added by Matthew Giampetroni · updated 2y ago
Smoke and Mirrors — Remains of the Day
- Who wants transparency when you can have magic. Who wants prose when you can have poetry?
from Smoke and Mirrors — Remains of the Day by Eugene Wei
Matthew Giampetroni added 2y ago
- Why do we treat the Royal Family with such reverence? Because ceremony demands it. Sometimes status is a closed circle, and if you trace it you end up where you started. The very act of walking in that circle, though, closes it. The Royal Family has whatever power the people grant them.
from Smoke and Mirrors — Remains of the Day by Eugene Wei
Matthew Giampetroni added 2y ago
- When the dominant medium of an age shifts, the nature of power shifts with it.
from Smoke and Mirrors — Remains of the Day by Eugene Wei
Matthew Giampetroni added 2y ago