I stayed in this town one night at the exquisite Hotel Am Main.
The Gardens demand high maintenance that could be provided centuries ago. Today they are a little drab.
Who was he in the garden about to enjoy a glass of wine with a lady? I was naturally curious. He has never been there. He simply purchased it on the Internet as he liked the kangaroos.
I was getting worried that you had been kidnapped as a sex slave or you had inadvertently mentioned the war. These places look better than your one person tent you left here in Oz. Not sure how it is 10 September over there and 13 September here but perhaps you crossed the International Date Line a few times.
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“The Age” 16 July 2011
Indian injunctions lay down very precisely the proper course of a man's life. A man should spend twenty years as a youth, twenty years as a soldier (or more precisely as an active participant in the struggles and controversies of the world), and twenty years as a head of a family - that is of a larger family in the Indian sense. After this he becomes a 'sunnyasi' or religious recluse, and that he devote the few years left to him to the contemplation of the divine and to the attainment of that very Indian sort of salvation which is known as nirvana. In this way, he may interrupt the ordained sequence of reincarnation into new animal and human bodies.
Indian Folklore
You, your joys and your sorrows, your memories and ambitions, your personal identity and free will, are in fact no more than the behavior of a vast assembly of nerve cells and their associated molecules.
‘The Astonishing Hypothesis’ Francis Crick, 1996
In Greek mythology, Tithonus was the lover of Eos goddess of the dawn. She asked Zeus to give Tithonus eternal life, but forgot to add eternal youth, so her lover gradually became more and more enfeeble. Pity was taken on the old man and he was transformed into a cicada. We conclude the Gods gave us Eternal Life but not Eternal Youth. Like Tithonus, now we chatter away incessantly, like crickets, but have lost the first blush of love of seeing the world.
Greek Mythology
The most incomprehensible thing about the world is its comprehensibility. Einstein.
Any man who wants to master the essence of my strategy must research diligently, training morning and evening. Thus can he polish his skill, become free from self, and realize extraordinary ability. He will come to possess miraculous power.
This is the practical result of strategy.
Depending on the Place.
Examine your environment.
Stand in the sun; that is, take up an attitude with the sun behind you. If the situation does not allow this, you must try to keep the sun on your right hand side. In buildings you must stand with the entrance behind you or to your right. Make sure that your rear is unobstructed, and that there is free space on your left, your right side being occupied with your side attitude. At night, if your enemy can be seen, keep the fire behind you and the entrance to your right, and otherwise keep your attitude as above. You must look down on the enemy, and take up your attitude on slightly higher places.
‘The Book of Five Rings” by Miyamoto Musashi (1584 – 1645) “The Sword Saint of Japan’.
a) … he had learned to spill the blood of his enemies without hating them, to avenge himself without rancor, to kill with all the niceties, and to prefer honor – which is an imaginary thing – to life, which is the sole actual thing that men possess.
b) I had begun to give myself airs, to lay down the law, and to quote authors I had never read.
c) I have always held that what a man wants to do, that he will do, in spite of all the difficulties, but he must begin, early, for after a certain age fortune forsakes one, and cannot be whistled back.
d) “I do not like people who buy titles”, said the great emperor Fred Frederick in Berlin. “And what about those who sell them, Sire?” replied Cassanova.
From “Il Duello” or “The Duel” by Giacome Cassanova, Venice 1780
Hello Garis - lovely pictures of the German homage to horticulture and architecture. You haven't mentioned the food as yet which is somewhat of a worry so I hope you have dined well. And what of culture? Are there men in Lederhosen dancing round as yet or are you still too far north?
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