Community is Just a Highbrow Fantasy

[Dave2002]

I found this not too long ago, while cross checking a(n) (mis)attribution:

“We are all here on earth to help others: what on earth the others are here for, I don't know.”
― W.H. Auden

It might be relevant to this thread.

There are other interesting snippets at https://www.goodreads.com/author/quo...H_Auden?page=2

[Lat-Literal]

I found this not too long ago, while cross checking a(n) (mis)attribution:

“We are all here on earth to help others: what on earth the others are here for, I don't know.”
― W.H. Auden

It might be relevant to this thread.

There are other interesting snippets at https://www.goodreads.com/author/quo...H_Auden?page=2

Yes - thanks Dave. I have now read all the quotes there and think a lot of them are rather good.

I was reminded today how I feel music connects people more than people connect people.

Also aware that it isn't quite how many or even most people feel, nor is it what I'd have chosen.

[doversoul1]

... o good lord I hope not. I would run (well, walk... ) many a mile away from such. 'Poetry groups' -


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I have managed to avoid all that and more by being a foriner but when I needed help, it came before I realised I needed it. This feels a good community to me if it can be called that.

[LeMartinPecheur]

They've certainly come back into fashion, haven't they? I remember when young and not so young women shaved theirs off and substituted a thin pencil line, frequently not where the removed brows were, usually in black marker pen - which I always thought to be acts of defacement of the worst kind.

So, for you SA, actually worse than female tattoos??

[Which is to say, more precisely, very visible tattoos on women.]

[gradus]

The only reason we have a 14th century village church and not a light industrial unit dating from that time or that our next door village has a pub is because of Community, in these two examples village communities. Presumably this is not what the thread was getting at.

[Richard Barrett]

I found this not too long ago, while cross checking a(n) (mis)attribution:

“We are all here on earth to help others: what on earth the others are here for, I don't know.”
― W.H. Auden

That is indeed a misattribution: http://audensociety.org/vivianfoster.html

Something I find mildly amusing is an OP with this title addressing itself to what can only be described as a community.

[french frank]

Something I find mildly amusing is an OP with this title addressing itself to what can only be described as a community.

I haven't ventured to comment yet as I haven't worked out what it means

[Frances_iom]

I haven't ventured to comment yet as I haven't worked out what it means

don't worry neither did the author