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Perdido Bay Alabama: ('Perdido' is Portuguese for 'lost'.)![]() ![]() ![]() THX1138: ![]() ![]() The meanings of words drift - sometimes in complicated, even subtle ways. 'Decimate', literally, is killing one in ten, a Roman tactic for dealing with sedition. Ten percent probably worked pretty well for them - without destroying the efficacy of their armies. Rule-of-thumb for specifically management activities within a project also used to be 10% - or 'tithe', Old English for 'tenth' - for 'government' you could say, both corporal & spiritual. But it went cancerous & mad along the way - free-of-tax day is now sometime in July or August, say, 60-70%; and the entire edifice is crumbling under the weight of it. Considering that government has become indistinguishable from industry & usury it's more like 90%. It's reflected culturally here and there - follow up on fandens fødselsdag / The Devil's Birthday if you like and ... think about it. Cadê O Cidadão? / Where is Elmo?: ![]() Let's go Citizen! Celebrate! The spectacle of growth has started already. Pssst ... Where is the citizen? Viva! Whoopee! Uh!Uh!Uh! Yahoo! They're right there eh? Underneath that insupportable tax burden. ![]() ![]() Everyone has to become adult. At some point it's necessary to abandon that infantile thing ... ... called happiness. ![]() Cartoons cannot be taken at face value either. ... Just imagine what life in Toronto might have been with the other high-school dropout, George Smitherman at the helm: new and expanded eHealth (currently ~1,000 mouths at the trough) ... whatever ... I didn't vote for Rob Ford but some days I wish I had. ![]() Well then, a friendship relation between a man and a woman is obviously possible ... A woman doesn't have to be seen just as a sexual object! On the other hand we could be trivializing human relationships! Friends: Will trade a feminist sociologist for the crudest macho chauvinist. Any takers?
I do not speak Danish, not at all. The translation is a melding of what I could find (with great liberties taken). I am imagining this nugget embodied in petit point samplers everywhere on bourgeois mantelpieces like the ubiquitous kitsch statuettes & prints of Don Quixote already there. [Kitsch (OED): Art characterized by worthless pretentiousness.] Not that the poem itself is kitsch; no more Cervantes' story - both of which are ... golden. Echoes of Yeats' 'Second Coming'. Altogether a very resourceful & self-possessed young woman: ![]() Tempting to post more of this delightful person in all her glory ... maybe later. |
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