Welcome to the next post in The Adventures of Roland! You can find all the previous posts in Roland’s escapades here. Each installment typically comes out around once per month. I hope you enjoy! Also as an FYI this the final post of the original short story which I wrote …
His art with nature’s workmanship at strife, As if the dead the living should exceed – William Shakespeare, from Venus and Adonis When I was studying Shakespeare in college we were reading Venus and Adonis aloud as a class together when my professor stopped the person reading his lines (the full …
Yet for them the lilac renewed its leaf, And the aged elm, though touched with fire; And the dry pump flung up an awkward arm; And the fence post carried a strand of wire. For them there was really nothing sad. – Robert Frost, from “The Need of Being Versed …
Is there any cause in nature that makes these hard hearts? – Shakespeare, King Lear What is literature? How is it different than history? Or science? Or film even? What is it that not just books can do, but that great stories alone can do? When we contemplate on literature, whatever …
Welcome to the second post in The Adventures of Roland! You can find all the previous posts in Roland’s escapades here. Each installment typically comes out around once per month. I hope you enjoy! —-THE ADVENTURES OF ROLAND—- Turning the key and walking in, he breathed in deeply. …
I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine. – Elizabeth from Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice Recently I finished reading Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen. Perhaps you’ve read it or seen the film version with Keira Knightley (as of now I still have not …
Those who wish to be Must put aside the alienation Get on with the fascination The real relation The underlying theme – Rush from their hit song “Limelight” In case you haven’t noticed there’s a lot of distractions in life. From politics to family to relationships to work …
The wise man is self-sufficient. – Seneca, “Letters from a Stoic” When I was in 10th grade I read for the first time passages from Ralph Waldo Emerson’s powerful essay “Self-Reliance.” In case you haven’t read it, or would like to read it again, you can find the entire essay …
A person who publishes a book willfully appears before the populace with his pants down. If it is a good book nothing can hurt him. If it is a bad book nothing can help him. – Edna St. Vincent Millay I realized recently that because I’m working on a novel …
I am a part of all that I have met; Yet all experience is an arch wherethro’ Gleams that untravell’d world whose margin fades For ever and forever when I move. Alfred Lord Tennyson, from “Ulysses” In my series on How To Write Everyday, Step 1 is Inspiration. And …
