A life in words

  • Rime of the Ancient Mariner

    I just listened to The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge while reading along. An impressive poem! Download the audio book and view the complete text with notes if you want to. Here’s a notable little excerpt: O sweeter than the marriage-feast, ‘Tis sweeter far to me, To walk together to the…

  • What did you do today?

    Today… sitting sleeping showering eating reading thinking imagining dreaming programming eating sniffling breathing playing sighing reading listening watching talking wondering hugging tickling eating plotting planning checking worrying hoping praying being

  • A Just Cause

    I’ve got to read more Dostoevsky! I think you all might enjoy a few of his quotes. I’ve highlighted a few words here and there to make it a better simulation of a motivational poster! “A just cause is not ruined by a few mistakes” “The soul is healed by being with children”€ “What is…

The principal difficulty lies, and the greatest care should be employed in constituting this Representative Assembly. It should be in miniature, an exact portrait of the people at large. It should think, feel, reason, and act like them. That it may be the interest of this Assembly to do strict justice at all times, it should be an equal representation, or in other words equal interest among the people should have equal interest in it. Great care should be taken to effect this, and to prevent unfair, partial, and corrupt elections.John Adams, Thoughts on Government, April 1776