tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3077210.post8183147471729144882..comments2024-03-28T08:37:58.136+01:00Comments on Limited, Inc.: in the american grainRoger Gathmannhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11257400843748041639noreply@blogger.comBlogger15125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3077210.post-50408136068542694462007-09-30T13:25:00.000+02:002007-09-30T13:25:00.000+02:00Actually, there is one grim trick that the British...Actually, there is one grim trick that the British could have used to conquer the American rebels, and which the USA still can use to conquer the Iraqi freedom fighters - time, wealth, strength and freedom from outside distractions permitting (as they did not for the British, thankfully before we descended to this expedient). It consists in redefining conquest to include Calgacus' remark "solitudinem faciunt et pacem apellant", discarding any Clausewitzian need to bend the enemy's will through the simple expedient of discarding the enemy. If we do not remain aware of the ease of slipping into this through, say, not striving to keep alive, why - soon enough we shall have a new Iraqi people, the old discarded. As Buchan remarked of Ireland in his life of Cromwell, no doubt in the light of his ancestry and his own experience in South Africa, "Any scheme of government based solely on the interests of the resident alien is doomed in the long run to failure, <I>unless</I> [emphasis added] by massacre and banishment such aliens are made the bulk of the population."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3077210.post-1359041070838285762007-09-30T03:55:00.000+02:002007-09-30T03:55:00.000+02:00North, thanks! some lyrics those, ouch.LI, Vive la...North, thanks! some lyrics those, ouch.<BR/><BR/>LI, Vive la Fête! Je dis oui - the Greeks and the Jews and the Arabs and the Devil knows who else...and yes I said yes I will Yes.<BR/>Ah, mais, M. Le President, où est mon argent?<BR/>Voici, la fête of the Conqueror Worm triumphant! Je m'en fous.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3077210.post-60442502883723979312007-09-29T17:47:00.000+02:002007-09-29T17:47:00.000+02:00Cold Cold<A HREF="http://www.stephaniesid.com/lyrics.html" REL="nofollow">Cold Cold</A>northangerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02124226438327229521noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3077210.post-2298553698974446752007-09-29T02:45:00.000+02:002007-09-29T02:45:00.000+02:00LI, I do love Stephanie's voice, that can wail, do...LI, I do love Stephanie's voice, that can wail, do things.<BR/>Do wish I could follow the lyrics better, that's not a complaint as much as an admission of my limitations with english, damn it! But hey, that should mean, if I love the voice without quite getting what it is saying, I should listen to it again and again, the strangeness, the foreign tongue, at the limit of comprehension - a voice!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3077210.post-56111781748907514272007-09-28T19:37:00.000+02:002007-09-28T19:37:00.000+02:00Blood Meridian. good, Roger. i think there's more ...<A HREF="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_Meridian" REL="nofollow">Blood Meridian</A>. good, Roger. i think there's more going on in Iraq than we're hearing about. <A HREF="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_the_Valley_of_Elah" REL="nofollow">In the Valley of Elah</A> touches on that.northangerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02124226438327229521noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3077210.post-43656463102724533032007-09-28T02:29:00.000+02:002007-09-28T02:29:00.000+02:00if you're a black man in this country those claws ...if you're a black man in this country those claws never go away. California? ain't perfect, but there's more to work with here. make sure to check out <A HREF="http://www.prometheus6.org/" REL="nofollow">P6</A>.northangerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02124226438327229521noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3077210.post-46471040985095513412007-09-28T01:50:00.000+02:002007-09-28T01:50:00.000+02:00Out on fucking bail, though, for an offense for wh...Out on fucking bail, though, for an offense for which he should have had to spend his weekends, for a month, picking up garbage in the park as part of a community service detail. Until they take their claws out of that teenager, he isn't safe. <BR/><BR/>I hope he gets out of Louisiana and goes to a civilized state, which I do not think would extradite him. California?Roger Gathmannhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11257400843748041639noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3077210.post-38572864170488756222007-09-28T00:35:00.000+02:002007-09-28T00:35:00.000+02:00Mychal Bell is out of jail. Amen.Mychal Bell is out of jail. Amen.northangerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02124226438327229521noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3077210.post-46414339024348580022007-09-27T23:19:00.000+02:002007-09-27T23:19:00.000+02:00Wow, I can't keep up with all these comments. I'm ...Wow, I can't keep up with all these comments. I'm still back there with Prince! And trembling at the lese majeste of your remark, North, that he is at all ... uh, antiquatedly eighties-ish. Surely he's a man of the ages!<BR/><BR/>All I know about pyrrhic substitution at the moment is that I am almost finished doing it, i.e., translating this German document into English (talk about putting my mind in a daze). It is the most direct instance I know of - since you just overwrite the German sentences on your computer with English ones. English sentence, delete German sentence, English sentence, all the way through until you are finished and your brain looks like the cartoon bug in an insecticide commercial. Pyrrhic victories all the way around!<BR/><BR/>Hey, Amie, did you check out the Stephanies Id link from yesterday's post? I want to spread the news about this group, which I notice has only gotten about five hundred hits for their fantabulous video, as compared to about four million for Britney's Las Vegas spectaculo-festuche. This isn't fair!Roger Gathmannhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11257400843748041639noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3077210.post-74681290363145813752007-09-27T23:06:00.000+02:002007-09-27T23:06:00.000+02:00pyrrhic substitution:Not in the hands of boys, but...pyrrhic substitution:<BR/><BR/>Not in the hands of boys, but in their eyes<BR/>Shall shine the holy glimmers of goodbyes<BR/><BR/>- wilfred owenAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3077210.post-35614576786589216142007-09-27T21:49:00.000+02:002007-09-27T21:49:00.000+02:00Roger my lad, looks like you have pyrrhic substitu...Roger my lad, looks like you have pyrrhic substitution (hands down!). since i can't post greek in this here box, i'll post the greek at my little place.northangerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02124226438327229521noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3077210.post-68588735121140124522007-09-27T21:45:00.000+02:002007-09-27T21:45:00.000+02:00GON 0 = PYRRHICHIUSHandbook of Literary Rhetoric: ...GON 0 = PYRRHICHIUS<BR/><BR/><A HREF="http://books.google.com/books?id=Jxck64HV3nMC&pg=PA443&lpg=PA443&dq=pyrrhichius&source=web&ots=vEoAog-nvL&sig=QtOp4oQ-CrHu3_WWnVnCEfVLzB4" REL="nofollow">Handbook of Literary Rhetoric: A Foundation for Literary Study</A>, Heinrich Lausberg<BR/><BR/>AQ 457 = PYRRHIC SUBSTITUTION (<EM>AQ-108 {2} CHOREE=DIBRACH, 113, 137, 139, 142, 143, 146, 152, 160, 165, 182, 188, 197 {2} COUVRE FEU=CURFEW BELL, 201, 211, 214, 215, 218, 220, 227 {2} DOUBLE RHYME=OEUFS À LA NEIGE, 229, 234, 245, 253, 261, 266, 269, 272 {2} FORMAL POETRY=SCHNEENOCKERLN, 274, 287, 289, 292, 298, 313, 333, 335, 336, 341, 350, 369, 382, 384, 394 {2} ROSE HARTWICK THORPE=UNSTRESSED SYLLABLE, 405, 412, 432, 446, 453, 555, 716, 776, 858, 861, 926, 1165, 1629, 1917, 2344, 2577</EM>) = A CONSISTENT MATERIALISM (<EM>AQ-454 EMPIRICAL GEOPHILOSOPHY</EM>) = AFRICAN SELF-DETERMINATION = <A HREF="http://limitedinc.blogspot.com/2007/03/dominique-kalifa.html#8062202820442045939" REL="nofollow">COLONY COLLAPSE DISORDER</A> = SEARCH FOR STEVE FOSSETT = <A HREF="http://limitedinc.blogspot.com/2007/05/abusing-president-backbone.html" REL="nofollow">THE EVERLASTING COVENANT</A> = <A HREF="http://limitedinc.blogspot.com/2007/09/deutsche-herbst.html" REL="nofollow">THE URBAN GUERILLA CONCEPT</A> = THE VALVE - A LITERARY ORGAN.northangerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02124226438327229521noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3077210.post-61390794735970022672007-09-27T19:50:00.000+02:002007-09-27T19:50:00.000+02:00(o my god. some things are neither timeless or age...(o my god. some things are neither timeless or ageless). well then. let's get to jammin. let's flip who gets the pyrrhic substitution post. wait! let me nummify...northangerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02124226438327229521noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3077210.post-43519741361711845262007-09-27T19:18:00.000+02:002007-09-27T19:18:00.000+02:00pyrrhic substitution - North, you've hit on it! Th...pyrrhic substitution - North, you've hit on it! <A HREF="http://video.yahoo.com/video/play?vid=18636&fr=" REL="nofollow">The dream we all dream of...</A>Roger Gathmannhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11257400843748041639noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3077210.post-58274221909657499892007-09-27T18:56:00.000+02:002007-09-27T18:56:00.000+02:00Youssef Chahine: 11''09'01i never ever get tired o...<A HREF="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0526doObWo" REL="nofollow">Youssef Chahine: 11''09'01</A><BR/><BR/>i never ever get tired of watching <I>Desk Set</I>. what's a floating island anyway? oh, oeufs à la neige. yummy. anyway, "<A HREF="http://everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=1364552" REL="nofollow">Curfew Shall Not Ring To-Night</A>" was written by Rose Hartwick Thorpe who also wrote "a cluster of christmas selections for holiday times" called <I>The Yule Log</I>. what's this? pyrrhic substitution?<BR/><BR/><A HREF="http://www.out-of-ideas.com/2006/08/28/whatever-it-is-that-ive-been-doing-all-morning/" REL="nofollow">[+]</A> <I>Mr Fry spends rather a long (it’s necessary) time introducing a chap to good old iambic pentameter (notes on technical terms for those unfamiliar with them, at bottom of page), that workhorse and fiery steed of English prosody. He then demands that you write sixteen lines in iambic pentameter using enjambement, trochaic substitution, pyrrhic substitution, and weak endings (like I said, bottom of page) as often as possible, just to get the hang of how hard you can slam iambic pentameter around before it gives up and collapses into prose.</I><BR/><BR/>Mr Fry says. <A HREF="http://www.amazon.com/Ode-Less-Travelled-Unlocking-Within/dp/009179661X" REL="nofollow">YOU HAVE ALREADY achieved the English-language poet's most important goal: you can read, write and speak English well enough to understand this sentence...</A><BR/><BR/><A HREF="http://info.detnews.com/history/story/index.cfm?id=103&category=people" REL="nofollow">[+]</A> "Private Slovik was killed by the United States for the crime of refusing to serve the United States with a rifle and a bayonet, for desertion to avoid the hazardous duty of close combat; and..the only American to be executed for such an offense."northangerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02124226438327229521noreply@blogger.com