A signpost on the road to oblivion:
To be namelesse in worthy deeds exceeds an infamous history.Related posts
Sir Thomas Browne, Hydriotaphia, Urne-Buriall, or, a Brief Discourse of the Sepulchrall Urnes Lately Found in Norfolk. 1658. From the text in Selected Writings, ed. Sir Geoffrey Keynes (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1968).
Thomas Browne in The New York Times
Word of the day: quincunx
You know, a similar sentiment from a very different quadrant of culture popped up in my Quora feed today, and I thought you might appreciate the analysis.
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It's always a pleasure to be illuminated by the glow of your interests, Professor.
That’s an unexpected and interesting connection. And now it makes me think of the end of Middlemarch: “the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.”
ReplyDeleteThe Middlemarch connection is made in the comments to the answer posted by Ben Skirvin - which was the specific answer I connected to your Thomas Browne post.
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I don't know whether you hold any love in your heart for Star Wars but I must say Rogue One does a lot to redeem the series from the (in my view deserved) slagging the other prequels have endured.
Huh — I must have zoomed right past it. (I had to look it up.) Star Wars has never been on my radar, but I know I’m an outlier.
ReplyDeleteAha — I think a Quora account is required for reading the comments. No Middlemarch there that I can see.
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