The Thin of the Wedge

By lex, on September 29th, 2008

Vampires make uncongenial guests: Having invited one into the house, you have forfeited any power over him. It becomes his decision when, and under what circumstances to leave. Or even if he will. He might even come to feel at home in your place. Admire the views.

Rearrange the furniture.

Notice, in time, that you’re still pottering about in the attic. Make a note to do something about that.

The living and the undead make uncomfortable housemates – sooner or later, one or the other will have to go. Dreadful nuisance, much drama in the way of broken crockery, but there it is.

Credo

"Sign on, young man, and sail with me. The stature of our homeland is no more than the measure of ourselves. Our job is to keep her free. Our will is to keep the torch of freedom burning for all. To this solemn purpose we call on the young, the brave, the strong, and the free. Heed my call, Come to the sea. Come Sail with me."

— John Paul Jones

"Pardon him, Theodotus; he is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature"

— George Bernard Shaw, Caesar and Cleopatra

"And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music."

— Friedrich Nietzsche

"A kind Providence has placed in our breasts a hatred of the unjust and cruel, in order that we may preserve ourselves from cruelty and injustice. They who bear cruelty, are accomplices in it. The pretended gentleness which excludes that charitable rancour, produces an indifference which is half an approbation. They never will love where they ought to love, who do not hate where they ought to hate."

— Edmund Burke

"Μολὼν λαβέ"

— Leonidas

"Blogito Ergo Sum"

— Neptunus Lex