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Lighthouse

article in Encyclopedia Britannica 9th ed.

Notable quotes

“Anythin' for a quiet life, as the man said wen he took the sitivation at the lighthouse.”
— Charles Dickens, The Pickwick Papers, Chapter 43 (1836).
“Actuality is when the lighthouse is dark between flashes: it is the instant between the ticks of the watch: it is a void interval slipping forever through time: the rupture between past and future: the gap at the poles of the revolving magnetic field, infinitesimally small but ultimately real. It is the interchronic pause when nothing is happening. It is the void between events.”
— George Kubler, , (1982), cited in: Artscribe. Nr. 7; 13; 17-18 (1977). p. 36.
“Lighthouses are more useful than churches.”
— Unknown; misattributed to Benjamin Franklin. Also quoted as “Lighthouses are more helpful than churches” or “A lighthouse is more useful than a church.” Although not by Franklin in this form, it may be intended as a paraphrase of something he wrote to his wife on 17 July 1757, given in a footnote on page 133 of Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Benjamin Franklin (1818). After describing a narrow escape from shipwreck he added:

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