23 April 2003 13:37 [link]
on antiques
Can you tell I'm reading Three Men in a Boat today?
Will it be the same in the future? Will the prized treasures of today always be the cheap trifles of the day before? Will rows of our willow-pattern dinner-plates be ranged above the chimney-pieces of the great in the years 2000 and odd?
Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men in a Boat
It seems that this might well be the case.
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23 April 2003 13:19 [link]
on freedom from possessions
Throw the lumber over, man! Let your boat of life be light, packed with only what you need - a homely home and simple pleasures, one or two friends worth the name, someone to love and someone to love you, a cat, a dog, and a pipe or two, enough to eat and enough to wear, and a little more than enough to drink; for thirst is a dangerous thing.
Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men in a Boat
Epicurus couldn't have put it better.
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