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Alaskas
Tuesday, August 27, 2013 at 8:06 PM
On my way back to the dorm earlier, I was thinking if those people who are "hurricanes" instead of "drizzles" really exist (read: reference to Looking for Alaska by John Green). You know, the kind that constantly surprises you, the kind that keeps you in the edge, and the kind that is effortlessly extraordinary. The kind that makes you catch your breath every time they speak, or touch you, or just simply be around you.
Have you met someone like that? Or will I just be disappointed to know that they are but figments of the imagination? How come they are such a constant trend for modern-day heroines? Are there really people who can eternally keep the thrill of their presence alive? Am I like that to somebody? I wonder. |
“In most books, the I, or first person, is omitted; in this it will be retained; that, in respect to egotism, is the main difference. We commonly do not remember that it is, after all, always the first person that is speaking. I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well. Unfortunately, I am confined to this theme by the narrowness of my experience. Moreover, I, on my side, require of every writer, first or last, a simple and sincere account of his own life, and not merely what he has heard of other men's lives; some such account as he would send to his kindred from a distant land; for if he has lived sincerely, it must have been in a distant land to me. Perhaps these pages are more particularly addressed to poor students. As for the rest of my readers, they will accept such portions as apply to them. I trust that none will stretch the seams in putting on the coat, for it may do good service to him whom it fits.”
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