"Iconoclasts" Sundance Channel Original Series episode 3.03 (Original Air Date: 8 November 2007)
Elitist Art, Unpopular Art and Popular Art http://scaruffi.com/phi/syn157.html
[Thus Spake the Holy Mother, 72-73]
“Of all escape mechanisms, death is the most efficient.”
A Book of Burlesques (1916)
1910s
“To become a spectator of one's own life is to escape the suffering of life.”
Christ, Old Student in a New School (1972)
Context: That so much time was wasted in this pain.
Ten thousand years ago he might have let off down
To not return again!
A dreadful laugh at last escapes his lips;
The laughter sets him free.
A Fool lives in the Universe! he cries.
The Fool is me!
And with one final shake of laughter
Breaks his bonds.
The nails fall skittering to marble floors.
And Christ, knelt at the rail, sees miracle
As Man steps down in amiable wisdom
To give himself what no one else can give:
His liberty.
“It is better that ten guilty persons escape, than that one innocent suffer.”
Book IV, ch. 27.
Commentaries on the Laws of England (1765–1769)
“Laughter is sunshine, it chases winter from the human face.”
Variant: A smile is the same as sunshine; it banishes winter from the human countenance.
Source: Les Misérables
