The binding was weak. The pages brittle after decades of the paper dehidrating. Fragments of the text were missing: corners of many pages had been torn out. The imprimatur said 1903.
What once was a catalyst of transcendence had now become a mere exhibition piece.
Introibo ad altare Dei.
But the book would experience rebirth some time soon.
The book was not the binding nor the pages. But the ideas within, and those could be re-written.
What once was a catalyst of transcendence had now become a mere exhibition piece.
Introibo ad altare Dei.
But the book would experience rebirth some time soon.
The book was not the binding nor the pages. But the ideas within, and those could be re-written.
Retirado en la paz de estos desiertos,
con pocos, pero doctos libros juntos,
vivo en conversación con los difuntos,
y escucho con mis ojos a los muertos.
Si no siempre entendidos, siempre abiertos,
o enmiendan, o fecundan mis asuntos;
y en músicos callados contrapuntos
al sueño de la vida hablan despiertos.
Las grandes almas que la muerte ausenta,
de injurias de los años vengadora,
libra, ¡oh gran don Joseph!, docta la imprenta.
En fuga irrevocable huye la hora;
pero aquélla el mejor cálculo cuenta,
que en la lección y estudios nos mejora.
Francisco de Quevedo y Villegas
con pocos, pero doctos libros juntos,
vivo en conversación con los difuntos,
y escucho con mis ojos a los muertos.
Si no siempre entendidos, siempre abiertos,
o enmiendan, o fecundan mis asuntos;
y en músicos callados contrapuntos
al sueño de la vida hablan despiertos.
Las grandes almas que la muerte ausenta,
de injurias de los años vengadora,
libra, ¡oh gran don Joseph!, docta la imprenta.
En fuga irrevocable huye la hora;
pero aquélla el mejor cálculo cuenta,
que en la lección y estudios nos mejora.
Francisco de Quevedo y Villegas
It is better to be invited to herbs with love, than to a fatted calf with hatred.
—Proverbs 15:17
—Proverbs 15:17
Some resist the future,
some refuse the past.
Either way, it's messed up
if we can't unplug the fact
that a world covered in cables
was never wired to last.
So don't act so surprised
when the program starts to crash.
some refuse the past.
Either way, it's messed up
if we can't unplug the fact
that a world covered in cables
was never wired to last.
So don't act so surprised
when the program starts to crash.
Forwarded from Rise of the Right - Speaker for the Dead / Fash Stash
tl;dr
Historically, whenever there is any deviation in terms of sexual morality in a culture from virgin at marriage and till death do us part, IE, a sexual revolution or liberation especially one that promotes the promiscuity of women, within three generations a culture collapses.
https://www.kirkdurston.com/blog/unwin
Historically, whenever there is any deviation in terms of sexual morality in a culture from virgin at marriage and till death do us part, IE, a sexual revolution or liberation especially one that promotes the promiscuity of women, within three generations a culture collapses.
https://www.kirkdurston.com/blog/unwin
Quest
J.D. Unwin and Why Sexual Morality May be Far More Important than You Ever Thought — Quest
Oxford social anthropologist J.D. Unwin discovered that when a highly developed culture undergoes an increase in sexual freedom, a collapse of that culture follows within three generations. The historical data reveals this pattern with “monotonous” regularity.