“The embrace of present and past time, in which English antiquarianism becomes a form of alchemy, engenders a strange timelessness. It is as if the little bird which flew through the Anglo-Saxon banqueting hall, in Bede's Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum, gained the outer air and became the lark ascending in Vaughan Williams's orchestral setting. The unbroken chain is that of English music itself.” IfsLittlesPastFormAirStrangeBirdEmbraceSettingSettingsChainsHallsFlewAlchemyUnbrokenTimelessnessLarksAscendingAnglo SaxonEnglish Music Author:Peter Ackroyd
“Maybe more climate activists will think about the climate change not as an international problem to be resolved in an air-conditioned meeting hall, but as a guerilla war to be fought in the streets.” ThinkingWarProblemAirStreetsMeetingsClimateClimate ChangeInternationalHallsActivist Author:Jeff Goodell
“The philosopher stands at his desk in the lecture hall, and demonstrates away the soul of man, and with exact thought measures out his atoms and resolves him back to gas and air. But the revolutionary, below in the crowd, hears, and only translates what he hears thus to his brethren: 'Let us drink while we may; property is robbery; this life is all; let us kill and eat; there is no God.” MenMaySoulLife IsAirDrinkPropertyPhilosopherCrowdsThis LifeRevolutionaryGasResolveHallsAtomsTranslateDesksLecturesThere Is No GodBrethrenRobbery Book:A village commune. Idalia. Silver chimes and golden fetters. Source: A village commune. Idalia. Silver chimes and golden fetters.
“Walking into the great hall for the first time was absolutely incredible - all these effects with all the candles floating in the air, all lit and everything, food on the table, all the flambeaus were lit - it was just incredible, it was the most amazing thing I've ever seen in my life.” FirstsAirEffectsWalkingFirst TimeTablesIncrediblesHallsCandleFloatingLitAmazing ThingsMost Amazing Author:Rupert Grint