David Given Schwarm

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Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretense of keeping it alive.

He will awake no more, oh, never more!       “Wake thou,” cried Misery, “childless Mother, rise       Out of thy sleep, and slake, in thy heart’s core,       A wound more fierce than his, with tears and sighs.”       And all the Dreams that watch’d Urania’s eyes,       And all the Echoes whom their sister’s song       Had held in holy silence,…

Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov My rating: 5 of 5 stars Massive. Absolutely Massive. Clearly one of the great books of the 20th century and likely required repeat reader. I had no idea what this book was even about until I read it for the third time–I had read it in high school (do not remember…

       Alas! that all we lov’d of him should be,       But for our grief, as if it had not been,       And grief itself be mortal! Woe is me!       Whence are we, and why are we? of what scene       The actors or spectators? Great and mean       Meet mass’d in death, who lends what life must borrow.      …

And where are you parked, my car pet?

Yes, she said, this world was just one gag after another, if somebody wrote up her life nobody would ever believe it.