Originality is fragile. And, in its first moments, it’s often far from pretty.

Ed Catmull

We can only judge of things by their effects. Our perception constantly deceives us, in things with which we suppose ourselves perfectly conversant; but our reception of their effect is a different matter.

On the Realities of Imagination (Leigh Hunt, 1822)

Sometimes people need their faith rewarded.

– Batman

In linguistica, la paretimologia, o etimologia popolare, è il processo attraverso il quale un parlante tenta di rimotivare un segno altrimenti oscuro per la sua competenza linguistica. Una parola viene così reinterpretata sulla base di somiglianze di forma o di significato con altre parole, deviando dalla forma o dal significato originario.

Generalmente la cosa avviene quando si perde la trasparenza della parola e occorre trovare un sostegno per significato o suono a una parola che sembra averlo perso, anche forzandone la forma stessa.

– Denis Diderot

SONG OF THE DAY: Lusine – Stones Throw (Language Barrier, 2007)

Se hai stile hai il tuo metodo che continua mentre tutte le cose vacillano. Mi segui?

Sì.

Non c’è altro. È molto semplice.

Ma lo stile di vita? Cambia anche questo?

Il mio non cambia un granché. Mi limito a bere cose diverse.

Courage (from latin coraticum o cor habeo, adjective composed by the word cor, cordis heart and the verb habere to have: to have heart) is the ability and willingness to confront fear, pain, danger, uncertainty, or intimidation. Physical courage is courage in the face of physical pain, hardship, death, or threat of death, while moral courage is the ability to act rightly in the face of popular opposition, shame, scandal, or discouragement.

 

Style is the answer to everything.
A fresh way to approach a dull or dangerous thing
To do a dull thing with style is preferable to doing a dangerous thing without it
To do a dangerous thing with style is what I call art

Bullfighting can be an art
Boxing can be an art
Loving can be an art
Opening a can of sardines can be an art

Not many have style
Not many can keep style
I have seen dogs with more style than men,
although not many dogs have style.
Cats have it with abundance.

When Hemingway put his brains to the wall with a shotgun,
that was style.
Or sometimes people give you style
Joan of Arc had style
John the Baptist
Jesus
Socrates
Caesar
García Lorca.

I have met men in jail with style.
I have met more men in jail with style than men out of jail.
Style is the difference, a way of doing, a way of being done.
Six herons standing quietly in a pool of water,
or you, naked, walking out of the bathroom without seeing me.

– Hank