“The mystery is what they find to talk about in the country.”“There are two subjects of conversation in the country: Servants, and Can fowls be made to pay? The first, I believe, is compulsory, the second optional.”
Saturday, November 23, 2024
The first, I believe, is compulsory, the second optional.
From The Complete Saki. Page 10.
Data Talks
The US economy has an insane ability to reinvent itself again and again. Source: https://t.co/jMoM7PuGvi pic.twitter.com/KHqJKiLYqg
— Simon Kuestenmacher (@simongerman600) October 16, 2024
Friday, November 22, 2024
History
Gianni Berengo Gardin - Venise, 1955 pic.twitter.com/4Md3oGVeZc
— CameraLab (@cameralab21) October 19, 2024
An Insight
The public sector vs the private sector: pic.twitter.com/JpAEsU5sNq
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) October 13, 2024
I see wonderful things
"It is a great gift to be able to bear loneliness and to derive pleasure from it."
— Cursive Entelechia (@Pergament_F) November 1, 2024
Bernard Shaw
🌜📖🌛
Good night pic.twitter.com/nTWEFON4zF
Data Talks
Canada being 1/3rd foreign-born is pretty remarkable.
— Charles Fain Lehman (@CharlesFLehman) October 15, 2024
U.S. by contrast is about 1/7th. https://t.co/ki3iswFkUd
She must have been rather a problem at Christmas-time; nothing short of a blank cheque would have fitted the situation.
From The Complete Saki. Page 10.
And then, of course, there are liqueur glasses, and crystallized fruits, and tapestry curtains, and heaps of other necessaries of life that make really sensible presents—not to speak of luxuries, such as having one’s bills paid, or getting something quite sweet in the way of jewellery. Unlike the alleged Good Woman of the Bible, I'm not above rubies. When found, by the way, she must have been rather a problem at Christmas-time; nothing short of a blank cheque would have fitted the situation. Perhaps it’s as well that she’s died out.
Ginkgo Tree, 1965 by Shiro Kasamatsu (Japanese, 1898 - 1991)
Ginkgo Tree, 1965 by Shiro Kasamatsu (Japanese, 1898 - 1991)
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