โItโs discouraging how many people are shocked by honesty, and how few by deceit.โ
Noรซl Coward
Blithe Spirit
(This is partly a test to see if copy/paste works with formatting intact)
โItโs discouraging how many people are shocked by honesty, and how few by deceit.โ
Noรซl Coward
Blithe Spirit
(This is partly a test to see if copy/paste works with formatting intact)
Iโm going to use the opening of โThe Night We Met,โ by Lord Huron. This is mostly to see if I can play with the typeface for the Quote attribute.
I am not the only travelerโฆ
Who has not repaid his debt.
And now back to our regularly scheduled programming.
Yes, it looks meme-like. It was made by me, at a meme generation site (I forget which one). The quote comes from Patrick Nielsen Hayden, back in the old days on the newsgroup rec.arts.sf.fandom on USENET. Itโs a good chunk of why I have the US flag emoji up on the header on top.
As Patrick pointed out at the time, the US flag, as a symbol, is not feared by many traditionalists around the world because it represents rah-rah chauvinism, or our powerful military. No, itโs feared as a symbol because it represents the kind of ideas he lists.