This sentence sticks with me and rings true with my inner history geek (and has been my e-mail signature for like ever!):
Watch and before your very eyes, presto chango, a capital crime of the most hideous sort will be turned into a superstition, then into an inspiration, then again into an act of resistance. A public enemy will morph into a halfwit, the halfwit into a muse, the muse into a role model.
~*Candace Savage*~ Witch: the wild ride from wicked to wicca
And one of the BEST written selections from an incredible novel...
"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times; it ws the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness; it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity; it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness; it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair; we had everything before us, we had nothing before us; we were all going directly to Heaven, we were all going the other way."
Charles Dickens A Tale of Two Cities
I'm sure they are others, but my memory is crap at the best of times
I know there is one in Spanish, but for the life of me I can't remember it exactly, and it's untranslatable.
Oh Oh OH!! Another book to add to my list is one that travels with me everywhere in the back of my car, The Complete Works of Federico Garcia Lorca, positively the BEST poet in the history of the universe biggrin If you can read it in Spanish please do, while the translations are good, poetry has a soul that cannot be translated.
Yeesh, that wasn't geeky at all cool
