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The primary problem with the fact that most people are unable to guide themselves is that they don’t know it.
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sub specie academiae
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It can be more the psychography, the sociography, than the geography that determines one’s life- and world- experience.
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“disillusionment”
More deeply considered, the rejection of an illusion should have brought greater reality. “illusion” is a poor precursor of its loss.
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The President’s Cabinet
Who in President Trump’s cabinet is so truly stupid as to not personally know he is not, and never was, intellectually and morally fit to be president?
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The failure of character in the USA. 
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Different Eras of Men

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The Adequate that Was Rome


To realize the grandeur that was Rome, one must be adequate to it.
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“exotic”?
One’s “exotic”, is that other’s tedium.
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Vivaldi – Concerto for two violins in A–, second movement
Some thirty winters years back, new, in isolation struggling, behind the then ill kept Moscow hospital where Dostoyevsky’s father had worked, having been able to hear on the radio or at the conservatory this movement of music, allowed me to console my self as little else did.
And when the snow was already deep enough, ot falling fast and full, I could voice it sounds quite loud as I paced alone on the path and lane, back and forth…