Your Quote of the Day

It's not a difficulty wande. So it can't be labouring under it. It's actually the opposite of a difficulty considering how few amenities human beings had, compared to your's. say, before they discovered the sensuous pleasure of words. A sixth sense so to say. The real Missing Link. Story telling. It was entertainment. Like we go to the movies. Or used to do before they fell off a cliff. They couldn't all spend their time fashioning Vitgin figurines out of lumps of oolitic limestone tinted with red ochre picked up on long wanderings. They took too much patience and derdication.

Which suggests that Mr Stace's thought and expression produces no sensuous feelings for him Which means he has no idea.

My guess is that he came to the written word from a family of distinction. And your fawning on him to the extent you have, quoting him penning a cliche for goodness sake, suggests a laudable deference to authority despite your liberal views.

I quoted Stendhal earlier. One might open Stendhal at any page and it is plain that sensuous pleasure in thoughts and expression was his main pre-occupation. Especially latterly. There are others of course.

The origin, dare I say, and subsequent development of that pleasure, is the dynamic of western Christian civilisation for better or for worse until death us do part.

"It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues."
Abraham Lincoln

We don't need a melting pot in this country, folks. We need a salad bowl. In a salad bowl, you put in the different things. You want the vegetables - the lettuce, the cucumbers, the onions, the green peppers - to maintain their identity. You appreciate differences.
Jane Elliot

The worst solitude is to be destitute of sincere friendship.

Sir Francis Bacon

"I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in."

"The highest patriotism is not a blind acceptance of official policy, but a love of one's country deep enough to call her to a higher plane."

~George McGovern
July 19, 1922 – October 21, 2012

I wonder which plane/plain George actually had in mind? Methinks the first, [plane] though the one in the quote would also work for me. There's not much that's as beautiful as a high plain, unless it's a high plain surrounded by towering peaks.

Even the low plain is a magnificent beauty to behold.

Fixed now!
That's what happens when you cut & paste quotes w/out checking the spelling.

A hundred pardons, George!

But you can see how, in this situation, both would work, right, MsO?

Well, perhaps ...
But of course I'd much prefer to quote him accurately!

Look for something, find something else, and realize that what you've found is more suited to your needs than what you thought you were looking for.

Lawrence Block

“I once asked an old Japanese man why Japan decided to team up with Germany during WWII, and do you know what he told me? Well, you would if you speak Japanese, which I don’t.”
― Jarod Kintz, This is the story my great-grandfather told my father, who then told my grandfather, who then told me about how The Mythical Mr. Boo, Charles Manseur Fizzlebush Grissham III, better known as Mr. Fizzlebush, and Orafoura are all in fact me...

That's very true in busy pubs on a Friday night.

As it was a quote, one can never be absolutely sure of what plain/plane he spoke.

“It is a damn poor mind indeed which can't think of at least two ways to spell any word.”
Andrew Jackson

"Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye."
H. Jackson Brown Jr.

That points to AJ being a shitty speller.

...in addition to being the first truly despicable president we had the bad taste (and sense) to elect.

You're much older than I thought you were, Merry.

“I've got nothing to do today but smile.”
― Simon and Garfunkel

What a sentimental platitude that is ed.