Ants can be deterred from crossing a boundary by outlining it with chalk: this is respectable opinion. On ants it works only for a while.
Jul 202021
Jul 192021
There exists in all men a thirst for the hunt, for predator stalking prey inexorably until it is caught and torn to shreds, that only reading Jane Austen can slake.
Jul 162021
There ought to be a small but discernible difference between your favorites and what you think best: a large difference is snobbery, and no difference is also snobbery, of an opposite kind.
Jul 152021
One pays moderately for the item and immoderately to keep others from having it.
Jul 142021
The worst disaster in the movies is to find a bag of money.
Jul 132021
We object to negative emotions instead of unsuitable ones.
Jul 122021
You never see into what you see through.
Jul 092021
Rigor, n. Buttressing one’s dubious claims with the dubious claims of previous authors; footnotes.
Jul 082021
We know that something will be with us forever when war is declared on it.
Jul 072021
A taste for bad people sometimes indicates a defect of character; a taste for bad art always does.