Quote of the Week

Perhaps I couldn’t even have wanted more than that, couldn’t have accepted less.

-William Faulkner, Absalom, Absalom!

10 Reasons You Should be Reading the Classics

Check out my article on the best reasons to dive into the classics, published yesterday over at Punchnel’s webzine:

http://www.punchnels.com/features/10-reasons-you-should-be-reading-the-classics/

There are no gifs (this isn’t Buzzfeed), but Severus Snape is lurking somewhere in the hyperlinks. Enjoy!

Quote of the Week

Almost it would appear that it is useless in such confusion to ask the night those questions as to what, and why, and wherefore, which tempt the sleeper from his bed to seek an answer.

-Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse

Quote of the Week

Who then may trust the dice, at Fortune’s throw?

-Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales

Quote of the Week

Though he ‘did’ his classics and mathematics, he was not pre-eminent in them. It was said of him, that Lydgate could do anything he liked, but he had certainly not yet liked to do anything remarkable.

-George Eliot, Middlemarch