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Cato Maior de Senectute – On Old Age (44 BC)
Nemo enim est tam senex qui se annum non putet posse vivere.
Source: On Old Age, On Friendship & On Divination
“He didn’t think he would understand the strangeness of life if he lived to be a hundred years old.”
Part 4 “The Price of Blood”, Chapter 14 (p. 443)
Tigana (1990)
Source: 1970s, Margaret Mead: Some Personal Views (1979), p. 252-253
Breakfast of Champions (1973)
Context: I was on par with the Creator of the Universe there in the dark in the cocktail lounge. I shrunk the Universe to a ball exactly one light-year in diameter. I had it explode. I had it disperse itself again.
Ask me a question, any question. How old is the Universe? It is one half-second old, but the half-second has lasted one quintillion years so far. Who created it? Nobody created it. It has always been here.
What is time? It is a serpent which eats its tail, like this:
This is the snake which uncoiled itself long enough to offer Eve the apple, which looked like this:
What was the apple which Eve and Adam ate? It was the Creator of the Universe.
And so on.
Symbols can be so beautiful, sometimes.
Pt. III, st. 35
The Ballad of Reading Gaol (1898)
Timothy
Egan
The Fictions of Mike Huckabee
2011-03-03
Opinionator
The New York Times
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/03/03/the-fictions-of-mike-huckabee/
2011-03-04
regarding Maurice Clemmons, whose prison sentence Huckabee commuted in 2000
