#astonishment — Public Fediverse posts

SONG OF THE WEEK—“It’s in Your Hands + Variations on Satie” https://johnnyjblairsingeratlarge.bandcamp.com/track/its-in-your-hands-variations-on-satie-2

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do not give in to astonishment...

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do not give in to astonishment...

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we took the hound for a long urban ramble and he was ASTONISHED that we kept running into dogs that looked just like him

#dogs #windows #astonishment #ghosteye

A quotation from Douglas Adams

Gordon Way’s astonishment at being suddenly shot dead was nothing to his astonishment at what happened next.

Douglas Adams (1952-2001) English author, humourist, screenwriter
Dirk Gently, No. 1, Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency, ch. 7 (1987)

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A quotation from Emerson

Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) American essayist, lecturer, poet
Essay (1841), “Art,” Essays: First Series, No. 12

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Choosing wisely is a sign of maturity and growth. #Wisdom #FearOfTheLord #Knowledge #Reverence #astonishment

But I don’t want to see what I’ve already seen, or write about what everyone already knows. I want to dazzle myself. I want to live in the knowledge (as Borges once said, citing Shakespeare) that “there are more things.”
-Benjamín Labatut

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