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I will participate in the game. It is a wonderful, wonderful opera – except that it hurts.

The myth is not my own; I have it from my mother. Euripides

You changed the definition of a myth from the search for meaning to the experience of meaning. CAMPBELL: Experience of life.

Yahweh—a jealous god, who would hold men to himself and who turned mankind away from the Tree of Immortality, instead of leading us to it. Such a god in the Orient would be regarded as a deluding idol.

And so the impulses of nature are what give authenticity to life, not obeying rules come from a supernatural authority, that's the sense of the Grail.

The second is a cosmological dimension, the dimension with which science is concerned—showing you what the shape of the universe is, but showing it in such a way that the mystery again comes through.

Marshall McLuhan was right when he said that television has made a global village of the world—but he didn't know the global village would be Beirut.

The mechanically induced mystical experience is what you have there.

A quotation is a handy thing to have about, saving one the trouble of thinking for oneself, always a laborious business.

When we asked Pooh what the opposite of an Introduction was, he said "The what of a what?" which didn't help us as much as we had hoped, but luckily Owl kept his head and told us that the Opposite of an Introduction, my dear Pooh, was a Contradiction; and, as he is very good at long words, I am sure that that's what it is.

breaking of the celebratory mood. For George Kearns, one of the most perceptive of Pound's readers

And malt does more than Milton can To justify God's ways to man.

the quiet degradation of the human soul is more horrible than all the barricades and slaughter in the world.

Do these robots looked armed? And I was talking to the dinosaur. Were you worried he would discuss me to death?

in a moment of indulgence, I'd had my face carved in Mount Rushmore, so I wasn't one to judge.

Probably all the attention to poetry results in some value, though the attention is more often directed to lesser than to greater values.

Indeed, it was the conviction of some divines that God created night as proof of hell's existence.

Wilson introduced Daylight Saving Time to America, which created an extra hour of farm work every day

Until the mid-1900s no distinction was made between the two.

It's only the beginning. Chase me if you like. Perhaps, if you remain interesting, I'll even let you catch me.

Walden, which is a diary that oscillates between eye-rolling minute tedium and laughable hyperbole, with sections of profound whimsy and social condescension.

a tax on salt cod that precipitated the War of Independence.

The one nation America has seemed to gain something of a special relationship with is Israel, the sliver of the Middle East that has no oil and little strategic importance.

There is only a sparse handful of exceedingly rich countries that could begin to afford to maintain the bulimically wasteful expense of an American democracy.