“The most tragic error into which older people can fall is one that is common among educators and politicians. It is to use youth as scapegoats for the sins of their elders.”
― Shirley Chisholm, Unbought and Unbossed, 1970
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“Pieta,” Franz von Stuck, 1891
“All the million miles of deserts and of griefs beneath the moon.”
Nevertheless the sun hides not Virginia’s Dismal Swamp, nor Rome’s accursed Campagna, nor wide Sahara, nor all the million miles of deserts and of griefs beneath the moon. The sun hides not the ocean, which is the dark side of this earth, and which is two thirds of this earth. So, therefore, that mortal man who hath more of joy than sorrow in him, that mortal man cannot be true — not true, or undeveloped.
from Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick, 1851
Cover to “Batgirl” #23, Joshua Middleton, 2018
Variant. DC Comics.
“It is incomprehensible to me, the fear that can affect men in political offices.”
“It is incomprehensible to me, the fear that can affect men in political offices. It is shocking the way they submit to forces they know are wrong and fail to stand up for what they believe. Can their jobs be so important to them, their prestige, their power, their privileges so important that they will cooperate in the degradation of our society just to hang on to those jobs?”
― Shirley Chisholm, Unbought and Unbossed
Hop on Pop.
You know you live in the South when your neighbor keeps going on about Moon Pies.
Dude likes his Moon Pies.
I haven’t heard “pop” substituted for “soda” yet, though.
“Petit Bleu, le Dernier Loup du Menez-Hom, Capturé le 23 Janvier, 1903”
“Petit Bleu, the last wolf of the Menez-Hom, captured on January 23, 1903.” Le Journal du Dimanche.
“Nothing shows a man’s character more than what he laughs at.”
“Nothing shows a man’s character more than what he laughs at.”
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Illustration by Gustave Dore for John Milton’s “Paradise Lost,” 1866
“Satan Talks to the Council of Hell.” Engraving.
“All those malicious agencies which some deep men feel eating them …”
“The White Whale swam before him as the monomaniac incarnation of all those malicious agencies which some deep men feel eating them, till they are left living with half a heart and half a lung.”
― Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick, 1851
On board the ship `Garthsnaid’ at sea. Circa 1920.
Eric Robert Nolan, Author 