John Crowley

Rivers, like men, only learn why they were born near their end. – José Saramago (1922-2010) “Nations reel and stagger on their way; they make hideous mistakes; they commit frightful wrongs; they do great and beautiful things. And shall we not best guide humanity by telling the truth about all this, so far as the truth is ascertainable?” – W.E.B. Du Bois 乌托邦（utopia）和反乌托邦（dystopia）出现在许多有名的小说里。 investing 20260901: Global Bond Selloff Sends Yields to the Highest Level Since 2008 Debt is not a problem if the underlying economy is good and healthy. the problem now is that the high inflation is driven by high oil price because of already half-year Iran-war and the close of Hormuz. The higher bond yields raise the cost of borrowing money. it’s a signal of hiking the rates to the Fed from the market? ...

“It is very nearly impossible to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.” – James Baldwin “Religion is a culture of faith; science is a culture of doubt.” – Richard P. Feynman, The Meaning of It All Don’t just teach your children to read … Teach them to question what they read. Teach them to question everything. – George Carlin Nature composes some of her loveliest poems for the microscope and the telescope. – Theodore Roszak, 1933-2011 ...

Come away, O human child! To the waters and the wild With a faery, hand in hand, For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand. -- W. B. Yeats, the stolen child, 1886 Writing and reading about Fairies some may deem to be mark of a trifling turn of mind. On this subject … dulce est desipere in loco. (It is sweet to be silly in places.) – Thomas Keightley, the world guide to Gnomes, Fairies, Elves and other little people ...