a fool in the forest: Pre-Homeric Management Secrets

Epigraphs

A fool, a fool! I met a fool i' the
forest,
A motley fool; a miserable world!
As I do live by food, I met a fool
Who laid him down and bask'd him
in the sun,
And rail'd on Lady Fortune in good
terms,
In good set terms and yet a motley
fool.

As You Like It,
Act II, Scene 7

L'homme y passe à travers des
forêts de symboles
Qui l'observent avec des regards
familiers.

Les Fleurs du Mal,
“Correspondances”

[T]here is almost no subject-matter, and what little one can disentangle is foolish....
One would call the style verbose, except that by definition verbosity is the use of words in excess of the occasion, and there seems to be no occasion.

Yvor Winters,
Forms of Discovery, Ch. 7

Best Personal Blog
by a Legally-Oriented
Male Blogger
Blawg Review Awards 2005

Of Related Interest

March 22, 2004

Pre-Homeric Management Secrets

"With mankind," he would say, "forms, measured forms are everything; and that is the import couched in the story of Orpheus with his lyre spell-binding the wild denizens of the wood."

-- Herman Melville, Billy Budd, Ch. 28

Posted on March 22, 2004 at 11:47 AM in Miscellany | Permalink

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Comments

How strange, we were thinking about Homer at the same time. Such culture mavens we are.

Posted by: David Giacalone | March 23, 2004 at 03:20 PM

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a fool in the forest

The personal & cultural web journal of George M. Wallace, an attorney practicing in Pasadena, California.