After-Orts #19

A hidden haiku from the NYT’s coverage of the winter storms in the US, mid-February:
“He is hunkering
down at home, where both power
and water are out.”
 

A hidden haiku from Melissa Kirsch's At Home NYT newsletter:
“I don’t want this year
to turn into a blur of 
Zoom chats and Netflix.”

a generic haiku:
"First, five syllables.
In the middle, seven more.
Then five again. Done!"

Specialist: someone who learns more and more about less and less, until he/she knows everything about nothing.
     — a quote with a long history:
https://quoteinvestigator.com/2017/10/25/more/


I'm afraid there are moments in life when even Schubert has nothing to say to us. We must admit, however, that they are our worst.
     — Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady (1881)