British born • well traveled busker • philosopher • folk music theorist • Australian art • the 10£ tourist who makes images & videos for no apparent reason.
All the welcome love between Deep Purple, Ritchie Blackmore, & Ian Gillan reminds me of other bands, Eagles and Pink Floyd for example that could also bury the hatchet “for old time’s sake.” Why not? We’ll all be dead a long time.
@_Wordsforyou11 That quote does not appear in any of Dostoevsky’s writing. It remains an interesting POV, but it doesn’t deserve the quotation marks. He never wrote or said those words.
@spraguepond@HistorylandHQ 🎼They complained in the east
They are paying too high
They say that your ore
Ain’t worth digging.
That it’s much cheaper down
In the South American towns
Where the miner’s work
Almost for nothing.
“Most of the young men of talent whom I have met in this country give one the impression of being somewhat demented. Why shouldn't they? They are living amidst spiritual gorillas, living with food and drink maniacs, success-mongers, gadget innovators, publicity hounds.
God, if I were a young man today, if I were faced with a world such as we have created, I would blow my brains out.”
― Henry Miller