More Notebook Wisdom

A couple of passages I copied into a notebook a while ago which I just dug up.
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"A real cloud soarer", said the Patriarch "can start early in the morning from the Northern Sea, cross the Eastern Sea, the Western Sea, and the Southern Sea, and land again at Ts'ang-wu. Ts'ang-wu means Ling-Ling in the Northern Sea. To do the round of all four seas in one day is true cloud soaring". "It sounds very difficult" said Monkey. "Nothing in the world is difficult", said the Patriarch, "it is only our thoughts that make things seem so."

Monkey (Ch'Eng-En Wu)
(Yes, it is from the novel Monkey Magic was based on.)
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As usual with decided characters, Bathsheba invariably provoked the criticism of individuals like Henery Fray. Her emblazoned fault was to be too pronounced in her objections, and not sufficiently overt in her likings. We learn that it is not the rays which bodies absorb, but those which they reject, that give them the colours they are known by; and in the same way people are specialized by their dislikes and antagonisms, whilst their goodwill is looked upon as no attribute at all.

Far From The Madding Crowd (Thomas Hardy)
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WARNING: BOOKISH NERD STUFF BELOW

I didn't actually know where that last one came from (I knew it was a Hardy novel but not which one) so I googled some of the quoted text. Turns out my old uni has some "etexts" on line. I guess these are classics for which the copyright has long since expired!



Check out Adelaide Uni E-Texts. No the DaVinci code isn't there.

On the topic of ebooks also check out Project Gutenberg, or perhaps more interesting the most popular Gutenberg texts.

I don't know about e-texts. I don't think I could ever see myself scrolling all the way through War and Peace on a laptop! Sorry trees, your services are still required.