don’t stop now
Saturday, January 26th, 2008A little Learning is a dang’rous Thing;
Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian Spring:
There shallow Draughts intoxicate the Brain,
And drinking largely sobers us again.
(Pope, Essay on Criticism)
we mark up the back of the envelope; the letter addresses us
A little Learning is a dang’rous Thing;
Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian Spring:
There shallow Draughts intoxicate the Brain,
And drinking largely sobers us again.
(Pope, Essay on Criticism)
the destitute time is no longer able even to experience its own destitution
(Heidegger, “What Are Poets For“)
“We have discovered happiness” — say the Last Men, and they blink.
(Nietzsche, Als Spracht Zarathustra)