Death Cab for Cutie – Monday Morning

She may be young but she only likes old things
And modern music it ain’t to her tastes
She loves the natural light
Captured in black and white

She sees mirages of mountain ranges
Within the blink of her eye it changes
Back to the open plain
Oh no she can’t explain

I cry out love keep your arms around me
I am a bird that’s in need of grounding
I’m built to fly away
I never learned how to stay

The night is gonna fall and the vultures will surround you
And when you’re looking in the mirror what you see is gonna astound you
But all these lines and greys refine, They are the maps of our design
Of what began on a Monday morning

Monday Morning

The night is gonna fall and the vultures will surround you
And when you’re looking in the mirror what you see is gonna astound you
But all these lines and greys refine, They are the maps of our design
Of what began on a Monday morning

The night is gonna fall and the vultures will surround you
And when you’re looking in the mirror what you see is gonna astound you
And while the glow of youth in time eludes
It’s burning on inside of you It all began on a Monday morning

- a token of Ben Gibbard’s love towards Zoey Deschanel; lyrics copied from songmeanings.net

2011
07/15
CATEGORY
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George Orwell – 1984

The past, he reflected, had not merely been altered,it had been actually destroyed. For how could you establish even the most obvious fact when there existed no record outside your own memory?

- Winston’s struggle between truth and its travesty (pg 38)

The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.

- A brief example of the Party’s totalitarian rule (pg 84)

The obvious, the silly and the true had got to be defended. Truisms are true, hold on to that! The solid world is true, its laws do not change. Stones are hard, water is wet, objects unsupported fall towards the earth’s centre.

- Winston’s awakening insight to the flaws of the Party’s teachings (pg 84)

It spread out its wing, fitted them carefully into place again, ducked its head for a moment, as though making a sort of obeisance to the sun, and then began to pour forth a torrent of song.

- Winston and Julia’s observation of a thrush bird during their first secret rendezvous

They simply swallowed everything, and what they swallowed did them no harm, because it left no residue behind, just as a grain of corn will pass undigested through the body of a bird.

- Winston’s frustration at his ignorant comrades

They were not loyal to a party or a country or an idea, they were loyal to one another.

- Winston’s admiration of the proles, supposedly the inhabitants of the lowest class in Oceania’s hierarchical society

These quotes were taken from:

Orwell G. (2008) 1984. Penguin Books Limited, London.

2011
07/03
CATEGORY
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Dean Koontz: Brother Odd

Some memorable dialogues from the book:

Putting away his ID, Romanovich said, You have quite a vast facility here, Brother John.

Not really. The vastness you sense may be the scope of the work, rather than the size of the facility.

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Good Lord, sir, your electrical bill must be outrageous.

It’s not inconsiderable, he acknowledged, but it isn’t as bad as you might think. For one thing, it’s not volts that matters so much as amps.

And I suppose you receive high-user discount.

Not only that Odd Thomas, my labaratory has certain rate advantages because it is in fact a religious organization.

- Odd Thomas’ odd inquisitiveness on the maintenance of Brother John’s impressive lab.

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Absolution grants you forgiveness for it, but does not expunge the past. The man you were still lives within you, repressed by the man you’ve struggled to become.

- Romanovich underlining Brother John’s treacherous ambition, against his proponent’s skewed reasoning of unshakable faith.


2010
08/05
CATEGORY
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