The poor devils are too rich to work. Cruelly denied the opportunity to accumulate capital, what else is there for the benighted savages to do but create, converse, dance, sing, feast and fuck?

Bob Black, Primitive Affluence

Hermetic quote Black Primitive Affluence poor devils too rich work cruelly denied opportunity accumulate capital benighted savages create converse dance sing feast fuck

Consider also:

  1. “Run the country by doing what’s expected. Win the war by doing the unexpected. Control the world by doing nothing.”
  2. “Some kind of religious ritual, a dance to greet the sun? Barbaric.”
  3. A little Welsh bookshop for sale
  4. “In A Defence of Poetry, the profoundest essay on the foundation of poetry in English, he shows that the poet and the lawgiver hold their station by the right of the same faculty, the one uttering in words and the other in the forms of society, his vision of the divine order, the Intellectual Beauty.”
  5. “Oomph times zoom equals kaboom!”