Literature and the Love of Life

presented by Dr Kelp

2005-10-31

Sugarless Coffee

It is now a week since I stopped having sugar or sweetener in my coffee and I have to say I feel great and I'm losing weight. Also saw the documentary Supersize me which had a sobering message about eating junk food. So I need to look after my health to ensure that I have more quality reading time.

Best wishes to you all

DK

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2005-10-30

New Years Resolution

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I have just started my new years resolutions:

 Lose weight

 Exercise more

Be happy

Be positive

Focus on others rather than myself

I've decided that evry day starts a new year - there is no need to wait until Jan1 comes along.

 Ciao

DK

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2005-10-27

Reflection

I have been having a week of reflection. Reading books is great but we need to engage and reflect on what we have read. In reading Letters to His Son by Lord Chesterfield (an 18th century text) I was challenged to reflect on my thoughts re his advice. Lord Chesterfield was famous for his saying, "The Graces, the Graces, the Graces" when questioned about what was important for a young man in society. The advice comes across as being very superficial and his obsession with outward appearance and behaviour gets wearisome after a while (this is a long book!!). However I did enjoy one point he made about reading the world and our environment and persons as we would read a book.

 Keep well

 DK

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2005-10-24

Ignorance is not Bliss

"To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge."

Benjamin Disraeli in Sybil

In fact I would almost say that it is the first step. The second step is to have a hunger for knowledge and to strive to feed the hunger.

Cheers

DK

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2005-10-20

The Long Distance Blogger

Another day to fill my blog

Its how I felt when once I jogged!

Another day, another page

Another life

Another day

When will it be enough?

Cheers

DK

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2005-10-19

Let your boat of life be light

Let your boat of life be light, packed with only what you need - a homely home and simple pleasures, one or two friends, worth the name, someone to love and someone to love you, a cat, a dog, and a pipe or two, enough to eat and enough to wear, and a little more than enough to drink; for thirst is a dangerous thing.

Jerome.K. Jerome

I would change the pipe or two for a book or ten...

Keep well

DK

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2005-10-18

Tom Clancy Quote

"The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense."
-- Tom Clancy

I couldn't have said it better myself. Life is a rich tapestry but we always see it from behind. I had a very enjoyable book club meeting last night. We discussed Ellie and the Shadowman by Maurice Gee. The next meeting we will read The Spiral Staircase by Karen Armstrong.

Keep reading

DK

2005-10-13

The Perpetual Student

I have just googled the term perpetual student and found out that I'm not the only one around. I have been studying at tertiary level on and off since 1973, that is over 30 years - hard to believe. However my appetite for formal study is now waning and once I finish the BA (Humanities) I started 2 years ago I'm just going to hang around in libraries and bookshops. I must point out however that I have been working all this time as well so I have not been "enjoying the laid back campus life" of youth. I now have an alphabet of letters after my name but I don't think I'm any wiser? Any other perpetuals out there?

Regards

DK

2005-10-11

Quote of the Day

"Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you, because it is ... the most healing of pleasures." Harold Bloom

Have a great day/night/twilight etc

DK

2005-10-10

Reading Quote of the day

"Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers."
-- T. S. Eliot

Not unlike the following quote by Ernest Hemingway:

"There are no great writers, only great re-writers"

Both quotes have the taste of experience.

Cheers

DK

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