Never easy, hard to define clearly
But once seen, impossible to miss.
Once spotted, obvious.
It's barely perceptible, and undeniable.
However subtle, once known is utter reality.
The infinite and eternal, clear as still water.
How can I see this?
There it is.
The silly season. An obsolescent journalistic expression for the part of the year when Parliament and the Law Courts are not sitting (about August and September), when, through lack of news, the papers had to fill their columns with trivial items--such as news of giant gooseberries and sea serpents--and long correspondence on subjects of evanescent (if any) interest.
Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable 1963, p 831.
3 comments:
As the pace of news increased, the silly season became the slow news day.
Pacian,
Indeed. Although these days it all moves so fast we are never out of the silliness.
I'd have been an icon in articles produced during the silly season.
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