#strangeness — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #strangeness, aggregated by home.social.
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Will thou know what wonders strange be in the land that late was found?
Will thou learn thy life to lead, by divers ways that godly be?
Will thou of virtue and vice understand the very ground?
Will thou see this wretched world, how full it is of vanity?
[Vis nova monstra, novo dudum nunc orbe reperto?
Vivendi varia uis ratione modos?
Vis qui virtutum fontes, vis unde malorum
Principia? et quantum rebus inane latet?]Thomas More (1478-1535) English lawyer, social philosopher, statesman, humanist, Christian martyr
Utopia, “A Meter of Four Verses in the Utopian Tongue,” “Cornelius Graphey to the Reader” (1516 ed.) [tr. Open Utopia (Duncombe) (2012)]More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/more-thomas/83122/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #thomasmore #utopia #discovery #exploration #foreigners #strangeness #virtue #wonder
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Dear sire, and offspring worthy of your fire!
We bards are dupes to what ourselves admire.
Would I be brief — I grow confused and coarse;
Who aims at smoothness, fails in fire and force;
In him who soars aloft, bombast is found;
Who fears to face the tempest, crawls aground.
Who courts variety and fain would ring
A thousand changes on the self-same string,
Will paint, as ’twere in fancy’s wildest mood
Boars in the wave and dolphins in the wood.
Thus even error, shun’d without address,
Breeds error, diff’rent in its kind, not less.
[Maxima pars vatum, pater et iuvenes patre digni,
decipimur specie recti: brevis esse laboro,
obscurus fio; sectantem levia nervi
deficiunt animique; professus grandia turget;
serpit humi tutus nimium timidusque procellae:
qui variare cupit rem prodigialiter unam,
delphinum silvis adpingit, fluctibus aprum:
in vitium ducit culpae fuga, si caret arte.]Horace (65–8 BC) Roman poet, satirist, soldier, politician [Quintus Horatius Flaccus]
Epistles [Epistularum, Letters], Book 2, ep. 3 “Art of Poetry [Ars Poetica; To the Pisos],” l. 24ff (2.3.24-31) (19 BC) [tr. Howes (1845)]More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/horace/14582/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #horace #arspoetica #poet #bombast #brevity #brief #caution #clarity #criticism #edit #error #explanation #extremes #faults #force #mistake #obscurity #overcompensation #overcorrection #poetry #smoothness #strangeness #style #succinctness #talent #timidity #tryingtoohard #unintelligibility #variety #vigor #writing
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New issue of Kzoo Star dropped :)
Enjoy some #weirdness, #strangeness, and odd #humor? Like it in a semi-flyer-newsletter format? Like it #free because the first 10 of anything on #Vella is free?
You might like my nonsense!
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New issue of Kzoo Star dropped :)
Enjoy some #weirdness, #strangeness, and odd #humor? Like it in a semi-flyer-newsletter format? Like it #free because the first 10 of anything on #Vella is free?
You might like my nonsense!
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New issue of Kzoo Star dropped :)
Enjoy some #weirdness, #strangeness, and odd #humor? Like it in a semi-flyer-newsletter format? Like it #free because the first 10 of anything on #Vella is free?
You might like my nonsense!
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New issue of Kzoo Star dropped :)
Enjoy some #weirdness, #strangeness, and odd #humor? Like it in a semi-flyer-newsletter format? Like it #free because the first 10 of anything on #Vella is free?
You might like my nonsense!
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Hmmmmm… Cat is showing a lot of interest in brand-new sets of #TommyJohn underwear set out for laundering! Sniffing, rolling, pawing? Maybe she’ll become a lap cat after this. Maybe that’s not a good thing! #cat #feline #underwear #strangeness