Tony Grist (poliphilo) wrote,
Tony Grist
poliphilo

Seeing The Big Picture

Something Dag Hammarskjold wrote in his commonplace book in 1956:

"On the field where Ormuzd has challenged Ahriman to battle, he who chases away the dogs in wasting his time." 
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