from midnight in paris
“it’s not a story, it’s like a detail”
part 2
1But knowledge is as food, and needs no less
Her temperance over appetite, to know
In measure what the mind may well contain,
Oppresses else with surfeit, and soon turns
Wisdom to folly, as nourishment to wind.
- Milton
When a man has filled his mouth so full of food that for this reason he cannot eat and it must end with his dying of hunger, does giving food to him consist in stuffing his mouth even more or, instead, in taking a little away so he can eat?
- SK
Her temperance over appetite, to know
In measure what the mind may well contain,
Oppresses else with surfeit, and soon turns
Wisdom to folly, as nourishment to wind.
- Milton
- SK
Paradise Lost vii 126-130; Concluding Unscientific Postscript to Philosophical Fragments
this is true:
“People believe in God because they’ve been conditioned to believe in God.” (Huxley)
and this is true:
“People don’t believe in God because they’ve been conditioned to not believe in God.”
“People don’t believe in God because they’ve been conditioned to believe in God.”
“People believe in God because they’ve been conditioned to not believe in God.”
part 1
this is called: the art of the negative.
Suf Christmas VI & VIII...i will delight in this
For those, aka Loons, who don’t have it but probably won’t discover this my ‘blog’ until after Christmas, regardless of which, knowing him - and I do - he’ll still listen to it without the slightest addition of hue, though his pallor would wish for it.
