November 25, 2008
Courtesy
Sometimes the cure for crabbiness and self-pity resides in demonstrating some small courtesy toward another human being.
November 24, 2008
slow blogging
I was reading in the Times about the slow blogging movement (if you can call it that). I’m a part of it and I didn’t even know it. All it takes is having some blogs that you rarely, if ever, post to, and that other people rarely, if ever, read.
I love being part of a mass movement that has no mass and little movement.
Hmm. Sounds like a good blog posting to me….
I love being part of a mass movement that has no mass and little movement.
Hmm. Sounds like a good blog posting to me….
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Carol Bly, who
got me all fired up about connections between neuroscience and morality and art.
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- Minneapolis, MN, United States
- From 1700s Italy, "dilettante" originally meant "lover of the arts," but became a pejorative when professionalism took hold during the 18th century. A dilettante became a mere lover of art as opposed to one who earned a living from it. Today, the word refers to a poseur, or one pretending to be an artist. synonyms: dabbler, sciolist, dilettanteish, dilettantish, sciolistic Usage Examples “It’s better up here away from the phonies and the dilettantes. Here I can do what I want and no one comes to sneer. You’re not a sneerer, are you?” - Flowers for Algernon ‘There were no scientists in Stuart England,’ we are told, ‘and all the men we have grouped together under that heading were in their varying degrees dilettantes.’ - The Invention of Science Charles wasn’t a dilettante; he was serious about the breeding and created his own new lines of pigeons. - Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith source: https://www.vocabulary.com/dictionary/dilettante