2010-05-25
Finally finishing Dr. Zhivago..
It is a moving book. The sense of place, the backdrop of a society in upheaval and transformation, the multiple love stories--all combine to make it a rich work of beauty and life.
2010-05-19
Google ~ SparkNotes + Librivox + Leviathan
My daughter's humanities class is studying Leviathan. I thought this might help her, me, others:
Wikipedia
Librivox
Sparknotes
Wikipedia
Librivox
Sparknotes
2010-05-09
Erithraea
The sibyl's form seems off - another example of Michelangelo's lack of insight to the female form(see "Night" sculpture).
I am curious about Michelangelo's need to include the sibyls alongside the prophets. Why?
Image from wikipedia commons
Quotes: UNDER THE TUSCAN SUN
Signora, between Austria and Italy, there is a section of the Alps called the Semmering. It is an impossibly steep, very high part of the mountains. They built a train track over these Alps to connect Vienna and Venice. They built these tracks even before there was a train in existence that could make the trip. They built it because they knew some day, the train would come.
2010-05-04
A City of Bells ~ Gems
ON READING
..."In my experience when people once begin to read they go on. They begin because they think they ought to and they go on because they must. Yes. They find it widens life. We're all greedy for life, you now, and our short span of existence can't give us all that we hunger for, the time is too short and our capacity not large enough. But in books we experience all life vicariously."
..."In my experience when people once begin to read they go on. They begin because they think they ought to and they go on because they must. Yes. They find it widens life. We're all greedy for life, you now, and our short span of existence can't give us all that we hunger for, the time is too short and our capacity not large enough. But in books we experience all life vicariously."
2010-05-02
ReadCal.hta
It creates an iCal ~ ICS format calendar events for
a book to be read. Enter "Item to be Read",
"Pages", "Readings" then press "OK".
A calendar in iCal format is generated in the
textarea and written to same file location as
the application.
Sample(A_City_of_Bells_SAMPLE.ICS):
http://www.box.net/shared/g9xvaxyklz
Download:
http://www.box.net/shared/u5su9lf8ss
ReadCal by Michael T. Bee is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.
Based on a work at michael-t-bee-esi.blogspot.com.
Permissions beyond the scope of this license may be available at mailto:michael.t.bee@gmail.com.
Screenshots:
a book to be read. Enter "Item to be Read",
"Pages", "Readings" then press "OK".
A calendar in iCal format is generated in the
textarea and written to same file location as
the application.
Sample(A_City_of_Bells_SAMPLE.ICS):
http://www.box.net/shared/g9xvaxyklz
Download:
http://www.box.net/shared/u5su9lf8ss
ReadCal by Michael T. Bee is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.
Based on a work at michael-t-bee-esi.blogspot.com.
Permissions beyond the scope of this license may be available at mailto:michael.t.bee@gmail.com.
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