“Thus he prayed, and Phoebus Apollo heard him, and set out from the heights of Olympus, rage in his heart, with his bow on his shoulders and his hooded quiver; the arrows clattered on his shoulders as he raged, as the god himself moved; and he came like the night. Then far from the ships he crouched, and let loose an arrow – and terrible was the ring of his silver bow.” Mythology Book:The Iliad Source: The Iliad
“Priam and Achilles meet in the very twilight of their lives. Their extinction is certain and there will be no reward for behaving well, and yet, in the face of implacable fate and an indifferent universe, they mutually assert the highest ideals of their humanity.” IntegrityEpicHomer Book:The War That Killed Achilles: The True Story of Homer's Iliad and the Trojan War Source: The War That Killed Achilles: The True Story of Homer's Iliad and the Trojan War
“The passion for exploration and discovery, the hunger to learn all things about all aspects of the physical world, the great and preposterous optimism that held that such truths were in fact discoverable, its dazzling sophistication and its occasional startling innocence; an age in which geographical and scientific discoveries surpassed anything previously dreamt of, and yet an age in which it was still, just barely, possible to believe in mermaids and unicorns - these remarkable traits so characterized the British 18th century” WorldBelieveStillsFactsAgePassionCenturyDiscoveryAspectAll ThingsOptimismHungerBritishInnocenceRemarkableExplorationTraitsBelieve In MeOccasionalUnicornSophisticationMermaidDazzling18th CenturyScientific Discovery Author:Caroline Alexander
“Each pattern describes a problem which occurs over and over again in our environment, and then describes the core of the solution to that problem, in such a way that you can use this solution a million times over, without ever doing it in the same way twice.” WayUseProblemMillionsLearningEnvironmentSolutionsPatternsCoreProgrammingOur Environment Author:Caroline Alexander
