It is not in the nature of politics that the best men should be elected. The best men do not want to govern their fellowmen.
— George MacDonald, born in 18244th Estate will publish the "hopeful, humorous and moving" memoir from the Times columnist Melanie Reid.
In her fiction, Jenny Diski preferred self-concealment to baring her soul. Yet her life was her material, and, in the end, she was her writing
Virtually as soon as humans developed the ability to speak and write, somebody somewhere felt the desire to say something to somebody else that could not be understood by others
Noticed this weekend in Chateuabriand's memoirs:
Daniel Halévy's The End of the Notables ends, as I recall, with the refusal in 1871 of the titular Henry V to accept the throne of France unless the tricolor were replaced with the Bourbon lily. Halévy observes that this refusal had no relation to the essentially realistic approach of the French kings; he refers to Henry V as a nostalgist, a reader of Chateaubriand. Certainly Henry V was a nostalgist, and certainly Chateaubriand knew how to sound the nostalgic note; but from all that I can tell, Chateaubriand was far more realistic than that.
Incompetence is a freemasonry that has its lodges in every country; and this brotherhood has dungeons of which it springs the trap doors, and in which it causes governments to disappear.Chateaubriand had just been visiting the court of exiled Bourbons in Prague, and the grand master of this lodge may have been the Baron de Damas or the Prince de Polignac.
Daniel Halévy's The End of the Notables ends, as I recall, with the refusal in 1871 of the titular Henry V to accept the throne of France unless the tricolor were replaced with the Bourbon lily. Halévy observes that this refusal had no relation to the essentially realistic approach of the French kings; he refers to Henry V as a nostalgist, a reader of Chateaubriand. Certainly Henry V was a nostalgist, and certainly Chateaubriand knew how to sound the nostalgic note; but from all that I can tell, Chateaubriand was far more realistic than that.
‘Game Of Thrones’ Tourists Are Devouring Dubrovnik…
"Since 2011, when the show first premiered on HBO, tourism in Dubrovnik has seen an increase of 9 to 12 percent annually" - with numbers up to 10,000 or more a day, over 1 million a year in a town of 43,000 people. "While the show's notoriety is good news for Dubrovnik's economy, 80 percent of which relies on tourism, UNESCO has warned that Old Town Dubrovnik, a World Heritage Site, cannot accommodate this crush of newcomers. Some residents have had enough, too." … [Read More]
The Neuroscience Of Changing Your Mind
"Scientists have long accepted that our ability to abruptly stop or modify a planned behavior is controlled via a single region within the brain's prefrontal cortex, an area involved in planning and other higher mental functions." Now it seems that this consensus among scientists was, if not wrong, greatly oversimplified. … [Read More]
Here’s What Science Fiction Written By Artificial Intelligence Looks Like
Their program can identify dozens of structural and stylistic details in huge chunks of text, and if you give them a collection of great stories—stories that maybe you wished you had written—they are able to identify all the details that those great stories have in common.
Although reason for link remains unclear, data suggests extra care is needed when riding on nights with a full moon ...
“The robbed that smiles, steals something from the thief.
Those that rob you of things, be they material items, love or kindness, expect chaos to consume you; they expect you to be upset and they don’t often care. Though if you are robbed of anything, smile and go about your life as normally as you can. This way you are not letting the thief steal your happiness as well.
“When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.”
When it rains it pours.
“How sharper than a serpent’s tooth it is to have a thankless child!” – William Shakespeare
Parents do a lot for their children, and would die for them. To have a child that is thankless is truly painful like the bite of snake.
Malchkeon loved Charleville a place that missed its 150th anniversary by 3 years - we also loved the Observatory
“Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.” – William Shakespeare
Top 4 Media Trends in the Film Industry – Latest Blog on Significant ...
YOU CAN’T TRUST THE MEDIA: Layers Of Deceit: Why do recipe writers lie and lie and lie about how long it takes to caramelize onions?
Vegetarian sausages found to be just as unhealthy as meat sausagesMetro. Healthy sausages, military intelligence, darkness visible…
‘The Shed at Dulwich’ was London’s top-rated restaurant. Just one problem: It didn’t exist. WaPo. Awesome japery.
21ST CENTURY RELATIONSHIPS: The ‘Wandering Eye’ is Just Part of Human Anatomy
ANSWERING THE IMPORTANT QUESTIONS: Should You Pee on Your Lawn?
FOR THE TIMES, THEY ARE ACHANGING: It is No Longer the “Normal World” of Publishing.