Monday, 17 November 2008

Lady Chatterley's Brother
H.D Lawrence

Sunday, 16 November 2008

The Rights of Women
Thomas Paine

16.11.08

The most unbearable thing would be to talk down nothing that happens on a weekly basis. To burn the diary of understanding and forget vitally large generalizations, even if they seem essential and are not worth writing down. I must listen to the sound of that chair in the cul-de- sac, my box of pills. I must unloosen the vague beginnings of consistency.

Saturday, 15 November 2008

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prodigal

• adjective 1 wastefully extravagant. 2 lavish.

• noun 1 a prodigal person. 2 (also prodigal son) a person who leaves home to lead a prodigal life but returns repentant. with allusion to the parable in the Gospel of Luke, chapter 15.

— DERIVATIVES prodigality noun prodigally adverb.

— ORIGIN Latin prodigalis, from prodigus ‘lavish’.