Source: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (1974), Ch. 29
“If Bacchus ever had a color he could claim for his own, it should surely be the shade of tannin on drunken lips, of John Keat's 'purple-stained mouth', or perhaps even of Homer's dangerously wine-dark sea.”
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Source: Things Fall Apart (1958), Chapter 4 (p. 35)
“Without Ceres (bread) and Bacchus (wine) Venus (love) freezes.”
Sine Cerere et Baccho friget Venus
Act IV, scene 1, 1, line 5.
Eunuchus
“But he would only be allowed it; he could not claim it as his own.”
Benjamin Ricketson Tucker
(1854–1939) American journalist and anarchist
¶ 13
State Socialism and Anarchism: How Far They Agree, and Wherin They Differ (1888)
Context: What other applications this principle of Authority, once adopted in the economic sphere, will develop is very evident. It means the absolute control by the majority of all individual conduct. The right of such control is already admitted by the State Socialists, though they maintain that, as a matter of fact, the individual would be allowed a much larger liberty than he now enjoys. But he would only be allowed it; he could not claim it as his own. There would be no foundation of society upon a guaranteed equality of the largest possible liberty. Such liberty as might exist would exist by sufferance and could be taken away at any moment. Constitutional guarantees would be of no avail. There would be but one article in the constitution of a State Socialistic country: “The right of the majority is absolute.”
“Seven cities claimed blind Homer, dead,
Through which blind Homer, living, begged his bread.”
Avram Davidson
(1923–1993) novelist
Vergil in Averno (1987)
