Song Lyric of the Day (The Beach Boys, on Summer, ‘Gone Away’)

“Summer's gone
Summer's gone away
Gone away
With yesterday.”— Jon Bon Jovi, Joseph Thomas, and Brian Wilson, “Summer’s Gone,” performed by the Beach Boys on their That's Why God Made the Radio CD (2012)

(The picture accompanying this post shows The Beach Boys back in their Sixties heyday, including two Wilson Brothers who have died: Carl and Dennis. They are "Gone away/With yesterday," like the youth of the surviving members of the band--and, indeed, that of the first two generations of their listeners.)

Quote of the Day (Virginia Woolf, on ‘The Beauty of the World’)

“The beauty of the world which is so soon to perish, has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.” —English novelist-essayist Virginia Woolf (1882-1941), A Room of One’s Own (1929)

Quote of the Day (Isak Dinesen, on the ‘Difference Between God and Human Beings’)

“The real difference between God and human beings, he thought, was that God cannot stand continuance. No sooner has he created a season of a year, or a time of the day, than he wishes for something quite different, and sweeps it all away. No sooner was one a young man, and happy at that, than the nature of things would rush one into marriage, martyrdom or old age. And human beings cleave to the existing state of things. All their lives they are striving to hold the moment fast....Their art itself is nothing but the attempt to catch by all means the one particular moment, one light, the momentary beauty of one woman or one flower, and make it everlasting.” —Karen Blixen (a.k.a. Isak Dinesen), Seven Gothic Tales (1934)