The agreeable eye

an eudæmonistarchives

More specifically concerning: Thackeray

28.05.02 – Tuesday

28 May 2002, around 20.17.

Warrington and Paley had been competitors for University honours in former days, and had run each other hard; and everybody said now that the former was wasting his time and energies, whilst all people praised Paley for his industry. There may be doubts, however, as to which was using his time best. The one could […]

31.05.02 – Friday

31 May 2002, around 20.21.

When you want to make money by Pegasus (as he must, perhaps, who has no other saleable property), farewell poetry and aerial flights: Pegasus only rises now like Mr. Green’s balloon, at periods advertised beforehand, and when the spectators’ money has been paid. Pegasus trots in harness, over the stony pavement, and pulls a cart […]

to the swift

31 August 2021, around 5.49.

This is a quotation from a writing manual about the tangled skein of thought, buttressed by two images of winding yarn.

ego hoc feci mm–MMXXIV · cc 2000–2024 M.F.C.

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