Neil Reilly
CSLab Systems Administrator

I have a sub-site for one of my hobbies, writing about Swallows and Amazons

An aged man is but a paltry thing,
A tattered coat upon a stick, unless
Soul clap its hands and sing, and louder sing
For every tatter in its mortal dress,
Nor is there singing school but studying
Monuments of its own magnificence;
And therefore I have sailed the seas and come
To the holy city of Byzantium.

   -- William Butler Yeats, Byzantium

Rock'n'roll

   -- Sean Bateman (Bret Easton Ellis, The Rules of Attraction)

"I am Nancy Blackett, master and part owner of the Amazon, the terror of the seas.
This is Peggy Blackett, mate and part owner of the same."

"Her real name isn't Nancy." said Peggy. "Her name is Ruth, but Uncle Jim said that the
Amazons were ruthless, and as our ship is the Amazon, and we are Amazon pirates
from the Amazon River, we had to change her name. Uncle Jim gave us the ship last year.
We only had a rowing boat before that."

Nancy Blackett scowled ferociously. "I'll shiver your timbers for you if you don't stop
chattering, Peggy."

   -- Nancy and Peggy (Arthur Ransome, Swallows and Amazons)

I am of old and young, of the foolish as much as the wise,
Regardless of others, ever regardful of others,
Maternal as well as paternal, a child as well as a man,
Stuff'd with the stuff that is coarse and stuff'd with the stuff that is fine

   -- Walt Whitman, Song of Myself

And there forever remains that change from G to E minor.

   -- Tuomas Holopainen, Song of Myself

Does such a thing as "the fatal flaw," that showy dark crack running down the middle of life, exist outside literature? I used to think it didn't. Now I think does. And I think that mine is this: a morbid longing for the picturesque at all costs.

   -- Richard (Donna Tartt, The Secret History)

She was living reverie for me: the mere sight of her sparked an almost infinite rage of fantasy, from Greek to Gothic, from vulgar to divine.

   -- Richard (Donna Tartt, The Secret History)

I thought she was going to say, because I don't love you, which probably would have been more or less the truth, but instead, to my surprise, she said: "Because I love Henry."
"Henry's dead."
"I can't help it. I still love him."
"I loved him, too," I said.
For just a moment, I thought I felt her waver. But then she looked away.
"I know you did," she said. "But it's not enough.

   -- Richard and Camilla (Donna Tartt, The Secret History)

Baka Shinji.

   -- Asuka (Hideaki Anno, Neon Genesis Evangelion)

...Pull the trigger... Takeru...

   -- Meiya (Yoshimune Kouki, Muv-Luv Alternative)