Read me slowly, read me through

One way to read a force yourself to read books in a regular manner is to set a rule, for example, three pages every night. DailyLit (http://www.dailylit.com/) provides another convenient to read a book regularly by using email. You can choose a book you want to read, the frequency of email, and your destination email address. Then, DailyLit will send you the content of the book in email, chapter by chapter, to your email address with the preferred frequency. More over, you can stop the DailyLit sending, for example, when you're going to take a vacation and cannot access your email account. You can find many good free books from DailyLit or some cheap pay-per-read book

My recent reading list is "Crime and Punishment", you can see, the email frequency must be very slow. Well, Dostoyevsky is something hard to digest.

มีดยิ่งนัก

“ คืนนี้มืดใช่มืดสนิท
ไฟดวงนิดยังมีแสง
ขอเพียงลมพัดแรง
เถ้ามอดแดงก็จะลาม
ทุ่งนี้รกใช่รกหมด
นั่น ข้าวสด ขึ้นแทรกหนาม
ขอเพียงฝนจากฟ้าคราม
ข้าวจะงามท่วมหญ้าคา! ”

— เสกสรรค์ ประเสริฐกุล

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On the 99th day

Once upon a time......a king gave a feast. The most beautiful princesses were there. A soldier who was standing guard saw the king's daughter go by. She was the loveliest one, and he fell instantly in love. But what is a simple soldier next to the daughter of a king? One day he managed to see her and told her he could no longer live without her. The princess was so taken by the depth of his feeling that she said to the soldier:"If you can wait for 100 days and 100 nights under my balcony, I shall be yours." With that, the soldier went and waited one day, two days......then ten, twenty. Each evening the princess looked out and he never moved! Always there, come rain, come thunder. Birds shat on his head, bees stung him, but didn't budge. After 90 nights, he had become all dry and pale. Tears streamed from his eyes. He couldn't hold them back. He didn't even have the strength to sleep. And all that time, the princess watched him. When 99th night came......the soldier stood up, took his chair, and left.

From Cinema Paradiso

เหตุผล

"เพราะลลิลเป็นผู้หญิงที่ทำให้เขาอยากมีชีวิตที่สุขสงบและทำตัวให้มีค่าควรคู่หล่อน จนยอมละทิ้งเรื่องราวเหลวไหลในอดีตไว้เบื้องหลัง"

- ทางสายพระจันทร์เสี้ยว, ประภัสสร เสวิกุล

Good bye Borders at Jam Factory

Borders is going to close all book stores in UK, including those in Australia and New Zealand. Well, it certainly includes the Borders at Jam Factory in Melbourne, which is one of my favorite book store when I spent my life there. The place was my "no-place-to-go" place and where I bought most of my books, including the whole set of TAOCP. I always hope that I will revisit there when I've a chance to go to Melbourne again, but it seems to be a forever hope now....

Farewell my beloved book store, I will miss you every time I read.

Lamp-post in a snowy night.

She began to walk forward, crunch-crunch over the snow and through the wood towards the other light. In about ten minutes she reached it and found it was a lamp-post.

From C.S. Lewis' The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.

You wrote these sentences, I wrote those sentences, and finally, this is ours

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