Wise Words

From a woman I foolishly dismissed without reading carefully enough:

“Whatever you do, don’t misuse what you believe so that it gets in the way of the truth. That’s so easy to do, especially when so much around us encourages us to.” - Susan Sontag

I didn't see her piece on the World Trade Center. Frankly, I was too numb to notice such things at the time, and it wouldn't have helped me much to realize that others were thinking the thoughts that started to come to me on my long walk home.

I guess her own long walk home is over, and she is discussing her differences with Professor Davenport. Spiritedly.

Again, thanks to supergee for noticing this; I don't read the NCR, even on line. Or the similarly acronymed Register, either.

How well I remember Iolanthe

For reasons with which, alas (a lass) I shall not here trouble you. But the good Fred Reed has today put me in mind of the good Private Willis in the opening number of Act II:

Scene.--Palace Yard, Westminster. ( Read more... )

(Enter Fairies, with Celia, Leila, and Fleta. They trip round stage.)

But don't take the sentry's word for it. Here's Fred, with a little to offend everybody. Women and men in particular.