Karl Hess
Karl Hess (May 25, 1923 – April 22, 1994) was an American national-level speechwriter and author. He was also a political philosopher, editor, welder, motorcycle racer, tax resister, atheist, and libertarian activist. His career included stints on the Republican right and the New Left before embracing free-market anarchism. Later in life, he summed up his role in the economy by remarking “I am by occupation a free marketer (crafts and ideas, woodworking, welding, and writing).”
Early life
Hess was born Carl Hess III in Washington, D.C. and moved to the Philippines as a child. His parents were of German and Spanish ancestry. When his mother discovered his father's marital infidelity, she divorced her wealthy husband and returned (with Karl) to Washington. She refused alimony or child support and took a job as a telephone operator, raising her son in very modest circumstances.
Karl's mother encouraged curiosity and direct learning. She often insisted that Karl figure things out for himself, or increase his knowledge through reading. Karl, believing (as his mother did) that public education was a waste of time, rarely attended school; to evade truancy officers, he registered at every elementary school in town and gradually withdrew from each one, making it impossible for the authorities to know exactly where he was supposed to be. He had developed great reverence for libraries; this became very basic to his personal philosophy, and in his autobiography he wrote: "Literacy is the basic tool in the workshop of the entire world."
Karl Hess (painter)
Karl Hess (1801 Düsseldorf - 16 November 1874 Bad Reichenhall) was a German painter.
Biography
Hess was the third son of Karl Ernst Christoph Hess (1755–1828), an engraver. The elder Hess had already acquired a name when in 1806 the elector of Bavaria, having been raised to a kingship by Napoleon, transferred the Düsseldorf academy and gallery to Munich. The elder Karl Hess accompanied the academy to its new home, and there continued the education of his children, who, along with the younger Karl, included Heinrich Maria von Hess and Peter von Hess.
The elder Karl Hess hoped that his son Karl would obtain distinction as an engraver. The younger Karl, however, after engraving one plate after Adrian Ostade, turned to painting under the guidance of Max Joseph Wagenbauer of Munich, and then studied under his elder brother Peter. But historical composition proved to be as contrary to his taste as engraving, and he gave, himself exclusively at last to illustrations of peasant life in the hill country of Bavaria. He became clever alike in representing the people, the animals and the landscape of the Alps, and with constant means of reference to nature in the neighbourhood of Bad Reichenhall, where he at last resided, he never produced anything that was not impressed with the true stamp of a kindly realism.
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Your Time Has Come
by: Coral SeaFelt your hollow planet day
I'm fine
Especially when you're far away
Sunshine
She's always on my mind
Like a filter in my head
She's always on my mind
Poring factories in my bed
Bet you're fancy custom made
I'm sick all of the time
And I'm tired all the time
And I wanted you to know
I wanted you to know
Your time has come.
Believe me all the time
I'm seeing all the signs
And I wanted you to know
I wanted you to know
Your time has come.
Swallowed your past
Followed your heart
Doesn't it hurt?
Was it all for fun?
Buried your soul
Unfilled yourself
Laid on your mountains
Warm with yourself
Just try to erase her
Unchanges the question
Just shy of survival
Raises all of your guns
Just try to erase her
Abandon your outcome
Then tell me your nothing