"My son, beware of loan sharks, credit repair companies, multi-level marketers, get-rich-quick schemes, loose women, cheap booze, cigarettes, crack cocaine, heroin, cheaters, liars, swindlers; they want your money, they want your soul; until they use you up, spit you out, and trample you underfoot like a cigarette butt. Be sure to live above it all, don't get trapped, work hard and honestly, be kind to others, be good, be wise, be clean, be holy, love God and your fellow-travelers on the road of life. Be careful."-Quote from Robert Maclochlainn, ancient sage of the clan.
May all visitors to this blog live long and prosper.
Illustration by Robert McLaughlin (available at Foto Bella).
10 comments:
nice graphics and good advice, sounds some what like proverbs but modernized but for today
This is a nice take on the subject. I like the color combos. The blue almost glows.
8^)
Very cool illo here!
The wide open road beckoning the traveler in and the cautionary words are a little chilling. The deep blue city waiting patiently is even more chilling. Striking piece of work!
very nice graphic and concept, scary advise!
Excellent image - I love the sihouetted city glowing blue at the end of the long road. Your advice immediately reminded me of Polonius' sendoff to Laertes (in Hamlet):
"Look thou character. Give thy thoughts no tongue,
Nor any unproportion'd thought his act.
Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar.
Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried,
Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel;
But do not dull thy palm with entertainment
Of each new-hatch'd, unfledg’d comrade. Beware
Of entrance to a quarrel but, being in,
Bear't that th' opposed may beware of thee.
Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice;
Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgement.
Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy,
But not express'd in fancy; rich, not gaudy;
For the apparel oft proclaims the man;
And they in France of the best rank and station
Are of a most select and generous chief in that.
Neither a borrower, nor a lender be;
For loan oft loses both itself and friend,
And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.
This above all: to thine own self be true..."
I guess no matter what the era, we all have to watch out for many things! Well done:>
Thanks for the kind words. Hmmm, being mentioned in the same sentence with Shakespeare is a bit heady, especially coming from someone who would know. Don't worry, I'll try not to believe it. I just thought of all the enticing trash that litters the streets of the asphalt jungle and put in in writing; the positive character traits mentioned seemed to be a necessary counterpart to all of the "thou shalt nots".
I might add, "Beware dishonest men who have no problem lying to others and ask you to lie for them, because they're probably lying to you too. Beware of judging the people on either side of you, because they're just trying to survive like you."
Live Long and Prosper, young man! :) I had the same idea.... City as a jungle! But I was too lazy to draw a city.... Heh heh!
yes, wise, sage advice. Great illustration... Love the skyline.
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