Paul Bailey prefaces his novel with lines by George Crabbe who knew how to conjure up an insidious gloom with dark wisdom: Joys are like oil: if thrown upon the tide Of flowing life they mix not, nor subside: Griefs are like waters on the rivers thrown, They mix entirely, and become its own.
He could never admit that this mythical age was subject to that same fate that touches all things human as chronicled in that haunting work whose dark wisdom he could never accept: "I have seen all the works that are done under the sun, and, behold, all is vanity and vexation of spirit...
While Terry delves into owl clues ("Seeing in the dark = Wisdom," he writes owlishly in his notes), another Connelly character from earlier work, Harry Bosch, is embroiled as a witness in the David Storey trial.
But that play, with its inference that we have lost touch with some deep, dark, inherited wisdom, wasn't just further proof of the scope of Ms. Churchill's concerns.
His latest book is Waking To The Dark: Ancient Wisdom For a Sleepless Age.
Despite Dr. Tatiana's dark and worldly wisdom, her creator is a fair-haired young woman with an infectious laugh.
Like severe burn victims, we are alive but disfigured, moving forward but with a slight limp, lifting our eyes up to the sun but with dark pools of wisdom and sadness adding shadow to our gazes, a deepness reaching back a century to 1914, to those dead millions, to a time of beginnings and endings, endings and beginnings on a global scale.
Succeeding governments for years shied away from gathering caste-based data, preferring, with obscure political wisdom, to enact their policies in the dark.
But after last night's injury, Van Gaal's prediction that it shall be the season of Luke Shaw sound more like a dark premonition than the wisdom of a manager who has worked with many of the best.
They were eggheads in a world of meatheads, and they regarded the uniformed military man in the same way that the baseball statistician Bill James regards Don Zimmer: as a relic of the pre-scientific dark ages, when the wisdom of experience passed for strategic thought.
Paste magazine's Jeffrey Bloomer likened the episode simply to pulp and felt that Dexter's voice overs lacked their usual "dry, dark humor and gonzo wisdom".
