eclectica

    24
    December
    Date
  1. Quote The odd thing about people who had many books was how they always wanted more.
    Patricia A. McKillip in The Bell at Sealey Head (2008).
    2. 02
    November
    Date
  2. Chat
    1

    Quality service

    At the dry cleaners, retrieving a full-size quilted bedspread.
    Staff person: Do you want me to carry this out for you?
    Me: No, thanks. I walked here.
    Staff person: How far away do you live?
    Me: [I name an intersection 4 blocks away.]
    Staff person: Do you want a ride home?
    After I declined, he then very nicely refolded the bedspread into a compact bundle which was much easier to carry home. Aww.
    3. 26
    October
    Date
  3. Video Originally by
    1

    apartmentfullofbooks:

    A wonderful video for Word as Image. 

    4. 31
    August
    Date
  4. Quote It seems as if the day was not wholly profane in which we have given heed to some natural object.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson

    Tagged: nature,
    5. 13
    June
    Date
  5. Quote Originally by amgamble
    2
    Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents.
    Arthur Schopenhauer
     (via amgamble)

    Tagged: reading,
    6. 02
    May
    Date
  6. Quote
    1
    On the other hand, there is a great beauty in being at ease with solitude and aloneness. People do many stupid things to keep themselves from being lonely, and someone who rarely has to contend with that problem has freed up a lot of time to work, learn, and simply be.
    Raven Kaldera in Moon Phase Astrology: The Lunar Key to Your Destiny (2011)

    Tagged: solitude,
    7. 03
    April
    Date
  7. Chat

    In the bookstore

    Man: Honey, why do all these books by Jane Austen have the same picture of a woman on them?
    [long pause]
    Man: Hey, is this what Jane Austen looked like?
    8. 27
    March
    Date
  8. Text

    Verities

    It is a truth universally acknowledged, that an e-book reader app must come with a free copy of Pride and Prejudice.

    9. 22
    March
    Date
  9. Text

    I’ve just learned that the first sentence of Pride and Prejudice (“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife”) is the second-most highlighted passage in Kindle ebooks. I agree that it’s a sentence worth remembering. But I hope people aren’t highlighting it because it’s hard for them to find the first sentence of a book.

    10. 21
    February
    Date
  10. Photo Originally by luclatulippe
    229

    (via amgamble)
Portrait an electronic commonplace journal with random commentary
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