Jane Eyre- Thornfield continued
Chapter XX sees Mason attacked in the middle of the night. Rochester calls Jane to aid him and they manage to get him to the
Chapter XX sees Mason attacked in the middle of the night. Rochester calls Jane to aid him and they manage to get him to the
I have a long history with Italian at this point. I was born to an Italian-American mother, but was adopted, so I had no day-to-day
Jane passes her time at the Lowood school for another 8 years. But when Miss Temple retires, she finds herself in need of a change.
I am rereading Jane Eyre. This novel, recommended, and then given to me by a friend a few years back, started me up again on
“The shell ought not to be forced on the spirit. It can’t. The bright shell has to grow out of the spirit, and express it.”
Reading Ayn Rand’s Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal right now. The majority of this is copied directly from the first essay in the collection- What is
Uno, nessuno e centomila- Luigi Pirandello (1924) I read one of Pirandello’s novels earlier this year (Il fu Mattia Pascal- The Late Mattia Pascal) and
I dunno about that title… I was trying to think about what I might call this post. It has to do with guessing at the
Listening to the recent Darkhorse Podcast (133) and there is a discussion towards the end of a historical fiction book, where the character, a rich,
I have listened to several youtube videos from an English woman that goes by the name of The Authentic Observer. She had one that caught
“I have more intellectual pursuits, and less intellect with which to pursue them.“
This website was formerly “the TL;DR place” on tumblr. But I occasionally posted things that I wanted others to see, and they were unable to access the content without tumblr accounts. I called the blog the TL;DR place because the writing I do here is essentially a place for me to process through my thoughts. Most of my friend group isn’t all that interested in the same things, so I write rather than talk through it.
The domain name is a play on my name: David Laurance. David is of Hebrew origin and means something like “beloved”, and my middle name “Laurance” is derived from the name of a great aunt “Laura” back somewhere in the ancestry. The male equivalent is Lawrence, or Larry…. so… “beloved Larry” > everyone loves Larry.