Gleaning From The Walls

To glean: to gather bit by bit; to harvest.

Archive for November, 2006

The Husband

Posted: Saturday, November 11th, 2006 @ 7:44 am in Books | No Comments »

by Dean Koontz To what lengths will one go, when driven to desperation, to relieve that one whom he loves from some evil done them through no fault of their own? Indeed, what would drive one to do the evil in the first place? Greed borne from moral degradation! And in the wake, the innocent [...]

Frankenstein

Posted: Wednesday, November 8th, 2006 @ 7:34 am in Books | No Comments »

by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley “Oh, Frankenstein! generous and self-devoted being! What does it avail that I now ask thee to pardon me? I, who irretrievably destroyed thee by destroying all thou lovest.” “Your repentance,” I [Robert Walton] said, “is now superfluous. If you had listened to the voice of conscience, and heeded the stings of [...]