I dislike summer classes. There is always a feeling of suffocation, of being crammed into a cage and then force-fed; as if you’re drowning in information or too much air — all this taking place at break-neck speed, so that not only are you deprived of intellectual breathing space, you don’t have time to think.
This […]

by Mia on 12:18 am, April 30, 2007 in academics (1) spoke

(random notes)
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Beauty — a sword, sharp and perfect, the blade of the sun. Terrible as an army with banners. One quick stroke, and it leaves behind the utter devastation of a heart pierced through with hopeless, helpless love.
We mortals cannot see Beauty, or it would kill us. We look only at shadows and images, reflections […]

by Mia on 1:17 am, April 26, 2007 in thoughts (2) spoke

While thinking about Caprice and Jubil at a bazaar an image burned itself into my brain: a woman, simply dressed, selling very ornate and outlandish lamps. It was a very vivid image: her quietness and tranquility against a background of fantastic patterns and shapes. After some thought I realized that the woman was blind. And […]

by Mia on 9:26 pm, April 12, 2007 in visuals (7) spoke

Haven’t written for months; have mostly been letting ideas ferment in my head (some, admittedly, went bad). I scribbled a little while at Taal, though, just so I could remember what writing felt like.

by Mia on 12:51 am, April 10, 2007 in writing (4) spoke