Pigeons drinking from spouts into a fountain

Reminds me of the Scott Monument

It turns out that beef tartare is like haggis in that the spices that make it yummy work even better when they don’t have to hide dead animal. #plantbased

“Every state suddenly felt that it was strong, and forgot
that other states felt exactly the same; all states wanted even
more, and wanted some of what the others already had. The
worst of it was that the very thing we loved most, our common
optimism, betrayed us, for everyone thought that everyone
else would back down at the last minute,” #zweig

I often say the present time is most analogous to WWI in #inequality as well as its concomitant #polarisation. But only the US sounds quite like this now.:“If today, thinking it over calmly, we wonder why Europe went to war in 1914, there is not one sensible reason to be found,
nor even any real occasion… I can explain it only thinking of that excess of power, by seeing…a tragic consequence of the internal dynamism that had
built up during those forty years of peace, and now demanded
release.

Everything conveyed a sense of the growth and wider distribution of wealth. Even we writers noticed it from the
editions of our books printed; in the space of ten years the
number of copies printed per edition tripled, then multiplied by
fivefold and by tenfold.