📖 Recent Quotes 📖

• ... as one of those who make circumstances subject to them, rather than become subject to circumstances.

  an excerpt from Ralph the Heir, written by Anthony Trollope in 1871

• [Sir Thomas and I feel the same way about politics]
  What excuse had he for placing himself in contact with such filth? Of what childishness had he not been the victim when he allowed himself to dream that he, a pure and scrupulous man, could go among such impurity as he had found at Percycross, and come out, still clean and yet triumphant?

  an excerpt from Ralph the Heir, written by Anthony Trollope in 1871

• [ from Inanna's Journey to Hell ]
  
  Now she is coming to death's kingdom,
  she is the mother desolate
  in a desolate place; where once
  he was alive, now he lies
  like a young bull felled to the ground.
  Into his face she stares, seeing
  what she has lost - his mother
  who has lost him to death's kingdom.
  O the agony she bears,
  shutting in the wilderness,
  she is the mother suffering so much.
  'It is you'
  she cries to him,
  'but you are changed.'

  an excerpt from Poems of Heaven and Hell from Ancient Mesopotamia, written by N. K. Sandars in 1971

📓 Recent Notes 📓

• However! the new storyline is an urban planning adventure, where the ragtag group of ecologically-minded urban planners try to deliver appropriate, sustainable services to the people on this planet, in spite of orders from their corporate/government overlords. Hard to dislike that plotline.

  an note about The Terraformers, written by Annalee Newitz in 2023

• I didn't actually read this - I can't read French. But it's fun to try, because it's so similar to English. I picked this up as a souvenir from our Paris trip in 2024.

  an note about Bartleby, Le Scribe, written by Herman Melville in

• I found the Wakefield plays interesting, and here's a collection of other medieval bible plays - from York, N. town, Chester, etc. Also the 'Everyman' plan!

  an note about Everyman and Medieval Miracle Plays, written by Anonymous in 1534

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