Sunday, August 3, 2025

 

Today’s Totally Random Lines

 

His discontents are unremoveably

Coupled to nature.

 

Senator

Timon of Athens     Act IV, Scene iv, Line 227                                   

 

Of course, in today’s context, the senator is talking about Timon, who wants nothing to do with humanity. Timon has had it with people. I believe his attitude can be summed up in the immortal words of my friend Uwe: I hate people.

But, in a larger sense I think we can apply Today’s Line pretty much universally. Sometimes the nature referred to can be our own, and sometimes that nature can be nature at large. Case in point:

If either of our young men here, whether it be mild mannered Otto or SuperAug, makes a wrong move, his subsequent discontent will be unremoveably coupled to nature (in this case the nature being embodied in gravity).
 For the record, there were no wrong moves in this case. 

And just so you know, Mojo was not present for today's pic. He is averse to any situations that have a possibility for discontent, unremoveably coupled with nature or otherwise.

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