March 19, 2023 

Quote for Today

"My task which I am trying to achieve is by the power of the written word, to make you hear, to make you feel - it is, before all, to make you see.  That - and no more, and it is everything."

Joseph Conrad (1857-1924)

The Nigger of the Narcissus (1897) preface.

 March 19, 2023

 March 18, 2023

Reflection

 March 18, 2023

Quote for Today

"When they begin the Beguine

It brings back the music  so tender,

It brings back a night of tropical splendour.

It brings back a memory ever green."

Cole Porter  (1891-164)

Begin the Beguine (1935 Song)

 March 17, 2023

Reflection

March 17, 2023

Quote for Today 

"The internet is an elite organization: most of the population of the world has never even made a phone call."

Noam Chomsky on the limitations 

of the World Wide Web, 

in Observer  Feb. 18, 1996

 March 16, 2023

Quote for Today

"To be enslaved to oneself is the heaviest of all servitudes."

Seneca