Arcadia | 
A brand new beautiful bookstore at my airport! 😍 They had an incredible selection! 📚 ✈️
Just found out that Tom Stoppard has a custom made traveling book case. I am in love. Raise your hand if you want one, too. 😍😍
We shed as we pick up, like travellers who must carry everything in their arms, and what we let fall will be picked up by those behind. The procession is very long and life is very short. We die on the march. But there is nothing outside the march so nothing can be lost to it.
pickCan't believe I haven't read this before. So very good.
Initial picks for #LitsyAtoZ! Mostly by title, but a few by the author's last name (Doyle, Joyce, Vonnegut, Zelitch). Nearly all of these are books I already own (I haven't read any of them except for Great Expectations, which I only kinda-sorta read in college, so it deserves a focused re-read!), and several are books that I have been meaning to read for years and years (and years). A perfect way to make a dent in that TBR! ❤️📚 #abecedarianTBR
We're better at predicting events at the edge of the galaxy or inside the nucleus of an atom than whether it'll rain on auntie's garden party three Sundays from now.
This has been kind of a rough week - my depression and productivity has oscillated wildly, and it's been ten days since I did any serious reading. So I valued the chance to go into my books of #favequotes for today's #SomethingforSept . The Trainspotting is one I go to often. The Stoppard is one I encountered again today, and found myself profoundly moved by again. These helped.
Having screenshotted my post on Pears's Arcadia, I can now screenshot that screenshot to reference Tom Stoppard's Arcadia, which is about recursive functions, like a screenshot of a screenshot.
Haven't read Lauren Groff's Arcadia, or I could maybe go one more level.
pickSuch a great play. Can I be cliche and call it life changing? I read this in my university class on Doubles In Literature. #plays #collegeliterature
pickI want to punch Bernard in the face, but otherwise I like all the characters. It's relatively straightforward, compared to some of his other plays, but it deals with lots of weighty subjects, and features a great deal of witty, sparkling dialogue. Also, it's a play, so it's a fast read...
I've started in on my summer reading, aka plays I'll be seeing in August. I've begun Arcadia, and I already cannot wait to see it performed!
OTD in 1822, polymath Charles Babbage first proposed the idea of the "difference engine," an early step in the computer age. Babbage is also a key figure in steampunk - and his colleague Ada Lovelace was the inspiration for Arcadia, Tom Stoppard's masterpiece (top). Arcadia is so freaking good guys!
Surely a hermit who takes a newspaper is not a hermit in whom one can have complete confidence #tomstoppard #drama #arcadia
