If you cannot fashion your life as you would like, endeavour to do this at least, as much as you can: do not trivialize it through too much contact with the world, through too much activity and chatter. Do not trivialize your life by parading it, running around displaying it in the daily stupidity […]
Tag Archives: Translation
More Intensity
There are many reasons I’m glad, and you probably should be too, that I don’t participate in nuclear negotiations with North Korea. For example: In what was apparently an attempt to drive home his country’s determination to develop nuclear weapons, no matter what the United States said, Mr. Kang once told American negotiators that he would quote […]
The Verdured Margarita
I was once offered a ticket to go see Jimmy Buffett. My reply: “Buddy, I don’t sing along about margaritas, I drink ’em.” Then I blew imaginary smoke off my bepistoled fingers. Yippee Ki Yay, my good fellow! I’ve got somewhat of that attitude toward reading books about books, or books about writing. However, at the […]