On an expressionist and a realist
Picked up a quote by Franz Kafka, an expressionist from the early 20th century: “You do not to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen, simply wait.” I think it is appropriate to the Internet age, when many people just sit in front of their computers. I haven’t read all of Kafka, but my judgment of him is that he was basically a brilliant paranoid. “Even paranoics have enemies.”
I am also still reading Ambrose Bierce’s Devil’s Dictionary. “Bore: n. a person who talks when you wish him to listen,” and “Brain: v.t. To rebuke bluntly, but not pointedly; to dispel a source of error in an opponent,” and “Bride: n. A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her,” and “Brute: n., See HUSBAND.”