“There is often an injustice of omission as well as commission.”
Marcus Aurelius Meditations Book IX, #5
“And you can also commit an injustice by doing nothing” (alternative translation).
I picked up another copy of Marcus Aurelius Meditations, the real Loeb Classical version I’ve wanted for some time. There went most of the profit for the trip to SA, but then, that book is an invaluable reference.
I discovered two items interest. Partially literary, partially astrological, partially punk.
In the astrology section, there was a collection of magazine-like booklets that held predictions for the coming year, per sign. Having learned more about the publishing industry than I really wanted to, I flipped open one booklet to the ISBN, copyright page. The list of copyrights stretched for more than 30 years, “(c) 1970, 1972, 1981, 1983, 1985, 1994,” &c. Just as an example. Which suggests that a number of astrology books merely recycle material rather than do any kind of real work. Not terribly original, now is it?
I’m not saying every book is recycled material, but after 7 years, the moon sign combinations are all covered, usually.
Standing in line, to pay for my purchases, the girl, not in a pejorative sense, just a very young-appearing female warned that there was a “hooligan problem.”
“We ran them out once, but there seems to be an infestation of hooligans.”
Here was a counter clerk, complaining about those, darn meddling kids. The clerk had spiky red hair, perhaps a portion of the mane was a natural color, at least two piercings in her lower lip, and the attire under the work smock? Looked just like the all-black, chain-driven of the hooligans.
Kids these days, huh?
And when was the last time were they referred to as “hooligans”?
Did the hooligan mention that Mercury was RX in Sagittarius?
