Comments on: Gilding the Lily http://www.kieranhealy.org/blog/archives/2003/06/14/gilding-the-lily/ Sociology and other distractions Fri, 31 Oct 2008 10:33:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: jda http://www.kieranhealy.org/blog/archives/2003/06/14/gilding-the-lily/comment-page-1/#comment-1857 jda Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.kieranhealy.org/wordpress/?p=445#comment-1857 Allow me to be the 10,000th -- it's from King John: To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, To throw a perfume on the violet, To smooth the ice, or add another hue Unto the rainbow, or with taper-light To seek the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish, Is wasteful and ridiculous excess. KJ iv, 2 Allow me to be the 10,000th—it’s from King John:

To gild refined gold, to paint the lily,
To throw a perfume on the violet,
To smooth the ice, or add another hue
Unto the rainbow, or with taper-light
To seek the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish,
Is wasteful and ridiculous excess.

KJ iv, 2

]]> By: Rana http://www.kieranhealy.org/blog/archives/2003/06/14/gilding-the-lily/comment-page-1/#comment-1858 Rana Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.kieranhealy.org/wordpress/?p=445#comment-1858 But is the administration gilding a lily? Aren't they gilding something less, um, beautiful? But is the administration gilding a lily? Aren’t they gilding something less, um, beautiful?

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