October Walk

 

And the truth shall set you free...

The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.
  - Herbert Agar

Patio

View from the guest room

Cultural Relativism

"You say that it is your custom to burn widows. Very well. We also have a custom: when men burn a woman alive, we tie a rope around their necks and we hang them. Build your funeral pyre; beside it, my carpenters will build a gallows. You may follow your custom. And then we will follow ours."

General Sir Charles Napier (1782-1853), commenting on the Indian tradition of Sati (suttee)

Tragically Comic Life

Life is a tragedy for those who feel, and a comedy to those who think.

- Horace Walpole
- Jean de la Bruyere

Live Forever

I intend to live forever. So far, so good.

- Steven Wright