After 12 years and thousands of posts, I have found my bloggers’ credo, or more correctly, it found me. A rhyming couplet, revised just a bit from the 467-year-old original.
Post o’er Land and Ocean day or night:
They also serve who only sit and write.
Works for me.
(Thanks, and apologies, to John Milton.)
This article appears in Oct 10-16, 2019.
“When there is a gap between one’s real and one’s declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink. In our age there is no such thing as ‘keeping out of politics.’ All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred, and schizophrenia.” –George Orwell, Politics and the English Language, 1946
Is there anything left of our history that hasn’t been revised?