Tag: War

• The Virtues of Boredom: An Interview (The Atlantic)

  A reflective interview with Mary Mann about the virtues of boredom

  valsaksornchai

  May 14, 2017

  Curiosities, Life, Mind, Psychology, Self

  adulthood, Book, boredom, control, Julie Beck, Mary Mann, teenage, War

• Catch-22

  

  I have a confession to make: I am addicted to Catch-22. It is like a drug, a brain drug. And I just cannot get enough of it. I’ve blogged about it here. I’m reading what I wrote now. Interesting – I didn’t mention that I’d lost the book. I wonder why. Also, why is my writing so effusive!?…

  valsaksornchai

  October 5, 2014

  Cities, Humour, London, Reading, Traveling

  addiction, beach, Berlin, Book, brain, Catch-22, confusion, drug, ending, Europe, first-edition, Funny, happy ending, Harry Potter, healthy, Hope Street Hotel, Joseph Heller, Liverpool, London, loss, lost, Millennium, page-turner, Paris, quicksand, sarcasm, satire, Soviet war memorial, story, travel, Treptower Park, War, wit, World War II, Yossarian

• All is fair in love and war.

  

  All is fair in love and war. An interesting saying which: According to Urban Dictionary means: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=All%20is%20Fair%20in%20Love%20and%20War And according to The Free Dictionary means: http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/All’s+fair+in+love+and+war I don’t think the term justifies deceit in general (refer to above definition). But deceit in the name of war and love? Well, that’s a tougher line to draw. Any thoughts, dear…

  valsaksornchai

  December 12, 2013

  Curiosities

  Deceit, Life, Love, Opinions, Quotes, War