Five or nine times over in a night
the god exalted me and mine, and now
he comes one measly time from early dark
till dawn: I get it up a little, if
at all, and feel half dead. The god of thieves
pickpocketed the purse he used to fill,
leaving the useless part to me, and age,
and now he leads my soul toward hell.
What thou lovest well remains,
the rest is dross
What thou lov’st well shall not be reft from thee
What thou lov’st well is thy true heritage
Whose world, or mine or theirs
or is it of none?
First came the seen, then thus the palpable
Elysium, though it were in the halls of hell,
What thou lovest well is thy true heritage
What thou lov’st well shall not be reft from thee
SEVEN DEADLY SINS
Pride * Greed * Lust * Envy * Sloth * Anger * Gluttony
FOUR CARDINAL VIRTUES
Prudence * Justice * Temperance * Fortitude
SEVEN WONDERS OF THE ANCIENT WORLD
Pyramids of Giza
Hanging Gardens of Babylon
Temple of Artemis at Ephesus
Colossus of Rhodes
Statue of Zeus at Olympias
Lighthouse of Alexandria
Mausoleum at Halicarnassus
BIRTHSTONES
January: Garnet
February: Amethyst
March: Bloodstone
April: Diamond
May: Emerald
June: Pearl, Alexandrite
July: Ruby
August: Sardonyx, Agate
September: Sapphire
October: Opal
November: Topaz
December: Turquoise
is Enlightenment conflation of truth, language, clarity and moral integrity may have involved some questionable epistemology but politically speaking it is worth a lot more than the work of those whose contribution to the subversion of Western Reason is to write unintelligibly.
One should be cautious of those who loudly insist on cutting the crap and telling it like it is, just as one should beware of those who find things too exquisitely complex for definitive judgement.
Blest are they whose days have not tasted of evil. For when a house hath once been shaken from heaven, there the curse fails nevermore, passing from life to life of the race; even as, when the surge is driven over the darkness of the deep by the fierce breath of Thracian sea-winds, it rolls up the black sands front the depths, and there is sullen roar from wind-vexed headlands that from the blows of the storm.