Interpreting the dance: young women in white dancing in a ring can only be virgins; old women in black dancing in a ring can only be witches; but middle-aged women in colors, square dancing...?
Popular culture is seductive; high culture is imperious.
Work at first rescues us, then ravages us.
God makes the covenant, and observes it as He pleases.
Rule of art: let half-blind purpose lead you.
To avoid discord, never put two wise people in the same room.