Lives of Girls and Women

"What good is it if you read Plato and never clean your toilet? asked my mother, reverting to the values of Jubilee." —Lives of Girls and Women, Alice Munro

Alice Ann Munro, July 10, 1931, is a Canadian short story writer who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2013. Happy 86th Birthday! 

Heart of Darkness

I must admit I have never read any of Joseph Conrad's books, but I think of him of these terms, human condition, existential loneliness, colonialism, racism, imperialism, pessimism, de-humanized, good and evil, light and darkness, Nietzsche…
It took me 20 years to gather my courage to watch Francis Coppola's Apocalypse Now. But I will never brave enough to read Joseph Conrad's Hearts of Darkness. I know T. E. Lawrence, Bertrand Russell, Alfred Hitchcock, William Faulkner, Bob Dylan… and just about almost everybody love him, but I just simply can't.
How things linked: Hearts of Darkness, 1899—Apocalypse Now, 1979—The End by Jim Morrison, 1967—Paris, 1971—Paris, 1977—me

scene from Francis Coppola's Apocalypse Now

Jim Morrison's tomb in Paris