… Paul Davis On Crime: On This Day In History The Late, Great Crime Writer Elmore Leonard Was Born.
Leonard was one of the coolest guys I ever met. Just naturally cool. And a damned good writer.
Wednesday, October 11, 2017
Hmm …
… Destroying the Neighborhood to Save It | City Journal.
Well, gentrification also increases property values, which means you can sell your property for a lot more than you paid for it, and move away from those people who made it worth more. My block in South Philly remains a traditional neighborhood block. But the value of the property has increased greatly because of all the gentrification going on around us. Our heirs should do quite well.
Well, gentrification also increases property values, which means you can sell your property for a lot more than you paid for it, and move away from those people who made it worth more. My block in South Philly remains a traditional neighborhood block. But the value of the property has increased greatly because of all the gentrification going on around us. Our heirs should do quite well.
Something to think on …
We are, all of us, molded and remolded by those who have loved us, and though that love may pass, we remain none the less their work — a work that very likely they do not recognize, and which is never exactly what they intended.
— François Mauriac, born on this date in 1885
Tuesday, October 10, 2017
Tracking the decline …
… “Well-Beings Are Being Put On The Line”: Berkeley Protesters Interrupt Class To Protest The Midterm Exam As Too Stressful | JONATHAN TURLEY. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)
The protesters insisted that their “well-beings are being put on the line because of the emotional, mental, and physical stress that this university is compounding with what is already going on in [their] everyday lives.” Shaiken (who is an expert on Latin American studies) balked at the notion that Berkeley was an oppressive environment: “This is a campus that is truly related throughout Latin America to the notion of free speech.” The effort to dialogue with the protesters only made things worse and one shouted: “Have you ever checked ‘unlisted’ or ‘undocumented immigrant’? I don’t think so!” The students further objected that Shaiken could not teach workers rights in Mexico as a white man.
But for any of them to know what they are preaching, they would have to know thoroughly the subjects they are preaching about. Actually, some of us found the stress of midterms exciting. These people should be treated as figures of fun.
Too bummed out …
… 'Blade Runner 2049': Why some science fiction writers are tired of dystopias - CSMonitor.com.
… in 2011, the author of classics such as “Snow Crash” cofounded the Hieroglyph project with the Center for Science and the Imagination at Arizona State University. The big idea: Develop science fiction stories with optimistic thought models and imaginative blueprints. The theory is that these narratives will, in turn, inspire scientists, engineers, and entrepreneurs to tackle major projects such as designing crewed spacecraft or finding viable alternatives to fossil fuels.
Insight …
… Informal Inquiries : Emily Dickinson - "Much madness is divinest sense".
The distinction between the two is often hard to draw these days.
The distinction between the two is often hard to draw these days.
Q&A …
… James Matthew Wilson on Truth, Beauty, & Goodness - The Imaginative Conservative. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)
I follow Yeats’s practice of recognizing that many lines, actually, have to be quite plain, precisely because you want the opportunity to suddenly tighten the rope or crack the whip when you’re ready to give a line a perfect epigrammatical or lyrical expression. You need to be able to do that freely, and over the course of the poem, and write plainly in order to be able to pull that off, so your reader can tell the difference.
We shall see …
… Are Tim Cook's Days As CEO Numbered? | Zero Hedge.
Well, Cook is certainly a poor substitute for Jobs.
Well, Cook is certainly a poor substitute for Jobs.
… Dr. Seuss in the Crosshairs | Frontpage Mag. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)
To be sure, after the Phipp Soeiro story went public, the embarrassments began to mount: a photo surfaced of Phipp Soeiro herself at some school event, dressed up as the Cat in the Hat and clinging to a copy of the Dr. Seuss book and a Cat in the Hat puppet; a whole bunch of photos surfaced showing Mrs. Trump's infallible predecessor, Michelle Obama, reading aloud to kids from one of Dr. Seuss's “racist” books; news stories surfaced in which our revered former President Barack Obama himself was quoted as telling a group of children that one of his “favorite stories” was by Dr. Seuss; the Cambridge school district distanced itself from Phipp Soeiro's action, announcing that it had “counseled” her on “donations policies and the policy against public resources being used for political purposes”; and the mayor of Springfield, Massachusetts, hometown of Dr. Seuss (real name Theodor Geisel), called Phipp Soeiro's comments about the local hero “ridiculous” and exemplary of “'political correctness' at its worst.”
Something to think on …
What mankind needs today is liberation from the rule of nonsensical slogans and a return to sound reasoning.
— Ludwig von Mises, who died on this date in 1973
Monday, October 09, 2017
Well of course they do!
Dr. Gregory Berns, 53, a neuroscientist at Emory University in Atlanta, spends his days scanning the brains of dogs, trying to figure out what they’re thinking. The research is detailed in a new book, “What It’s Like to Be a Dog.”
Among the findings: Your dog may really love you for you — not for your food.
Religious experience …
… Dialogue With God | by Peter Brown | The New York Review of Books. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)
For God can change His mood. Like any other free person, He can show a different side. The Confessions is about the marvelous emergence of new sides of God as Augustine himself changes in his relation to God, over the years, from slave to repentant son to lover. Ruden may have to defend her retranslation of the name of God from “Lord” to “Master.” But her approach is a thoughtful one. It is governed by a determination to present Augustine’s relations with his God as endowed with the full emotional weight of a confrontation between two real persons. She takes no shortcuts. Small departures from conventional translations show her constant effort to capture an unexpected dimension of tenderness (very different from that of the slave owner) in God’s relation to Augustine and in Augustine’s to God.
Hmm …
… Maverick Philosopher: The Ultimate Paradox of Divine Creation.
You don't understand classical theism unless you understand it to be a form of idealism. But creatures, and in particular other minds, exist on their own, in themselves, and their Being cannot be reduced to their Being-for-God. Therein lies the difficulty.Is divine creation a mystery or an impossibility?
Well, I suppose this poses a problem if one regards God as the terminus ad quem of a reasoning process. But I think it is effectively addressed by the author of The Cloud of Unknowing in another of his works, The Book of Privy Counseling:
"And so I urge you, go after experience rather than knowledge. On account of pride, knowledge may often deceive you, but this gentle, loving affection will not deceive you. Knowledge tends to breed conceit, but love builds. Knowledge is full of labor, but love, full of rest."
Appreciation …
… John Banville: Novels were never the same after Henry James. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)
Anyone who has read, or has attempted to read, late James will know that sense of being at once dazzled and dazed by the prose style he evolved in the first decades of the 20th century, a style designed to catch, with immense, with fiendish, subtlety, and in sentences of labyrinthine intricacy, the very texture of conscious life.
For the defense …
… History shows that Columbus is worth celebrating.
Maybe on Indigenous Peoples' Day they should have a re-enactment of the Aztec priests sacrificing to the gods by cutting out some poor devil's still-beating heart. Columbus may not have been any better. But he sure in hell wasn't any worse.
Our town …
… Tracing The ‘Chinese Wall’ In Center City | Hidden City Philadelphia. (Ht tip, Dave Tothero.)
Something to think on …
Every ten years you should delete from your mind a few ideas that your experience has proven to be false.
— André Maurois, who died on this date in 1967
Dan Brown and worthless beliefs
"Traditionally, all the gods fall. And my question is, are we naïve to believe that the gods of today will not suffer the same fate," Brown says.
"Would that lead to a better planet?" Dokoupil asks Brown.
"I personally believe that our planet would be absolutely fine without religion, and I also feel we are evolving in that direction," Brown says.
Sunday, October 08, 2017
Shakespeare
I've written in the past about my efforts -- every so often, every few months -- to take on one of the many Shakespeare plays I missed either in high school or college. This time, it was The Merry Wives of Windsor.
Based on what I've read, the play's not necessarily the most well loved or reputed among Elizabethan scholars. But no matter, I really enjoyed it: it's funny, endearing, and playful. And if it's characters don't emerge as "changed" or "evolved" as in others of Shakespeare's plays, well, so be it. That doesn't take aware from the levity of the whole thing, the sense of humor and spectacle.
As with so many of these second- (and even third-) tier plays, there's so much, I find, in the language itself. Shakespeare was having such fun with the words: this was a time when the English language burned bright. And I really appreciate that: it's not the plot that you look to in these plays; it's dialogue, the hilarity of words and phrases positioned just right.
Up next in this gradual journey, I'm not sure: but if it's anything like The Merry Wives, I'm sure to be satisfied.
Inquirer reviews …
… Kate Fagan's 'What Made Maddy Run': A deep, relatable tale of a young woman's tragedy.
… Ken Burns' ‘Vietnam War’: Best single-volume history.
… Ta-Nehisi Coates' 'Eight Years in Power': The Obama era's faded hope.
… Ted Genoways' 'This Blessed Earth': A family farm, just hanging on.
… Ariel Levy's 'Rules Do Not Apply': A memoir of choice, self, consequences.
See also: Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk on the street feminism in his 10th novel, 'The Red-Haired Woman'.
… Ken Burns' ‘Vietnam War’: Best single-volume history.
… Ta-Nehisi Coates' 'Eight Years in Power': The Obama era's faded hope.
… Ted Genoways' 'This Blessed Earth': A family farm, just hanging on.
… Ariel Levy's 'Rules Do Not Apply': A memoir of choice, self, consequences.
See also: Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk on the street feminism in his 10th novel, 'The Red-Haired Woman'.
Tracking the decline …
… Instapundit — DISPATCHES FROM THE EDUCATION APOCALYPSE: Two Canadian professors.
“Our goal in this class is to move both hearts and minds, in part by ‘forcing’ an encounter with at least some knowledges that students have already decided they are not interested in,” Renshaw and Valiquette explain …“Knowledges.” That tells you all you need to know.
Sick bay report …
I have a cold, which I thought was going away, but has reared up its head and galloping off with me. So I am heading back to bed and will resume blogging when I can. The doctors and nurses and therapist who treated me recently warned me to be careful in such cases. And I am following their advice.
Something to think on …
Events alone rarely provide much guide to the future.
— Walter Lord, born on this date in 1917
Saturday, October 07, 2017
Frances McCue
For those interested in contemporary poetry, take note of Frances McCue's newest collection, Timber Curtain. I'm interviewing McCue for a coming edition of Rain Taxi. I'll provide a link on the blog when the interview is published.
Q&A …
… The purpose and place of poetry today: An interview with Dana Gioia – Catholic World Report. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)
The purpose of a poem isn’t to show how clever you are, though intelligence is not a liability. The purpose is to create something moving and memorable that connects to a reader’s truest sense of life.
Hmm …
… ''CLI-FI'' NEWS YOU CAN USE: "Blade Runner 2049" is about global warming or global cooling? Great cli-fi movie, but bad science? Critics are having a field day!
Here is something the critics might want to ponder:
Here is something the critics might want to ponder:
Winter was long in coming that year. Throughout October the days were bathed in sunlight and the air was clear as crystal. The town kept its cheerful summer aspect, the desert glistened with light, the sand hills every day went through magical changes of color. The scarlet sage bloomed late in the front yards, the cottonwood leaves were bright gold long before they fell, and it was not until November that the green on the tamarisks began to cloud and fade. There was a flurry of snow about Thanksgiving, and then December came on warm and clear.That is from Willa Cather's novel The Song of the Lark, written in 1915. It is set in Colorado.
Something to think on …
When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry. The poet, too, is not nearly so concerned with describing facts as with creating images.
— Niels Bohr, born on this date in 1885
Friday, October 06, 2017
Who knew?
… The Political Message Hidden Within Dr. Seuss’ New Book - Vocativ. (Hat tip, Rus Bowden.)
One might also ask, "Who cares?"
One might also ask, "Who cares?"
“The Cat in the Hat is a revolt against authority, but it’s ameliorated by the fact that the Cat cleans up everything at the end. It’s revolutionary in that it goes as far as Kernesky and then stops. It doesn’t go quite as far as Lenin.”That's nice. Kerensky (which is who we are talking about) wasn't given to mass murder. He died in New York City in 1970.
Hmm …
… 10 Classic Books That Have Been Banned | Mental Floss. (Hat tip, Rus Bowden.)
I was unaware that The Giver is regarded as a classic on the order of the other nine.
I was unaware that The Giver is regarded as a classic on the order of the other nine.
FYI …
… Image Journal Exclusively Publishes Flannery O’Connor's College Journal. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)
Private lives …
… Literary biography: possibility and peril – LA Times. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)
Atlas describes following the authors' trajectory from birthplace through foreign travels to the grave ("Death," Atlas sadly observes, "is the biographer's worst enemy"), studying unpublished letters and manuscripts in widely scattered archives, searching for school records, finding family and friends to interview, and discovering that famous older people are often quite lonely. During interviews he did not use a tape recorder. He learned to draw people out and remain silent, to take notes while eating and (sometimes) getting drunk, adding to his notes immediately after leaving. He refereed fights, often about money, between the children of different wives. My own responses from valuable sources ranged from "I curse the day you ever heard my name" when I tried to extract a privately owned manuscript by Somerset Maugham to "I've been waiting all my life for you to come" from the daughter of Robert Frost's lover.
Poetry to the rescue...
...Wordsworth and a Depressed Philosopher
Blake wasn’t against science and he certainly wasn’t against the social causes to which Mill devoted his life. We miss out on something essential, however, when we break reality down into component parts (the atoms of Democritus) and see the universe as an intricate machine, even a machine chugging towards justice and equality for all. No wonder a philosopher thinking that way would descend into depression.
Thursday, October 05, 2017
Hmm …
… Truth Is Not the Only Truth | Psychology Today. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)
Educated Catholics know that when veracity comes into conflict with justice, it is justice that must prevail.
Gnat meets sledgehammer …
… Jill Bialosky, Poetry Will Save Your Life: A Memoir (Atria Books, 2017) — Tourniquet. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)
The deeper problem is that Bialosky is uncomfortable with what poems are, if they are anything but simpleminded—she wants poems to console the reader or offer rude guidelines for living. (That’s the point of the title.) Can she really believe that most problems with the young could be solved if “We Real Cool,” a “cautionary tale,” were “taped on the refrigerator of every house with a teenager”? “Poems,” she declares, on her way to a panacea, “are a form of mythmaking, as they seek to create a unified vision of cosmic, social, and primal life order.” Primal life order? I’m not sure what the heck that is, but I very much hope that isn’t the point of poetry.
Opinion of convenience …
… Instapundit — NEW YORK TIMES’ TOKEN ‘CONSERVATIVE:’ ‘Repeal the Second Amendment,’ Bret Stephens writes,…
Always a good idea to keep your opinions in order.
Always a good idea to keep your opinions in order.
Something to think on …
More things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson, who died on this date in 1892
Something to think on …
The Declaration of Independence states the the Creator gave man the right to liberty. It seems man can realize that liberty only if he does not forget the One who endowed him with it.
— Václav Havel, born on this date in 1936
Wednesday, October 04, 2017
What if …
Historian Michael Kazin, who has just published a book on the antiwar movement that Wilson betrayed in 1917-18, asked, in a New York Times op-ed on the centenary of the conflict, how it might have ended had America stayed out. Wrote Kazin:If the Allies, led by France and Britain, had not won a total victory, there would have been no punitive peace like that completed at Versailles, no stab-in-the-back allegations by resentful Germans, and thus no rise, much less triumph, of Hitler and the Nazis. The next world war, with its 50 million deaths, would probably not have occurred.
The mystery of the holy …
… Reflections on 'Epic' Christianity > Samuel Hux. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)
The “creature-consciousness” or self-depreciation one feels before the Holy “is beyond question not that of the transgression of the moral law [but rather] it is the feeling of absolute ‘profaneness.’” One feels shame and desires atonement not because of what one has done but because of what one is. To see it otherwise is, for Otto, a diminishing of the experience to the merely moral. That’s my phrase, but one can almost imagine Otto using it, as when he objects to notions such as “redemption” and “atonement” being transferred downward “from their mystical sphere into that of rational ethics and attenuated . . . into moral concepts,” thus being moved “from a sphere where they have an authentic and necessary place to one where their validity is most disputable.”
I think the problem arises from the separation of faith and deeds in the first place. As St. James wrote, faith without works is dead. In the case of the religious person, the deed are the fruit of faith. Common ethics has more to do with custom and good manners. Moreover, for the person of faith, a good deed may even carry with it a measure of shame, when one realizes how annoyed one was in doing it. Being good and kind may lend itself to needlepoint, but in practice it is often not easy at all. That's where the love comes in. To do the good with a loving mind and heart is what differentiates the genuinely religious from the merely ethical.
The view from above …
… Exclusive Photos Show an Eerily Desolate Florida Keys. (Hat tip, Rus Bowden.)
“To me, I think it’s absolute insanity to build a house on the water unless it’s on stilts and up to earthquake impact standards,” he said.
Feast day …
… Informal Inquiries: St. Francis of Assisi hears a voice.
If I have learned anything in life it is that Shakespeare was on to something when he had Hamlet say that "there are more things in heaven and earth … than are dreamt of in your philosophy."
If I have learned anything in life it is that Shakespeare was on to something when he had Hamlet say that "there are more things in heaven and earth … than are dreamt of in your philosophy."
Façade …
… An Empty Parliament | Peter Hitchens | First Things. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)
In my years of wandering its corridors and lobbies, of hanging about for late-night votes and dozing in committee rooms, I came to loathe British politics and to mistrust the special regiment of journalists (far too close to their sources) who write about it. I had hoped for a kingdom of the mind and found a squalid pantry in which greasy, unprincipled deals were made by people who were no better than they ought to be.Sounds like Congress. Or City Council.
In case you wondered …
… Book Review: ‘How to Write Classical Poetry’ | Book Reviews | classic poetry | The Epoch Times. (Hat tip, Rus Bowden,)
The classical forms covered include the haiku, ondeau, terza rima, limerick, rubaiyat, pantoum, sestina, and rhupunt, with modern and classical examples of each. Outlines for these types of formal poetry are included in the book, along with their origins and background.
Q&A …
… Single mother creates out of this world portraits of her children and herself - DIY Photography. (Hat tip, Rus Bowden.)
Something to think on …
The difference between western and eastern intellectuals is that the former have not been kicked in the ass enough.
— Witold Gombrowicz, born on this date in 1904
Tuesday, October 03, 2017
And the winner is …
… 2017 Thurber Prize Winner Announced : The Booklist Reader. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)
Hmm…
… How do novelists write about faith in a culture that's moving past it? | The Christian Century. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)
I have not read Marilynne Robinson’s Gilead, which people whose judgment I trust assure me is wonderful. But the one novel of hers that I have read did not impress me.
I have not read Marilynne Robinson’s Gilead, which people whose judgment I trust assure me is wonderful. But the one novel of hers that I have read did not impress me.
Discovery matters …
… A Look at the Novels of Mark Helprin > James Como. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)
Helprin’s heroes are invariably heroic, capably martial, persevering mentally and emotionally, often under unspeakable duress, but longing for more than this world can offer. Many of them note that a life, like character, must be carefully crafted, and if they are romantics they do not know themselves as such.
Something to think on …
Is this not the true romantic feeling; not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you.
— Thomas Wolfe, born on this date in 1900
Monday, October 02, 2017
Vintage review …
… The People vs. Tyranny: George Orwell's Homage to Catalonia | Literary Hub.
The full quote is “I have no particular love for the idealized “worker” as he appears in the bourgeois Communist’s mind, but when I see an actual flesh-and-blood worker in conflict with his natural enemy, the policeman, I do not have to ask myself which side I am on.”As the son of a policeman and the uncle of a policeman, I am not why Orwell thought that policemen were the natural enemies of “flesh-and-blood” workers (my factory-worker mother and grandmother would qualify as such). Maybe it’s an English thing. Or maybe, at times, Orwell could be just as stupid as anybody else.
Not for everyone …
… Cli-Fi.Net -- the world's largest online 'Cli-Fi' portal for Cli-Fi: A new calendar system dates October 2, 2017 instead as October 2, 75,017 -- can you get with the program?
And certainly not for me. I’m sticking with B. C. and A. D.
A sort of friendship …
… Philip Larkin and Me: A Friendship with Holes in It | The New Yorker. (Ht tip, Dave Lull.)
None of this is to say our friendship was ever completely rounded. For one thing, I soon discovered that, to an unusual degree, Larkin divided his life into discrete compartments: Hull friends; London friends, including Kingsley Amis, his closest male friend since university, who never came to Hull in all the thirty years that Larkin lived there; and Oxford friends, most of them made or confirmed during his time at All Souls, where he was appointed a visiting fellow during the early nineteen-seventies, while working on his “Oxford Book of Twentieth Century English Verse.” Further separations existed in his love life—chiefly between Monica and Maeve Brennan, a colleague in Larkin’s library who was also a girlfriend. Betty Mackereth, the “loaf-haired secretary” in the library with whom he also had an affair, was considered by Monica to be less of a threat: she later told me that she was worried Larkin might marry Maeve, but she knew he wouldn’t marry Betty.
Something to think on …
It is not everyday that the world arranges itself into a poem.
— Wallace Stevens, born on this date in 1879
Sunday, October 01, 2017
Genius and crackpot …
… Isaac Newton was a fierce critic of the Trinitarian corruption of Christianity: Priest of Nature reviewed | The Spectator. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)
He had researched every aspect of the history of Catholic doctrine, and his account of how the Creeds evolved, though laced with the violent anti-Catholic prejudice of their times and coloured by apocalyptic fervour, would be broadly in step with the mainstream of scholarship since the 19th century: namely that full-blown doctrinal Trinitarianism can only be found in the New Testament if the reader, consciously or unconsciously, puts it there.Really? “The Simom Peter answered, Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God.” Sounds pretty clear to me.
Adjuncts surviving
Adjunct professors in America face low pay and long hours without the security of full-time faculty. Some, on the brink ofhomelessness, take desperate measures.
Oy. Rejecting books, or a librarian's 15 minutes of fame
Instead, Soeiro wrote, the White House should worry more about providing support to schools that are underfunded and subject to government neglect.
"Why not go out of your way to gift books to underfunded and underprivileged communities that continue to be marginalized and maligned by policies put in place by Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos?" she wrote.
Soeiro added: “Another fact that many people are unaware of is that Dr. Seuss’s illustrations are steeped in racist propaganda, caricatures, and harmful stereotypes.”
According to CBS Boston, Cambridge Public Schools said in a statement that Phipps Soeiro "was not authorized to accept or reject donated books on behalf of the school or school district" and counseled her on a policy against using public resources for political purposes.
But Phipps Soeiro said the books were "a bit of a cliche, a tired and worn ambassador for children’s literature."
Q&A …
… William Sieghart: ‘I want people to drop their fear of poetry’ | Books | The Guardian. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)
You explain in your introduction how a poem once unexpectedly came to your rescue?It was Ambulances by Philip Larkin. I had this extraordinary experience. I was about to cross the road when someone stepped in front of me and was hit by a car. I found myself pumping his heart, giving him the kiss of life – amazingly, his heart started beating again. An ambulance came, the police took my statement.
Apart from blood on my hands, I had a poem in my head – the startling poem in which Larkin reflects that all streets will eventually be visited by an ambulance. The people who see the body carried away and say “poor soul” are whispering at “their own distress”.
Honoring a forebear …
… The Ballad of Jesus Ortiz - Los Angeles Review of Books. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)
Constancy and change …
… First Known When Lost: Nearly. Not Quite Yet.
That which is lovely is lovely because it is departing. This is true of all of the World's beautiful particulars at all times of the year. But the pang of departure is keener in autumn. It is a rueful, yet a happy, pang. It bears within it the possibility of acceptance and serenity.
So ancient, it's modern …
… The Latin Mass, Thriving in Southeastern Nigeria - The New York Times. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)
… foreign priests were expelled from Nigeria by the government, and the vernacular liturgy was introduced by the Vatican. “The time of the liturgical change was not easy,” Bishop Ochiagha told me. “People thought the church was collapsing.” In one stroke, Catholics were cut off from their past. They also found it harder to pray. “The traditional Mass encourages reflection and prayer,” he said. “The new Mass gives itself to jamboree.”
Something to think on …
Never worry about anything. Live in the present. Live now. Be happy.
— Marsilio Ficino, who died on this date in 1499
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