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'Whiplash'

Doesn't feel right to relate to Lalo Salamanca...

وإذا مَرّ بك حديثٌ فيه إفصاحٌ بذِكرِ عَورةٍ أو فرج أو وصفِ فاحشةٍ فلا يحمِلَنّك الخشوع أو التخاشُع على أنْ تصعّر خدّك وتُعرِض بوجهك، فإنّ أسماء الأعضاءِ لا تؤثِم. وإنّما المأثم في شتم الأعراض وقولِ الزور والكذب وأكلِ لحومِ الناسِ بالغَيب... فتَفَهّم الأمرَين وافرِق بين الجنسين.

- إبن قتيبة الدينوري في مقدمة كتابه «عيون الأخبار»

"Anyone can see a pretty girl. An artist can look at a pretty girl and see the old woman she will become. A better artist can look at an old woman and see the pretty girl she used to be.


A great artist can look at an old woman, portray her exactly as she is . . . and force the viewer to see the pretty girl she used to be . . . more than that, he can make anyone with the sensitivity of an armadillo see that this lovely young girl is still alive, prisoned inside her ruined body.


He can make you feel the quiet, endless tragedy that there was never a girl born who ever grew older than eighteen in her heart . . . no matter what the merciless hours have done. Look at her, Ben. Growing old doesn't matter to you and me—but it does to them. Look at her!”

Robert Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land

الناسُ في غَفَلاتِهِم
وَرَحى المَنِيَّةِ تَطحَنُ

- أبو العتاهية

Philopannyx

Is a Greek expression which roughly means "who loves the whole night." It was used occasionally to describe Aphrodite and it comes from: philo (loving) + pan (all) + nyx (night).

- How I met your mother😂

"That's because you're a woman"

Two kings and two labyrinths

A short story, by Jorge Luis Borges

Chroniclers worthy of trust have recorded (but only Allah is All-Knowing) that in former times there was a king of the isles of Babylon who called together his architects and his wizards and set them to build him a labyrinth so intricate that no wise man would dare enter inside, and so subtle that those who did would lose their way. This undertaking was a blasphemy, for confusion and marvels belong to God alone and not to man. With the passage of time there came to his court a king of the Arabs, and the king of Babylon (wishing to mock his guest’s simplicity) allowed him to set foot in his labyrinth, where he wandered in humiliation and bewilderment until the coming of night. It was then that the second king implored the help of God and soon after came upon the door. He suffered his lips to utter no complaint, but he told the king of Babylon that he, too, had a labyrinth in his land and that, God willing, he would one day take pleasure in showing it to his host.