“Mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa”
Through my fault, through my fault, through my most grievous fault.
One More Thing
On the Renaissance – Orson Wells
“You know what the fellow said – in Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, they had five hundred years of democracy and peace – and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock.”
Orson Wells
Thinks . . . David Lodge
“Spoonfuls of distilled boredom…”
David Lodge
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Every spirit builds itself a house; and beyond its house, a world; and beyond its world a heaven. Know then, that the world exists for you: build, therefore, your own world.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
This is America, Man
If Snotboogie always stole the money, why’d you let him play?
The Wire
Got to. This America, man.
Epicurus
It is vein to ask from the gods what a man can do for himself.
Epicurus