And I don't use hairspray either. Even though I could probably do w/ it, b/c my wife hasn't cut my hair in over a month. Definitely shaggy. Which fits me.
I noticed the quote. I have a new love quote. It's from Aristotle's Metaphysics. Metaphysics is basically Aristotle's theology. It is, as he puts it, about First Causes -- the Eternal, the Unmoved Mover, that stuff. McKeon translates one line b/c he likes the way he reads it:
"The final cause, then, produces motion by being loved, and by that which it moves, it moves all other things."
This means, of course, God moves b/c of love, and in love God moves all things. Rather nice thought, that.
A piece of idiocy.
On the sly, I'm writing a fanfic which I may or may not show anyone outside of a new community, b/c I'm trying a bunch of new things, and I'm not sure if I'm going to get away with it. It's based around a quasi-Victorian translation of a Greek pre-socratic philosopher, Empedocles, and entitled, "Be sifted through thy soul," from a larger Empedocles quote (his work survives in about 100 fragments),
Yet know the pledges that our Muse will urge When once her words be sifted through thy soul.
Anyway, he was the first philosopher to state that the world was made of four basic elements -- fire, air, water and earth. And he believed there were two eternal forces: love and hate/strife. Love brings everything together, hate or strife drives them apart. I quote:
I will report a twofold truth: Now grows The One from Many into Being, now Even from the One disparting comes the many -- Fire, Water, Earth and awful heights of Air....
Whiles into One do all through Love unite, Whiles, too, the same are rent through Hate and Strife.
One chapter for each element, plus for love, one for hate, and two for strife. And I'm trying to make it an action-romance -- about as far from Getting Harry Back as possible. Giving my brain a rest, and my other beta's are backed up anyway.
For us, it's hot here, too. Got to almost 80 today (F), which is, perhaps, 25 C, I think. We don't have air conditioning, b/c it's so rarely needed.
I noticed the quote. I have a new love quote. It's from Aristotle's Metaphysics. Metaphysics is basically Aristotle's theology. It is, as he puts it, about First Causes -- the Eternal, the Unmoved Mover, that stuff. McKeon translates one line b/c he likes the way he reads it:
"The final cause, then, produces motion by being loved, and by that which it moves, it moves all other things."
This means, of course, God moves b/c of love, and in love God moves all things. Rather nice thought, that.
A piece of idiocy.
On the sly, I'm writing a fanfic which I may or may not show anyone outside of a new community, b/c I'm trying a bunch of new things, and I'm not sure if I'm going to get away with it. It's based around a quasi-Victorian translation of a Greek pre-socratic philosopher, Empedocles, and entitled, "Be sifted through thy soul," from a larger Empedocles quote (his work survives in about 100 fragments),
Yet know the pledges that our Muse will urge
When once her words be sifted through thy soul.
Anyway, he was the first philosopher to state that the world was made of four basic elements -- fire, air, water and earth. And he believed there were two eternal forces: love and hate/strife. Love brings everything together, hate or strife drives them apart. I quote:
I will report a twofold truth: Now grows
The One from Many into Being, now
Even from the One disparting comes the many --
Fire, Water, Earth and awful heights of Air....
Whiles into One do all through Love unite,
Whiles, too, the same are rent through Hate and Strife.
One chapter for each element, plus for love, one for hate, and two for strife. And I'm trying to make it an action-romance -- about as far from Getting Harry Back as possible. Giving my brain a rest, and my other beta's are backed up anyway.
For us, it's hot here, too. Got to almost 80 today (F), which is, perhaps, 25 C, I think. We don't have air conditioning, b/c it's so rarely needed.
Hope things go well.
Much love,
avus
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