Culture
Momentous Eventus: Pandemonia de António Edition
“Do you want to have God always in your mind? Be just as he made you to be. Do not go seeking another ‘you’.”
St. Anthony of Padua.
Paula Rego, ground-breaking Portuguese artist who championed women’s rights, dead at 87 | Reuters
“Being an only child, who, until the age of 3, had been raised mostly by her grandparents, Rego had very little interest in playing with other children. Nor did she like being outside,” Aleksandra Stokowiec wrote here on Atlas a few years ago.
Momentous Eventus: Countdown to Divine Inebriation Edition
“Always do sober what you said you’d do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.”
Ernest Hemingway
Momentous Eventus: Neighbourly Neighbors Edition
“People have discovered that they can fool the devil; but they can’t fool the neighbors.”
Francis Bacon.
Momentous Eventus: Monkey Business and The Bee’s Knees Edition
“If the bee disappears from the surface of the Earth, man would have no more than four years left to live.”
Albert Einstein.
The Secrets of Fátima, or What Happens in Portugal on May 13
Mary visits three shepherd children, reveals multiple secrets, and goes on to perform a few, let’s say, miracles. Here’s a quick explanation of the bizarre story of the 1917 prophecies of Fatima.
Momentous Eventus: Elasmobranchii, the First-Ever Cocktail, and Friggatriskaidekaphobia Edition
“Live every week like it’s shark week.”
Tracy Morgan.
Momentous Eventus: No Diet, No Pants Edition
“If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn’t sit for a month.” Theodore Roosevelt
Something Out of Nothing: The Making of “The Windmill of Death”
…through experimentation and creative openness, the four friends managed to develop a piece of fiction that has its roots in the authenticity of the happy coincidences and unplanned events of the filming process.
Momentous Eventus: All That Jazz Edition
“It’s not exclusive, but inclusive, which is the whole spirit of jazz.”
Herbie Hancock.
Momentous Eventus: Maskless Reincarnation and Carnation Celebration Edition
“If you have abandoned one faith, do not abandon all faith. There is always an alternative to the faith we lose. Or is it the same faith under another mask?”
– Graham Greene
Momentous Eventus: Eastertide Edition
“For if you love those who love you, what reward have you? Do not even the tax collectors do the same?” Jesus Christ.
