So, I realised I'm going nowhere with this blogging business. It's not that I don't have things to say, it's just that, frankly, they're not relevant. Nevertheless, for filler or otherwise, I'll do some post soon on my recent adventures in Chicago over Holy Week/Spring Break.
In the meantime, I'm going to attach a thought for the day, provided by Théophile Gautier (A photo of whom I've attached at the top), famous French poet, dramatist, etc. of the fin de siècle-ish period. Though I can't say I've read many of Théophile's works (only the journal of his travel in Spain) I was particularly attracted to this rather long bit:
"One of the great drawbacks of modern life is the lack of unexpectedness and of adventures; everything is so well regulated, so well aranged, so well conducted that the element of chance is eliminated. With another century of improvement, every one of us will be able to see from his birth everything that will happen to him to the day of his death. The human will will be entirely annhililated; there will be no more crime, no more virtue, no more individuality, no more originality. No one will be able to distinguish a Russian from a Spaniard, an Englishman from a Chinaman, a Frenchman from an American. People will not even be able to recognise one another, for everybody will look alike. Then an immense weariness will fall upon the universe, and suicide will decimate the population of earth, for the chief motive of life, curiosity, will have been extinguished."
Ack.
