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The world will come to a standstill
and continue to deconstruct all institutions and social order because the majority is intent in politicizing everything and everyone imaginable. Anything permanent and all subject matter experts will continue to be vilified and removed. Eventually Western civilization will be completely … Continue reading
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Monday Truism:
You can trust your dog to guard your house, but never to guard your sandwich.
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Peace of Mind:
‘Tis a consummation devoutly to be wished. …………………………………………………….. Peace: Another consummation devoutly to be wished for everyone, everywhere, now more than ever.
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Of Wildfires, Dopes, and Crazies
As I have often remarked, we do it to ourselves whether by divorces, abuses, lawsuits, wars or wanton destruction of the environment. Much of the current AB and BC wildfire situation is owing to human-caused wildfires; in other words, it’s … Continue reading
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“Ingmar Bergman’s Cinema” (2018 Blu-Ray Criterion Collection boxset)
(overall contents) (front and back covers of slipcase box) (front and back covers of Blu-ray disc book) (sample facing pages inside: 30 discs, 41 films from 1946 to 2003; new 4K and 2K and other digital restorations; 11 intros by … Continue reading
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Shut Out the Moon
Close up the casement, draw the blind, Shut out that stealing moon, She wears too much the guise she wore Before our lutes were strewn With years-deep dust, and names we read On a white stone were hewn. Step not … Continue reading
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“The Extasie” by John Donne
Where, like a pillow on a bed, A pregnant bank swell’d up to rest The violet’s reclining head, Sat we two, one another’s best. Our hands were firmly cemented With a fast balm, which thence did spring; Our eye-beams twisted, … Continue reading
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Another circle of Dante’s hell belonged
to people who destroy themselves like the irrational dope who set himself on fire today at the courthouse where Trump is on trial. Trump is a dangerous demonic being, of course, and he attracts the craziest loonies out there.
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Eco-pipeline bombers deserve a special place in hell,
wantonly and deliberately destroying the environment more significantly than what they’re purportedly protesting, and endangering human lives: firefighters and the lives of nearby community citizens. No glory in that malevolent, irrational choice of action, much like the deluded European art … Continue reading
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Henrik Ibsen’s “An Enemy of the People”
(A play adaptation by Arthur Miller I used to teach grade 12s back in 1972-78. Ibsen’s play contained many teachable conflicts and themes. I used to cast members of the class to read aloud the play and make it come … Continue reading
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