"Every witchdoctor cure is a struggle with public opinion."
--Daniel Lawrence O'Keefe, Stolen Lightning (1982)
[And is every struggle with public opinion, a witchdoctor cure??]

Keeping a journal becomes a substitute for changing--you record
the intention.

'All our humiliations come from the fact that we cannot bring
ourselves to die of hunger.' --E M Cioran, A Short History
of Decay (1949; tr R Howard 1975)


'Those very philosophers even in the books which they write
about despising glory, put their own names on the title-page.'
--Cicero, pro Archia poeta

"The time is not far distant when the discords of today
will be regarded as perfect harmony." --H W Haussig, A
History of Byzantine Civilization (1966) [A cunningly
ambiguous statement. Does taste evolve, or deteriorate?]

Listening to: Bellini's opera "Norma".