Some few people recognize Classics when they're first made; centuries must pass before the rest of us can be sure. good stays the same.
Some few people recognize Classics when they're first made; centuries must pass before the rest of us can be sure. good stays the same.
After lugging the kill to a nearby tree the leopard ate a quick meal, then stored the rest of the carcass in a handy crotch of the tree. A thorough clean-up followed - then the big cat returned to standby mode.
The value of the troubadour form is that the mimimal embellishment reveals the heart of the work - Art, or lack thereof, is easier to hear when background ornamentation is removed.
Prisoners are the extreme case, but none of us are free from limitation. Limitation focus us to concentrate on what can be done. If you can't do whatever you like, then, what can you do?
The Mad Tea party in Alice in Wonderland took place at a very long table filled with one tea service after the other.
When the tea and crumpets were exhausted at one station the party moved on to the next, saying, "Move down, move down"!
He once famously said to Picasso,
"You and I are the greatest painters
in Paris: I in the modern genre,
you in the Egyptian".
Every day people needlessly agitate
themselves by imputing fanciful motives to someone else.
Inflated blather is the preferred way to speak for anybody who doesn't have anything to say, or - who would rather not say.
The magnificence was twofold; the beauty of the verses was wrapped in the archaeological triumph of recovered art. It was almost too good to be true.
It wasn't true.
Not that his life was really spotless. It was only that he considered it so. Not that he really considered anything.
An understanding of Satan as real, would explain a lot of otherwise indecipherable conflicts.
A primordial people may have laid the foundation for every civilization from Europe to Asia.
Did anyone force you to take that job, or get involved with that person, or that crowd?
No, you chose who, what, and where.
They came to the Monastery as outcasts from the world. I thought of them as penitents seeking salvation. They didn't think they did a single thing to be penitent about.
Government, "service", is now approaching 40% of the entire economy. Eventually we'll live in a Country: of the Government, by the Government, and for the Government
I hear a lot of roaring these days in emotional arguments. Emotional argument is an oxymoron. Argument is done with reason. Nothing comes from emotional roaring but annoying sound, signifying nothing
In times of old - like twenty or thirty years ago - knowledge was held in esteem. Now it's not nearly as important as going viral on Tik-Tok.
Nature's schedule, whether fury or calm, cannot be managed by any amount of human tinkering - no matter how much effort the faithful put into trying.