“I love my country partly for itself alone, for its spirit, for its attempt to live up to the Declaration and the Constitution. But I also love America, almost to distraction, for what I see—for roads, fields, birds. . . .”
@baltic_dan ...that ancient German impulse towards the South which has been the ruin of our best, from the Saxon Emperors to Hölderlin and Nietzsche....
@pbprot Similar for my family, but they reject all class signaling that they can identify out of principle, which I think makes them ... epigenetic mainline protestants
@polanskydj I think the whole deal is that with conventional animation you were thinking in terms of the frame, which is one of the traditional constraints of visual art
@DagoSupremacy I interpret the Ocean comment differently from most repliers. It is a privilege to have these "Beautiful Moats" as has been said, but one that we are so used to that we forget about (even leaders)--I think this is what Zelensky meant