Quotes of the day

I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
— Jorge Luis Borges

It's January 6th now, but the above quote of the day from Bookreporter.com was from January 5th, the blame should fall on good old time difference. Crazy western hemisphere.

The idea I have now is to start blogging from quotes, as I seem to have lost the ability to do interesting things in order to write a blog entry. But in the end am I doing something in order to post on my blog? Or am I writing in my blog because I've done something interesting? Hmm. I digress. That should be covered with another entry. Perhaps a more exhaustive entry - but now this entry is beginning to look like one isn't it!

SOooo.... Library... why would paradise be like a library? There'd be so many books, many of which are uninteresting. However, some books would turn my head -books like graphic novels.

But some people don't call graphic novels books. They call them comics. True, they are in a form of a comic - there are text, and pictures. But since when did books just have to be words? Is it so wrong to have a story that you can also see the action to? I don't think it is.

In some respects, comics and graphic novels are much, much harder to produce than ordinary novels. Many people are involved in the story telling, the writer, the inker, the colorist. All these can also be one person - one VERY talented person perhaps. And just because there are many aspects to comics/graphic novels doesn't mean they are all good.

There are some bad graphic novels out there. Yep. One that are too focused on the art lose the story line. And there are ones that are almost like a "regular" novel but still have a bad story line! Story line is the key, I say. Without it, nothing you pick up, read, watch, or listen to will be of any interest.

When I do read comics and graphic novels, it's the superhero ones I read. It's a nice way to remove yourself from reality. I do understand that flying around in tights could perhaps be frowned upon by some, but the fact is people don't fly. If I wanted to fly, I'd buy those plane tickets that Virgin Blue Airline keep sending me ads for. But seriously, I don't have a need to go to Darwin, even if it only costs me 49 dollars guys, so QUIT IT. There is someone I know who would jump at the chance to take that trip, but if you're not sending it to them, then that marketing department is doing a crapola job.

Speaking of jobs, I haven't been to my job for a good two weeks now. I've been cleaning my room while I was on leave and the funniest thing happened. While re-arranging my room, I had to clear the bookshelf in order to move it. And when I grabbed my old Database 1 book, waved it around and said that "This would probably get 5 bucks on eBay right?", The pages split open to reveal 2 $50 notes! Money! And I didn't even know about it! I must have put it there a long time ago during uni...

Man that would be paradise wouldn't it? If every book in that library had a hundred smackeroos. We could go to the comic book shop and buy all the graphic novels they have :)