Quotations of the Day
“The dead weep with joy when their books are reprinted.”
“Everyone can see the future, but no one remembers the past.”
(The Stranger, in Russian Ark, 2002)
Tuesday: February 10, 2009
Monday: February 9, 2009
Quotation of the Day
“Unhappiness is our own invention. At times I’m sad that I lack the imagination for it.”
(Général André de . . ., in The Earrings of Madame de . . ., 1953)
Tuesday: February 3, 2009
Bad Things Come in Threes
In his commentary on Horace’s Soracte Ode (1.9), David West writes:
“Horace says sententiously, ‘When winds stop blowing, trees stop shaking’, meaning of course that unpleasant things do not last for ever. This could be said of a plague of locusts or a broken ankle or a professor with tenure” (Horace Odes I: Carpe Diem, Oxford 1995, 42-3)
The third unpleasant thing is odd at first glance, and suggests that West had at least one unpleasant colleague to put up with until he either died or retired.
Sunday: February 1, 2009
Missing the Best Part?
InstaPundit is duly impressed that Amazon sells bacon-flavored jelly beans. I’m more astonished by the last two things listed under ‘customers who bought this item also bought’: the bacon wallet (imitation bacon, I presume) and the Mr. Bacon vs. Monsieur Tofu Action Figures (making Tofu a Frenchman is a particularly nice touch).