"Stuff is eaten by dogs, broken by family and friends, sanded down by the wind, frozen by the mountains, lost by the prairie, burnt off by the sun, washed away by the rain. So you are left with dogs, family, friends, sun, rain, wind, prairie and mountains. What more do you want?" Federico Calboli
Tuesday, July 26, 2005
Human Nature
I promise to snap out of this mood sooner than later, but I believe in celebrating the bracing effects of gloom as well as the good things. In that spirit, a quote from Rose Nunez at No Credentials: "What history really teaches is that people are indeed nasty; that Hobbes was righter than Rousseau, and the William Golding's vision of childhood is truer than Dr. Spock's".
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