Two Weeks Left

I came to the realization today that I have precisely two weeks left to be a teenager.

Somehow, I feel...less.

Be seeing you,
Steven

Beware The Ides of March

Caesar: The ides of March are come.
Soothsayer: Ay, Caesar, but not gone.
-Julius Caesar III, i

Be seeing you,
Steven

A Thought

"Thermo-dynamic miracles: events with odds against so astronomical they're effectively impossible, like oxygen spontaneously becoming gold. And yet, in each human coupling, a thousand million sperm vie for a single egg. Mulitply those odds by countless generations, against the odds of your ancestors being alive; meeting; siring this precise son; that exact daughter...To distill so specific a form from that chaos of improbability, like turning air to gold, that is the crowning unlikelihood. The thermo-dynamic miracle...But the world is so full of people, so crowded with these miracles that they become commonplace and we forget. We gaze continually at the world and it grows dull in our perceptions. Yet seen from another's vantage point, as if new, it may still take the breath away. Come, dry your eyes, for you are life, rarer than a quark and unpredictable beyond the dreams of Heisenberg; the clay in which the forces that shape all things leave their fingerprints most clearly."
-Alan Moore, Watchmen

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Steven

Starting Over

Like crumpling up a half-written piece of paper
And facing a new blank page;
Like making up for a test that you failed
And having to study even more;
Like a second try at a marriage after an affair,
I'm starting all over again.

Be seeing you,
Steven

A Trip Through Wonderland

No, I haven't been taking LSD. Or smoking pot. If you think I have been, go away. I don't want to know you. All I've been doing is reading a very cool book called The Annotated Alice. And it's been absolutely revelatory.

To modern readers, Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures In Wonderland and the sequel Through The Looking-Glass seem incredibly weird, and read as if they were inspired by an opium dream. But this is just because the books are so dated that the puns, jokes, and wordplays make no sense to us--after all, most of the jokes were meant to be understood by British readers of the 1860s; other jokes were intended for residents of the village of Oxford; and STILL more jokes were private references for the amusement of three little girls with whom Carroll was friends (and, yeah, THAT'S a nasty rumour, too).

The Annotated Alice contains the full texts of both books PLUS side-notes which shed light on every little in-joke PLUS the original Sir John Tenniel illustrations PLUS a deleted chapter from Through The Looking-Glass. It's like a DVD special edition!

Anyway, if you have any love for fantasy or abstract nonsense, you should definitely read the Alice books, and read them in this great book, The Annotated Alice (notes and introduction by Michael Gardner).

Be seeing you,
Steven