Let Ithaka be always in your thoughts.
To get there is your goal and destiny.
But do not hasten to your journey’s end:
it’s better if it lasts for many years
so that you'll reach the island when you’re old,
wealthy with all you’ve gained along the way,
not hoping Ithaka will make you rich.
Your marvellous journey is Ithaka’s gift.
Without her you would not have started out.
But she has nothing more to give you now.
And if you find she's poor, you’ve not been fooled.
So wise have you become, so much you’ve learned,
that you will know what Ithakas must be.
Source: Seen in passing on X-Twitter. Holler if you want the whole thing.
Author/Translator: Armand D'Angour, Professor of Classics, Oxford. Cello lover. Larkin about. Turning life into Latin verse, one hexameter at a time. Podcast “It’s All Greek (& Latin!) to Me”.
Posted: Feb 06
No matter where you look, they’re staring at you! Could give a person a complex!
Tom
Tom – It could indeed.
To me it looks more like “The Scream” than “Home Alone.”
Jim T
Jim T – Same image, maybe? I wonder if the movie’s director deliberately copied Munch’s painting.
Oh snap! don’t designers see the FACES?
And some car grills are so angry!
Barbara – I don’t know. I’d be surprised if they don’t see them (being so visual) but I often don’t see out-&-out errors in own writing because I know what I intended. Maybe it’s the same with them. But maybe it’s a conspiracy . . .
It also may be the macro design of certain objects that need two switches and a big “mouth” vent. It is unlikely the switches would be placed at the bottom out of reach for lazy owners.
Barbara – Yes, functionality considerations drive some of the placement, I expect – maybe most. Now that you’ve brought it up I do wonder whether they work with that natural face or work against it or simply don’t see it (in my mind, the least likely alternative).