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The Dark Sides of Education
The Dark Sides of Education
Kazuo Ishiguro is no Michael Crichton. Lying at the heart of his dystopian world in the novel Never Let Me Go, where human clones are raised as organ donors, is not futuristic speculation about biotechnology, but a metaphor for how awareness of the finitude of life influences ordinary people’s treatment of love and friendship. What also intrigues him are the stories we manufacture and share among…
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Ophelia, ink on paper
“‘You're not hurt, Watson? For God's sake, say that you are not hurt!’ It was worth a wound -- it was worth many wounds -- to know the depth of loyalty and love which lay behind that cold mask. The clear, hard eyes were dimmed for a moment, and the firm lips were shaking. For the one and only time I caught a glimpse of a great heart as well as of a great brain. All my years of humble but single-minded service culminated in that moment of revelation.”
Narrative of John Watson
The Adventure of the Three Garridebs, Arthur Conan Doyle
“Watson. Come at once if convenient. If inconvenient, come all the same.” - Sherlock Holmes (Adventure of the Creeping Man, Arthur Conan Doyle)
i don't know why but this quote just hits me in the feels. "if inconvenient, come all the same."
maybe love is about finding your way to each other even when it's inconvenient.
Just reread the Picture of Dorian Gray. Cool story behind it, he was bffs with Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. They had lunch together and a friend told them both to submit a story and they both had bangers.
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— Mary Oliver, Entering the Kingdom
“Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.”
— Rabindranath Tagore, Stray Birds
Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.
— Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore
I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.
— Sarah Williams
I have drunken deep of joy, and I will taste no other wine tonight.
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
Closed in a room, my imagination becomes the universe, and the rest of the world is missing out.
— Criss Jami, Diotima, Battery, Electric Personality
“If someday the moon calls you by your name don’t be surprised, because every night I tell her about you.”
— Shahrazad al-Khalij
“What a strange thing! To be alive beneath cherry blossoms.”
– Kobayashi Issa
Your absence has gone through me like thread through a needle. Everything I do is stitched with its color.
— W.S. Merwin
– Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena