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I've started reading Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking-Glass, and it's good (though it seems to have a slightly different tone from Alice in Wonderland -- I can't quite put my finger on it, but I like it). The absurdity is very well-done, in a Chestertonian fashion. With things ...
Ran across this quote from C.S. Lewis in Letters to an American Lady:
"How little people know who think that holiness is dull. When one meets the real thing (and perhaps, like you, I have met it only once) it is irresistible."
[tags]C.S. Lewis[/tags]
Yesterday one of my colleagues[1] returned from South Africa and brought a box of Turkish delight with her. Now, I've been off sweets (candy, cakes, cookies, ice cream, doughnuts, soda, etc.) for over a month now, and nothing has been able to make me bend. Until now. ...
Yesterday before General Conference started, I noticed a small blue pamphlet on my bookshelves entitled "The BYU Experience," which I think I received when I got accepted to BYU. Turns out it's from a devotional address by President Hinckley back in 1997. After the morning session, I ...
Finally. :) I'm still not 100% satisfied with it but it's much better than the last one. I got the photograph off stock.xchng, and the title font is Adobe Garamond Pro.
The bad news is that my laptop died yesterday. The good news is that this may end up giving me more time to read. :) I finished Alice in Wonderland a few days ago, and I'm still making my way through Jane Eyre, War and Peace and Getting ...
We've been reading Miracles in the C.S. Lewis Society, and although the first few chapters ended up almost devoid of markings, the chapters since then have seen a fair amount of scribbles. Here are some of the quotes I liked:
In chapter 8, Lewis says:
It is therefore inaccurate to define ...
After being sick for almost a week now, I've decided to start doing homework so that I'll be caught up when I finally do get better. For my History of the Book class, we've started reading Robert Bringhurst's The Elements of Typographic Style, which is an amazing book. ...
Today I read about the Reading 2.0 conference, and it's very interesting stuff. For good summaries of the main talks, see Tim O'Reilly's notes.
On a somewhat related note, I'm wondering about how worthwhile it is to be able to produce PDFs on-the-fly from a text/HTML/XML source. ...
Well, it's not that bad -- just a huge headache, really achy bones, and loss of balance -- but it's keeping me in bed. I'm not sure yet whether I'll be able to get anything done today or if I'll have to give in and sleep it all away. ...
