June 2010
10 posts
The Unkindness of Strangers
A stranger shouted at me on the phone at work a few days ago.
I know telemarkters are treated with general annoyance, and even contempt, so I’m pretty grateful that as a telefundraiser for a well-known charity, most people are still nice enough to me most of the time.
But once in a while, I get the shouters and the screamers. And the ones who slam the phone down on me the moment I introduce...
“When you look closely, people are so strange and so complicated that they’re...”
– Angela Chase, My So-Called Life (via prettyinheels) (via 52hearts)
If music be the food of love...
When I was sixteen, I spent a year studying Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night for my O-Level Literature paper, analysing every scene and memorising dozens of lines to quote in the exam. Most of the quotes are now forgotten, all except the famous opening line, where Orsino, the lovelorn Duke of Illyria, laments:
“If music be the food of love, play on;
Give me excess of it, that...
