Tag: Christine Niu

Arts & Culture

Of Childhoods and Ciphers

  “I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul.” ~ “Invictus” – William Ernest Hensley Graduation is rapidly approaching, which is a terrifying thought, and here I am with my (actual!!) last ever clay article. I’ll leave you with two series containing one of […]

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The Old Man and the Sea

So long, farewell, auf Wiedersehen, adieu Adieu, adieu, to yieu and yieu and yieu So long, farewell, au revoir, auf wiedersehen ~ “So Long, Farewell” – from The Sound of Music   By now, you’ll know that we’ve come to the end of our time together. I wish I had more […]

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The Book Thief

  “I see all of us reading ourselves away from ourselves, straining in circles of light to find more light until the line of words becomes a trail of crumbs that we follow across a page of fresh snow” – Billy Collins I am haunted by humans. It’s through Death’s […]

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Far From The Madding Crowd

Far from the madding crowd’s ignoble strife,          Their sober wishes never learn’d to stray; Along the cool sequester’d vale of life          They kept the noiseless tenor of their way. ~ “Elegy Written In A Country Churchyard” – Thomas Gray February, as we all know, is the month of […]