- Favourite Quotes -
... maybe Ahavati said:*cough*
If we crack an acorn, are we felling an oak? That is the question. . .
Very good question ... and observation.
Dylan Thomas to the rescue, ... maybe
"The hand that signed the paper felled a city;
Five sovereign fingers taxed the breath,
Doubled the globe of dead and halved a country;
These five kings did a king to death."
(first stanza of "The Hand That Signed The Paper")
If we crack an acorn, are we felling an oak? That is the question. . .
Very good question ... and observation.
Dylan Thomas to the rescue, ... maybe
"The hand that signed the paper felled a city;
Five sovereign fingers taxed the breath,
Doubled the globe of dead and halved a country;
These five kings did a king to death."
(first stanza of "The Hand That Signed The Paper")
“I’m not telling you to make the world better I’m just telling you to live in it. Not just to endure it, not just to suffer it, not just to pass through it, but to live in it. To look at it. To take chances. To make your own work and take pride in it."
(Joan Didion, 1934-2021)
(Joan Didion, 1934-2021)
“There is something in us, as storytellers and as listeners to stories, that demands the redemptive act, that demands that what falls at least be offered the chance to be restored. The reader of today looks for this motion, and rightly so, but what he has forgotten is the cost of it. His sense of evil is diluted or lacking altogether, and so he has forgotten the price of restoration. When he reads a novel, he wants either his sense tormented or his spirits raised. He wants to be transported, instantly, either to mock damnation or a mock innocence.”
(Flannery O'Connor, 1925-1964)
(Flannery O'Connor, 1925-1964)
Josh said:“There is something in us, as storytellers and as listeners to stories, that demands the redemptive act, that demands that what falls at least be offered the chance to be restored. The reader of today looks for this motion, and rightly so, but what he has forgotten is the cost of it. His sense of evil is diluted or lacking altogether, and so he has forgotten the price of restoration. When he reads a novel, he wants either his sense tormented or his spirits raised. He wants to be transported, instantly, either to mock damnation or a mock innocence.”
(Flannery O'Connor, 1925-1964)
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(Flannery O'Connor, 1925-1964)
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CRUSH!
[view the advert first 1min 8secs]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntjkwIXWtrc
“Apple came along and handed us a perfect visual metaphor for one of our most potent fears about big tech right now — namely, that it is crushing the arts and transmuting them into dull consumer products.”
(Brian Merchant [Writer on Tech, former technology columnist with the L.A Times])
[view the advert first 1min 8secs]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntjkwIXWtrc
“Apple came along and handed us a perfect visual metaphor for one of our most potent fears about big tech right now — namely, that it is crushing the arts and transmuting them into dull consumer products.”
(Brian Merchant [Writer on Tech, former technology columnist with the L.A Times])
Josh said:CRUSH!
[view the advert first 1min 8secs]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntjkwIXWtrc
“Apple came along and handed us a perfect visual metaphor for one of our most potent fears about big tech right now — namely, that it is crushing the arts and transmuting them into dull consumer products.”
(Brian Merchant [Writer on Tech, former technology columnist with the L.A Times])
Astute.
[view the advert first 1min 8secs]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntjkwIXWtrc
“Apple came along and handed us a perfect visual metaphor for one of our most potent fears about big tech right now — namely, that it is crushing the arts and transmuting them into dull consumer products.”
(Brian Merchant [Writer on Tech, former technology columnist with the L.A Times])
Astute.
