Sunday, January 06, 2008

02:48

That's the latest I've been wide awake for studying and I guess haven't ever studied beyond that..yeah even for boards!! Boards were useless. I think the real knowledge lies in reading literature and what comes in spiriting your mind with 'knowledge' is beyong words.

I have learnt a lot from literature, its so soothing at times- it tells you the most complicated of things in the simplest ways and sometimes beautifully. Sons and Lovers By Lawrence will be i think one of the best I've read till date and ofcourse Jane Eyre.

I was reading Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf that day, its not as bad as it seems and is hyped but takes a lot. I had no time to really finsh it since its just 4 days to exam time so fatafatfatafat..i had to finish it....i'll read it again after exams. But I took out this time to note down a few lines in my small blue diary about a solitary traveller, his motive and why does he wish to be ....a solitary traveller.

By conviction an atheist perhaps, he is taken by surprise with moments of extraordinary exaltation. Nothing exists outside us except a state of mind, he thinks; a desire for solace, for relief, for something outside, these miserable pigmies, these feeble, these ugly, these craven men and women.
Mrs Dalloway- Virginia Woolf

I loved this part!!!

I didn't exactly mean to dedicate a blog to literature but thats my state of mind these days...i don't wanna come outta the pile of books right now, I wanna enjoy it....

man I suck!!!

later... till I'm back in senses.

2 comments:

durjoy datta said...

nice looking blog...!
my sis being english hons,am surrounded by piles of books that i don't understand beyond the acknowledgments....!!!
so it brilliant that you can actually pull through them!
*bows down*

Priyanka said...

@Durjoy datta

Thanks man....well english hons is not actually 'reading' but 'deciphering'

its another da vinci code..lol

but still being into literature i can actually say 'what the hell!!!...its nice!!!"

P.S.- just scrolled quickly thru ur blog, since exmas r not really giving me much of the time, seems really interesting...will jump back in later after examz....

cheers