Archive for October, 2002

Aargh!

Editor’s Note (added 06DEC08): Rereading this entry amazes me to no end, because I feel almost exactly opposite now. Weird how severely one’s viewpoint can change over the years…
Aargh! I am so very mad right now…
And it’s all my fault, of course… It always is. You see, I should have been studying tonight; I have [...]

Milton’s Paradise Lost

Milton’s Paradise Lost
The mind is its own place, and in itself Can make a Heav’n of Hell, a Hell of Heav’n. What matter where, if I be still the same, And wht I should be, all but less than hee Whom Thunder hath made greater? Here at least We shall be free; the’Almighty hath not built [...]

On Prejudice

My heart’s just not into anything today. Although I went to class this morning at eight a.m., I remember none of the lecture at all. I don’t recall falling asleep in class, nor do I recall waking up, so I’m pretty sure that I was awake the whole time; it is just that when the [...]

An Intellectual Conversation

I received an interesting IM today from a person that I had not spoken to in quite a long while. He is one of my few truly intellectual friends, and the conversation that ensued was quite stimulating. I am recording parts of that conversation here, in my journal, so that in coming times I can [...]

Thoughts On Thoughts…

Today, I discovered Milton.
I’d never read Paradise Lost before today, but this morning I read a great deal of it, and I must say that I am quite impressed. Milton is definitely my kind of poet, though I’ll admit his choice of subject matter in Paradise Lost wasn’t entirely appealing to me. Still, it is good to know that [...]

Miching Mallecho & Dostoevsky

From miching mallecho’s diary on FreeOpenDiary.com, concerning an upcoming competition:
For I am jaded, perhaps more jaded than I ought to be in this position. I realize the most probable outcome. It really doesn’t matter what efforts I make now, because they will thud softly against the inevitable and fall to the ground, cold. As though they [...]

Dominique & Alvah

“We few… We happy few…”
(From Henry V)
::sigh:: I admire Shakespeare, but it is wise to remember that he wrote for the common man, for mankind in general.
From The Fountainhead, by Ayn Rand, a speech by Dominique, to Alvah:
“You know, it’s such a peculiar thing — our idea of mankind in general. We all have a [...]

The Best Strategy Game

I like strategy games. I see no purpose to games of chance; what is the point of them? But in strategy, one’s wits are tested, and I enjoy that. I think the aspect I enjoy most from strategy games is the fact that they just feel right. I know that sounds vague, but it is [...]

Playing To Win

I play to win.
It may not seem like it sometimes… When I play Axis & Allies, sometimes I make suggestions to the opposing team; but I do this to increase the level of awareness in the game by all the players, so that if we ever go to a tournament together we will be more practiced [...]

Understanding “The Wife of Bath’s Tale”

The following is an assigned essay which was completed for a grade. Unfortunately, some formatting has been lost in the transition to LJ.
Author: Eric J. Herboso (EricJHerboso@yahoo.com)
Class: ENG 121.02 (Composition I), for Dr. Schaub
Assignment: Paper 3; Evolution Of Midterm Exam Essay
Chaucer didn’t like ‘ordinary’ stories. In his masterpiece, The Canterbury Tales, he emulated nearly every style of [...]