Poetry and literature I like
publish Opened 2023-12-28; had the idea 2023-12-24. Related to Articles I like.
My Goodreads (very incomplete): Click me
Literature I like
Short stories
- Flowers for Algernon - pdf link
- Zima Blue
- Written by Qntm
- Lena - Sci fi short story about uploaded intelligence written in the style of a future Wikipedia article.
- If you are reading this- Believable “that really happened” sci fi personal anecdote
Excerpts
- Excerpt from A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
- Excerpt from The Demon-Haunted World- Science as a Candle in the Dark
- Excerpt from The Wise Man’s Fear
- Excerpt from The French Lieutenant’s Woman
- Excerpt from The Man in the Arena
- Excerpt from The Dead
- Modern art exists because of financial loopholes - the quote here about modernism
Poetry
- Sonnet 19 - Shakespeare
- Teddy Bear - A.A. Milne
- Adonais - Percy Bysshe Shelley
- Swan and Shadow - John Hollander
- The Epitaph of Edward, the Black Prince
Books
- Trick Mirror (article not finished)
- Brief Answers to the Big Questions (article not finished)
Music I like
Film I like
- More generally: Movies I’ve seen
- Anton Ego’s (technically, Brad Bird’s) speech from Ratatouille: Anton Ego’s speech
Art I like
Probably deserves its own page.
- Digital painting: I take inspiration from a few artists including Sinix, Jen Zee, Esben Lash, Leyendecker, and similar artists who paint traditional styles digitally.
- Abstract art: Super hit or miss, I think a lot of it is overrated but every once and a while there’s a piece that I like for reasons I can’t put my finger on. Such as: