Tuesday, November 1, 2011

Home again, home again, jiggety-jog




The defect of a referendum
is that it presents a bin-
ary question, crafted by a
magistrate and polluted by
demagoguery. But they have
where the frame is not the
question.



                     






4 comments:

  1. a greek drama always captivates the audience!
    :-)

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  2. Tying my tie this morning, I admitted to myself that every power on earth will be moved to derail this referendum from ever taking place. I hadn't figured on the Prime Minister's own Party taking up the knife as well, as The New York Times was reporting by mid-morning, Eastern North American time. I can assure you, this drama is being watched as being not only Greek.

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  3. Our Prime minister should have noticed the Caryatide missing from the Erechtheion!

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  4. The peripateticism of your caryatids seems a standing semaphore of your politics. Writing to his friend Henry Miller in March of '45, less than 3 months after the "December events," Durrell (then a British propaganda officer) spoke of "defending the Acropolis caryatid by caryatid against the rest of Greece." Possibly they do not care for a quarrel in the family? But here the pressure for a schism seems external again, and not just coincidentally so -- to the alien eye.

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