“The misery and violence he saw there, which did not seem to be disappearing with the end of colonial rule, were not determined wholly or even preponderantly by local actors or realities on the ground,” the book’s introduction said, adding, “The pertinent lines of causality stretched out of sight across the globe.”
But the painting is fundamentally a plastic unit. Plasticity is a key concept for Rothko, the most important idea of his book. It is rooted in the tactile, the sense of touch as the preeminent criterion of reality. Rothko insists on the unmatched sensuous immediacy of tactile experience and on its preponderant role in the most deeply rooted emotional drives, including, very especially, sexual feeling.
“His Good list outstripped the Evil list; Good may always preponderate in this method of reckoning.”
―from CHINA MEN (1980) by Maxine Hong Kingston
The author chronicles the lives of three generations of Chinese men in America, woven from memory, myth and fact. Here’s a storyteller’s tale of what they endured in a strange new land. READ more here:https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/…/china-men-by-maxine-h…/
Jonathan Swift’s GULLIVER'S TRAVELS was first published on this day in 1726, (also Gulliver arrived in Lorbrulgrud, capital of Brobdingnag, on October 26!).
"For if you throw among five Yahoos as much food as would be sufficient for fifty, they will, instead of eating peaceably, fall together by the ears, each single one impatient to have all to itself."
―from GULLIVER'S TRAVELS (1726)
“His Good list outstripped the Evil list; Good may always preponderate in this method of reckoning.”
―from CHINA MEN (1980)
preponderate
prɪˈpɒndəreɪt/
verb
- be greater in number, influence, or importance."the advantages preponderate over this apparent disadvantage"
by the ears
preponderant
発音pripάndərənt | -pɔ́n-
[形]((形式))（…より）まさった，優勢である≪over≫
also pre·pon·der·an·cy (-ən-sē)
n.
Superiority in weight, force, importance, or influence. parsimonious
(par-si-MO-nee-uhs)
adjective: Excessively sparing or frugal.
[形]((形式))〈人が〉けちな, しみったれた；〈物が〉乏しい, みすぼらしい.
Etymology
From Middle English parcimony, from Latin parsimonia, from parcere (to spare). First recorded use: 1598.
Usage
"President Calvin Coolidge was so parsimonious with words that he became known as 'Silent Cal'." — Rob Christensen; Interesting, But Not Quite Convincing; The News & Observer (Raleigh, North Carolina); Sep 12, 2010.
adj.
Excessively sparing or frugal.
parsimoniously par'si·mo'ni·ous·ly adv.
parsimoniousness par'si·mo'ni·ous·ness n.
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