“Did the gods once mingle with humankind, or is Homer a visionary madman, or, what is worse, a mere poet, a maker-up of beautiful falsities, an elegant liar? I shall grapple with that perplexity, only to emerge as I went in, in a cloud of unknowing, if perhaps a little the wiser.” IfsLittlesBeautifulPoetMereCloudsLiarsMakersHumankindWiserElegantVisionariesMadmenPerplexityFalsityUnknowing Book:Homeric Moments: Clues to Delight in Reading the Odyssey and the Iliad Source: Homeric Moments: Clues to Delight in Reading the Odyssey and the Iliad
“You will be educated, which means that you will be interested where others are bored, that you will notice unities where others experience randomness, and that you will intend meanings where others are just spouting words. For exactly that is supposed to be the result of becoming literate: The world becomes a thick texture of significance that you know how to “access.” KnowsWorldMeanResultsKnow HowBecomingUnityAccessEducatedSupposed To BeBoredSignificanceThickTextureRandomness Author:Eva Brann
“A gentleman is someone who never gives offense unintentionally.” GivingGentlemanOffense Author:Eva Brann
