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asakiyumeSuddenly all my copyediting clients need copy editing! Which is excellent from an income-stream perspective, but suddenly my life of leisure has evaporated.
But in the spirit of Wednesday reading, here are a couple more quotes from WEB DuBois's The Souls of Black Folk These are from Chapter 8, "Of the Quest of the Golden Fleece." Each chapter opens with a quote from the lyrics of a song--and also a bit of the music for the song, which is cool. Here's an excerpt from the one for chapter 8:
That's from William Vaughn Moody's "The Brute." It seems relevant in 2020, although I see no sign of the promised death of spirit of the strong and cunning few.
These lines, from DuBois himself, also seem relevant:
Interesting to see how he uses "we" here. He seems to be aligning himself with White readers. Or maybe his statement about having already reached conclusions in our own minds applies across the board. Anyway, it's more the bit about having our conclusions disturbed by facts that seemed resonant.
...For a mood shift, here's a humorous version of a color meme (choose the color that best represents you) that was going around on Twitter. I saw this version, generated by a computer language-learning program, when Ann Leckie retweeted it from Twitter user Janelle Shane (tweet link here):
So--which do you like?
But in the spirit of Wednesday reading, here are a couple more quotes from WEB DuBois's The Souls of Black Folk These are from Chapter 8, "Of the Quest of the Golden Fleece." Each chapter opens with a quote from the lyrics of a song--and also a bit of the music for the song, which is cool. Here's an excerpt from the one for chapter 8:
“On the strong and cunning few
Cynic favors I will strew;
I will stuff their maw with overplus until their spirit dies;
From the patient and the low
I will take the joys they know.”
That's from William Vaughn Moody's "The Brute." It seems relevant in 2020, although I see no sign of the promised death of spirit of the strong and cunning few.
These lines, from DuBois himself, also seem relevant:
We seldom study the condition of the Negro to-day honestly and carefully. It is so much easier to assume that we know it all. Or perhaps, having already reached conclusions in our own minds, we are loth to have them disturbed by facts.
Interesting to see how he uses "we" here. He seems to be aligning himself with White readers. Or maybe his statement about having already reached conclusions in our own minds applies across the board. Anyway, it's more the bit about having our conclusions disturbed by facts that seemed resonant.
...For a mood shift, here's a humorous version of a color meme (choose the color that best represents you) that was going around on Twitter. I saw this version, generated by a computer language-learning program, when Ann Leckie retweeted it from Twitter user Janelle Shane (tweet link here):
So--which do you like?
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Date: 2020-10-07 04:13 pm (UTC)