I guess not many of you know that the Sanscrit word shanti, meaning “the ultimate Peace” or “the Peace which passeth understanding”, besides being, uttered thrice, a climactic ending to T.S. Eliot's seminal poem The Waste Land, also closes the canonical studio version of Frank Zappa's Cosmik Debris, a piece advocating an utmost caution when indulging into obscure Eastern spiritual practices.
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- Male C. Pig a.k.a. Svinopolist (
piggymouse) wrote,
Male C. Pig a.k.a. Svinopolist
piggymouse
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Carlyle on blind deference to data (from "Chartism")
A witty Statesman said you might prove anything by figures. We have looked into various statistic works, Statistic-Society Reports, Poor-Law…
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From Stenbock's "Faust"
I said, continuing my enquiry (which was both official and ecclesiastical), ‘You must tell me exactly about it. I know that you monks,…
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The Secret People
В связи с событиями в Великобритании один умный коллега ссылался на Киплинга, но другой, куда более умный коллега ссылался всё-таки на Честертона.…
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