Saturday, June 15, 2013

Vita Brevis, Ars Longa

Present-day culture is not the only landmark of being.


The deeper into the past one probes, the greater the reach of foresight.  This is the gift of historical perspective, tracing, as it does, the patterns of the human condition, the arts and the archetypes of sound and vision, wisdom, absurdity, and the worlds within and without.