Use an isotonic saline solution in your neti pot to prevent irritation of your nasal passages.

I think of Spengler and of his terrible pronunciamentos, and I wonder if style, style in the grand manner, is done for.

Walk lightly in the burrows / Of bittersome society.

Whether modern, industrial man is less or more warlike than his hunter-gatherer ancestors is impossible to determine. The machine gun is so much more lethal than the bow and arrow that comparisons are meaningless.