tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1608697421187043479.post8303162729505835..comments2023-10-19T21:48:56.560-05:00Comments on meaning in history: News Flash: All Publicity Is Good Publicitymark wauckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08247066866195200890noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1608697421187043479.post-35728543906036534562021-02-12T10:18:05.561-06:002021-02-12T10:18:05.561-06:00To correct my words above, they should be
"h...To correct my words above, they should be <br />"haS,(implicitly) become part of the Canon."aNanyMousehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14452492302514671882noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1608697421187043479.post-48066176593640990502021-02-12T09:30:01.017-06:002021-02-12T09:30:01.017-06:00I think Andrea Mitchell used to much Gorilla glue ...I think Andrea Mitchell used to much Gorilla glue in her hair that day she referenced Faulkner.AmericanCardiganhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07905240590569993870noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1608697421187043479.post-4797382761952824982021-02-12T08:20:35.829-06:002021-02-12T08:20:35.829-06:00Doublethink - how it affects your life
An essay f...Doublethink - how it affects your life<br /><br />An essay from Soviet Jewish dissident Anatoly Shcharansky about living in Soviet Russia, and the fear that everyone lived with of saying the wrong thing<br /><br />"...the Soviets’ deceptive order of doublethinkers. This round-the-clock public charade defined the typical life of a loyal Soviet citizen. You knew to be politically correct in Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1608697421187043479.post-91747733413055172632021-02-11T21:38:16.069-06:002021-02-11T21:38:16.069-06:00I have always enjoyed those writers who used our r...I have always enjoyed those writers who used our rich language well, but we not afraid to use its simpler words when they were as fitting as something that sounded (to them) more impressive. Here’s that speech. <br /><br />https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/1949/faulkner/speech/Bebenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1608697421187043479.post-8813252231286221422021-02-11T19:57:00.091-06:002021-02-11T19:57:00.091-06:00Yeah, WF has been hugely touted by the literati, e...Yeah, WF has been hugely touted by the literati, ever since they called his Nobel Prize dinner speech one of the very greatest.<br />In it, he espoused that man “has a soul, a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance. The poet’s, the writer’s, *duty* is to write about these things.” <br /><br />I’ve nowhere seen corresponding critiques of such a demand, so that it, I fear, have (aNanyMousehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14452492302514671882noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1608697421187043479.post-40894711307264035522021-02-11T19:19:03.521-06:002021-02-11T19:19:03.521-06:00I’ve never had any use for Andrea Mitchell...I’ve never had any use for Andrea Mitchell...Bebenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1608697421187043479.post-51267688143210847592021-02-11T18:46:55.229-06:002021-02-11T18:46:55.229-06:00or Andrea Mitchell...or Andrea Mitchell...Cassanderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11255275730299959627noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1608697421187043479.post-48400902200848434482021-02-11T18:41:08.236-06:002021-02-11T18:41:08.236-06:00heck, I knew it when I wrote it...just tryin' ...heck, I knew it when I wrote it...just tryin' to be clever meself and assuming all would know from whence I came...so to speak.<br /><br />BTW, after 42 years with the military and being an avid fan of its history (to include many staff rides and lifetime membership with the old Civil War Trust, but I digress) I was familiar with the Farragut quotation "mystery" laid out by the U.S.Hotlanta Hippiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16019546809736756263noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1608697421187043479.post-31666177234157871692021-02-11T18:23:00.496-06:002021-02-11T18:23:00.496-06:00Right. She confused the title of Faulkner's bo...Right. She confused the title of Faulkner's book, which was an allusion to Macbeth. I've never had any use for Faulkner.mark wauckhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08247066866195200890noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1608697421187043479.post-27463480705667905092021-02-11T18:21:51.331-06:002021-02-11T18:21:51.331-06:00Although we had the sound off during today’s broad...Although we had the sound off during today’s broadcast of the Raskin Follies, we could see the performance. It was jarring to see Jamie the Brave wind it up looking like a performer in a Las Vegas lounge show, obviously smiling, mugging, laughing, gesticulating, playing the clown. I do not believe he can be an object of great admiration in the Senate or anywhere else.Bebenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1608697421187043479.post-86995164764561180012021-02-11T18:16:44.870-06:002021-02-11T18:16:44.870-06:00By now I imagine you know that what Andrea Mitchel...By now I imagine you know that what Andrea Mitchell erroneously attributed to Faulkner was actually from Shakespeare. One would think that she, as an English Lit major, would have known that. So much for hipshooting. Ted Cruz straightened her out on the source. Incidentally, you might want to have a read here - controversy over what Admiral Farragut actually said…<br /><br />https://Bebenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1608697421187043479.post-81414667677847845122021-02-11T17:16:03.784-06:002021-02-11T17:16:03.784-06:00While on one hand, I love a clever turn of the phr...While on one hand, I love a clever turn of the phrase, such as Andrea Mitchell's lovely piece of Faulkner: it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.<br /><br />OTOH, sometime ya gotta throw caution to the winds, eschew nuance and cleverosity, damn the torpedoes, and plow full speed ahead: "one of the stupidest events by some of the stupidest people in Hotlanta Hippiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16019546809736756263noreply@blogger.com