It has taken many years to turn common sense into nonsense. The long struggle is now over. Isn’t nasty reality really much more worth the attention of the serious artist? Celebration of beauty, truth, and goodness is so, “yesterday”.
It has taken many years to turn common sense into nonsense. The long struggle is now over. Isn’t nasty reality really much more worth the attention of the serious artist? Celebration of beauty, truth, and goodness is so, “yesterday”.
A few tales out of hundreds that take only a few paragraphs to tell. None important in any way. They stay in my head, anyway.
With no one to interfere, Flora and local flora, could bloom in their own special ways
The Maid of Orleans is probably better known by the anglicized version of her name: Joan of Arc.
Get to the point; Add no more detail than truly needed; Respect the time and intelligence of your audience
There are three ways to tell, with three different effects on memory. People remember best what they hear.
They remember less well what they read. They remember least what they learn from digital devices.
What you’ve been trained to see inhibits you from seeing all that you could. That may be changing.
A few researchers have been looking into the possibility that the brain may not be doing all the thinking.
What if some zeros started plotting to become ones, twos, threes, or even more?
I’ve become hardened to expensive repairs, no chance of repair at all, and short-lived products that are cheaper to throw away than to fix. So have we all. That doesn’t mean we should happy about it
I’m not much enthused about travel. There’s too much travail in even the best of travel.
Montaigne occasionally comments in an essay what someone had to say about one other of his essays. The quote I started this essay with came from one of those occasions.
Humans chase fame, glory, riches, or any other achievement that might make their lives count to memorable purpose. If this human oddness could be explained to animals struggling to stay alive they would laugh in disbelief