This one is as simple as it is important:
Joy is to fun what the deep sea is to a puddle.
Terry Pratchett
It is very important, still (maybe because it is so simple) often forgotten/ignored. Anyway, having fun seems to be much easier...
This one is as simple as it is important: Joy is to fun what the deep sea is to a puddle. Terry Pratchett It is very important, still (maybe because it is so simple) often forgotten/ignored. Anyway, having fun seems to be much easier...
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Here`s how Awf`ly Wee Billy of Nac Mac Feegles describes a hiver: It creeps in, ye ken. It looks for folks wi` power and strength. Kings, ye ken, magicians, leaders. They say that way back in time, afore there wuz people, it live in beasts. The strongest beasts, ye ken, the one wi` big, big teeths. An` when it finds ye, it waits for a chance tae creep intae your head and it becomes ye. /.../ Wi` your memories an` all. Only... it changes ye. It gives ye a lot o` power, but it takes ye over, makes ye its own. An` the last wee bit of ye that still is ye... well, that`ll fight and fight, mebbe, but it will dwindle and dwindle until it`s a` gone an` ye`re just a memory... Terry Pratchett Looking at what`s been happening recently, and not so recently, it seems our poor beautiful planet has been heavily hivered. Powers That Be have always been crazy, more or less, but now most of them seem to be demented, and not just in Russia (though there first and foremost), but this side of the Pond for sure, and the other side most likely. Some say it`s reptiloids, but what if it is hivers, after all? You can kill a reptiloid, but you cannot kill a hiver. Must mean we are doomed... The Quote below is about Dresden, the most beautiful part of the city first of all, destroyed by joint British-American airforces at the end of WW2. And who should be punished for that. Noch heute streiten sich die Regierungen der Großmächte, wer Dresden ermordet hat. Noch heute streitet man sich, ob unter dem Garnichts fünfzigtausend, hunderttausend oder zweihunderttausend Tote liegen. Und niemand will es gewesen sein. Jeder sagt, die anderen seien dran schuld. Ach, was soll der Streit? Damit macht ihr Dresden nicht wieder lebendig! Nicht die Schönheit und nicht die Toten! Bestraft künftig die Regierungen, und nicht die Völker! Und bestraft sie nicht erst hinterher, sondern sofort! Das klingt einfacher, als es ist? Nein. Das ist einfacher, als es klingt. Erich Kästner While I do agree that governments should be punished, I cannot agree about not punishing people. Not peoples but the people executing orders. I doubt the pilots of the bombers sent to bomb Dresden (a stupid order and a totally unnecessary thing to do, at that point) had been told, explicitly, to bomb the beautiful Old City rather than targets strategically more important. And it certainly was abhorrent. I suspect they did that out of sheer spite. Some folks just love destroying beautiful things. Have you ever seen little children at seaside, patiently building intricate sandcastles? And when the thing has been already created, another child would run rush up and trample it all, laughing gleefully? As a rule, grownups won`t discipline the spiteful baby... And when the baby has grown up, there are lots of wonders for it to cheerfully destroy. It`s also sheer spite that makes Russians wreak destruction and vengeance all around Ukraine. Killing people and animals is not enough. Bombing strategically important objects is not enough. They must needs destroy beautiful buildings that cannot be properly rebuilt. It`s not any strategic need, it is Spite! Nothing heroic about it, it is abhorrent. Had the gleefully destructive babies been spanked... There`s also this to it... When asked about masses of soldiers being sent to certain death, Russian generals shrug off: "Бабы новых нарожают!" Know what? I think the generals are right! Out of sheer spite, I would like to see that kind of soldiers let loose upon the palaces belonging to the generals. A pity their mansions are easier to rebuild than centuries-old churches and castles and such... The Quote below is neither about politicians nor about merchants. Nor conquistadors. It is about, of all things, elves... They need us. They call to us. And we will come. We will make them want what they can`t have and we will give them nothing but our laughter. We will take everything! Terry Pratchett I wonder why does (cannot make myself use the word "did") Pratchett hate elves so? There must be a reason. I can think of several, but none of those seems to be reason enough... Very bad on my Ego. I`ve always thought I could figure out anything! |
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