• Sensuality in Thomas Malthus’s An Essay on the Principle of Population (1798)

    – “The superiority of intellectual to sensual pleasures consists rather in their filling up more time, in their having a larger range, and in their being less liable to satiety, than in their being more real and essential.” “Intemperance in…

  • About parrots – “Him choke from prejudice”

    –– See this post about a famous parrot in the literary world. In Paul West’s Lord Byron’s Doctor (1989), J. W. Polidori writes, ‘He [Byron] never actually said Pretty Polly, but it was in his eye, all right, and I suppose I was a…

  • Recollection 22 – Julian Barnes’s Flaubert’s Parrot

    ,  Here are some quotes from Julian Barnes’s Flaubert’s Parrot which I found particularly interesting. Isn’t the most reliable form of pleasure, Flaubert implies, the pleasure of anticipation? Who needs to burst into fulfilment’s desolate attic? p. 4 When I was a…

  • How many romantic kisses are there in the entire body of Virginia Woolf’s work?

    The Kiss (1897-8) by Munch  Michael Cunningham, author of The Hours, answers in a Guardian article: [Virginia Woolf] wrote not at all about sex. Her entire body of work contains two romantic kisses – one in The Voyage Out, another…

  • 不想回憶, 未敢忘記

    不想回憶, 未敢忘記 we stand on the side of the egg ::: 離 離 原 上 草 ,   一 歲 一 枯 榮 。 野 火 燒 不 盡 ,   春 風 吹 又 生 。 from 草 | 白 居 易

  • Demolish

    [Click image to enlarge] “Here we are in old Shanghai. But many of the buildings here have a kind of symbol stamped on them. This means simply one word — DEMOLISH.” DEMOLISH. DEMOLISH. DEMOLISH. DEMOLISH. And so on. “The massive rebuilding programme…

  • Marc Vincenz in Poets and Artists

    – Marc Vincenz’s new poem “Self-Portrait of a Lion as His Own Mistress” (pp. 46-47) with an audio in synergy with Kristy Gordon’s triptych “But my heart does not in any way agree with the perception of my eyes” can…

  • Bob Bradshaw and Sam Byfield in Lily

    – – Bob Bradshaw’s poem “Vincent Writes from Saint-Paul Hospital” and Sam Byfield’s “The Mountain and the River” are now published in the June 2011 issue of Lily: A Monthly Online Literary Review.  0 Read Bob Bradshaw’s Cha profile. Read Sam…

  • Marc Vincenz in Stirrng

    – Marc Vincenz’s poem “Suzie Lam Scorns the Happy Marriage Dating Agency” is now published in the June 2011 issue of Stirring. Read it here. – Marc Vincenz’s poetry was published in Issue 10 of Cha. – –

  • Moving Words Poetry Competition

    The Literary Centre, a Singaporean not-for-profit organisation has initiated a new project in collaboration with SMRT- Moving Words 2011 – to feature poetry written by Singaporeans in SMRT trains and stations.The Moving Words Poetry Competition is calling for entries that…