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 June 16, 2010; 5th day of 5th lunar month Duanwu is often called Double Fifth, because it falls on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month of the Chinese calendar, but it’s more commonly referred to as the Dragon Boat Festival, after its most famous annual event. Almost as famous are the delicious special foods prepared [...]  April 23 Hamlet, Don Quixote and Lolita walk into a book… Ok, so when your oh-so-sophisticated city friends are hobnobbing at tonight’s World Book Day soiree, you—you who fell asleep watching Pride & Prejudice because you were too lazy to read the book in English class—can wow them with this little-known literary anomaly. It is one of [...]  February 8
When all the nations stand before the judgment seat and are asked to explain how they used their basic talents…the small Slovenian nation will dare without fear to present a thin book with title Prešeren’s Poems alongside the others. – Josip Stritar Don’t mess with the Slovenes when it [...]  February 6 “I don’t have prejudice against myself. My father was a white and my mother was black…Me don’t dip on the black man’s side nor the white man’s side. Me dip on God’s side, the one who create me and cause me to come from black and white.” – Bob Marley
January 25 Lang syne, in Eden’s happy scene When strappin Adam’s days were [...] October 27, 2009 …I do not want much of a present, anyway, this year. from A Birthday Present, Sylvia Plath, 1962 There’s nothing like the poetry of Sylvia Plath to brighten up a birthday celebration. [...] 
How long shall they kill our prophets
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