Category Archives: reads

Eye candy

I was flipping around with Joseph Albers while waiting for the Ortho and ortho assistant. Fiftieth anniversary edition and the surprises were just as fresh as I imagine they were to his students.

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From the pages to the quote box

From Brenda Ueland’s If You Want to Write

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Beowulf

By worthy deeds in every folk is a man ennobled. J.R.R. Tolkien translation Behavior that’s admired is the path to power among people everywhere. Seamus Heaney translation

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About those Appendices

But tonight, creeping toward the end of the audiobook version of Lord of the Rings, deep deep in the appendices… Continue reading →

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Today’s LotR quote

‘I feel like spring after winter, and sun on the leaves; and like trumpets and harps and all the songs I have ever heard!’ Continue reading →

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