the four right chords can make me cry

ok, fine, so I am a nerd.

books make me happy! is that a crime?

went crazy over this penguin selection of books that revolutionised the world that i saw in kino today. Titles include:

Seneca, On the Shortness of Life
Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
St Augustine, Confessions of a Sinner
Thomas a Kempis, The Inner Life
Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince
Michel de Montaigne, On Friendship
Jonathan Swift, A Tale of a Tub
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract
Edward Gibbon, The Christians and the Fall of Rome
Thomas Paine, Common Sense
Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
William Hazlitt, On the Pleasure of Hating
Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels, The Communist Manifesto
Arther Schopenhauer, On the Suffering of the World
John Ruskin, On Art and Life
Charles Darwin, On Natural Selection
Friedrich Nietzsche, Why I am So Wise
Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own
Sigmund Freud, Civilization and Its Discontents
George Orwell, Why I Write

I want to read them ALL. but at $12 a book... i only got one in the end, a Kempis. I already have Darwin's sitting around on my desk, havent read through it yet. The rest... dunno. Yearn...

Also at kino, picked up a copy of Tim Burton's The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy and other stories and read through the whole thing. The most enjoyable poetry I've read! But at the same time also so sad and accurate. Do check out this website for a taste.

posted by beckyboo @ 3:37 AM