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  1. Don’t Be Derisive

    I'm watching Persuasion, yet again. The version with Ciarán Hinds, it's my ultimate comfort (the book is also a comfort). However, it reminds me that earlier this week I was a bit snooty and it rebounded. I bought a ticket to see Deirdre O'Kane next year in September. I knew I'd bought a ticket for 2027. This week an email arrived in my inbox in relation to the gig - I thought it was to say it was cancelled or something, but no it was to say they'd had several enquiries about the gig […]

    deirdrew.com/2026/09/12/dont-b

  2. A quotation from Euripides

    HECUBA:      The clear actions of a man,
       Agamemnon, should speak louder than any words.
       good words should get their goodness from our lives
       and nowhere else; the evil we do should show,
       a rottenness that festers in our speech
       and what we say, in capable of being glozed
       with a film of pretty words.
                        There are men, I know,
       sophists who make a science of persuasion,
       glozing evil with the slick of loveliness;
       but in the end a speciousness will show.
       The imposters are punished; not one escapes
       his death.
     
    [ἙΚΆΒΗ: Ἀγάμεμνον, ἀνθρώποισιν οὐκ ἐχρῆν ποτε
       τῶν πραγμάτων τὴν γλῶσσαν ἰσχύειν πλέον:
       ἀλλ᾽, εἴτε χρήστ᾽ ἔδρασε, χρήστ᾽ ἔδει λέγειν,
       εἴτ᾽ αὖ πονηρά, τοὺς λόγους εἶναι σαθρούς,
       καὶ μὴ δύνασθαι τἄδικ᾽ εὖ λέγειν ποτέ.
       σοφοὶ μὲν οὖν εἰσ᾽ οἱ τάδ᾽ ἠκριβωκότες,
       ἀλλ᾽ οὐ δύνανται διὰ τέλους εἶναι σοφοί,
       κακῶς δ᾽ ἀπώλοντ᾽: οὔτις ἐξήλυξέ πω.]

    Euripides (485?-406? BC) Greek tragic dramatist
    Hecuba [Hekabe; Ἑκάβη], l. 1186ff (c. 424 BC) [tr. Arrowsmith (1958)]

    Sourcing, notes, other translations: wist.info/euripides/77262/

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