“I will not shut me from my kind,/ And, lest I stiffen into stone,/ I will not eat my heart alone,/ Nor feed with sighs a passing wind:/”
Alfred Lord Tennyson “In Memoriam” CVIII
My talk to the Dec. 11 Canadian Association for Equality “Momentum” conference, on the subject of politics being downstream from culture, is now available here (as is the entire conference). And if you’re thinking I haven’t learned much about Zoom setup in the last two years, well, the results speak for themselves… unfortunately.
“‘God’s in his heaven, all’s right with the world,’ whispered Anne softly.”
The end of Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables
In my latest Epoch Times column I mock the “Karen meets Marley” tale of people buying themselves an $825 Chanel advent calendar then ranting against it online.
“Keep a stiff upper chin.”
Sam Goldwyn, quoted in Gilbert! magazine Vol. 4 #8 (July/August 2001)
“He blunted us because he had no shape … he never did things by halves he could do by quarters.”
F.R. Scott, law professor, social democrat and poet, in a verse on William Lyon Mackenzie King after his death in 1950, quoted by David Bercuson and Barry Cooper in National Post December 28, 2001
In my latest National Post column I say the great, and terrible, thing about capitalism is that what you find in stores is what we vote for with our dollars.
“He wore… clothes that looked like what starts fires in old warehouses.”
Spider Robinson Time Travellers Strictly Cash