The culture of the codex is fading
Our eyes seek stark screens, not porous pages;
What are neglected novels concealing?
Snubbed by readers, bookish romance rages!
Would Achilles and Anne Shirley get on?
Could Arthur Dent cheer up Ophelia?
Young Werther could turn Beatrice on;
For Lestat, who’d risk necrophilia?
Consider Candide caressed by Circe--
Heathcliff might turn red, touched by Hester Prynne;
While fantasizing with Don Quixote
Anna Karenina would surely grin
Ignored by technophile, human lovers
Characters might mingle under covers!
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D. J. Reddall
I write because my time is limited and my imagination is not.
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Standing While Falling
Quotation from Friedrich Nietzsche "He who wrestles long with monsters should beware lest he himself become a monster. And if you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss also gazes into you. Man is not destroyed by suffering, but by the meaning he makes of it."
By LUCCIAN LAYTH7 days ago in Critique
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I feel like such an uncultured swine for not knowing any of these people 😅 But I loveeeeeeeeee books!
Ah, I love this. Sometimes I've come across characters in books and have thought, Oh, this protagonist would get along so well with this other one.🤣 I love when I find people who share my imaginations.
I love this idea, so much to play with.
Most known, some unknown but great sonnet again. Never read any Goethe. You recommend?
I feel quite uncultured reading this, I have definitely neglected some of these!