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by Philip Booth (1925 – )
Old spirit, in and beyond me,
keep, and extend me. Amid strangers,
friends, great trees and big seas breaking,
let love move me. Let me hear the whole music,
see clear, reach deep. Open me to find due words,
that I may shape them to ploughshares of my own making.
After such luck, however late, give me to give to
the oldest dance…. Then to good sleep,
and – if it happens – glad waking.
Philosophia est ars vitae.
Philosophy is the art of living/life.
Modum tenēre dēbēmus.
Moderation have we should.
Fortuna est caeca.
Fortune is blind .
by Bill Watterson
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Well, it’s Calvin and Hobbes. I can’t think of a cartoon strip I like better — not even the Far Side. C&H has many levels without straying from its ultimate purpose: light fun.
The title of this collection comes from an series of adventures in which Calvin experiments with cloning himself. Calvin shruggs off Hobbes’ concerns about cloning and pushes the clone button on the machine (a cardboard box). The button goes ‘boink!’ and with so little trite fanfare, Calvin ushers in a new world.
since feeling is first
who pays any attention
to the syntax of things
will never wholly kiss you;
wholly to be a fool
while Spring is in the world
my blood approves,
and kisses are a far better fate
than wisdom
lady i swear by all flowers. Don’t cry
–the best gesture of my brain is less than
your eyelids’ flutter which says
we are for eachother: then
laugh, leaning back in my arms
for life’s not a paragraph
And death i think is no parenthesis
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