I think the book’s theme is that for some, human relationship is not all and everything to psychological completeness, that spending time by oneself is often needed for self-inspection, and that the solitude, in fact, seems to have played key parts for some creative people over the years.
The book quotes and elaborates many examples of [...]
Entries from July 2003
Solitude: A Return to the Self by Anthony Storr
July 28th, 2003 · No Comments · Books · Reviews
Tags: · "Solitude", "The Dynamics of Creation", Anthony Storr, Books, Reviews
What’s in a (Korean) Name?
July 1st, 2003 · No Comments · Random Thoughts
Should I write my name as Younghong Cho or Cho Younghong?
There is something I’ve been noticing recently about how some Koreans write their names in Roman alphabets. Some of them started writing Korean names with their family name first without a comma. This seems to be more common for the names of Koreans in [...]