"To spend a day nobly is the problem to be solved."
Friday, March 30, 2007
It is some minutes past midnight, and out at the plush new opry house-clean, modern,spiritually and geographically removed from the seedy waste of downtown Nashville- the Grand Old Opry is running overtime.
Peter Guralnick, Lost Highway
Into every tidy scheme for arranging the pattern of human life, it is necessary to inject a certain dose of anarchism.
Action implies contemplation, and contemplation is the subject of the Melancolia. The immortal questions, Whence and Whither called for a new answer with sphynx-like inexorability. " Ponder well", said Durer,then and now"men and brothers, ponder ye well"
Musk-ox was no lover of conversation: what he did he did in silence, and it was always something which at any given moment he might least have been expected to do.