The Sameness of the Same

Chaïm Soutine, The Room Service Waiter (1927). Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris.

The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.—Ecclesiastes 1:9 (KJV)

"Brown shoes don't make it."—Frank Zappa

Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose,

A French savant opined in 1849, a year of failed revolutions:

"The more things change, the more it stays the same."

Born a century later, I could say that, too!

I lie in bed and sip my coffee, searching for solutions,

Not to blame for the saucy sameness of the same—

Heaven knows!

2/28/26