"O dear Pan and all the other gods of this place, grant that I may be beautiful inside. Let all my external possessions be in friendly harmony with what is within. May I consider the wise man rich. As for gold, let me have as much as a moderate man could bear and carry with him." -- Socrates, Phaedrus 279c ( Read more... )

"Sing with me!

The water is wide,
I cannot cross over
And neither have
I wings to fly
Build me a boat
That will carry two
And both shall roam
My love and I.

...What -- you didn't think I'd let you go without a song, did you?" - Ms. Seeger

"...you're not alone.
No one is alone. Truly.
No one is alone.
Sometimes people leave you
Halfway through the wood.
Others may deceive you.
You decide what's good.
You decide alone.
But no one is alone." -Sondheim, Into the Woods

"In the silence, the bear died. It was a cute death, with funny music. Ender turned around. Alai was already gone. Ender felt as if a part of himself had been taken away, an inward prop that was holding up his courage andhis confidence. With Alai, to a degree impossible even with Shen, Ender had come to feel a unity so strong that the word we came ( Read more... )

When I lay myself down to sleep tonight
I pray I might
Know why God has tempered judgment
Not with mercy
But with sorrow

Let the world forsake me
Let them do their worst, I will
Withstand it all
They will not break me

There is another world that watches us
I'm not afraid
The angels know when we have sinned
Or we have been betrayed.
--John ( Read more... )

"But if the perceptive potency is present, then so is that of appetite, for appetite consists of desire and spiritedness and wishing, while all animals have at least one of the senses, that of touch, and in that which sense perception is present there are also pleasure and pain, as well as pleasant and painful sensations, and where they are present ( Read more... )

My display adapter is on the fritz. It wasn't working this morning; the IT people helped me fix it, but told me to still call Apple while I still have my warranty. Oy. When am I going to be able to do that? [/rhetoric]

Open-ended question for the day: What does it mean to be someone's friend?

Gregory Maguire wrote a sequel to Wicked.

silvertsubasa and I were compiling a list of martial arts movie clichés, based on an admittedly small sample of the genre. All of the movies I've seen have been entertaining, fun and have gorgeous cinematography to boot, but seeing the same plot devices appear over and over again quickly became a source of much personal amusement. So we made a list ( Read more... )

So the Amazon page for the Heath translation of Euclid's Elements includes an editorial review from Bertrand Russell.

No, it doesn't take much to amuse me.