"Lasciate ogni speranza voi ch'entrate"
Welcome Libertines, readers, friends and lurkers. You have found The Naughty Librarian's annex. This cyber space I have carved out is where I will be expanding upon the book reviews and articles I have written for The Libertine. If you are unfamiliar with The Libertine, feel free to visit our site and prepare to be scandalized .
I will also be adding additional information on some of my more favorite subjects. And as literature and poetry are among my most favorite, you'll see lots of information on authors and poets.
After all, to quote Robin Williams in Dead Poets Society, "We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for."
And of course, I shall strive to amuse you, educate you and captivate you with both the mundane and the profound; the public and the private.
So keep an eye on the calendar for upcoming decadence. As titillating events occur, you'll be able to find photos of the revelry in my albums. And keep an eye on my blog for posts on literature, wine, music, and of course, the drama and intrigue that is The Naughty Librarian's personal life.
And now to answer the burning question...Who is the Naughty Librarian? My lips are sealed (thankfully my legs aren't), but I'll give you some hints, and a glimpse into my life......
I'm a recovering Catholic schoolgirl who's learning how to navigate her thirties in style. (They say 30 is the new 20.) I adore museums (especially the Natural History museum); art exhibits (but none of that Duchamp-inspired crap); good food (check out the book list for my favorite dessert recipe book); excellent wine (summer is one trip to the east end of Long Island after another); outdoor sports such as skiing, hiking, swimming and soccer; indoor sports such as, ohh, let your imagination run wild with that one why don't you; traveling (next stop is either Costa Rica or Ireland); and obviously I love books.
"Restriction of free thought and free speech is the most dangerous of all subversions. It is the one un-American act that could most easily defeat us." Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas
"You look at me like maybe I'm an angel underneath, innocent and sweet." Meredith Brooks
"Good girls go to Heaven; bad girls go everywhere." Mae West
"I can resist everything but temptation." Oscar Wilde
"Good food, good books and a sleepy conscience. This is the ideal life." Mark Twain
"She can kill with a smile; she can wound with her eyes; she can ruin your faith with her casual lies; and she only reveals what she wants you to see." Billy Joel
"With enough courage you can do without a reputation." Rhett Butler, in Margaret Mitchell's Gone With the Wind
"If you've got the poison, I've got the remedy." Jason Mraz
"Here's to pretty girls who went to our heads; here's to witty girls who went to our beds." Les Miserables, the musical
"Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent."
Friedrich Nietzsche
"I just want what I'm not allowed." Violent Femmes
"I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn't irascible." Ezra Pound
"When you cannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of action you should take - choose the bolder." Ezra Pound
"What saves most men from perdition is that most women do not hunt for them." Paul Carvel
"Moral indignation is just jealousy with a halo." HG Wells
"There comes a moment in the day, when you have written your pages in the morning, attended to your correspondence in the afternoon and have nothing further to do. Then comes the hour when you are bored; that's the time for sex." HG Wells
"Seduction foils all systems of power." Jean Baudrillard
"Audacity is essential to greatness." Friedrich Nietzche
"If it is chaste, it is not art." Pablo Picasso
"The great artists of the world are never Puritans, and seldom even ordinarily respectable." HL Mencken
"The strength of the feminine is that of seduction." Jean Baudrillard
"In omnibus requiem quaesivi, et nusquam inveni nisi in angulo cum libro." Thomas a Kempis
"Your library is your portrait." Holbrook Jackson
"For a well rounded education, you could try curling up with some good books and bad librarians." Richard Needham
"When is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?" Henry Ward Beecher
"To me, flirting is just like a sport." Lou Bega, Mambo Number 5
"Books are a narcotic." Franz Kafka
"Book lovers will understand me, and they will know too that part of the pleasure of a library lies in its very existance." Jan Morris
"You can never get a cup of tea large enough, or a book long enough, to suit me." C.S. Lewis
"She has read too many books, and it has addled her brain." Louisa May Alcott, in "Little Women"
