Tag: the little prince

• The Joys of Life, the Moon, and Reading

  December 18th, 2007

  Source: eye of einstein Last Wednesday evening, as I got up from the computer, I looked out the window. There in the sky, fragile and held aloft by what seemed to be nothing was a sliver of the moon. The horizon I could see over the nearby houses was an enchanting shade of mild orange, […]

• In Praise of Simplicity

  June 22nd, 2007

  I think that one of greatest poems ever written is “The Red Wheelbarrow” by William Carlos Williams. You’d be hard pressed to find something that said so much with so little: so much depends upon a red wheel barrow glazed with rain water beside the white chickens. The image is stark and clear, and though […]

• Retroview: The Little Prince

  June 19th, 2007

  An explanation of what a Retroview is can be found here, though it should be pretty clear from this text. The first time I read The Little Prince, I think i was probably around 16. That’s pretty old for a book stereotypically for kids, but I’ve never believed in being held back because my parents […]

• Retroviews, An Introduction

  June 13th, 2007

  A REtroVIEW (or simply retroview) is an idea I have been kicking around for some time. It is, at the lowest-level, a review of something old. More importantly, it is a review of something old which has long-standing personal importance. That is, it’s a review of a book you always loved, a movie you always […]