It is better by noble boldness to run the risk of being subject to half of the evils we anticipate than to remain in cowardly listlessness for fear of what might happen.
Herodotus
08 March 2020
Noble.
It is better by noble boldness to run the risk of being subject to half of the evils we anticipate than to remain in cowardly listlessness for fear of what might happen.
Herodotus
Can't.
Arthur Weasley, from Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Premiered.
Richard Strauss' Don Quixote, Op. 35, premiered on this date in 1895.
The Berlin Philharmonic, directed by Herbert von Karajan and featuring Mstislav Rostropovich, performs ...
07 March 2020
I'll.
To hell with luck. I'll bring the luck with me.
Ernest Hemingway, from The Old Man and The Sea
Anonymous, Stella Splendens
Jordi Savall leads and performs with Hesperion XXI and La Cappella Reial de Catalunya ...
Wondering.
People travel to wonder at the height of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars; and they pass by themselves without wondering.
Saint Augustine
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06 March 2020
Convoluted.
Mr. Honeyfoot and Mr. Segundus meet Mr. Norrell in his library in a scene from Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell ...
Watch your step, gentlemen. The way is ... convoluted ...
Watch your step, gentlemen. The way is ... convoluted ...
Happy Birthday, Michelangelo
Michelangelo, Drapery Study for the Erythraean Sibyl, 1512
Michelangelo was born on this date in 1475.
The ARTIST
Nothing the greatest can conceive
That every marble block doth not confine
Within itself: and only its design
The hand that follows intellect can achieve.
The ill I flee, the good that I believe,
In thee, fair lady, lofty and divine,
Thus hidden lie; and so that death be mine,
Art, of desired success, doth me bereave.
Love is not guilty, then, nor thy fair face,
Nor fortune, cruelty, nor great disdain,
Of my disgrace, nor chance nor destiny,
If in they heart both death and love find place
At the same time, and if my humble brain,
Burning, can nothing draw but death from thee.
Michelangelo Buonarroti
Understand.
Wherever I am, the world comes after me.
It offers me its busyness. It does not believe
that I do not want it. Now I understand
why the old poets of China went so far and high
into the mountains, then crept into the pale mist.
Mary Oliver
05 March 2020
Vigorous.
Some men give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal, while others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than ever before.
Herodotus
Happy Birthday, Tiepolo
Tiepolo, Juno and Luna, 1745
Giovanni Tiepolo was born on this date in 1796.
Execrations.
Revere, The Bloody Massacre perpetrated in King Street Boston on March 5th 1770 by a party of the 29th Regt., 1770
On this date in 1770 ...
Unhappy BOSTON! see thy Sons deplore, Thy hallowe'd Walks besmear'd with guiltless Gore: While faithless --- and his savage Bands, With murd'rous Rancour stretch their bloody Hands; Like fierce Barbarians grinning o'er their Prey, Approve the Carnage, and enjoy the Day.
If scalding drops from Rage from Anguish Wrung If speechless Sorrows lab' ring for a Tongue, Or if a weeping World can ought appease The plaintive Ghosts of Victims such as these; The Patriot's copious Tears for each are shed, A glorious Tribute which embalms the Dead.
But know, FATE summons to that awful Goal, Where JUSTICE strips the Murd'rer of his Soul: Should venal C-ts the scandal of the Land, Snatch the relentless Villain from her Hand, Keen Execrations on this Plate inscrib'd, Shall reach a JUDGE who never can be brib'd.
The unhappy Sufferers were Messs. SAM. L GRAY, SAM.L MAVERICK, JAM.S CALDWELL , CRISPUS ATTUCKS & PAT.K CARR Killed. Six wounded two of them (CHRIST.R MONK & JOHN CLARK) Mortally
03 March 2020
02 March 2020
01 March 2020
Happy Birthday, Chopin
Frédéric Chopin was born on this date in 1810.
Vladimir Horowitz performs the Introduction and Rondo in E-flat major, Op. 16 ...
See.
Will ne’er Believe do what you Please
If the Sun & Moon should Doubt
They’d immediately Go out
To be in a Passion you Good may Do
But no Good if a Passion is in you
The Whore & Gambler by the State
Licenc’d build that Nation’s Fate
The Harlot’s cry from Street to Street
Shall weave Old England’s winding Sheet
The Winner’s Shout the Loser’s Curse
Dance before dead England’s Hearse
Every Night & every Morn
Some to Misery are Born
Every Morn and every Night
Some are Born to sweet delight
Some are Born to sweet delight
Some are Born to Endless Night
We are led to Believe a Lie
When we see not Thro the Eye
Which was Born in a Night to perish in a Night
When the Soul Slept in Beams of Light
God Appears & God is Light
To those poor Souls who dwell in Night
But does a Human Form Display
To those who Dwell in Realms of day
William Blake, from "Auguries of Innocence"
YesScriptures.
An airbrushed Italian painting (circa 1974) depicting Christ as He is laid to rest in and around the lake. The revised account of the Passion, found in the Book of Bruford, is one of many changes to be found in the new, Yes-inclusive Holy Bible.VATICAN CITY—In the first-ever union of the Word of God and the Synthesizer, the Catholic Church's College of Cardinals voted unanimously Monday to incorporate the lyrics of Yes into the New Testament.
The resulting new Bible, the Revised Standard YesScriptures, will replace the Jerusalem Bible of 1966 as the standard accepted record and vehicle of divine revelation.
"Let us rejoice in this momentous occasion," said Pope John Paul II in a special service at St. Peter's. "And let no man be unmoved, remembering the words of Jesus: 'In and around the lake, mountains come out of the sky, and they stand there.' Amen."
CONNECT
Distort.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Hold the bucket, monkeys, The Donald says, "Wait for the shake."
None.
Ronald Reagan
Hoard.
I will not cede more power to the state. I will not willingly cede more power to anyone, not to the state, not to General Motors, not to the CIO. I will hoard my power like a miser, resisting every effort to drain it away from me. I will then use my power, as I see fit. I mean to live my life an obedient man, but obedient to God, subservient to the wisdom of my ancestors; never to the authority of political truths arrived at yesterday at the voting booth. That is a program of sorts, is it not? It is certainly program enough to keep conservatives busy, and liberals at bay. And the nation free.
William F. Buckley Jr.
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