tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22462957697769672752024-03-12T19:03:42.918-07:00The World of Dr. JusticeDavid Justicehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12586387386542720405noreply@blogger.comBlogger2715125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2246295769776967275.post-3234698992993117072020-08-02T11:12:00.001-07:002020-08-02T11:12:53.528-07:00At Drop of Dusk
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">twilight fell<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>silently</p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"> </p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">and sadly</p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"> </p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">out of the sky</p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"> </p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">.</p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">.</p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">-- Nathaniel Hawthorne, <u>The Blithedale Romance</u> (1852)</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">[For further glimpses of the twilight time, try this:</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">http://worldofdrjustice.blogspot.com/2020/07/nightfall.html
]</p>
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</style>David Justicehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12586387386542720405noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2246295769776967275.post-30254489624084323842020-07-28T11:23:00.000-07:002020-07-28T11:23:43.908-07:00Sick Okie (fixin’ t’ die)<br />
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her eyes <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>wide<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and
bright</div>
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-- John Steinbeck, <u>The Grapes of Wrath</u> (1939)</div>
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</style>David Justicehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12586387386542720405noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2246295769776967275.post-55837449696435420892020-07-26T09:57:00.000-07:002020-07-26T09:57:24.202-07:00Okies on the Run (Impending Weather)<br />
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>nervous as horses<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>before a thunderstorm</div>
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-- John Steinbeck, <u>The Grapes of Wrath</u> (1939)</div>
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<br /></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">le<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>premier<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>soleil<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>sur le<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>premier<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>matin</i></div>
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<br /></div>
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-- Charles Péguy, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Eve</i></div>
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Subsequent manifestations:</div>
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By this time, the eastern sky<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>was gorgeous with light</div>
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-- Hamlin Garland, <u>A Son of the
Middle Border</u> (1917)</div>
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<br /></div>
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Even before the sun gave light,
dead day was creeping<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>from bush to
bush,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>watching man.</div>
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-- Zora Neale Hurston, <u>Their
Eyes Were Watching God</u> (1937)</div>
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<br /></div>
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the washed-out, bird-bedeviled dawn</div>
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-- T.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Coraghessan Boyle,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><u>World’s End</u> (1987), p. 17</div>
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She woke up in time to see this sun
sending up spies ahead of him<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>to
mark out the road through the dark.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>He peeped up over the door-sill of the world<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and made a little foolishness with red.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But pretty soon, he laid all that
aside, and went about his business<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>dressed all in white.</div>
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<br /></div>
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-- Zora Neale Hurston, <u>Their Eyes Were Watching God</u>
(1937)</div>
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A thin needle of sunshine</div>
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came probing in</div>
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between the drawn curtains.</div>
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<br /></div>
<span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">-- Aldous Huxley, <u>Point
Counter Point</u> (1928), p.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>240</span>
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low-hung, blazing, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the stars light the sky,</div>
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and over the diamond-dusted
snow-crust</div>
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the <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>moon beams<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>splinter.</div>
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-- Hamlin Garland, <u>A Son of the Middle Border</u> (1917)</div>
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the<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>evening<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>bats</div>
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flashed into the
fire-light</div>
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and out again</div>
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-- John Steinbeck, <u>The Grapes of Wrath</u> (1939)</div>
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a big grandfather clock<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>offered us</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .3in;">
the slow ,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>small,</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .3in;">
in-di-vid-u-al<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>pellets<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>of</div>
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time .<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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-- Robert Penn Warren, <u>All the
King’s Men</u> (1946), p. 43</div>
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[A few pages later in the novel, that pithy abstract
characterization<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>is fleshed out in
its impact on the narrator’s consciousness:]</div>
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The grandfather’s clock, I suddenly
realized, wasn’t getting any younger.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It would drop out a <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">tick</i>, and
the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">tick</i> would land inside my head<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>like a rock dropped in a well,</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .3in;">
and the ripples would circle out
and stop,</div>
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and the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">tick</i> would sink down in the dark.</div>
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<br /></div>
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For a piece of time which was not
long or short,</div>
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and might not even be time,</div>
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there wouldn’t be</div>
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an-y-thing…</div>
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Then the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">tock</i> would drop<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>down
the well,</div>
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and the ripples would circle out <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and finish.</div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">trailing<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>veils<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>of<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>rain</i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>.</div>
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<br /></div>
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<br /></div>
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(1)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s not
only in our own day that satirists have tossed aside their acid-inked
pens,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>at the hopeless task of
depicting a reality that has outstripped their art.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This, from Bismarckian Germany in 1866:</div>
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Ein Berliner Witzblatt erklärte,
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denn bessere Witze als Herr von Bismarck könne es nicht machen.</div>
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-- Golo Mann, <u>Deutsche
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<a href="https://worldofdrjustice.blogspot.com/2012/08/the-death-of-satire.html" target="_blank">https://worldofdrjustice.blogspot.com/2012/08/the-death-of-satire.html</a></div>
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(2)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>From a
German grammar:</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Die, die die, die die</b> Anlagen beschädigen, zur Anzeige bringen,
erhalten fünf Taler Belohnung.</div>
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-- G. Curme, <u>A Grammar of the
German Language</u> (2nd edn. 1922), p. 198</div>
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That sentence isn’t actually at all confusing, if you read
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</span>DIE, die DIE, die die ..</div>
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<a href="https://worldofdrjustice.blogspot.com/2015/03/farflung-interdependencies.html">https://worldofdrjustice.blogspot.com/2015/03/farflung-interdependencies.html</a></div>
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Für psychologisch
tiefgreifende Krimis, </div>
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in pikanter
amerikanischer Mundart,</div>
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und christlich gesinnt,</div>
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klicken Sie bitte
hier:</div>
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(3)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Mensch</i> is a rather friendly-sounding
German for any human being;<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>in
Yiddish-English, a <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">mensch</i> is a solid,
kind-hearted guy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In the
following, the word is contrasted invidiously with ‘policemen’, who thus are
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“ein <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Mensch</b> schwer und vier Polizisten leicht verletzt. „ https://www.welt.de/vermischtes/article211457365/Stuttgart-Festnahmen-wegen-Auseinandersetzungen-vier-Polizisten-verletzt.html#Comments</div>
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“ein <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Mensch</b> schwer und vier Polizisten leicht verletzt. „ So klingt
linker Sprachgebrauch. Macht ihr Journalisten schon unterbewusst. Als ob
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Ein <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Mensch</b> und 4 Polizisten- habt ihr das aus Versehen aus einem
linksextremen Kampfblatt übernommen??</div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Félicitations à nos alliés de plusieurs guerres, et meilleurs vœux pour
une solide coopération entre nos nations. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Et heureux anniversaire à feue mon épouse Suzanne Marie, née en ce jour il y
a, eh ben, quelques années et le pouce, et qui porte un nom français en
l’honneur de cette amitié plusieurs foix séculaire.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Pour célébrer, voici le palmarès de nos aperçus hexagonaux:</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://worldofdrjustice.blogspot.com/search/label/francophonie" target="_blank">La francophonie</a></span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A beautiful friendship</td></tr>
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Si cela vous parle,</div>
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savourez la série
noire</div>
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en argot authentique
d’Amérique :</div>
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David Justicehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12586387386542720405noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2246295769776967275.post-51733353336599275912020-07-10T09:19:00.001-07:002020-07-10T09:19:57.816-07:00Sunrise in the South Pacific
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</style>David Justicehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12586387386542720405noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2246295769776967275.post-37767469535159404482020-07-04T07:16:00.000-07:002020-07-22T09:36:36.396-07:00Independence (new rollout for 2020)<span style="font-family: "\22 times new roman\22 "; font-size: large;">The Fourth of July
celebration -- in origin quite earnest, and a time for historico-political
speechmaking and some semi-military display -- has gradually softened and
loosened, like an old sweater, into a fairly agenda-free holiday for
kids: Family, fireworks, fun, and french fries -- the four Fs of sweet
July. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Well I recall, how we as
kids lined up along Ridgewood Avenue, excitedly half-comprehendingly, to
watch the parade flow by.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "\22 times new roman\22 "; font-size: large;">As you grow older,
some of it does get old. Brief bursts of bright blotches against the
night sky no longer move me -- not, at any rate, so much as the least
glimpse of God’s own handiwork, like the more permanent pattern-and-colorburst
on the leaves of a coleus, or a lady cardinal in the bush.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "\22 times new roman\22 "; font-size: large;">But in another way,
the meaning of this day grows ever deeper, even sombre. For the success
and permanency of the American Revolution was by no means a foregone conclusion
-- we were truly in uncharted territory back then. The more you
learn about history, and the more history itself keeps happening, you are
forced to conclude: Most revolutions go awry.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "\22 times new roman\22 "; font-size: large;">To begin with our
own. Contrary to the impression we got in school (back in the
fifties, when we all sat dutifully at our desks), at the time of the
Declaration of Independence, a bare one third of the American population was in
favor of rebelling against Britain; a third against; a third
undecided. The perfect setting for an immediate post-revolution
civil war. Yet it did not happen (the Civil War a century later fell
along quite different lines). The only threat came again externally, in
1812 (“the rocket’s red glare, the bombs bursting in air”), when the wrath of
the British Empire was again turned against us, and the nation’s capital was
set in flames. The pinwheels and cherry bombs of latter days
commemorate an actual peril.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: large;">
Nor were the political logistics of the Revolution so simple as that of one
entity rebelling against one other:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>at the time, we were not yet quite even America, let alone the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">United</i> … <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">States</i>;<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>but an
assemblage of upwards of a dozen colonies, founded at different times by
various creeds and ethnicities (Catholics in Rhode Island, Puritans in
Massachusetts, Quakers and various German sects in Pennsylvania, and so forth)
many of which had been at odds with one another back in the mother country,
which is why some of them came here in the first place. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yet they fought side by side;<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and when victory was won, did not then
fall to quarreling over the spoils, nor into strife as to which should be cock
of the walk;<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>but together
founded<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>a unified nation.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">By contrast, India was one country at time of independence from Britain -- yet
immediately fractured, savagely, along sectional lines.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What had been contemned as the British “yoke”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>turns out to have been a <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">garde-fou</i> (et les fous se sont emparés
de l’asile).</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "\22 times new roman\22 "; font-size: large;">Remarkably as well, we
managed, over the years and (by now) centuries, to maintain (most of us)
extremely cordial, even intimate relations with the Mother Country -- an
unusual trans-hemispheric affinity, unmatched by the relations of the Latin
American countries to Spain and Portugal (let alone Haiti or Algeria to France).</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "\22 times new roman\22 "; font-size: large;"><br />
Consider next the French revolution -- “next”, because in fact it was
subsequent to our own, having broken out in 1789; <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>though the way Europeans run on about it, you’d think it was
the first revolution in the history of the world. Anyhow, it remains a
proud occasion; the French version of Independence Day is Bastille Day,
celebrated on July 14, with great fanfare. (For our friendly nod to our
old ally, click here: <a href="http://worldofdrjustice.blogspot.com/2011/07/merci-la-france.html">Merci
la France</a>.)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "\22 times new roman\22 "; font-size: large;">Yet their revolution
was -- <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">franchise oblige</i> -- a gorawful
bloody cock-up. Not content with overturning centuries of monarchy, the
revolutionaries proceeded to <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">la Terreur</i>,
and to a sort of overreaching ideological <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Gleichschaltung</i>
that foreshadowed the Bolshevik excess, and of successive waves of
revolutionaries being eaten by their children, in a way that prefigured the
Stalin-era trials. And to crown it all, it didn’t even stick: within a
couple of decades, the kings were back.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "\22 times new roman\22 "; font-size: large;">France did not
ultimately found a Republic that stuck, after the imperial and
revived-monarchical interludes, until 1871, with the Third Republic (which
segued into the Fourth and Fifth, not without strife, but without a relapse
into pre-Republican polity). Nor did this event stem in any direct
way from the events of 1789. As William Shirer tells it, in <u>The
Collapse of the Third Republic </u>(1969, chapter “A Freakish Birth): </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<br />
<div style="margin-left: .3in;">
<span style="font-family: "\22 times new roman\22 "; font-size: large;">It
came into being by a fluke. The National Assembly, elected in 1871 … had
not wanted a Republic. Nearly two thirds of its members were
Monarchists. But they could not agree on a king …</span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "\22 times new roman\22 "; font-size: large;">So the lawmakers …
sort of backed into the harness of a republic … by a majority of one vote … 353
to 352 -- though there would have been a tie had one deputy, who was
against it, not been late in arriving for the balloting. Even then it was
not clear to many members that they were actually choosing a republic.
The day before, they had rejected it, or thought they had.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "\22 times new roman\22 "; font-size: large;">By contrast, the
Constitution that came out of our revolutionary days has lasted and
guided us down to the present, with comparatively modest and incremental
additions.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<br />
<div align="center" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "\22 times new roman\22 "; font-size: large;">~</span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "\22 times new roman\22 "; font-size: large;">Since the end of the
Second World War, world history has been spotted by rebellions and revolts,
mostly anti-colonial, in quest of independence. And for the most
part, the results have not been pretty.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "\22 times new roman\22 "; font-size: large;"><a href="http://worldofdrjustice.blogspot.com/2012/06/waffle-of-day.html">Myanmar</a>.
<a href="http://www.bookforum.com/inprint/018_01/7300">Zimbabwe</a>.
Algeria. <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/08/world/africa/08somalia.html?pagewanted=all">Somalia</a>.
Cambodia. <a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_120460653"> </a><a href="http://www.bookforum.com/inprint/018_01/7300">South Africa</a>. <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/01/world/africa/01congo.html?ref=global-home&pagewanted=print">Congo</a>.
The fragment that is Pakistan, and the mini-fragment of <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/21/world/asia/21bangladesh.html">Bangladesh</a>.
And now more recently, <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/25/world/africa/25sudan.html?ref=global-home&pagewanted=print">South
Sudan </a>and <a href="http://worldofdrjustice.blogspot.com/2012/04/update-to-azawad.html">Azawad</a>.
Names like tombstones along the the corpse-strewn path of History’s
forced-march.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "\22 times new roman\22 "; font-size: large;">And thus the American
declaration of independence, which shone at the time, shines yet more brightly
now, against the contrasting dark. It is as though the metal of which men
then were made, deemed sturdy bronze at the time, were revealed, in the
fullness of time, with the reckonings in and the dust dispersed, to have been,
in actual and astonishing fact, of purest gold.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "\22 times new roman\22 "; font-size: large;">
</span><br />
<div align="center" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "\22 times new roman\22 ";">~</span></div>
<div align="center" style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<span style="font-family: "\22 times new roman\22 ";">[Update, 4 July
2020]<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The above reflections were
written some years ago, re-posted annually by way of commemoration.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But at present, the nation seems
more riven than at any juncture of my lifetime<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>since 1968.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In
particular, the valedictory-nostalgic dismissal of fireworks along with
french-fries as one of the simple childhood pleasures that one outgrows, has
come up against a startling volte-face, as, in the now-lowering national mood,
these have taken on implications<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>no longer celebratory, but menacing.]</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "\22 times new roman\22 "; font-size: large;"><style>
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<br />
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the twilight-loving bats <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>begin to
flit about</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
-- Washington Irving ,“The Legend of the Enchanted Soldier”,
in <u>The Alhambra</u> (1832)</div>
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<br /></div>
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<br /></div>
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The shadows of the valley</div>
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grew deeper and deeper,</div>
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until all was dark.</div>
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-- Washington Irving ,“The Legend of the Moor’s Legacy”, in <u>The
Alhambra</u> (1832)</div>
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<br /></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
They sat on the boarding-house porch<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and saw the sun plunge<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>into the same crack in the earth<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>from which the night emerged.</div>
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-- Zora Neale Hurston, <u>Their Eyes Were Watching God</u>
(1937)</div>
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</style>David Justicehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12586387386542720405noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2246295769776967275.post-64114133171158171222020-07-02T10:48:00.000-07:002020-07-25T16:00:51.735-07:00Le Comité de salut public, then and now<div class="MsoNormalCxSpFirst">
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">During
the French Revolution, it was the </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Comité
de salut public</i><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"> that
administered <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">La Terreur</i>, to the happy
satisfaction of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">les tricoteuses</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Chez l’Etat islamique, a similar
service is provided by the </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Hisbah</i>
(<a href="http://worldofdrjustice.blogspot.com/2014/09/the-islamic-state-911-2014.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">حسبة</span></a>).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Chez nous, analogous informal entities
have developed spores.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Thus anyone who, within CONUS today, would make so
bold as to utter… anything at all, must reckon with reconnaissance by an army
of thin-skinned, gimlet-eyed, flinty-spirited Robespierres, tirelesssly
scanning all human output both visual and verbal, written or oral, for any hint
-- any whiff -- any least scintilla<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>of aught that might possibly be construed (if you twiddle your tunings
of reception just so, and set your head at an angle) as distaff-distancing, or melanistically
invidious, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">non-recevable par la pensée
unique</i>.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">And
what of our past?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This American sketch
from the last century but one<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>provides an example, with an apparent <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Erstbeleg</i> to boot:</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: .3in; mso-add-space: auto;">
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">As we swept from the shore, I cast back a
wistful eye upon the moss-grow roofs and ancient elms of the village, and prayed
that the inhabitants might long retain their happy ignorance, their absence of
all enterprise and improvement, their respect for the fiddle, and their
contempt for <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">the almighty dollar</b>.</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: .3in; mso-add-space: auto;">
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">-- Washington Irving, “A Sketch from a
Steamboat” (1837)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">The
now-banal epithet “almighty dollar” has passed into cliché, and would in no
quarter raise an objection or an eyebrow.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>But the unsuspecting author (and wordsmith) was apparently reviled, by
the speech-police of his day;<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and
when the piece was later collected, he defended himself in a footnote:</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: .3in; mso-add-space: auto;">
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">This phrase, used for the first time in
this sketch, has since passed into current circulation, and by some has been
questioned for <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">savoring of irreverence</b>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The author, therefore, owes it to
his orthodoxy<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>to declare that no
irreverence was intended, even to the dollar iself, which he is aware is daily
becoming more and more an object of worship. -- W.I.</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></div>
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Ever restlessly moving West, the young Wisconsin native<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>winds up in as-yet-untamed<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Dakota:</div>
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<br /></div>
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Level as a floor, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>these acres were,</div>
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and dotted with the<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>bones<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>of bison.</div>
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-- Hamlin Garland, <u>A Son of the
Middle Border</u> (1917), p. 244</div>
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<br /></div>
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<br /></div>
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Sufficiently disheartening.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yet how much moreso, as the season grew bitter, and those
bleached bones<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>proved the only
bulwark against death by freezing:</div>
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<br /></div>
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Winter!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No man knows what winter means<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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until he has lived through one<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>in a pine-board shanty</div>
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on a Dakota plain<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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with only buffalo-bones<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>for fuel.</div>
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-- Hamlin Garland, <u>A Son of the
Middle Border</u> (1917), p. 248</div>
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Apprehension on the prairie, </div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
amid frightening light:</div>
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<br /></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .3in;">
An ominous change had crept over
the plain.</div>
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The winds were hot and dry,</div>
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and the grass, baked on the stem,</div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>had become as inflammable as hay.</div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .3in;">
The birds</div>
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were<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>silent .</div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .3in;">
The sky, absolutely cloudless,</div>
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began to scare us with its light.</div>
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The sun rose through the dusty air,</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .3in;">
sinister<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>with flare<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>of
horizontal heat.</div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .3in;">
-- Hamlin Garland, <u>A Son of the
Middle Border</u> (1917), p. 247</div>
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<br />
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Upon suffering some tummy-trouble:</div>
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“It must have been
that caviar,” he was thinking.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“That
beastly caviar.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He violently
hated caviar.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Every sturgeon in
the Black Sea<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>was his personal
enemy.</div>
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-- Aldous Huxley, <u>Point Counter
Point</u> (1928), p. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>67</div>
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<br /></div>
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There is something reverent and
respectful about have a personal relationship with each individual sturgeon,
albeit one of enmity.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In the
case of penguins, such a distributed relationship exists -- but in this case,
one of amity.</div>
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<br /></div>
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And it was in that spirit that
Doctor Justice set forth upon his visionary project of individually naming each
and every penguin.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The project was
a success, and is now famed throughout the civilized universe.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You can read about it here:</div>
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<br /></div>
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<a href="https://worldofdrjustice.blogspot.com/2017/04/doctor-justice-names-penguins.html">https://worldofdrjustice.blogspot.com/2017/04/doctor-justice-names-penguins.html</a></div>
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“By nature<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>a tortoise may be no stupider than a
bird.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But you must admit that its
way of living doesn’t exactly encourage intelligence.”</div>
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-- Aldous Huxley, <u>Point Counter
Point</u> (1928), p. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>102</div>
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<br />
That it does not; but, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">contemplation</i>.</div>
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<br /></div>
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For a meditation upon the contemplative nature of our shelly
friends, try this:</div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><a href="https://worldofdrjustice.blogspot.com/2016/04/thirty-two-turtles.html">https://worldofdrjustice.blogspot.com/2016/04/thirty-two-turtles.html</a></div>
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<br /></div>
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And, for those of us who just can’t get enough of these
fellows, these:</div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><a href="https://worldofdrjustice.blogspot.com/search/label/turtles">https://worldofdrjustice.blogspot.com/search/label/turtles</a></div>
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<br /></div>
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~</div>
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<br /></div>
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The owl has met a variety of folkloristic fortunes around
the world, being seen <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>here as a
sage, there as a fool.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Being
partial ourselves to the former image, we were delighted to stumble upon this
passage</div>
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<br /></div>
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The prince was overjoyed to find
the owl so deeply versed in topography, and now informed him, in confidence, of
his tender passion<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and his
intended elopement, urging him to be his companion and counselor.</div>
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“Go to!”said the owl, with a look
of displeasure.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Am I a bird to
engage in a love-affair? -- I, whose time is devoted to <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">meditation and the moon</b>?”</div>
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-- Washington Irving, “The Legend
of Prince Ahmed Al Kamel”, in <u>The Alhambra</u> (1832)</div>
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<br /></div>
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But all turns out well, as the fowl allows himself to be
persuaded.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After the adventure,
the prince appoints the owl his privy-counselor -- “It is needless to say that
never was a realm more sagely administered.”</div>
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The sight of a
dog<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>running across the road<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>just in front of the car<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>aroused her from her reverie.</div>
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How suddenly, how
startlingly it had dashed into the narrow universe of the headlamps!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It existed for a fraction of a second,
desperately running, and was gone again<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>into the darkness on the other side of the luminous world.</div>
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Another dog<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>was suddenly in its place,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>pursuing …</div>
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-- Aldous Huxley, <u>Point Counter
Point</u> (1928), p. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>79</div>
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<br /></div>
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First there is a mountain;<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>then<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>there is no mountain;<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>then there is.</div>
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As we do each year at this time, we post a poem celebrating
the summer solstice.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>However, as (a
bit back) a veteran of a memorable family vacation in Australia, I now realize
that, for our friends the quokkas (and the penguins!) for them, it’s the <i>winter</i>
solstice.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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And thus, to treat the hemispheres evenhandedly, we here
post a hat-tip to <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">both</i> solstices.</div>
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<br /></div>
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======</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Summer Solstice</b></div>
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<br /></div>
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The sun at apogee, an empire all of light.</div>
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The sweet corn basks and ripens in its rays.</div>
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All memory of winter<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>has melted from our minds.</div>
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<br /></div>
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Yet even now the worm lies in the bud, one day to blast it.</div>
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The long limbs of daylight<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>that had stretched and stretched</div>
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now imperceptibly<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>begin to shrink:</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
even as the cosmos<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>attains its outmost limit,</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
and sighs back<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>to collapse.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Alas, the Elves of Ice<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>lurk still in northern forests,</div>
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plotting their return.</div>
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<br /></div>
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</div>
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======</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Winter Solstice</b></div>
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<br /></div>
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Today (for y’all Down Under, whether marsupial or antarctic)
is the official Beginning of Winter.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We celebrate after the traditional fashion of our
ancestors,dancing at midnight,</div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>clad only in moonlight;</div>
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many a child was conceived on this day.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(And they grow up with magic in their
eyes.)</div>
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<br /></div>
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Covertly, we rejoice<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>for a subterranean reason:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>that while, nominally, this marks the onset of winter winds and bitter
chill,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>astronomically it ushers in
rather<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>that annual apocatastasis,
whereby the days begin once again to lengthen, creeping towards the equinoctial
equilibrium of spring, and onwards towards their eventual estival-solstitial
apotheosis.</div>
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<br />
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--<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jeepers, creepers -- whereja get those peepers?</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .3in;">
-- Got ‘em off the Peeper Tree;</div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Tater-Face Blindman<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>giv’m t’me.</div>
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<br /></div>
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[If you can hearken to such a hypnotic jingle, and sense the
theophany<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>within its wisps,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>then you might enjoy our series of
poems and essayettes<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>in the
Rootabagian vein;<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>beginning here:</div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<a href="https://worldofdrjustice.blogspot.com/2012/10/rootabaga-saga-incipit.html">https://worldofdrjustice.blogspot.com/2012/10/rootabaga-saga-incipit.html</a>
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Just recently, the term “Umbrella Man” has popped up again,
once more in a mysterious context, but with no reference to Neville Chamberlain.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>E.g.</div>
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<br /></div>
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https://www.forbes.com/sites/carlieporterfield/2020/05/30/who-is-umbrella-man-mystery-vandal-at-minneapolis-riot-spurs-conspiracies/</div>
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<br /></div>
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Examples of earlier American use, where Chamberlain was the
allusion:</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Lyndon Johnson running against Coke Stevenson for Senator,
in 1948:</div>
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<br /></div>
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“<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Isolationist</b>” was another word he [i.e., LBJ] drummed into his
listeners -- until he started using a stronger word:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">appeaser</b>”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Stevenson, he said, “is an <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">umbrella man</b>. … He talks Chamberlain talk … He wants another Munich.”</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .3in;">
-- Robert Caro, <u>The Years of
Lyndon Johnson: Means of Ascent</u> (1990), p. 254</div>
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<br /></div>
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[The above is the latest footnote to the following light-hearted exercise:</div>
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<br /></div>
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</div>
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<a href="https://worldofdrjustice.blogspot.com/2013/11/the-umbrella-man.html" target="_blank">https://worldofdrjustice.blogspot.com/2013/11/the-umbrella-man.html</a> ]</div>
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</style>David Justicehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12586387386542720405noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2246295769776967275.post-54025035875605845952020-06-19T08:39:00.003-07:002020-06-19T09:43:32.842-07:00Tales of mighty Zeno<br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman";">A witness from
Classical Antiquity:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman";">Pericles,
also, was a hearer of Zeno, the Eleatic, who treated of natural philosophy<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>in the same manner as Parmenides did,
but had also perfected himself in an art of his own, for refuting and silencing<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>opponents in argument;<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>as Timon of Phlius describes it --</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman";">Also
the two-edgted tongue<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>of mighty
Zeno, who,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman";">say
what one would, could argue it untrue.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman";">--
Plutarch’s <u>Lives</u> (Dryden’s translation)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman";">(For the essay
to which that is an addendum, see:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><a href="https://worldofdrjustice.blogspot.com/2020/04/refutation-inflation-re-updated.html" target="_blank">https://worldofdrjustice.blogspot.com/2020/04/refutation-inflation-re-updated.html</a>
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