The Sage of Toronto ... spent several decades marveling at the numerous freedoms created by a "global village" instantly and effor...tlessly accessible to all. Villages, unlike towns, have always been ruled by conformism, isolation, petty surveillance, boredom and repetitive malicious gossip about the same families. Which is a precise enough description of the global spectacle's present vulgarity.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Ours is a brand--new world of allatonceness. "Time" has ceased, "space" has vanished. We now live in a global village ... a simult...aneous happening.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In those days, the blag slag, the waste of the coal pits, had only begun to cover the side of our hill. Not enough to mar the coun...tryside nor blacken the beauty of our village. For the colliery had only begun to poke its skinny black fingers between the green.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In the Corner Store, near the village center, hangs a large sign reading: 'After 40 years of credit business, we have closed our b...ook of Sorrow.'LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Sweet Auburn, loveliest village of the plain, Where health and plenty cheered the labouring swain,... Where smiling spring its earliest visit paid, And parting summer's lingering blooms delayed, Dear lovely bowers of innocence and ease, Seats of my youth, when every sport could please, How often have I loitered o'er the green, Where humble happiness endeared each scene.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Sweet smiling village, loveliest of the lawn, Thy sports are fled and all thy charms withdrawn;... Amidst thy bowers the tyrant's hand is seen, And desolation saddens all thy green; One only master grasps the whole domain, And half a tillage stints thy smiling plain;LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Under a spreading chestnut-tree The village smithy stands;... The smith, a mighty man is he, With large and sinewy hands; And the muscles of his brawny arms Are strong as iron bands.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Son of the village chief, you're pitiless,... scared of your wife and as difficult to see as a worm in bitter fruit. The village is starving itself over you in spite of it all.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »