East is East, and…

IMAGE: East is East, and West is West, / and never the twain shall meet. //

East is East, and West is West, / and never the twain shall meet. // – (Joseph) Rudyard Kipling (1865 – 1936): The Ballad of East and West (Image by Ylanite Koppens from Pixabay) (Text-to-Speech by Sound of Text, using… More »

Pudding before…

IMAGE: Pudding before praise. [Pudding rather than fame.] / Fair words fill not the belly.

Pudding before praise. [Pudding rather than fame.] / Fair words fill not the belly. (Image by Karolina Grabowska from Pixabay) (Text-to-Speech by Sound of Text, using the engine from Google Translate) More »

The cherry among…

IMAGE: The cherry among flowers, the samurai among men.

The cherry among flowers, the samurai among men. – Kanadehon Chūshingura; trans. by Hidesaburo Saito [斎藤秀三郎] (1866 – 1929) (Image by shell_ghostcage from Pixabay) (Text-to-Speech by Sound of Text, using the engine from Google Translate) More »

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