Friday, November 22, 2024

The Past Is a Fox the Hunters Are Flaying

Though I keep assuring concerned friends analog and digital that I'm nobody and am far more likely to be vaporized in a nuclear attack on DC than swept-up by the nazimusks for online treason the friends analog and digital strongly recommend I get the fuck off twatter asap, there are already melontrackers using sinister algorithms to silo future dissenters for flaying before fileting

Three think I should abandon *here,* or at least cease gridding the Gazan genocide so zealously. Don't you think my angry slagging of motherfucking professional Democrats so gleefully in the grid will buy me some mercy during my flaying, I ask them. Besides, I add, I'm nobody. Below the song all this puts in my head a grid of anti-Zionist/American genocidaire links and angry slagging of motherfucking professional Democrats. No, I don't post on Friday before a helmetball weekend to avoid hits (that's what the paintings are for), I post on Friday because I want a clean palette for the weekend, thanks for asking, K




20 lessons for the post-truth world
20 Things You Can Do to Counter Fascism
Living in the Time of Dying
"Joe Biden just singlehandedly blocked the international community's ceasefire and hostage deal. Again"
"I'm doing everything I can to stop this"
"Biden's last gasp dying wish is to keep killing as many Palestinian children as possible until the very end"
NOT TRUE"U.S. president Joe Biden was found to be too senile to stand for re-election. But that does not hinder the powers that be to let him launch world war III"
"We’re all supposed to believe this guy decided to push us closer to WW3 all on his own."
FORCE EVACUATION AND SMASH THE CAMPS: A Report from Inside Gaza
The entire history of Zionism’s injustices, in one Bedouin village
"The pivot in liberals from "he's a new Hitler working with America's enemies to subvert our beloved democracy" to a really mean-spirited "Fuck you all, you want fascism, we'll help him give you fascism, don't come whining to us, enjoy the camps" has been disturbing"
Harris’s Gaza Policy Was a Disaster on Every Level
"Israel is the only democracy in the Middle East that rapes doctors to death while ethnically cleansing and slaughtering their families"
NOT SHOWING UP FOR HARRIS
"I don't think it's hyperbolic to say Biden has prioritized slaughtering Palestinians over doing anything whatsoever to help Americans weather the supposedly imminent end of our democracy. It is, by all appearances, the only thing he truly cares about"
I don't totally disagree, though I think starting WW3 also appears in the mush that is Biden's brain now and then
The Effects of Israeli Barbarity
"This particular warping of the language of solidarity and literature to accept prize money funded by a weapons manufacturer really shows the liberal hypocrisy around Palestine perfectly, a genteel monstrosity. No, the dead can't read. You can never save your complicity"
How did the U.S.A. get here?Cloud Capital
"outgoing dem party is trying to get a direct war with russia going as a parting gift. lord help us. really praying putin's people are wise enough to avoid this for the sake of us all. this is what it's come down to now: praying"
Moral ImmunityVampire capital
"E*on M*sk is the most powerful opponent of Americans' freedom of speech in the world and an expert in legal shenanigans (his real sphere of expertise). He will bury Bluesky in lawsuits if it starts winning over Twitter"
This Was the Most Expensive Election in American History
"Here is a fun hypothesis for you pundits, politicos, and posters: the individual American and Delawarean most responsible for Donald Trump's 2024 victory isn't Joe Biden, but rather the single chancery court judge who didn't let Elon back out of buying Twitter"
This Washington Post oped dipshit celebrating Gaetz's withdrawal as a major signal seachange towards Trump by congressional GOP convinces me more than anything else the Gaetz pick was a work from the start
"Not seen in NYT's "what to know" about Pam Bondi: the only thing you need to know, that she fired prosecutors in her office who were investigating companies engaged in foreclosure fraud, after receiving thousands of dollars in donations from those companies"
Gaetz was a work from the start. He got out of getting kicked out of congress - details of his Fox gig being negotiated as I type this - and Trump got a chance to test the loyalty of elected GOP congresspersons and senators - win/win
Matt Gaetz Case Has Echoes of the Justice Department’s Failure to Prosecute Jeffrey Epstein’s Sex-Trafficking Ring
Try Imagining Another Urban Existence
"More chaos in Will Lewis' newsroom: According to Lachlan Cartwright, @washingtonpost.com Senior Politics Editor Dan Eggen has been removed from that pivotal job. "Crushed" Eggen quoted as saying: "I will leave it to others to explain why."
Avedon Carol's occasional linksWestern Civ
"So, if I’m to understand, the lady who’s been screaming about groomers has information on republicans about sexual impropriety but she’s just gonna hold on to it unless people stop picking on her friend for fucking an underage girl"
Angry Young Men for Trump
"Linda McMahon becomes the only Sec of Education to have ever been body-slammed on live TV by the Mayor of Knox County TN"
The Cloud of Unknowing: How will the nuclear age end?
Scholasticide as Cultural Genocide
Thinking non-neurotically about the party system
Leaving Cormac: Life Lessons From My Correspondence with Lee McCarthy
Cormac McCarthy’s Secret Muse Breaks Her Silence After Half a Century
"Can Someone Please Write Normally About This Fascinating Woman?"
Goldfinch/Refusal: Mandelstam, Massive, and Form of the Novel in the Age of Atrocity
2024 November First Words on My Father’s Death
OLDEST?ALPHABETEARLIEST?
Why We Need Alexander Pope’s Wild, Weird Poetry Today
Selected Amazon ReviewsIn search of fullness
Killing SpreeDEATH OF TRANSLATION!
If you only read one link in this grid make it this one
KEVIN AYERS, JOHN CALE, ENO, NICO June 1, 1974 - The Outtakes





PENTATINA FOR FIVE VOWELS

Campbell McGrath

Today is a trumpet to set the hounds baying.
The past is a fox the hunters are flaying.
Nothing unspoken goes without saying.
Love’s a casino where lovers risk playing.
The future’s a marker our hearts are prepaying.

The future’s a promise there’s no guaranteeing.
Today is a fire the field mice are fleeing.
Love is a marriage of feeling and being.
The past is a mirror for wishful sightseeing.
Nothing goes missing without absenteeing.

Nothing gets cloven except by dividing.
The future is chosen by atoms colliding.
The past’s an elision forever eliding.
Today is a fog bank in which I am hiding.
Love is a burn forever debriding.

Love’s an ascent forever plateauing.
Nothing is granted except by bestowing.
Today is an anthem the cuckoos are crowing.
The future’s a convolute river onflowing.
The past is a lawn the neighbor is mowing.

The past is an answer not worth pursuing,
Nothing gets done except by the doing.
The future’s a climax forever ensuing.
Love is only won by wooing.
Today is a truce between reaping and rueing.

1 comment:

  1. 1/my best guess is that nonentities who have expressed opinions won't be targeted for gov't enforcement action - they've got a lot of other stuff to do

    2/from time to time it has crossed my mind to read alexander pope's essay on man - i see that youtube has a reading of the entire text in a british accent in an hour 48 minutes - one could listen and read at the same time

    3/i did read 'death of translation' from the grid - in the essay the reference to debt reminded me of yesterday's poem by Mary Jo Bangs with the quotation from Horace, "we are owed to death, we and whatever is ours" - her poem's title The Gospel of Mary reminds me of jean-yves leloup's translation of the gospel of mary magdalene

    4/speaking of translation, and of reading aloud, and of centuries-old contemplations of the human condition, my public library has made available to me stephen mitchell's narration of his translation of the tao te ching

    5/who knows how often this quote from 19th century pioneering experimental psychophysiologist and pantheistic philosopher gustav fechner has been repeated here:

    Of all miracles, the greatest is that anything exists at all.






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