📝 Plot: In a quiet French village, Jean, a devoted husband and father, meets his children’s teacher, Mademoiselle Chambon. Their encounters spark a subtle connection, challenging his sense of duty and desires. Through delicate moments and introspection, the film explores love, moral conflict, and the emotional intricacies of human relationships.
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A quotation from Joseph Addison
Though a man has all other perfections, and wants discretion, he will be of no great consequence in the world; but if he has this single talent in perfection, and but a common share of others, he may do what he pleases in his station of life.Joseph Addison (1672-1719) English essayist, poet, statesman
Essay (1711-11-17), The Spectator, No. 225
More about this quote: wist.info/addison-joseph/81187…
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Though a man has all other perfections, and wants discretion, he will be of no great consequence in the world; but if he has this single talent in perfection, and but a common share of others, he may do what he pleases in his station of life.
Euripides (485?-406? BC) Greek tragic dramatist
Medea [Μήδεια], l. 319ff (431 BC) [tr. Vellacott (1963)]
More info about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/euripides/80979/
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CREON: A woman of hot temper -- and a man the same -- Is a less dangerous enemy than one quiet and clever. [ΚΡΈΩΝ: Γυνὴ γὰρ ὀξύθυμος, ὡς δ᾽ αὔτως ἀνήρ, ῥᾴων φυλάσσειν ἢ σιωπηλὸς σοφή.] Expressing his mistrust of how reasonably, if tragically, Medea is presenting herself. (Source (Greek)).…
Dog: oh no, I am not suggesting anything! I just happened to be sitting here... hmm dee hmmm.....
I think the greatest casualty of #socialmedia may be #subtlety.
An entire generation has arisen who believes we must #love or #hate everything, there is no abiguity. That every emotional colour of the rainbow can be reduced to a #binary #like or #dislike so it can be fed into the gaping maw of an #algorithm and thence #monetized.
“Wisdom says: be strong! Then canst thou bear more joy. Be not animal, refine thy rapture! If thou drink, drink by the eight and ninety rules of art; if thou love, exceed by delicacy; and if thou do aught joyous, let there be subtlety therein! But exceed! exceed!”
Wisdom says: be strong! Then canst thou bear more joy. Be not animal, refine thy rapture! If thou drink, drink by the eight and ninety rules of art; if thou love, exceed by delicacy; and if thou do aught joyous, let there be subtlety therein! But exceed! exceed! Aleister Crowley, Liber Legis, The Book of […]
A quotation from Joubert, Joseph:
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Questions show the mind’s range, and answers, its subtlety.
[Les questions montrent l’étendue de l’esprit, et les réponses sa finesse.]
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Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/joubert-joseph/21139/
#quote #quotes #quotation #answering #answers #asking #broadmindedness #finesse #inquiry #mind #questions #solution #subtlety
Questions show the mind's range, and answers, its subtlety. [Les questions montrent l’étendue de l’esprit, et les réponses sa finesse.] (Source (French)) While confirmed as an entry in the French, I was unable to find translations other than Lyttelton's in my various sources.
On #authoritarian #vision, #Trump spent the weekend abandoning #subtlety.
#Voters now face a #foundational #question: Can #DonaldTrump win the #presidency while running on an overtly as a #Dictator with an #authoritarian #vision?
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/authoritarian-vision-trump-spent-weekend-abandoning-subtlety-rcna130213
Today's poem:
Athena
- by Amy Clampitt
https://www.tumblr.com/ukdamo/734504003341320192/athena?source=share
#athena #poetry #AmyClampitt #personification #subtlety #devious #paradox #contradiction #devotion #goddess
"Sometimes Subtlety Just Won't Do"
As I was working at a nursing home an old guy pissed in the ice machine. When asked why he just said he needed to go. And the ice machine was as good as anywhere else. A sign was placed on the machine door – "Do not use this ice!" But then we heard another employee doubt this had happened. Said it looked like tea to her. The sign was then changed to – "Ice contaminated with urine!" Sometimes subtlety just won't do. #writing #FlashMemoir #subtlety
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