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howardpark

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Howard is a guy from Sunnyvale, California, USA

After teaching 7 years at one of the "worst" public high schools in L.A., I am now a founding member of the history department at King's Academy, Amman, Jordan. "To know what is right and not to do it is the worst cowardice."

  • Paul Bowles: The Sheltering Sky

    Rated Apr 02 2007 • 1 review • literature • upm.es

    "... because we don't know [when death will arrive], we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well. Yet everything happens only a certain number of times, and a very small number, really. How many more times will you remember a certain afternoon of your childhood, some afternoon that's so deeply a part of your being that you can't even conceive of your life without it? Perhaps four or five times more. Perhaps not even that. How many more times will you watch the full moon rise? Perhaps twenty. And yet it all seems limitless."

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    Paul Bowles: The Sheltering Sky

  • http://fan.theonering.net/rolozo/quotes

    Rated Mar 18 2007 • 1 review • fantasy books, literature • theonering.net

    Quotations from Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings. "The beauty of it smote his heart, as he looked up out of the forsaken land, and hope returned to him. For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach."

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    (The painting is Tim Kirk's The Last Shore. It's not a literal representation of the scene quoted above, but to me the connection is nevertheless meaningful.)
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