Actually I hesitated to even approach what I need to talk about, because it was with a heavy heart and much misgiving that I was about to talk about certain things claimed to be 'in short supply' but which really are not. You see, if I talk about them, there is a chance that picture will change about their pricing and so on, and I'll readily admit I have an interest in exploiting lies people tell, if I happen to know they are lies.
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| Chef - we burnt the steak! |
I don't really go around with this sense of moral duty to 'loudly proclaim the truth in the market square...' LOL
Now d'you see what I mean? I don't wish to save the people from anything. Not all of them, anyway. But I do wish to preserve the great ideas and technologies and texts and things like that, in case of flood. Although they do say 'the fire next time.'
Are we here yet?
We're here.
Sunday, 17 March 2019
Keep The Stack Of Books Tight Under Your Arm
The highest point of humanity, the peak chapter of the cycles of the human race, is this precise moment, when some person, young or old, man or woman, runs across a town square (such as it may be, for instance, in ancient Tyre or Sidon, or Alexandria when it was burning to the ground - which happened several times of course) with a small pile of books or texts under their arm, their cloak flailing in the breeze and tumult swirling around them.
If it were not for some of these incidents, I assure you we would not know Euclid as we do today, nor Al Kindi, nor several other incalculably valuable masters, that is to say, their written works.
Macron told journalists that he would govern like the Roman god Jupiter, and then he told the same journalists that they would not have the intellect to understand the complexity of what he was saying. Macron is of course Nero, and not Jupiter - the Roman poet Titus Calpurnius Siculus having likened Nero to Jupiter... Nero, as you know from the folklore (because nowadays the history books try to deny it as having been a fact in the first place) being the criminal dictator who burned down buildings when the owners resisted paying him protection money, and then claiming the glory of 'saving' the buildings from the worst of the fire when he 'sent' brigades to put out the fires (that he himself lit or caused to be lit).
If it were not for some of these incidents, I assure you we would not know Euclid as we do today, nor Al Kindi, nor several other incalculably valuable masters, that is to say, their written works.
Macron told journalists that he would govern like the Roman god Jupiter, and then he told the same journalists that they would not have the intellect to understand the complexity of what he was saying. Macron is of course Nero, and not Jupiter - the Roman poet Titus Calpurnius Siculus having likened Nero to Jupiter... Nero, as you know from the folklore (because nowadays the history books try to deny it as having been a fact in the first place) being the criminal dictator who burned down buildings when the owners resisted paying him protection money, and then claiming the glory of 'saving' the buildings from the worst of the fire when he 'sent' brigades to put out the fires (that he himself lit or caused to be lit).
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