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Who Is Mr. Serling Talking About?
“Where will he go next, this phantom from another time, this resurrected ghost of a previous nightmare – Chicago? Los Angeles? Miami, Florida? Vincennes, Indiana? Syracuse, New York?
“Anyplace, every place, where there’s hate, where there’s prejudice, where there’s bigotry.
“He’s alive.
“He’s alive so long as these evils exist.
“Remember that when he comes to your town. Read more »
“I Fled Him, Down the Arches of the Years” *
“They say a man isn’t old till regrets take the place of dreams.”
— John Barrymore in “Barrymore” by William Luce
(Then again:)
“You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.”
— C.S. Lewis
(*A line from the first verse of “The Hound of Heaven,” by Francis Thompson, quoted near the end of “Barrymore.”) Read more »
Today’s Latin Lesson Is the Frustration the Governor Must Periodically Feel
Aliud ex Alio:
“One Thing After Another” Read more »
Another Way of Saying “You Can’t Amend a Bad Bill”
“Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.”
— Warren Buffett Read more »
The Beauty of the English Language
The same sentiment expressed in two distinct, visually arresting ways:
“Life’s a banquet and most poor suckers are starving to death!”
— Rosalind Russell, Auntie Mame
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“I don’t know what’s going to happen but I want to have my kicks before the whole shithouse goes up in flame.”
–Jim Morrison, Boston April 10, 1970
Today’s Latin Lesson Is Present in the Capitol — Despite All Evidence to the Contrary
Anima Mundi
“The creative and energizing force that permeates all nature.” Read more »
News That Stays News
“Republican philosophy seems to guide high court’s conservative justices”
— Sacramento Bee, Forum Section
June 30, 2013 Read more »
Today’s Latin Lesson Is a Comforting Notion But Apparently a Long Wait
Post Tenebras Lux
“After Darkness, Light” Read more »
Witty
“Here lies a proof that wit can never be defense against mortality.”
— Aphra Behn, 1640? – 1689, on her tomb at Westminster Abbey Read more »
“A Final, Crushing Defeat”
June 18, 1815 literally was Napoleon Bonaparte’s Waterloo.
His last ditch effort to defeat the British and the Prussians, after losing to the British and being exiled on the island of Elba, became his final defeat.
After a three-day battle near Waterloo Village in Belgium, the emperor’s strategy of splitting his army to attack both the British and Prussians failed to divide them, allowing them to converge on Napoleon and defeat him.. Read more »
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