Random Noodling: Ekphrastic April, April 22: "Glacier et Aiguille du Tour..."

April 22, 2021

"Glacier et Aiguille du Tour , Mer de la Table au Chantre (Buet)" by Georgette Agutte [1867-1922].

she painted a glacier
more than 100 years ago

never realizing she was
providing us with evidence
that nature can be destroyed

while art remains

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 22, 2021

Ekphrastic April, April 22: "Glacier et Aiguille du Tour..."

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