Oracles, Second Opinions, and The Separation of Powers

Visitors have been blogging rather better below the fold of late, than original postings have probably warranted, and who could not be grateful. David Toms started this, as no one should be arrested for antic-ipating. This gainful balance is the touchstone of our format's superiority over tumblr's and others, which eschew this fertile interaction - never forgetting, there are those who like it that way, and for them an unremarked flow of stimuli may take its place as a stream of consciousness few mortals have ever mastered. At the same time, the versatility of our format is a bestowal of powers not to be invoked lightly, but to be arrayed in rapport of light as well as mass.

The practice of balance puts one in mind of the conservative genius of The Federalist, in striving for a proportionate separation of powers in a well-ordered state. Only today, our lyricist of the Cyclades ran off a series of Polaroid snaps for us, of which more than one evokes this principle with such illuminating pectoral precision that it would be indecent not to circulate his argument. The same practice is so indispensable to the vitality and longevity of any good wine, that the senses speak of it long before the mathematics are appreciated. Who can mind to play the part of one integer in an equation which is sound?

Alexander Hamilton,
  James Madison, John Jay
The Federalist, 1788, 1802, 1819
Jacob E. Cooke, editor
World Publishing, 1961©


Franz Josef Haydn
Trio in F, Menuetto
1790
Beaux Arts Trio
Philips Classics, 1970-79©


ii  Lasse Pedersen
iii Harry Goodwins