Re-quoting
September 27th 2010 03:01
A while ago I wrote about having found my old geocities site listed under reocities; they'd rescued it from oblivion. You pick up this 'copy' of the site from reocities.com.
However, Google doesn't seem to be picking up the reocities sites, so I'm
going to go back through my one spasmodically and re-enter some of the great quotes I put on there (starting back in 2003, which seems aeons ago in internet terms).
These quotes are quite random, items that appealed to me at the time for some reason or other. So here's the first, from the 27th Aug, 2003.
Herman Melville, from chapter XXXII of Moby Dick.
This quote takes a careful reading, but it's worth the work.
However, Google doesn't seem to be picking up the reocities sites, so I'm
These quotes are quite random, items that appealed to me at the time for some reason or other. So here's the first, from the 27th Aug, 2003.
Herman Melville, from chapter XXXII of Moby Dick.
For be a man's intellectual superiority what it will, it can never assume the practical, available supremacy over other men, without the aid of some sort of external arts or entrenchments, always, in themselves, more or less paltry or base. This it is, that for ever keeps God's true princes of the Empire from the world's hustings, and leaves the highest honour that this air can give, to those men who became famous more through their infinite inferiority to the choice hidden handful of the divine Inert, than through their undoubted superiority over the dead level of the mass. Such large virtue lurks in these small things when extreme political superstitions invest them, that in some royal instances even to idiot imbecility they have imparted potency.
This quote takes a careful reading, but it's worth the work.
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