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desperanceDear internet: spadefuls, or spadesful?
In the interests of full disclosure, here's context: I do feel that gravediggers have had not a bad press but too little. Hamlet and Harry Gotobed are not enough. So:
Digging graves is a profession and a privilege, not a punishment detail. To a man with the right mind, it’s almost a sacrament. Cobb knew his work and he knew its value. What he did here could not be measured only in ...
*I know what my heart says, and it's right; but right is not always charming, and it's a most unreliable guide to the public sentiment, so. I am prepared to be outvoted, though not on a simple head-count; art is not a democracy. Every vote will be weighted according to my own prejudice. Vote anyway: yours may be the one that outweighs all the others. Even mine.
In the interests of full disclosure, here's context: I do feel that gravediggers have had not a bad press but too little. Hamlet and Harry Gotobed are not enough. So:
Digging graves is a profession and a privilege, not a punishment detail. To a man with the right mind, it’s almost a sacrament. Cobb knew his work and he knew its value. What he did here could not be measured only in ...
*I know what my heart says, and it's right; but right is not always charming, and it's a most unreliable guide to the public sentiment, so. I am prepared to be outvoted, though not on a simple head-count; art is not a democracy. Every vote will be weighted according to my own prejudice. Vote anyway: yours may be the one that outweighs all the others. Even mine.