Wikipedia Hamlet: I'll have these players Play something like the murder of my father Before mine uncle: I'll observe his looks; I'll tent him to the quick: if he but blench, I know my course. The spirit that I have seen May be the devil: and the devil hath power To assume a pleasing shape; yea, and perhaps Out of my weakness and my melancholy, As he is very potent with such spirits, Abuses me to damn me: I'll have grounds More relative than this: the play's the thing Wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king. - Hamlet Act II Scene II For those of us tilted enough to blog, we must live with the possibility that what we blog about may very well reveal more about ourselves than our intended subject. Viewed through such a lens, it is easy to understand why certain subjects appear at certain blogs. Bloggers play to their strengths. Why wouldn't they/we? Occasionally, some more than others, they risk offerings that stretch the limits of their comprehension an
E.H. Shepard, For a long time they looked at the river beneath them from The House at Pooh Corner. (Sotheby's London) On Wednesday, when the sky is blue, and I have nothing else to do, I sometimes wonder if it's true That who is what and what is who. - Winnie-the-Pooh (A.A. Milne) It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows. - Epictetus Those who make some other person their job... are dangerous. - Dorothy L. Sayers We know what we are, but not what we may be . - William Shakespeare Don't worry about being effective. Just concentrate on being faithful to the truth. - Dorothy Day Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel. - G.K. Chesterton First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do . - Epictetus The only ethical principle which has made science possible is that the truth shall be told all the time. If we do not penalize false statements made in error, we open up the way