“Mostly they remembered only that it was a delight to hear the voice speaking, all that it said seemed wise and reasonable, and desire awoke in them by swift agreement to seem wise themselves.”

— J.R.R. Tolkien, “The Voice of Saruman”

“Human beings with their tampering do something wrong, leave the damage unrepaired, and when the adverse results accumulate, work with all their might to correct them. When the corrective actions appear to be successful, they come to view these measures as splendid accomplishments.”

— Masanobu Fukuoka, “Natural farming”

blessed stone, iron of love, sacred leather

In all their writings (is mention made) of the tree of life, and a resurrection of the flesh by means of the ‘tree,’ because, I imagine, their teacher was nailed to a cross, and was a carpenter by craft; so that if he had chanced to have been cast from a precipice, or thrust into a pit, or suffocated by hanging, or had been a leather-cutter, or stone-cutter, or worker in iron, there would have been (invented) a precipice of life beyond the heavens, or a pit of resurrection, or a cord of immortality, or a blessed stone, or an iron of love, or a sacred leather! Now what old woman would not be ashamed to utter such things in a whisper, even when making stories to lull an infant to sleep?

Celsus as quoted by Origen
aléatoire 文法練習
  • 「さ」
    • 人生の長さは足りない。
    • この世で綺麗さを見ることが選びます。
  • 「がる」
    • 雨が降ったら土は臭がる。
  • 「かもしれない」
    • この言語練習で古くなるかもしれない。

Some things I noticed 04/16/2020:
  1. prevalence of this kind of rhetoric from both sides is more dangerous than covid19
  2. USAF Guam B-52 elephant walk, while carriers are sick
  3. assume hawks would take their toys out of the sandbox when given the chance
  4. pastor who defiantly held church service dies of coronavirus
  5. “I am instructing my administration to halt funding of the World Health Organization.”
  6. US banks allowed to intercept stipend intended for amelioration to offset debt instead.
  7. “Sargassum gives name to Sargasso Sea, only location given a proper ‘Something Sea’ name with no land boundaries
  8. I don’t belong living in your precious memory.
  9. win-win paywall adjustment at Github
  10. RSS newspaper layout