January 2012
3 posts
“Vimes had never got on with any game much more complex than darts. Chess in...”
– Thud!, Terry Pratchett, p72
December 2011
4 posts
In which I raise a glass →
“May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope...”
– Neil Gaiman
In which I deck the shelves with lots of books →
November 2011
1 post
October 2011
6 posts
In ten years from now I’m going to look back at this Tumblr and trace my evolution. (If I have any time, as am pretty sure the zombie apocalypse will have occurred by then).
“The British Press is extremely centralised, and most of it is owned by wealthy...”
– from George Orwell’s unpublished preface to Animal Farm, written in 1943.
In which Briony fails to articulate anything… →
5 tags
September 2011
12 posts
“He’d done for her all he could. But choosing to lovingly care for her was...”
– Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, Jamie Ford (p34)
“You have to be always drunk. That’s all there is to it—it’s the only...”
– Charles Baudelaire
In which a long night is remembered →
In which Briony doesn’t get it… →
In which we dance… →
August 2011
8 posts
In which the sunshine comes out… →
“Cynicism is just curdled innocence.”
– Jonathan Franzen
2 tags
July 2011
12 posts
Memorieeeeessssss →
In which Briony prepares for the zombie... →
“It seems that late in the summer of that year, my grandfather, Doctor Aadam...”
– Midnights Children - Salman Rushdie (p 45)
In Which There’s a Bear in There… →
In which Briony rejoices in an age old war between... →
“Now and then I think of when we were together
Like when you said you felt so...”
– Somebody That I Used to Know - Gotye (love this song)
In which Briony laments being an adult… →
June 2011
25 posts
“He leapt to his feet like an author hearing the phone ring.”
– Life, The Universe and Everything - Douglas Adams
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