Your Quote of the Day

I will do, I've made the bonfire, and I've got a lot of fireworks, no guy though, I can't be bothered. If I was going to do a guy it would be John Terry, I can't think of a more deserving hate figure right now. It's 2.14 over here, it gets dark around 5pm, so that's when I'll be engaging in pyrotechnics.

By heck George you are one sentimental old cove. Most people would demonstrate what memories they own unconsciously and would never dream of discussing them as a psychological concept.

One senses that wistfulness welling up stemming, I think, from a combination of melancholy nostalgia at lost youth and innocence and at the contemplation of one's poetic excellences. It's essentially narcissistic and the old Greek myth says to shun that.

Proust gives you the memories he had so brilliantly that it's easy to imagine they are one's own. Perhaps Mr Mercer was in his own early autumn.

It's on one side in the great literary battle between the Romantics and the Realists who will probably wait until the teaching of evolution in schools has become taken for granted to show what they are really made of.

It was the Realist school which insisted that the Can-Can girls go knickerless on the grounds that the knickers were a cop out. And they got their way, France being a hot-bed of philosophical discussion at the time and the knickers being seen as religious interference in full and free expression.

But, alas some might sigh, it was only a 1st quarter field goal and the cops mopped it up after one night. I've often wondered whether Mr Coppola had the tale in mind when he created that marvellous scene with the touring party entertaining the troops where one of the dancers wafts, or fans, her short skirt at the front row. No wonder he went over budget.

I think that a more gradual approach is now being taken. A micro-millimetre at a time.

Have you thought of writing verses for Valentine cards?

I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities.

Dr. Seuss

“Every reader, as he reads, is actually the reader of himself. The writer's work is only a kind of optical instrument he provides the reader so he can discern what he might never have seen in himself without this book. The reader's recognition in himself of what the book says is the proof of the book's truth.”
― Marcel Proust

ah, George, once again you and I are connection. Love Johnny Mercer.

Teach me half the gladness
That thy brain must know;
Such harmonious madness
From my lips would flow,
The world should listen then, as I am listening now.

Shelly,to a skylark

I love it.

Big Scary Ugly Dirty Rats
They’re everywhere—but they always were.
By Mark Jacobson Published Oct 30, 2011
http://nymag.com/news/features/rats-2011-11/

Make-up is the beginning of disguise.

Said by a character in the book Witch Hunt by Ian Rankin (writing as Jack Harvey)

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.

Leo Tolstoy

“The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore.”
― Vincent van Gogh

“Anyone who is willing to work and is serious about it will certainly find a job. Only you must not go to the man who tells you this, for he has no job to offer and doesn't know anyone who knows of a vacancy. This is exactly the reason why he gives you such generous advice, out of brotherly love, and to demonstrate how little he knows the world.”
― B. Traven, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

That's a bit disingenuous ed. The word "work" and the word "job" in the first sentence are not necessarily carrying the same meaning as the word "vacancy".

I think the first sentence is perfectly legitimate and demonstrates a clear understanding of the world. It is certainly not generous advice though.

Dear future generations: Please accept our apologies. We were rolling drunk on petroleum.
~ Kurt Vonnegut

The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool.

Stephen King

"It doesn't exist, America. It's a name you give to an abstract idea."

Tropic of Cancer.

What a neat fit with BBB's QotD.

Fred C Dobbs likely saw the wisdom, if you didn't.

Well then, explain what Mr Dobbs saw that I didn't. Just saying he did is not very helpful or even meaningful.

I am not sure what it is with which you quibble, spendi. The man ventured, with a poet's license, to call it a vacancy. We both know he meant a job in need of being filled.

I think that anybody willing to work and is serious about it will certainly find a job. I don't think anybody saying that has demonstrated how little he knows about the world. And I gave an illustration on your own "I Think" thread quoting from your own post.

I'm not convinced that poetic licence is fitted for economic categories. And you have given no explanation of why Mr Dobbs saw the wisdom in the piece, and I have missed it, as I asked you to do.

If you have read Treasure of the Sierra Madre, you saw Dobbs in his predicament that spawned the statement penned by Traven. If not, you could argue the point to infinitude.