so it's always been a dream of mine to play five a side football, i started to live the dream & now it's directly responsible for the realisation of another dream of mine ... a titanium skeleton. i'm starting with some screws in my little finger & if that goes well then who knows? i'm not sure about magnetic or metal detecting properties of titanium alloys but i'm sure i'll find out.

Faith in books, restored

During the eight years Pnin had taught at Waindell College he had changed his lodgings... about every semester. The accumulation of consecutive rooms in his memory now resembled those displays of grouped elbow chairs on show, and beds, and lamps, and inglenooks which, ignoring all space-time distinctions, commingle in the soft light of a furniture store beyond which it snows, and the dusk deepens, and nobody really loves anybody.

From Pnin, by Vladimir Nabokov

Fail better

Shall we just call 2006 a write-off, then?