‘Those with talent must mind the world’ (or: I taut I tmelled a putty…)
Yesterday, I came upon a great little sentence in Ray Bradbury’s short story collection ‘We’ll always have Paris’. It was just one line in a story called ‘Massinello Pietro’.
This is it:
‘Those with talent must mind the world.’
The longer I look at it, the more it speaks to me.
(Obviously, the flip side of this sentiment is that the world should try not to mind the talentless too much – and here I’ll give you the ‘poet’ William Topaz McGonagall. No, truly, keep him, please…)
Anyway, I do love the idea that those with talent should mind the world – which more or less implies that they actually could do so.
I wish I could believe that but I fear that the forces that gave us the Big Brother House are stronger than the poet who gave us these immortal lines:
We have lingered in the chambers of the sea
By sea-girls wreathed with seaweed red and brown
Till human voices wake us, and we drown.’
or the guy who wrote these:
‘Our revels now are ended. These our actors,
As I foretold you, were all spirits, and
Are melted into air, into thin air:
And like the baseless fabric of this vision,
The cloud-capp’d tow’rs, the gorgeous palaces,
The solemn temples, the great globe itself,
Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve,
And, like this insubstantial pageant faded,
Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff
As dreams are made on; and our little life
Is rounded with a sleep.’
‘Those with talent must mind the world.’
Perhaps – but then again, is it really worth it, minding a world that has such people in it?
“A German company has designed an aroma, based on vaginas, for men. Vulva Original offers “the genuine scent of a woman” via an easy-to-use roll on applicator.”
Quote the company’s boss, one Guido Lenssen:
“Vulva is real. We tried several samples from women of all ages. We didn’t take the scent after someone had run a marathon or anything, but it is a combination of urine, sweat, and female arousal.”
(Though I prefer THIS VERSION…)
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