Monday, December 3, 2007

British Literature <3


While in England, one may notice the fact that several wonderful writers are from Britain. I love English Literature and hope to maybe run into a few historical sites from these famous writers such as Chaucer, Shakespeare, Dickens, Morrissey, and a few modern English writers such as Peter Ackroyd, Martin Amis, Julian Barnes, AS Byatt, Margaret Drabble, Ian McEwan and Jeanette Winterson."To be, or not to be, that is the question:
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles
And by opposing end them. To die—to sleep,
No more; and by a sleep to say we end
The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks
That flesh is heir to: 'tis a consummation
Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep;
To sleep, perchance to dream—ay, there's the rub:
For in that sleep of death what dreams may come,
When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,
Must give us pause—there's the respect
That makes calamity of so long life."
-William Shakespeare

"A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other" -Charles Dickens


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