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Posts Tagged ‘labor’

Fire II

Posted on March 3rd, 2008 by bkerr

From Works and Days by old Hesiod. Some things never change:
For the gods keep hidden from men the means of life. Else you would easily do work enough in a day to supply you for a full year even without working; soon would you put away your rudder over the smoke, and the fields worked [...]

Fire

Posted on March 2nd, 2008 by bkerr

First in a series. This from The Voice of the Machines: An Introduction to the Twentieth Century by Gerald Stanley Lee (published 1906 — find it @ Project Gutenberg):
“The poet of the new movement shall not be discovered talking with the doctors, or defining art in the schools, nor shall he be seen at first [...]