tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-47518506020060712022024-03-12T19:26:41.827-04:00Red Mug, Blue Linen Laurenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17972899387484460347noreply@blogger.comBlogger3055125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4751850602006071202.post-2483392563006444652021-09-22T16:31:00.001-04:002021-09-22T16:33:28.577-04:00Another vehicle in passing<p><br /></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_NYe5PGnnR_vacZPgp0geKV8MW8WDDZsi3QGl5HFwYbgeeSWFasbhoyIn_DxkcXV6PVxWzmV43Bhr_LvvSejbVzgfcrGhcSgQXnc4t24T383PYHg0TcAPCtjXxPC8UPSQ6qU0nYh_xYk/s960/last+year+at+home.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="619" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_NYe5PGnnR_vacZPgp0geKV8MW8WDDZsi3QGl5HFwYbgeeSWFasbhoyIn_DxkcXV6PVxWzmV43Bhr_LvvSejbVzgfcrGhcSgQXnc4t24T383PYHg0TcAPCtjXxPC8UPSQ6qU0nYh_xYk/s320/last+year+at+home.jpg" width="206" /></a></div><i><span style="font-family: courier;"><p><i><span style="font-family: courier;"><br /></span></i></p></span></i><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-family: courier;"> </span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-family: courier;"><br /></span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-family: courier;"> </span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-family: courier;"><br /></span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-family: courier;"><br /></span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-family: courier;"><br /></span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-family: courier;"><br /></span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-family: courier;"> <span style="color: #444444;">Needless to say, our formal goodbye<br /></span></span></i><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: courier;"><i> was cool and reserved. It scarcely<br /></i></span><span style="font-family: courier;"><i> amounted to exchanged looks or a <br /></i></span><span style="font-family: courier;"><i> handshake. In the course of our <br /></i></span><span style="font-family: courier;"><i> young lives we had parted and met<br /></i></span><span style="font-family: courier;"><i> again too often for handshakes to<br /></i></span><span style="font-family: courier;"><i> have become our usual practice.</i></span></span></div><p></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: courier;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: courier;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: courier;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: courier;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: courier;"><i><br /></i></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Thomas Mann<br /></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i>Doctor Faustus<br /></i></span><span style="font-family: georgia;">1948</span></span></div><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: courier;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: courier;"><br /></span> </p>Laurenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17972899387484460347noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4751850602006071202.post-51167163681650098152021-02-14T08:27:00.033-05:002021-02-14T11:11:12.716-05:00Where went the Whips, or, Why didn't Schumer play for a mistrial?<p><span style="font-family: courier;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: courier;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: courier;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: courier;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQQJu6lqsqQNcZFOM2ksHQtAIOgUleTIIvUm2bGkQkZS9gzrU6a6eSHIR3xQI6zsv52RNs4wfEcypheLO7_Gcc73wFYtH9WZFCpz8MiWpq66gENZ8p8hZSdQkGos5F-Cm_XmgWFeofChc/s2048/franc%25CC%25A7ois+reichenbach+2+1954.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1502" data-original-width="2048" height="294" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQQJu6lqsqQNcZFOM2ksHQtAIOgUleTIIvUm2bGkQkZS9gzrU6a6eSHIR3xQI6zsv52RNs4wfEcypheLO7_Gcc73wFYtH9WZFCpz8MiWpq66gENZ8p8hZSdQkGos5F-Cm_XmgWFeofChc/w400-h294/franc%25CC%25A7ois+reichenbach+2+1954.png" width="400" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: courier;"><br /><span style="color: #444444;"><br /></span></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: courier;"><span style="color: #444444;">Bearing in mind,</span> <span style="color: #444444;">that the prosecutorial obligation in the late Senatorial miscarriage of justice had always been, to minimize the shame of the United States to her people and to the world, anguished partisans had counseled against procuring the underlying impeachment, at all. That would only have established the impression of unanimous indifference to the structure and scruples of their government, and yet no one foresaw honest conduct in the Republican near-majority. In other words, the Senate trial went ahead with only the most hilari-ously forbidding impediments before it.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #444444; font-family: courier;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68);">This was no excuse for the abdication of strategy; rather, resolution ran only the other way. Yet evidently, only the tactic for achieving a poignant loss seemed to guide prosecutorial conduct, a posture lending ample shelter to the other side. The responsibly canny tactic, leaping into the lap to lick the face and wag the whole Canterbury pilgrimage, lay rolling around on the floor, rather, like a spent bottle of gin.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #444444; font-family: courier;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68);">With endlessly voluminous wreckage from the previous government demanding immediate attention, to say nothing of the vilest maladministration of public health since the government's Tuskegee frolics with syphillis, pressing hard for Senatorial dispatch, the languishing of a lost cause against the same "massive resistance" would have suggested, to any strategist, a plan to exhibit the highest quality of proof with an eye to shielding it, at present, from the mockery of a verdict. It would have taken many months to compel the necessary testimony of witnesses, and for the rot only beginning in the defendant's reputation to expand to critical mass, before something resembling an open mind should invade the Republican redoubt. A schoolchild knew this.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #444444; font-family: courier;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68);">Yet by no more than majority vote, firmly in his grasp, Schumer was in a position to introduce a motion to declare a mistrial as of Saturday morning, on the fortuitous emergence of obliterating and incontro-vertible evidence of the defendant's guilt, which only time and the press of responsible governance precluded the Senate from exhibiting. To the positively rapturous outcry of <i>oppressive practice,</i> certain to emerge from the minority, Schumer had been schooled by his predecessor already, to observe that elections have consequences.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #444444; font-family: courier;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68);"><br /></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #444444; font-family: courier;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: courier;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_0xVs8o5zUJKZ3NDUCPGiD4nUdC1lOK82w800nxKjkceCpt745h1rQH0F45R-ZQdVc_pYJnIt_9_8LgdjNGK8d-Zv_c_UfXxcYFSj72OBtlyeTstrOgKTxrYnv7qFa0wTafgP4-GnXYk/s702/DLN+FEBRUARY+1955.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="702" data-original-width="512" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_0xVs8o5zUJKZ3NDUCPGiD4nUdC1lOK82w800nxKjkceCpt745h1rQH0F45R-ZQdVc_pYJnIt_9_8LgdjNGK8d-Zv_c_UfXxcYFSj72OBtlyeTstrOgKTxrYnv7qFa0wTafgP4-GnXYk/w291-h400/DLN+FEBRUARY+1955.jpg" width="291" /></a></span></div><span style="color: #444444; font-family: courier;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: courier;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68);"><span style="color: #444444;">There are </span><a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/02/impeachment-did-not-prevail-trump-still-lost/618026/"><span style="color: #783f04;">valiant and almost cogently palliative opinions</span></a><span style="color: #444444;"> in print even now, to the effect that the most poignant defeat of American honor was elegantly achieved. These exultations are impossible to score, with any instrument of reliable pitch. A mistrial, on the other hand, with its open threat of a new trial at any time during the term of the present Congress, would leave the defendant where he belongs, and the United States with a victory unambiguously pending. </span></span></span></p><p><span style="caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); color: #444444; font-family: courier;">Even a child learns how to wait.</span></p><p><span style="color: #444444; font-family: courier;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68);"><br /></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #444444; font-family: courier;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68);"><br /></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #444444; font-family: courier;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68);"><br /></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68);"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: courier; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #444444;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhE4Asx1K4RSpF_VIuJuASEiZpvCKUzEDZV9wHIjh0yrcVuthAr3LJW3hKGMUbc5G2shcXOQquSFqSAwqzLKybznLbM0NCbUMiYxQsKUoldiw7IzWeS5h1jI5kNZBKeRsRI6KTx8eewcSM/s72/Fire+on+the+beach+Terestchenko+rev.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="50" data-original-width="72" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhE4Asx1K4RSpF_VIuJuASEiZpvCKUzEDZV9wHIjh0yrcVuthAr3LJW3hKGMUbc5G2shcXOQquSFqSAwqzLKybznLbM0NCbUMiYxQsKUoldiw7IzWeS5h1jI5kNZBKeRsRI6KTx8eewcSM/s0/Fire+on+the+beach+Terestchenko+rev.png" /></a></span></div><p style="font-family: courier;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: courier;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68);"><br /></span></span></span></p><p style="font-family: courier;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: courier;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68);"><br /></span></span></span></p><p style="font-family: courier;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: courier;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68);"><br /></span></span></span></p><p style="font-family: courier;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: courier;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68);"><br /></span></span></span></p><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><p><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68);"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68);"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68);"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></span></span></p>i François Reichenbach, </span></span><span style="caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); color: #444444; font-family: georgia;">1954</span><div><span style="color: #444444; font-family: georgia;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68);"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="color: #444444; font-family: georgia;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68);">ii Private source, 1955<br /></span></span><p><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68);"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68);"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68);"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68);"><span style="font-family: courier;"> </span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68);"><span style="font-family: courier;"><br /></span></span></span></p></div>Laurenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17972899387484460347noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4751850602006071202.post-90398099492494566622021-01-06T09:55:00.001-05:002021-01-06T10:02:45.879-05:00Samothrace revisited<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhytd4gCkB-WfrYtxhc7p47EVCUvmwJyUW4Rd4GZX7_U4zve3Rpnmh25kOEevp_Hrlv2Zhl_IvZVCFi0guDymPkaJXhVUan_MUAGMeF8x2gE2v0l8KV5ahRpIf358SoI2d8fJzVShJZgAo/s995/Winged_Victory_of_Samothrace_%25282%2529.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="768" data-original-width="995" height="309" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhytd4gCkB-WfrYtxhc7p47EVCUvmwJyUW4Rd4GZX7_U4zve3Rpnmh25kOEevp_Hrlv2Zhl_IvZVCFi0guDymPkaJXhVUan_MUAGMeF8x2gE2v0l8KV5ahRpIf358SoI2d8fJzVShJZgAo/w400-h309/Winged_Victory_of_Samothrace_%25282%2529.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj47TGqDOv0I-mqhLnes-CpqTJkF968dGN-jDb5NAiiZLmlV9A_6DabhN93Q3KrRN36wWCde9Q0deSzwEVi5N778LGqG_9MktUZ5GLdulCDDz7EgJxoviy94myAOEWKbfvAPDLHYrAd1fA/s810/tumblr_6c3000b6e65109708d0ca31b5cefc900_07f227ce_540+copy.jpg" style="clear: left; 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color: #444444; font-family: courier;">Approaching tabulations of the final two per-</span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: courier;">cent of ballots cast, the State of Georgia was seen today to have rejected the campaigns for re-election of incumbent </span><span style="caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); color: #444444; font-family: courier;">Senators representing the same Party, replacing them with candidates offering instead to represent people of Georgia. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); color: #444444; font-family: courier;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); color: #444444; font-family: courier;">Resisting this distinction, </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); color: #444444; font-family: courier;">much discordant heat had been generated by the disgraced head of the Party, which was anxious-</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); color: #444444; font-family: courier;">ly observed, suffered, and seen trans</span><span style="caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); color: #444444; font-family: courier;">formed into light by those it had scorched. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); color: #444444; font-family: courier;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); color: #444444; font-family: courier;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); color: #444444; font-family: courier;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><span style="caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); color: #444444; font-family: courier;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHh8V_eDKgBqFvaPAkGS9jfKcGlQYKsS5x-isxGvXrPZf5A_UeF22pkNQpBifpYHEOscKCMypIyCCx0MwbOLtguKkuW56teypG4VCzQjg8QlDxh9gVGZoOBwDD96W-O91dS729xFgmRJs/s72/Fire+on+the+beach+Terestchenko+rev.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="50" data-original-width="72" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHh8V_eDKgBqFvaPAkGS9jfKcGlQYKsS5x-isxGvXrPZf5A_UeF22pkNQpBifpYHEOscKCMypIyCCx0MwbOLtguKkuW56teypG4VCzQjg8QlDxh9gVGZoOBwDD96W-O91dS729xFgmRJs/s0/Fire+on+the+beach+Terestchenko+rev.png" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div>Laurenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17972899387484460347noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4751850602006071202.post-41107300876343849942020-11-22T10:31:00.000-05:002020-11-22T10:31:27.927-05:00Not the easiest thing<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOCjwRvl0OeOTzUMk00sodmHyyuKuKj8zcEkyU5BFdXQfmAnn4nMp3tzzHcoYW40OMp31sKqRXhKvKJmbyilE2sKccV-4yeFTPPOMVcWg4de2AMOfXVO0hOGfyVkMXzgDbX_XmNAN7-tw/s992/Wm+Allard+roping+in+corral.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="652" data-original-width="992" height="263" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOCjwRvl0OeOTzUMk00sodmHyyuKuKj8zcEkyU5BFdXQfmAnn4nMp3tzzHcoYW40OMp31sKqRXhKvKJmbyilE2sKccV-4yeFTPPOMVcWg4de2AMOfXVO0hOGfyVkMXzgDbX_XmNAN7-tw/w400-h263/Wm+Allard+roping+in+corral.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: courier;">I find myself reading Jack Schaefer's<br /></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: courier;"><i>Shane </i>(1949) this weekend, occasioned</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: courier;">by nothing more than </span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: courier;">a browse in Wil-</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: courier;">liam Allard's beautiful </span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: courier;">Leica photog-</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: courier;">raphy. I don't think there'd be much</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: courier;">chance of my reading a Western these</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: courier;">days, which only goes to show how ill</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: courier;">one can understand one's time. That's</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: courier;">not the easiest thing.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: courier;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: courier;">It was a shrewd choice on Schaefer's</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: courier;">part, to present this intensely sen-</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: courier;">timental story through the sustained</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: courier;">first-person voice of a young boy. It</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: courier;">allowed him to support a tone of leg-</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: courier;">itimate awe for the upper Plains of</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: courier;">the American West, to carry the some-</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: courier;">times fevered responses of his <span style="caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68);">narra-</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: courier;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68);">tion. (Noting this, director George</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: courier;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68);">Stevens adopted the same perspective</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: courier;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68);">in a film which so immortalized his</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: courier;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68);">child star, as to illuminate every-</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: courier;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68);">thing this actor did in adulthood,</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: courier;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68);">opposite Paul Newman in <i>Hud</i>). Today,</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: courier;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68);">readers who've been present for the</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: courier;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68);">same years as Brandon de Wilde will</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: courier;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68);">cut this story a wry slack. For all</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: courier;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68);">its naïveté - not to say, cynicism - </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: courier;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68);">it touches faithfully upon what is</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: courier;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68);">not the easiest thing.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: courier;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68);"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: courier;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68);"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: courier;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZcQjCX3sr1NvCBxyZGAUlc2-90knvZJS6Fdr6gqYlaE1fxOUQ4F1_Vge_0dSicM_WhqSgExPVbMd_dwzbUGbwytu-HIj0QxsfRSO0pfozQYKFyBuXrnhjuuiTFgCykQrhuriA4efZ-hg/s715/JFK+source+unknown.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="715" data-original-width="675" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZcQjCX3sr1NvCBxyZGAUlc2-90knvZJS6Fdr6gqYlaE1fxOUQ4F1_Vge_0dSicM_WhqSgExPVbMd_dwzbUGbwytu-HIj0QxsfRSO0pfozQYKFyBuXrnhjuuiTFgCykQrhuriA4efZ-hg/w302-h320/JFK+source+unknown.jpg" width="302" /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: courier;"><br /></span></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><i> He was there. He was there in</i></div></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: courier;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68);"><i> our place and in us. Whenever</i></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: courier;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68);"><i> I needed him, he was there. I</i></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: courier;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68);"><i> could close my eyes and he would</i></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: courier;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68);"><i> be with me and I would see him</i></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: courier;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68);"><i> plain and hear again that gentle</i></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: courier;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68);"><i> voice.</i></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: courier;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68);"><i><br /></i></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: courier;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68);"><i><br /></i></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68);"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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font-family: courier; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: courier; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: courier; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: courier; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: courier; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: courier; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: courier;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68);"><br /></span></span></div><div style="font-family: courier; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: courier;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68);"><br /></span></span></div><div style="font-family: courier; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: courier;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68);"><br /></span></span></div><div style="font-family: courier; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: courier;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68);"><br /></span></span></div><div style="font-family: courier; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: courier;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68);"><br /></span></span></div><div style="font-family: courier; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: courier;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68);"><br /></span></span></div><div style="font-family: courier; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: courier;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68);"><br /></span></span></div><div style="font-family: courier; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: courier;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68);"><br /></span></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia;">William Albert Allard</span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68);"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i>Vanishing Breed</i></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68);"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i>Photographs of the Cowboy</i></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68);"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i> and the West</i></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68);"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Little, Brown & Co, 1982©<br /></span><i style="font-family: courier;"><br /></i></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: georgia;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68);">Jack Schaefer</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: georgia;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68);"><i>Shane</i></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: georgia;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68);">1949</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: georgia;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68);">The Library of America</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: georgia;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68);">Ron Hansen, editor</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: georgia;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68);"><i>The Western</i></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: georgia;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68);"><i> Four Classic Novels ...</i></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: georgia;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68);">LOA, 2020©</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: georgia;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68);"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: georgia;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68);"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: georgia;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68);"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: georgia;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68);"><br /></span></span></div>Laurenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17972899387484460347noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4751850602006071202.post-3964619516880469692020-11-07T08:33:00.001-05:002020-11-07T08:33:03.852-05:00Saturday commute clxxxii: Nice start<p><span style="font-family: courier;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: courier;"><span style="color: #444444;">After an interval of unexpected length, it is a pleasure for me to look now upon a fresh, unmarked page in this journal. I would be the first to join whatever chorus there may be, for leaving it that way, if the project were completed. </span></span></p><div><span style="font-family: courier;"><span style="color: #444444;">However, we have just noticed that the United States has discharged the obligation of disposing of its sitting President, and </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uo3pU8rcCHw"><span style="color: #660000;">good behavior is always to be encouraged</span></a><span style="color: #444444;"> within sight of the young. Compliments, then, to the people of the United States disdained by that figure, over the last four years of exercising his preference for the fragment he seduced and betrayed. By every count, from epidemiology to pluralist reconciliation to international comity to planetary stewardship to fiscal sanity, he had rendered the nation the first justifiably outcast pariah of the New World. How delightful, then, that on the very date when first permitted by their constraining founding document to right his institutionally unchecked hostilities, the country showed him the door.</span></span></div><div><span style="color: #444444; font-family: courier;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: courier;"><span style="color: #444444;">I know, there are those morose who wail, that this remedy is not enough. They are wonderfully paid, glitteringly honored, and as obvious as yesterday's excesses. I see too many minor movies, not to have heard Rossano Brazzi declare to Katharine Hepburn </span><a href="http://www.aloverofvenice.com/summertime/Summertime.htm" target="_blank"><span style="color: #660000;">for David Lean,</span></a><span style="color: #444444;"> "Eat the ravioli." Please, do not instruct us in the array of anomalies still disfiguring the feast. Rather, organize for the State of Georgia's double Senatorial runoff in early January, of which more, soon enough. </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: courier;">For this weekend, come outside. </span></div><div><span style="color: #444444; font-family: courier;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #444444; font-family: courier;">Refresh acquaintance.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: courier;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: courier;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg96g0i2earRKaDRGdMx9omboRloXSQ-H5GdXqEpQNMR7jf6h8UaTSZYiRRwa5KnW9DTCMmVK2CURimXK4H7CNwxgbOyk7r6cxcNk2SkELxV4ufgpTyWmIliwysDMX54LYJz-1tBuGNbh4/s1487/ubayuri+aqueduct.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1487" data-original-width="1000" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg96g0i2earRKaDRGdMx9omboRloXSQ-H5GdXqEpQNMR7jf6h8UaTSZYiRRwa5KnW9DTCMmVK2CURimXK4H7CNwxgbOyk7r6cxcNk2SkELxV4ufgpTyWmIliwysDMX54LYJz-1tBuGNbh4/s320/ubayuri+aqueduct.jpg" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: courier;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: courier;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: courier;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: courier;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: courier;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: courier;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: courier;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #444444; font-family: georgia;">Photo courtesy, ubayuri©</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div>Laurenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17972899387484460347noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4751850602006071202.post-53708677969524993772020-10-04T13:02:00.002-04:002020-10-04T13:07:01.592-04:00Timely blades and second chances<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjL4o0prbmg00nAuWfdCwBOFmDbofWsOkSpn8qB8xaMo09LJZL5DQcI5ZEhQZmYsgIb4hwG18o6ymO9jWQI_SG9Byu-QM1GSgF6DfN1fzdk2YuseR2bRxH8wtAqF3PCwJ0tFAKMupBhixk/s667/raphinya+blondmale%252C+rev.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="667" data-original-width="500" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjL4o0prbmg00nAuWfdCwBOFmDbofWsOkSpn8qB8xaMo09LJZL5DQcI5ZEhQZmYsgIb4hwG18o6ymO9jWQI_SG9Byu-QM1GSgF6DfN1fzdk2YuseR2bRxH8wtAqF3PCwJ0tFAKMupBhixk/w300-h400/raphinya+blondmale%252C+rev.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><br /><br /><br /><span style="color: #444444; font-family: courier;">No one, of course, has any appetite for<br />seeing a certain name again, except as</span><div><span style="color: #444444; font-family: courier;">a line to avoid selecting, at the top of </span></div><div><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: courier;">his ballot, </span><span style="font-family: courier;">At last the gathering of a di-</span></span></div><div><span style="color: #444444; font-family: courier;">verse and remarkably distributed storm</span></div><div><span style="color: #444444; font-family: courier;">of revulsion is poised to restore self-</span></div><div><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: courier;">determination to the United </span><span style="font-family: courier;">States. The</span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: courier;"><span><span style="color: #444444;">ingenious </span><a href="http://redmugbluelinen.blogspot.com/search?q=damon+winter"><span style="color: #7f6000;">photography of Damon Winter</span></a><span style="color: #444444;"> of</span></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: courier;"><span style="color: #444444;"><i>The New York Times </i>portrays a rescue op-</span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: courier;"><span style="color: #444444;">eration deeply reminiscent of med-evac</span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: courier;"><span style="color: #444444;">Hueys lifting from the battlefields of</span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: courier;"><span style="color: #444444;">Southeast Asia, saving the passengers if</span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: courier;"><span style="color: #444444;">possible, but more certainly ceding na-</span></span></div><div><span style="color: #444444; font-family: courier;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68);">tive</span> ground from which they are removed.</span></div><div><span style="color: #444444; font-family: courier;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #444444; font-family: courier;">Nor was this an expulsion by cruel chance,</span></div><div><span style="color: #444444; font-family: courier;">but by the incapacity and illegitimacy of</span></div><div><span style="color: #444444; font-family: courier;">the occupation, revealed in its helpless</span></div><div><span style="color: #444444; font-family: courier;">incompetence and reliance on its own lies.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: courier;"><span style="color: #444444;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: courier;"><span style="color: #444444;">This chance is one not to blow, but also</span></span></div><div><span style="color: #444444; font-family: courier;">not to crow. It's generous, even to <span style="caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68);">desig-</span></span></div><div><span style="color: #444444; font-family: courier;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68);">nate this deliverance as a restoration, </span></span></div><div><span style="color: #444444; font-family: courier;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68);">given how few have ever influenced their</span></span></div><div><span style="color: #444444; font-family: courier;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68);">own governance in this country. But every</span></span></div><div><span style="color: #444444; font-family: courier;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68);">such valuation is relative, and is being</span></span></div><div><span style="color: #444444; font-family: courier;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68);">re-examined under pressures both urgent -</span></span></div><div><span style="color: #444444; font-family: courier;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68);">pandemic, racial discord, economic dis-</span></span></div><div><span style="color: #444444; font-family: courier;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68);">location - and implacable - climatic</span></span></div><div><span style="color: #444444; font-family: courier;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68);">crises, other environmental despoiling,</span></span></div><div><span style="color: #444444; font-family: courier;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68);">and international security hazards both</span></span></div><div><span style="color: #444444; font-family: courier;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68);">recklessly propagated or negligently</span></span></div><div><span style="color: #444444; font-family: courier;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68);">denied by the government soon to depart.</span></span></div><div><span style="color: #444444; font-family: courier;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68);"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="color: #444444; font-family: courier;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68);"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="color: #444444; font-family: courier;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirBKRRXd0ulFM_85Wg6nqqn7BhN8OHmHOTQ8NeI5dxySr3F-X-Jr94_s0GqMyxT4jajGwuicFcR_tZmOilbvJqsFtgZRrHZxvNXXmb5oaIf2yYTit6XaEEW1xewEQgfInQXCak6viugXg/s1024/03Dowd2-jumbo.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="683" data-original-width="1024" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirBKRRXd0ulFM_85Wg6nqqn7BhN8OHmHOTQ8NeI5dxySr3F-X-Jr94_s0GqMyxT4jajGwuicFcR_tZmOilbvJqsFtgZRrHZxvNXXmb5oaIf2yYTit6XaEEW1xewEQgfInQXCak6viugXg/w400-h266/03Dowd2-jumbo.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><span style="caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68);"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="color: #444444; font-family: courier;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68);"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="color: #444444; font-family: courier;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68);">The circumstances are auspicious for a</span></span></div><div><span style="color: #444444; font-family: courier;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68);">popular insistence on self-determination.</span></span></div><div><span style="color: #444444; font-family: courier;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68);">They are equally vulnerable to repressive</span></span></div><div><span style="color: #444444; font-family: courier;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68);">pre-emption, which is the unfailing custom</span></span></div><div><span style="color: #444444; font-family: courier;">of our history. <i>But now at least we know</i></span></div><div><span style="color: #444444; font-family: courier;"><i>why:</i> racism has been the contortionist</span></div><div><span style="color: #444444; font-family: courier;">corrupter of every populist opportunity in</span></div><div><span style="color: #444444; font-family: courier;">this nation's experience. This contortion-</span></div><div><span style="color: #444444; font-family: courier;">ist is avid to overwhelm the pending elec-</span></div><div><span style="color: #444444; font-family: courier;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68);">tion by intimidation, deception, malicious</span></span></div><div><span style="color: #444444; font-family: courier;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68);">prosecution, and every rejection available.</span></span></div><div><span style="color: #444444; font-family: courier;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68);"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="color: #444444; font-family: courier;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68);">At last, the great anti-progressive energy</span></span></div><div><span style="color: #444444; font-family: courier;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68);">of the American experience has fallen into</span></span></div><div><span style="color: #444444; font-family: courier;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68);">the hands of a spent force. We now behold</span></span></div><div><span style="caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: courier;"><span style="color: #444444;">the readying of an electoral swift sword -</span></span></div><div><span style="caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: courier;"><span style="color: #444444;">a climax of nothing, a beginning to be de- </span></span></div><div><span style="caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: courier;"><span style="color: #444444;">termined by the People. We have our vote. </span></span></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); color: #444444; font-family: courier;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); color: #444444; font-family: courier;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); color: #444444; font-family: courier;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); color: #444444; font-family: courier;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSLHwT6Ngj7IWoblptCOwXCInQHr1nptpHavJDnB8JW2eCPz6VtSe-leMBghzHdETU8NVR8dB8qF-02TfgrCmoOXcqeHQNiBqZPUiPKOM4C659u4R86j_DELdbMuC0rqnQ2zf7essuyKI/s72/Fire+on+the+beach+Terestchenko+rev.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="50" data-original-width="72" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSLHwT6Ngj7IWoblptCOwXCInQHr1nptpHavJDnB8JW2eCPz6VtSe-leMBghzHdETU8NVR8dB8qF-02TfgrCmoOXcqeHQNiBqZPUiPKOM4C659u4R86j_DELdbMuC0rqnQ2zf7essuyKI/s16000/Fire+on+the+beach+Terestchenko+rev.png" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><span style="caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); color: #444444; font-family: courier;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); color: #444444; font-family: courier;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); color: #444444; font-family: courier;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); color: #444444; font-family: courier;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #444444; font-family: courier;"><br /></span></div>Laurenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17972899387484460347noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4751850602006071202.post-23580936025091262392020-09-19T01:00:00.014-04:002020-09-19T01:11:00.468-04:00Word from the land of always something<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOOxbU9Xzg6PjoaKGDu-zkeHBKIfzCLYQBgzaKXRDSIqTkEIIiWvYKHiEKyBGh_ijUj5XIWGzug6SQFJ38wFrPh102OnvtRGbgqiuJ42byUBRFvYJXqU7WbfsjQYSkw6r5xfklfl5jU3U/s663/face+in+his+fingertips.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="663" data-original-width="504" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOOxbU9Xzg6PjoaKGDu-zkeHBKIfzCLYQBgzaKXRDSIqTkEIIiWvYKHiEKyBGh_ijUj5XIWGzug6SQFJ38wFrPh102OnvtRGbgqiuJ42byUBRFvYJXqU7WbfsjQYSkw6r5xfklfl5jU3U/w304-h400/face+in+his+fingertips.jpg" width="304" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: courier;">Word came to Americans some time in</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: courier;">the evening of the 18th that a hold-</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: courier;">out against replacement on the high</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: courier;">court had passed from the scene, al-</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: courier;">lowing speculation of whether, how,</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: courier;">when, by whom something definitive</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: courier;">would be done about this. This was</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: courier;">not the first intrusion on a wedding</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: courier;">anniversary of mine, when a highly</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: courier;">presentable plate of <i>rognons de v<span style="caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68);">eau</span></i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: courier;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68);">was first served to me on the night</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: courier;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68);">of my farewell to the East Coast. I</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: courier;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68);">found myself back here eventually,</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: courier;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68);">unmarried, and although cured of com-</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: courier;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68);">memorating occasions with food, still</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: courier;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68);">easily consoled by a determined defer-</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: courier;">ence to offal.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: courier;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: courier;">This latest bulletin in the struggle</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: courier;">for power in the United States found</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: courier;">me just as glad to be able to rely on</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: courier;">my friends already to be in earnest,</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: courier;">plotting various interventions. No </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: courier;">one had telephoned me, anguished to</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: courier;">be reminded, how to breathe, and I</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: courier;">found myself managing equally well,</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: courier;">once I'd recalled the virtues of </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: courier;">fresh coffee. Not for this house-</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: courier;">hold, then, will hands be wrung in</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: courier;">wonder of what will become of life</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: courier;">for another 40 terms of this court;</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: courier;">no swooning on the indignity of the</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: courier;">present power structure's swan song</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: courier;">of bottomless villainy. Possibly,</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: courier;">some frantic defections from that</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: courier;">cabal can be negotiated; possibly</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: courier;">a bolt of gastronomic clarity will</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: courier;">descend upon the illumination of</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: courier;">well-grazed kidneys, but in any</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: courier;">case, calving </span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: courier;">season will return, </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: courier;">in all its telling raucousness.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: courier;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: courier;">For more than 50 years, a tenuous</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: courier;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68);">claim to a position in the general</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: courier;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68);">population and an ill-bred fixation</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: courier;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68);">on the mythology of judicial review</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: courier;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68);">have left me with the conviction </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: courier;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68);">set out above, that one's time can</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: courier;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68);">much more securely be invested in</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: courier;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68);">a study of the classics in cuisine</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: courier;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68);">than in the tergiversations of a</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: courier;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68);">casuist tradition under demagog-</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: courier;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68);">ic appointment. Enough, please, </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: courier;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68);">of heroes of magical powers. Win</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: courier;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68);">games, breed good beasts, honor</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: courier;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68);">reality. </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: courier;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68);"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: courier;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68);">Now. 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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Enter boldly the nominee, citing FDR’s </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">glee at this overreach for his image; </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">tion will be held as blameless as he is.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">This leaves the nominee. I respect the</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">necessity to project an unanswerable im-</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">pediment to Trump and Trumpism's penchant</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">for mocking his speech as a symptom of </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">frailty. At the same time one would like</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">to be able to expect the candidate to ex-</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">ercise his own strength, without sending</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">for a child in his place. One would like</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">him to stop striving for poignancy and be-</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">gin to enact raw, exposed superiority:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><i>Listen, swine. I have a neurological prob-</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><i>lem with my speech. I'll stutter all day,</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><i>before I'll emulate your lies.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">In James Brooks’ hit film comedy, “As </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">good as it gets” (1997), Helen Hunt, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">playing a single mother of an asthmat-</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">ic boy being neglected by the American </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">dowment covering all of the medical ex-</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">penses necessary to transform her son </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">into a soccer star within a week. But, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">suspecting that this gift comes with </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">carnal expectations attached, she turns </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">to Shirley Knight, her mother, to fret </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">that maybe she should reject it. “No,” </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">she flatly declares. “This isn’t a pair </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">of stockings, this isn’t a string of </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">pearls. </span><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">This you do not give back.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">I find myself unable to imagine that </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Joseph Biden could have foreseen that a </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">prospective running mate, often seen but </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><i>"somehow"</i> blocked in her quest for the </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">star within hours of being presented with </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">his favor. How oblivious the presumptions </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">so often are, at the foundation of our ex-</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">pertise, we need hardly note in this moment </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">of Donald Trump. Yet suddenly the campaign </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">that might already be seen as straight, but </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">which no one pretended might see very far, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">finds itself carried aloft on a wave of ju-</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">bilation not seen since the conquest of </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Look here. People are affected. That very </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">night </span><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">one could feel the country, stand up. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Stephen Colbert found Jon Batiste, composing </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">a song, "for Kamala." Those who were able to </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">squeeze into the donation sites of the Democ-</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">ratic National Committee, managed to deposit</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">$48 million there in those hours. Personal</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">ties, political commitments, alumni networks, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">lately moribund in the moment of Donald Trump, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">sprang to giddiest life — and all without the </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">least forewarning. There was pandemonium at</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">the corner of Castro and Market, without a</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">word from Dionysus. This selection is not </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">a pair of stockings; it’s not even a pair of </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Bernie’s fishnets. Alas, it isn’t pearls of </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Elizabeth Warren. It's the ore of our ground,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">not of our statues. This is our birth.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">No tentative “connection with the future,” the </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">cliché of the day — or light at the end of a</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">tunnel, Kamala Harris declares the truth of</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">this very day, that only an unyielding maze </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">of sordid, illegitimate structures</span><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"> could con-</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">this revelation was ultimately forced upon</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">powerfully reluctant beneficiaries. But it's</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Who might ever have guessed that the genealogy of America's deliverance from Donald Trump and his Republican Party would be traced directly through the emphatic embrace in Spring, 2020, of racial equality before the law?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">And why was this, except that both the necessity and the reward for struggle came to be seen as one. People turned to each other in disbelieving unison to ask, <i>Where the hell have we been, </i>to forget that <a href="http://redmugbluelinen.blogspot.com/2014/03/id-suggest-race.html">playing fair is first of all to play?</a> They rid themselves of Trump by reclaiming the sheer pleasure of the soul-sustaining resolve to be fair. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><i>It was ideal apple-eating weather; </i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><i>the whitest sunlight descended</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><i>from the purest sky, and an east-</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><i>erly wind rustled, without rip-</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><i>ping loose, the last of the leaves</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><i>on the Chinese elms.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">The rejection of Elizabeth Warren,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">from within her own Party, of the</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">candidacy she waged to be the next</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">this week, and there is much turn-</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">ing of faces to the wall in hearts</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">where in season, <i>the tawny infinit-</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><i>ude of wheatstalks bristle, blaze.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">These American places, which are</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">reduced to speechlessness by the</span><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">pure evocations of themselves in</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Lincoln, Whitman, Truman Capote,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">and Elizabeth Warren, are silent-</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">ly aware of how they waken them.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">All over the country, we read of</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">people in the reading media, set-</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">ting down their reasons for why</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Elizabeth Warren's campaign will</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">be remembered -- having hastily</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">drawn the conclusion, that it's</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">ended. There can be no disputing</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">the intensity in these remarks,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">apart from the telling imitation</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">of an academic <i>festschrift.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">To paraphrase a comparison Orson</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Welles once offered to Peter Bog-</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">danovich, between Howard Hawks </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">and John Ford, <i>Clinton was prose,</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><i><a href="https://redmugbluelinen.blogspot.com/2020/02/suppose-it-were-friday-clxxv-i-do-late.html">Warren is poetry.</a></i> The latter is</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">the most literally - strikingly,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">to be fair - <i>optimistic</i> artist</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">of political outreach in my ex-</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">perience. At the same time, it</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">was inevitable to hear the male</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">rivals complaining, that she</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">audibly was undaunted. What a</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Possibly Elizabeth Warren does</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">know, in her one hears a beauty</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">that the literate would recognize</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">immediately, but one also hears</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">an irritation, that this is not</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">If this "Super Tuesday" casino of political preferences is not the end of the Democratic Party in the United States, it is likely to be cited as the last required mile marker of that destiny. A doctrinaire hysteric from one of the very least representative jurisdictions in the country is said to be poised to dispatch the candidacy of a gen-uinely mawkish bore, endlessly boasting of great personal sorrow and flattering servitude in a previous Presidency as its ceremonial gofer. In the contest still is the single credible candidate remaining, without the stature she originally brought to the field, yet with still <a href="http://redmugbluelinen.blogspot.com/2020/02/suppose-it-were-friday-clxxv-i-do-late.html">more vitality than it would welcome.</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">It isn't that the program disappoints, it's that what could utterly have been foreseen by the unapproachable, anonymous, and incorrigible powers who structured it as a compulsory cataclysm waiting to happen -- appears so plainly to have been foreseen. Particularly after the last Democratic "Super Tuesday," when the least popular politician in America highjacked the political rights of an electorate starkly deprived of viable choice, who could not have predicted this re-run of the same generation of the same credentials, given how sparklingly well that worked to block the fascist seizure of power in America? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Let it be remembered while it can be, then, what lies beneath this morally impeccable structure of policy distribution in America. Some 327 million human lives, all arrayed to function as required, if not to be marginalized by the only choice which is theirs. <i>Rosebud.</i> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">He campaigned as the knight of the managerial class he was hired by McKinsey to be, not as the knight of the risk-welcoming class of the politician he most disdained, Elizabeth Warren. To think: in a single generation, everything we learned from John F. Kennedy, Robert Ken-nedy, and Ronald Reagan, submerged in a porridge of bland calculation, was offered as the tocsin of a "new generation of leaderhip." Yes, he did it ingratiatingly, and yet why, therefore, did our connoisseur class fail to tell him what the winner would be serving? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">The field is the loser, for this gainless occlusion of the qualities of youth, but for the persistence of Elizabeth Warren. One fine day she, too, may be counseled to do <i>the noble thing,</i> but I think it is likelier that she would be defeated by others' flight from nobility. </span></div>
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Laurenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17972899387484460347noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4751850602006071202.post-65261255458492074122020-02-28T08:38:00.001-05:002020-03-07T17:56:57.787-05:00Suppose it were Friday clxxv: I do late, pretty well<br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">The Democratic Party's rites of selection for the Presidential nomination have now run long enough for all of the surviving contenders to have made at least one appearance which would not have to be described as hideously inept. I shouldn't think this wat-ershed will seem very important to many, even so, given how assidu-ously ineptitude is pursued by the incumbent. Yet, it is important to me, as one of the few perquisites granted to the morally marginal, to be careful. Now that we're told, it's all come down to Mr Sanders or Mr Biden, there's nothing to complicate the natural choice of Elizabeth Warren.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">In this lugubrious fog, where she is deemed no longer a threat to an inferior selection, Elizabeth Warren insinuates herself into one's sensibility in an almost sisterly way, as if something in me had been reluctant to see another campaign of rigorously tested perceptions and policies appear to be discredited, simply by losing to the habits of our erratic electorate. She was drawn to politics by a resistance to losing, not by pangs of any appetite for approval; but the President has shown how approval of the self is the most powerful motive and impregnable shield against defeat in a culture devoted, as this one is, to gratification at the public expense. What would be the cost to policy, in a defeat of Mrs Warren which would be bound to be sharply, and as evasively as possible, ad hominem? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Had I, moreover, of no noticeable suffering under the injustices so zealously maintained by our government, any right to expose the vulnerable to its manifest lust for reprisal? With its courts corrupted, with its pulpits putrefying lustily every Sunday, with its captive Confederacy quivering for every redundant injustice, with its debauched bankers incapable of shaving their oversold returns, and with its Babbits unacquainted ever with a single honest page, would a candidacy of Mrs Warren penetrate this superstructure of sadistic ad-dictions, to be met with any vestige of rationality?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Yet the question which has been framed for us is not, <i>if so likely to meet resistance, why bother;</i> it is the aggravating factor, on the one hand, of the profuse and pious hostilities of a Sanders candidacy, menacing the Party's positions in the legislative branch and in the State houses, and a Biden candidacy, anesthetizing the Party into a swooning torpor on a diet of nostalgia, stunning hallucination, and dazed malapropism. Even the morally challenged may choose not to be humiliated.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">But I stray. It can't be a recommendation for Mrs Warren, that this set of alternatives is unacceptable. What does recommend her is the quality condemned by the Senate Majority Leader, that she persists. For decades in public life she has held to principles not merely heroically, but effectively in the labyrinths of legislation in the public interest. Noticing the charisma of her intellect, a small-city mayor has been inspired to project a candidacy on what he takes to be competitive terms, without substantiating achievement or the tenacity of holding ground. Noticing the valor of her endurance of misogyny, a gutsy Midwestern Senator has offered to stand in her place, minus its principles. Noticing the directness of her appeal to them, everyone stipulates to her authenticity, despite autobiographical confusion.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">In the past few days, <a href="https://redmugbluelinen.blogspot.com/2020/02/leaning-klobuchar.html">just since one had "leaned Klobuchar,"</a> Sanders has insufferably championed a brutal neo-Leninist statesmen and waved aside his indefensible support for the domestic gun lobby as a phase in our past. Simultaneously, Biden has pretended to have been arrested in South Africa for a pilgrimage to meet Mandela in prison, a stupid yet chronic example of compulsive fabrication. Between Sanders' incurable contempt and Biden's career-long self-inflation, I don't discern a material moral distinction.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">If, then, it is already late to choose a candidate, there is even less foundation for getting it wrong. Elizabeth Warren is my candidate for the Party's nomination because she undeniably does represent its core traditions more eloquently than anyone else in the field, and equally undeniably does perceive the policy implications of its obligations, with the least inhibition or exaggeration. She has the stature to deflect the excessive demands of the novices, and to exemplify and dignify the inclusive reach of democratic liberalism. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Equally to the point, she disorients the opposition as no one can, who does not also reach their conscience. That is the field of this year's campaign. Elizabeth Warren reaches people's minds by sustained, concise relevancy, constantly exhibiting the inherent connection between the rational and the merciful, constantly exposing ostensibly irreconcilable confusions of the hour as products of vicious political cynicism. </span><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">She is the most exciting, inspiring, and legitimate <a href="https://redmugbluelinen.blogspot.com/2012/09/history-so-large.html">candid-ate for the Presidency since 2012.</a> </span><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">She is the balsam of clarity in a vessel of healing passion, and how we do want to be in that number.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">What very few of us appreciated at the time, early in 2016, was that when Jeb Bush was predicting bitter chaos under any government by the current American President, he knew what he was talking about because his Party had ridden that whirlwind for most of his own life. Just with a luckier hand. <i>The company they used to keep</i> must have taxed their patience as much as it does everyone's, today, but they all knew it in ways the rest of us simply did not. We are the novelty.</span><br />
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