Thursday 26 January 2012

Bickering Brattle of a Mouse

People have a right to be irrational. Fundamental human right. But don't put her in charge of the asylum.

Dedicated to the bickering brattle of a mouse (ISFJ) who complains about everything.

Tuesday 17 January 2012

Book of Optics

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ibn_al-Haytham

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_Optics

Sunday 8 January 2012

Socrates meets Machiavelli




http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=VVPBf9IAR5cC&pg=PT26&lpg=PT26&dq=machiavelli+socrates+power&source=bl&ots=HLk0P7S0EI&sig=6C4JLcbZ_X0nd32SYBQhB#v=onepage&q

Thursday 5 January 2012

Dick the Butcher

All:
God save your majesty!
Cade:
I thank you, good people—there shall be no money; all shall eat
and drink on my score, and I will apparel them all in one livery,
that they may agree like brothers, and worship me their lord.
Dick:
The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers.
Cade:
Nay, that I mean to do.
Henry The Sixth, Part 2 Act 4, scene 2, 71–78
Dick the butcher, a character no one remembers, utters one of the few memorable lines from the entire three-part Henry the Sixth cycle. Dick's Utopian idea to kill all England's lawyers is his addition to the promises of the traitorous Jack Cade, who envisions a quasi-communistic social revolution, with himself installed as autocrat. Cade alleges that all lawyers do is shuffle parchments back and forth in a systematic attempt to ruin the common people. His demagoguery is simply a calculated appeal to simple folks' longing to be left alone.

http://www.enotes.com/shakespeare-quotes/lets-kill-all-lawyers