Source: Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
“What's the point of having a library full of books you've already read?”
“I've always been drawn to tormented people full of contradictions.”
“Mummy…
Daddy…
The day is full of birds
Sounds like they're saying words…”
Spoken by Bush's son, Berty.
Song lyrics, Aerial (2005), A Sky of Honey (Disc 2)
"Letter to St Bernard" in Illustrissimi (1976), p. 53
Context: Let me give an example. It is far away in time but a classic case … In 1815, the official French newspaper Le Moniteur, showed its readers how to follow Napoleon's progress: 'The brigand flees from the island of Elba '; 'The usurper arrives at Grenoble'; ' Napoleon enters Lyons'; 'The Emperor reaches Paris this evening'. What an amazing turnabout! This must not be compared with prudence, just as it isn't prudent to have a stubborn attitude and to take no account of what is obviously real or to become excessively rigid and zealously upright, more loyalist than the king, more papist than the pope.
This happens. Some people seize on an idea, then bury it and guard it for the rest of their lives, defending it jealously without ever examining it again, without ever trying to check what has become of it after all the rain and wind and storms of events and changes.
Those who travel in the stratosphere are in danger of not being prudent, when they are full of knowledge acquired purely from books. They can never get away from what is written, are always busy analyzing, pointing out subtleties, perpetually splitting hairs.
Life is quite another matter.
“I ransack public libraries, and find them full of sunk treasure.”
Source: Virginia Woolf
“An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them.”
The Liar (1991)
1990s
Brazil v. Germany (8 July 2014).
2010s, 2014, 2014 FIFA World Cup
