and even tangented.. in vino veritas.
Gotta give yerself credit though - among all those who have seen the Light and improved a wall with or without an outline (and left it that way a while).. damn few bothered to notice it was a load-bearing wall
..in time! :-\ufffd
The others are always the Same Story, just different names; take Fran\ufffdoise - artist (still have her black & white weaving, 'Star') as reminder of bizarre week in Fr. Alps. Lucky us - she had a job there so room was free, skis almost. It was the best of times. It was the worst of times. (Hmm that could make a good start for something..)
Anyway, your perceptions of the manner of our insouciant frittering of time - are right out of Wordsworth, and are not to be denied, for..
forsooth thou speakest Truth!
The world is too much with us; late and soon,
Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers:
Little we see in Nature that is ours;
We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon!
This Sea that bares her bosom to the moon;
The winds that will be howling at all hours,
And are up-gathered now like sleeping flowers;
For this, for everything we are out of tune;
It moves us not; Great God! I'd rather be
A Pagan suckled in a creed outworn ... ...
Alas alack.. in technology resides nary a heart, no semblance of the Grand.. no pianissimo or Sforzando, no whiff - still on the cork! of a '61 Chateau d'Yqem, opened in '91 - of distilled attars beyond words. Merely: process, logic. No one could love it, just use it.. bear it. Disdainfully
Thou knowest. Now..
Get thee to a nunnery
A.
did I mention? ..that sound & fury, signifying -