This website is named after Shakespeare's tragic heroine Ophelia, whom, like the arts, endures a tumultuous, decaying existence.
Poetry is a dance...of perfectly choreographed words...that conveys the squalor and splendor of humanity.
What is a good movie?  One that shakes the very foundations of earth...with laughter and tears.
books
The Andromeda Strain, by Michael Crichton
Crime and Punishment, by Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Fountainhead
, by Ayn Rand
The Grapes of Wrath, by John Steinbeck
The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Jungle, by Upton Sinclair
The Hobbit, by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Lord of the Rings, by J.R.R. Tolkien
My Antonia, by Willa Cather
1984, by George Orwell
One Hundred Years of Solitude, by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen
The Rise and Fall of Practically Everybody, by Will Cuppy
The Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Sphere, by Michael Crichton
The Testament, by John Grisham
The Final Mist, by Maria Luisa Bombal
plays
The Crucible, by Arthur Miller
The Glass Menagerie, by Tennessee Williams
Hamlet, by William Shakespeare


movies
A Beautiful Mind
All the President's Men
Amadeus
Animal House
Born on the Fourth of July
Contact
Dances With Wolves
Dead Poets' Society
Erin Brockovich
Fried Green Tomatoes
Full Metal Jacket
The Hunt for Red October
IL POSTINO
In the Name of the Father
It's a Wonderful Life
The Last Mohican
Life Is Beautiful
Magnolia
Moulin Rouge
My Dinner With Andre
Office Space
The Remains of the Day
Robin Hood: Men in Tights
The Royal Tenenbaums
Sense and Sensibility
The Shawshank Redemption
Sneakers
Spaceballs
The Star Trek series
The Star Wars trilogy and prequels
Vanilla Sky
When A Man Loves A Woman
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family tree
If it's drowning you're after, don't torment yourself w/ shallow water.
       ~Irish proverb
quotations
"It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated."
~ Alec Bourne
"Genius is the ability to connect the unconnected, to make juxtapositions, to see relationships where others cannot."
~Dana Scully, X-Files
StaceyAnn Chin
Bartleby
NetLibrary
Word/Idiom Archive
Arts/Humanities
Philosophy
sketchy people
Ansel Adams
Mary Cassat
Paul Cezanne           
Salvador Dali            
Leonardo Da Vinci  
Edgar Degas            
M.C. Escher
Antoni Gaudi
Frida Kahlo                            
                       
poetry
The Human Touch

'Tis the human touch in this world that counts
The touch of your hand and mine,
That means far more to the fainting heart
Than shelter and bread and wine.
For shelter is gone when the night is o'er
And bread lasts only a day,
But the touch of the hand and the sound of the voice
Sing on in the soul alway.

~Spencer Michael Free
The night has a thousand eyes
And the day but one;
Yet the light of the bright world dies
With the dying sun.
The mind has a thousand eyes
And the heart but one;
Yet the light of a whole life dies
When love is done.

~Frances W. Bourdillon
Sonnet 116

Let me not to the marriage of true minds
     Admit impediments.  Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
     Or bends with the remover to remove:
O no!  it is an ever-fixed mark
     That looks on tempests and is never shaken;
It is the star to every wandering bark,
     Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.
Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
     Within his bending sickle's compass come:
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
     But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
If this be error and upon me proved,
     I never writ, nor no man ever loved.

~William Shakespeare
you are victim
Thomas Kinkade
Claude Monet
Georgia O'Keefe
Maxfield Parrish
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Diego Rivera
Rembrandt Van Rijn
Frank Lloyd Wright