Bento boxes at Rice & Miso, Boerum Hill
New York Traffic Museum
Barzun on Teaching by Lee Trepanier
Grand Central Station
Writing on the wall near the Poughkeepsie train station.
Simone Weil was a student of the philosopher Alain (Émile Chartier). —Elizabeth Hardwick via @waisberg
Athaliah rent her clothes, and cried, Treason, Treason. 2 kings 11:14
When my master goeth into the house of Rimmon to worship there & leaneth on my hand, when I bow myself in the house of Rimmon: the Lᴏʀᴅ pardon thy servant in this thing. And Elisha said unto Naaman, Go in peace.2 Kings 5:18, 19
Wow!
If the prophet had bid thee do some great thing, wouldest thou not have done it? how much rather then, when he saith to thee, Wash, and be clean? 2 Kings 5:13
Do what is asked of you, great or little.
A plus for unnecessary worrying is the happiness one feels when one learns that the worry was unnecessary.
“Is life worth living?” Its root meaning, surely, is personal, subjective, solitary. There is a sense in which life is experienced, has always been experienced, and will continue to be experienced, by only one person: the living person. —Jacques Barzun
There is as much difference between me and my selves as between me and others.
After Montaigne, “Of the Inconsistency of our Actions”, quoted by Marcel Conche, quoted by @waisberg
They answered him, He was an hairy man, and girt with a girdle of leather about his loins. And he said, It is Elijah the Tishbite. 2 Kings 1:8
That a foreigner could feel such love. —Pierre Villey on Grace Norton @waisberg
They discovered who the independent people were. And they went about eliminating them. —Solzhenitsyn @waisberg
The Lᴏʀᴅ hath put a lying spirit in the mouth of all these thy prophets [experts, intelligence officials]. 1 Kings 22:23
Seest thou how Ahab humbleth himself before me? because he humbleth himself before me, I will not bring the evil in his days: but in his son’s days will I bring the evil upon his house. 1 Kings 21:29
This is not the first time in the Bible that the son suffers for the father’s sin.
And thou shalt speak unto him, saying, Thus saith the Lᴏʀᴅ, Hast thou killed, and also taken possession? 1 Kings 21:19
This, though Jezebel did the deed.
Thus saith the LORD, Because thou hast let go out of thy hand a man whom I appointed to utter destruction, therefore thy life shall go for his life, and thy people for his people. 1 Kings 20:42
Yet I have left me seven thousand in Israel, all the knees which have not bowed unto Baal, and every mouth which hath not kissed him. 1 Kings 19:18