, islands, fishes, rooms, instruments, stars, horses, & individuals. A short time before he dies, he discovers that that patient labyrinth of lines traces the lineaments of his face." READ

navigation [ viewing | most recent entries ]