Live while you are alive
When you think of Epicurus, you think above all of friendship (if you are new to him, be assured that friendship was important to him). People refer to “my friend” when they they really, in truth, mean “my acquaintance”. One of the most startling things about the modern world is the growing self-absorption. Two people, …
We went Hamleys yesterday on the Tube. Hamleys is the biggest toy shop in the world. We ought two magic thumbs that light up and you can pretend that they are coming out of your mouth, ears or nose. Additionally, we bought two wind-up toys. We had a happy outing. Ataraxia.
There is a school photograph of Alan Turing, the famous mathematician, along with the other boys in his term. There, along with Turing, is my own father, aged, I think, 13. I have been reflecting on both men. One, my father, was desperate to be successful and even famous. The other was shy and reclusive, …
Last night I saw Shakespeare’s “Timon of Athens”, with Simon Russell Beale in the principal role. I quote the man himself: ” It is an important part of our job, as the cast of a great classic play, to lead the audience through a detailed, thought-through argument or series of arguments”. An actor, he continues …
You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough. Mae West, quoted in the Morton Grove Champion, Illinois
