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A six-year-old boy is deeply struck by the sight of a dead old man in an open wooden casket. He becomes a famous singer and songwriter, and performs for the whole of his life. In his final years, while contemplating death, a line appears in his last song that conveys an image of himself in a wooden casket. The lyric strikes his audience with the force of seventy-years of fermentation.

d.hues, #1126, Aphorisms: Volume One: 1994-2013, in Art and Literature

A six-year-old boy is deeply struck by the sight of a dead old man in an open wooden casket. He becomes a famous singer and songwriter, and performs for the whole of his life. In his final years, while contemplating death, a line appears in his last song that conveys an image of himself in a wooden casket. The lyric strikes his audience with the force of seventy-year’s fermentation.

d.hues, #1126, Aphorisms: Volume One: 1994-2013, in Art and Literature

There is no secret joy lurking in the bottomless pit of our appetites.

d.hues, #3746, Aphorisms: Volume One: 1994-2013, in Happiness and Misery and Wisdom and Ignorance

Words are weighted by their associations. The lazy will use words regardless of their associations, blaming others for assuming more than what was said; while the sophisticated will select words based on their associations, thus saying always more than what was said.

d.hues, #3869, Aphorisms: Volume One: 1994-2013, in Art and Literature and Wisdom and Ignorance

To ride the waves of Time, the Artist must show more than is said and say more than is known.

d.hues, #3744, Aphorisms: Volume One: 1994-2013, in Art and Literature

Art is the idea raped by actualization.

d.hues, #3132, Aphorisms: Volume One: 1994-2013, in Art and Literature

The wise Artists seeks to not sacrifice the richness of the world at the altar of originality.

d.hues, #3370, Aphorisms: Volume One: 1994-2013, in Art and Literature

Weigh words to weight words.

d.hues, #1441, Aphorisms: Volume One: 1994-2013, in Art and Literature

The heart fills the mind with the songs it sings, while the mind fills the heart with cold reason. And the heart that loves above all else Truth shivers with joy.

d.hues, # 1706, Aphorisms: Volume One: 1994-2013, in Wisdom and Ignorance

The Truth of the ignorant is holey indeed.

d.hues, #1199, Aphorisms: Volume One: 1994-2013, in Wisdom and Ignorance

Truth needs not protection.

d.hues, # 1128, Aphorisms: Volume One: 1994-2013, in Wisdom and Ignorance

Truth cannot be extracted from loopholes!

d.hues, # 802, Aphorisms: Volume One: 1994-2013, in Wisdom and Ignorance

Do you declare it is the Truth because you find it is desirable? Or do you declare it is desirable because you find it is the Truth?

d.hues, #157, Aphorisms: Volume One: 1994-2013, in Wisdom and Ignorance

If you keep saying it
the way it really is,
eventually your word
is law in the universe.

Werner Erhart, from est keepsake: "If God Had Meant Man to Fly, He Would Have Given Him Wings or: Up to Your Ass in Aphorisms" (©1973), in Altruism and Cynicism and Wisdom and Ignorance

The truth doesn't mean anything.
It just is.

Werner Erhart, from est keepsake: "If God Had Meant Man to Fly, He Would Have Given Him Wings or: Up to Your Ass in Aphorisms" (©1973), in Wisdom and Ignorance and Altruism and Cynicism

Since stupidity is a monster that you cannot defeat, it is at least pretty amusing trying to fight it.

Carl William Brown, in Art and Literature and Vice and Virtue

How can you effectively fight stupidity? The answer is simple: it is not easy.

Carl William Brown, in Wisdom and Ignorance and Law and Politics

"Sometimes I feel curiosity will be my demise, I mean, curiosity does kill the cat..Well, what can't be quenched is bound to be scratched."

Phillip Simone, in Wisdom and Ignorance and Happiness and Misery

If intelligence equals wisdom, and wisdom equals intelligence, then what does that make you?

Who Knows, in Wisdom and Ignorance

This is a test submission, for test purposes. There is nothing for you here. qvfeopsygbka

Test Aphorist, a test comment