There are 30,000+ words in Shakespeare's theatrical play HAMLET. At a pace averaging 250 words per minute, the book will take 2+ hours to read. 📖 The 1996 movie adaptation of Hamlet, with full text, is 4 hours long. 🎬 🎞 🎥 So, the book is better. 📖

Your neighbors believe you're weird only because their own weirdness has been normalized by their surroundings and the Media. September is #classicalmusicmonth

Human Intelligence (HI) to the rescue again.

It's odd that so-called institutions of higher education are always fronted by their athletic sports teams. To be honest, they could eliminate their academic programs. The ancient Greek gymnasium continues to live up to the meaning of the name! 😉

Judging from attitudes and outward appearances, the main purpose of compulsory public schooling is to ensure that a large student body is on hand to cheer at ballgames. ⚽️ 🏈 🏉 🏀 ⚾️ Do you ever see ballplayers holding aloft and proudly waving their books? 😁

Studying other people's work teaches you a lot. Especially at the start. Reading, listening to or studying great books, music, paintings or movies shows you how to become a great writer, composer, painter or filmmaker. Those who deny this deny history.

◇ Consciously decide whether to go with or against "the flow." ♤ Self-discipline is not a disorder. ♡ Leave behind your capricious whims, wishful-thinking and resulting chaos, on the brainstorming table. ♧ Plan all the way to the end. (Law of Power 29)

Elderly men composed some of the greatest works of musical art: J. S. Bach, Beethoven, Brahms, Fauré, Haydn, Verdi, Wagner. Available tools: Brain, a piano, pencil and paper. No AI. September is #classicalmusicmonth

DOG FOOD Rabbits like to jump around, run, and multiply a lot but they don't know how to band together against the local dogs that keep eating them; the barking carnivore winks, wags, and gets fat, thanks to the stupid rabbits' procreation habits.

Gabriel Fauré (1845–1924), composed one of his last masterpieces in his mid-70s: Piano Quintet No. 2, in C minor. Though by then he'd lost his hearing, the old man certainly retained his mental abilities. Age is only a number. #classicalmusicmonth Photo PD, Wikipedia

Those who don't believe their lives have value will sell them at a discount on the open market.

Don't put all the blame on the puppets. The puppets you see wouldn't even be on the stage but for the theater's owners, puppeteers, script writers, promoters and producers who make it all happen.

Why would I want to go to the trouble of getting "verified" status on social media when even fake accounts are getting the blue tick? I don't do stupid very well, only ignorant on occasion.

Do you believe $BCH will eventually replace $BTC as a low-fee, decentralized and international currency for day-to-day use? #bitcoincash