One thing I learned today is that it was Homer who first employed the phrase "bit the dust". Wattaya know?

There was also a long, semi-quotation from James Joyce that came primarily to this effect: There are no really immoral or moral books, only well written books, and badly written books. And something succeeds at being true art(which is to say, static) when it meets three criterion: wholeness, harmony, and radiance.

We were also asked to keep in mind that everything has its dark side; such is the paradoxical, give-and-take nature of this world in which we live in.