Yellow Brick Road:
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i) 'delivery vehicle' for graphics (medium and BIG) from '93 days of darkness'
ii) guide for anons re how to find more
Are the posts in THIS chain (completed) all connected?
Obvious answer: YES. How EXACTLY? What are the EXACT connections between individual posts?
Anons CAN answer these questions BEFORE assessing meaning of whole set.
35 posts in Yellow Brick Road chain are like THIS, but more complex.
ALL posts are connected. ALL posts have MULTIPLE connections to other posts. (No matter how absurd this may seem at first…) (Errors may exist…)
It is possible to find the connections BEFORE assessing ultimate meaning of whole.
Q/POTUS teasers in early posts are mostly 'solvable' piecemeal.
Teasers are dropped at a certain point. Connections persist.
It is not the critic who counts;
not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better.
The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood;
who strives valiantly;
who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming;
but who does actually strive to do the deeds;
who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions;
who spends himself in a worthy cause;
who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement,
and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly,
so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.
-
Teddy Roosevelt
The time has come for man to set himself a goal.
The time has come for man to plant the seed of his highest hope.
His soil is still rich enough.
But one day this soil will be poor and domesticated, and no tall tree will be able to grow in it.
Alas, the time is coming when man will no longer shoot the arrow of his longing beyond man, and the string of his bow will have forgotten how to whir!
I say unto you: one must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.
I say unto you: you still have chaos in yourselves.
Alas, the time is coming when man will no longer give birth to a star.
Alas, the time of the most despicable man is coming, he that is no longer able to despise himself.
Behold, I show you the last man.
What is love? What is creation? What is longing? What is a star?
thus asks the last man, and he blinks.
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Friedrich Nietzsche
Think not of tuning now or preparation,
Strike up, my boy — no fear — no hesitation,
Till you commence no chance of inspiration.
But once assume the poet — then the fire
From heaven will come to kindle and inspire.
Strong drink is what we want to gull the people,
A hearty, brisk, and animating tipple;
Come, come, no more delay, no more excuses,
The stuff we ask you for, at once produce us.
Lose this day loitering — ’twill be the same story
To-morrow — and the next more dilatory;
Then indecision brings its own delays,
And days are lost lamenting o’er lost days.
Are you in earnest? seize this very minute —
What you can do, or dream you can, begin it,
Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it,
Only engage, and then the mind grows heated —
Begin it, and the work will be completed!
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe