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[christine]

What do you read, my lord?



The Toronto Public Library will be kicking off Keep Toronto Reading tomorrow, a month-long celebration of books in all forms. It’s a celebration of the joy of reading as well as a celebration of Canadian writers, and to see Toronto through a variety of literary works. As part of the city's 175th anniversary celebrations this year, many Lit City events are planned around books that reflect various neighbourhoods.

“Words, words, words,” Hamlet said when the old fool Polonius asked him, “What do you read, my lord?” Was he a mean user of words himself? For anyone who is interested in this question, please read the play.

Hopefully, this thread will be a book discussion thread. What are you going read, my fellow writers?

Note: For more information on Keep Toronto Reading, log on to www.keeptorontoreading.ca.

[[christine]]

What do you read, my lord?



The Toronto Public Library will be kicking off Keep Toronto Reading tomorrow, a month-long celebration of books in all forms. It’s a celebration of the joy of reading as well as a celebration of Canadian writers, and to see Toronto through a variety of literary works. As part of the city's 175th anniversary celebrations this year, many Lit City events are planned around books that reflect various neighbourhoods.

“Words, words, words,” Hamlet said when the old fool Polonius asked him, “What do you read, my lord?” Was he a mean user of words himself? For anyone who is interested in this question, please read the play.

Hopefully, this thread will be a book discussion thread. What are you going read, my fellow writers?

Note: For more information on Keep Toronto Reading, log on to www.keeptorontoreading.ca.

[ericcoliu]

Thanks for information regarding Keep Toronto reading.

[[ericcoliu]]

Thanks for information regarding Keep Toronto reading.

[christine]

[[christine]]

[ericcoliu]

This is the most famous quoted “monologue” in English literature. As Arthur Schopenhauer eloquently said,

“The essential purport of the world-famous monologue in "Hamlet" is, in condensed form, that our state is so wretched that complete non-existence would be decidedly preferable to it. Now if suicide actually offered us this, so that the alternative "TO BE OR NOT TO BE" lay before us in the full sense of the words, it could be chosen unconditionally as a highly desirable termination ("a consummation devoutly to be wish'd" [Act III, Sc. I.]). There is something in us, however, which tells us that this is not so, that this is not the end of things, that death is not an absolute annihilation.”
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Time is nothing but a disquiet of the soul

[[ericcoliu]]

This is the most famous quoted “monologue” in English literature. As Arthur Schopenhauer eloquently said,

“The essential purport of the world-famous monologue in "Hamlet" is, in condensed form, that our state is so wretched that complete non-existence would be decidedly preferable to it. Now if suicide actually offered us this, so that the alternative "TO BE OR NOT TO BE" lay before us in the full sense of the words, it could be chosen unconditionally as a highly desirable termination ("a consummation devoutly to be wish'd" [Act III, Sc. I.]). There is something in us, however, which tells us that this is not so, that this is not the end of things, that death is not an absolute annihilation.”
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Time is nothing but a disquiet of the soul

[东西]

[[东西]]

[christine]

[[christine]]

[robarts]

Yes.

Does anyone read Azar Nafisi's Reading Lolita in Tehran?
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If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.

[[robarts]]

Yes.

Does anyone read Azar Nafisi's Reading Lolita in Tehran?
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If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.

[川生]

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