For the most part, the clickable items you’ll see in the “labels” field at the bottom of the page are self-explanatory -- physics or politics or what have you. But occasionally I index, not a conventionally designated subject, but an idea, choosing a related proverb as the Label.
Examples:
Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose.
Cf. Tillyard compares the position of Man in the Great Chain of Being, for the Elizabethans, to “a kind of Clapham Junction where all the tracks converge and cross.” (The Elizabethan World Picture (1942).)
Cf. As well be hanged for a sheep as a lamb.
Il n’y a que le premier pas qui coûte.
The flip-side of the usual narrative.
This particular post doesn’t fit naturally with any of the current Labels, so I’ve placed “penguins” in the Label field, just to point out where it lies.
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