Posted in An Inkling on Jul 30th, 2005 1 Comment »
“Sabrina fair!
Listen where thou art sitting
Under the glassy, cool, translucent wave
In twisted braids of lilies knitting
The loose train of thy amber-drooping hair;
Listen for dear honour’s sake,
Goddess of the silver lake!
Listen and save.”
John Milton, “Comus”(1637)
I guess I should explain… I remember watching Sabrina Fairchild (Julia Ormond) reciting this to Linus Larrabee (Harrison Ford) in the 1992 [...]
Posted in An Inkling on Jul 25th, 2005 2 Comments »
I hate being mushy. I hate honest, heart-on-the-sleeve letters. I hate getting letters that make me go red in the face because the letter is for me, and for no one else - and because I am torn between wanting to keep it and wanting to burn it so no one will unearth it [...]
Posted in Books on Jul 19th, 2005 1 Comment »
September 6, 2004, around 9:45 pm.
I just read “The Tombs of Atuan” by Ursula K. Le Guin - a lucky Booksale find (I chanced upon it yesterday in Katipunan, along with Susan Cooper’s “Greenwitch”, both P15 - and i feel I must simply type this down.
It was a beautifully-told story. Ged is older now, [...]
Posted in Excerpts from my old diary on Jul 19th, 2005 No Comments »
September 8, 2004
Well, today I taught conic sections to an earnest, bespectacled young man (he took off his glasses while answering the mock exam, though). He was rather careless about coefficients, but very attentive and eager to learn. Then, lo and behold, after our long (4-hour) session (thankfully Miss Susie counted it as two sessions [...]
Posted in Excerpts from my old diary on Jul 19th, 2005 No Comments »
December 2, 2004
I feel alive, as if roused from a long, deep sleep - my eyes are opened, and I’m a bit bewildered and frightened… but then there You are before me, and no veil between us… the air is sweet and warm and fresh, like in Eden in the beginning of the world. And [...]
Posted in Film on Jul 19th, 2005 1 Comment »
Excerpts from my old diary:
August 27, 2004
My next goal: watch “Mr. Smith Goes To Washington”. I just watched “Legally Blonde 2″ - it was irritating - but it had one redeeming part: a scene where Elle Woods and her fiance were both watching James Stewart just before he began his filibuster. Now I’m reading the [...]
