One more thing



And one more thing:

Quisquis huc accedes
Quod tibi horrendum videtur
Mihi amoenum est
Si dilectat maneas
Si taedat abeas
Utrumque gratum


You who come here
Whoever you are
What may seem horrible to you
Is fine for me
If you like it stay
If it bores you go
I couldn’t care less.


(From the inscription that appears in Latin on a marble plaque at the entrance to Cardinal Chigi’s 17th century Villa Cetinale, at Sovicelli in Tuscany, discovered and translated by John Julius Norwich in “Still More Christmas Crackers – 1990-1999,” [Viking, Penguin Group UK]).




Wednesday, August 29, 2012

Ridiculous images from Isaac




There may be more ridiculous-looking images on television these days, but one of the most ridiculous must be the sight of reporters at storm scenes trying to say anything intelligent or intelligible while they are being blown around by wind and rain. 

  This morning, in less than four minutes on NBC alone, no fewer than four wind and rain-battered correspondents in succession reporting from various parts of the Gulf Coast. Poor Lester Holt looked as if he were about to be blown off the face of the earth.
 http://video.today.msnbc.msn.com/today/48824294#48823778

Doesn’t anyone have sense enough to come in out of the rain?

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