Random Noodling: Ephrastic April, Day 25: "Assisi"

April 25, 2020

"Assisi" (circa 1883-1910) by Annie Louisa Swynnerton [1844-1933].

the fact that birds
can fly even higher
than the fortifications

of Assisi

must have given Francis
hope for man's soul

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Interesting Idea

I don’t use the term as an insult — the American idiot. I mean it in a precise way, as I try to remind people. For the Greeks, "idiot" carried a precise and special meaning. The person who was only interested in private life, private gain, private advantage. Who had no conception of a public good, common wealth, shared interest. To the Greeks, the pioneers of democracy, the creators of the demos, such a person was the most contemptible of all. Because even the Greeks seemed to understand: you can’t make a functioning democracy out of...idiots.

~ umair haque

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April 25, 2020

Ephrastic April, Day 25: "Assisi"

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