Snippeteria
Freelance thought — cannot be bought.
Reason is the softly-spoken suggestion from the back of the room which nobody listens to because they are too busy Solving The Problem.
Knowledge is common property; only ignorance is truly personal. Hence, our human failing for warm, cozy ignorance.
“All too easily we blame,/ The politicians for our shame.” W.H. Auden
Publicity campaign motto: Ripe is the tripe when the hype is bright, right?
“Of Burymeleg and Bindmerollingeyes and all the deeds in the woe.” James Joyce, “Finnegans Wake”
Einstein said of Gandhi: “The example of a morally superior life is invincible.”
Conformists love their hive. The important thing is to keep buzzy, don’t you agree?
Conformists die apart.
Atheists are proponents of a preposterous standard of proof.
“What I do wish to affirm is that the whole of modern literature is corrupted by what I call Secularism, that it is simply unaware of, simply cannot understand the meaning of, the primacy of the supernatural over the secular life: of something which I assume to be our primary concern.” T.S. Eliot, 1935
19th century Tombstone, Arizona, epitaph:
“Here
Lies
Lester Moor
Four Slugs
From A 44
No Les
No More.”