Orts #836
Live as if you were living for the second time and had acted as wrongly the first time as you are about to act now.
-- Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning
When a tuberculosis epidemic resulted in a glut of X-rays, it became an opportunity to subvert Soviet censorship of music.
http://www.newstatesman.com/culture/music-theatre/2017/08/x-ray-decks-lost-bone-music-soviet-union
Has there ever been anyone--with the possible exception of Plato--who knew all of what he thought on a given subject until he heard what, under the influence of a warming glass or two, he actually had to say?
-- Mark Edmundson, The Metaphysics of the Hangover, in The Hedgehog Review, summer 2017
http://iasc-culture.org/THR/THR_article_2017_Summer_Edmundson.php