https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego Dec 2020 - en-us 2021-02-25 09:15:15 UTC 2025-10-16 18:44:58 UTC hello@padlet.com http://mystickermania.com/cdn/stickers/noob-pack/busy-gudetama-512x512.png?t=09102020 Chenrui https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/1240109791 Enjoyable excerpts. ]]> 2021-02-25 09:15:34 UTC https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/1240109791 Chenrui https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/1240110047 Like coffee: dark, bitter, vital. ]]> 2021-02-25 09:15:39 UTC https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/1240110047 Chenrui https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/1240110643 Ludicrously violent, ludicrously bleak, ludicrously loveable. ]]> 2021-02-25 09:15:51 UTC https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/1240110643 Chenrui https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/1240110941 Communism avant la lettre. Specifics taken to the extreme. Somehow made enticing by Raphael.]]> 2021-02-25 09:15:56 UTC https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/1240110941 Chenrui https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/1240111235 Meet Thrasymachus the logical pest, Socrates the reactionary myth-maker and Plato the feminist. 
One helluva ride.]]> 2021-02-25 09:16:00 UTC https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/1240111235 Chenrui https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/1240651002 Hamlet's predecessor, a stout-hearted feminist royal, an astronomer-gone-mad, a warbling poet. What better companions?]]> 2021-02-25 12:26:24 UTC https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/1240651002 Chenrui https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/1240656857 A little discursive (forgiven as unfinished).]]> 2021-02-25 12:28:16 UTC https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/1240656857 Chenrui https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/1240665171 Apart from the exclusion of women from the demos, brilliant.]]> 2021-02-25 12:30:53 UTC https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/1240665171 Chenrui https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/1240667391 Final Marxist section is an eye-opener. Could have elaborated on deity Demokratia. Role of orator handled very nicely. ]]> 2021-02-25 12:31:36 UTC https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/1240667391 Chenrui https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/1240667698 The Greek democracy Bible: a treasure, and rightly so. Ambiguity of demos especially illuminating.]]> 2021-02-25 12:31:42 UTC https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/1240667698 Chenrui https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/1240671164 In less than a hundred pages, she moves mountains of misogyny.]]> 2021-02-25 12:32:47 UTC https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/1240671164 Chenrui https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/1240683470 Caesar is too droll and too good for authenticity. Brutus needs to work on his rhetoric. Otherwise, defo one of my faves.  ]]> 2021-02-25 12:36:40 UTC https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/1240683470 Chenrui https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/1240687164 Meh. ]]> 2021-02-25 12:37:46 UTC https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/1240687164 Chenrui https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/1240692871 'Or What You Will...' Oho, that seductive ambiguity! The love triangles, hexagons! The mismatches! The gartered stockings! Darn, I love this.]]> 2021-02-25 12:39:33 UTC https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/1240692871 Chenrui https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/1240693233 Frivolity amid darkness. Chilling.]]> 2021-02-25 12:39:39 UTC https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/1240693233 Chenrui https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/1240710088 Romeo irritates me, but it is hard to stay irritated for long. They're both only kids - far too young, far too fast.  ]]> 2021-02-25 12:44:34 UTC https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/1240710088 Chenrui https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/1240721899 Snippets of the divine in the only form divinity could ever take: chrysanthemum tea and silent frogs.]]> 2021-02-25 12:48:06 UTC https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/1240721899 Chenrui https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/1240742957 2021-02-25 12:54:15 UTC https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/1240742957 Chenrui https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/1244909695 Here, incrementalism is the only sane approach: once taken, satisfyingly infectious philo-virtue. ]]> 2021-02-26 12:27:20 UTC https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/1244909695 Chenrui https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/1244919272 Austen never disappoints when it comes to shame - but that does not excuse Tilney's lousy wooing.]]> 2021-02-26 12:31:24 UTC https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/1244919272 Chenrui https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/1244944670 Stark characterization aside, irresistible. ]]> 2021-02-26 12:42:15 UTC https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/1244944670 Chenrui https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/1244954215 Francois n’a jamais été plus qu’un jouet.]]> 2021-02-26 12:46:20 UTC https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/1244954215 Chenrui https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/1244964582 Froidement poignant.]]> 2021-02-26 12:50:33 UTC https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/1244964582 Chenrui https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/1244973457 La fin est une punchline amère.]]> 2021-02-26 12:53:50 UTC https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/1244973457 Chenrui https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/1244982442 Precisely selected as illuminating. Never fails to delight, whoever the speaker, whatever the subject.]]> 2021-02-26 12:57:20 UTC https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/1244982442 Chenrui https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/1245251962 The only book that could ever convince me to become a scientist. ]]> 2021-02-26 14:10:44 UTC https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/1245251962 Chenrui https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/1245254346 The book may not be a national treasure, but its author certainly is. 

]]> 2021-02-26 14:11:13 UTC https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/1245254346 Chenrui https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/1245256576 Meet the boy who ate books, and the man who ghostcrafted them. ]]> 2021-02-26 14:11:43 UTC https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/1245256576 Chenrui https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/1278902448 Touchant. Perçant.]]> 2021-03-07 16:34:09 UTC https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/1278902448 Chenrui https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/1278917346 Philosophy that matches the speed of wifi. ]]> 2021-03-07 16:40:50 UTC https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/1278917346 Chenrui https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/1278922391 We get nowhere, but go everywhere - not bad for a feline elitist. Alright, enough: this book is delicious. ]]> 2021-03-07 16:43:24 UTC https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/1278922391 Chenrui https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/1278942706 Tragedy is an empty kitchen. And cold miso soup.]]> 2021-03-07 16:54:09 UTC https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/1278942706 Chenrui https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/1430121268 Life-changing if your life needs changing. Rhetorical fluff is inevitable and thus forgiven.]]> 2021-04-18 15:56:32 UTC https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/1430121268 Chenrui https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/1451200878 Death by Dickens is a new one - almost induces death by laughter. ]]> 2021-04-23 11:09:08 UTC https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/1451200878 Chenrui https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/1451205204 I don't believe there is a single character I can bring myself to dislike - it's all part of the charm. ]]> 2021-04-23 11:11:21 UTC https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/1451205204 Chenrui https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/1451207171 Comment pouvait-je le kiffe pas? Doria, elle a quinze ans, bon sens et le dernier mot. ]]> 2021-04-23 11:12:25 UTC https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/1451207171 Chenrui https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/1451231188 I need this nurse.]]> 2021-04-23 11:25:00 UTC https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/1451231188 Chenrui https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/1451237138 An incredible investor, a terrible husband, an interesting human. All in all, worth a read - it's not every century that we get someone like Warren. ]]> 2021-04-23 11:27:58 UTC https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/1451237138 Chenrui https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/1451249195 This will dispel all polite laughter. ]]> 2021-04-23 11:33:35 UTC https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/1451249195 Chenrui https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/1451249653 For emphasis's sake and the logic of the magic number, let me say: I adore Mitty, I adore Thurber, I adore that American lady who solves Shakespearean murders.]]> 2021-04-23 11:33:48 UTC https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/1451249653 Chenrui https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/1465046857 Arbitrarily thematic chapters, short punchy openings and a guide like Dante's Virgil: what more do you want?]]> 2021-04-27 15:57:07 UTC https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/1465046857 Chenrui https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/1475197744 When my faith in humanity needs a top-up, this is what I turn to. ]]> 2021-04-29 18:03:34 UTC https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/1475197744 Chenrui https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/1475252483 An AU fanfic of 1984 in the most literal sense. Don't be too disappointed.]]> 2021-04-29 18:13:51 UTC https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/1475252483 Chenrui https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/1475266814 I have no words. This is utterly glorious. ]]> 2021-04-29 18:16:31 UTC https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/1475266814 Chenrui https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/1475281177 Second-generation immigrants, social class friction, unspoken maternal thoughts...The themes may be timeless but the book is not. ]]> 2021-04-29 18:19:24 UTC https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/1475281177 Chenrui https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/1475320059 Everything I have ever wanted to know (and some things I didn't). ]]> 2021-04-29 18:27:07 UTC https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/1475320059 Chenrui https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/1475346487 A longer read; a worthwhile one.]]> 2021-04-29 18:32:27 UTC https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/1475346487 Chenrui https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/1475355081 It's a little sad; it's a little beautiful; it's a little story.]]> 2021-04-29 18:34:18 UTC https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/1475355081 Chenrui https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/1475367138 Commendably concise, delightfully astute, rewardingly short.]]> 2021-04-29 18:36:51 UTC https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/1475367138 Chenrui https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/1475382778 Des moments de silence. Puis, une rivière. C'est l'effet inevitable d'une rencontre avec la perfection.]]> 2021-04-29 18:40:16 UTC https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/1475382778 Chenrui https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/1543325239 An exemplar of exemplary prose: clean and crisp and rewarding. In no other book will you find the beauty of red ants displayed next to the beauty of relativity. ]]> 2021-05-20 11:24:18 UTC https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/1543325239 Chenrui https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/1624146314 Why is Shakespeare a timeless, superior genius? Well, asks Taylor, is he?]]> 2021-06-24 19:31:59 UTC https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/1624146314 Chenrui https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/1624152705 Prim little upper-class Robyn and coarse, buff prole-manager Vic falling in love? What a joke! That, at least, is the attitude it espouses. The rest I leave to you.]]> 2021-06-24 19:37:59 UTC https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/1624152705 Chenrui https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/1624158905 Hopkins, Keats and the Brontes dealt with marvellously. Other judgments are wishy-washy.]]> 2021-06-24 19:43:19 UTC https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/1624158905 Chenrui https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/1624161066 Superman got it wrong: with great responsibility comes great suffering. ]]> 2021-06-24 19:45:24 UTC https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/1624161066 Chenrui https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/1624164375 Like Linda, I cannot bring myself to cry. Tears don't do it justice.]]> 2021-06-24 19:48:31 UTC https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/1624164375 Chenrui https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/1630227886 O, how I adore this warmth and wit that was ne'er so well thought, much less expressed.]]> 2021-06-29 14:53:27 UTC https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/1630227886 Chenrui https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/1632180735 The formula trees are beyond me - but the cool ease of his prose is not. This is how science ought to be: refreshingly curious.]]> 2021-06-30 19:04:01 UTC https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/1632180735 Chenrui https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/1633318675 So quiet and gentle one hears the trees grow. ]]> 2021-07-01 12:09:01 UTC https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/1633318675 Chenrui https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/1641720647 Examines the mechanics of story-telling at an absorbingly slow pace. ]]> 2021-07-08 09:38:04 UTC https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/1641720647 Chenrui https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/1641722207 Includes Shakespeare's soliloquies - not usually considered poetry - which is nice. Sells Pound and Kipling short. ]]> 2021-07-08 09:40:12 UTC https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/1641722207 Chenrui https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/1641723858 Zagreus, Zagreus. You happy, wretched man. ]]> 2021-07-08 09:42:35 UTC https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/1641723858 Chenrui https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/1649343896 Fearless.]]> 2021-07-14 11:37:24 UTC https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/1649343896 Chenrui https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/1659492695 A paragon of intellect dressed up as fun.]]> 2021-07-23 15:42:37 UTC https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/1659492695 Chenrui https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/1659493339 Delightful, not least in its regular rupture of the fourth wall. ]]> 2021-07-23 15:43:28 UTC https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/1659493339 Chenrui https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/1659494275 Has my favourite Aristophanes quote of all time: 'Hoopoopoo! Poopoopoo! / Ee-oo! Ee-oo!']]> 2021-07-23 15:44:49 UTC https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/1659494275 Chenrui https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/1659495906 Les émotions sont bon marché mais mieux que rien.]]> 2021-07-23 15:46:53 UTC https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/1659495906 Chenrui https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/1659514701 Not his best side, I'm afraid. I much prefer 'A Blizzard of Tiny Kisses'. ]]> 2021-07-23 16:12:47 UTC https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/1659514701 Chenrui https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/1659993793 Brönte But Better.]]> 2021-07-24 15:44:43 UTC https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/1659993793 Chenrui https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/1659994956 ...Have their violent ends. Or, at least, they're supposed to. This one ends with more of a slump than a bang.]]> 2021-07-24 15:48:27 UTC https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/1659994956 Chenrui https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/1664012653 A theatre in a theatre, a love polyhedron, a 🤬 illusion: welcome to chaos.]]> 2021-07-29 11:02:30 UTC https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/1664012653 Chenrui https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/1664013736 He wears his learning lightly, but the depth is redoubtable.]]> 2021-07-29 11:05:30 UTC https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/1664013736 Chenrui https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/1664014748 Three cheers for diversity! Who knew I'd find Wu Ti and Li Qingzhao amongst Wordsworth and Waley?]]> 2021-07-29 11:08:17 UTC https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/1664014748 Chenrui https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/1666606783 Forget Discworld, I want a Luggage that follows me with homicidal fidelity. ]]> 2021-08-02 10:08:17 UTC https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/1666606783 Chenrui https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/1678320473 I'd be hard-pressed to find a wiser mind and a kinder heart. Read it if you are young, read it when you are old. This a book for all ages, for all times.]]> 2021-08-13 15:41:01 UTC https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/1678320473 Chenrui https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/1678326719 MacArthur's introduction is as poetic as any of the speeches.]]> 2021-08-13 15:45:14 UTC https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/1678326719 Chenrui https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/1678332844 Ever wondered how Gulliver would fare on an Odyssean voyage to Alice's Wonderland that houses Aesop's Fable-like creatures of Chinese social myth? Well, this book will answer that. ]]> 2021-08-13 15:49:42 UTC https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/1678332844 Chenrui https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/1678335120 I was sceptical of the series but this one, at least, proves me wrong.]]> 2021-08-13 15:51:26 UTC https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/1678335120 Chenrui https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/1678337432 How to write simply is far from simple. How to write clearly is also far from clear. But, with Williams and Colomb as your teachers, writing simply and clearly can be done.]]> 2021-08-13 15:53:16 UTC https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/1678337432 Chenrui https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/1678344119 A better anthology than guide.]]> 2021-08-13 15:58:44 UTC https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/1678344119 Chenrui https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/1678349322 A nice gift. ]]> 2021-08-13 16:03:22 UTC https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/1678349322 Chenrui https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/1678352850 Those who like it have not read it. Those who read it will not like it. Those who have read it and like it can peacefully go thwack some nettles. Sorry, Updike.  ]]> 2021-08-13 16:06:30 UTC https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/1678352850 Chenrui https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/1683948333 King sells. Critics scorn. But what of that? King is honest. King is bold. King is true to his art. No critic equals that.]]> 2021-08-18 11:48:17 UTC https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/1683948333 Chenrui https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/1701012260 Who'd have thought that Cambridge, in a word, meant 'Creativity'? A safe, fast-paced bubble in which to think big, fail hard and laugh it through. ]]> 2021-08-27 15:24:28 UTC https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/1701012260 Chenrui https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/1701015367 Written in simple prose and evident affection for both the subject and reader. ]]> 2021-08-27 15:26:17 UTC https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/1701015367 Chenrui https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/1701016869 Highbrow fanfic. Like it.]]> 2021-08-27 15:27:10 UTC https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/1701016869 Chenrui https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/1704576238 Flat. Not wilde enough.]]> 2021-08-30 14:07:44 UTC https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/1704576238 Chenrui https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/1704582933 Lying in prison, Wilde has learned Humility. The result is a stunningly honest and profound enquiry into something much more wonderful than the Pleasure of Art: the meaning of Sorrow, and its beauty. ]]> 2021-08-30 14:10:32 UTC https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/1704582933 Chenrui https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/1800294567 Says more and better than any literary critic.]]> 2021-10-07 15:53:53 UTC https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/1800294567 Chenrui https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/1800299112 Warm practical advice from a sociological perspective. ]]> 2021-10-07 15:55:25 UTC https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/1800299112 Chenrui https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/1800306767 Each chapter alone begins with an Einstein quote. And it only gets better from there.]]> 2021-10-07 15:58:02 UTC https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/1800306767 Chenrui https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/1800309495 There is beauty in what is left unsaid. ]]> 2021-10-07 15:59:00 UTC https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/1800309495 Chenrui https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/1800327681 The poems are classic, the comments ridiculous.]]> 2021-10-07 16:05:47 UTC https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/1800327681 Chenrui https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/1800329708 She's not bad but sometimes a bit too clever for her own good.]]> 2021-10-07 16:06:30 UTC https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/1800329708 Chenrui https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/1800332455 Neither the cover nor content are great.]]> 2021-10-07 16:07:32 UTC https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/1800332455 Chenrui https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/1800333574 And nor do you want to.]]> 2021-10-07 16:07:57 UTC https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/1800333574 Chenrui https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/1811768071 Advice that is doable, which is always a nice surprise.]]> 2021-10-12 19:00:04 UTC https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/1811768071 Chenrui https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/1811775364 Never have the Nazis been so sublimely written about, nor so skilfully condemned - not just for what they do to the Jews, but for what they do to the 'dreamers'. ]]> 2021-10-12 19:03:18 UTC https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/1811775364 Chenrui https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/1811777529 What is an epic? A red boy falling in love with a golden one.]]> 2021-10-12 19:04:18 UTC https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/1811777529 Chenrui https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/1827487002 Supposedly one of Shakespeare's fave writers (the other two being Plutarch and Ovid) and deservedly too.]]> 2021-10-19 14:54:36 UTC https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/1827487002 Chenrui https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/1827487860 Hafez would make a wonderful dinner guest. That is, if you didn't mind his draining your wine cellar and absolute refusal to leave.]]> 2021-10-19 14:54:49 UTC https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/1827487860 Chenrui https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/1827488979 The title may be true of his feelings but not of his poetry: I Love 100%.]]> 2021-10-19 14:55:08 UTC https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/1827488979 Chenrui https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/1827489795 It only sounds sensuous. It is, in fact, very sensuous.]]> 2021-10-19 14:55:22 UTC https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/1827489795 Chenrui https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/1827491938 Transgender medieval Hindu saints? Yes please.]]> 2021-10-19 14:55:56 UTC https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/1827491938 Chenrui https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/1827492537 It is so easy to fall for her words...Literally. She's also the world's most famous lesbian.]]> 2021-10-19 14:56:06 UTC https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/1827492537 Chenrui https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/1827493340 Racier than expected. Ho ho.]]> 2021-10-19 14:56:20 UTC https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/1827493340 Chenrui https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/1836559154 Well it certainly made me laugh.]]> 2021-10-22 15:12:49 UTC https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/1836559154 Chenrui https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/1912909359 Satan is far too likeable. And that is far from a complaint. ]]> 2021-11-25 16:07:28 UTC https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/1912909359 Chenrui https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/1912910141 Fry's writing epitomises 'Dinner Companion Talk': wit without pretension, honesty without condescension, and never lapsing in his own enjoyment. ]]> 2021-11-25 16:08:00 UTC https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/1912910141 Chenrui https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/1912910753 Forget Chapman's Homer. Meet Raeburn's Ovid. ]]> 2021-11-25 16:08:27 UTC https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/1912910753 Chenrui https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/1912911860 I remain perplexed. ]]> 2021-11-25 16:09:15 UTC https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/1912911860 Chenrui https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/1912912303 Amusing but times do change.  ]]> 2021-11-25 16:09:33 UTC https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/1912912303 Chenrui https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/1912912899 Vraiment le Senèque Français. ]]> 2021-11-25 16:09:55 UTC https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/1912912899 Chenrui https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/1912914034 All those who acknowledge their own stupidity are far from stupid. ]]> 2021-11-25 16:10:41 UTC https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/1912914034 Chenrui https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/1912915484 And a gift to all children from the Macfarlane of economics. ]]> 2021-11-25 16:11:41 UTC https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/1912915484 Chenrui https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/1912917035 The zeal is undeniable. The quality of literary analysis less so. ]]> 2021-11-25 16:12:47 UTC https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/1912917035 Chenrui https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/1912925437 Nineteen Eighty-Four keeps us sane. Mrs Darwin's 1942 keeps us happy.]]> 2021-11-25 16:18:01 UTC https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/1912925437 Chenrui https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/1912927141 Cinderella - a symbol of capitalist consumption with her lost shoe and fancy balls and prince insurance? Perhaps, but it's all been done before. ]]> 2021-11-25 16:18:58 UTC https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/1912927141 Chenrui https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/1912927497 The last sentence is, for the reader, infuriating, and for the artist, perfect. ]]> 2021-11-25 16:19:14 UTC https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/1912927497 Chenrui https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/1920714722 Ghost-written by Briony Tallis. ]]> 2021-11-30 15:43:27 UTC https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/1920714722 Chenrui https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/1920721350 The stunners reside in religion and the prose poems. ]]> 2021-11-30 15:46:03 UTC https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/1920721350 Chenrui https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/1920724324 Hits and misses. Read with classical music to enjoy the game. ]]> 2021-11-30 15:47:17 UTC https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/1920724324 Chenrui https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/1920728200 Avant-garde or unreadable?]]> 2021-11-30 15:48:45 UTC https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/1920728200 Chenrui https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/1920733965 This was a little present to me many years ago, and one I treasure still. ]]> 2021-11-30 15:49:35 UTC https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/1920733965 Chenrui https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/1920739986 Achingly real. ]]> 2021-11-30 15:50:30 UTC https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/1920739986 Chenrui https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/1920742750 [best bits inside square brackets]]]> 2021-11-30 15:51:37 UTC https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/1920742750 Chenrui https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/1920752311 If her poems were reduced to one-liners, she may be the pioneer of meaningful minimalism. ]]> 2021-11-30 15:55:15 UTC https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/1920752311 Chenrui https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/1942621244 In this book. ]]> 2021-12-12 12:49:36 UTC https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/1942621244 Chenrui https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/1942622889 Bloom is not the maestro of literary criticism. He is a hopeless, helpless lover into books - and by the end, so are we. ]]> 2021-12-12 12:51:06 UTC https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/1942622889 Chenrui https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/1942631172 Sobriety was expected. Delightfully lucid imagery and anticipatory 'sprung' rhythm were not. ]]> 2021-12-12 12:58:37 UTC https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/1942631172 Chenrui https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/1942638782 Chameleon: at once we hear echoes of Shakespearean monologue, Eliotesque refrain and Owen's own bitter laugh. ]]> 2021-12-12 13:04:52 UTC https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/1942638782 Chenrui https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/1965522181 His predilection for the word 'superb' (sometimes 'superbly') does not make his observations any less superb. ]]> 2021-12-27 15:23:51 UTC https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/1965522181 Chenrui https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/1965523320 Distinctly American. Surprisingly human. ]]> 2021-12-27 15:24:53 UTC https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/1965523320 Chenrui https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/1965525728 A mixed bag. Stewart's is the apotheosis. ]]> 2021-12-27 15:27:02 UTC https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/1965525728 Chenrui https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/1965532802 Keats knows his Shakespeare but tries too hard to show it. He forgets, at times, that little words and simple lines work just as well as elongated elocution and carefully numbered metrical constructions. ]]> 2021-12-27 15:33:00 UTC https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/1965532802 Chenrui https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/1965534692 A bit boring but some thoughtful definitions. ]]> 2021-12-27 15:34:37 UTC https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/1965534692 Chenrui https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/1965536159 A dead funny narrator - at times more dead than funny.]]> 2021-12-27 15:35:53 UTC https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/1965536159 Chenrui https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/1965543921 Say what you will about 'cheap fiction', I marvel at Kristoff's dark modernisation of Egyptian myth and the cool maps.]]> 2021-12-27 15:42:20 UTC https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/1965543921 Chenrui https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/1965545670 Knew it was coming but still hurt. ]]> 2021-12-27 15:43:55 UTC https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/1965545670 Chenrui https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/1965553142 Therapeutic bling bling.]]> 2021-12-27 15:50:37 UTC https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/1965553142 Chenrui https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/1965555715 Call me reactionary, but we have regressed.]]> 2021-12-27 15:52:43 UTC https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/1965555715 Chenrui https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/1965557739 I aspire to insult like him. ]]> 2021-12-27 15:54:24 UTC https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/1965557739 Chenrui https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/2021689255 As fresh and timeless as an unpicked daisy. ]]> 2022-01-31 16:35:05 UTC https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/2021689255 Chenrui https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/2021707823 I did not think I would find the eye-opening history of a small island within one grumpy traveller's account. ]]> 2022-01-31 16:42:17 UTC https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/2021707823 Chenrui https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/2021709162 He talks in fields, numbers of peoples, building materials, army divisions. But he talks them alive. ]]> 2022-01-31 16:42:46 UTC https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/2021709162 Chenrui https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/2021733381 At times questionable, at times whimsical, this is indeed pure pleasure. ]]> 2022-01-31 16:51:50 UTC https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/2021733381 Chenrui https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/2021741217 Je n’ai jamais connu un géant aussi sage ni aussi excentrique que Micromégas.]]> 2022-01-31 16:55:05 UTC https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/2021741217 Chenrui https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/2053432223 Duffy gives Ovid's heroines Duffy voices. Pollard gives Ovid's heroines voices. ]]> 2022-02-17 15:21:18 UTC https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/2053432223 Chenrui https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/2053437165 I don't like how I didn't think I would like it.]]> 2022-02-17 15:23:27 UTC https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/2053437165 Chenrui https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/2053441577 The modernity resides in word choice - 'birdless' - rather than form. ]]> 2022-02-17 15:25:23 UTC https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/2053441577 Chenrui https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/2053447164 Lovely and loverly.

]]> 2022-02-17 15:27:54 UTC https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/2053447164 Chenrui https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/2053454562 The domestic poems are tersely brilliant. Not a fan of the technological passages though.]]> 2022-02-17 15:31:12 UTC https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/2053454562 Chenrui https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/2053464425 Petrucci does Hafez justice. Divine justice. ]]> 2022-02-17 15:35:41 UTC https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/2053464425 Chenrui https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/2058862891 I have found my new Bible. ]]> 2022-02-21 14:25:05 UTC https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/2058862891 Chenrui https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/2058866030 Watch out for these names. ]]> 2022-02-21 14:27:08 UTC https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/2058866030 Chenrui https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/2058869282 Chapter on marriage, like marriage itself, is an eye-opener. Also has a nice reading list. ]]> 2022-02-21 14:29:06 UTC https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/2058869282 Chenrui https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/2058874035 Better than Thucydides. He captures the greatest of men in the smallest of deeds. ]]> 2022-02-21 14:32:00 UTC https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/2058874035 Chenrui https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/2068427904 He's overdone it with the names. ]]> 2022-02-27 19:54:19 UTC https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/2068427904 Chenrui https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/2068432574 A much-needed guide to mobocracy: 130 pages of sobering sanity.]]> 2022-02-27 20:01:33 UTC https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/2068432574 Chenrui https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/2068436074 Subtitle speaks for itself. ]]> 2022-02-27 20:05:44 UTC https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/2068436074 Chenrui https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/2068440281 L'histoire a dû hanter Flaubert. ]]> 2022-02-27 20:13:06 UTC https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/2068440281 Chenrui https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/2115644402 Preferable to the sad ditty it inspired.]]> 2022-03-27 15:15:32 UTC https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/2115644402 Chenrui https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/2115645277 Capture's the essence of Sappho: ordinary men and women filtered through the lens of overpowering love. ]]> 2022-03-27 15:16:41 UTC https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/2115645277 Chenrui https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/2115646601 Engagingly written, although the number of times he emphasises toil over talent did make me feel like I was being lectured by my mother.]]> 2022-03-27 15:18:33 UTC https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/2115646601 Chenrui https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/2115648525 Taste and morals cannot be separated: we cannot simply be good because we'll be jailed if we're not - we must like being good to be truly good. ]]> 2022-03-27 15:20:52 UTC https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/2115648525 Chenrui https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/2115649997 And who could the narrator possibly be? ]]> 2022-03-27 15:22:26 UTC https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/2115649997 Chenrui https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/2115650869 Je suis d'accord.]]> 2022-03-27 15:23:36 UTC https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/2115650869 Chenrui https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/2115652981 Modelled upon the compact beauty of Francis Bacon, the writing is as stylishly succinct as the newspaper. ]]> 2022-03-27 15:26:28 UTC https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/2115652981 Chenrui https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/2165255885 Surprisingly sharply increasingly pertinent. ]]> 2022-04-30 13:17:26 UTC https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/2165255885 Chenrui https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/2165257078 What else could you do with the money you're spending on an MBA? How many fans do you need to live off doing what you love? This ain't a business book - this is a lifestyle book. ]]> 2022-04-30 13:20:02 UTC https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/2165257078 Chenrui https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/2165257999 Harder than anything you'll get in the exam. ]]> 2022-04-30 13:22:00 UTC https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/2165257999 Chenrui https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/2165259187 My latest illustrated object of pride as an Oxfam bargain hunter!]]> 2022-04-30 13:24:16 UTC https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/2165259187 Chenrui https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/2203450163 More like a novel than a biography - for once, fact is wilder and more wonderful than fiction. ]]> 2022-05-29 13:01:54 UTC https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/2203450163 Chenrui https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/2203452208 A compulsively readable beauty. It is hard not to fall for Anna - her wicked charm, her tortured unconventionality, her uncompromising love for life.  ]]> 2022-05-29 13:06:11 UTC https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/2203452208 Chenrui https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/2203452888 Imagine someone taking the best bits from the best articles from the best newspaper in the UK and putting them in a book - that's what Mr Standage does. ]]> 2022-05-29 13:07:32 UTC https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/2203452888 Chenrui https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/2203455443 Book I has an immensely enjoyable range - from Parker's humour to Vespasian's hubris. The other two books are a bit technical. ]]> 2022-05-29 13:11:06 UTC https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/2203455443 Chenrui https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/2203457963 They pilfered from the Oxford Library. ]]> 2022-05-29 13:15:57 UTC https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/2203457963 Chenrui https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/2235246677 Spoiler alert (come on, you've had 130 years to read this): authorial sadism reaches new peaks. ]]> 2022-07-01 17:38:24 UTC https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/2235246677 Chenrui https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/2235247152 Pages 196-197 say it all. ]]> 2022-07-01 17:39:54 UTC https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/2235247152 Chenrui https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/2235247832 God, this guy is brilliant. I knew nothing about consultancy and even less about consultancy interviews. Now, at least I have hope. ]]> 2022-07-01 17:41:46 UTC https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/2235247832 Chenrui https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/2235248497 Diverse without being discursive, not to mention the gorgeous graphics. ]]> 2022-07-01 17:43:41 UTC https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/2235248497 Chenrui https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/2235249446 Wilde takes the classic 'virtuous prostitute' and turns it into 'not-so-virtuous dubious-mother'. ]]> 2022-07-01 17:46:24 UTC https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/2235249446 Chenrui https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/2235249930 Oh, so the dandy has some heart after all? ]]> 2022-07-01 17:47:49 UTC https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/2235249930 Chenrui https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/2235251792 A play in which the greatest sin is an over-predilection for cucumber sandwiches is a play to be undeniably enjoyed. ]]> 2022-07-01 17:51:35 UTC https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/2235251792 Chenrui https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/2244768102 Bad for Christie, good for your average crime thriller. ]]> 2022-07-17 13:00:33 UTC https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/2244768102 Chenrui https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/2244768450 As mind-altering as LSD itself. ]]> 2022-07-17 13:01:29 UTC https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/2244768450 Chenrui https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/2244768640 This one book justifies the whole genre. ]]> 2022-07-17 13:02:28 UTC https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/2244768640 Chenrui https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/2244769245 This series of Socratic dialogues between  a 'Youth' and a 'Philosopher' tears apart our ideas of 'the norm' with terrifying clarity. This is an uncomfortable and deeply necessary book. ]]> 2022-07-17 13:05:28 UTC https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/2244769245 Chenrui https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/2244769899 Wish she'd done more with the megalomaniacal lord. ]]> 2022-07-17 13:08:36 UTC https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/2244769899 Chenrui https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/2244771007 The questions posed are as valuable as the linguistic unpickings: what does silence say? Why is Olivia like a nun? What's 'carpe diem' got to do with the play? ]]> 2022-07-17 13:12:11 UTC https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/2244771007 Chenrui https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/2244771522 To my fortuitous surprise, it's good! This is a brilliant revision guide for GCSE 9s and a solid introduction to Shakespeare criticism. ]]> 2022-07-17 13:14:30 UTC https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/2244771522 Chenrui https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/2244772042 Like Le Cirque De Rêves itself, there is a fleeting beauty to the prose. This is fantasy made literal and literary. ]]> 2022-07-17 13:16:31 UTC https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/2244772042 Chenrui https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/2251997641 Everyone is a little suspicious, and some are very suspicious. But the murderer is the one we suspect the least. ]]> 2022-07-30 05:59:39 UTC https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/2251997641 Chenrui https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/2251998392 How do you become rich? Buy assets, not liabilities. But most get stuck differentiating the two. ]]> 2022-07-30 06:04:25 UTC https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/2251998392 Chenrui https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/2255816402 Sublimely ridiculous and ridiculously sublime. ]]> 2022-08-06 08:27:00 UTC https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/2255816402 Chenrui https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/2255816766 Darkly funny. ]]> 2022-08-06 08:29:24 UTC https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/2255816766 Chenrui https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/2255817342 The American Dream has become a nightmare and waking up requires the lucidity of purpose of books like this. ]]> 2022-08-06 08:32:30 UTC https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/2255817342 Chenrui https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/2258371911 The best introduction to behavioural economics I have yet encountered.]]> 2022-08-10 17:21:40 UTC https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/2258371911 Chenrui https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/2258948760 If this doesn't convince you of just how important politics is, only catastrophic failure will. ]]> 2022-08-11 09:59:12 UTC https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/2258948760 Chenrui https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/2274827641 Irrefutably symbolic, but what exactly does it symbolise? ]]> 2022-08-29 14:31:36 UTC https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/2274827641 Chenrui https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/2283242771 Despite the beauty of the translation, I still find Beowulf an insufferable brat.  ]]> 2022-09-05 15:45:58 UTC https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/2283242771 Chenrui https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/2286401243 The worthiest and warmest of novels: one that neither averts nor winks at folly, but embraces it in all its ephemeral beauty and delusion. ]]> 2022-09-07 13:27:24 UTC https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/2286401243 Chenrui https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/2289632529 I am spooked. ]]> 2022-09-09 13:05:29 UTC https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/2289632529 Chenrui https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/2302905317 A Bible for those who have ceased to believe. ]]> 2022-09-19 12:44:47 UTC https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/2302905317 Chenrui https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/2317086098 His cheeky demeanor belies a formidable discipline of mind and money: Robbie teaches us all that wealth comes from cultivation, not lotteries. ]]> 2022-09-28 08:38:06 UTC https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/2317086098 Chenrui https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/2341394545 This is undeniably a love-letter. ]]> 2022-10-15 15:32:27 UTC https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/2341394545 Chenrui https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/2341396274 Browning at his meridian. Pompilia weeps as Cordelia weeps: with suffering salvation and deathless grace. ]]> 2022-10-15 15:35:24 UTC https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/2341396274 Chenrui https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/2353746448 Great writers usually rise in greatness. Carlyle fell - but from what heights did he fall!]]> 2022-10-24 14:43:15 UTC https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/2353746448 Chenrui https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/2353751676 Neil writes clearly and encouragingly about something that is very rarely clear or encouraging. Building on precedent, he defines the law. ]]> 2022-10-24 14:46:00 UTC https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/2353751676 Chenrui https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/2362331169 This, children, is how not to go about finding the love of your life. ]]> 2022-10-30 20:36:54 UTC https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/2362331169 Chenrui https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/2362335246 And so Ralph treks on. ]]> 2022-10-30 20:45:29 UTC https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/2362335246 Chenrui https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/2362336462 Ursula does not deserve Disney's nominative defamation. The Well itself is comically anticlimactic. ]]> 2022-10-30 20:47:55 UTC https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/2362336462 Chenrui https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/2362337978 As Ralph learns, we can only understand happiness through suffering, love through loss. ]]> 2022-10-30 20:51:03 UTC https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/2362337978 Chenrui https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/2362339852 Investment bankers know that with great gains come with great losses. Troob and Rolfe shine light on what it costs to be a slightly shinier cog in a fundamentally rusty machine. ]]> 2022-10-30 20:54:48 UTC https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/2362339852 Chenrui https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/2397875334 Pressingly prescient. ]]> 2022-11-25 11:24:44 UTC https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/2397875334 Chenrui https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/2397876567 The treatise climaxes in Chapter 3, in Mill's uncompromising celebration of individualism. ]]> 2022-11-25 11:26:10 UTC https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/2397876567 Chenrui https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/2397877753 Chesterton scrutinises society under the deadly lens of humour. ]]> 2022-11-25 11:27:28 UTC https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/2397877753 Chenrui https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/2397880765 More literary than scientific in its moments of doubt, in its awe of beauty and in its triumph of humanity. ]]> 2022-11-25 11:30:34 UTC https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/2397880765 Chenrui https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/2397883711 I think the crux of the novel is not a Freudian crisis but a crisis of faith. To what can we turn when we reject both heavenly and earthly love? ]]> 2022-11-25 11:33:59 UTC https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/2397883711 Chenrui https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/2397904007 Old English riddles are the most economic and elaborate form of language play. ]]> 2022-11-25 11:56:21 UTC https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/2397904007 Chenrui https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/2416915129 Comedy with the depth of King Lear. ]]> 2022-12-11 17:19:58 UTC https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/2416915129 Chenrui https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/2430742233 Nowhere has Caesar's command been more brutally enacted: ālea iacta est.]]> 2022-12-30 18:02:09 UTC https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/2430742233 Chenrui https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/2430742701 None of them truly want love. ]]> 2022-12-30 18:04:33 UTC https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/2430742701 Chenrui https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/2430743066 Bingham's brilliance lies in his clarity and concision in tackling a subject neither clear nor concise. ]]> 2022-12-30 18:06:24 UTC https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/2430743066 Chenrui https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/2430743488 The poem, in its polyphony, loses its voice. ]]> 2022-12-30 18:08:18 UTC https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/2430743488 Chenrui https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/2430743888 This poem is Shakespearean in its vision, Dantesque in its despair and Quixotic in its pursuit. ]]> 2022-12-30 18:10:23 UTC https://padlet.com/Chenrui/etinarcadiaego/wish/2430743888