Fury

[jouis_sens]

I am charged with a grim task:  the writing of an anticipatory eulogy. A beloved colleague is not long for this world, and I am bound by both professional and personal duty to try to speak in a way that does some justice - however inevitably inadequately - to his life and to his work, both of which have enriched us all immeasurably.  He is widely

Comments

[tomkoz]

wow. well done.

[benicek]

It is.

[dulcemia]

The moment of disaster is not the time to act; the brief adrenaline rush of the periodic apocalypse parade is not the lifeblood of justice. The time to act was yesterday. The time to act is today. The time to act is tomorrow. The time to act is every day.

This is now my favorite series of sentences ever written anywhere about anything.

[dulcemia]

Ever.

[signsof]

It always seems like people are a little confused about what the phrase 'give no quarter' means. It's this.

(I'm so sorry about Bill.)

[jouis_sens]

These are bereft times, in so very many senses.