Not only kids, primitives, and southern women love bright colours-war does too.---Taussig, What Color is the Sacred?
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Extremely idle, extremely independent, both by nature and by art. He was ruled by 'freedom and laziness.'
---Sarah Bakewell on Montaigne.
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Free spirited people [are perfectly satisfied] with a minor position or a fortune that just meets their needs; for they will set themselves up in a way to live that a great change in economic conditions, even a revolution in political structures, will not overturn their life with it.
---Nietzsche.
Music: well, could have been Pink Floyd's 'Us and Them' but I guess it has to be the great Louis.
2 comments:
The Niezsche quote is encouraging- especially in such straitened times as we live through.
Perhaps, also, you'll enjoy Hazlitt's praise of Montaigne, in the chapter headed Philosophise only by Accident:
'In taking up his pen he did not set up for a philosopher, wit, orator or moralist, but he became all these merely by daring to tell us whatever passed through his mind, in its naked simplicity and force.'
Don't you think M would have made a great Blogger?
Will ,look it up, C. I've only got a selection of Hazlitt's essays. Who was it who said the other day that his essays are too 'forced'-didactic, almost? will self? How was that collection of essays you read? zadie smith?
Will self wasn't too chuffed with the idea of Montaigne being a blogger but I've got to say that I think he'd be fantastic.
still, i'm not sure if blogging really gets a conversation going. I always struggle here. Well, perhaps the problem is more general since i struggle (a lot) talking over the phone when I know people who chat on it for hours!
Do you still write letters?
Hi! :-)
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