“The clouds, never expect it,
When it rains
But the sea changes color,
But the sea does not change”
Stevie Nicks (1948) American singer and songwriter, member of Fleetwood Mac
Edge of Seventeen
Bella Donna (album) (1981)
Book II, Chapter 3, p. 213 ( See also: The Exodus and Minoan eruption)
The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind (1976)
“The clouds, never expect it,
When it rains
But the sea changes color,
But the sea does not change”
Stevie Nicks (1948) American singer and songwriter, member of Fleetwood Mac
Edge of Seventeen
Bella Donna (album) (1981)
T.S. Eliot (1888–1965) 20th century English author
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock (1915)
Source: The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock and Other Poems
Context: I grow old … I grow old...
I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled.
Shall I part my hair behind? Do I dare to eat a peach?
I shall wear white flannel trousers, and walk upon the beach.
I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each.
I do not think that they will sing to me.
I have seen them riding seaward on the waves
Combing the white hair of the waves blown back
When the wind blows the water white and black.
We have lingered in the chambers of the sea
By sea-girls wreathed with seaweed red and brown
Till human voices wake us, and we drown.
“Those who live by the sea can hardly form a single thought of which the sea would not be part.”
Hermann Broch (1886–1951) austrian writer
“The people rose up, and they caused a sea change in Washington”
Aaron Swartz (1986–2013) computer programmer and internet-political activist
not the press, which refused to cover the story — just coincidentally, their parent companies all happened to be lobbying for the bill; not the politicians, who were pretty much unanimously in favor of it; and not the companies, who had all but given up trying to stop it and decided it was inevitable. It was really stopped by the people, the people themselves. They killed the bill dead, so dead that when members of Congress propose something now that even touches the Internet, they have to give a long speech beforehand about how it is definitely not like SOPA; so dead that when you ask congressional staffers about it, they groan and shake their heads like it’s all a bad dream they’re trying really hard to forget; so dead that it’s kind of hard to believe this story, hard to remember how close it all came to actually passing, hard to remember how this could have gone any other way. But it wasn’t a dream or a nightmare; it was all very real.
And it will happen again. Sure, it will have yet another name, and maybe a different excuse, and probably do its damage in a different way. But make no mistake: The enemies of the freedom to connect have not disappeared. The fire in those politicians’ eyes hasn’t been put out. There are a lot of people, a lot of powerful people, who want to clamp down on the Internet. And to be honest, there aren’t a whole lot who have a vested interest in protecting it from all of that. Even some of the biggest companies, some of the biggest Internet companies, to put it frankly, would benefit from a world in which their little competitors could get censored. We can’t let that happen.
Freedom to Connect speech (2012)
“Red sails in the sunset,
Way out on the sea,
Oh carry my loved one
Home safely to me.”
Jimmy Kennedy (1902–1984) Irish songwriter
Song Red Sails in the Sunset
Song lyrics
“Sky, not spirit, do they change, those who cross the sea.”
Caelum, non animum mutant, qui trans mare currunt.
Book I, epistle xi, line 27
Epistles (c. 20 BC and 14 BC)