Wednesday, December 24, 2003
December 23, 2003
“Heap on more wood! – the wind is chill;
But let it whistle as it will,
We’ll keep our Christmas merry still.”
- Sir Walter Scott (1771 – 1832), Scottish writer and historian: “Marimon”, 1808.
“At Christmas play and make good cheer,
For Christmas comes but once a year.”
- Thomas Tusser (c.1524 – 1580), English writer, poet and musician: “A Hundred Good Points of Husbandry”, 1557.
“In the little world in which children have their existence… there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt as injustice.”
- Charles Dickens (1812 – 1870), English writer: “Great Expectations”, 1861.
“Pleasure is continually disappointed, reduced, deflated, in favour of strong, noble values: Truth, Death, Progress, Struggle, Joy, etc. Its victorious rival is Desire, we are always being told about Desire, never about Pleasure.”
- Roland Barthes (1915 – 1980), French semiologist: “The Pleasure of the Text”, 1975.
“Heap on more wood! – the wind is chill;
But let it whistle as it will,
We’ll keep our Christmas merry still.”
- Sir Walter Scott (1771 – 1832), Scottish writer and historian: “Marimon”, 1808.
“At Christmas play and make good cheer,
For Christmas comes but once a year.”
- Thomas Tusser (c.1524 – 1580), English writer, poet and musician: “A Hundred Good Points of Husbandry”, 1557.
“In the little world in which children have their existence… there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt as injustice.”
- Charles Dickens (1812 – 1870), English writer: “Great Expectations”, 1861.
“Pleasure is continually disappointed, reduced, deflated, in favour of strong, noble values: Truth, Death, Progress, Struggle, Joy, etc. Its victorious rival is Desire, we are always being told about Desire, never about Pleasure.”
- Roland Barthes (1915 – 1980), French semiologist: “The Pleasure of the Text”, 1975.
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