Category Archives: Quote of the day

How Things Change — 2009-07-07

By terje | Published: July 7, 2009
“My music taste is pretty limited, mainly ’cause I don’t prioritize it, so my favorite bands/artists are as follows; Led Zeppelin, Wolfmother, The White Stripes, ACDC, Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton and Queen. Do you know of any other bands that may fit the genre (I spent a lot of money on a mp3 player and [...]
Also posted in Blogroll, Failed attempts at subtility, Irony, Links, Lotta, Music, Nostalgia, Paranoia, This Blog, Whoa, lol | 2 Comments

A matter of spiritual kinship — 2009-03-30

By terje | Published: March 30, 2009
Bob goes to church every Sunday, Every Sunday that the fish ain’t biting Bob never has to have dinner with the preacher, cause Bob never bothered getting married He likes to drink a beer or two every now and again, he always had more dogs than he ever had friends Bob ain’t light in the loafers, he might kneel but [...]
Also posted in Links, Music | 2 Comments

Wonderful — 2009-03-29

By terje | Published: March 30, 2009
strange: aberrant, able, abnormal, absurd, alien, amazing, anomalous, apart, astonishing, astounding, atypical, barbarian, barbaric, barbarous, beguiling, bereft of reason, bewildering, bizarre, brainsick, crackbrained, cracked, crank, crankish, cranky, crazed, crazy, crotchety, curious, daft, deluded, demented, deprived of reason, deranged, detached, deviant, deviative, different, disconnected, discrete, disjunct, disoriented, disrelated, dissociated, distraught, divergent, dotty, eccentric, enigmatic, erratic, exceptional, [...]
Also posted in Awe, Words | 16 Comments

The friends you keep… — 2009-02-06

By terje | Published: February 6, 2009
“Socrates himself seems not to have been interested in any revolutionary implications of his discourse, but they were not lost on some of the young men who enjoyed watching him dissect the flawed logic of his interlocutors. (..) The most vicious of the self-styled Socratics was Critias, not only the leader of the oligarchs who seized control [...]
Also posted in Greek stuff, History, Literature, Politics | 3 Comments

Yeah, um… — 2009-01-29

By terje | Published: January 29, 2009
“The past is a grotesque animal And in its eyes you see How completely wrong you can be How completely wrong you can be The sun is out, it melts the snow that fell yesterday Makes you wonder why it bothered (…) Things could be different but they’re not Things could be different but they’re not (…) But it’s like we weren’t made for this [...]
Also posted in A Praise Chorus, Art, Awe, Goosebumps!, Hodge-podge rambling, Language, Music, Pimping, Poetry, Whoa, Words | 2 Comments

Growing but grudging respect for an awesomely cold people — 2009-01-28

By terje | Published: January 28, 2009
“In order to stay in formation, soldiers tried not to run until they came within the reach of enemy missiles, at about 200 yards; experienced soldiers might manage to restrain themselves until they were at a mere 100 yards distance. (…) Spartan hoplites did not run at all, but advanced at a steady pace, singing marching hymns [...]
Also posted in Awe, Education, Goosebumps!, Greek stuff, History, Language, Literature, Whoa, lol | 2 Comments

When I first read this, I imagined for a moment that 1204 and 1453 had been nothing but bad dreams. Reality dawing on me felt like a fist in my guts

By terje | Published: November 21, 2008
“Constantinople was an impregnable city …” — Robert B. Kebric, Roman People (4th edition), epilogue.
Also posted in A Moistening of the Eyes, Greek stuff, Grief, Hallucinations, Hist2125, History, Hope, Irony, Language, Literature, Love, Medieval stuff, Misery, Nostalgia, Oh noes!, Pain, Regret, Roman stuff, Wistfulness | 3 Comments

The priorities of the people

By terje | Published: November 19, 2008
“In the year of his tribunate (58 B.C.), Clodius made the ordinary people of the city of Rome (plebs urbana) a significant power in politics for the first time. By comparison, the exile and return of Cicero (58/57 B.C.) was a second-rate phenomenon that was of primary concern only to Cicero himself, who had a [...]
Also posted in Hist2125, History, Roman stuff, lol | 3 Comments

For better or worse, you just don’t get life stories like this anymore (Or, the only thing missing is piracy)

By terje | Published: November 10, 2008
“Raised in an Ibo village (in modern Nigeria), Olaudah Equiano (ca 1745-1797) was kidnapped by African raiders and slod into slavery. He survived the horrors of the Middle Passage to the New World, where an English naval officer bought him ito serve as a cabin boy and renamed him Gustavus Vassa, after a sixteenth-century Swedish [...]
Also posted in Awe, Conflicting emotions, Education, English, History, Impressions, Literature, Misery, Nostalgia, Relief, What I Learned Today, Whoa, Wistfulness, Words | 7 Comments

I was, in fact, not aware of this

By terje | Published: November 9, 2008
“To Athens and Sparta Xerxes sent no demand for submission because of what happened to the messngers whom Darius had sent on a previous occasion: at Athens they were thrown into the pit like criminals, at Sparta they were pushed into a well — and told that if they wanted earth and water [signs of [...]
Also posted in Awe, Goosebumps!, Greek stuff, History, New Heroes, What I Learned Today, Whoa, lol | 23 Comments