Monthly Archives: October 2006

Quote of the day

31 October 2006 – 12:01 am +0800

His mouth had been used as a latrine by some small creature of the night, and then as a mausoleum. During the night, too, he’d somehow been on a cross-country run and then been expertly beaten up by secret police. He felt bad.
— Kingsley Amis, Lucky Jim
(Gotta love that last sentence.)

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Mr. Murder by Dean Koontz, 1993

30 October 2006 – 8:12 pm +0800

[Editor's note: OK, here's a little actual content, culled from the trusty old notebook.]
If you read enough Dean Koontz1 you very quickly realize that one price he — or rather, his readers — pays for his profligacy (he frequently publishes two novels a year) is repetition.
From book to book, the same details and insights [...]

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Quote of the day

30 October 2006 – 12:01 am +0800

Dostoyevsky once wrote that hell is perhaps nothing more than a room with a chair in it. This room has several chairs.
— Bruce Robinson, Withnail & I script, scene description

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Quote of the day

29 October 2006 – 12:01 am +0800

Your love is better than ice cream
Better than anything else that I’ve tried
And your love is better than ice cream
Everyone here knows how to fight
And it’s a long way down
It’s a long way down
It’s a long way down to the place
Where we started from
Your love is better than chocolate
Better than anything else that I’ve tried
Your [...]

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Quote of the day

28 October 2006 – 12:01 am +0800

Well the coal-black sea waits for me me me
the coal-black sea waits forever
The waves hit the shore, crying “more more more”
but the coal-black sea waits forever
The tornadoes come up the coast they run
hurricanes rip the sky forever
Though the weathers change, the sea remains the same,
the coal-black sea waits forever
There are ashes spilt through collective guilt
people [...]

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Quote of the day

27 October 2006 – 12:01 am +0800

To further reassure the girls, we stood Captain Fluffy, a teddy bear in a military-style cam on a chair beside the closet door. The captain served as a sentry on whom they could rely to protect them.
“He’s just a dumb bear,” Annie said.
“Yeah. Dumb,” Lucy agreed.
“He can’t scare off monsters,” Annie said. [...]

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Status

26 October 2006 – 9:31 pm +0800

Like Shepherd Book in Firefly, I’ve been out of the world for a while. In my case, it wasn’t by choice, but I’m not going to talk about it. At least, not publicly.
But I am not: incarcerated; deathly ill (or ill at all); sadistically tortured by (or torturing) anyone.
I owe lots of [...]

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