“What is even more difficult than failure is when you are perceived as a ‘success’ and you are failing,” (post)

“The actual film has a lot of problems — its grasp repeatedly exceeds its reach. But it’s in the text of the film that this is good and necessary, that we need to try more things and be less paralyzed by fear of failure. That as a society we cannot collapse into a choice between stasis and mindless populism. That we ought to try audacious, difficult, bizarre things. …“

Notre amour-propre souffre plus impatiemment la condamnation de nos goûts que de nos opinions.

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Our self love suffers more impatiently the condemnation of our tastes than of our opinions.

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ngrams of the trendy word resiliency.

Spent an incredible three days in NYC in August recording tunes with my former music buddies, just so happy to have been in their company. We didn’t finish anything but have posted some notable rough mixes:

SPOTIFY: Presence of Senescence, The Meter’s Running. YOUTUBE: Presence of Senescence, The Meter’s Running

Quite like the phenomenon of checking your watch to see how much time has elapsed and not knowing what time it is is the phenomenon of looking at the street sign for Idaho Street time and again and never thinking of the State of Idaho — yet which today I have done.

I was looking through U.S. history in 1981 and 1982 to understand why the term “savage cuts” might have peaked around then. Interesting to wade again through this history of one’s early lifetime.

Ngrams: savage cuts… Feel like I hear this used to describe proposed cuts to Medicaid and Medicare a lot — “savage cuts.”

Savage comes from Latin Sylva — woods.

Just as I thought: “conflate” has really been enjoying an upsurge in recent decades. Came across it twice in the media yesterday.

ὄγδοος ( -η, -ον )– eighth . . .ἐν ὀγδόῳ τούτῳ συγγράμματι τὰ καθ᾿ ἡμᾶς αὐτούς [*]

olla podrida: a hodgepodge.

quite a sentence:

And coming on the smithy of Hephaistos he snatched a child and setting him on his shoulders ordered him to lead him toward the east.

ὁ δὲ ἐπὶ τὸ Ἡφαίστου χαλκεῖον ἐλθὼν καὶ ἁρπάσας παῖδα ἕνα, ἐπὶ τῶν ὤμων ἐπιθέμενος ἐκέλευσε ποδηγεῖν πρὸς τὰς ἀνατολάς.

In the next sentence Orion “completely heals his blindness by staring into the rays of the sun.”

Interesting story about Athena alluded to in Apollodorus. How she threw away the pipes of Marysas on seeing how they disfigured her face — puffed out her cheeks — when she played them.

Phenomenon of checking your watch repeatedly over short intervals to see how much time has elapsed and yet you still don’t know what time it is.

Unfamiliar with “cussed” as an adjective. Post: “The curators present enough evidence, some 125 paintings, sculptures and works on paper, to give eccentric and cussed visitors permission to prefer the old style, even if they are loath to admit it in respectable company.”

L’amour-propre est le plus grand de tous les flatteurs.

Self love is the greatest of all flatterers.[*]

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was you ever bit by a dead bee … maybe getting that now. Meaning (but a little more complicated than this) — did you ever have really really bad luck?

you don’t give a hoop what I do but when I do it you get sore

you know you don’t have to act with me. you don’t have to say anything or do anything.

the joke that niether of us knows the answer to: whether you’re going to hold together or not.

you almost figured me right, mama, except I still owe you that bill.

Seems that “tow” (the fiber) can be pronounced either like “toe,” the appendage of the foot, or like “tau,” the Ancient Greek letter.