ellauri006.html on line 1483: To think of the biblical unicorn as a fantasy animal is to demean God’s Word, which is true in every detail.
ellauri008.html on line 49: Conrad asettui 36-vuotiaana vuonna 1894 asumaan Englantiin. Hän meni naimisiin, sai kaksi lasta ja matkusteli edelleen satunnaisesti. Enimmän aikaa hän kuitenkin kirjoitti, ja 1895 ilmestyi ensimmäinen teos, Almayer’s Folly. Conrad jatkoi kirjoittamista elämänsä loppuun asti, ja hänen viimeinen romaaninsa, The Nature of Crime, ilmestyi 1924. Joseph Conrad kuoli vuonna 1924 sydänkohtaukseen.
ellauri008.html on line 799: P.P.S. Alfons oli Tasson patrblrlbluuuna, sen mesenaatti, Alfonso II d’Este, Ferrarin johtaja (1533-1597). Kun Gerusalemme liberata oli loppuun kynäilty, Tasso halus ajaa Ferrarilla Firenzeen, Alfonso ei päästänyt, mix ei? Olikohan se joku Marlow sekin, Tasso sen Lordi Jim. V. 1577 Tasso puukotti epähuomiossa lakeijan, ja Alfonso pani sen St Annan pöpilään 7 vuodeksi 1579-1586. Että semmonen Alfonso se oli, ja semmoinen se Tasso. Kun patruuna kuoli, Ferrarista tuli paavimobiili.
ellauri008.html on line 809: This book analyzes the representations of homosexuality in Conrad’s fiction, beginning with Conrad’s life and letters to show that Conrad himself was, at least imaginatively, bisexual. Conrad’s recurrent bouts of neurasthenia, his difficult courtships, late marriage, and frequent expressions of misogyny can all be attributed to the fact that Conrad was emotionally, temperamentally, and, perhaps, even erotically more comfortable with men than women.
ellauri008.html on line 837: Stemming from Ernest's treatment as a child, where his overbearing mother put him in dresses (a common practice then, but which his mother took to the extreme, even treating him like a girl), Hemingway had an interesting relationship with gender and his perceptions of it. He probably never engaged in homosexual activity but there can be no doubt that he idolized the male form. There are scenes in almost all of his books but certainly in his major novels where the men are presented in a homerotic manner. Farewell to Arms is kind of an eyebrow raiser. But this is also the man who wrote The Garden of Eden, which was about gender switching. Ernest's 3rd son "ille faciet" Gregory fulfilled his dad's dream. Go read Running With The Bulls. This is written by his son Gregory’s wife Valerie, who had to deal with the fact that her man was a transvestite and died from a botched sex change. Very few people know this.
ellauri011.html on line 516: Though he wrote the book so quickly, it took it quite long to taste the first success of the book. Initially, only 900 copies of the book were published in Portuguese, which later went out of print. But he didn’t give up, went to a new publisher, added the beginning sentence “When you want something, the whole universe conspires to help you.” And, the icing on the cake was the 1993 release of its English version which took the novel to new heights. Paulo Coelho - The Alchemist.
ellauri012.html on line 624: Après ces instructions, qui doivent tenir la première place, je crois qu’il n’est pas inutile de laisser aux filles, selon leurs loisirs et la portée de leur esprit, la lecture des livres profanes qui n’ont rien de dangereux pour les passions : c’est même le moyen de les dégoûter des comédies et des romans. Donnez-leur donc les histoires grecques et romaines ; elles y verront des prodiges de courage et de désintéressement. Ne leur laissez pas ignorer l’histoire de France, qui à aussi ses beautés ; mêlez celles des pays voisins, et les relations des pays éloignés judicieusement écrites. Tout cela sert à agrandir l’esprit, et à élever l’âme à de grands sentiments, pourvu qu’on évite la vanité et l’affectation.
ellauri012.html on line 628: Je leur permettrais aussi, mais avec un grand choix, la lecture des ouvrages d’éloquence et de poésie, si je voyais qu’elles en eussent le goût, et que leur jugement fût assez solide pour se borner au véritable usage des choses ; mais je craindrais d’ébranler trop les imaginations vives, et je voudrais en tout cela une exacte sobriété : tout ce qui peut faire sentir l’amour, plus il est adouci et enveloppé, plus il me paraît dangereux.
ellauri014.html on line 74: I started going to see The Beatles in 1961 when I was 14 and I got quite friendly with them. If they were playing out of town they’d give me a lift back home in their van. It was about the same time that I started getting called Polythene Pat. It’s embarrassing really. I just used to eat polythene all the time. I’d tie it in knots and then eat it.
ellauri014.html on line 76: We’d read all these things about leather and we didn’t have any leather but I had my oilskins and we had some polythene bags from somewhere. We all dressed up in them and wore them in bed. John stayed the night with us in the same bed. I don’t think anything very exciting happened and we all wondered what the fun was in being ‘kinky’.
ellauri014.html on line 622: Chaque fois que deux époux s’unissent par un nœud solennel, il intervient un engagement tacite de tout le genre humain de respecter ce lien sacré, d’honorer en eux l’union conjugale ; et c’est, ce me semble, une raison très forte contre les mariages clandestins, qui, n’offrant nul signe de cette union, exposent des cœurs innocents à brûler d’une flamme adultère. Le public est en quelque sorte garant d’une convention passée en sa présence, et l’on peut dire que l’honneur d’une femme pudique est sous la protection spéciale de tous les gens de bien. Ainsi, quiconque ose la corrompre pèche, premièrement parce qu’il la fait pécher, et qu’on partage toujours les crimes qu’on fait commettre ; il pèche encore directement lui-même, parce qu’il viole la foi publique et sacrée du mariage, sans lequel rien ne peut subsister dans l’ordre légitime des choses humaines.
ellauri014.html on line 624: Quand même ils ne reconnaîtraient pas la présence de la Divinité, comment osent-ils soutenir qu’ils ne font de mal à personne ? Comment prouvent-ils qu’il est indifférent à un père d’avoir des héritiers qui ne soient pas de son sang ; d’être chargé peut-être de plus d’enfants qu’il n’en aurait eu, et forcé de partager ses biens aux gages de son déshonneur sans sentir pour eux des entrailles de père ?
ellauri014.html on line 629: N’est-il pas bien indigne d’un homme de ne pouvoir jamais s’accorder avec lui-même ; d’avoir une règle pour ses actions, une autre pour ses sentiments ; de penser comme s’il était sans corps, d’agir comme s’il était sans âme, et de ne jamais approprier à soi tout entier rien de ce qu’il fait en toute sa vie ?
ellauri014.html on line 940: Je ne souffrirai pas non plus que mes enfants se mêlent dans la conversation des gens raisonnables, et s’imaginent sottement y tenir leur rang comme les autres, quand on y souffre leur babil indiscret. Je veux qu’ils répondent modestement et en peu de mots quand on les interroge, sans jamais parler de leur chef, et surtout sans qu’ils s’ingèrent à questionner hors de propos les gens plus âgés qu’eux auxquels ils doivent du respect.
ellauri014.html on line 1035: Le surlendemain de notre arrivée, je le vis entrer dans ma chambre avec une contenance ferme et grave, et tenant une lettre à la main. Je m’écriai : « La marquise est morte ! ─ Plût à Dieu ! reprit-il froidement, il vaut mieux n’être plus que d’exister pour mal faire. Mais ce n’est pas d’elle que je viens vous parler ; écoutez-moi. » J’attendis en silence.
ellauri014.html on line 1037: « Milord, me dit-il, en me donnant le saint nom d’ami, vous m’apprîtes à le porter. J’ai rempli la fonction dont vous m’avez chargé ; et vous voyant prêt à vous oublier, j’ai dû vous rappeler à vous-même. Vous n’avez pu rompre une chaîne que par une autre. Toutes deux étaient indignes de vous. S’il n’eût été question que d’un mariage inégal, je vous aurais dit : Songez que vous êtes pair d’Angleterre, et renoncez aux honneurs du monde, ou respectez l’opinion. Mais un mariage abject !… vous !… Choisissez mieux votre épouse. Ce n’est pas assez qu’elle soit vertueuse, elle doit être sans tache… La femme d’Edouard Bomston n’est pas facile à
ellauri014.html on line 1038: trouver. Voyez ce que j’ai fait. »
ellauri014.html on line 1040: Alors il me remit la lettre. Elle était de Laure. Je ne l’ouvris pas sans émotion. « L’amour a vaincu, me disait-elle ; vous avez voulu m’épouser ; je suis contente. Votre ami m’a dicté mon devoir ; je le remplis sans regret. En vous déshonorant, j’aurais vécu malheureuse ; en vous laissant votre gloire, je crois la partager. Le sacrifice de tout mon bonheur à un devoir si cruel me fait oublier la honte de ma jeunesse. Adieu, dès cet instant je cesse d’être en votre pouvoir et au mien. Adieu pour jamais. O Edouard ! ne portez pas le désespoir dans ma retraite ; écoutez mon dernier vœu. Ne donnez à nulle autre une place que je n’ai pu remplir. Il fut au monde un cœur fait pour vous, et c’était celui de Laure. »
ellauri014.html on line 1049: Alors, s’approchant avec transport, il me dit en me serrant contre sa poitrine : « Ami, je lis, dans le sort commun que le ciel nous envoie, la loi commune qu’il nous prescrit. Le règne de l’amour est passé, que celui de l’amitié commence ; mon cœur n’entend plus que sa voix sacrée, il ne connaît plus d’autre chaîne que celle qui me lie à toi. Choisis le séjour que tu veux habiter : Clarens, Oxford, Londres, Paris ou Rome ; tout me convient, pourvu que nous y vivions ensemble. Va, viens où tu voudras, cherche un asile en quelque lieu que ce puisse être, je te suivrai partout : j’en fais le serment solennel à la face du Dieu vivant, je ne te quitte plus qu’à la mort. »
ellauri014.html on line 1051: Je fus touché. Le zèle et le feu de cet ardent jeune homme éclataient dans ses yeux. J’oubliai la marquise et Laure. Que peut-on regretter au monde quand on y conserve un ami?
ellauri014.html on line 1157: O grand Etre ! Etre éternel, suprême intelligence, source de vie et de félicité, créateur, conservateur, père de l’homme et roi de la nature, Dieu très puissant, très bon, dont je ne doutai jamais un moment, et sous les yeux duquel j’aimai toujours à vivre ! je le sais, je m’en réjouis, je vais paraître devant ton trône.
ellauri014.html on line 1197: « On ne sait pas, disait-elle, quelle douceur c’est de s’attendrir sur ses propres maux et sur ceux des autres. La sensibilité porte toujours dans l’âme un certain contentement de soi-même indépendant de la fortune et des événements. Que j’ai gémi ! que j’ai versé de larmes ! Eh bien ! s’il fallait renaître aux mêmes conditions, le mal que j’ai commis serait le seul que je voudrais retrancher ; celui que j’ai souffert me serait agréable encore.»
ellauri014.html on line 1206: « Voyez donc, continuait-elle, à quelle félicité je suis parvenue. J’en avais beaucoup ; j’en attendais davantage. La prospérité de ma famille, une bonne éducation pour mes enfants, tout ce qui m’était cher rassemblé autour de moi ou prêt à l’être. Le présent, l’avenir, me flattaient également ; la jouissance et l’espoir se réunissaient pour me rendre heureuse. Mon bonheur monté par degrés était au comble ; il ne pouvait plus que déchoir ; il était venu sans être attendu, il se fût enfui quand je l’aurais cru durable. Qu’eût fait le sort pour me soutenir à ce point ? Un état permanent est-il fait pour l’homme ?
ellauri014.html on line 1207: Non, quand on a tout acquis, il faut perdre, ne fût-ce que le plaisir de la possession qui s’use par elle.
ellauri014.html on line 1213: Plus on vit, plus on aime à vivre, même sans jouir de rien : j’aurais eu l’ennui de la vie et la terreur de la mort, suite ordinaire de la vieillesse.
ellauri014.html on line 1499: As a youth, at university, Milton was known as the ´Lady´ of Christ’s College.
ellauri014.html on line 1522: Two Russian Silver Age poets, Nikolai Gumilyov and Maximilian Voloshin, fought a duel over another poet, Lilya Dmitriyeva. She had rejected Gumilyov and he made some insulting remarks about her. Voloshin stepped in to defend the lady’s honor.
ellauri014.html on line 1524: The two poets had their duel on the Chernaya Rechka using Pushkin-era pistols. On his way to the venue, Voloshin lost one of his galoshes and declared that he would not leave the spot until he found it. The galosh was found, Gumilyov fired his pistol first and missed, while Voloshin’s pistol misfired twice. The two poets patched up relations only 12 years later.
ellauri014.html on line 1679: Emily of New Moon. universally recognized as the book that most encoded her personality, contains one poem, or a part of a poem, also found in Montgomery’s memoir of the craft, originally published as a serial in a Canadian magazine in 1917 and later published as The Alpine Path in 1974. In Emily of New Moon the poem is sent to Emily by Jarback (Pönttöselkä) Priest as a selection from “The Fringed Gentian,” and includes this stanza:
ellauri014.html on line 1698: And colored with the heaven’s own blue, taivaan oman sinen värittämä,
ellauri014.html on line 1702: O’er wandering brooks and springs unseen, nujuu puron ja lähteen rannalla,
ellauri014.html on line 1704: Nod o’er the ground-bird’s hidden nest. nyökkyy maalinnun pikku pesällä.
ellauri014.html on line 1705: Thou waitest late and com’st alone, Sä ootat vuoroas ja tuut yxixes,
ellauri014.html on line 1722: So, yeah (the blogger goes on), I know I am not an internationally renowned poetry critic, but it strikes me that this is an entirely different poem. There is a blossom in both poems, and a journey. But there isn’t much else that connects them. I don’t think I am being overly literal when I suggest that either Montgomery has misattributed the original poem, or that her version is a pretty radical interpretation.
ellauri014.html on line 1728: But granted these are different poems, we are left with the curious problem of where Montgomery found the Alpine Path poem. Surprisingly, after reading a dozen or so academic articles on Emily of New Moon and Montgomery’s vocation as an author–as well as a couple of good biographies–scholars have not pinned down the reference. After an extensive internet search, it seems to me that blogger Faith Elizabeth Hough may have begun to work it out. She includes the longer version of the poem here:
ellauri014.html on line 1744: Within the valley’s narrow field sitä ei voi enää tyydyttää
ellauri014.html on line 1754: Of Genius’ wondrous spell. nerolla on ihan huulilla.
ellauri014.html on line 1770: Like Bryant’s poem, this verse is about autumnal flowers. With some searching I found this poem in the 1884 New Year’s edition of Godey’s Lady’s Book. “Tam! The Story of a Woman” by Ella Rodman Church and August De Bubna includes this poem. In the story the verses are found in a copy of Bryant’s poetry–hence Montgomery’s connection to the poem–but in the (relatively boring) story they are actually written on a slip of paper that was found in the Bryant book–and written by a woman who tentatively hopes to make a career as a poet in a male’s publishing world. Intriguingly, Montgomery seems to have forgotten the original context of the verse, but herself emulated the desire of “Miss Powell” in the story.
ellauri014.html on line 1772: It seems to me that Montgomery selects out the best bit of the poem, but again you see my bias. I am that “blossom,” I hope–but if all four verses are included it becomes rather silly to press the metaphor. Still, I think Montgomery was on the right track with her idea of “The Alpine Path.” It is a peculiar provenance that brings us this poem, but it has been an interesting journey. Once I found the names of Ella Rodman Church and August De Bubna I found that others have followed my path of curiosity. The Confederation Centre of the Arts in Charlottetown has some of L.M. Montgomery’s scrapbooks, including her copy of the poem. But the search has been interesting, nonetheless.
ellauri014.html on line 1811: To Nature’s teachings, while from all around
ellauri014.html on line 1839: Old Ocean’s gray and melancholy waste,—
ellauri014.html on line 1864: The youth in life’s green spring, and he who goes
ellauri015.html on line 118: Please don’t expect me to always be good and kind and loving.

ellauri017.html on line 170: I would like to take the opportunity to remind everyone that Kronecker’s famous statement
ellauri017.html on line 174: was not a theological statement. It was bit of hyperbole in a debate starting up in mathematics. It was part of Kronecker’s feud with Georg Cantor.
ellauri019.html on line 286: (tarkoittaa ’punainen’), edomilaiset oli punanahkoja. Punikkeja.
ellauri019.html on line 298: Hedelmällistä maata oli niukalti, mutta tässä jylhässä vuoristossa oli arvokkaita kupari- ja rautaesiintymiä; nykyisen Feinanin ympäristössä, n. 48 km Kuolleestamerestä etelään, oli kaivoksia ja sulattoja. Todisteet osoittavat, että siellä oli muinoin myös suurehkoja mäntymetsiä. Todennäköisesti Edomin vaurautta kasvattivat suuresti tullit, joita perittiin näillä teillä kulkeneilta kameli- ja aasikaravaaneilta. Aavikolta Edomiin saapuneet uupuneet matkaajat ovat lisäksi saattaneet maksaa ruoasta ja majapaikasta. Jeremia sanoo hyvästä syystä, että edomilaiset asuvat luottavaisesti ”kallion loukoissa”, ’pitävät hallussaan kukkulan korkeuden’ ja ovat kuin kotka pesässään (Jer 49:7, 16).
ellauri019.html on line 302: Edomin kansa. Esaun jälkeläisinä edomilaiset olivat pohjimmiltaan seemiläisiä, mutta heillä oli kuitenkin voimakkaita haamilaisia piirteitä. Tämä johtui siitä, että kaksi Esaun vaimoista oli haamilais-kanaanilaista syntyperää (heettiläinen ja hivviläinen); vain yksi nimeltä mainituista vaimoista oli osittain seemiläinen Abrahamin pojan Ismaelin kautta (1Mo 36:2, 3). Jos nimitys horilainen tarkoittaa yksinkertaisesti ’luolassa asujaa’, niin kuin jotkut tutkijat ajattelevat, Esaun hivviläinen vaimo Oholibama, Anan tytär, on voinut olla lähtöisin Seirin horilaisten asukkaiden keskuudesta (vrt. 1Mo 36:2, 20, 24, 25). Joka tapauksessa edomilaiset olivat Lootista polveutuvien moabilaisten ja ammonilaisten tavoin (huom. Da 11:41) sukua israelilaisille, ja alun pitäen ympärileikkaus kuului heidänkin tapoihinsa (Jer 9:25, 26; vrt. Hes 32:29). Jehova kutsui heitä Israelin ”veljiksi”, eivätkä israelilaiset saaneet loukata edomilaisten maanomistusoikeuksia vaeltaessaan erämaassa, koska Jehova oli antanut Seirinvuoren Edomin jälkeläisten omaksi (5Mo 2:1–8).
ellauri019.html on line 304: Job oli kotoisin Uzin maasta Se ei ole sama kuin Land of Oz; nimi Uz annettiin alkuaan eräälle aramealaiselle heimolle, ja sitä käytettiin jälleen aramealaisen Nahorin sukuhaarassa (Job 1:1; vrt. 1Mo 10:23; 22:20, 21). Jeremiadin 4:21:ssä Edomin sanotaan kyllä ’asuvan Uzin maassa’, mutta tässä raamatunjakeessa, joka on kirjoitettu satoja vuosia sen jälkeen kun Job luultavasti eli, Uzia ei samasteta Edomiin, etenkin kun Jeremian 25:20, 21:ssä ”Uzin maan kuninkaat” erotetaan Edomista. Jae viittaa kenties pikemminkin Edomin alueen laajenemiseen. (Ks. US nro 4.)
ellauri019.html on line 312: Israelille ennen kuolemaansa esittämässään runomuotoisessa siunauksessa Mooses kuvaili Jehova Jumalan ’tulleen Siinailta’, ’leimahtaneen Seiristä [Edomista]’ ja ’säteilleen Paranin vuoristosta’. Samantapainen kuvaus on Barakin ja Deboran laulussa sekä Habakukin profetiassa. (5Mo 33:2; Tu 5:4, 5; Hab 3:3, 4.) Tässä profeetallisessa kuvauksessa esitellään siis ilmeisesti näyttämö eli tapahtumapaikka, jossa Jehova oli tehnyt itsensä ilmeiseksi vastamuodostetulle kansakunnalleen valaisemalla sitä ikään kuin vuortenhuippujen yli loistavin valonleimahduksin.
ellauri019.html on line 330: Edomista oli tuleva kuin Sodoma ja Gomorra, asumaton kaikiksi ajoiksi (Jer 49:7–22; vrt. Jes 34:9–15). Koska Edom ansaitsi Jehovan vihan, sitä nimitettäisiin ”jumalattomuuden alueeksi” ja ”kansaksi, jonka Jehova on asettanut tuomiojulistuksen alaisuuteen ajan hämärään asti” (Mal 1:1–5). Edom edustaa siis Jesajan 63:1–6:ssa ilmeisestikin Jumalan liittokansan taipumattomia vihollisia. Noissa jakeissa kuvaillaan verentahraamissa vaatteissa olevan jumalallisen Soturin, joka on polkenut Jumalan koston viinikuurnan, tulevan sopivasti Edomista (merk. ’punainen’) ja Edomin huomattavimmasta kaupungista Bosrasta (mahd. sanaleikki, sillä heprean sana ba·tsirʹ merkitsee ’viininkorjuuta’). (Vrt. Il 14:14–20; 19:11–16.)
ellauri019.html on line 332: Myöhempi historia ja katoaminen. Jehovan profeetan Jeremian välityksellä Edomin kuningasta varoitettiin siitä, että Babylonin kuningas Nebukadnessar panisi ikeen hänen niskaansa (Jer 27:1–7). Sitä, mitä edomilaiset todellisuudessa tekivät tässä tilanteessa, ei kerrota. Jerusalemin tuhouduttua 607 eaa. jotkut maanpakoon joutuneet juutalaiset saivat kuitenkin tilapäisen turvapaikan Edomista. Kun babylonialaisarmeijat sitten olivat lähteneet, nämä pakolaiset palasivat omaan maahansa ja pakenivat lopulta Egyptiin. (Jer 40:11, 12; 43:5–7.) Pian koitti aika, jolloin Edomin oli siemaistava syvään Jehovan vihastuksen maljasta (Jer 25:15–17, 21). Tämä tapahtui suunnilleen 500-luvun eaa. puolivälissä Babylonian kuninkaan Nabunaidin hallitessa. Babylonian historian ja kirjallisuuden tutkijan C. J. Gaddin mukaan Nabunaidin joukoissa, jotka voittivat Edomin ja Teman, oli mukana juutalaissotilaita. Kommentoidessaan tätä John Lindsay kirjoitti: ”Täten profeetan sanat täyttyivät ainakin osittain, kun hän kirjoitti Jahvesta sanoen: ’Minä langetan kostoni Edomille kansani Israelin kädellä.’ (Hes. 25:14.) Osittain ovat täyttyneet myös Obadjan sanat, joiden mukaan Edomin ’liittolaiset’, ’luotetut ystävät’ ’pettäisivät’ sen, ’veisivät siitä voiton’ ja ’panisivat paulan sen eteen’. Tässä saatamme nähdä viittauksen babylonialaisiin, jotka Nebukadressarin päivinä olivat halukkaita antamaan sen saada osansa Juudan tappiosta, mutta Nabunaidin alaisuudessa tukahduttivat kaikiksi ajoiksi Edomin kaupalliset pyrkimykset. (Vrt. Ob. 1 ja 7.)” (Palestine Exploration Quarterly, Lontoo 1976, s. 39.)
ellauri020.html on line 238: For Love Alone was packaged like a romance novel—compare to Judith McNaught’s Perfect, for instance—but it’s closer to the great primetime soap operas
ellauri020.html on line 239: of the 1980s. That’s probably because much of the actual writing was done by Camille Marchetta, who worked on both Dallas and Dynasty, though the only clue provided is a note at the beginning: “I would like to thank my friend Camille Marchetta for helping me to tell Katrinka’s story.”
ellauri020.html on line 301: Ivana, a Czeck immigrant, met Donald Trump in 1976 while attending a fashion show in New York, according to the New York Post. By the next year, the couple had married, and in short order had had three kids and became steady figures in the New York socialite scene. Trump had been at the bar in Maxwell’s Plum. Maxwell’s Plum is gone now, but the very name evokes the era of frantic singles underneath the Art Nouveau ceiling. It was the place where flight attendants hoped to find bankers, and models looked for dates. Donald met his model, Ivana Zelnickova, visiting from Montreal. She liked to tell the story of how she had gone skiing with Donald, pretending to be a learner like him, and then humiliated him by whizzing past him down the slopes.
ellauri020.html on line 364: Palm Beach had been Ivana Trump’s idea. Long ago, Donald had screamed at her, “I want nothing social that you aspire to. If that is what makes you happy, get another husband!” But she had no intention of doing that, for Ivana, like Donald, was living out a fantasy. She had seen that in the Trump life everything and everybody appeared to come with a price, or a marker for future use. Ivana had learned to look through Donald with glazed eyes when he said to close friends, as he had in the early years of their marriage, “I would never buy Ivana any decent jewels or pictures. Why give her negotiable assets?” She had gotten out of Eastern Europe by being tough and highly disciplined, and she had compounded her skills through her husband, the master manipulator. She had learned the lingua franca in a world where everyone seemed to be using everyone else in a relentless drive for power. How was she to know that there was another way to live? Besides, she often told her friends, however cruel Donald could be, she was very much in love with him.
ellauri020.html on line 391: Trump spoke in a hypnotic, unending torrent of words. Often he appeared to free-associate. He referred to himself in the third person: “Trump says. . . Trump believes.” His phrases skibbled around and doubled back on themselves like fireworks in a summer sky. He reminded me of a carnival barker trying to fill his tent. “I’m more popular now than I was two months ago. There are two publics as far as I’m concerned. The real public and then there’s the New York society horseshit. The real public has always liked Donald Trump. The real public feels that Donald Trump is going through Trump-bashing. When I go out now, forget about it. I’m mobbed. It’s bedlam,” Trump told me. Donald is a believer in the big-lie theory,” his lawyer had told me. “If you say something again and again, people will believe you.” “One of my lawyers said that?” Trump said when I asked him about it. “I think if one of my lawyers said that, I’d like to know who it is, because I’d fire his ass. I’d like to find out who the scumbag is!”
ellauri020.html on line 395: Donald Trump has always viewed his father as a role model. In The Art of the Deal, he wrote, “Fred Trump was born in New Jersey in 1905. His father, who came here from Sweden . . . owned a moderately successful restaurant.” In fact, the Trump family was German and desperately poor. “At one point my mother took in stitching to keep us going,” Trump’s father told me. “For a time, my father owned a restaurant in the Klondike, but he died when I was young.” Donald’s cousin John Walter once wrote out an elaborate family tree. “We shared the same grandfather,” Walter told me, “and he was German. So what?”
ellauri020.html on line 399: For years, Ivana appeared to have studied the public behavior of the royals. Her friends now called this “Ivana’s imperial-couple syndrome,” and they teased her about it, for they knew that Ivana, like Donald, was inventing and reinventing herself all the time. When she had first come to New York, she wore elaborate helmet hairdos and bouffant satin dresses, very Hollywood; her image of rich American women probably came from the movies she had seen as a child. Ivana had now spent years passing through the fine rooms of New York, but she had never seemed to learn the real way of the truly rich, the art of understatement. Instead, she had become regal, filling her houses with the kind of ormolu found in palaces in Eastern Europe. She had taken to waving to friends with tiny hand motions, as if to conserve her energy. At her own charity receptions, she insisted that she and Donald form a receiving line, and she would stand in pinpoint heels, never sinking into the deep grass—such was her control.
ellauri020.html on line 468: We were walking through the rubble of the Commodore Hotel, which would soon reopen as the Grand Hyatt. Ivana had been given the responsibility of supervising all the decoration; she was hard at it, despite the fact that she was wearing a white wool Thierry Mugler jumpsuit and pale Dior shoes as she picked her way through the sawdust. “I told you never to leave a broom like this in a room!” she screamed at one worker. Screaming at her employees had become part of her hallmark, perhaps her way of feeling power. Later, in Atlantic City, she would become known for her obsession with cleanliness. Determined to bring glamour to Trump Castle, she became famous for her attention to appearances, once moving a pregnant waitress, desperate for big tips, off the casino floor. The woman was placed in a distant lounge and given a clown’s suit to disguise her condition.
ellauri020.html on line 641: He began belittling her: “That dress is terrible.” “You’re showing too much cleavage.” “You never spend enough time with the children.” “Who would touch those plastic breasts?” Ivana told her friends that Donald had stopped sleeping with her. She blamed herself. “I think it was Donald’s master plan to get rid of Ivana in Atlantic City,” one of her assistants told me. “By then, Marla Maples was in a suite at the Trump Regency. Atlantic City was to be their playground.”
ellauri020.html on line 661: Liz Smith had broken the story of the Trumps’ separation. The entire sordid history of Marla Maples and Ivana fighting on the Aspen ski slopes was all over the papers.
ellauri020.html on line 712: Enough people went looking for similarities between the real Trump marriage and the fictional Graham marriage that it became a legal scuffle within the larger war that was the ugly Trump divorce, with Donald’s lawyers fighting to preserve a gag order keeping Ivana from talking about their marriage. For her part, Ivana insisted she wasn’t writing about her ex. She told the Los Angeles Times: “There is no way he can prove that he’s Adam because he’s not Adam and I make sure that he’s not Adam,” adding that, “And even I think I have constitutional rights of speech in America. I did not abuse them.”
ellauri020.html on line 721: However unlikely it seemed, Ivana was now considered a tabloid heroine, and her popularity seemed in inverse proportion to the fickle city’s new dislike of her husband. “Ivana is now a media goddess on par with Princess Di, Madonna, and Elizabeth Taylor,” Liz Smith reported. Months earlier, Ivana had undergone cosmetic reconstruction with a California doctor. She emerged unrecognizable to her friends and perhaps her children, as fresh and innocent of face as Heidi of Edelweiss Farms. Although she had negotiated four separate marital-property agreements over the last fourteen years, she was suing her husband for half his assets. Trump was trying to be philosophical. “When a man leaves a woman, especially when it was perceived that he has left for a piece of ass—a good one!—there are 50 percent of the population who will love the woman who was left,” he told me.
ellauri022.html on line 509: • Relate the main characters’ experiences to those of the children. Make sure the children understand the book’s message and
ellauri022.html on line 901: I heard Time’s loom a-whirring that wove the Sun’s dim Veil; Kuulin ajan kangaspuiden hyristen luovan autereista huntua.
ellauri022.html on line 979: out my cock did fling around looking pissing in the wind o’er cliff
ellauri025.html on line 438: Tää kansa on kuin kaupunki, Jos tääll’ ois mies, jos yksikin, Ja vaikk’ ei ois se tullutkaan
ellauri026.html on line 214: I had spent a summer in Greece while in college, travelling with a Greek text of the Odyssey, and I remembered in particular Odysseus’s final journey to Ithaca (the beginning of book 13; well worth revisiting as a specimen of Homeric narrative), the poetic effect of which overwhelmed me. Odysseus climbs aboard the ship and—forgive my literal translation—lies down, “in silence,”
ellauri026.html on line 220: And yet in Wilson’s translation the passage seems reduced, deficient somehow, so trite as to be unnoticeable:
ellauri026.html on line 225: The idea is there, but all the lingering emphasis in the original has been smoothed away. This, too, unfortunately, is typical of the whole. I have said that Wilson’s translation reads easily, and it does, like a modern novel: at shockingly few points does one ever need to stop and think. There are no hard parts; no difficult lines or obscure notions; no aesthetic arrest either; very little that jumps out as unusual or different. Wilson has set out, as she openly confesses, to produce an Odyssey in a “contemporary anglophone speech,” and this results in quite a bit of conceptual pruning. If you wait for the “Homeric tags,” the phrases that contained so much Greek culture they have been quoted over and over again by Greeks ever since—well, you are apt to miss them as they go by. A famous one occurs in book 24, when Odysseus and Telemachus are about to go into battle together: Odysseus tells Telemachus not to disgrace him, and Telemachus boasts that he need not fear. Laertes, Odysseus’s father, exclaims (Wilson’s translation), “Ah, gods! A happy day for me! My son and grandson are arguing about how tough they are!”
ellauri029.html on line 839: Sana sarkasmi on peräisin kreikankielisestä sanasta sarkasmos (σαρκασμός) (’iva, pilkka’) jonka verbimuoto on sarkazein ('puhua kitkerästi, ivata', sananmukaisesti ’lyödä lihoixi, pureskella jauhelihaxi'.
ellauri029.html on line 910: The question is, is satire or sarcasm ever appropriate? This would be easy enough to resolve if not for the fact that God uses satire in several places in Scripture. For example, Paul’s words in this passage:
ellauri029.html on line 912: You are already filled, you have already become rich, you have become kings without us; and indeed, I wish that you had become kings so that we also might reign with you. For, I think, God has exhibited us apostles last of all, as men condemned to death; because we have become a spectacle to the world, both to angels and to men. We are fools for Christ’s sake, but you are prudent in Christ; we are weak, but you are strong; you are distinguished, but we are without honor. To this present hour we are both hungry and thirsty, and are poorly clothed, and are roughly treated, and are homeless; and we toil, working with our own hands; when we are reviled, we bless; when we are persecuted, we endure; when we are slandered, we try to conciliate; we have become as the scum of the world, the dregs of all things, even until now. 1 Corinthians 4:8-13
ellauri029.html on line 914: Is Paul’s language ironic here? Absolutely. Was it hurtful? Intentionally so. Yet, because his intent was to lead the stubborn Corinthians to the truth, it can still be considered loving. In fact, Paul followed this passage with, "I do not write these things to shame you, but to admonish you as my beloved children."
ellauri029.html on line 916: The Corinthians would not have considered Paul’s language intentionally cruel. Instead, they would have recognized Paul was using rhetoric to make a point. The Corinthians felt superior to Paul, casting judgment on him. So he calls them spiritual kings and says, ironically, that God considers His apostles “scum” and “dregs.”
ellauri029.html on line 918: The passage sounds sarcastic. It says one thing while meaning another in a way that makes the hearers look foolish. But Paul’s method was not meant as a personal insult. The goal was to grab the readers’ attention and correct a false way of thinking. In other words, Paul’s words are satirical, but not sarcastic. They are spoken in love to “beloved children.”
ellauri029.html on line 920: Other passages in the Bible that use satire include Isaiah’s ridicule of idol-makers (Isaiah 40:19-20), God’s taunting of Egypt (Jeremiah 46:11), and Elijah’s gibes directed at the prophets of Baal (1 Kings 18:27). Jesus Himself used satire in the form of hyperbole when He told His hearers to “take the plank out of your own eye” (Matthew 7:5).
ellauri030.html on line 744: When I heard she’d died of cramp,
ellauri030.html on line 752: had’em.
ellauri030.html on line 899: Tendentious jokes are jokes that contain lust, hostility, or both. William Shakespeare’s Falstaff would be an example of Freud's "comic," generating laughter by expressing previously repressed inhibition.
ellauri030.html on line 905: Freud’s humoristic theory, like most of his ideas, was based on a dynamic among id, ego, and super-ego. Marx brothers like. The commanding superego likes to impede the ego from seeking pleasure for the id, or to momentarily adapt itself to the demands of reality, a mature coping method.
ellauri032.html on line 138: Pascal muutti sisarensa kanssa takaisin Pariisiin vuoden 1647 tienoilla, jonne heitä seurasi pian myös heidän isänsä, joka oli nimitetty hallitusneuvokseksi. Pariisissa viettämänsä lyhyen hetken aikana Pascal tapasi kuuluisan ranskalaisen filosofin René Descartes’n, joka teki epävirallisen vierailun hänen luonaan. Descartes’n ja Pascalin kohtaaminen oli täynnä jännitteitä johtuen heidän lukuisista erimielisyyksistään ja keskinäisestä kateudestaan. Descartes ei suostunut uskomaan, että Pascalin Tutkielma kartioleikkauksista voisi olla 16-vuotiaan nuorukaisen kirjoittama, ja lisäksi hän epäili Pascalin varastaneen ilmapuntarikokeen idean häneltä, koska Descartes itse oli ehdottanut Pascalin saamien tuloksien mahdollisuutta eräässä kirjeessään Mersennelle.
ellauri032.html on line 146: Perhe palasi takaisin Pariisiin 1650, ja seuraavana vuonna Pascalin isä kuoli. Isän kuolema mahdollisti sen, että Jacqueline pääsi viimein ryhtymään nunnaksi. Pascal taas tavoitteli Descartes’n paikkaa Ruotsin kuningattaren Kristiinan hovissa, mutta kuningatar ei kuitenkaan vastannut nousukkaan kutsuun, vaikka Pascal lupasi laskea kehittelemänsä laskukoneen tämän jalkojen juureen.
ellauri032.html on line 148: 31-vuotiaaksi mennessä Pascal onnistui kehittelemään Pierre de Fermat’n kanssa loppuun kaikkein merkittävimmän työnsä matematiikan parissa: todennäköisyysteorian.
ellauri032.html on line 154: L’an de grâce 1654.
ellauri032.html on line 159: Dieu d’Abraham, Dieu d’Isaac, Dieu de Jacob,
ellauri032.html on line 166: Il ne se trouve que par les voies enseignées dans l’Évangile.
ellauri032.html on line 167: Grandeur de l’âme humaine.
ellauri032.html on line 168: Père juste, le monde ne t’a point connu, mais je t’ai connu.
ellauri032.html on line 170: Je m’en suis séparé. ------------------------------------------------------
ellauri032.html on line 173: que je n’en sois pas séparé éternellement.
ellauri032.html on line 175: Cette est la vie éternelle, qu’ils te connaissent seul vrai Dieu et celui que tu as envoyé J.-C.
ellauri032.html on line 178: je l’ai fui, renoncé, crucifié
ellauri032.html on line 179: Je m’en suis séparé, ----------------------------------------------------
ellauri032.html on line 180: Que je n’en sois jamais séparé ! -------------------------------------
ellauri032.html on line 181: Il ne se conserve que par les voies enseignées dans l’Évangile.
ellauri032.html on line 206: Richard Dawkins kehitti teekannuteemaa vielä pitemmälle kirjassaan A Devil’s Chaplain:
ellauri032.html on line 244: To understand the method which Pascal employs, the reader must be prepared to follow the process of the mind of the intelligent believer. The Christian thinker – and I mean the man who is trying consciously and conscientiously to explain to himself the sequence which culminates in faith, rather than the public apologist – proceeds by rejection and elimination. … To the unbeliever, this method seems disingenuous and perverse: for the unbeliever is, as a rule, not so greatly troubled to explain the world to himself, nor so greatly distressed by its disorder; nor is he generally concerned (in modern terms) to ‘preserve values’. He does not consider that if certain emotional states, certain developments of character, and what in the highest sense can be called ‘saintliness’ are inherently and by inspection known to be good, then the satisfactory explanation of the world must be an explanation which will admit the ‘reality’ of these values. Nor does he consider such reasoning admissible; he would, so to speak, trim his values according to his cloth, because to him such values are of no great value. The unbeliever starts from the other end, and as likely as not with the question: Is a case of human parthenogenesis credible? and this he would call going straight to the heart of the matter.
ellauri032.html on line 251: Le coeur a ses raisons que la raison ne connaît point, how often one has heard that quoted, and quoted often to the wrong purpose! For this is by no means an exaltation of the ‘heart’ over the ‘head’, a defence of unreason. The heart, in Pascal’s terminology, is itself truly rational if it is truly the heart. For him, in theological matters which seemed to him much larger, more difficult, and more important than scientific matters, the whole personality is involved.
ellauri032.html on line 683: ”Minä olen köyhä ihminen, Minä olen mato enkä ihminen, kansan pilkan kohde ja ihmisten halveksunnan kohde. Minä olen erittäin nöyryytetty. Mutta minun ei yksinkertaisesti pidä tehdä syntiä itseäni vastaan. Anteexi hetkinen, nyt minun täytyy suojata sydämeni tällä kertakäyttöisellä sydänsuojaimella. Todellakin minä en voi kieltää sanontaa! Se on totta, mutta on myös kirjoitettu, että: ’Älä kiusaa Herraa, sinun Jumalaasi’” (Matt. 4:7).
ellauri033.html on line 447: L’auteur des Chansons joyeuses était alors amateur de vins et très libre sur le plan des mœurs. Il faut signaler une amitié particulière peu connue qui avait uni Maurice Bouchor et Paul Bourget. Ce dernier écrivait à Bouchor quand il avait 15 ans des lettres enflammées auxquelles l’adolescent n’était pas inseänsible. Bourget à cette époque était son « précepteur ». Il faut savoir que Paul Bourget est présent dans l’Album zutique et qu’il fréquentait le groupe des Vivants auquel on l’associe à tort. Il semble que Bouchor n’ait pas craint dans sa première jeunesse de passer pour un homosexuel, peut-être par provocation.
ellauri033.html on line 470: Tainella oli merkittävä vaikutus Ranskan kirjallisuuteen. Vuoden 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica kuvasi hänen merkitystään mainitsemalla, että Émile Zolan, Paul Bourget’n ja Guy de Maupassantin töissä on selvästi nähtävissä Tainen vaikutus.
ellauri033.html on line 1013: Oui, l’Anio murmure encore Joo Anio mumisee taas
ellauri033.html on line 1017: Murmurera toujours celui d’Eléonore ! vuosisadoille aina Eleonooran sitä!
ellauri033.html on line 1019: Heureux le nom qu’il a chanté ! Onnea nimelle jota se on rallattanut!
ellauri033.html on line 1020: Toi, qu’en secret son culte honore, Sä jota salaa sen kultti kunnnioittaa
ellauri033.html on line 1022: Il lègue à ce qu’il aime une éternelle vie, se testamenttaa rakkaalle iki-iäkkyyden
ellauri033.html on line 1023: Et l’amante et l’amant sur l’aile du génie ja salarakkaat neron siivellä
ellauri033.html on line 1024: Montent, d’un vol égal, à l’immortalité ! nousee vaakalennossa tähtitaivaalle!
ellauri033.html on line 1028: Si les pleurs d’une amante, attendrissant le sort, Jos jonkun rakkaan itku pehmentäis mun osan,
ellauri033.html on line 1031: Peut-être j’oserais, et que n’ose un amant ? Jos tohtisin, mitäpä ei tohdi lempijä?
ellauri033.html on line 1032: Egaler mon audace à l’amour qui m’inspire, Yhtä röyhkeästi kuin mun seisokki,
ellauri033.html on line 1036: Se repose un moment à l’abri du vallon, huilattuaan hetken kesken karaokea,
ellauri033.html on line 1037: Sur l’arbre hospitalier dont il goûta l’ombrage sairaalaosastolla monen kupin perästä
ellauri033.html on line 1043: Et le char de l’automne, au penchant de l’année, Ja syxyn liha vuoden taittuessa
ellauri033.html on line 1045: Comme un géant armé d’un glaive inévitable, Niinkun jätti hirmu miekan kanssa,
ellauri033.html on line 1047: Le temps avec la mort, d’un vol infatigable Aika ja kuolema lentää uupumatta
ellauri033.html on line 1049: Dans l’éternel oubli tombe ce qu’il moissonne : Päättymätön amnesia syö sen niittämät:
ellauri033.html on line 1056: Beauté, présent d’un jour que le ciel nous envie, Nättiys, läsnä päivän kun taivas meitä kadehtii,
ellauri033.html on line 1058: Ne vous rend l’immortalité ! jaa teille iki-julkkixuutta!
ellauri033.html on line 1059: Vois d’un oeil de pitié la vulgaire jeunesse, Kas säälin silmin vulgääriä nuoruutta,
ellauri033.html on line 1060: Brillante de beauté, s’enivrant de plaisir ! Nättiyden loistoa, panon humalaa!
ellauri033.html on line 1062: Que restera-t-il d’elle? à peine un souvenir : Mitä siitä jää? Tuskin muistoa,
ellauri033.html on line 1063: Le tombeau qui l’attend l’engloutit tout entière, Odottava hauta nielaisee sen tyystin,
ellauri033.html on line 1171: Vuosina 1897–1902 ilmestyneessä toisessa romaanitrilogiassaan Le Roman de l’énergie nationale (”Kansallisen energian romaani”) Barrès käsittelee muun muassa suhdettaan kotiseutuunsa Lothringeniin (Lorraine). Teosten sanoma kuvastaa hänen omaksumaansa nationalistista katsomusta: side synnyinseutuun ja menneisiin sukupolviin muovaa yksilöt, joten kotiseudun hylkääminen johtaa yksilöllisen identiteetin menettämiseen ja kärsimykseen. Barrèsin myöhemmät romaanit Au Service de l’Allemagne (1905) ja Metzin tyttö (Colette Baudoche, 1909) käsittelevät Saksaan liitetyn Elsass-Lothringenin ranskalaisten asukkaiden lojaliteettiristiriitoja. Näitä teoksia käytettiin Ranskassa sotapropagandana ensimmäisen maailmansodan aikana. Meidän yöjuna pysähtyi Metzissä kun oltiin interreilillä. Tyttöjä ei näkynyt. Paizi Helmiä.
ellauri033.html on line 1173: Barrés valittiin uudelleen edustajainkamariin Neuilly-sur-Seinen edustajana vuonna 1906 ja hän säilytti paikkansa kuolemaansa asti. Oltuaan aiemmin kiivas parlamentarismin vastustaja hän pehmensi mielipiteitään toisella edustajakaudellaan. Tottakai kun oli ize sisällä. Hänet valittiin vuonna 1906 myös Ranskan akatemiaan runoilija José-Maria de Heredialta vapautuneelle tuolille. Toivottavasti sillä oli nasta. Barrès tuki Paul Déroulèden julkaisemaa Le Drapeau -lehteä ja Déroulèden kuoltua vuonna 1914 hänet valittiin tämän perustaman Ligue des Patriotes -järjestön puheenjohtajaksi. Ensimmäisen maailmansodan aikana Barrés antoi tukensa poliittiset rintamalinjat ylittäneelle kansallisen yhtenäisyyden hallitukselle (union sacrée, ”pyhä liitto”). Vittu kun joku sanoo sanan "pyhä" mä poistan varmistimen harmistimesta. Sodan jälkeen hän vaati Ranskan sotilaallista läsnäoloa Reinillä ja Versailles’n rauhansopimuksen ehtojen tinkimätöntä toimeenpanoa. Voiko läpipaskiaisempaa enää olla. Se ei ole vaan hunsvotti, vaan jätkä, hampuusi! Soitan piiskan!
ellauri034.html on line 541: Conrad asettui 36-vuotiaana vuonna 1894 asumaan Englantiin. Hän meni naimisiin, sai kaksi lasta ja matkusteli edelleen satunnaisesti. Enimmän aikaa hän kuitenkin kirjoitti, ja 1895 ilmestyi ensimmäinen teos, Almayer’s Folly. Conrad jatkoi kirjoittamista elämänsä loppuun asti, ja hänen viimeinen romaaninsa, The Nature of Crime, ilmestyi 1924. Joseph Conrad kuoli vuonna 1924 onnistuneeseen sydänkohtaukseen.
ellauri035.html on line 1019: Noam Chomsky is critical of Žižek, saying that he is guilty of "using fancy terms like polysyllables and pretending you have a theory when you have no theory whatsoever", and also that Žižek’s theories never go "beyond the level of something you can explain in five minutes to a twelve-year-old".
ellauri037.html on line 266: I’m ready to believe it.
ellauri037.html on line 269: he’d had enough of dying species,
ellauri037.html on line 273: He’d earned the right to happy endings,at least in fiction
ellauri037.html on line 521: Paremmalla syyllä kuin kauniixi vois naisia sanoa epäesteettisexi sukupuolexi. Niillä ei ole tajua eikä vastaanottokykyä kaunotaiteille, kuten musiikille, runoille tai kuvataiteille, kazovat vaan kun lehmä uutta veräjää, tai apinoivat miellyttämishalussaan jos ne niitä on harrastavinaan. Janne-Jaakko (Rusakko) sen jo sanoi: les femmes, en général, n’aiment aucun art, ne se connoissent à aucun, et n’ont aucun génie (lettre à d’Alembert, note x x). (Setämiehet haistaa kyllä toisensa ihan hännän alushajusta kuin koirat.) Jokainen joka kazoo huivin taa, huomaa kyllä sen. Ei tarvize kuin kazoa mihin naaraat keskittyy konsäärissä, uupperassa tai tiiatterissa (miekkoset keskittyy tietysti selvittämään juuri tän). Esim kazo niiden lapsellista hälinää, kun ne (miesten) suurenmoisten mestariteosten kauneimpien kohtien aikanakin jatkaa lätinää. Jos krekut ei tosiaan päästäneet naisenpuolikkaita kazomoon, ne teki siinä oikein; ainakin pystyi niiden teattereissa sentään jotain kuulemaan. (Jääkiekko- ja futismazeissakin liikuttaa miesyleisön rikkumaton hiljaisuus.)
ellauri038.html on line 147: When it comes right down to it I’d much rather have been a Basel professor than God; but I didn’t dare be selfish enough to forgo the creation of the world.
ellauri038.html on line 152: I’m not saying that Nietzsche thought he was God before his breakdown. But he understood the parallel between the creator God and the creator of values. Values must be self-justifying; anything that requires an argument is vulnerable.
ellauri038.html on line 154: As for why this deserves to be called philosophy, it depends on how we define the term. There were philosophers at Athens besides Socrates and Plato, who didn’t oppose philosophy to rhetoric and for whom personal authority was essential to their teaching. Nietzsche aimed to bring that back, at least in his own case – which is the only one that really mattered to him.
ellauri039.html on line 98: Op my geröchtet ön Löw’ on ön Schmart.


ellauri039.html on line 101: Quöm’ allet Wedder glihk ön ons tho schlahn,

ellauri039.html on line 107: So wardt de Löw’ ön onß mächtich on groht,

ellauri039.html on line 136: Auf mich gerichtet in Lieb’ und in Schmerz.


ellauri039.html on line 139: Käm’ alles Wetter gleich auf uns zu schlahn,

ellauri039.html on line 145: So wird die Lieb’ in uns mächtig und groß

ellauri039.html on line 152: Mein Leben schließ’ ich um deines herum.


ellauri039.html on line 159: Annchen von Tharau, das woll’n wir nicht thun;

ellauri039.html on line 347: Hatsipompponen’s installation/handmade paper works, such as houses of beings and Lucid Absurdity, have dealt with the correspondence between visual and textual languages, which is established upon the absurd conflicts among urges, necessities, and mortality. She draws her philosophy from Camus, Heidegger, Haiku poets, modern Japanese novelists, and ancient Chinese thinkers.
ellauri039.html on line 351: Hatsipompponen’s artistic development is threaded with a series of performance works that are inspired by autobiographical events and social issues. Benevolence evoked an inner quietness with extremely slow and repetitive motions, questioning the exponential acceleration of our contemporary lives. MISEMONO: SIDESHOW dealt with cultural stereotypes and racial issues. Ritual for RED was a re-enactment of the lost memories suffered from a severe auto accident. "My work in execution and establishment communicates both the solid fact and the ephemerality of life."
ellauri039.html on line 379: An apparently Japanese source clarifies: The injured individual lied that she felt a similar method to get Hachiyanagi to call 911, the paper says. When captured, the educator had the injured individual’s “keys, cellphone, and glasses,” as indicated by the paper, which included that the unfortunate casualty is required to endure. Hachiyanagi at first guaranteed that she had discovered the educator harmed and was attempting to support her, which was the manner by which her garments turned out to be wicked, as per Daily Beast.
ellauri040.html on line 95: «Un jour, écrit Emmanuelle Guattari, alors qu’on attend dans la voiture, Bertrand, un malade, me dit en souriant : "Christian et moi, on attend que nos dents repoussent." Je dodeline de la tête avec une moue et un haussement d’épaule : "Ça ne se peut pas." "- Oui, continue-t-il, mais on peut quand même attendre."»
ellauri040.html on line 352: Deleuzen kirjojen Différence et répétition (1968) ja Logique du sens (1969) jälkeen Michel Foucault julisti, että ”kenties yhtenä päivänä tätä vuosisataa kutsutaan deleuzeläiseksi”. Deleuzen mielestä Foucault’n kommentti oli ”vain vitsi, jonka tarkoitus oli saada meistä pitävät ihmiset nauramaan ja muut raivostumaan”. No oikeasti kaikki nauroivat.
ellauri040.html on line 354: Yhteistyö Guattarin kanssa politisoi Deleuzen, joka 1970-luvulta alkaen osallistui aktivistina mielenosoituksiin, Michel Foucault’n perustamaan mielipiteen vankien tukiryhmään ja poliittisiin keskusteluihin. Viimeisinä vuosinaan Deleuze luennoi ja kirjoitti erityisesti elokuvasta, maalaustaiteesta ja kirjallisuudesta.
ellauri041.html on line 1900: er så ligeså go’
ellauri041.html on line 1937: It’s difficult to reconcile corpse disposal with typical teen awkward-boner gags. In American lamestream programming, they belong to different genres. That’s where the “dark” half of the comedy comes from, and it’s not a mode that necessarily suits the show – at least not all of the time.
ellauri041.html on line 1945: The non-English origins shouldn’t be off-putting, as Netflix’s usual wide array of language options includes both the original, subtitled Catalan, as well as several voiceovers.
ellauri042.html on line 212: What’s missing from this chart is just as important
ellauri042.html on line 214: Yet despite our small biomass among animals, we’ve had an overwhelmingly huge impact on the planet. The chart above represents a massive amount of life. But it doesn’t show what’s gone missing since the human population took off.
ellauri042.html on line 216: The authors of the PNAS article estimate that the mass of wild land mammals is seven times lower than it was before humans arrived (keep in mind it’s difficult to estimate the exact history of the number of animals on Earth). Similarly, marine mammals, including whales, are a fifth of the weight they used to be because we’ve hunted so many to near extinction.
ellauri042.html on line 220: The census in the PNAS paper isn’t perfect. Though remote sensing, satellites, and huge efforts to study the distribution of life in the ocean make it easier than ever to come up with estimates, the authors admit there’s still a lot of uncertainty. But we do need a baseline understanding of the distribution of life on Earth. Millions of acres of forests are still lost every year. Animals are going extinct 1,000 to 10,000 faster than you’d expect if no humans lived on Earth. Sixty percent of primate species, our closest relatives on the tree of life, are threatened with extinction.
ellauri042.html on line 467: Ved at hjælp af det enkle og effektfulde greb at erstatte substantivet ’far’ med det overjordiske og almægtige ’Gud’ får Blendstrup den distance, der skal til for at kunne skrive et uforbeholdent og umiddelbart portræt af sin forgudede far. Samtidig skaber referencen til de højere magter en finurlig humoristisk effekt:
ellauri042.html on line 475: Blendstrups sprogsnilde og nænsomme registreringer gør Gud taler ud til en latterforløsende beretning om et svigefuldt, grænseoverskridende overmenneske, som dog også leverer et stort engagement og nærvær i livet og sin familie. Og kan bogen ikke læses som et opgør eller en forsoning, kan den i stedet forstås som et forsøg på at videreføre arven efter faren eller måske endda at levendegøre ham post mortem ved at lade ham låne sønnens stemme. I en af romanens afsluttende scener, hvor faderen som en følge af sygdommen har mistet stemmen, assisterer sønnen Jens ham ved at lade ham låne sin egen. Faren har skrevet en tale til en familiefest, og Jens stiller sig bag ham med et lagen over hovedet og læser talen højt, imiterende farens stemme, og imens sidder faren på sin stol og mimer med. Romanen ligner en videreførelse af dette eksperiment, hvor Jens iklæder sig nogle sproglige gevandter, der tillader ham at agere sin fars stemme. Og arven efter faren kommer stærkt til udtryk i Jens’ finurlige fikumdikken rundt med sproget.
ellauri042.html on line 477: Romanen blev et gennembrud for Blendstrup, der før Gud taler ud skrev i kortere genrer. Han debuterede med novellesamlingen Mennesker i en mistbænk i 1994. Blendstrups tone er bramfri, men blandet med en fin følsomhed over for det nære. Humoren, det groteske og det surrealistiske går igen i Blendstrups forfatterskab. Jens Blendstrup har siden Gud taler ud skrevet både noveller, romaner, dramatik og tekster til Frodegruppen 40, som han også er forsanger i. Han tager den selvbiografiske fortælling op igen med romanen Bombaygryde fra 2010. Sammen med litteraturkritikeren Lars Bukdahl optræder Blendstrup med den unikke genre ’litterær hypnose’, som er en blanding af dilettantkomedie, oplæsning og dans. Blendstrup er blevet kaldt litteraturens pølsemand, og som en del af forfatterskabets eksistentielle komik står han ikke tilbage for at læse sine tekster højt med en tehætte på hovedet. Men med Gud taler ud står Jens Blendstrup også tydeligt frem som villavejsvidne, hvor det almindelige skildres i dets mange facetter, og det, der på overfladen ligner et almindeligt, rutinepræget liv i et almindeligt, rutinepræget forstadskvarter, viser sig at rumme både små og store særheder.
ellauri042.html on line 568: Sacksin vanhempien mielenkiinto osoitti kuitenkin lääketieteeseen ja niinpä hän suoritti lääketieteen opinnot Oxfordin Queen’s Collegessa. Vuonna 1960 hän oli lomalla Kanadassa ja lähetti sieltä vanhemmille sähkeen, jossa oli lyhyt viesti: ”Jään tänne”. Kein Wunder.
ellauri042.html on line 708: During repeated trips to many European cities in the years 1862–1865, Dostoevsky got to know the complacence and arrogance of the aristocratic European ‘Bourgeoisie’. These experiences strengthened his slavophilic attitude and explain his xenophilia.
ellauri042.html on line 804: Euclid’s fifth proposition in the first book of his Elements (that the base angles in an isosceles triangle are equal) may have been named the Bridge of Asses (Latin: Pons Asinorum) for medieval students who, clearly not destined to cross over into more abstract mathematics, had difficulty understanding the proof—or even the need for the proof. An alternative name for this famous theorem was Elefuga, which Roger Bacon, writing circa ad 1250, derived from Greek words indicating “escape from misery.” Medieval schoolboys did not usually go beyond the Bridge of Asses, which thus marked their last obstruction before liberation from the Elements.
ellauri042.html on line 813: In the meantime Ollie had published not one but two memoirs, with an exhaustive range of anecdotes, full of enchantment and anguish, covering everything from his all-consuming childhood obsession with the properties of metals to the abuse he endured at boarding school to his feeling, amphibian-like, more at home in water than on land to his mother’s reaction when she discovered his sexual orientation. “You are an abomination,” Ollie recounted her telling him when he was 18. “I wish you had never been born.” Nor had Ollie kept anything hidden. He described his first orgasm — reached spontaneously while floating in a swimming pool — and, in deft yet fairly pornographic detail, an agonized, inadvertent climax experienced much later while giving a massage to a man who shunned Ollie’s love.
ellauri042.html on line 817: His moronic patients called him “deeply eccentric” and described him as “huge, a full beard, black leather jacket covering T-shirts riddled with holes, huge shoes, his trousers looking like they were going to slide off his body.” A friend from Sacks’s days as a medical resident remembers him as a “big, free-ranging animal” who one day “drank some blood … chasing it with milk. There was something about his need to cross taboos. Back in those days, in the early ’60s, he was heavily into drugs, downing whole handfuls of them, especially speed and LSD.”
ellauri042.html on line 937: John Donne is most commonly known for being part of the ‘metaphysical poets’, a group of poets who wrote about love and religion using complex metaphors called conceits. These poets didn’t know each other, and this name was given by literary critics some years later. Nevertheless, John Donne is considered to be one of the best metaphysical poets. John Donne converted to Anglicanism later in his life. By 1615 he became a priest because King James I ordered him to do so. Donne was a member of Parliament in 1601 and in 1614. He also spent a short time in prison because he married his wife, Anne More, without permission. They had twelve children and Anne died while extruding the XIIth.
ellauri042.html on line 975: The last sestet presents a turn, commonly referred as volta, in the poem. The lyrical voice presents god God as a jealous lover who fears that he/she will be tempted away by someone or something else. The ninth line questions this figure (“But why should I beg more love, whenas thou”). Furthermore, there is a romantic imagery to express how the lyrical voice feels about the figure of God (“whenas thou/Dost woo my soul”). God’s interest in the lyrical voice is referred as a “fear” and as “tender” because of the possibility of the lyrical voice being tempted by the “devil” or by “flesh”.
ellauri043.html on line 129: Pyhä Antonios on muun muassa Johanniittain ritarikunnan, amputoitujen, erakkojen, eläinten, epileptikkojen, teurastajien, kotieläinten, munkkien, ihotautien, ihottumien, taudeista vapautumisen, hautausmaiden, haudankaivajien, korientekijöiden, harjojentekijöiden ja paikkojen Burgio, Sisilia, Italia; Castrofilippo, Agrigento, Italia; Chiaravalle, Ancona, Italia; Fivizzano, Italia; Fontainemore, Italia; Mamoiada, Italia; Sant’Angelo Lodigiano, Italia; Mook, Alankomaat ja San Antonio, Ibiza, Espanja suojeluspyhimys. On siinä duunia. Ehkä ei sittenkään kanzi ruveta pyhimyxexi. Yhtä rauhallista on kuin julkkuerakkona.
ellauri043.html on line 4079: J’ai fui.
ellauri043.html on line 4481: pendants d’oreilles, de grands manteaux, les cheveux nattés,
ellauri043.html on line 4482: les joues fardées; une couronne d’olivier se ferme sur
ellauri043.html on line 4485: secouent des fouets à manche d’ébène, ayant
ellauri043.html on line 4486: trois lanières garnies d’osselets.
ellauri043.html on line 4509:

C’est
ellauri045.html on line 322: Armenialainen William Saroyan tiesi mistä narusta on vedettävä kirjottaessaan The Human Comedy nimisen propagandafilmin kässärin v 1943. Karseampaa americanaa ei voi kuvitella. It’s an America that probably no longer exists. In fact it never did, it's just propaganda.
ellauri045.html on line 324: Variety staff wrote that Saroyan’s “initial original screenplay is a brilliant sketch of the basic fundamentals of the American way of life, transferred to the screen with exceptional fidelity.” The New York Times critic Bosley Crowther chided the film for excessive sentimentality, saying it featured "some most maudlin gobs of cinematic goo."
ellauri045.html on line 330: Stephen Fry ei haluu politiikkaan. First, I would rather suck turds for a living. Secondly I can’t make my mind up on Big Issues. Stephen Fry on bipolaarinen homo ja juutalainen (oikealta eli äidin puolelta). Ainoa joka pystyy huijaamaan juutalaista on armenialainen. Ja kääntäen.
ellauri045.html on line 471: Jesenin saveaa saappaansa kuten naiset puuteroivat nenänsä ennen salonkeihin astumista, leukaili Majakovski Jeseninin talonpoikaisesta imagosta. Ja imago se olikin, pien päiväperho surviainen joka ei syönyt enää mitään mutta joi sitä enemmän. Kirjeissään itseään mordvalaiseksi kutsunut Jesenin oli kirjallisesti sivistynyt, perusti jopa kustantamon, oli neljästi naimisissa ja matkusteli aina Amerikkaa myöten kolmannen vaimonsa tanssijatar Isadora Duncanin mukana. Isadora oli Serjozhaa parikytä vuotta vanhempi. Jeseninin Musta mies (ei pidä sekoittaa sarjoihin Men in Black eikä Lostin hahmoon Mies mustissa, joka tunnetaan myös nimillä Musta-asuinen mies, Veli ja savuhirviö, joka on kuvitteellinen hahmo televisiosarjassa Lost. Hahmoa esittävät Titus Welliver ja Terry O’Quinn) kertoo Isadorasta. Yhdellä pululla hävis Serjozha Sale Palkeelle ja Hannu Mäkelälle, niinkuin Kikka nuoremmille siskoille. Lisää kts. erillinen tietolaatikko.
ellauri046.html on line 373: Ancient Tragedy And The Modern: Modern drama doesn’t understand suffering quite like ancient drama did.

ellauri046.html on line 460: Coma Berenices, or Berenice’s Hair, is a constellation in the northern sky. It was named after the Queen Berenice II of Egypt. The constellation is home to the North Galactic Pole.
ellauri046.html on line 462: The Greek astronomer Ptolemy considered Coma Berenices to be an asterism in the constellation Leo, representing the tuft at the end of the lion’s tail, and it was not until the 16th century that Berenice’s Hair was promoted to a constellation in its own right, on a celestial globe by the cartographer Caspar Vopel. It is the Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe who is usually credited for the promotion. He included Coma Berenices among the constellations in his star catalogue of 1602.
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No siis mix? Mikä on sen argumentti? Ei oikeen selviä mut Sörkan tuntien jotain kummaa. L’un des auteurs dramatiques les plus joués du XIXe siècle, en France comme dans le reste du monde, Eugène Scribe a été élu à l’Académie française en 1834. La célébrité dont il a joui de son vivant contraste singulièrement avec l'oubli total dans lequel son œuvre est tombée de nos jours. höpöhöpöä takuulla. Se on eri sairas epeli. Niinku ezen miälestä on hienoa et naiset on miehille alamaisia ja et synnytys on niille kipeää. Vitun ääliö.
ellauri046.html on line 790: If Apollo should e’er his assistance refuse,
ellauri047.html on line 292: Umfasst’ ich sie im Hayn; sie sprach:
ellauri047.html on line 294: Da droht’ ich trozzig: Ha, ich will
ellauri047.html on line 372: O Lieb’ o Liebe,
ellauri047.html on line 383: Wie lieb’ ich dich!
ellauri047.html on line 501: Zu dem ew’gen Ocean,
ellauri047.html on line 508: Gier’ger Sand, die Sonne droben
ellauri047.html on line 976: Nykyisen Saksan alueen valtiot yhdistyivät Preussin johdolla Saksan keisarikunta -nimiseksi valtioksi 18. tammikuuta 1871 Ranskassa Versailles’n palatsin Peilisalissa, johon Saksan ruhtinaat olivat kokoontuneet julistamaan Preussin kuningas Vilhelm I:n Saksan keisariksi. Tää seuras toista sotamenestystä, ranskalaiset lopulisesti nöyryyttänyttä sotaa. Joskus sitä voittaa, joskus häviää. Vitun Versailles,se pitäis räjäyttää kuin WTC:n tornit, ja HS:n lasilaatikko.
ellauri048.html on line 423: ja jok’ on kärsinyt niin paljon, että
ellauri048.html on line 582: pien’ lintu sävelsuu.
ellauri048.html on line 595: Pien’, soma leppäkerttukin
ellauri048.html on line 733: Sale siteeraa William Blaken helkkarin sananlaskuja: ‘the tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction’. Typerää obskurantismia.
ellauri048.html on line 1878: No, Polish Cavalry Never Attacked Nazi Tanks, Irate Poland Tells ‘Mad Money’ Host
ellauri048.html on line 1879: The Polish Embassy slammed a CNBC segment, saying it ‘recycled Nazi propaganda.’
ellauri048.html on line 1881: On May 11 2017, Mad Money host Jim Cramer compared the struggling department store Macy’s to Poland’s early efforts against the German Wehrmacht in World War II. “Macy’s is like the Polish Army in WWII — it tried to field cavalry against German tanks and it did not end well,” he said.
ellauri048.html on line 1886: The problem is that never actually happened, and it’s become a huge sore spot for Poland ever since.
ellauri048.html on line 1892: But Nazi propagandists spun this battle and other encounters with Polish cavalry — horse was a big component of the Polish army — as vindication of the Wehrmacht’s technical modernity and tactical superiority.
ellauri048.html on line 1899: Mad Money did not immediately respond to Foreign Policy’s request for comment.
ellauri049.html on line 317: Elle n’avait gardé que ses bijoux sonores, sillä oli päällä vaan sen helisevät helyt;
ellauri049.html on line 318: Dont le riche attirail lui donnait l’air vainqueur niiden komeus korosti sen valloittajan elkeitä,
ellauri049.html on line 319: Qu’ont dans leurs jours heureux les esclaves des Mores. kuin maureilla jotka hommat hoidettua sai mennä.
ellauri049.html on line 323: Me ravit en extase, et j’aime à la fureur se hurmaa mut extaasiin kuin oopiumi
ellauri049.html on line 327: Et du haut du divan elle souriait d’aise kanapeeltä se mulle hymys leppeästi,
ellauri049.html on line 332: D’un air vague et rêveur elle essayait des poses, löysän unexivan oloisena se vaihtoi asentoja,
ellauri049.html on line 337: Polis comme de l’huile, onduleux comme un cygne, öljynsileät, mutkalla kuin joutsenella,
ellauri049.html on line 341: S’avançaient, plus câlins que les Anges du mal, Eteni pahanilkisemmin kuin musta enkeli,
ellauri049.html on line 344: Où, calme et solitaire, elle s’était assise. irrotti sen esasta istumalla naamalle.
ellauri049.html on line 347: Les hanches de l’Antiope au buste d’un imberbe, antiloopin lonkat parrattomalla teinillä
ellauri049.html on line 351: — Et la lampe s’étant résignée à mourir, - Ja kun lampetti oli alistunut kuolemaan
ellauri049.html on line 353: Chaque fois qu’il poussait un flamboyant soupir, joka kerta kun se hengähti tulisena,
ellauri049.html on line 354: Il inondait de sang cette peau couleur d’ambre ! se täytti verellä tän spermavalaan nahan!
ellauri049.html on line 386: Suomentajana Sarkia oli menestyksekäs, ja eritoten hänen käännöksensä Arthur Rimbaud’n runosta Le Bateau Ivre eli ”Humaltunut venhe” saavutti jakamattoman tunnustuksen ja suuren suosion (lähde?). Teoksen ovat kääntäneet myös Tuomas Anhava nimellä ”Juopunut pursi” sekä Einari Aaltonen nimellä ”Känninen paatti”. Kuitenkin Sarkia saavutti runon oikean rytmin, saman jolla vene heilahtelee aalloilla kuin juopunut ikään (lähde?).Munkin pitäs yrittää, mikähän nimexi? Päihtynyt alus? Sitä ei ole vielä käytetty. Ei, siitä tuli Ruozinlautalla.
ellauri049.html on line 388: Jean Nicolas Arthur Rimbaud (20. lokakuuta 1854 Charleville – 10. marraskuuta 1891 Marseille) oli ranskalainen runoilija. Hän oli kirjallisuudessa harvinainen ”lapsinero”, jonka tuotanto syntyi teini-iässä. Vaikka Rimbaud lopetti kirjoittamisen jo 21-vuotiaana, hän oli siihen mennessä mullistanut maailmanrunouden tuotannollaan, vaikka kesti jonkin aikaa ennen kuin Rimbaud’n tuotanto löydettiin. Häntä pidetään Charles Baudelairen ohella toisena suurena runouden modernisoijana.
ellauri049.html on line 390: Rimbaud varttui Charlevillessä Ardennesin alueella Koillis-Ranskassa. Hänen isänsä oli sotilas ja äiti paikallisen viljelijän tytär. Isä vietti vain vähän aikaa perheensä kanssa ja hylkäsi sen lopulta kokonaan. Rimbaud’n kasvatti ankaran uskonnollinen äiti. Rimbaud pärjäsi koulussa erittäin hyvin, erityisesti kirjallisuudessa. Saksan–Ranskan sota alkoi heinäkuussa 1870 ja Rimbaud’n käymä koulu suljettiin. Elokuussa Rimbaud karkasi kotoaan Pariisiin, mutta hänet pidätettiin liputta matkustamisesta ja hän vietti jonkin aikaa vangittuna. Vapauduttuaan Rimbaud kierteli useiden kuukausien ajan Ranskaa ja Belgiaa, kunnes poliisi palautti hänet kotiin. Helmikuussa 1871 Rimbaud lähti jälleen Pariisiin ja värväytyi vapaaehtoisena Pariisin kommuunin joukkoihin. Hän palasi kotiin kolmen viikon kuluttua juuri ennen kommuunin joukkojen tukahduttamista.
ellauri049.html on line 392: Elokuussa 1871 Rimbaud lähetti töitään runoilija Paul Verlainelle, joka kutsui hänet Pariisiin. Rimbaud saapui kaupunkiin syyskuussa 1871 ja vietti kolme kuukautta Verlainen ja tämän vaimon luona. Rimbaud’n ja Verlainen välille muodostui suhde, joka aiheutti skandaalin. Rimbaud palasi Charlevilleen maaliskuussa 1872, mutta Verlaine kutsui hänet takaisin Pariisiin jo toukokuussa. Heinäkuussa Verlaine jätti perheensä ja muutti Rimbaud’n kanssa Lontooseen, missä he viettivät seuraavan talven. Huhtikuussa 1873 Rimbaud jätti mieleltään järkkyneen Verlainen ja palasi kotitilalleen Ranskaan, missä hän kirjoitti teoksensa Kausi helvetissä. Samana vuonna Verlaine ja Rimbaud tapasivat vielä Lontoossa ja Brysselissä, missä Verlaine ampui Rimbaudia ja sai kahden vuoden vankeustuomion.
ellauri049.html on line 396: Afrikassa Rimbaud’n oikea polvi kipeytyi, ja siihen kehittyi syöpä. Sairauden takia hän joutui palaamaan Ranskaan 9. toukokuuta 1891. Jalka amputoitiin 27. toukokuuta 1891. Hän asettui Marseilleen, jossa kuoli 10. marraskuuta 1891. Hui! mullakin on polvi kipeä, ja lonkka. Onkohan niihin kehittynyt syöpä? Jo lapsena mä olin hirmu luulosairas, ja samanlainen vielä vanhuxena. Inhoon lääkäreitä ja lääkkeitä.
ellauri049.html on line 413: J’étais insoucieux de tous les équipages, Mä vähät välitin matkalaukuista,
ellauri049.html on line 416: Les Fleuves m’ont laissé descendre où je voulais. kosket vie mua minne huvittaa.
ellauri049.html on line 419: Moi, l’autre hiver, plus sourd que les cerveaux d’enfants, mä, toinen talvi, mykempi lasten aivoja,
ellauri049.html on line 421: N’ont pas subi tohu-bohus plus triomphants. ei ole kärsineet voitokkaampaa mekkalaa.
ellauri049.html on line 424: Plus léger qu’un bouchon j’ai dansé sur les flots kuin pieni pyppeli, hypin aalloilla
ellauri049.html on line 425: Qu’on appelle rouleurs éternels de victimes, pokien keikuttavilla ikimainingeilla,
ellauri049.html on line 426: Dix nuits, sans regretter l’oeil niais des falots ! 10 yötä, piittaamatta perälyhdyistä.
ellauri049.html on line 428: Plus douce qu’aux enfants la chair des pommes sûres, Suloisempana kuin kakaroille hapanomenat,
ellauri049.html on line 429: L’eau verte pénétra ma coque de sapin vihreä vesi tunki mun kuusipuiseen kokkaan,
ellauri049.html on line 434: De la Mer, infusé d’astres, et lactescent, runojen, tähtiseen ja maitomaiseen
ellauri049.html on line 440: Plus fortes que l’alcool, plus vastes que nos lyres, vahvemmat kuin viina, isommat kuin viulut,
ellauri049.html on line 441: Fermentent les rousseurs amères de l’amour ! käyvät rakkauden punaiset katkerot!
ellauri049.html on line 445: L’Aube exaltée ainsi qu’un peuple de colombes, korkean sarastuxen kuin suvun puluja,
ellauri049.html on line 446: Et j’ai vu quelquefois ce que l’homme a cru voir ! ja oon nähnyt mitä jotkut luulee nähneensä!
ellauri049.html on line 448: J’ai vu le soleil bas, taché d’horreurs mystiques, Mä olen nähnyt päivänlaskun mystisen,
ellauri049.html on line 453: J’ai rêvé la nuit verte aux neiges éblouies, Oon unexinut vihreän yön valkoisilla lumilla
ellauri049.html on line 456: Et l’éveil jaune et bleu des phosphores chanteurs ! ja loisteen laulavan Ruozin väreissä!
ellauri049.html on line 458: J’ai suivi, des mois pleins, pareille aux vacheries Olen seurannut kuukausimäärin hyrskyjä
ellauri049.html on line 459: Hystériques, la houle à l’assaut des récifs, karikoiden kimpussa kuin hullu nautalauma,
ellauri049.html on line 463: J’ai heurté, savez-vous, d’incroyables Florides Olen törmännyt, tiäzä, uskomattomiin Floridoihin
ellauri049.html on line 465: D’hommes ! Des arcs-en-ciel tendus comme des brides Sateenkaaret jännitettyinä kuin suizet
ellauri049.html on line 466: Sous l’horizon des mers, à de glauques troupeaux ! merihorisontin alla harmaisiin laumoihin!
ellauri049.html on line 468: J’ai vu fermenter les marais énormes, nasses Oon nähnyt jättisoita käymistilassa, mertoja,
ellauri049.html on line 470: Des écroulements d’eaux au milieu des bonaces, Vetten romahtavan keskellä rasvatyyniä,
ellauri049.html on line 473: Glaciers, soleils d’argent, flots nacreux, cieux de braises ! Jäätiköitä, hopeisia aurinkoja, ties mitä!
ellauri049.html on line 478: J’aurais voulu montrer aux enfants ces dorades Olisin halunnut näyttää lapsille nää bassit
ellauri049.html on line 479: Du flot bleu, ces poissons d’or, ces poissons chantants. sinisen meren kultakalat, kalat laulavat.
ellauri049.html on line 481: Et d’ineffables vents m’ont ailé par instants. sanomattomat tuulet siivitti mut hetkessä.
ellauri049.html on line 485: Montait vers moi ses fleurs d’ombre aux ventouses jaunes väliin näytti mulle keltakuppiset varjokukat
ellauri049.html on line 486: Et je restais, ainsi qu’une femme à genoux… ja mä jäin, kuin nainen polvilteen... ;)
ellauri049.html on line 489: Et les fientes d’oiseaux clabaudeurs aux yeux blonds. valkosilmäisten rääkyvien lintujen kakkoja
ellauri049.html on line 490: Et je voguais, lorsqu’à travers mes liens frêles ja ma lainehdin, kunnes mun hauraita köysiä
ellauri049.html on line 494: Jeté par l’ouragan dans l’éther sans oiseau, hirmumyrskyn heittämänä etteriin ilman lintua,
ellauri049.html on line 496: N’auraient pas repêché la carcasse ivre d’eau ; ei olisi vaivautuneet kalastamaan ylös kännissä;
ellauri049.html on line 501: Des lichens de soleil et des morves d’azur ; aurinkoisia sananjalkoja ja asuurisia räkäklunsseja.
ellauri049.html on line 511: Je regrette l’Europe aux anciens parapets ! suren Euroopan muinaisia kaiteita!
ellauri049.html on line 513: J’ai vu des archipels sidéraux ! et des îles Olen nähnyt tähtien saaristoja! ja saaria,
ellauri049.html on line 515: – Est-ce en ces nuits sans fonds que tu dors et t’exiles, - näissäkö pohjattomissa öissä mis nukut maanpaossa,
ellauri049.html on line 516: Million d’oiseaux d’or, ô future Vigueur ? on miljoona kultalintua, haloo voimamies in spe?
ellauri049.html on line 518: Mais, vrai, j’ai trop pleuré ! Les Aubes sont navrantes. Totta mooses, liikaa olen itkenyt! Sarastus
ellauri049.html on line 520: L’âcre amour m’a gonflé de torpeurs enivrantes. Hapan rakkaus on pullistanut mut juoppounesta.
ellauri049.html on line 521: Ô que ma quille éclate ! Ô que j’aille à la mer ! Räjähtäis mun kynä! Jos menisinkin mereen!
ellauri049.html on line 523: Si je désire une eau d’Europe, c’est la flache Jos jotain vettä tekee mieli Euroopassa,
ellauri049.html on line 530: Ni traverser l’orgueil des drapeaux et des flammes, en lyödä lippujen ja suuliekkien ylpeyttä
ellauri049.html on line 543: Total Eclipse (vuoden 2010 televisioesityksessä Total Eclipse – kielletyt tunteet) on vuonna 1995 ensi-iltansa saanut draamaelokuva ranskalaisten runoilijoiden Arthur Rimbaud’n ja Paul Verlainen homoseksuaalisesta suhteesta. Elokuvan on ohjannut Agnieszka Holland ja pääosia näyttelevät Leonardo DiCaprio ja David Thewlis. Tässäkin kuten tosielämässä Rimpautus on söpömpänä tähti osassa.
ellauri049.html on line 558: Chanson d’automne Syyslaulu Syyslukukaudella
ellauri049.html on line 563: De l’automne riipii sydäntäni, syyslukukaudella
ellauri049.html on line 565: D’une langueur pitkästyxellä:
ellauri049.html on line 570: Sonne l’heure, ja kello lyö. kello soi,
ellauri049.html on line 575: Et je m’en vais raakaan tuuleen Ja mä meen
ellauri049.html on line 577: Qui m’emporte sinne tänne poukkoilen joka kuljettaa
ellauri049.html on line 633: Vuonna 1866 Parnassossa ilmestyi kymmenen Mallarmén runoa, muun muassa runon ”Brise marine” (Merituuli). Hän kirjoitti myös runomuotoista näytelmää Hérodiade, joka jäi kuitenkin keskeneräiseksi. Sille läheistä sukua on pitkä rooliruno ”Faunin iltapäivä” (L’après-midi d’un faune, 1876).
ellauri049.html on line 635: Mallarmé suunnitteli pitkään suurta teosta, Kirjaa isolla K:lla, josta hän kertoi kirjeenvaihdossaan ystävilleen. Tätä suurteosta hän ei kuitenkaan koskaan julkaissut. Siitä on jäljellä vain katkelmia, joista Jacques Scherer on toimittanut kokoelman Le ’Livre’ de Mallarmé (1957/1977). ”Kirjan” piti olla kaikkien kirjojen hyperbola ja sen tarkoitus oli kattaa koko kaikkeus. Mallarmén kuningasajatus on, että ”Maailma on olemassa päätyäkseen Kirjaan.” (Le monde existe pour aboutir à un Livre). Selvä narsisti.
ellauri049.html on line 637: Paul Valéry välitti luennoissaan Mallarmén ajatuksia Kirjasta, josta Maurice Blanchot sai ajatuksia teoksiinsa Kirjallinen avaruus (1955) ja Le livre à venir (1959, Tulevaisuuden kirja). Mallarmén ja Lautréamont’n runokielen uudistus on aiheena myös Julia Kristevan väitöskirjassa La révolution du language poétique (Runokielen vallankumous, 1969). Jean-Paul Sartren postuumisti ilmestyneessä teoksessa Mallarmé. La lucidité et sa face d’ombre (Mallarmé. Älyn kirkkaus ja sen varjopuoli, 1986) Sartre korottaa Mallarmén runoilijaksi ylitse muiden. Mallarmé on suuresti vaikuttanut myös muihin ranskalaisiin ajattelijoihin, kuten Roland Barthesiin, Jacques Derridaan, Michel Foucault'hon ja Jacques Lacaniin.
ellauri049.html on line 639: Mallarmén tunnetuimpia teoksia ovat Faunin iltapäivä (1876, suom. Einari Aaltonen (2006), Divagations (Harhautumia, 1897) ja Un coup de dés jamais n’abolira le hasard (Yksi nopanheitto ei milloinkaan poista sattumaa, 1897) sekä postuumisti ilmestynyt Igitur (1925). Mallarmélla oli vaimo ja 2 lasta. Mitähän sen vaimo tykkäsi tosta faunirunosta. No ehkä sillä oli oma rölli vaatekaapissa.
ellauri049.html on line 716: C’est une mer, un Lac blême, maculé d’îles Se on meri, järvi kalpea, saarten täplittämä,
ellauri049.html on line 718: Qui troublent l’eau sinistre et qui claquent des dents. jotka sotkee uhkaavaa vettä louskuttaen leukojaan.
ellauri049.html on line 721: Sort de la fange chaude et de l’herbe qui fume, lähtee sen kuumasta kidasta, ruovikosta
ellauri049.html on line 722: Et dans l’air alourdi vibre par millions ; ja tanssii raskaassa ilmassa ziljoonittain;
ellauri049.html on line 724: À travers l’épaisseur de la broussaille noire, läpi mustan pusikkoisen tiheikön
ellauri049.html on line 726: À l’heure où le désert sommeille, viennent boire ; aavikon nukkumaanmenoaikaan tulee juomaan;
ellauri049.html on line 728: De soif et de plaisir, et ceux-ci d’un pas lent, janosta ja mielihyvästä, leijonat tassuttaa
ellauri049.html on line 729: Dédaigneux d’éveiller les reptiles voraces, haluttomina herättämään ahnaita matelijoita
ellauri049.html on line 730: Ou d’entendre, parmi le fouillis des roseaux, tai kuulemaan ruovikon ryteikön seasta
ellauri049.html on line 731: L’hippopotame obèse aux palpitants naseaux, ylipainoista virtahepoa nenänreijät suurina
ellauri049.html on line 733: Mêle la vase infecte à l’écume des eaux. sotkee vaahdoxi saastuneen rannan vesiä.
ellauri049.html on line 738: Tord les muscles noueux de l’immuable tronc pullistelee runkonsa kuhmuraista habaa
ellauri049.html on line 739: Et prolonge l’informe ampleur de sa ramure ja kohottaa oxistonsa niskakuontaloa,
ellauri049.html on line 740: Qu’aucun vent furieux ne courbe ni ne rompt, jota ei mikään tuuli taivuta tai taita,
ellauri049.html on line 741: Mais qu’il emplit parfois d’un vague et long murmure. enintään nostattaa epämääräistä muminaa.
ellauri049.html on line 743: Saturé d’âcre arome et d’odeurs insalubres, piikittämässä, happamen kitkerässä lemussa,
ellauri049.html on line 761: Valéryn isä oli alkuperältään korsikalainen ja äiti yhdistyneen Italian Genovasta. Perusopetuksensa Paul Valéry sai dominikaanien veljien opetuksessa Sètessä ja kävi lyseon Montpellier’ssa. Siellä hän myös aloitti oikeustieteen opintonsa vuonna 1889. Samoihin aikoihin hän julkaisi ensimmäiset runonsa Revue maritime de Marseille -lehdessä. Nuo ensimmäiset kirjalliset saavutukset voidaan luokitella symbolistiseen kirjallisuuden suuntaukseen. Hizi että näitä oikislaisia on runoilijoissa kuin Vilkkilässä kissoja! Jönsinkin piti jatkaa Pojun saappaissa, mutta perse ei kestänyt istumista lakikirjan ääressä.
ellauri049.html on line 803: Μή, φίλα ψυχά, βίον ἀθάνατον σπεῦδε, τὰν δ’ ἔμπρακτον ἄντλεῖ μαχανάν. Älä hyvä sielu vonkaa kuolematonta elämää, kauho käytännöllisesti.
ellauri049.html on line 811: Qu’un long regard sur le calme des dieux ! pitkä silmäys jumalien tyveneen!
ellauri049.html on line 814: Maint diamant d’imperceptible écume, monta tuskin havaittavan aavan timanttia,
ellauri049.html on line 816: Quand sur l’abîme un soleil se repose, Kun syvyyden päällä lepää aurinko,
ellauri049.html on line 817: Ouvrages purs d’une éternelle cause, iankaikkisen syyn puhtaat saavutuxet,
ellauri049.html on line 825: Ô mon silence !… Édifice dans l’âme, Mun hiljaisuus! ... Rakennelma sielussa,
ellauri049.html on line 826: Mais comble d’or aux mille tuiles, Toit ! kultakukkura tuhattiilinen, katto!
ellauri049.html on line 828: Temple du Temps, qu’un seul soupir résume, Ajan pyhäkkö, jonka alkaa 1 ainut huokaus,
ellauri049.html on line 829: À ce point pur je monte et m’accoutume, tähän puhtaaseen pisteesen noustua alan tottua,
ellauri049.html on line 833: Sur l’altitude un dédain souverain. izevaltiaan välinpitämättömyyden.
ellauri049.html on line 839: Et le ciel chante à l’âme consumée ja taivas laulaa hiipuneelle sielulle
ellauri049.html on line 843: Après tant d’orgueil, après tant d’étrange Näin määrättömän ylpeyden, näin oudon
ellauri049.html on line 845: Je m’abandonne à ce brillant espace, heittäydyn tähän kirkkaaseen avaruuteen,
ellauri049.html on line 847: Qui m’apprivoise à son frêle mouvoir. totuttaen mut hauraaseen liikkeeseensä.
ellauri049.html on line 849: L’âme exposée aux torches du solstice, Sielu päivänseisauxen valokiilassa
ellauri049.html on line 854: Suppose d’ombre une morne moitié. varjosta ottaa kolkon puolikkaan.
ellauri049.html on line 857: Auprès d’un cœur, aux sources du poème, lähellä sydäntäni, runon lähteillä,
ellauri049.html on line 858: Entre le vide et l’événement pur, tyhjyyden ja puhtaan tapahtuman välissä,
ellauri049.html on line 859: J’attends l’écho de ma grandeur interne, odotan sisäisen suuruuteni kaikua,
ellauri049.html on line 861: Sonnant dans l’âme un creux toujours futur ! onttoa kohtaa sielussa, tulematonta!
ellauri049.html on line 867: Quel front l’attire à cette terre osseuse ? mikä naama vetää sitä tähän luutarhaan?
ellauri049.html on line 870: Fermé, sacré, plein d’un feu sans matière, Kiinni, pyhitetty, täynnä aineetonta tulta,
ellauri049.html on line 873: Composé d’or, de pierre et d’arbres sombres, Tehty kullasta, kivistä ja varjopuista,
ellauri049.html on line 875: Où tant de marbre est tremblant sur tant d’ombres ; Niin paljon marmoria niin varjossa;
ellauri049.html on line 878: Chienne splendide, écarte l’idolâtre ! Loistelias narttu, karkoita kuvainpalvoja!
ellauri049.html on line 885: Ici venu, l’avenir est paresse. Tähän tultua tulevaisuus on lepoa.
ellauri049.html on line 886: L’insecte net gratte la sécheresse ; Siisti hyönteinen nakertaa keloa;
ellauri049.html on line 887: Tout est brûlé, défait, reçu dans l’air kaikki on palanutta, rikki, haihtunut
ellauri049.html on line 889: La vie est vaste, étant ivre d’absence, Elämä on valtava, olemattomuuden humala,
ellauri049.html on line 890: Et l’amertume est douce, et l’esprit clair. katkeruus on suloista, henki altis.
ellauri049.html on line 899: Tu n’as que moi pour contenir tes craintes ! Sulla ei ole kuin mut hillizemässä pelkojasi!
ellauri049.html on line 908: L’argile rouge a bu la blanche espèce, punainen savi imi valkeen lajikkeen,
ellauri049.html on line 911: L’art personnel, les âmes singulières ? persoonalliset eleet, erikoiset sielut?
ellauri049.html on line 922: Qui n’aura plus ces couleurs de mensonge jossa ei ole enää näitä valheen värejä,
ellauri049.html on line 923: Qu’aux yeux de chair l’onde et l’or font ici ? jotka lihan silmille luo täällä vesi ja kulta?
ellauri049.html on line 940: N’est point pour vous qui dormez sous la table, ei ole teitä varten, jotka nukutte pöydän alla,
ellauri049.html on line 946: Qu’importe ! Il voit, il veut, il songe, il touche ! Mitä väliä! Se näkee, tahtoo, unexii ja koskee!
ellauri049.html on line 948: À ce vivant je vis d’appartenir ! tälle elävälle mä elän kuuluaxeni!
ellauri049.html on line 950: Zénon ! Cruel Zénon ! Zénon d’Élée ! Zenon! Zenonin julmetus! Elealainen!
ellauri049.html on line 951: M’as-tu percé de cette flèche ailée lävistitkö mut tällä siipinuolella
ellauri049.html on line 954: Le son m’enfante et la flèche me tue ! Ääni poikii mut ja nuoli tappaa!
ellauri049.html on line 956: Pour l’âme, Achille immobile à grands pas ! sielulle, Akilles harppoo paikallaan!
ellauri049.html on line 958: Non, non !… Debout ! Dans l’ère successive ! Ei, ei!... Ylös! seuraavaan aikakauteen!
ellauri049.html on line 963: Courons à l’onde en rejaillir vivant ! Juostaan aallokkoon taas elävänä roiskien!
ellauri049.html on line 969: Qui te remords l’étincelante queue ja puraiset taas säteilevää häntääsi,
ellauri049.html on line 973: L’air immense ouvre et referme mon livre, Valtava ilmavirta avaa ja sulkee kirjani,
ellauri049.html on line 976: Rompez, vagues ! Rompez d’eaux réjouies Hajottakaa, aallot! hajottakaa iloisilla vesillä
ellauri050.html on line 203: And silvern chatter the pale ports o’ the moon. ja kuun kalpeen sataman hopeiseen kilinään.
ellauri050.html on line 217: They clanged his chariot ’thwart a heaven, ne kolaroi sen sotavaunuun taivaalla,
ellauri050.html on line 218: Plashy with flying lightnings round the spurn o’ their feet:— Märkyreinä lentävien salamien kannuxet jaloissa:-
ellauri050.html on line 229: But still within the little children’s eyes Vaan sittenkin mieluummin pikku lasten silmissä
ellauri050.html on line 236: “Come then, ye other children, Nature’s—share "Tulkaa siis, te muut lapset, karizat ja kilit-
ellauri050.html on line 241: With our Lady-Mother’s vagrant tresses, luontoäidin sekaisissa hiuxissa,
ellauri050.html on line 250: Drew the bolt of Nature’s secrecies. näytin tulppaani luonnon salaisuuxille.
ellauri050.html on line 255: All that’s born or dies Kaikki joka syntyy tai kuolee
ellauri050.html on line 261: Round the day’s dead sanctities. päivän kuolleen raadon ympärille.
ellauri050.html on line 262: I laughed in the morning’s eyes. Mä nauroin aamun silmille.
ellauri050.html on line 270: In vain my teas were wet on Heaven’s grey cheek. Turhaan mun kyynel kastoi taivaan harmaata poskea.
ellauri050.html on line 277: The breasts o’ her tenderness: mulle lempeytensä utareet:
ellauri050.html on line 285: “Lo! naught contents thee, who content’st not Me.” "Kato! ei mikään kelpaa sulle mikä ei kelpaa mulle."
ellauri050.html on line 287: Naked I wait Thy love’s uplifted stroke! Nakuna mä odotan sun lemmen oikeata suoraa!
ellauri050.html on line 296: I stand amid the dust o’ the mounded years— mä seison kasautuneiden vuosien tomuläjässä,
ellauri050.html on line 311: Ah! must Thou char the wood ere Thou can’st limn with it? Äh! pitääx sun hiiltää puu ennenkuin sä piirrät sillä?
ellauri050.html on line 312: My freshness spent its wavering shower i’ the dust; Mun raikkaus tuhlas hennon virzasuihkun tomuun;
ellauri050.html on line 328: Whether man’s heart or life it be which yields Onkos se miehen sydän vai henki joka tuottaa
ellauri050.html on line 343: Of all man’s clotted clay the dingiest clot? kaikista aapan savipaakuista selkeästi paakuin?
ellauri050.html on line 350: But just that thou might’st seek it in My arms. vaan just six et sä putoisit mun syliin.
ellauri050.html on line 351: All which thy child’s mistake Kaikki minkä sä lapsellisesti
ellauri050.html on line 1068: wenn schon des Thau’s Tröstung Kun jo kasteen lohtu
ellauri051.html on line 516: Hän antoi ymmärtää, että hänellä oli vakava rakkaussuhde New Orleansissa asuvaan naiseen ja että hänellä olisi siellä kaikkiaan kuusi aviotonta lasta. Historioitsijat ovat todenneet, ettei väite naissuhteesta pidä paikkaansa. Tutkija Jean Luc Montaigne tarkentaa, että Whatmanin silloisen rakastajan nimi oli Jean Granouille, ei suinkaan Jeanine Granouille. Tämä nuorukainen, joka oli hugenottisaarnaajan ja orjan lapsi, oli vasta 26-vuotias, kun hän tutustui Whatmaniin. Jotkut halusivat puhdistaa Whatmanin maineen muuntamalla Jeanin Jeanineksi. Afrikkalaista alkuperää olevan rakastajattaren pitäminen oli huomattavasti hyväksytympää kuin mustan miesrakastajan pitäminen. Nykyisin pidetään selvänä, että juuri se runo heijastaa Whatmanin todellista suhdetta omaan seksuaalisuuteensa, mutta hän yritti peittää kiinnostustaan homokulttuuriin. Runossa ”Once I Pass’d Through A Populous City” hän muuttaa rakastettunsa sukupuolen naiseksi ennen runon julkaisemista. Ei ollut ainoa, ks. myös Marcel Proustin "tytöt". Antoivat ymmärtää ja ymmärsivät antaa.
ellauri051.html on line 3225: Du beau Phénix s’il meurt un soir Jos se kuolee illalla
ellauri051.html on line 3231: Et le regard qu’il me jeta ja kazoi mua
ellauri051.html on line 3242: Je suis le souverain d’Égypte Mä oon Egyptin yxinvaltias
ellauri051.html on line 3244: Si tu n’es pas l’amour unique jos sä et ole ainoo rakkaus
ellauri051.html on line 3246: Au tournant d’une rue brûlant Palavan kadun kulmassa
ellauri051.html on line 3252: C’était son regard d’inhumaine Sen epäinhimillinen silmänluonti
ellauri051.html on line 3254: Sortit saoule d’une taverne pää täynnä tulee kapakasta
ellauri051.html on line 3256: La fausseté de l’amour même falskixi ize rakkauden.
ellauri051.html on line 3258: Lorsqu’il fut de retour enfin Kun oli lopultakin kotimaassa
ellauri051.html on line 3261: Près d’un tapis de haute lisse Korkeiden kangaspuiden ääressä
ellauri051.html on line 3262: Sa femme attendait qu’il revînt sen vaimo odotti sen paluuta
ellauri051.html on line 3264: L’époux royal de Sacontale Shakuntalan kuningaspuoliso
ellauri051.html on line 3267: D’attente et d’amour yeux pâlis odotuxesta, silmät rakkaudesta haaleina
ellauri051.html on line 3270: J’ai pensé à ces rois heureux Mä ajattelin näitä lottovoittajia
ellauri051.html on line 3276: Regrets sur quoi l’enfer se fonde Katumus johon perustuu helvetti
ellauri051.html on line 3277: Qu’un ciel d’oubli s’ouvre à mes voeux Auetkoon unohduxen taivas mun pyynnöstä
ellauri051.html on line 3282: J’ai hiverné dans mon passé Mä oon nukkunut talviunta menneisyydessä
ellauri051.html on line 3295: Avec la femme qui s’éloigne etääntyvän naisen kaa
ellauri051.html on line 3296: Avec celle que j’ai perdue sen jonka olen menettänyt
ellauri051.html on line 3297: L’année dernière en Allemagne viime vuonna Saxassa
ellauri051.html on line 3303: Nageurs morts suivrons-nous d’ahan Kuolleet uimarit seurataan ähräten
ellauri051.html on line 3304: Ton cours vers d’autres nébuleuses sun kulkua kohti muita tähtisumuja.
ellauri051.html on line 3306: Je me souviens d’une autre année Muistelen yhtä toista vuotta
ellauri051.html on line 3307: C’était l’aube d’un jour d’avril Oli huhtikuun päivän aamunkoi
ellauri051.html on line 3308: J’ai chanté ma joie bien-aimée Mä lauloin hyvin rakastetun iloni
ellauri051.html on line 3309: Chanté l’amour à voix virile Lauloin rakkautta viriilillä äänellä
ellauri051.html on line 3310: Au moment d’amour de l’année vuoden rakkaimpana hetkenä.
ellauri052.html on line 83: In his survey of Bellow’s work, Philip Roth writes of Herzog, “In all of literature, I know of no more emotionally susceptible male, of no man who brings a greater focus or intensity to engagement with women than this Herzog,” a man “as lavish in describing the generous mistress as Renoir.” No siinä on pukki kaalimaan vartijana, Roth on mikäli mahdollista pahempi narsisti kuin Sale.
ellauri052.html on line 85: I find this judgement troubling. Certainly, one can agree that Herzog is lavish and intense. But through his eyes, we see women as very peculiar creatures. We meet a devotee of sex in Herzog’s lover, Ramona, the sad, enigmatic, emotionless pencils that are Valentine’s wife and Herzog’s first wife, and the castrating sex bomb that is Madeline. Very rarely do we feel that these characterisations are different from these characters’ reality—the novel seems to suggest that these women really are as limited as Herzog sees them.
ellauri052.html on line 87: And what is more regrettable still is how these same types reappear in Humboldt’s Gift. Citrine encounters three kinds of women in his travels: his lover Renata, a deceitful sexual priestess, Denise, his cold, hate-filled ex-wife, and a variety of leggy, doe-eyed students and secretaries.
ellauri052.html on line 89: Harold Bloom is right to dismiss Bellow’s female characters of the later novels as “third-rate pipe dreams.” When a reader, holding Humboldt’s Gift in his hands, looks back at Augie March, the journey Saul Bellow has taken in his depiction of people is a very sad one. There is no way to compare the daring, principled Mimi Villars, Augie March’s one equal in oration, to the simple Ramona (Herzog), or to the comically shallow Renata (Humboldt’s Gift). Where is a woman equal to Augie’s Thea in these later books?
ellauri052.html on line 91: And the male cast goes on a similar, if less marked, decline. Cantabile in Humboldt’s Gift is a hilariously manic plot device, but as an individual he no offers no comparison at all to the volcanic ambitions, peculiar code of honour, and suicidal longings of Simon, Augie March’s elder brother.
ellauri052.html on line 93: It seems that as Bellow re-focused his lens on thought, and a main character’s deliberations over it, the fictional world around that central character darkened and cheapened. As the narrator / protagonist’s internal action grows, around him warmth and depth shrinks, until, by Humboldt’s Gift, it is clear that on a mental level, Citrine is utterly alone.
ellauri052.html on line 97: The novels remain staggering for their invention, their comedy, their culture, and their mingling of riotous squalor with the precepts of a course in philosophy. Bellow writes with a genius that is hard to fathom. Readers may, however, feel troubled by the books’ frequent difficulty in forming a coherent whole.
ellauri052.html on line 104: Bellow’s most merciless and eviscerating tormenter was his third wife, Susan Glassman, who defeated him in a long, acrimonious and expensive divorce suit. In 1974, after he had fraudulently misrepresented his projected income, the court, hostile to a successful Jewish intellectual, “ordered him to pay Susan $2,500 a month in alimony, backdated to 1968, plus $600 a month child support, plus lawyers’ fees.” Ignoring his own lawyer’s sound advice to settle the case, he surrendered to a self-destructive impulse, continued to appeal and deliberately prolonged his agony.
ellauri052.html on line 112: Leader defines Bellow’s recurrent themes as “the relative claims of life and work, the intensity of childhood experience, sexual insecurity.” He could have added Jewish life and identity, the perils of matrimony and the defects of modern civilisation.
ellauri052.html on line 118: Reports of his teaching ranged from “he was a dud, all he did was read from Erich Auerbach’s Mimesis” to “his seminar was amazing, as you’d imagine.” He was most effective with students who could follow and respond to his intellectual fireworks.
ellauri052.html on line 216: A sweetness intimate as the water’s clasp,
ellauri052.html on line 224: In the naked bed, in Plato’s cave,
ellauri052.html on line 233: Hearing the milkman’s chop,
ellauri052.html on line 234: His striving up the stair, the bottle’s chink,
ellauri052.html on line 238: The street-lamp’s vigil and the horse’s patience.
ellauri052.html on line 239: The winter sky’s pure capital
ellauri052.html on line 243: Film grayed. Shaking wagons, hooves’ waterfalls,
ellauri052.html on line 273: Viimeisinä vuosinaan Pope sairasti astmaa ja oli ajoittain osittain harhainen. Hän aloitti vielä uuden eeppisen Brutus-nimisen vapaamittaisen runon sekä aikoi uudistaa vanhoja runojaan. Suunnitelmat jäivät toteutumatta, sillä hän kuoli 30. toukokuuta 1744. Hänet on haudattu St Mary’s Church -kirkkoon Twickenhamiin.
ellauri052.html on line 277: All in all, Pope’s characterization of women and his satirical telling of this incident paint a very negative picture of women. Women are shown as conniving, untrustful, illogical, and most importantly, inferior to men. Pope ridicules Belinda’s (Ms. Fermor’s) anger and does not seem to understand why women could get so angry over such a "trivial" matter. He does not respect female autonomy and buys in to the madonna/whore perception of women. The Rape of the Lock does a great injustice to women and only serves to perpetuate negative stereotypes and generalizations about female character.


ellauri052.html on line 852: Bellow’s great subject is his own subjectivity. “If I had as many mouths as Siva has arms and kept them going all the time,” says Joseph, the novel’s Bellow-like protagonist, sounding a little like Walt Whitman, “I still could not do myself justice.”
ellauri052.html on line 856: Well into his career, Bellow combined the confessional with a mid-century notion of alienation, which meant, for Bellow, man’s inability to get outside his own head. (I use the masculine advisedly; Bellow didn’t go deep enough into women’s heads to need to get out of them.)
ellauri052.html on line 857: Leader (Salen elämäkerturi) is statesmanlike, fair-minded. He acknowledges in the introduction that great artists are not necessarily family men and that Bellow helped himself to his friends’ and relatives’ life stories even when they would have preferred their privacy.
ellauri052.html on line 866: Leader (se elämäkerturi) defines Bellow’s recurrent themes as “the relative claims of life and work, the intensity of childhood experience, sexual insecurity.” He could have added Jewish life and identity, the perils of matrimony and the defects of modern civilisation. The highly disciplined fellow devoted almost every morning to the sacred writing hours from nine to one. Sale ostettiin loppupeleissä Chicagosta Bostoniin. Jasu ja Sale kehu izeään varmaan kilpaa BU:n kekkereissä.
ellauri052.html on line 867: Reports of his teaching ranged from “he was a dud, all he did was read from Erich Auerbach’s Mimesis” to “his seminar was amazing, as you’d imagine.” He was most effective with students who could follow and respond to his intellectual fireworks. Eskimeininkiä.
ellauri052.html on line 930: Kun Salen halvexima sen vanhin poika psykiatri sanoo suorat sanat paskamaisesta isästään, pörähtään sen kimppuun äkäinen lauma Salen kirjallisia häntäkärpäsiä. The difficulty Greg Bellow has in grasping his father’s work is almost immediately apparent. His literary interpretations range from calling Humboldt’s Gift (1975) “a novel permeated by death consciousness” to writing that the protagonist of Henderson the Rain King (1959) “chooses a life path that brings him into contact with suffering and death.” (The very phrase “life path” would undoubtedly have made his father cringe.) Ehkäpä, just six että se on osuvaa.
ellauri052.html on line 935: Ultimately, much of the book revolves around a perceived opposition between “young Saul,” the politically radical, amorously multitasking free spirit who raised him, and “old Saul,” the reactionary, race-baiting friend of authority and Allan Bloom who occupied his father’s body for its final 40 years. Greg had a front-row seat for Bellow’s supposed conversion, after the rise of black power and the Six Day War, to the unfashionable conservatism that remains the unspoken reason his books aren’t read much in America today. He is thus well-placed to describe how that change—dramatically evident in Mr. Sammler’s Planet (1970), the neo-con novel par excellence, but also in Herzog—manifested itself in private.
ellauri052.html on line 939: Greg had made a career out of his own childhood misery—a nasty dig given that Saul was as much the author of that misery as he was of his novels. Greg noted, with shrugging disapproval, that his father “felt a duty of truth to his readers that was stronger than to his family,” but indicated he still didn’t understand or accept this about his father. Perhaps he can’t be expected to. “All significant human business is transacted inside,” was Saul’s lesson to Greg, who doesn’t seem to have forgiven his father for it being true.
ellauri052.html on line 943: It may be helpful to note here that Bellow’s fame, already growing after The Adventures of Augie March, exploded after the publication of Herzog in 1964—the same year Daniel, his youngest son, was born. By the time the newly rich writer, urged by his third wife, moved into a fancy co-op on Lake Michigan, Greg already possessed enough of what he thought were his own opinions to dislike the white plush carpets, the 11 rooms “filled with fancy furniture and modern art.” Reminding the reader he was “raised by a frugal mother and a father who had no steady income,” Greg says that he “found the trappings of wealth in their new apartment so repellent that I complained bitterly to Saul,” who replied that he didn’t care about the new shiny things so long as he could still write—which he could. “As I always had, I accepted what he said about art at face value,” Greg admits, but he stopped visiting the new place. After the marriage deteriorated and Saul moved out, 3-year-old Daniel, in the words of ex-child-therapist Greg, “took to expressing his distress” by peeing on the carpets. “I have to admit that the yellow stains on them greatly pleased me,” Greg writes—for once showing off the Bellovian touch.
ellauri052.html on line 945: Zachary Leader’s work, though superior to Atlas’s and better than his first volume, still has some serious flaws. He swallows Keith Botsford’s absurd claim that his subject “is a direct descendant of Machiavelli”. Leader constantly tries to connect every person and event in Bellow’s life to their fictional counterparts instead of emphasising his imaginative transformation of experience. Literary agent Andrew Wylie, well named “The Jackal,” poached Bellow from his longtime agent Harriet Wasserman. Varmaan lupas Salelle pyllynamia.


ellauri052.html on line 947: His good looks, exciting mind, sharp wit and exalted reputation were catnip to the ladies, whom he easily captured but could not control. Though not cut out for marriage, he had five wives and divorced the first four. One of his three sons explained, “He liked being taken care of. He liked beautiful, intelligent, spirited women. He didn’t like being bored.” Except in the arse.
ellauri052.html on line 953: Bellow’s portrait of the Romantic author was self-reflective: “The artist is a spurned and misunderstood genius whose sensitivity separates him from and elevates him above the rest of philistine humanity.”
ellauri052.html on line 959: During an awkward sexual encounter with Harriet Wasserman, she remembered “asking him for permission, as if it were a museum objet d’art, ‘Can I touch this?’” Many of his mistresses remained in love and in touch with him. Scott Fitzgerald said that Hemingway “needed a new woman for each big book”; Bellow lost a woman with each big book. He spilled sperm as he spilled ink, and sex both interfered with and inspired his writing. Bellow created and lived on turbulence, thrived on chaos, courted conflict and was inspired by personal cataclysm. He reported that one lover (mies vai nainen?) “caused me grandes dificultades in England and in the south, but I finished Sammler just the same.” The bearers of erogenous zones (either sex) made him feel younger, “it was a way of avoiding the Angel of Death,” and he cherished their provocative bitchiness. Bellow’s emotional upheavals — his guilt and remorse, multitudinous failings and need for self-condemnation — made him beat his breast at his private Wailing Wall. Se oli kuin kunkku David jolle tuotiin neitosia pyllynlämmittimixi.
ellauri052.html on line 961: He portrayed his ex-wives, before and after they divorced him, as they declined from goddess to devil. Their sexual betrayals and financial extortions supplied the mother lode of his fictional material and generated the misogyny and guilt that fueled his creative powers. He exalted his fourth wife, the Gentile Romanian mathematician Alexandra Tulcea, as the “translucent Minna gazing at the stars” in The Dean’s December and crucified her as the “ferocious, chaos-dispensing Vela” in Ravelstein.
ellauri052.html on line 968: Bellow’s most merciless and eviscerating tormenter was his third wife, Susan Glassman, who defeated him in a long, acrimonious and expensive divorce suit. In 1974, after he had fraudulently misrepresented his projected income, the court, hostile to a successful Jewish intellectual, “ordered him to pay Susan $2,500 a month in alimony, backdated to 1968, plus $600 a month child support, plus lawyers’ fees.” Ignoring his own lawyer’s sound advice to settle the case, he surrendered to a self-destructive impulse, continued to appeal and deliberately prolonged his agony.
ellauri052.html on line 970: The rap against Bellow is that he maligned four of his five wives, especially in his fiction. This is true, and Leader is savvy enough not to take Bellow’s word about them. Wife No. 1, Anita, is shown as the underappreciated mainstay she obviously was. As for wife No. 2, Sondra Tschacbasov Bellow (Bellow called her Sasha), the model for the evil Madeleine, Leader has a scoop: an unpublished memoir shared with him after Bellow’s death. By her own account, Sasha was a vulnerable child-woman lacking basic life skills. From childhood and into her teens, she says, she was the victim of incest committed by her father. When Bellow took up with her, he was 37 and she was 21, a Bennington graduate and a secretary at the Partisan Review. His friends treated her with a sniggering sexism unfortunately unremarkable in the 1950s. At a party Bellow took her to, the critic R. W. B. Lewis, her former professor, drunkenly demanded to
ellauri052.html on line 971: know whether she was sleeping with Bellow yet; “they were all placing bets.” She started an affair with Bellow’s friend Jack Ludwig (the prototype for Gersbach in Herzog) only after she learned of her husband’s many infidelities.
ellauri052.html on line 978: The most important person in Bellow’s life—Maury, his oldest brother. As Leader shows, Maury was both the driving force in Bellow’s Americanization and a major presence in his work. Parents and wives came and went, but Maury remained: Simon in Augie March, Shura in Herzog, Julius in Humboldt’s Gift. As peremptory and violent as their father but more competent, Maury epitomized the cult of power and material success that both fascinated and repelled Bellow. “I recognized in him the day-to-day genius of the U.S.A.,” Bellow said in an interview with Philip Roth. In the same conversation, Roth observed that Maury’s reckless, angry spirit was “the household deity of Augie March.” By the time Maury finished law school, he had already started collecting graft for a corrupt Illinois state representative, skimming off the top for himself and his mother. A charismatic ladies’ man with an illegitimate son, Maury was “very proud of his extraordinary group of connections, his cynicism, his insiderhood,” Bellow told Roth. Maury was disdainful of his brother’s nonremunerative choice of profession, which he considered luftmenschlich—frivolous, impractical.
ellauri052.html on line 980: The rivalry between the brothers may have been even more extreme in life than it was in art. When Bellow won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1976, his brother refused to come to Stockholm for the ceremony. Maury’s grandson reconstructed his thinking as follows: “How dare Saul win the Nobel Prize when I’m really the smart one, I’m the one.”
ellauri053.html on line 120: Toute notre civilisation est aphrodisiaque. La société ouverte est celle qui embrasserait en principe l’humanité entière.
ellauri053.html on line 820: Prince Dwarkanath Tagore, my great-grandfather, was a romantic figure. Contemporary of Rammohan Roy, the Father of the Renaissance Movement of Bengal, he was closely associated with him in all his activities and rendered financial help when- ever required. The East India Company were by this time firmly established in Bengal and were rapidly building up their trade. Dwarkanath’s knowledge of English helped him to take advantage of the conditions prevailing under the Company’s rule and he was able at quite an early age not only to amass a fortune but also to gain high offices under the British. With Rammohan Roy he took a leading part in all the movements for the promotion of higher education and social welfare. There was hardly any institution founded during his life-time that did not owe its existence to the generous charity of Dwarkanath. He came to be known as Prince Dwarkanath in recognition of his benefactions. His business enterprises extended to fields unexplored by Indians in those days. He had a fleet of cargo boats for trading between India and England. To improve his business connections and gain further concessions from the Company, he himself went to England accompanied by his youngest son, Nagendranath. I have had occasion to read the diary kept by this grand-uncle of mine. It describes vividly and in very chaste English the social life Of the aristocracy of England in the early Victorian age as seen through the eyes of an Indian. There is also an interesting description of his adventurous journey across the country from Bombay to Calcutta at a time when India was in a very disturbed condition on the eve of the Sepoy Mutiny.
ellauri053.html on line 855: Yäk. Mikä pahinta, Rampe opetti izekin lapsiaan. Rahan lisäxi sillä ei ollut kuin aikaa. In English he would sometimes assign us passages from Amiel’s Journal , one of his favourite books.
ellauri053.html on line 892: My teacher, who had no illusions, regarding his pupil, trembled at the herculean task imposed upon him. However, the Maharshi’s word was law, and teacher and pupil set to work with such grim determination that at the end of the prescribed period my grandfather was greatly pleased to hear me recite the mantras so dear to him.
ellauri053.html on line 928: How-ever simple, the strain on Father’s resources to maintain the school must have been great. The institution had no income of its own besides the annual Rs. 1,800 drawn from the Santiniketan Trust. For several years students were not charged fees of any kind. They were given not only free education, but food and very often clothing as well. The whole burden had to be borne by Father, when his own private income was barely Rs. 200 a month. My mother had to sell nearly all her jewellery for the support of the school, before she died in 1902.
ellauri053.html on line 938: At the same time Satish Roy’s voice rang out with the opening stanza of Barsha-Shes, the well-known poem of my father on a stormy ‘Year End’ :
ellauri053.html on line 962: Saying ‘And thus have I Wall my part discharged so’, made a hasty exit as the audience roared with laughter.
ellauri053.html on line 971: That night my sisters Bela, Rani and Mira and myself and my brother Sami — who was then just a small child — we were all sent to sleep in another part of the house. We knew without anyone telling us that we had lost our mother. That evening my father gave me Mother’s pair of slippers to keep. They have been carefully preserved ever since.
ellauri053.html on line 975: On my father’s desk I discovered two bound volumes containing copies of letters written by him to my cousin Indira. My cousin had evidently carefully preserved all the letters and copied them out in her beautiful handwriting in the two volumes neatly decorated by her brother Surendranath.
ellauri053.html on line 983: Unfortunately just when he was feeling satisfied with the progress that was being made another mishap occurred in the family that greatly disturbed Father’s mind. My grandfather, the Maharshi, died in Calcutta. Father had to go there as soon as he heard about his illness and remained a long time there after grandfather’s death to settle business affairs consequent on the passing away of the head of a big family like ours. After the death of the Maharshi the family broke up — the members no longer lived together as in a Hindu joint family. (100 hengen huushollissa.)
ellauri053.html on line 989: Vicissitudes of life, pain or afflictions, however, never upset the equanimity of my father’s mind. Like his father, the Maharshi, he remained calm and his inward peace was not disturbed by any calamity however painful. Some superhuman sakti gave him the power to resist and rise above misfortunes of the most painful nature.
ellauri053.html on line 991: Throughout all these years of the severest trial to him Father’s penis never had any rest. Even when he would be passing through very great distress editors never had to wait for the regular instalments from his penis.
ellauri053.html on line 1026: "I felt sure that some Being who comprehended me and my world was seeking his best expression in all my experiences, uniting them into an ever-widening individuality which is a spiritual work of art. To this Being I was responsible; for the creation in me is His as well as mine." He called this Being his Jivan devata (“The Lord of His Life”), a new conception of God as man’s intimate friend, lover, and beloved that was to play an important role in his subsequent work.
ellauri053.html on line 1032: Gitanjali was written shortly after the deaths of Tagore’s wife, his two daughters, his youngest son, and his father. But as his son, Rathindranath, testified in On the Edges of Time, “he remained calm and his inward peace was not disturbed by any calamity however painful. Some superhuman sakti [force] gave him the power to resist and rise above misfortunes of the most painful nature.” Gitanjali was his inner search for peace and a reaffirmation of his faith in his Jivan devata.
ellauri053.html on line 1053: The glow of today’s setting sun
ellauri053.html on line 1060: And visualize in your mind’s eye —
ellauri053.html on line 1068: Carrying the scent of flowers’ pollen
ellauri053.html on line 1172: Yeats’s mind, Eliot said further in the review is, in fact, extreme in egoism, and, as often with egoism, remains a little crude. Liian vähän pylly vasten pyllyä kontakteja etenkin jenkkeihin, on Tompan selitys. Sama vika koprofiili Joycella, joka on sentään massiivinen, Jästi ei. Very powerful feeling is crude; the fault of Mr. Yeats’s is that it is crude without being powerful.
ellauri053.html on line 1179: His complaint against Yeats was that Yeats’s “supernatural world” was “the wrong supernatural world”: It was not a world of spiritual significance, not a world of real Good and Evil, of holiness or sin, but a highly sophisticated lower mythology summoned, like a physician, to supply the fading pulse of poetry with some transient stimulant so that the dying patient may utter his last words.


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Pardon that for a barren passion’s sake,

ellauri053.html on line 1191:       Eliot needed to put a considerable distance between himself and Yeats, each of whom could be regarded as a Symbolist, however differently they responded to French Symbolism as Arthur Symons expounded it in The Symbolist Movement in Literature. It is my understanding that Symons led Yeats through the early chapters, with Mallarmé as the main figure, and that Eliot made his own way quickly through the several chapters until he reached Laforgue, the poet he found most useful in his attempt to discover his own voice. Still, Eliot’s animosity is hard to explain.

ellauri053.html on line 1193:       Helppoa: se oli mustankipeä. Tomppa ja Jästi were associates from time to time but not companions. Yeats and Pound make a different relation: they were friends and remained friends, especially after the three winters they spent in Stone Cottage, Coleman’s Hatch, Sussex. The friendship continued over the years and found fulfillment in a shared Rapallo. Dobby ja Jästi ilosteli Rapallon mökissä veturinkuljettajana ja lämmittäjänä, kuraverinen Tomppa palloili kateena ulkopuolella.

ellauri053.html on line 1197: It is worth noting that Eliot apparently paid no attention to Yeats’s later politics: he does not refer to Yeats’s engagement with the Fascism of Mussolini and Gentile.  

ellauri053.html on line 1249:     Aestheticism: Walter Pater is the man behind ‘Art for Art’s sake’, which even Oscar Wilde advocated of, the glimpse of which can be found in their writings. He evaluates art and his writing is thus related to art on the basis of their moral and educational value.

ellauri053.html on line 1255:     Depth In Work: Pater’s work is not subtle and superficial. There is a certain depth and richness in his work.

ellauri053.html on line 1267: ‘Leda på en svan’ (published in 1924) är en av W. B. Yeaz’ populäraste dikter. Dikten som lite otypiskt för Yeaz är en sonett, berättar om hur en grekisk tjej Leda blir tvngen till sex med guden Zeus, som har förklätt sig till en svan. Så här är Leda på en svan och några anmärkningar mot en analys på den här fascinerande och gåtfulla dikten. Anm.: Jästen vill säga att anglosaxerna är svanen här som liksom tsarens tvåhuviga örn försöker få den irländska mön öppna psalmboken som hon håller i sin famn. 

ellauri054.html on line 72: Tarton yliopistossa kreikan ja itämaisten kielten professorina työskennellyt nuori ruotsalainen kielimies Johannes Gezelius vanhempi tutustui Comeniuksen pedagogisiin ajatuksiin, ja käänsi tämän Janua linguarum reserata -oppikirjan Uuden testamentin kreikaksi käyttäen sitä oppimateriaalina. Gezelius kuului Comeniukselta vaikutteita saaneeseen ireeniseen (kreikan eirene ’rauha’) reformistipiiriin ja osallistui Thornin uskonnollisia ristiriitoja sovittelemaan pyrkivään kokoukseen, jossa hän on ilmeisesti tavannut Comeniuksen.

ellauri054.html on line 183:   Hannu Riikonen oli omituinen  jo Norssin pihalla.  Tepasteli kädet ristissä  selän takana kuin Charlie  Chaplin sen toisen hörhön  Eero Tarastin perässä.  Hannun sankari on Tex  Willer. Lempo! Pannahinen!  “I’ve tried to uphold the  tradition of eccentric  professors,” Riikonen says.  

ellauri054.html on line 187:  Riikonen even found  his wife-to-be, Salme  Marjatta, at the University.  They both studied Latin and  attended the same lectures.  The couldn’t marry until  11.5 years after their first  meeting, however, as H. K.  Riikonen wanted to follow  scholar Valentin Kiparsky’s  advice to not marry until  his dissertation was  complete. "Saatuani  väitöskirjani valmiixi aion  palata mielirunoilijani  Horatiuxen pariin."  Julkaistuaan kirjeet  Tarastin kanssa kirjana Eero  ja Hannu (vai oliko se  toisinpäin) se sanoi  myhisten partaansa:  "seuraavaxi aion julkaista  rakkauskirjeeni." 

ellauri054.html on line 191:   Kuinka sattuukaan Hannun  vaimo on kirjastonhoitaja.  Salme Marjatta Riikonen made  her career as a librarian at  the Faculty of Arts library.  She has been retired for  years. The Riikonen’s two  children have followed in  their parents’ footsteps.  One of them holds a Master's  degree in Swedish, and the  other in Spanish. 

ellauri054.html on line 193:   Riikonen has also planned a  book on the Aristotelian  concept of temperance. He  believes temperance can also  be used to describe his own  lifestyle. “I’m a calm,  middle-of-the-road person. I  have never veered toward the  extreme, in good or bad.”  Every day, Riikonen walks to  his office in Topelia from  his home in Etu-Töölö. “Last  year, around the New Year, I  lost my temper for the first  time, as the electronic lock  system in Topelia was broken  and I couldn't get to my  office during the weekend.  The weekends are the best  time to work, because it is  very quiet,” says Riikonen.  

ellauri054.html on line 292: Was once, too, at the full, and round earth’s shore		Oli kerran täytenä, ja maan rannalla

ellauri054.html on line 511: Robert Browning (7. toukokuuta 1812 – 12. joulukuuta 1889) oli brittiläinen runoilija, joka on erityisesti tunnettu dramaattisista monologeistaan kuten ”Porphyria’s Lover” ja ”My Last Duchess”. Browning on yksi tunnetuimmista viktoriaanisen ajan runoilijoista. Browning avioitui 1846 Elizabeth Barrettin kanssa, ja pari asui 1840-luvulta alkaen Firenzessä, Italiassa.

ellauri054.html on line 519: Browningin pääteos on The ring and the book (1869). Toinen huomattava teos on kokoelma Bells and pomegranates (1841−1846), johon sisältyy muun muassa dramaattinen runoelma Pippa passes. Muita ovat Balaustion’s adventure, Men and women, runokokoelma Dramatis personæ sekä näytelmä Paracelsus. 1888−1889 ilmestyneet kootut teokset sisältävät 16 nidettä.

ellauri054.html on line 521: Browning on useimmiten tunnettu lyhyistä runoistaan,selvennä joista esimerkkeinä ”Rabbi Ben Ezra”, ”How they brought the good News to Aix”, ”Evelyn Hope”, ”The Pied Piper of Hamelin”, ”A Grammarian’s Funeral” ja ”A Death in the Desert”. Alun perin Browningia ei pidetty suurena runoilijana, sillä hänen runojensa aiheet olivat suurten massojen näkemyksen ja ymmärryksen ulkopuolella. Myös runojen teemojen käsittely oli usein vaikeaselkoista ja hämäräperäistä. Lähde?

ellauri054.html on line 523: Browningin nykymaine on pääosin hänen ”dramaattisten monologiensa” ansiota: näissä sanavalinnat eivät ainoastaan välitä lukijalle tapahtumia ja tapahtumapaikkoja, vaan myös paljastavat kertojan luonteen. Toisin kuin yksinpuheluissa, dramaattisissa monologeissa tarkoituksena ei ole se, mitä puhuja suoraan ilmaisee, vaan ennemminkin mitä hän epäsuorasti paljastaa itsestään. Sen sijaan, että hän ajattelisi ääneen, henkilöhahmo rakentaa itselleen puolustuksen, jonka läpi hän haastaa lukijan näkemään. Browning valitsi hahmoikseen äärimmäisiä, jopa psykopaateiksi luokiteltavia hahmoja, kuten runossaan ”Porphyria’s Lover”. Olikohan se psykopaatti izekin? (Lähde.)

ellauri055.html on line 78: Les deux hommes ont quinze ans de différence. Stefan Zweig s'intéresse aux lettres européennes et il a déjà traduit quelques œuvres d'auteurs anglais, français et belges. La découverte en 1907 des premiers volumes de Jean-Christophe sera décisive dans sa rencontre avec l'auteur. Il est séduit par la portée universelle de l’œuvre de Romain Rolland et plus encore par l’homme auquel il rend visite, pour la première fois en février 1911, dans son appartement du 162, boulevard du Montparnasse. Les deux hommes partagent un amour pour la musique, une même foi en l'humanité et le sentiment d'appartenir à une civilisation, une culture commune, dont Romain Rolland esquisse les contours dans « la chevauchée européenne de Jean-Christophe ». Les deux écrivains entretiendront une correspondance suivie et intense entre 1910 et 1940 : 945 lettres ont été retrouvées (509 de Stefan Zweig dont une centaine en allemand, et 436 pour Romain Rolland). Cette correspondance est d'une importance capitale pour l'histoire des intellectuels du début du XXe siècle.

ellauri055.html on line 84: Déstabilisé par l'élan mystique qui traverse alors la société autrichienne, Stefan Zweig affiche au début de la guerre un patriotisme en phase avec l'Allemagne. L’opiniâtreté de Romain Rolland dans sa lutte contre la guerre et l'amitié que se portent mutuellement les deux hommes permettra à Stefan Zweig de surmonter cette épreuve. L'admiration que l'écrivain autrichien voue désormais à celui qu’il considère comme son maître s'exprimera dans la biographie qu'il lui consacre en 1921, qualifiant Romain Rolland de « Conscience de l'Europe ».

ellauri055.html on line 92: « La visite à Rolland, décevante hélas, il a l’air vieilli et fatigué. »

ellauri055.html on line 102: Le bahaïsme, ou baha’isme, aussi connu sous le nom de foi bahá’íe (prononcer [baˈ.haː.ʔ.iː] ou [ba.hɑː.i]) ou béhaïsme (vieille graphie), est une religion abrahamique et monothéiste, proclamant l’unité spirituelle de l’humanité. Les membres de cette communauté religieuse internationale se décrivent comme les adhérents d’une « religion mondiale indépendante »[. Elle est fondée par le Persan Mīrzā Ḥusayn-ʿAlī Nūrī (1817-1892) en 1863. Ce nom est dérivé du surnom donné à son fondateur : Bahāʾ-Allāh (en arabe, « Gloire de Dieu » ou « splendeur de Dieu ») — Bahá’u’lláh en translittération baha’ie. Les baha’is sont les disciples de Bahāʾ-Allāh. Ils s’organisent autour de plus de 100 000 centres (répertoriés par le centre mondial de Haïfa) à travers le monde. En 2011, cette religion met en avant dans ses documents le chiffre de 7 millions de membres appartenant à plus de 2 100 groupes ethniques, répartis dans plus de 189 pays. Son centre spirituel (lieu de pèlerinage — ziyarat) et administratif est situé à Haïfa et Acre, en Israël.

ellauri055.html on line 104: Les notions baha’ies de révélations (wahī (en)) religieuses progressives leur font accepter la validité de la plupart des religions du monde, dont les fondateurs ou figures centrales sont considérées comme des manifestations de Dieu. Ces manifestations sont, par exemple : Moïse, Jésus, Mahomet, Krishna, Zoroastre et Bouddha.

ellauri055.html on line 106: Quand un homme meurt, l’âme passe dans un autre monde, où le développement spirituel de celle-ci dans le monde physique devient une base pour le jugement et la place dans le monde spirituel. Le paradis et l’enfer sont décrits comme des états spirituels de proximité ou de distance à Dieu qui décrivent les relations dans ce monde et dans l’autre, et non des endroits de récompense ou de punition après la mort.

ellauri055.html on line 108: Selon la foi baha’ie, chaque homme a le devoir de reconnaître Dieu et ses manifestations, et de se conformer à leurs enseignements. À travers la reconnaissance et l’obéissance, le service aux autres êtres humains, la prière et la pratique spirituelle régulière, les baha’is croient que l’âme devient plus proche de Dieu, l’idéal spirituel dans la croyance baha’ie.

ellauri055.html on line 109: Il faut cependant noter que les décisions de la Maison Universelle de Justice, ainsi que les exégèses des écrits sacrés faites par ʿAbd-al-Bahāʾ et Shoghi Effendi, bénéficient d’une autorité s’imposant à tous les baha’is. Ce qui a conduit depuis les années 1980-1990 à ce que plusieurs intellectuels et universitaires, historiens ou sociologues, soient chassés de la communauté baha’ie pour leurs vues jugées divergentes sur des questions-clefs (l’exclusion des femmes de la Maison universelle de justice ; l’obligation de soumettre toute publication, même universitaire, à un comité de censure ; l’homosexualité ; un système électoral qui favorise les sortants ; l’interdiction de participer à un parti politique ou d’adhérer à une organisation comme Amnesty International, etc., et surtout le sujet central de l’infaillibilité des institutions).

ellauri055.html on line 111: Égalité de l’homme et de la femme, mais avec cependant des exceptions à cette règle. La principale exception, depuis l’arrêt du soutien de la bigamie, est l’inéligibilité des femmes comme membres de la Maison Universelle de Justice.

ellauri055.html on line 115: Les lois régissant la foi baha’ie viennent principalement du Kitāb-i Aqdas qui est le livre saint des baha’is.

ellauri055.html on line 117: Voici un exemple de quelques lois et préceptes religieux tirés du Kitāb-i Aqdas. Elles ont été codifiées par Shoghi Effendi, interprète désigné des écrits baha’is de 1921 à 1957 :

ellauri055.html on line 119: 	  réciter une prière obligatoire (ṣalāt) chaque jour après avoir atteint l’âge de la maturité spirituelle, qui est fixé à 15 ans. Il y a le choix entre trois prières;

ellauri055.html on line 127: 	  les baha’is de plus de 15 ans et en bonne santé doivent jeûner (ṣawm) pendant le mois de ʿAlāʾ (du 2 au 20 mars);

ellauri055.html on line 129: 	  il est interdit aux baha’is de boire de l’alcool ou de prendre des drogues à usage récréatif, sauf si c’est prescrit par un médecin;

ellauri055.html on line 136: Les temples érigés par la communauté sont appelés « Maison d’adoration », arabe : مشرق اﻻذكار (Mašriq al-Aḏkār) (« L’Orient des invocations» ou « lieu où se lève à l’aube la mention du nom de Dieu »).

ellauri055.html on line 138: Ils doivent être construits selon des critères particuliers, liés au nombre 9 qui doit apparaître comme un « symbole évident pour tous ». Aussi, tous les temples baha’is doivent-ils avoir neuf entrées.

ellauri055.html on line 140: Du point de vue liturgique, la méditation dans les temples est accompagnée de lectures choisies dans les textes sacrés des autres religions. Ces textes — par exemple le Pentateuque des juifs, le Nouveau Testament des chrétiens, le Coran des musulmans, le Bayān des babis, etc. — ont annoncé successivement, par paliers de perfection croissante, l’incessante révélation divine ou message de Dieu. En ce sens, le livre sacré liant tous les textes sur la révélation qui le précèdent est logiquement le dernier dans l’ordre chronologique, à savoir le Kitāb-i Aqdas (« Le plus saint livre »). Il a été rédigé vers 1873 par Bahāʾ-Allāh et est complété par différentes tablettes (lawḥ) révélées ensuite ; pour les baha’is, c’est le texte de référence bien qu’il ne soit pas plus important que les autres, ni le livre le plus lu par les baha’is eux-mêmes sur la foi. Le livre ne fut d’ailleurs accessible que très tard aux croyants occidentaux puisque la première traduction officielle en anglais date de 1992.

ellauri055.html on line 142: Ce retard, surprenant vu l’importance du texte (alors que des ouvrages moindres étaient traduits depuis des dizaines d’années), serait dû aux passages autorisant la bigamie ou établissant comme peine maximale pour un incendiaire d’être brûlé et pour un meurtrier au premier degré, d’être exécuté.

ellauri055.html on line 144: Le mariage baha’i est l’union d’un homme et d’une femme. Originellement la bigamie était autorisée mais cette licence disparut sous Shoghi Effendi.

ellauri055.html on line 146: Une fois que deux individus ont décidé de se marier, ils doivent recevoir le consentement des parents encore vivants, même si un des partenaires n’est pas baha’i.

ellauri055.html on line 148: Le symbole fréquemment rencontré de la foi baha’ie est une étoile à neuf branches, parfois accompagnée d’une calligraphie du « Plus Grand Nom » يا بهاء الأبهى (Yā Bahāʾ al-Abhā') (« Ô Gloire du plus glorieux ! »).

ellauri055.html on line 150: Mais d’après le Gardien Shoghi Effendi Rabbānī, le véritable symbole de la Foi baha’ie est cette étoile à 5 branches et non pas l’étoile à 9 pointes : « Strictly speaking the 5-pointed star is the symbol of our Faith, as used by the Báb and explained by Him (« À proprement parler, l’étoile à 5 branches est le symbole de notre Foi, tel qu’utilisé par le Bab et expliqué par lui ») »

ellauri055.html on line 152: Les baha’is, comme les babis, considèrent le 21 mars 1844 comme le point de départ de leur calendrier annuel.

ellauri055.html on line 154: Shoghi Effendi Rabbānī (شوقي أفندي رباني) est né le 1er mars 1897 à Saint-Jean-d'Acre et mort à Londres le 4 novembre 1957. Il était le plus âgé des petits-fils de ʿAbd-al-Bahāʾ (1844-1921), qui était lui-même l’aîné des fils de Bahāʾ-Allāh (1817-1892), le prophète-fondateur de la Foi baha’ie.

ellauri055.html on line 426: 		Despite the gardener’s best intentions, Nature will improvise.

ellauri055.html on line 622: La première édition des Caractères paraît à Paris, chez Étienne Michallet, à l’automne de 1687, sous ce titre : les Caractères de Théophraste, traduits du grec, avec les Caractères ou les Mœurs de ce siècle. L’ouvrage comptait cent pages de traduction et deux cents pages originales.

ellauri055.html on line 1143: Né à Gand, Maurice Maeterlinck est l'aîné d'une famille de trois enfants, flamande, bourgeoise, catholique, conservatrice et francophone. Après des études au collège Sainte-Barbe (Sint-Barbara) de Gand, il suit des études en droit avant de pratiquer le métier d'avocat durant une courte période. Maeterlinck publie, dès 1885, des poèmes d’inspiration parnassienne dans La Jeune Belgique. Il part pour Paris où il rencontre plusieurs écrivains qui vont l'influencer, dont Stéphane Mallarmé et Villiers de l’Isle-Adam. Ce dernier lui fait découvrir les richesses de l'idéalisme allemand (Hegel, Schopenhauer). À la même époque, Maeterlinck découvre Ruysbroeck l'Admirable, un mystique flamand du XIVe siècle dont il traduit les écrits (Ornement des noces spirituelles). C'est ainsi qu'il se tourne vers les richesses intuitives du monde germanique en s'éloignant du rationalisme français. Dans cet esprit, il se consacre à Novalis et entre en contact avec le romantisme d'Iéna (Allemagne, 1787-1831, autour d'August et Friedrich Schlegel et de la revue l'Athenäum), précurseur en droite ligne du symbolisme. Les œuvres que publie Maeterlinck entre 1889 et 1896 sont imprégnées de cette influence germanique.

ellauri055.html on line 1308: Sodan loputtua Kala merkitsi päiväkirjaansa vuoden 1944 lopulla: "Onkohan Suomi jo vuoden kuluttua bolshevisoitu? Aikanaan tulee, jos (tai kun) niin käy, päiväjärjestykseen myös ’neuvostovastaisten ainesten likvidointi’ tunnetuin metodein. Ainakin minä olen jo henkisen kestävyyden rajoilla."

ellauri058.html on line 83:   Astrid Lindgren does not shy away from describing the situation for African-Americans during that era. Her language is not always comfortable, at least not for this day, referring to blacks as “the coloured race,” “young negro girl,” and, embarrassingly, “darkies.” How much of this is just a rough translation, how much of it is accurate translation, how much was totally acceptable back then, how much did Lindgren want us to feel uncomfortable . . .? Yeah, things sucked back then (*cough*even more than they do now*cough*) for African-Americans, and it shouldn’t be comfortable to read about it.

ellauri058.html on line 714: The ancient texts describe the symptoms Herod experienced in his final days: painful intestinal problems, convulsions in every limb, intense itching, breathlessness, and gangrene of the genitalia. Josephus wrote that Herod’s final illness―sometimes called “Herod’s Evil"―was excruciating.

ellauri058.html on line 718: Dr. Hirschmann said he decided to focus on the symptom of itching. “At first, I considered Hodgkin’s disease and some diseases of the liver.” Chronic kidney disease covered all of Herod’s symptoms except gangrene of the genitalia. Dr. Hirschmann figured that the most probable cause of King Herod’s death was chronic kidney disease complicated by Fournier’s gangrene, which is an unusual infection affecting the male genitalia.

ellauri058.html on line 720: Only about 500 cases of Fournier’s gangrene have been recorded in the medical literature. It is caused when Staphylococcus, Streptococcus or E. coli bacteria infects and starts to rapidly kill cells, turning tissue black.

ellauri058.html on line 785:  VII STRATO Loose girls lose their  grip. They wear cheap scent. Their  kisses aren’t sincere or innocent.  Sweet smut is one thing they’re no  good at talking. Their looks are  sly. The worst is a bluestocking.  Moreover, fundamentally they’re  cold; They’ve nothing for a groping  hand to hold. 

ellauri058.html on line 787:  III STRATO Diodorus, boys’ things  come in three Shapes and sizes;  learn them handily: When unstripped  it’s a dick, But when stiff it’s a  prick: Wanked, you know what its nickname must be.  

ellauri058.html on line 952: Jules Maigret naît à Saint-Fiacre (se oli se lapioon nojaava misogyyni puutarhapyhimys!) dans l’Allier, en 1887, ce qui ne l’empêchera pas de n’avoir que 58 ans en 1967. Se on kuin Roope Ankka, vanha muttei vanhene.

ellauri058.html on line 962:   À trois ans de la retraite, on lui propose le poste de directeur de la P.J., qu’il refuse. Il prendra sa retraite à Meung-sur-Loire, dans le Loiret. Ongiskelee yxixeen joen rannalla. Vähät välittää vieläkään kiltistä susikoiranartusta. Hajamielisesti taputtaa sen päätä. Kaiken painavuuden ja murahtelun takana se on yhtä narsisti kuin limainen Slimenonin ruipelo. Patbrluuna.

ellauri060.html on line 126: 1.4.1987 Melitta Naiviston suunnittelema ja johtama Suomen vientiä tukeva show ”Success Story Finland” esitettiin Singaporessa. Pääsin seuraamaan business boosterin valmistelua ja toteutusta niin Euroopassa kuin Aasiassa Kauppalehden toimittajana. Vientishow’n esiintyjät olivat varsin mukavaa joukkoa, joten useaan otteeseen jäin rupattelemaan töiden jälkeen heidän seuraansa. Erityisesti huomio kiinnittyi pitkänhuiskeaan, hyvin nuoreen, mutta asenteeltaan aurinkoiseen ja älykkään tuntuiseen mieheen. Etunimenkin kuulin: Macro.

ellauri060.html on line 245: Following his release from debtors’ prison, he probably travelled in Europe and Scotland, and it may have been at this time that he traded wine to Cadiz, Porto and Lisbon. By 1695, he was back in England, now formally using the name "Defoe" and serving as a "commissioner of the glass duty", responsible for collecting taxes on bottles. In 1696, he ran a tile and brick factory in what is now Tilbury in Essex and lived in the parish of Chadwell St Mary. He was a serial entrepreneur.

ellauri060.html on line 938: 36 Facebook users sympathized with the McNallens’ plight, grousing over Facebook’s recent crackdown on white supremacists and sharing various platforms that would be more receptive to people who share his views. “Please look at MeWe,” one user wrote. “Many are heading over there.”

ellauri060.html on line 945: “I don’t expect you to agree with my religious, social, or political beliefs  – I’m good with that,” he said. “But the honest alt truth is that people have been driven off of Facebook for bullshit reasons.”

ellauri060.html on line 947: A lot of people agree with McNallen, even those who don’t necessarily share his extremist views — and many of them are heading over to MeWe.

ellauri060.html on line 949: MeWe was founded by entrepreneur and privacy advocate Mark Weinstein, a cheerful, loquacious man and a self-satisfied libertarian. He’s friendly and open, with a horse voice that occasionally crackles with emotion, and he’s also prone to the occasional fit of bombast: “I’m one of the guys who invented gunpowder,” he cheerfully tells me at the start of our conversation.

ellauri060.html on line 1040: Yes, Google’s search index is now in clear decline, as of late 2020, though the downward trend has started years ago.

ellauri060.html on line 1046: This content quality problem has been exacerbated by Google’s switch to emphasize the freshness of their index years ago. The rationale was that there was so much good stuff around, and that its supply was (supposedly even exponentially) constantly increasing so Google would always be able to show amazing results just from the freshest portion of their index.

ellauri060.html on line 1052: So that leaves Google’s core results where they may retrench and demonstrate ever increasing superiority. Really? We have mentioned the core problem there, of dying (quality) links and the dearth of high quality content. One can easily see all that by looking at the ratio of old vs. new results in all search results.

ellauri060.html on line 1056: AI was supposed to be another refuge and savior several years ago. The idea was that Google’s core mission was always to give answers to questions as opposed serving ten blue links with bunch of ads.

ellauri061.html on line 635: Latin blunder for self-defense’s se defendendo is sic, either a befogged muddling of a professional legal term, or a post-Freudian slip, or (least likely) a very oblique and subtle jab at Gately from a Ewell intimate with the graveyard scene from Hamlet — namely V.i. 9.

ellauri061.html on line 795: A prophetess named Deborah judged or made rulings for the people of Israel under a palm tree during that time. One of Deborah’s judgments was to instruct Barak to summon 10,000 men and attack Jabin’s army. Likely fearful to comply with such a command, Barak told Deborah, “If you go with me, I will go; but if you don’t go with me, I won’t go” (Judges 4:8). She replied, “Certainly I will go with you. . . . But because of the course you are taking, the honor will not be yours, for the Lord will deliver Sisera into the hands of a woman” (verse 9).

ellauri061.html on line 797: Deborah and Barak then gathered 10,000 troops and attacked Sisera and his army. Barak’s troops won: “All Sisera’s troops fell by the sword; not a man was left” (Judges 4:16). Sisera himself fled to the tent of a Hebrew woman named Jael. She gave him milk to drink and covered him with a blanket in the tent. Then, “Jael . . . picked up a tent peg and a hammer and went quietly to him while he lay fast asleep, exhausted. She drove the peg through his temple into the ground, and he died” (verse 21).

ellauri061.html on line 799: Following this battle, “God subdued Jabin king of Canaan before the Israelites. And the hand of the Israelites pressed harder and harder against Jabin king of Canaan until they destroyed him” (Judges 4:23–24). Deborah’s prophecy was fulfilled: Barak won, Sisera was killed by a woman, and the Israelites were freed from their enemies.

ellauri061.html on line 801: Judges chapter 5 then records the song of Deborah and Barak, written to rejoice in God’s victory over the Canaanites. The lyrics encourage the actions of Deborah and Barak, saying, “Wake up, wake up, Deborah! / Wake up, wake up, break out in song! / Arise, Barak! / Take captive your captives, son of Abinoam” (Judges 5:12). Jael’s role is also heralded: “Most blessed of women be Jael, / the wife of Heber the Kenite, / most blessed of tent-dwelling women” (verse 24).

ellauri061.html on line 803: The song of Deborah and Barak also gives some more detail about the victory over the Canaanites: “The earth shook, the heavens poured, / the clouds poured down water” (Judges 5:4). Evidently, God used a flood to disable the iron chariots of Sisera. The victory was supernatural (verse 20). Chapter 5 concludes with the statement, “And the land had peace forty years.” This impressive time of peace lasted until Midian took control of Israel, necessitating Gideon’s rise.

ellauri061.html on line 1375: Kiitän rugalaista vuohikauppiasta Onomho’Ale Ikhenebomea ja kinnulalaista meppiä Mauri Pekkarista. He kuuluvat seuraajiini, joitten määrä ylitti tänään 60 000.

ellauri061.html on line 1599: Sonnet 29 also named as “When in disgrace with fortune and men’s eyes” is one of 154 sonnets written by the English playwright and poet William Shakespeare. It is part of the Fair Youth sequence. In the sonnet William Shakespeare creates a depressed and despairing speaker who serendipitously reflects upon the love of a close friend in order to prove to the reader that no matter how difficult life becomes, we can be content in the blessings of the hole. 

ellauri061.html on line 1628: Song: “Fear no more the heat o’ the sun” 	Laulu: älä pelkää enää hellettä

ellauri061.html on line 1633: Fear no more the heat o’ the sun,		Älä pelkää enää hellettä,

ellauri061.html on line 1634: Nor the furious winter’s rages;			äläkä nurjan talven raivoa;

ellauri061.html on line 1636: Home art gone, and ta’en thy wages:		Kotipesällä jo palkan nostanut:

ellauri061.html on line 1640: Fear no more the frown o’ the great;		Älä pelkää enää epäsuosiota,

ellauri061.html on line 1641: Thou art past the tyrant’s stroke;		ei styränkit sua enää saavuta;

ellauri062.html on line 93: If the answers to these questions is yes and lasts for months, researchers believe it could actually be a very early stage of Alzheimer’s.

ellauri062.html on line 96: When an older adult begins to act out of character or starts becoming irritable or aggressive, it may be an indication of trouble. Unfortunately, a senior with early Alzheimer’s can also lose their inhibitions and act in inappropriate ways.

ellauri062.html on line 102: Other symptoms to look for that can indicate Alzheimer’s are:

ellauri062.html on line 120:     ☑ Imagining things that aren’t there

ellauri062.html on line 147:       Try not to show your frustration or anger. If you get upset, take deep breaths and count to 10. If it’s safe, leave the room for a few minutes.

ellauri062.html on line 149:       Give people who pace a lot a safe place to walk. Provide comfortable, sturdy shoes. Give them light snacks to eat as they walk, so they don’t lose too much weight, and make sure they have enough to drink. They like beer, wine and hard drinks. 

ellauri062.html on line 153:       Ask for help. For instance, say, “Let’s set the table” or “I need help folding the clothes/pulling the curtains.” "Please arrange the xmas napkins on the defibrillator." 

ellauri062.html on line 174: The price of admission onto the 29th Rich List was a staggering $1 billion, and, not surprisingly — as far as minorities go, at least — Jews excelled. The breakdown, according to Gawker’s research, included one black woman (No. 130, Oprah Winfrey), three gay men (No. 54, David Geffen; No. 332, Barry Diller; and No. 365, Peter Thiel), four Indians, six (non-Indian) Asians, 34 women, and, of course, 30 Jews in the top 100 (see below). They must have stopped counting after the 100 mark.

ellauri062.html on line 265: June explains to flabbergasted Serena that Gilead is not an ideal place for a child, specifically a daughter, to grow up in as their very existence is risky. She manages to convince Serena, who then tearfully says a prayer and hands the baby back over to June. June, in turn, gives Serena a blessing as well and leaves behind a tearful Serena as she and another Martha leave to escape Gilead. Fred is left alone in the room and looks at the carving, "Nolite te bastardes carborundorum," on the wall. Nick offers his "cigar" to Serena and she takes a good hold of it and takes a drag. Fred gets a moment alone with June to tell her he’s concerned about Serena. 

ellauri062.html on line 279: Fred says she is a good writer but Serena is bitter that he took that right away from her. Fred admits that he did not realize how much it would cost. Serena asks him to imagine how their lives would be like if Gilead never happened. Fred replies that he would still be in marketing and might quit his job. Fred admits that he has been sterile all along. In fact he is gay and has had an affair with Nick and Mark Tuello (who dat?) in the closet. Mark Tuello’s car is a 2018 Dodge Charger GT [LD].

ellauri062.html on line 281: Serena tells Fred to stop worrying. Fred reassures her that he will be fine. Fred’s mood soon changes.

ellauri062.html on line 563:   Alaviitteissä on tarkat piirretyt ohjeet siitä, miten lukijan tulee porata kymmenen millimetrin terällä reikä koko teoksen läpi ja pujotella kirjanmerkkinauhat rei’istä. Tämän lisäksi sivuun pitää leikata reiät X ja Y, joista pujotellut nauhat solmitaan yhteen. Askartelutehtävä rinnastetaan kallonporaukseen ja aivokirurgiaan. (Lähde).

ellauri062.html on line 919:     Shahak, an Israeli professor who was a survivor of the Nazi holocaust, describes a 1962 book published in Israel in a bilingual edition. The Hebrew text was on one page, with the English translation on the facing page. The Hebrew text of a major Jewish code of laws contained a command to exterminate Jewish infidels: “It is a duty to exterminate them with one’s own hands.” The English version on the facing page softened it to “It is a duty to take active measures to destroy them.’” The Hebrew page then went on to name which “infidels” must be exterminated, adding “may the name of the wicked rot.” Among them was Jesus of Nazareth. The facing page with the English translation failed to tell any of this.

ellauri062.html on line 1035:   1898 wurde Lanz zum Priester geweiht. Kaum ein Jahr später wurde er aufgefordert, den Orden zu verlassen. Lanz selbst gab später an, seine ständig „steigende Nervosität“ und seine angegriffene Gesundheit seien der Grund für seinen im April 1899 vollzogenen Austritt gewesen. Quellen im Heiligenkreuzer Stiftsarchiv hingegen vermerken als Austrittsgrund, Lanz sei „der Lüge der Welt ergeben und von fleischlicher Liebe erfasst.“ Einige Kommentatoren vermuten hinter diesem Vermerk eine Frauenbeziehung – möglicherweise mit einer Angehörigen der Familie Lanz von Liebenfels – und sehen in deren mutmaßlichem Scheitern einen Grund oder Mitgrund für Lanz’ spätere Misogynie. Andere Kommentatoren verweisen auf das Gerücht, Lanz sei homosexuell gewesen.

ellauri062.html on line 1041:     Tatsächlich aber dürfte weniger „Vision“ als vielmehr Lesen die Basis von Lanz’ „arischem“ Denken gebildet haben. Nach dem Austritt aus dem Kloster widmete er sich ausgiebigen Studien der zeitgenössischen anthropologischen Literatur über die arische Rasse, darunter Origines Ariacae von Karl Penka (1883), Die Heimat der Indogermanen von Matthäus Much (1902) und Die Germanen von Ludwig Wilser (1904).

ellauri063.html on line 47: Yes, Orwell was not exactly LGBTQ-friendly. He had a lot of opinions which now seem eccentric or objectionable. He had a lifelong tendency to make disparaging remarks about vegetarians, or people who wore sandals. I suspect that this came from the association in his mind of socialism with people who lived the early 20th century equivalent of an alternative lifestyle: it was very important to Orwell to show people that being socialist didn’t mean that you had to have to have a long beard, wear sandals or not eat meat, and that socialism was thoroughly British, manly and commonsensical.

ellauri063.html on line 82: Only if socialism always means tyranny, and that in turn depends on whose socialism we are talking about —’socialism from above’ or ‘socialism from below’.

ellauri063.html on line 92: The first form seeks to bring ‘socialism’ to the mass of the population, whether they want it or not. It is imposed from above by a centralised, or even a democratically legitimated, state, as its name suggests. This app … (more)

ellauri063.html on line 98: The second form of socialism, 'Socialism from below', represents Marx, Lenin and Trotsky’s view. It involves the great mass of the population creating a socialist society for themselves, not waiting for anyone, or any party, to do it for them.

ellauri063.html on line 102: This is a basic fact about Marx’s view of socialism that SD, Stalin, Mao, Castro and all the rest who advocate socialism from above, have failed to comprehend, so determined were they to impose ‘socialism’ on other countries, or, indeed, on their own people.

ellauri063.html on line 104:   Marx thought that capitalism had buried within itself the seeds of its own downfall. However, the latter wouldn’t kick in automatically, but would depend on its grave-diggers (the working class under capitalism, the proletariat) overthrowing it. 

ellauri063.html on line 299: Luigi Nonon A Pierre. Dell’azzurro silenzio, inquietum, for bass flute, bass clarinet and live electronics (1985)

ellauri063.html on line 316: Brötzmann Reflects on ‘Machine Gun’ as it Hits 50th Anniversary. The marathon, lung-bursting howl of Peter Brötzmann’s Machine Gun, which the saxophonist self-released on his BRÖ imprint 50 years ago, captured the anxiety of a generation grappling with the Vietnam War and civil unrest. The emotional and political complexity it was born from still resonates today.

ellauri063.html on line 319: “There is no contradiction between creation and destruction. I never thought music was a healing force of the universe. I didn’t agree with Mr. Albert Ayler. But we wanted to change things; we needed a new start. In Germany, we all grew up with the same thing: ‘Never again.’ But in the government, all the same old Nazis were still there. We were angry. We wanted to do something.” Like jazz. 

ellauri063.html on line 320: Machine Gun’s 45-second intro forms one of jazz’s most distinctive mission statements. Parker weaves around the horn section’s staccato blasts, before Bennink’s drums blast a nervy military march alongside Peter Kowald’s wildly rumbling bass. The brutality of the album’s remaining 36 minutes exceeds the number of commonly recognized synonyms for “violent.”

ellauri063.html on line 582:     Pansatanism Same as pandemonism. a Gnostic theory that considered Satan’s to be the controlling will of the universe.

ellauri064.html on line 31: Darkness won’t engulf my head

ellauri064.html on line 79: Benjamin maintained a fiercely productive focus on his intellectual mission throughout his life, despite repeatedly complaining of ‘grand-scale defeats’ and lows. After his request for divorce from Dora Pollak was granted in 1932, he suffered 10 paralysing days during which he seriously prepared suicide. Suicidal thoughts endured. He was an elegant, cultivated man who oozed old-world charm, exerting attraction on women but not always enough to give him cunt. Asja Lacis, the Latvian Communist Director of Children's Theatre in the USSR, twice refused, as did later lover Anna Maria Blaupot ten Cate. Lacis suffered relapsing mental illness and was hospitalised with hallucinations when Benjamin rushed to Moscow in 1926, at the brink of Stalinisation. His luminous Moscow Diary records his frustrating two-month experience.

ellauri064.html on line 83: He maintained a life-long friendship with Shulem. A feature of Benjamin's unorthodox Marxism was his attempt to invest it with the passions of Messianic Jewish mysticism. He was also friends with Theodor Adorno, a critical social theory pioneer who was deeply influenced by Benjamin and helped preserve his legacy. Adorno remarked that Benjamin's work had ‘settled at the cross-roads between magic and positivism. That place is bewitched’.

ellauri064.html on line 85: Benjamin revolutionised text, image and film criticism. His essay ‘Hashish in Marseilles’ confirms that he experimented with drugs (‘under medical supervision’). He argued that reawakening the long-forgotten dreams of childhood could help recover the betrayed potential of technological progress, in the service of humanity's ‘redemption’ in this life. He collected children's books and recorded attentively the development of his son Stefan from behind the crib bars like his contemporary Piaget, especially sensation, imitation, gestures and spontaneity. This is from his celebrated modernist short pieces collection One Way Street:

ellauri064.html on line 87: ‘A child in his nightshirt cannot be prevailed upon to greet a visitor. Those present, invoking a higher moral standpoint, admonish him in vain to overcome his prudery. A few minutes later he reappears, now stark naked, before the visitor. In the meantime, he has washed his tiny skinless wiener.’

ellauri064.html on line 311:   Thomas "Pip pip" Jeeves Horder, 1st Baron Horder, known as ‘Tommy’, was created a baronet in 1923 and Baron Horder in 1933 in recognition of his services as physician to several British monarchs and Prime Ministers, including the pro-nazi abdicate Edvard VII.

ellauri064.html on line 508: 
Funniest Quotes by Marvin from the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy


ellauri064.html on line 510:   Marvin was originally built as a failed prototype of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation’s Genuine People Personalities technology. In a nutshell, Marvin is afflicted with severe depression and boredom, in part because he has a brain the size of a planet which he is seldom, if ever, given the chance to use.

ellauri064.html on line 513: Marvin: You think you’ve got problems. What are you supposed to do if you are a manically depressed robot?    

ellauri064.html on line 517: I could calculate your chance of survival, but you won’t like it.” 

ellauri064.html on line 521: “What’s up?” asked Ford. 


ellauri064.html on line 522: “I don’t know,” said Marvin, “I’ve never been there.”

ellauri064.html on line 524:     “The first ten million years were the worst. And the second ten million: they were the worst, too. The third ten million I didn’t enjoy at all. After that, I went into a bit of a decline. ” 

ellauri064.html on line 526: Zaphod: “Can it Trillian, I’m trying to die with dignity.” 


ellauri064.html on line 527: Marvin: “I’m just trying to die.”

ellauri064.html on line 529: Zaphod: There’s a whole new life stretching out in front of you. 


ellauri064.html on line 532: Marvin: The Ultimate Question to the Ultimate Answer to Life, the Universe and Everything is printed in the Earthman’s brainwave patterns, but I don’t suppose you’d be interested in knowing that. 


ellauri064.html on line 538: “I think you ought to know I’m feeling very depressed.” 


ellauri064.html on line 539: “I’m not getting you down at all am I.”

ellauri065.html on line 228:   Finding himself out of work after film school in 1976, Ferrara directed a pornographic film, 9 Lives of a Wet Pussy, using a pseudonym. Starring with his then-girlfriend, he recalled having to step in front of the camera for one scene to perform in a hardcore sex scene: "It's bad enough paying a guy $200 to fuck your girlfriend, then he can't get it up." Ferrara lives in Rome, Italy. He moved there following the 9/11 attacks because it was easier for him to find financing for his movies in Europe. Ferrara descibes himself as a Buddhist. Because Jesus was a living man, and so were Buddha and Muhammad. These three guys changed the fucking world, with their passion and love of other human beings. All these guys had was their word, and they came from fucking nowhere. I’m not saying Nazareth is nowhere – I’m sure Jesus came from a very cool neighbourhood. Ferrara shows his love for other human beings by making films with a lot of FUCK! FUCK! and KILL! KILL! in them. His love of money is no match for his love of his neighbor primates.

ellauri065.html on line 576: 
 A relatively small team of perhaps 50 people or fewer was led by a smaller cadre which probably included several lawyers and most definitely included tech experts. The smaller cadre formed some time around the impeachment and carefully recruited point people over the course of the following months. Working like terror cells, they would need to keep point people unaware of who else was in on the conspiracy, to protect plausible deniability as much as possible. They had to have at least one conspirator in the elections offices of key swing states. It wouldn’t need to be a high-profile elected official, and would no doubt be better if it were some nameless person that few people noticed or would suspect. 


ellauri065.html on line 609: Ehkä osa kirjoittajien katkeruudesta vasemmistoa kohtaan selittyy sillä, että he ovat kääntäneet vasemmistolaiset takkinsa. Timo Hännikäinen oli nuorena mielenosoituksissa marssiva anarkisti, Joonas Konstig oli omien sanojensa mukaan McDonald’sin seinään kuseva antikapitalisti ja Marko Hamilo puolusti homojen oikeuksia. Heidän teksteissään näkyy kauna omaa menneisyyttä kohtaan.

ellauri065.html on line 631: Here is an actual website for a company that gang stalks. The CEO “John Winters” is a private investigator and former law enforcement. There are multiple “revenge” packages available on the website designed to help ruin the subject’s life. He claims it’s all “legal” because they never physically touch the subject. 

ellauri066.html on line 302:       “Älytöntä mätystystä” oli kuulemma Painovoiman sateenkaaren työnimi (osuva nimi kyllä). Nimi kuvaa toista Tompan tuotannon koukuttavaa piirrettä: sexiä, huumeita ja rokkia, ja muuta popsälää piisaa Tompalla. Pynchon on aina Pynchon, nää älyttömät mätystyxet on aina samanlaisia: orgioita, paskansyöntiä (joo selaa sinne kaikin mokomin, s. 308) sexin nimissä, kexittyjä huumeita, ja onnettomia lyriikoita (ei kaikki rock’n’rollia ikävä kyllä) joita sen hahmot pälähtää laulamaan kuin musikaalihahmot Broadwaylla. Vittu että jenkit on jenkkimäisiä, vaikka ne voissa paistaisi. (Jos et ole koskaan kuullut Amy Fisheristä, ei ylläri. Amy Elizabeth Fisher (s. 1974) on amerikkalainen nainen joka tuli kuuluisaxi 1992 Long Islandin Lolitana kun se 17-vuotiaana ampui pahasti Mary Jo Buttafuocoa joka oli sen luvattoman rakastajan Joey Buttafuocon puoliso. Oho! Kazo myös kuvat! Päästyään vankilasta 1999 Amysta tuli kirjailija, webimannekiini ja pornotähti. Kyllä kannatti.)

ellauri066.html on line 344: Tompasta on tosi vähän kovaa faktaa: synt. ’37 vanhaan ampiaispesään (ei siis Pynchowitz Ellis Islandilta - sori siitä), koulut Oyster Bayssä Long Islandilla ja collegessa Cornellissa, missä paras kaveri oli tuleva romaanifolkkilaulaja Richard Farina. Sitten töissä teknisenä kirjoittajana Boeingilla, kirjailijapiireissä Manhattan Beachilla, Calif. ja Pohjois-Kaliforniassa. Loppuviimexi Manhattan, NYC missä sen kustannustoimittaja lopulta nai sen säälistä ja ne saivat pojan. Minkähän ikäinen se poikakin on jo nyt, ja mitä sekin puuhastelee. Ehkä se vielä nettoaa kirjottamalla Tompan biografian kunhan nököhammas ekax saadaan hengiltä. 

ellauri066.html on line 357: Θ is the desired yaw angle, present as a ‘control.’ ϕ is the missile’s range; the differential d2ϕdt2 is the change in the actual yaw angle with reference to an absolute axis fixed by gyroscopes. The third additive term refers to the continuous change in the weight of the rocket as its fuel is consumed. On the other side of the equal sign, R is the distance from the rocket to the Earth’s centre; β the angle between the local horizontal and the direction of flight, δ a velocity ratio (Moore, 1987: 173).

ellauri066.html on line 360: Is Pynchon’s equation of motion a standard differential equation used by specialists to calculate the path of a rocket’s flight or to control its yaw? No: Pynchon’s equation does not resemble anything one might reasonably expect. […] Not only are most of the symbols in Pynchon’s equation obscure, but the general structure of the terms in the equation also makes it impossible to identify with one or other of the equations describing the position and orientation of a rocket in flight. This equation, then, is not a genuine mathematical expression in this context. It may appear authoritative to the layperson, but it is unlikely to fool a rocket scientist. (Schachterle/Aravind, 2001: 162)...

ellauri066.html on line 364: Even without substituting the remaining parameters d and c1, it is clear that Pynchon’s Second Equation resembles – and in fact is – the equation of moments that the Peenemünde physicists and engineers used to calculate and control the angular motion (yaw) of the V-2 rocket.

ellauri066.html on line 366: To shorten a long story of searching for sources: the essay ‘The Control System of the V-2’ by Otto Müller includes an ‘equation for control in yaw’ (Müller, 1957: 90), and in exactly the same notation as Gravity’s Rainbow’s equation ‘describ[ing] motion under the aspect of yaw control’ (GR 284). We can conclude that this is the searched-for template for Pynchon’s Second Equation (see appendix, Figure 8). Müller’s paper is part of History of German Guided Missiles Development by Theodor Benecke and August W. Quick, published in 1957, which is based on the First Guided Missiles Seminar in Munich that took place a year earlier. The seminar was organised by the American Advisory Group for Aeronautical Research and Development (AGARD) to collect information about the V-2 from German scientists and engineers to use in American research on guided missiles. Pynchon might have had access to this book and further material on rocketry in the Boeing Company for which he worked as a technical writer in the early 1960s.

ellauri066.html on line 368: Moore’s intuition that Pynchon’s Second Equation is real proved to be correct, and he and his colleague correctly assign the angle ϕ to the orientational range of the rocket. But since they did not know that this formula is only one in a set of equations that describe the flight path, the orientation, and the steering of the V-2, the research team was misled in their interpretation of the other parameters and terms. With Müller’s paper, we can finally determine the meaning of each term and compare these with Pynchon’s reading. The first three terms refer, respectively, to the moments of inertia, of air resistance, and of lateral air impact when the rocket yaws, and the term on the right side of the equal sign represents the steering moment of the rudders (Müller, 1957: 90, 91; Kirschstein, 1951: 73, 74). In other words, the left-hand terms describe the orientation of the rocket during flight, which is influenced by external forces such as wind currents and air resistance.

ellauri066.html on line 458: Pynchon Press has been serving Western Massachusetts Businesses with Commercial Printing Services for over 50 years.  We have a long standing history as a printer that you can trust in, with deep ties to the community.  Print is in our blood.  We’ve recently relocated our print shop from our original location in Springfield, MA to a new building on Grattan Street in Chicopee, MA.  This new location gives us better capacity to handle your print jobs.  We have made considerable investment into digital printing presses which allows us to produce beautifully printed full color print jobs with incredible turn around.  Smaller run print jobs for booklets and flyers can be ordered.  The days of having to order 1000 of something you only need 100 of are over.  If you can design it, we can print it.  We’ve been a trusted printer for customers throughout Western Massachusetts and Northern CT.  Our quality printing services speak for themselves.  When you are looking for a printer for your next print job, contact Pynchon Press, the local printer you can trust your printing to.

ellauri066.html on line 524: Rabbi Harold S. Kushner in his book When Bad Things Happen to Good People describes schadenfreude as a universal, even wholesome reaction that cannot be helped. "There is a German psychological term, Schadenfreude, which refers to the embarrassing reaction of relief we feel when something bad happens to someone else instead of to us." He gives examples and writes, "[People] don't wish their friends ill, but they can’t help feeling an embarrassing spasm of gratitude that [the bad thing] happened to someone else and not to them." onkohan tää rabbi trumpin vävyn setä?

ellauri066.html on line 675: As Sweden’s death count spiralled last spring at one of the highest global rates, this once faceless scientist was accused of creating a “pariah state”.

ellauri066.html on line 688: In the dark days of April, Covid deaths in a single day peaked at 115. Now, some days, that figure is zero. And while Britain’s economy shrank by 20 per cent in the first three months of lockdown, Sweden’s reduced by only nine.

ellauri066.html on line 700: Then Professor Neil Ferguson, from London’s Imperial College, released a bombshell study that claimed 500,000 could perish from Covid in Britain without tough restrictions. In Sweden it could have meant 85,000 deaths (so far fewer than 5,900 have died).

ellauri066.html on line 714: On the airport shuttle I rummage for a face covering but the unmasked guard says I needn’t bother. A poll found just six per cent of Swedes wear them.

ellauri066.html on line 726: The restaurant manager at Nya Car- negiebryggeriet brew- ery pub, David Manly, 38, says: “We feel like we’re living in a different world to other countries. We’re incredibly grateful.”

ellauri066.html on line 728: At the Headzone salon, hairdresser Fay Botsi, 23, says: “We don’t want to wear masks or visors. We keep our distance and use disinfectant.”

ellauri066.html on line 729: Sporting one of the Tegnell T-shirts, student Isabell Håkansson, 26, says: “I’m happy everything is open and we’re not locked down.”

ellauri066.html on line 730: Junior doctor Sebastian Rushworth, 37, tells me he hasn’t seen a Covid patient on his emergency ward in two months.

ellauri066.html on line 734: Dr Rushworth, who works at a hospital in the capital’s northern suburbs, believes the reason for Sweden’s resilience is it has built up herd immunity.

ellauri066.html on line 735: “There’s no other reasonable explanation,” he adds. Sweden’s government has largely allowed non-elected bureaucrat Tegnell to lead its pandemic response.

ellauri066.html on line 738: Until mid-May, half of Sweden’s deaths were in care homes, a situation Tegnell says has now been rectified. Like hell it has.

ellauri066.html on line 739: Tegnell’s most vocal critics are the right-wing Sweden Democrats party, who described the care home deaths as a “massacre”. 'CARE HOME MASSACRE'. 

ellauri066.html on line 750: Critics say this alone is evidence that Sweden’s strategy was wrong.

ellauri066.html on line 751: Stockholm’s regional Sweden Demo- crats leader, Gabriel Kroon, 23, says: “We should have locked down. The disease spread into nursing homes and we had ten times as many deaths relatively as Finland. I wouldn’t say that’s success.”

ellauri066.html on line 753: The academic, 50, says: “Most Swedes don’t gather in big groups very often, they don’t go to church much, a lot of people live alone or in small households.”

ellauri066.html on line 758: So what’s it like, I ask him, being as famous internationally as Abba?

ellauri066.html on line 759: “I try not to think about it too much,” he says modestly. “I realise it’s going to pass very quickly.”

ellauri066.html on line 761: Sweden’s short summer is over and city dwellers are returning from their holiday cabins to their jobs and schools.

ellauri066.html on line 762: There may be more Covid spikes. Just don’t expect a lockdown U-turn from iceman Tegnell. He is planning a bike tour through Sweden in search of surviving nurses. It worked in Kongo-Kinshasa, why would it not work in Sweden. 

ellauri066.html on line 905: “It just kept adding up,” Tegnell said. “I mean, you’re always kind of hopeful and think that, O.K., this is something that’s going to pass over.” Soon, the per-capita death toll was among the highest in Europe.

ellauri066.html on line 914: “I think we are reasonably optimistic,” Tegnell said last August. “Our prognosis is, No, we don’t really see a huge second wave coming on.” This did not last. By December, cases and hospitalizations were higher than they’d been since the earliest days of the pandemic. Intensive-care units in Stockholm and Malmö, the country’s third biggest city, were full. “It was just this development we did not want to see,” Björn Eriksson, Stockholm’s director of health and medical care, said during a press conference.

ellauri066.html on line 917: Says the hairy arms, “I still believe in the government. I do. But I’m very,

ellauri066.html on line 920: Sweden’s per-capita case counts and death rates have been many times higher than any of its Nordic neighbors, all of which imposed lockdowns, travel bans, and limited gatherings early on. Over all in Sweden, thirteen thousand people have died from COVID-19. In Norway, which has a population that is half the size of Sweden’s, and where stricter lockdowns were enforced, about seven hundred people have died. Finland, 866.

ellauri066.html on line 922: It’s likely that some simple policy changes—especially shutting down visitations to nursing homes sooner, and providing more P.P.E. and testing to nursing-home staff—would have saved lives. But who knows...

ellauri066.html on line 924: And the strategy doesn’t seem to have helped the economy much: the Swedish G.D.P. fell by around three per cent, better than the European average, but similar to the drop in other Nordic countries.

ellauri066.html on line 925: It’s not as bad as Italy, Spain, the U.K., and Belgium for example.” says Tegnell holding up his statistic when defending his strategy, claiming that sparsely-populated Norway and Finland are the outliers, and that Sweden should be compared to the rest of Europe. Sweden has a larger foreign-born population than other Nordic countries, and its population is more concentrated in urban areas, Tegnell claims. Yes, blame the hairy arms.

ellauri066.html on line 928: Sweden’s population is more similar to the other Nordic countries. Its first infections also came later than in other parts of Europe, giving its government more time to warn its citizens of the virus’ severity. For these reasons, comparisons to the rest of Scandinavia, which are less favorable to Sweden, may be more apt.

ellauri066.html on line 934: We’ve just got to be humble about what we know and what we don’t know. Do as Jehovah told: be humble, keep your little bony skulls bowed low, for I may throw stones from my volcano and let lava flow on your puny toes, as I'm already doing in Reykjavik. It may hit you too anytime now. 

ellauri066.html on line 936: Almost exactly a year from the pandemic’s start, Tegnell said that he believes people should still hold off on judging his policies. “The pandemic is not over,” he said. “Any kind of final review on what’s been good and what’s been bad still awaits us.” Thats what the guys in Nuremberg said: hold your horses, this was supposed to be a 1000-year Reich. Don't blame us on what were only meant as initial experiments.

ellauri066.html on line 944: The results are now in as Sweden Has Become the World’s Cautionary Tale.

ellauri066.html on line 945: Not only have thousands more people died than in neighboring countries that imposed lockdowns, but Sweden’s economy has fared little better.  “They literally gained nothing,” said Søren F. Kierkegaard, a senior fellow at the Paterson Institute for International Economics in Washington DC. “It’s a self-inflicted wound, and they have no economic gains.”

ellauri067.html on line 42: Mänkki on tiernapojissa se tähdenpyörittäjä. Kirjailijasisareni mielestä Tommi Kinnunen on tylsimys, siis pikemminkin mäntti. Mänki on hienojakeista lasin raaka-ainetta, jonka pääainexia ovat kvarzihiekka, sooda, kalkkikivi, arsenikki sekä väriä antavat metallioxidit. (Tommi Kinnunen, p.c.) Mänkiä on Loimaan murteen sana leikille. Olkaas mänkimättä kersat!  Myös sinä Jaakko!  Mänkki-hahmon alkuperä ei ole selvä. Se voi tulla nahkojen käsittelyssä käytetystä polvilaudasta eli mänkistä, jota on joskus pidetty tähden jalustana, tai ruotsin sanasta mannekäng ’mannekiini’, joka oli keskiaikaisissa näytelmissä vuorosanoja vailla oleva näyttelijä, jonka tehtävänä oli kantaa kulisseja. Manakin on pieni eteläamerikan lintu jolla on hauskat soidintavat, se harrastaa lekkingiä. Mänkimistä sekin. Ja mannekiini se on manakin(kin).

ellauri067.html on line 272: Lukijoiden ja kääntäjien avuksi on julkaistu muutamia selitysteoksia, kuten Steven C. Weisenburgerin A Gravity’s Rainbow Companion. Pitää olla näsäviisas burgeri seuraneitinä että tajuaa Tomin höpötyxiä. Mutta se on vanhanaikaista, nyt on https://pynchonwiki.com/ ja sen 7 muuta nettilähettä. Vastaisen varalle myös Wallacelle Loppumaton läppä -wiki. Kts. myös tätä. 

ellauri067.html on line 439: How much, or how little influence drugs, particularly hallucigenic drugs like lysergic acid diethylamide, LSD, had on Pynchon’s narrative is unknown. If Siegel, however, is to be believed, and he should be despite any resentment he felt regarding Pynchon’s affair with his wife, then the writing of Gravity’s Rainbow was heavily influenced by drugs. In Pynchon’s most famous quote regarding this particular novel, which is notoriously difficult to interpret, he is alleged to have told Siegel,

ellauri067.html on line 441: “I was so fucked up while I was writing it . . . that now I go back over some of those sequences and I can’t figure out what I could have meant.”

ellauri067.html on line 456:       The Gov’t’s Actions Have Gone Beyond Anything I Imagined!

ellauri067.html on line 457: Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson was criticized this week after claiming on Christmas Eve that Rudolph, the fictional red-nosed reindeer who leads Santa Claus’s sleigh, has been “misgendered.”       

ellauri067.html on line 461: He continued, “So Santa´s reindeer, which all sport antlers, are therefore all female, which means Rudolf has been misgendered.”  Tyson’s message triggered swift criticism, which included accusations that Tyson was “ruining things that are supposed to be fun.” “Why ruin this magic for children with your reddit-tier haha i’m so smart bulls***, this isn’t funny, you aren’t clever, and nobody cares, let them have this magic in their lives, you sound like an adolescent,” another person said. “They’re magic reindeer a**hole. The normal rules don’t apply. Quit trying to s*** on Christmas,” one person replied.

ellauri067.html on line 473: The first residential house in America to be electrified was J.P. Morgan’s. The work was done by Thomas Edison. So how did Morgan say thanks to the guy who gave him the first home in America with electricity? He screwed Thomas Edison out of his own company. Welcome to the game of 1890s venture capital.

ellauri067.html on line 491: There’s a dirty secret tucked away in Thomas Pynchon’s novels, eand it’s this: beyond all the postmodernism and paranoia, the anarchism and socialism, the investigations into global power, the forays into labor politics and feminism and critical race theory, the rocket science, the fourth-dimensional mathematics, the philatelic conspiracies, the ’60s radicalism and everything else that has spawned 70 or 80 monographs, probably twice as many dissertations, and hundreds if not thousands of scholarly essays, his novels are full of cheesy love stories.

ellauri067.html on line 493:     Book reviewers have a long history of attacking Pynchon for his flat characters. Roger and Jessica are susceptible to this criticism. Neither is given much of a history. We don’t know where they grew up or who their parents were. This is one of the great failings of... what to call it? "middlebrow" is antiquated... anyway, a very common kind of criticism (common in the Anglo-American world, anyway), and it affects how authors write (which is one reason I read mainly Russian literature these days). I don't need to know "where they grew up or who their parents were" and I don't much care, unless, of course, you write about it brilliantly because that´s truly what you want to focus on, as opposed to "welp, better provide a plausible background for my characters so the reader will believe they're behaving this way." Just write good sentences in a good and surprising order. Two people have fallen out of love? I don't care if it's because one of them has mommy issues or the other was bullied as a child—people fall out of love all the time, for any reason or none, just tell me what they do about it, and in language that makes me want to keep reading! Teoxet on tärkeät, vähät elämästä. En jaxa luontokuvauxia, hyppään ne heti yli.

ellauri067.html on line 581: From early on, Prokosch sought to surround himself with a veil of mystification and cast his life into a hopeless riddle. Approaching his sixtieth year, he boasted that no person had succeeded in knowing him as an integral personality: "I have spent my life alone, utterly alone, and no biography of me could ever more than scratch the surface. All the facts in Who’s Who, or whatever, are so utterly meaningless. My real life (if I ever dared to write it!) has transpired in darkness, secrecy, fleeting contacts and incommunicable delights, any number of strange picaresque escapades and even crimes, and I don't think that any of my 'friends' have even the faintest notion of what I'm really like or have any idea of what my life has really consisted of. . . .With all the surface 'respectability,' diplomatic and scholarly and illustrious social contacts, my real life has been subversive, anarchic, vicious, lonely, and capricious."

ellauri067.html on line 608: A Hot Time in the Old Town, also titled as "There’ll Be a Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight", is an American popular song, copyrighted and perhaps composed in 1896 by Theodore August Metz with lyrics by Joe Hayden. Metz was the band leader of the McIntyre and Heath Minstrels. The song was a favorite of the American military around the start of the 20th century, particularly during the Spanish–American War and the Boxer Rebellion. The tune became popular in the military after it was used as a theme by Teddy Roosevelt´s Rough Riders.

ellauri069.html on line 40: Postmodernism is the Swiss Army knife of critical concepts. It’s definitionally overloaded, and it can do almost any job you need done. This is partly because, like many terms that begin with “post,” it is fundamentally ambidextrous. Postmodernism can mean, “We’re all modernists now. Modernism has won.” Or it can mean, “No one can be a modernist anymore. Modernism is over.” People who use “postmodernism” in the first, “mission accomplished,” sense believe that modernism—the art and literature associated with figures like Picasso and Joyce—changed the game completely, and that everyone is still working through the consequences. Modernism is the song that never ends. Being postmodernist just means that we can never be pre-modernist again. People who use it in the second sense, as the epitaph for modernism, think that, somewhere along the line, there was a break with the assumptions, practices, and ambitions of modernist art and literature, and that everyone since then is (or ought to be) on to something very different. Being postmodernist means that we can never be modernist again.

ellauri069.html on line 42: Modern art didn’t abandon the world, but it made art-making part of the subject matter of art. When (in the second account) did a break occur? It happened when artists and intellectuals stopped respecting a bright-line distinction between high art and commercial culture. Modernist art and literature, in this version of the story, depended on that distinction to give its products critical authority. Modernism was formally difficult and intellectually challenging. Its thrills were not cheap. But there were cheap thrills out there, a vast and growing mass of products manufactured to stroke the senses and flatter the self-images of their consumers. This bubble-gum culture wasn’t just averse to the spirit of high art. It was high art’s reason for being.

ellauri069.html on line 44: What killed the distinction wasn’t defining pop art up. It was defining high art down. It was the recognition that serious art, too, is produced and consumed in a marketplace.

ellauri069.html on line 45: 	You can make anti-art—Duchamp’s “Fountain,” (posliininen kusilaari jossa lukee tää on taidetta) for example—only when everyone still has some conception of authentic, stand-alone, for-its-own-sake art. Warhol’s work is not anti-art. Finding no quality on which to hang a distinction between authentic art and everything else, it simply drops the whole question.

ellauri069.html on line 56: The one who kept them all on guard was the father, and he seems to have been a piece of work. Donald, Sr., had studied architecture at Penn, and he was a committed modernist, an acolyte of Setä Mies, Le Corbusier, Saara Aalto, and Esa Saarinen. He designed his own home, including the interiors, and if he couldn’t find something that suited his taste—a rug or a piece of furniture—he manufactured it himself.

ellauri069.html on line 61: An uncompromising temper appears to have limited the father’s career as an architect. The brothers describe a scene in which their father picks up an LP record that says “unbreakable” on the label and breaks it in two. “Not unbreakable,” he says. That might be a little scary for kids to watch. Frederick and Steven thought that he was an ingenious man, but they found him fascinatingly difficult to care for in his old age.

ellauri069.html on line 76: A couple of years after Barthelme took the apartment, the writer Kirkpatrick Sale and his wife, Faith, an editor, moved in downstairs and became close friends. They had been students at Cornell with Pynchon, and Pynchon would write part of “Gravity’s Rainbow” (1973) in their apartment.

ellauri069.html on line 78: What was he doing? Daugherty is right to claim that Barthelme conceived of himself as an heir of the modernist tradition—in particular, of Beckett. He encountered Beckett’s work for the first time in 1956, when he picked up a copy of Theatre Arts at Guy’s Newsstand, in Houston, and read the text of “Waiting for Godot.” “It seemed that from the day he discovered ‘Godot,’ Don believed he could write the fiction he imagined,” the woman who was his wife at the time, Helen Moore Barthelme, says in her memoir, “Donald Barthelme: The Genesis of a Cool Sound” (2001).

ellauri069.html on line 91: Barthelme incorporates bits from other people’s texts into his stories, and a good deal of his writing sounds like (and some of it plainly is) pastiche, as though it had been composed in the style, or spoken in the voice, of someone else.

ellauri069.html on line 93: It can certainly look, in short, as though Barthelme, like Warhol, were simply dropping the question of whether something counts as literature or not, since markers of the literary are impossible to find in his writing. The high-art traditionalist has no place to hang his beret. Daugherty’s purpose is to convince us that this was not Barthelme’s intention.

ellauri069.html on line 111: He also believed that one of the things deadening our responses was mass culture. “I believe that’s the place artists are trying to get to, and I further believe that when they are successful, they reach it... an area somewhere probably between mathematics and religion, in which what may fairly be called truth exists.” He was an enemy of television. He was a serious jazz buff. It took him a while to become interested in rock. Daugherty is right. He was a postmodernist in the first sense.

ellauri069.html on line 115: “The aim of literature,” says a character in “Florence Green Is 81,” one of Barthelme’s first published stories, “is the creation of a strange object covered with fur which breaks your heart.”

ellauri069.html on line 120: He thought S. J. Perelman was a genius. Perelman, sadly, did not think much of Barthelme’s work.

ellauri069.html on line 376: Thomas Pynchonin 1973 mestaripala Painomusteen Sadeviitta on eepos, pelle-eepos, ja Suuri Amerikan Novelli, kuten Moby-Dick. Toisinkuin Melvillen lukijat, kuiteskin, Pynchonin lukijat voi mennä sivukaupalla täysin pihalla siitä mitä juonessa, tilanteessa tai tyypeissä on tapahtumassa. Kirjaa ei edes voi kunnolla lukea selaamatta samalla koko ajan esim Steven Weisenburgerin Seuraneitiä ja Michael Davitt Bellin “Some Things That ‘Happen’ (More or Less) in Gravity’s Rainbow.”

ellauri069.html on line 387:     Don’t forget the real business of the War is buying and selling. The murdering and violence are self-policing, and can be entrusted to non-professionals. The mass nature of wartime death is useful in many ways. It serves as spectacle, as diversion from the real movements of the War. It provides raw material to be recorded into History, so that children may be taught History as sequences of violence, battle after battle, and be more prepared for the adult world. Best of all, mass death’s a stimulus to just ordinary folks, little fellows, to try ‘n’ grab a piece of that Pie while they’re still here to gobble it up. The true war is a celebration of markets.

ellauri069.html on line 397: —Greta Erdmann, pornographic film actress and mother/groomer of Bianca, a child-victim who becomes the novel’s symbol of how fascism has corrupted and destroyed innocence - ah fuck, I mean the Shirley Temple lookalike whom Pynchon/Slothrup fucks completely delirious.

ellauri069.html on line 401: —the mission of Oberst Enzian, who is Tchitcherine’s Herero half-brother, one of a select company of Hereros who survived Germany’s genocide of their people to become rocket engineers during World War II; he was a bunk toy for Weissmann mentioned in the next bullet as a boy in black Africa;

ellauri069.html on line 403: —the evil designs of the novel’s villain, Weissmann or Blicero, former lover of Enzian, current lover of a young man named Gottfried, and the master of rocket 00000.

ellauri069.html on line 457: A: I never thought I would live to see a time when Gravity’s Rainbow would be denigrated and dismissed for lacking sense. This book appeared when I was a freshman at university. It was immediately chosen as part of the reading list for a course in 20th century fiction in English and regarded as important, and it was expected that simple-minded undergraduates should be able to make a serious attempt to engage with the book using heart, faith, skill, and such intelligence as they possessed. As a result, I own a first edition. ;)

ellauri069.html on line 461: It may also be a good warm-up for the querent’s reading muscles to start with Pynchon’s earlier novel V, which is excellent in its own right, but not as extravagant as the even more brilliant Gravity’s Rainbow. It is V2, after all. 

ellauri069.html on line 477: Before I write this answer, I should put it out there that it took me two reads and a guide to understand what’s going on in Gravity’s Rainbow. After all that, I feel I have a proper grasp of Pynchon’s Magnum Opus. Apparently, Pynchon once said he doesn’t know how he wrote the book.

ellauri069.html on line 479: Imagine a story that combines Ulysses, Catch-22, The Canterbury tales, Under the Volcano, On the Road and many others. First, there is a huge cast of characters and most times, it is unclear who’s speaking and to whom. A second challenge is getting into the context of the book. The novel demands a vast knowledge of history, geography, music, literature, science, mathematics and occult. Apart from this the book also explicitly deals with profanity, racism, violence, pedophilia, coprophilia and seemingly infinite number of sex scenes. That being said, Pynchon doesn’t throw them arbitrarily and each one of them have a purpose. The main plot itself is set at the end of World War 2 and Europe is in chaos. As new countries and alliances are being formed, so too are new perspectives within the characters. Mental state being broken down, people making poor choices and actions being justified and helps us see how people tend to live destructively. As if there complexities weren’t enough, Pynchon includes a “postmodern” aspect of the book that leaves the first-time reader confused. Pynchon’s voice is seen through this aspect and a sense of paranoia creeps throughout the book and everything is questioned.

ellauri069.html on line 483:   An article recently came out in the LA Times about Pynchon’s Great American Novel. The article begins by stating that Mason and Dixon is actually the most obvious candidate for the Great American Novel, and it instead suggests that Gravity’s Rainbow is perhaps the Great European Novel. The article then questions whether or not the Great American Novel even exists, and if it does if it is of a singular form or if it takes on many forms at once. After considering this question, the article finally claims that the Great American Novel is actually made up of all of Pynchon’s works fused together “into one epic Pynchoverse.” The Great American Novel certainly does not need to take place in America, but still many will argue that Gravity’s Rainbow by itself can never be considered as the Great American Novel because of its non-American setting and its wide array of characters. This is definitely debatable, but I do enjoy the idea of a “Pynchoverse” or a Pynchon Compilation being considered as the true Great American Novel. That being said, I do think most readers and Pynchonerds would undoubtedly say that Gravity's Rainbow is the Greatest Pynchon Novel. 

ellauri069.html on line 497: I suspect I would need to read it a few more times to really “get” it. I’d prefer an eBook with deep annotations into the Gravity's Rainbow Wiki

ellauri069.html on line 498: . I presume I should have done a bunch of pre-reading research before reading the book, but that’s not how I roll.

ellauri069.html on line 500: That said, I finally “read” it. I don’t know if I can recommend it, but I finally have the “nerd cred” I’ve been trying to get since 1985.

ellauri069.html on line 672: The packaging for the new Cracker Jack returns to prominence the familiar logo of the sailor boy and his dog. Officially, those are Sailor Jack and Bingo -- introduced in 1918 and based on the Rueckheims’ nephew and a stray dog adopted by one of the partners.

ellauri069.html on line 674: In addition to new flavors, Cracker Jack now offers what it describes as enhanced prizes -- stickers with fun facts and digital codes that you can use on a Cracker Jack-branded app. Somehow, those don’t have quite the charm as temporary tattoos and secret decoder rings.

ellauri069.html on line 680: 
Cracker Jack: 120-year-old junk food gets new flavors, ‘enhanced’ prizes


ellauri069.html on line 686: Ironically, kettle corn much pre-dates the original Cracker Jack, dating to at least the 18th century, when it’s mentioned in some Pennsylvania Dutch diaries. Cracker Jack was introduced in 1893, sold by brothers Fritz and Louis Rueckheim at the Chicago World’s Fair. The first packaged product was introduced in 1896.

ellauri069.html on line 688: How many people have sung “Buy me some peanuts and Cracker Jack” during the seventh inning stretch at baseball games? Now, they might have to start getting more specific. One of the world’s iconic brands is branching out.

ellauri070.html on line 376: Miranda ei ennen 1930-luvun loppua käyttänyt alkoholia eikä tupakoinut. Tuolloin alkaneen alkoholismin lisäksi hän käytti säännöllisesti amfetamiinia, ja samalla hänen sydämensä heikkeni. Foi Americanizada, na verdade. Hän kuoli sydänkohtaukseen The Jimmy Durante Show’ssa esiintymisen jälkeen. A&E Networkin biografiajaksossa on surullista filmimateriaalia Mirandan esiintymisestä 4. elokuuta. Tanssiohjelman jälkeen Miranda sai tietämättään pienen sydänkohtauksen ja oli kaatumaisillaan. Durante oli hänen vieressään ja auttoi häntä pysymään jaloillaan. Miranda hymyili, heilutti kättään yleisölle ja käveli viimeisen kerran lavan taakse. Hän menehtyi seuraavaan aamuun mennessä 46-vuotiaana. Hänen ruumiinsa lennätettiin pian Brasiliaan, jossa julistettiin maansuru. Hänet haudattiin São João Batistan hautausmaalle Rio de Janeiroon. Siellä hän lepää vieläkin, ellei ole kuollut. 

ellauri070.html on line 384: "A penny saved is a penny earned" is a quote often attributed to Benjamin Franklin, however, he didn’t coin it. In his 1737 Poor Richard’s Almanac, Franklin delivered the line: “A penny saved is two pence clear.” And later, in the 1758 almanac, he wrote a version closer to the saying we know: "A penny saved is a penny got." He never used the word "earned."

ellauri071.html on line 44:     Tucker Carlson Justifies Kenosha Shootings: Vigilante Kid Did What ‘No One Else Would’ AND THERE IT IS “How shocked are we that 17-year-olds with rifles decided they had to maintain order when no one else would?” Carlson asked his viewers on Wednesday night. “Our leaders want us to believe this is a racial conflict, they’re always telling us it is. They’re lying. It is not a racial conflict,” Carlson grumbled, adding: “This is not a race war. This is a class war.” Updated Aug. 27, 2020 5:20AM ET / Published Aug. 26, 2020 9:11PM ET

ellauri071.html on line 54: Eddie Pensiero: The name is actually an old pun, taken from "La Donna e Mobile," the most famous aria in Verdi’s Rigoletto. The main verse reads:

ellauri071.html on line 58: Muta d’accento		Mieli ja kieli

ellauri071.html on line 93: Roger’s antipathy to Coward´s comedies of manners echoes the comments about Blithe Spirit in the Advent passage at 134 and passim. Pynchon’s own antipathy to the composer, writer and actor goes all the way back to "Lowlands," one of his first published stories.

ellauri071.html on line 531:     Sefirot kuvaavat jumaluuden eri emanaatioita ja ilmenemismuotoja. Emanaatioiksi (lat. emano ’virrata ulos’, ’valua’, ’saada alkunsa’, ’levitä’) kutsutaan joidenkin tiettyjen uskomusjärjestelmien kosmologiassa tai kosmogoniassa Korkeimmasta Olennosta (h.k.) emanoituneita eli alkunsa saaneita tai "virranneita" alempia olentoja. Näiden uskomusten mukaan Korkein Olento ei luonut fyysistä maailmankaikkeutta itse suoraan, vaan näiden alempien emanaatioiden kautta. Eräänlaisena valkovuotona. Tämän paradigman mukaisesti luominen etenee vuodatuksena alkuperäisestä absoluuttisesta Korkeimmasta Olennosta, tai jopa muutoksena siinä.  Elämän puu on kabbalan keskeinen symboli, joka kuvaa aistimaailman ja yliaistillisen todellisuuden yhteyttä sekä universumin rakennetta. Sefirot-järjestelmään liittyy myös aineksia esimerkiksi astrologiasta ja enkeliopista. New Age-liike imuroi nää hörhöilyt jutkuilta kuin janoinen Paavo Pesusieni.

ellauri071.html on line 562: The Qliphoth are the unbalanced force of a particular sephirah. The Qliphoth of Netzach is called ‘Gharab’ or ‘Areb-Zereq’ which can be translated either as ‘The Corrosive Ones’ (german, ‘Die Zersetzer’) or as ‘The Ravens of Death’.

ellauri071.html on line 565: The Qliphoth of Hod, similarly is founded on the idea of a radiating object: our eyes are blinded and cannot look behind the radiating surface. Unauthentic brilliance can be understood as the beginning of illusion and deceit. In the realm of the mind the shadow of Hod therefore is represented by the lie, artfulness or beguilement. At the same time the demon of Hod correlates to the ideas of fickleness, hesitation and lack of determination - the negative fluctuations of our mind. The Qliphoth of Hod is called ‘Samael‘ which can be translated as ‘The Deceitful Ones‘ (german, ‘Die Täuscher’, kr. diabolos) or ‘Poison of God’ (german, ‘Das Gift Gottes’).   

ellauri072.html on line 145:       No More Games. No More Bombs. No More Walking. No More Fun. No More Swimming. 67. That is 17 years past 50. 17 more than I needed or wanted. Boring. I am always bitchy. No Fun – for anybody. 67. You are getting Greedy. Act your old age. Relax – This won’t hurt.

ellauri072.html on line 158: 
Frost’s lowest romantic moment


ellauri072.html on line 160: It was an episode in Frost’s life that occurred in 1894, when he was 20. He desperately wanted to fuck his high school girlfriend, Elinor White, pressuring her to quit St. Lawrence University as he had Dartmouth. She refused.

ellauri072.html on line 170: “But that’s what he said when he was candid in interviews,” Hart said, “that he wanted to put an end to his life in the Great Dismal Swamp. He went in with his street clothes, a little satchel, no food or gear. He was rescued by a couple of guys in a boat who were going down the canal [to pick up some duck hunters].”

ellauri072.html on line 174: “One of the last poems he wrote was called ‘Kitty Hawk,’ and the first part was all about being rejected by Elinor and going to the Great Dismal Swamp … I think he was like a devastated Romeo who was going to end his life.”

ellauri072.html on line 176: Hart doesn’t understand why other biographers seem averse to broaching the subject. He points to the fact that Frost’s son, Carol, committed suicide, that depression and schizophrenia ran through the family, and that some of Frost’s poems express a death-wish.

ellauri072.html on line 178: “A lot of biographers didn’t want to go into that subject,” Hart said, shrugging. “Maybe they thought they would turn away readers.”  

ellauri072.html on line 487: It is highly likely that while reading “Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story,” D. T. Max’s biography of David Foster Wallace, you will experience both of the following emotions. The one is that you find it painful, to read about someone in chronic severe emotional distress. The other emotion is that you just don’t find Wallace all that nice.

ellauri072.html on line 489: You find yourself thinking that you wouldn’t have wanted him as your brother or lover or close friend, though he would probably have been a very good neighbor, course instructor, A.A. sponsor, or fellow American. You feel, to be honest, repelled.

ellauri072.html on line 495: Maybe you were a bit quick to straighten that miter you now realize you were wearing and, of course, speck-of-sawdust-in-your-brother’s-eye, etc., and also, as Alcoholics Anonymous would put it, Whoever is upsetting me most is my best teacher, and as Wallace put it, in his novel “Infinite Jest,” “It starts to turn out that the vapider the A.A. cliché, the sharper the canines of the real truth it covers.”

ellauri072.html on line 497: But still, yuk, he freaks you out. And you wonder if something productive can be made of the error of being detained by what you feel is the totally wrong and unfair thing to be detained by. You know that’s going to be work.

ellauri072.html on line 499: David Foster Wallace wrote three novels, three story collections, two collections of essays, and other things too, but his reputation still rests mainly on “Infinite Jest” — the 1,100-page novel published in 1996 and set alternately in a tennis academy and a rehab center — and on his sui generis now-nearly-a-genre long-form journalism about topics ranging from lobsters to dictionaries to John McCain to the Adult Video News awards for pornographic films. Wallace’s best work, perhaps by far, is “The Pale King,” an unfinished novel about I.R.S. employees that was assembled posthumously by Wallace’s editor, Michael Pietsch.

ellauri072.html on line 501: Wallace has given as much to literature as any contemporary American writer. Whether you like him or not, you hear American language, and experience American thinking, differently because of him. Wallace’s ­oeuvre is internally varied but also of a piece.

ellauri072.html on line 508: Infinite Jest is not the only thing that made Wallu famous, though. There was also his bandanna, which was as misinterpreted as so much else about him. As the Max biography explains, Wallace started wearing the bandanna as the least embarrassing solution he could think of to obscure the intense sweating attacks that overcame him without warning. (In high school, he had taken to carrying around a tennis racket and a towel as a tacit cover story for the sweating.) The acutely self-conscious, anxious, addicted and at times showy characters in Wallace’s fiction were not, Max helps us recognize, wildly difficult for Wallace to imagine — the characters were iterations of himself.

ellauri072.html on line 516: Any diagnoses seem as unilluminating as saying that the “reason” someone is short is because he is 5-foot‑1. About Wallace’s problems it seems worth noting simply that his A.A. attendance coincided with a long period of relative wellness, and that getting off the antidepressant Nardil, which he had taken most of his adult life, coincided with a serious crash in mood that ended in his suicide six months later.

ellauri072.html on line 520: The externals of Wallace’s life are not too distinctive. He was a smart kid raised in a middle-class family in Urbana, Ill.; his mother was an English teacher and his father a professor of philosophy. Wallace attended Amherst, where he first had trouble fitting in and then found a niche where he fit in very well. He had some intense and dramatic long-term relationships with women and also his share of brief sexual encounters, and he eventually had what is said to have been a loving and grounded marriage. It is his internal agitations, not his circumstances, that were extreme.

ellauri072.html on line 524: We don’t always find ourselves asking whether a writer is nice. I’ve never heard anyone wonder this at length about, say, Haruki Murakami or Jennifer Egan.

ellauri072.html on line 532: To some extent, his subject matter invites the ad or pro hominem fallacy. Wallace’s lonelies, wastoids and number crunchers are, often, trying to find ways to live well. One understandably slips from reading something concerned with how to be a good person to expecting the writer to have been more naturally kind himself. That thinking is perfectly wrong, though. Alec Baldwin surely has more to teach us than most about how to hold one’s temper; the co-founder of A.A., Bill W., is a guru of sobriety precisely because sobriety was so difficult for him.

ellauri072.html on line 536: Wallace’s fiction is, in its attentiveness and labor and genuine love and play, very nice. But what is achieved on the page, if it is achieved, may not hold stable in real life. As another dangerously romanticizeable suicide, Heinrich von Kleist, once said: “It is not we who know but rather a certain state of mind in us that knows.” And one is not always in the same state of mind.

ellauri072.html on line 540: Another thing, perhaps more powerful, that detains people at the niceness question has to do, I think, with competitiveness. Readers are correct to sense, in Wallace’s elaborate grammars and data fields, not only a generous show but also a tacit petition for our recognition of his intellect. This really annoys some people.

ellauri072.html on line 548: But yes, Wallace was extremely competitive, even to the point of competing about not being competitive. One of the wincing pleasures of Max’s biography is reading excerpts from Wallace’s correspondence, especially with his close friend and combatant Jonathan Franzen, but also with just about every white male writer he might ever have viewed as a rival or mentor. Aggressive self-abasement, grandstanding, veiled abuse, genuine thoughtfulness, thin-skinned pandering — it’s all there. As the correspondents compete about who is making genuine human connections and who and what is really nice and good, they seem to be in some realm far from most kinds of human connection save for that of heated testosteronic battle.

ellauri072.html on line 558: It’s not unlike the way Wallace turned a major problem with distraction — you will be amazed by his television watching — into an ability to follow out a thought or topic farther than almost anyone else.

ellauri072.html on line 562: One of the main criticisms of Wallace’s work is that he simply mirrored decay and malaise instead of moving through and beyond them. This was, not infrequently, one of his own main concerns. But the more nattering and pervasive complaint, which takes on more dimension in Max’s biography, is that he is just too brainy and aggressively difficult — just too, well, mean.

ellauri072.html on line 566: Let’s disagree. Wallace’s writing is not as difficult to read as it is famed to be, nor as pandering to entertain as he worried it was. Wallace writes in grammatically correct sentences; he tells jokes; and his work, if you are wired a certain way, will affect you emotionally.

ellauri072.html on line 570: People who find Wallace’s books lacking in heart often object to his thinkiness. But often a thought is an emotion and an emotion is a thought; thinking, like humor, may be an intellectual defense against emotion, but it is a wonderfully advanced defense.

ellauri072.html on line 575: — oh yeah, that’s the other thing, people dismiss (or admire) Wallace’s work as “cool”.

ellauri072.html on line 632: When Anna returned from school that day, Wallace was waiting with a baseball bat. He hit Anna repeatedly on the head until the bat broke, then pushed the broken end of the bat through her throat. Wallace put Anna’s body in the bathroom, cleaned up, and then got a steel pipe wrench from a shed.

ellauri073.html on line 199: Vuonna 2000 Wallu seuras McCainin kampanjaa Rolling Stonessa. Matt herkuttelee ajatuxella, että Wallu parka olis ottanut suihin McCainilta. Vähän huolettaa nää hemmot jotka vetää käteen sellaisilla mielikuvilla. Nähtävästi Wallu kirjoitti jonkun puffin ennnen 2000 esivaaleja Rolling Stonesiin McCainin kampanjasta. "Since you’re reading Rolling Stone, the chances are you’re an American between say 18 and 35."

ellauri073.html on line 202:     Cain gets introduced by some kind of very high-ranking Highway Patrol officer whose big hanging gut and face the color of rare steak seemed right out of southern-law-enforcement central casting and who spoke approvingly and at some length about Senator McCain’s military background and his 100 percent conservative voting record on crime, punishment, firearms, and the war on drugs. Wendy—who has electric-blue contact lenses and rigid blond hair and immaculate makeup and accessories and French nails and can perhaps best be described as a very Republican-looking young lady indeed—is back here at the beige table eating a large styrofoam cup of soup and using her cell phone to try to find someplace in downtown Charleston where Mrs. McCain can get her nails done.

ellauri073.html on line 204:       Mrs. McC.’s sedulous attention to her own person’s dress and grooming is already a minor legend among the press corps, and some of the techs speculate that things like getting her nails and hair done, together with being almost Siametically attached to Ms. Lisa Graham Keegan (who is AZ’s education superintendent and supposedly traveling with the senator as his “Advisor on Issues Affecting Education” but is quite plainly really along because she’s Cindy McCain’s friend and confidante and the one person in whose presence Mrs. McC. doesn’t look like a jacklighted deer), are the only things keeping this extremely fragile person together on the Trail. (Onx tää nyt se jota sanottiin julkisesti emättimexi? Ei hizi, kyllä sille tarvittaisiin joku miellyttävämpi sana.)

ellauri073.html on line 206:       A big reason why so many young Independents and Democrats are excited about McCain is that the campaign media focus so much attention on McCain’s piss-and-vinegar candor and so little attention on the sometimes extremely scary right-wing stuff this candor drives him to say. John McCain´s morning speech several times invoked a “moral poverty” in America, a “loss of shame” that he blamed on “the ceaseless assault of violence-driven entertainment that has lost its moral compass to greed” (McCain’s metaphors tend to mix a bit when he gets excited), and made noises that sounded rather a lot like proposing possible federal regulation of all US entertainment. No siinä olis kyllä ollut järkeä.

ellauri073.html on line 267:       The character's debut performance (May 8, 1993) has been called one of the best segments in SNL history. The reception of the audience combined with visible stifled laughter from David Spade and Christina Applegate on stage added to the popularity of the sketch. Notable physical gestures from Farley included what Spade referred to as “the thing with the glasses” when Farley lifted his glasses on and off of his face commenting, “Hey Dad, I can’t see real good, is that Bill Shakespeare over there?” and perhaps the most defining gesture was one that Farley saved for the live performance when he alternated hands adjusting his trousers, grabbing the hilt of his belt with one hand and the back of his pants with the other.

ellauri073.html on line 269:       In the sketch itself, Foley attempts to motivate two teens, played by Spade and Applegate, to "get themselves back on the right track" after the family’s cleaning lady finds a bag of marijuana in their home. Foley’s attempt to motivate them falls short when he repeatedly insists that they're "not going to amount to jack squat" and will end up “living in a van down by the river!” Foley attempts to endear himself to Spade's character by telling him they're "gonna be buddies" and that everywhere he goes, Foley will follow. Comparing himself to Spade's shadow, Foley jumps about where he's standing and then dives into the coffee table, though he picks himself up moments later. None of the other cast members knew that Farley was going to do this and their startled reactions are genuine. The sketch ends with Foley offering that the only solution to solve the family's problems is for him to move in with them. Horrified, Applegate begs him not to, vowing never to smoke pot again. Even so, Foley leaves the house to get his things from his van and the family locks him out, finally reconciling and admitting to how much they love each other.

ellauri073.html on line 325: Kävelemme ulos, ja Immonen antaa näytteen siitä, miten hän kuvaa videoitaan. Hän hypähtelee ja poseeraa kameralle irvistäen. “Hähähäh, tästä lähtee, nyt tulee tosi energinen video. Let’s go!” Immonen ojentaa kätensä ja alkaa kuvata. Video alkaa kuten kaikki Immosen videot:

ellauri073.html on line 448: I’m a writer, and write for money, (as in "a private dancer, a dancer for money", Tina Turner) although I will also accept acclaim. I also teach writing. How are you?

ellauri073.html on line 449: The largest thing I’ve written is my book, and it’s also probably the best, on the whole. So, if you’re interested in what I do, that’s probably where you should start.

ellauri073.html on line 451: But I’m not the boss of you. This is America—you can do whatever you want to. For example, you could start with some articles I’ve written for a variety of publications, including The New York Times Magazine and Hazlitt.

ellauri073.html on line 508: She was born May 14, 1938, in Fort Fairfield, Maine. The daughter of a potato farmer, she worked a quarter of the year during the harvest, but found her true passion for learning in the town’s one-room schoolhouse. She eventually graduated from Northfield boarding school in Gill, Mass., and later became the first in her family to graduate college, with a bachelor’s degree in English from Mount Holyoke in 1960, where she was student body president and wrote Junior Show.

ellauri073.html on line 510: After receiving her master’s degree from the University of Illinois, Mrs. Wallace was an English professor at Parkland College for 35 years. Her passion for learning was paired with a passion to help others learn — she was an enthusiastic, rigorous and above all compassionate instructor who made sure every student she had knew how much their voice mattered. Even after retiring, she taught in correctional facilities around Illinois and volunteered as a companion for Illinois CASA. In 2012, she and her husband, Jim, decided to move from their beloved city of Urbana to Florence, Ariz., to be closer to their family. There, they volunteered with Arizona CASA, hosted family dinners every Sunday, and adopted a much-loved terrier mix named Angus.

ellauri074.html on line 67: They breathe deeply and walk with large strides, eternally hurrying home to see about dinner. They are the kind who say, with a tender smile, “Money’s not everything.”

ellauri074.html on line 68: They are always confronting me with dresses, saying, “I made this myself.” They read Woman’s pages and try out the recipes.

ellauri074.html on line 85: There are the ones who simply cannot fathom why all the men are mad about them. They say they’ve tried and tried. They tell you about someone’s husband; what he said and how he looked when he said it. And then they sigh and ask, “My dear, what is there about me?” —Don’t you hate them?

ellauri074.html on line 145:   Samuel 5:9 Philistines punished with ‘‘emerods.’’ 

ellauri074.html on line 146:   Samuel 5:12 After the Ark moved to Ekron, perpetrators smitten by ‘‘emerods.’’

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ellauri074.html on line 239: One day, when speaking with his landlord, Tony was asking him how he got so successful. The landlord replied that he went to a Jim Rohn seminar (Rohn was a famous motivational speaker at the time). Robbins had no clue what a seminar was so he asked his landlord to explain. The landlord said that a seminar is when a man takes everything he’s learned over the years of his life, and he condenses his knowledge into four hours.

ellauri074.html on line 240: Robbins was fascinated by the idea of a seminar however to attend a Jim Rohn seminar it costs $35. At the time, Robbins was only making $40 a week! However, he made the decision to spend a week’s pay to attend the seminar. Although it was a costly investment for him, it would end up changing his life.

ellauri074.html on line 242: Robbins was so captivated by the seminar and impressed with Rohn’s credentials. At the time, Rohn was giving personal development speeches to executives at Standard Oil, the oil-producing company started by John D. Rockefeller. Robbins found Rohn’s approach captivating and he knew he wanted to learn as much as he could from him.

ellauri074.html on line 247: One way he would get people to do this is by making them do a firewalk over a bed of hot embers. Most people at his seminars normally thought that would be impossible. By showing them that they can walk on fire, it helped the attendees see that they had preconceived notions that weren’t true. (The trick is to wear thick-soled shoes with a huge carbon footprint.) 

ellauri074.html on line 251: Through Robbin’s seminars, he’s had the privilege to work with some extraordinary people like Bill Clinton, Oprah, Nelson Mandela, Leonardo DiCaprio, and Hugh Jackman (kekä se on?). Nippu talousliberaaleja. 

ellauri074.html on line 278: Cioranin mielestä ihmisen on tärkeää valita paikka, jossa hän haluaa epäonnistua elämässään. Hänelle itselleen Pariisi oli paras mahdollinen paikka siihen: ”S’il faut rater sa vie, c’est mieux de la rater à Paris qu’ailleurs. Il faut choisir l’endroit où on veut rater sa vie.”

ellauri074.html on line 649:   Wallace was deeply suspicious of the media infrastructure that was, when he died, still largely known as “the Net”—“I allow myself to Webulize only once a week now,” he once told a grad student—and he remarked to his wife, as they were moving computer equipment into their house, “thank God I wasn't raised in this era.” Having written his first big stories on a Smith Corona typewriter, Wallace disliked digital drafts and e-publishing in general. He took particular pleasure in the fact that his house in Indiana, the one recreated in The End of the Tour, had the elegantly atavistic address of “Rural Route 2.” He preferred to file his students’ work not on computers, but in a pink Care Bears folder. 

ellauri077.html on line 46: This article examines David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest alongside its eponymous film, arguing that they share a common purpose, but that the former succeeds where the latter fails. Coupled with a biographical and phenomenological analysis, the aim of this examination is to better understand Infinite Jest’s place in the cultural and literary movement away from post-modernism. Through the novel, Wallace seeks a cure for the postmodern malaise that is irony, which creates a distancing effect between author and reader. I argue that he collapses this distance by creating a conversation-like novel that uses sentimentality and endnotes to converse with a generation bombarded with easily consumable irony from television, advertisements, and even art. The results of this conversation are the curtailing of passive consumption of entertainment and the beginning of a new sincerity in literature, which allows for grand narratives without the unending cynicism of postmodernism.

ellauri077.html on line 56: 1Christopher Bartlett* (2016) “An Exercise in Telemachry”: David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest and Intergenerational Conversation. in Critique: Studies in ContemporaryFiction, 57:4, 374-389, DOI: 10.1080/00111619.2015.1113921

ellauri077.html on line 86: Sen aikaiset kirjoituxet, jotka on nyt Texasin yliopiston Lunnaskeskuxessa, sisältävät kaxi "kiintoisaa" runoa sen äidistä. Myöhemmin hän siirtyi proosaan, ja kirjoitti fiktioita kuten ‘Ralf ja laillinen kilometritolppa’ oppikooulun viimeisellä luokalla.

ellauri077.html on line 90: Urbaanassa Wallace alkoi koulun Jenkkiselänteen alkeiskoulussa, ja siitä sitten Urbaanan oppikouluun, josta hän valmistui 1980. Hän oli hyvä oppilas ja sai täysiä kymppejä koulussa, ja luki paljon kirjoja, etenkin ‘Karaistuneita poikia’ J. R. R. Tolkienin töitä. 

ellauri077.html on line 115: Vuonna 1984, David Foster Wallace päräytti ekan novellinsa, ‘Trillafonin planeetta ja sen suhde pahaan asiaan’, joka julkaistiin Amherstin kazauxissa. Senjälkeen se jatkoi novellien julkaisua, joista monet sisältyy sen ekaan novellikokoelmaan, 'Tyttö omituisella tukalla', julk. elok. 1989.

ellauri077.html on line 117: Tammikuun 8. pnä 1987 ollessaan vielä opiskelijana Arizonassa, Wallacelta julkaistiin sen eka romaani, ‘Luuta järjestelmässä’. Se sai sekalaiset arvostelut mutta kriitikot hälähtivät, ja Wallusta tuli kansallinen julkkis. Myöhemmin samana vuonna se pääsi Harvardin yliopiston filosofian tohtoriohjelmaan.

ellauri077.html on line 133: ‘Loputon läppä’ julaistiin helmik. 1. pnä 1996. Siitä on siis neljännesvuosisata nyt. Sitä ennen kolme palaa romskusta oli julkaistu Harperin lehessä ja New Yorkerissa: 'Kuinka kiinnostuxeni peräreikäjärjestelmiin heräsi' 1993, 'Useita lintuja' 1994 ja 'Väli' 1995. 

ellauri077.html on line 141: Vuonna 2000 hän aloitti kirjoittaa ‘Kalpeata kuningasta’. Kuitenkin, koko kirjoituskauden ajan, sillä oli työnimiä kuten 'Kimaltelija', SJF (Sir John Feelgood), 'Jalokiviverkko', ja 'Mikä on Elimäen tarkoitus?'

ellauri077.html on line 177: Huhtik. 15. pnä 2011 ‘Kalpea kuningas’ julkaistiin postuumisti Wallun lesken Karenin toimesta. Vaikka se oli kesken Wallun kuollesssa, romsku oli 1/3 finalistista v. 2012 kaunokirjallisuuden Pulizerin palkintoon. (Eipä voittanut, kukas tuli esaxi? Ei kukaan! jury oli erimielinen. Muut finalistit oli Denis Johnson’s Train Dreams and Karen Russell’s Swamplandia! Never heard nämäkin. 

ellauri077.html on line 198:   Loputtomassa läpässä on oleellisesti 3 juonta: Incandenzan perheen puuhat Tennisakatemiassa (tätä mä oon lukenut nyt 1 romskun verran, 245 sivua); Don Gatelyn ja muiden toipilaitten sekoilut Ennetin puolimatkankodissa (näitä on jo nähty, huoh kiitos vaan); ja filmin 'Loputon läppä' kvesti, jossa tähtinä on Remy Martin (se pyörätuolijäbä), ja Hugh/Helen Steeply (hirmu iso transu joka bylsii Orinia). Niiden suuhun Wallu panee syvälliset mietteensä. Ne on kuin jumala ja jeesus Miltonin Paradise Lostissa. Ekat 2 juonta ei liity mitenkään toisiinsa (miten niin? onhan siinä samoja henkilöitä, niiku et Orin bylsii sitä transua (Hal-Orin, haha, sanaleikki, joka osottaa että ne on Tävskytin kaxi puolta. The Halorin family name was found in the USA in 1880. Massachusetts had the highest population of Halorin families in 1880.) Mario on varmaan sit Amy, tai sit Super Mario, tai luultavimmin Wallu taas. Orin, Mario ja Hal on Tupu, Hupu ja Lupu, Wallukolmoset. Wallu kyllä vinkkaa että juonet yhtyvät kun romsku on jo loppunut. Varmaan siinä kustannustoimittajan poisleikkaamassa 300 sivussa. Kaikki 3 juonta liittyy temaattisesti: viihde, valinta ja stöpselöinti. Leffan 'Loputon läppä' filmas Wallun pappa Jim Incandenza, koittaessaan tehdä jotain niin pakottavaa että se pysäyttäisi Hal-pojan putoomisen solipsismin, ilottomuuden ja kuoleman sudenkuoppaan. Filmiä ei koskaan julkaistu ja se jäi kesken kun Jim teki ize seppukun sen loppusuoralla. Mutta romskun edetessä (SPOILERIVAROITUS!) lukijalle selviää että filmi oli löytynyt ja toimii ehkä terroristiaseena. (No sehän tuli selväxi jo tässä alkuosassa.) Leffa on tosiaankin niin "vitun pakottava" että se tekee kazojista zombieita, ne on kuin Lassi telkan edessä, töllöttävät vaan, eikä enää muuta tahdokaan. Loppuviimein, vinkkaa kertoja, Hal ja Gately jossain vaiheessa kaivaa kahteen pekkaan isä Jimin pään maasta eziessään filmiä. Filmin sisällöstä ei ole kunnon kuvausta. Jotain kohtauxia väläytellään, esim Joelle van Dynen jossa se "pyytää anteexi" kazojilta uudestaan ja uudestaan, sanoen ‘I’m so sorry. I’m so terribly sorry. I am so, so sorry. Please know how very, very, very sorry I am’ (939). Huh, onpas pitkällä. Tää on kyllä kertaalleen sanottu jo tässä alkupätkässä. Tämmönen anteexipyytely on kanssa saamaa markkinapaskaa kuin toi "luottamus", ilmaisexi pyydetään, kun luottokortti vingahtaa. Koko kirjasta (vaiko vaan filmistä) tulee 1 suuri anteexipyyntö, onxe sitten isältä pojalle vai päinvastoin, sama se. Ne ei koskaan pystyneet "keskustelemaan". Tää "We gotta talk" on kanssa yx jenkkitomppelius, hemmetti, mitä sitä varten pitää erixeen tilata vastaanotto tai merkata kalenteriaika, senkun riitelevät vaan. Niin mekin tehdään. Tää mun juttu, Barrett tunnustaa, kuuluu perinteiseen "elämä ja teos" genreen, Wallun romsku on "symbolistiteos" "kirjailijan sisällyttämisestä textiin". Wallu koittaa estää kokonaista sukupolvea uppoutumasta pelkkään viihteen kazeluun. Lukekaa kirjoja, ääliöt! Paxuja kirjoja! Mun kirjoja, ne on kaikista paxuimpia! Saatana! Kun tiili kolahtaa päähän nukahtaessa tulee pahoja kuhmuja. We apologize for the inconvenience. 

ellauri077.html on line 205: Capitalism has made it so there’s a perpetual tidal wave of American culture crashing down around the globe. When The Force Awakens was released last December, it didn’t just open coast to coast across North America—it appeared in over 30 countries across five continents within its first week. When Dan Brown’s novel Inferno was released in 2013, it didn’t just sell out in every Costco in these 50 states: a team of 11 translators were locked away in a garret somewhere so that the book could have a simultaneous worldwide release. By early 2014 it was available in over 20 different languages.

ellauri077.html on line 207: But not all things emanating from this country move quite so quickly. Take, for instance, David Foster Wallace’s near-canonical mega-novel Infinite Jest: released in the States in 1996, it has in 20 years been translated into just five languages. (A sixth translation into Greek is currently in the works.) At this rate, it is moving only slightly faster than the massive Quixote, which had appeared in England, France, the Germanic territories, and Venice 20 years after its complete Castilian publication in 1615. However, Jest is massively behind the 3,600-page über-novel My Struggle, which—just 5 years after its complete Norwegian release—is available or forthcoming in over 20 languages.

ellauri077.html on line 209: To determine precisely what forces have determined the globalization of David Foster Wallace’s magnum opus, I spoke to writers, translators, and publishers in eight countries familiar with the work and its multiple manifestations. This is what they told me (2016).

ellauri077.html on line 211:   Italians, they accept everything that comes from him, even if it’s alien to them, and find it beautiful.

ellauri077.html on line 214:   In Argentina Jest is far more talked about than read, a thing that has increased since the novelist’s suicide and sanctification: “Now there’s the legend, the suicide, the movie . . . all the things that help you to fluently ‘talk Wallace’ without the obligation of reading him.”

ellauri077.html on line 216:   Once again, the preponderance of American culture in Germany makes Infinite Jest a book that is readily understood. (And at this point I can’t help but take glee in the inherently Wallacian irony that American capitalism’s blob-like smearing of the globalized world has prepared the way for a scathing critique of this very same capitalism contained, Trojan Horse-style, inside a recondite mega-novel.) Still, things get lost: Blumenbach said that he “annotated the text as far as I could, and the publishers put those sixty pages of annotations on their website for a while.”

ellauri077.html on line 218:   Galindo tells me that Wallace’s heavy sense of irony and self-deprecation fits in rather well with contemporary Brazil: “What... is much more HUMAN. It is not AMERICAN (though, I repeat, he may have thought it was).

ellauri077.html on line 220:     The French attributed the book’s great success to the French love of the “écrivain maudit” archetype, Wallace’s acerbic critique of America, and the myth that has grown up around the author: “A writer who seems to have been sacrificing his life on the altar of literature is seen as a hero.”

ellauri077.html on line 329: Another aspect that defined his thoughts was the concept that would later inspire the work of other great writers such as Kafka, Unamuno, or philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein. We’re talking about "anxiety", the feeling that never disappears. This is because it also helps us become aware that there are more options in life, that we’re free to jump into the void or take a step back and seek other solutions, like happy homosexuality. There’s always an alternative to suffering, but suffering itself helps "it" grow.

ellauri077.html on line 454: He is the author of the monograph Existentialist Engagement in Wallace, Eggers and Foer: A Philosophical Analysis of Contemporary American Literature (Bloomsbury 2015) – for more information about this book, see below. His work has appeared in different academic journals and collections (see Publications). Currently, he is working on a book tentatively titled Wallace’s Existentialist Intertexts: Comparative Readings with the Fiction of Kafka, Dostoevsky, Camus and Sartre. 

ellauri077.html on line 466:   Wallace himself wrote, in my correspondence with him: “I too believe that most of the problems of what might be called ‘the tyranny of irony’ in today’s West can be explained almost  perfectly  in  terms  of  Kierkegaard’s  distinction  between  the  aesthetic  and the ethical life.”

ellauri077.html on line 478:     
  • that liberation from irony is only possible through (what Kierkegaard calls) a “leap,” by “ethically” choosing one’s freedom, by choosing the responsibility to give shape and meaning to that freedom.

    ellauri077.html on line 569: All good fiction “should both...depict the time’s darkness and...illuminate the possibilities for being alive and human  in  it." On tässä vähän Readers Digest tyylin gooey sentimentiä, mutta hyvällä tahdolla voi tän ehkä niellä.1 

    ellauri077.html on line 601: Wallace thought that his generation’s authors were also feeding a

    ellauri077.html on line 608: The U.S. arts are our guide to inclusion. A how-to. We are shown how to fashion masks of ennui and jaded irony at a young age where the face is fictile enough to assume the shape of whatever it wears. And then it’s stuck there, the weary cynicism that saves us from gooey sentiment and unsophisticated naïveté. Sentiment

    ellauri077.html on line 613: Wallace saw this (psycho) kind of writing as simply an example of self-love. Like the Onan whose name is another Wallu acronym-pun, these writers were working out of “the part that just wants to be loved” (i.e. the wiener) rather than “out of the part [. . .] that can love,” that is the “art’s heart”. 

    ellauri077.html on line 621: If we take the Incandenza-wraith’s claim that “Infinite Jest” was his last, desperate attempt to reconnect with Hal, to “simply converse”(IJ 838, original emphasis), as fact, this means that the actual product does just the opposite of what it was meant to. It instead traps the viewer in a solipsistic cage out of which there seems to be no escape.  

    ellauri077.html on line 627:   This process does not lead to a passive, solely pleasurable experience such as taking a drug or watching television. Instead, what awaits that reader is a book that forces her “‘to work hard to access its pleasures, the same way that in real life true pleasure is usually a by-product of hard work and discomfort’” (McCaffery 119). Perhaps the most difficult aspect of Infinite Jest (and the one for which it is fated to be infamously known) is the use of endnotes, which will be our entry into thinking of Infinite Jest as a conversation-text.

    ellauri077.html on line 754: The Stoics taught that we should accept whatever is outside our control. “Do you really think you can make a bad situation any worse by complaining about it?” Yes we can! I have tried to make this my own practice, and have tried to complain about things that happen. But not out loud! Marcus Aurelius said: “Don’t be overheard complaining… Not even to yourself.” Mutter your complaints under your breath.  

    ellauri078.html on line 52: The infinity symbol (∞) represents a line that never ends. The common sign for infinity, ∞, was first time used by Wallis in the mid 1650s. He also introduced 1/∞ for an infinitesimal which is so small that it can’t be measured. Wallis wrote about this and numerous other issues related to infinity in his book Treatise on the Conic Sections published in 1655. The infinity symbol looks like a horizontal version of number 8 and it represents the concept of eternity, endless and unlimited. Some scientists say, however, that John Wallis could have taken the Greek letter ω as a source for creating the infinity sign.

    ellauri078.html on line 89: She effectively secluded herself and poured forth poems with a profligacy bordering on hypographia. If you want a fairly succinct on-line biography of Dickinson, I enjoyed Barnes & Noble’s SparkNotes.

    ellauri078.html on line 97: Ballad Meter is a variant of Hymn Meter. Less formal and more conversational in tone than Common Meter, Ballad Meter isn’t as metrically strict, meaning that not all of its feet may be iambic. Also notice the rhyme scheme. Only the second & fourth line rhyme. Common Meter requires a strict ABAB rhyme scheme. The tone, the rhyme scheme, and the varied meter distinguish Ballad Meter from Common Meter.

    ellauri078.html on line 99: The singing of hymns, by the way, was not always a feature of Christian worship. For dumb anglo-saxons it was the briton Isaac Watts, a nonconformist (lue hihhuli) during the late 17th Century, who wedded the meter of Folk Song and Ballad to scripture. One of the churches that fully adopted Watts’ hymns was the The First Church of Amherst, Massachusetts, where Dickinson from girlhood on, worshiped. 

    ellauri078.html on line 101: One more variation on ballad meter would be fourteeners. Fourteeners essentially combine the Iambic Tetrameter and Trimeter alternation into one line. Examples of the form can be found as far back as George Gascoigne – a 16th Century English Poet who preceded Shakespeare. The Yellow Rose of Texas would be an example (and is a tune to which many of Dickinson’s poems can be sung). Wallu varmaan luki tän saman plokisivun ja kuunteli Melvis Pressulan whitey versiota.

    ellauri078.html on line 135:   Emily Elizabeth Dickinson was born in Amherst, Massachusetts, on December 10, 1830 to Edward and Emily (Norcross) Dickinson. At the time of her birth, Emily’s father was an ambitious young lawyer. Educated at Amherst and Yale, he returned to his hometown and joined the ailing law practice of his father, Samuel Fowler Dickinson. Edward also joined his father in the family home, the Homestead, built by Samuel Dickinson in 1813. Active in the Whig Party, Edward Dickinson was elected to the Massachusetts State Legislature (1837-1839) and the Massachusetts State Senate (1842-1843).

    ellauri078.html on line 137: Between 1852 and 1855 he served a single term as a representative from Massachusetts to the U.S. Congress. In Amherst he presented himself as a model citizen and prided himself on his civic work—treasurer of Amherst College, supporter of Amherst Academy, secretary to the Fire Society, and chairman of the annual Cattle Show. Comparatively little is known of Emily’s mother, who is often represented as the passive wife of a domineering husband. Her few surviving letters suggest a different picture, as does the scant information about her early education at Monson Academy. Academy papers and records discovered by Martha Ackmann reveal a young woman dedicated to her studies, particularly in the sciences.

    ellauri078.html on line 139: By the time of Emily’s early childhood, there were three children in the household. Her brother, William Austin Dickinson, had preceded her by a year and a half. Her sister, Lavinia Norcross Dickinson, was born in 1833. All three children attended the one-room primary school in Amherst and then moved on to Amherst Academy, the school out of which Amherst College had grown. The brother and sisters’ education was soon divided. Austin was sent to Williston Seminary in 1842; Emily and Vinnie continued at Amherst Academy. 

    ellauri078.html on line 141: By Emily Dickinson’s own account, she delighted in all aspects of the school—the curriculum, the teachers, the students. The school prided itself on its connection with Amherst College, offering students regular attendance at college lectures in all the principal subjects— astronomy, botany, chemistry, geology, mathematics, natural history, natural philosophy, and zoology. As this list suggests, the curriculum reflected the 19th-century emphasis on science. That emphasis reappeared in Dickinson’s poems and letters through her fascination with naming, her skilled observation and cultivation of flowers, her carefully wrought descriptions of plants, and her interest in “chemic force.” Those interests, however, rarely celebrated science in the same spirit as the teachers advocated. 

    ellauri078.html on line 143: In an early poem, she chastised science for its prying interests. Its system interfered with the observer’s preferences; its study took the life out of living things. In “‘Arcturus’ is his other name” she writes, “I pull a flower from the woods - / A monster with a glass / Computes the stamens in a breath - / And has her in a ‘class!’” At the same time, Dickinson’s study of botany was clearly a source of delight. She encouraged her friend Abiah Root to join her in a school assignment: “Have you made an herbarium yet? I hope you will, if you have not, it would be such a treasure to you.” She herself took that assignment seriously, keeping the herbarium generated by her botany textbook for the rest of her life. 

    ellauri078.html on line 145: Behind her school botanical studies lay a popular text in common use at female seminaries. Written by Almira H. Lincoln, Familiar Lectures on Botany (1829) featured a particular kind of natural history, emphasizing the religious nature of scientific study. Lincoln was one of many early 19th-century writers who forwarded the “argument from design.” She assured her students that study of the natural world invariably revealed God. Its impeccably ordered systems showed the Creator’s hand at work.

    ellauri078.html on line 147: Dickinson found the conventional religious wisdom the least compelling part of these arguments. From what she read and what she heard at Amherst Academy, scientific observation proved its excellence in powerful description. The writer who could say what he saw was invariably the writer who opened the greatest meaning to his readers. While this definition fit well with the science practiced by natural historians such as Hitchcock and Lincoln, it also articulates the poetic theory then being formed by a writer with whom Dickinson’s name was often later linked. In 1838 Emerson told his Harvard audience, “Always the seer is a sayer.”

    ellauri078.html on line 151: Dickinson left the academy at the age of 15 in order to pursue a higher, and for women, final, level of education. In the fall of 1847 Dickinson entered Mount Holyoke Female Seminary. Under the guidance of Mary Lyon, the school was known for its religious predilection. Part and parcel of the curriculum were weekly sessions with Lyon in which religious questions were examined and the state of the students’ faith assessed. The young women were divided into three categories: those who were “established Christians,” those who “expressed hope,” and those who were “without hope.” Much has been made of Emily’s place in this latter category and of the widely circulated story that she was the only member of that group. Years later fellow student Clara Newman Turner remembered the moment when Mary Lyon “asked all those who wanted to be Christians to rise.” Emily remained seated. No one else did. Turner reports Emily’s comment to her: “‘They thought it queer I didn’t rise’—adding with a twinkle in her eye, ‘I thought a lie would be queerer.’“

    ellauri078.html on line 153: The brevity of Emily’s stay at Mount Holyoke—a single year—has given rise to much speculation as to the nature of her departure. Whatever the reason, when it came Vinnie’s turn to attend a female seminary, she was sent to Ipswich.

    ellauri078.html on line 157: Particularly annoying were the number of calls expected of the women in the Homestead. Edward Dickinson’s prominence meant a tacit support within the private sphere. The daily rounds of receiving and paying visits were deemed essential to social standing. Not only were visitors to the college welcome at all times in the home, but also members of the Whig Party or the legislators with whom Edward Dickinson worked. Emily Norcross Dickinson’s retreat into poor health in the 1850s may well be understood as one response to such a routine.

    ellauri079.html on line 109: Jethro is the only surviving member of the family and has had his fair share of ups and downs since being on the show. He never really reached the level of stardom that he wanted and instead went on to be a producer and a director, as he had 6yrs of school and his uncle owned the studio.  After a while he had the idea to create a Beverly Hillbillies-themed casino out of a WalMart but failed.  The second attempt is still currently suspended. He’s hopeful that he’ll get things going again.

    ellauri079.html on line 113:   If Jed Clampett hadn’t done another role in his life he would have still been remembered as Jed Clampett more likely than not.  After his time on the show he went on to continue acting here and there but nothing ever really brought him the same kind of fame as he experienced while being Jed. He did manage to get a cameo in the film version of the Beverly Hillbillies but apart from that he was retired at that time and wasn’t doing much at all. He passed away due to respiratory failure in 2003.

    ellauri079.html on line 122:   A lot of fans will remember this awkward but funny family from TV and probably be able to sing the theme song without having to hear it. The Beverly Hillbillies were after all a favorite show back in their day and inspired a lot of other ideas that came much later, like David Foster Wallace´s magnum opus The Infinite Jest. The attempt to make a movie out of the show wasn’t all that successful and kind of left a bad taste in a lot of peoples’ mouths since it was such a poor attempt that even watching the trailer was something that people didn’t want to admit for a while.  Sometimes the best thing you can do is remember the good times and think back to the original that made it something special. Lets hope they will never, never try to make a movie out of Infinite Jest. Jim Incandenza tried that once already, with singularly bad results.

    ellauri079.html on line 243:     This book aims to recast the way we think about ethics by defending an alternative to more conventional approaches and illustrating its plausibility through detailed discussions of several important cases. The book is styled as an attack on “Plato’s Thesis”.

    ellauri079.html on line 324: Tässä ei nyt kerkiä kertoa pitkästi miten Plaatto asiasta selviää, riittäköön lyhyt summary. Ensin se kazoo miten oik.mukaisuus toimii valtiossa, ja sitten vasta sielussa. Juttu on se ikivanha rebublikaaninen tarina ihmisruumiin osista ja erittäin tärkeästä mahalaukusta. Eli syntyy työnjakoa, ja porukka jakautuu luonnostaan farmareihin ja käsityöläisiin, mutta sit tarvitaan myös näitä mahalaukkuja, suolia ja perseitä, ja niiden turvaxi armeija ja johtoon filosofikuningas. Tää on taloudellsta, väittää Plaatto, muuta perustelua ei anneta. Eliskä toi sääntö ‘yxi henkilö - yxi jopi’ (R. 370a–c; 423d). Ei vitussa, sanoo uusliberaali, paljon parempi tää järjestys missä huipulla on vähän ihmisiä ei mitään jopia, ja pohjalla vitusti ihmisiä jokaisella kolme neljä jopia. 

    ellauri080.html on line 75: Chymos Oy oli vuonna 1906 perustettu suomalainen yritys, joka valmisti mehuja, hilloja, viinejä, liköörejä ja makeisia. Vuorineuvos Wäinö Tammenoksa perusti vuonna 1906 Ruokolahden kunnan Tainionkoskelle (nyk. osa Imatraa) ’’Alkoholittomien Juomien Tehdas Chymoksen’’. Tämä oli ensimmäinen kerta, kun Suomen metsämarjoja alettiin jalostaa teollisesti. Nimi muutettiin vuonna 1918 muotoon ’’Tehdas Chymos’’. Vuonna 1922 yhtiö muutti Lappeenrantaan. Vuonna 1993 yrityksen makeistuotanto siirtyi Fazerin omistukseen, ja vuonna 2006 Chymos sulautettiin kokonaan Cloetta Fazeriin. Nimi Chymos tulee kreikan kielen sanasta ''khymos'', joka tarkoittaa mehua. Yhtiön henkilöstölehden mukaan nimen oikea lausumistapa oli "kyymos", mutta kansan suussa nimi muuttui muotoon "hyymos", "syymos" tai "tsyymos".  

    ellauri080.html on line 363: Self-directedness (self-concept) is one of the three aspects of human character in Cloninger’s biopsychosociospiritual model of personality (Cloninger et al. 1993). This character trait involves a person’s sense of responsibility, hopeful purpose, self-acceptance, self-actualization, and resourcefulness (Cloninger 2004). See Cooperativeness and Self-transcendence for the other two aspects of human character.

    ellauri080.html on line 365: Self-directedness can be seen as the executive branch of a person’s system of mental self-government. People who are self-directed recognize that their attitudes, behaviors, and problems reflect their own choices. They tend to accept responsibility for their attitudes and behavior and they impress others as reliable and trustworthy persons. As a result, a person’s Self-directedness is an important indicator of reality testing, maturity, and vulnerability to mood disturbance....

    ellauri080.html on line 372: Self-transcendence: it’s a term you’ve probably heard before.

    ellauri080.html on line 373: However, if you’re like me, you never had a good grasp on exactly what it meant.

    ellauri080.html on line 374: You might have a hazy idea of “transcending” being akin to “rising above” and think of the concept as rising above oneself, but you don’t really know what it is beyond that.

    ellauri080.html on line 375: If this describes you as well as it described me, you’ve come to the right place! In this piece, we will define self-transcendence, look at its components and characteristics, think of some examples, and explore how it can be achieved.

    ellauri080.html on line 381: It is easy to see how self-transcendence and spirituality are connected—one of the inherent qualities of self-transcendence is the expansion of one’s consciousness beyond the self, to something higher.

    ellauri080.html on line 383: That “something higher” is often divine or spiritual in nature. Many achieve self-transcendence through their faith in God, while others may achieve it through recognition of some system of spirituality or idea of the soul. This faith or spirituality can help individuals find the meaning that will fulfill them and propel them to transcendence. Research has even shown that in elderly patients, the caregiver’s own spirituality had a positive impact on the patient’s well-being (Kim, Reed, Hayward, Kang, & Koenig, 2011).

    ellauri080.html on line 400: Intensity of reaction: intense children will have very powerful reactions to things. For instance, if they want to wear their favorite purple shirt and it’s in the washer, they may have an intense outburst. Children with low intensity will react very mildly to negative and positive situations. It may be difficult to recognize how a low intensity child is feeling.

    ellauri080.html on line 411: Highly distractible children will quickly shift their attention from one thing to another. They may not be able to focus on a conversation over dinner if they see a dog outside the kitchen window. They may be very attuned to details and have a hard time focusing in places and spaces that are busy and loud. Children with low distractibility find it easy to get really focused on a task. They get absorbed in a book even though there’s a noisy gathering of people in the same room. These children can block out many distractions and really focus their attention on what they are working on.

    ellauri080.html on line 413: Mood: Some children naturally have a happier mood, and other children may have a more serious mood. Mood refers to the overall tone of a person’s feelings, interactions and behaviors. Some people are dispositioned to have a happier overall mood, and they generally feel good about things. Others may have more of a negative mood. They may be referred to as more unpleasant, as they may not react in a strong, positive way with the world around them. Children who have a more naturally negative mood may appear to be more subdued than happy. They may have a demeanor that is more calm and may appear gloomy, sad or negative. They may not show their positive feelings externally, but may still feel positive things. I guess.

    ellauri080.html on line 427:   The material I will use to justify my claims comes from three time-honored traditions: sacred geometry as practiced by the ancient Egyptians, the inner structure of the I Ching, and the house arrangement of astrology. All these disciplines attempt to give meaningful order to what may appear at times to be a chaotic human existence, as is Jung’s typology.

    ellauri080.html on line 435:     He was well aware of the difficulty of presenting a general description of types and its inability to draw an absolutely correct picture. Still, his wealth of empirical evidence led him to deduce as ‘factual’ the existence of distinct types. This deduction was made many times before him and is a simple reflection of the nature of reality (the reality of Nature).

    ellauri080.html on line 437: In Jungian typology, the original ‘unity’ of human consciousness is first divided into two poles of attitude: extraversion and introversion. These represent two fundamentally distinct yet complementary relationships between inner and outer reality. Extraversion is characterized bya flow of energy and interest from the subject to the object, from the inner to the outer. Identification with the outer gives meaning to the inner. Introversion is completely the opposite. It is characterized by a flow of energy and interest from the object to the subject, from the outer to the inner.  

    ellauri080.html on line 481: FE/TI asks ‘what do you think, and how can we communicate that?’ 
    

    ellauri080.html on line 482: TE/FI asks ‘what do you want, and how can we get it?’

    ellauri080.html on line 484: Thinking in, feelings out versus feelings in, thinking out. These two attitudes can be summed up as ‘translating’ and ‘operationalizing’ respectively. Hauskasti myös filosofit ja muut julkkixet on numeroitavissa kuin kananpojat Jungin axeleilla: 

    ellauri080.html on line 492:     This relates directly to CelebrityTypes’ observation of “NTP Knowing and NTJ Willing”, though my proposition is that this in fact applies across all types in the form of these judging axes, albeit with varying degrees of appearance. I believe that in the sense above, the FE/TI axis is more naturally wired to seek abstract knowledge, while TE/FI is more naturally wired to make concrete its visionary will.

    ellauri080.html on line 498:     These two views of the world are, of course, mutually inimical — they inevitably chase each other’s tails. Nietzsche says to Hume: ‘he stole that bread because he wanted to feed his family,’ to which Hume replies, ‘yes, that is true: but why did he want to feed his family? Because he is adhering to a familial principle,’ to which Nietzsche replies, ‘I suppose you could put it that way, but why is he operating according to that principle? It’s because he wants to, because he loves his family,’ to which Hume replies, ‘yes, but why does he love his family? It’s because that is his logical worldview…’ And so on.

    ellauri080.html on line 506: SE/NI asks ‘what is the bottom-line of the raw data?’ 
    

    ellauri080.html on line 507: NE/SI asks ‘what is the Truth behind the perspectives?’

    ellauri080.html on line 512:     These two attitudes can be summed up as ‘conjecturing’ and ‘examining’ respectively. The one axis seeks to discover, envision or predict the potential course (NI) plotted by their various raw experiences of things (SE); obviously the image I am summoning here is that of a scatterplot and line of best fit, though one could also summon the image of a researcher recording their observations and then forming overarching conclusions abstracted from that data.

    ellauri080.html on line 514:     On the NI side, a good example would be Karl Marx, who spent hours upon hours researching and observing social and economic conditions in society, from which data he developed his comprehensive theories of capital and dialectical materialism. On the SE side, a good example is Dale Carnegie, who, as CelebrityTypes pointed out in one of their function axes articles, is one of many SE types who concretize their wealth of experiences into practical wisdom, such as ‘How to Win Friends and Influence People’.

    ellauri080.html on line 520:   A good example of this mentality can be found in the theories of Michel Foucault, who himself describes society as a series of power structure grids you can lay on top of the truth in order to reveal some things but conceal others, and our goal essentially should be to experiment with various power grids to discover the true limits or bounds of how human society can successfully be structured. Another example could be Martin Heidegger’s discussion of Being or existence, and how many different perspectives are required to observe it and get a full picture, because of our extremely subjective position in relation to the nature of our own existence, not to mention existence within the ever shifting realm of time.

    ellauri080.html on line 524: Overall, SE/NI is much more trusting of what we could call empirical or collected data, particularly data from direct experience, which is why, as CelebrityTypes was the first to point out, it tends to feel much more “intense and singular” of vision, because it is perfectly happy with direct observation and direct conjecture from the collected data. As CelebrityTypes says, “The person will stress one point of view (Ni), which is indeed frequently the viewpoint that generates the greatest yield here and now (Se). The singularity of observation involved will frequently lend a manifest and immediate quality to the SE/NI type’s observations, which in turn tends to make them convincing.” This is because SE/NI is naturally hooked into and derived from a direct and photographic view of the world.

    ellauri080.html on line 526: A dominant NI type, for instance, is constantly conjecturing from whatever data they have: it’s what they do, and that’s why these types will often feel like they have a lot to say on topics regardless of their expertise, because they can still conjecture an intriguing point of view from what little data they have; of course, depending on their skill, luck, and their sample size, it is not uncommon for their ‘lines of best fit’, as it were, to be off by some degree. In fact, Ni types are often used to this and, at least in my experience, can sometimes conjecture about how accurate their own conjectures are likely to be. Se conjecture like this too, believe it or not, just not as consistently, but it is part of what can lend that peculiar air of surety or confidence to the ESTP’s speech, or the driven spontaneity of the ESFP’s decisions. These types feel that they see something before them in glorious clarity and sharpness. How long that vision will last varies.

    ellauri080.html on line 528: Meanwhile, the NE/SI axis is not so trusting of direct experience, which is hardly a mystery, because their perception of reality is introverted, meaning they aren’t interested in direct and photographic reality, but in the ideal versions of experiences abstracted from reality (e.g. Socrates’ search for the overarching ‘idea’ of everyday things like dogs, beds, piety, etc., as opposed to individual instances of these things). This is why, as CelebrityTypes also points out, “The person will also be more careful and meticulous (SI) because there is an unconscious striving to contribute one’s observations to building a system which is valid not just in the here and now, but which is perceived to be true in general: To generate the type of knowledge that could conceivably end up in a future textbook on the subject.” The axis makes use of Ne’s multifaceted nature to accomplish this.

    ellauri080.html on line 530: This helps illuminate a number of characteristics of SI and NE individually: dominant SI types focus their energy on the apprehension and upholding of the Truth as it is carefully and cautiously composited and systematically tested for weaknesses; hence, their stereotypically thorough, cautious, and reserved nature, and why they are not so sure in idea-based conversation as Ni types: because of just that — they aren’t sure. Meanwhile, dominant NE types, focusing their energy on the exploration and experimentation from various angles, have the same presence of doubt, which is why NE types so often eschew dogma and may be perceived as intellectually ‘flakey’ or ‘capricious’ because they never truly commit to anything: it’s all experimentation and exploration, forming a composite Truth, though their trouble is they never want to stop. The SI’s trouble, on the other hand, is that they don’t want to start.

    ellauri080.html on line 540: Keynes's obituary in The Times included the comment: "There is the man himself – radiant, brilliant, effervescent, gay, full of impish jokes ... He was a humane man genuinely devoted to the cause of the common good." Kuulostaa Wallun äiskältä, wickedly funny. Ja gay. Ize asiassa gay pedophile kaiken kukkuraxi. Keynes was a libertine hedonist who wasted most of his adult life engaging in sexual relationships with children, including travelling around the Mediterranean visiting children’s brothels. Funnily wicked too.

    ellauri080.html on line 542: This axis is also apparent in my own videos: you’ll notice there are quite a few of them, partly because I keep on redoing the same topics whenever I feel I’ve hit on a new perspective that I then can’t help but explain as though it were my new ‘doctrine’ because it suddenly seems so much more clear and beautiful and compelling than any previous perspectives, and I just want to get that pure idea out. Literally, after I do a video on a compelling subject, if I did it well, I’ll feel like I’ve emptied myself out, and I’ll very easily forget what it was that I just explained in that video. The idea dulls, I start finding some problems with it, and over time I mull it around with other material and then become bedazzled by the next rich synthesis.

    ellauri080.html on line 693:   “There seems to be a strong genetic overlap between ADHD and autism,” De Alwis said. “And it’s very common for people with ADHD to have autistic traits. These individuals may not have an autism spectrum disorder, but they typically score high on measurements of autistic traits.”

    ellauri080.html on line 727:     In 1930, he was the Time Magazine, Person of the year. His birth name was Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. “Mahatma” was an epithet meaning ‘great-souled one’ that was added to his name. He was first called ‘Mahatma’ by Rabindranath Tagore in 1915. Gandhi married aged 13 to Masturbai aged 14. Child marriage was common at the time, but Gandhi later came to oppose child marriage. Anyway to Masturbai. They had five children, one dying in infancy.

    ellauri080.html on line 733:     In India,  a Muslim friend encouraged Gandhi to eat goat’s meat. As Gandhi was physically weak, he agreed to it. But, that night he had a dream that the goat was crying inside his stomach. He said “I can’t eat meat anymore. I heard the goat's mother bleat from inside me.” He never ate meat again.

    ellauri080.html on line 735:     In his adult life, Gandhi never drank alcohol and claimed that alcohol was ‘one of the most greatly-felt evils of the British Rule.’ Ill-health may have forced him to take a cup or two now and then.  

    ellauri080.html on line 737:     Gandhi’s early law career in India was a struggle. He also refused a job as a high-school teacher in Bombay. To make a living, he took a job in South Africa for an Indian law firm.

    ellauri080.html on line 741:     In 1897, he was stripped and nearly lynched by a white mob in Natal, but when the governor sought to press charges, Gandhi refused – saying he didn’t want to use a court of law for personal issues.

    ellauri080.html on line 744:     For his service in the Boer War, Gandhi was awarded the Queen’s South Africa Medal. What the fuck was he doing fighting a colonial war for the British? On the other hand, Boers were no better than Brits in that respect. They took turns on sitting on the natives, with the Indian middle class sitting in the middle. 

    ellauri080.html on line 754:             Gandhi’s most famous campaign was the Salt march of 1930. Gandhi walked to the ocean to make his own salt – thereby non-violently oppose the British law which forbade the Indians from making their own salt. Gandhi used to drink his own pee in the mornings to retain the salt.

    ellauri080.html on line 755:     “With this I’m shaking the foundations of the British Empire.” – Gandhi – after holding up a cup of pee.

    ellauri080.html on line 767:             On 8 August 1942, Gandhi began a “Quit India Movement”. His speech urged Indians to ‘do or die.’

    ellauri080.html on line 799:                     Gandhi’s family was also closely connected to Jainism, a religion which made non-violence a key element.

    ellauri080.html on line 801:                     During his life, Gandhi studied all the major religions – the Bible, The Qu’ran, The Buddhist scriptures and of course the major Indian classics, such as the Bhagavad Gita. In London he also studied Theosophy.

    ellauri080.html on line 805:             Gandhi was also inspired by Henry David Thoreau’s “Civil Disobedience” John Ruskin (for his critique of capitalism) and Leo Tolstoy and his philosophy of non-violence.

    ellauri082.html on line 41: 
    Six Things You Didn’t Know About David Foster Wallace
    

    ellauri082.html on line 54: When David Foster Wallace committed suicide in 2008, it was clear he had been profoundly depressed. But the first major biography of the writer, D.T. Max’s Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story, out on August 30th, reveals an even more troubled mind than anyone realized. From the time he was in college, the brilliant author of Infinite Jest was in and out of institutions as he struggled with depression and addictions to alcohol and marijuana. But the book is also full of all kinds of other strange surprises, painting the most complete, and warmest, portrait of Wallace yet.

    ellauri082.html on line 56: 
    He wasn’t as good at tennis as he claimed.
    

    ellauri082.html on line 76: 
    He was a ladies’ man.
    

    ellauri082.html on line 78: Wallace hooked up with everyone from friends’ girlfriends to countless young fans. He once asked his friend Jonathan Franzen if his only purpose on Earth is “to put my penis in as many vaginas as possible.” Just like Georges Simenon.

    ellauri082.html on line 91: 99% of compulsive thinkers’ thinking is about themselves; that 99% of this self-directed thinking consists of imagining and then getting ready for things that are going to happen to them; and then, weirdly, that if they stop to think about it, that 100% of the things they spend 99% of their time and energy imagining and trying to prepare for all the contingencies and consequences of are never good. In short that 99% of the head’s thinking activity consists of trying to scare the everliving shit out of itself.

    ellauri082.html on line 93: Some people’s moms never taught them to cover up or turn away when they sneeze. Different people have radically different ideas of basic personal hygiene.

    ellauri082.html on line 101: The biography by Tyrannosaurus Max paints a less than flattering portrait of Wallace. That’s not to say it’s a vicious takedown—it’s probably about as even-handed as a biography about the author is going to be, and I can imagine books about him in the future being a lot less level-headed in either direction. Basically, DFW was an extremely troubled individual and probably not a very awesome person qua person. He was often misanthropic, violent, cruel (especially to women), and self-absorbed. But what’s great about the biography is how it allows these rather hideous characteristics to disgust as well as inform; knowing the uglier aspects of DFW’s personality is extremely enlightening with regard to his work. It seems to me that the writer was extremely aware of his immense character flaws and sought in his work (his novels and his non-fiction particularly) to overcome them, and in his work he was able to occupy a wholly different realm than he was in his actual life. Well actually not at all that different. The books project a rather nasty person too. 

    ellauri082.html on line 105: Despite his flaws, DFW’s death is still a great tragedy, not because people are without their god of post-post-post-postmodernism, but because his redemptive and humanistic work is now decidedly finite. Well here sure was a humanist as far as technology is concerned. His work could have beeen made infinite by adding to the end: Poles are stupid, please turn over. 

    ellauri082.html on line 114: Herb: Is there no “ending” to “Infinite Book” because there couldn’t be? Or did you just get tired of writing it?

    ellauri082.html on line 116: DFW: There is an ending as far as I’m concerned. Certain kind of parallel lines are supposed to start converging in such a way that an “end” can be projected by the reader somewhere beyond the right frame. If no such convergence or projection occurred to you, then the book’s failed for you.

    ellauri082.html on line 118: WARNING: This whole thing is one gigantic spoiler. Only read it if you’ve already tried to figure it out for yourself first.

    ellauri082.html on line 123: But at the same time, Hal’s condition deepens. Ever since Hal ate the mold as a child, he’s been a brilliant communicator but unable to feel. (694: “Hal himself hasn’t had a bona fide intensity-of-interior-life-type emotion since he was tiny … in fact he’s far more robotic than John Wayne.”) JOI was the only one who could see it. In life, everyone thought JOI was just being crazy but in death (as a wraith) he can actually read Hal’s thoughts and thus confirm his view.

    ellauri082.html on line 125: In life he created the Entertainment to draw Hal out (Hal moves outwardly but doesn’t feel inside; victims of the Entertainment feel—something—inside but don’t move outwardly). After all, as he tells Gately, he was willing to resort to desperate measures: “No! No! Any conversation or interchange [between father and son] is better than none at all.” (839)

    ellauri082.html on line 127: JOI’s wraith is responsible for the strange disturbances around ETA — tripods in the forest, moving Ortho’s bed, ceiling tiles on the floor. He knocks the ceiling tiles down in an attempt to find the DMZ. Pemulis is too distracted with getting expelled to have Hal take it, so JOI needs to get it to Hal some other way.

    ellauri082.html on line 129: Described as coming from a kind of mold that “grows on other molds,” DMZ is an incredibly powerful and mysterious hallucinogen. It can have many different effects but often seems to transform a person’s ability to communicate. It is also nicknamed “Madame Psychosis,” after Joelle’s radio persona. Michael Pemulis manages to acquire some, but it is stolen before he and Hal can take it. It’s suggested that Hal has been affected by DMZ by the time of the Year of Glad, but it’s unclear how—whether from eating a piece of mold as a child and then withdrawing from marijuana, or having his toothbrush laced with Pemulis’s drugs (possibly by James’s wraith). As a result of this presumed DMZ consumption, Hal is able to feel strong emotions (which was impossible for him before) but unable to communicate. 

    ellauri082.html on line 131: JOI also created DMZ as part of an attempt to undo the effects of Hal’s eating mold as a child (recall: DMZ is a mold that grows on a mold). He left it along with the Entertainment (recall: ETA kids find JOI’s personal effects (670: “a bulky old doorless microwave…a load of old TP cartridges…mostly unlabelled”); the tapes and the DMZ are delivered together to the FLQ) which is about this goal (it stars a woman named Madame Psychosis (a street name for DMZ; another is 1st Av.) explaining that the thing that killed you in your last life will give birth to you in the next). The DMZ and the Entertainment were meant to go together for Hal. Now that the Entertainment has escaped, he needs to get Hal the DMZ.

    ellauri082.html on line 133: Hal never leaves leaves his toothbrush unattended (870), but that’s no problem for a wraith. He places the DMZ on Hal’s brush and Hal brushes his teeth (860) and immediately begins experiencing symptoms: Ortho thinks Hal’s crying when Hal thinks he’s speaking in a neutral tone (862).

    ellauri082.html on line 135: Hal’s symptoms indeed begin to reverse: he is now unable to properly communicate feelings (people see him as either laughing hysterically or terribly sad) but beginning to actually feel (like Gately, he spends a lot of time lying on the floor thinking about the past — the hero of nonaction from his essay (142)). While before, everyone could hear him except JOI; now only JOI can hear him (since, as with Gately, he can hear Hal’s thoughts).

    ellauri082.html on line 137: By the time of the match, his symptoms are so bad he’s taken by ambulance to the hospital (16: “the only other emergency room I have ever been in [was] almost exactly one year back”), safely escaping the A.F.R.’s assault. Like fellow student Otis P. Lord, he gets the bed next to Gately. Joelle (who is at the hospital for a meeting) visits Gately on her way out and recognizes Hal. She tells them both about the hunt for the lethal Entertainment and the resulting Continental Emergency and they all go to dig up JOI’s grave. They persuade John Wayne, a spy for the A.F.R., to become a double agent and help sneak them into JOI’s Quebec burial site. Wayne presumably tells the A.F.R. he is actually a triple agent — that he will steal the tape as soon as Hal digs it up. But, as with Marathe, his loyalties are ultimately even-numbered (n40). The A.F.R. finds out and brutally murders him, which is why he can’t win the WhataBurger (16f).

    ellauri082.html on line 141: he’s with a very sad kid and they’re in a graveyard digging some dead guy’s head up and it’s really important, like Continental-Emergency important, and Gately’s the best digger but he’s wicked hungry, like irresistibly hungry, and he’s eating with both hands out of huge economy-size bags of corporate snacks so he can’t really dig, while it gets later and later and the sad kid is trying to scream at Gately that the important thing was buried in the guy’s head and to divert the Continental Emergency to start digging the guy’s head up before it’s too late, but the kid moves his mouth but nothing comes out, and Joelle van D. appears … while the sad kid holds something terrible up by the hair and makes the face of somebody shouting in panic: Too Late. (934)

    ellauri082.html on line 143: It’s too late because someone got there first and took the anti-Entertainment cartridge (126) embedded in JOI’s head (31). Whoever took it is presumably the person who’s made and mailed the extant copies. It couldn’t be the A.F.R. or O.U.S. or they wouldn’t still be searching for it. It probably wasn’t the F.L.Q. because they didn’t know how to read master cartridges—they just thought they were blank tapes in their displays were blank. (483n205) It couldn’t be Avril acting alone; she has problems but she’s not that kind of cold-blooded killer. It had to have been Orin.1

    ellauri082.html on line 145: Orin (who never attended his father’s funeral) went to the gravesite and dug up his father, releasing the wraith in the process. (244: “After a burial, rural Papineau-region Québecers purportedly drill a small hole down from ground level all the way down through the lid of the coffin, to let out the soul, if it wants out.”) Orin, who is such a partisan of his father that he feels the need to repeatedly ruin the lives of people like his mother, has been mailing the tapes to his father’s enemies in revenge: disapproving film critics in Berkeley and the medical attaché (whose affair with his mother drove Himself especially wild) in Boston. It’s possible he’s being influenced by the wraith in these actions.

    ellauri082.html on line 147: After the A.F.R. releases roaches into his giant glass tumbler, Orin cuts a deal with the A.F.R. and gives them the tape in return for letting him live. (He’s apparently still alive on p. 14.) The A.F.R. uses the tape to set off some sort of intracontinental conflagaration (16: “some sort of ultra-mach fighter too high overhead to hear slices the sky from south to north”) which apparently topples the Gentle administration (n114: “[Y.G. is] the very last year of Subsidized Time”).

    ellauri082.html on line 149: As seen in Chapter 1, Hal’s condition deepens until he literally can’t communicate at all, but no longer feels like a robot anymore. (12: “I’m not a machine. I feel and believe.”) The only thing he has left is tennis and he looks forward to playing Ortho Stice in the final match of the WhataBurger. But Stice is possessed by his father (in the manuscript, Stice is called “the Wraithster”), so the novel ends as Hal finally gets to really interface with his father — in the only way he has left.

    ellauri082.html on line 155: Throughout the first half there are several major passages, basically monologues, from characters such as Schtitt, Hal and Marathe that critique the average American’s lack of objects of worship that are larger and therefore more permanent and perfect (in a sense) than the individual.

    ellauri082.html on line 159: Accusations that DFW is “talking down to” or “intentionally alienating” with his vocabulary I can understand somewhat–I don’t believe he was actually intending to make people feel stupid, but he’s clearly excessive and self-indulgent on occasion.

    ellauri082.html on line 163:     In Brittany, it was said that when the Ankou (Death) when he came to get you, you heard the squeak of his chariot’s wheels. Faisait-elle? disent les Fauteils rollants sans pieds avec le squeak.

    ellauri082.html on line 241: The only other sound’s the sweep   		Ei kuulu muita ääniä kuin tuulen	

    ellauri082.html on line 282: Jotain narsistista liipalaapaa tääkin on. Se vois hyvin olla jotain homomuistoja, Frostkin oli tiettävästi käynyt suklaatiskillä. Those rhymes!” says Philip on the phone the following morning. “It’s as if nature made them.”	Homot ymmärtävät toisiaan puolesta sanasta. 

    ellauri082.html on line 284: Robert Frost is by no means the only poet in whom a hunger for recognition comes into conflict with a wariness, an inner reticence, a distaste for self-revelation. But I think in him the conflict was particularly acute. On the one hand he could be quite shameless in his pursuit of favourable reviews and his presentation to the public of a folksy and largely misleading image. On the other hand we have cryptic comments like in this poem it is not made explicit what the ‘things forbidden’ are that he has managed to preserve for himself but I take them to be his poems, or those things that his poems keep alive, and he is rightly confident enough in his own powers as a poet to feel that he has succeeded.

    ellauri082.html on line 312: I’ve chosen to blog this particular passage, which runs ten pages in lenght, for a few reasons, the most honest reason being its unrelenting frankly honest potrayal of a person in the midst of a serious marijuana dependancy. Erdedy’s chapter has him eagerly awaiting the delivery of 200 grams of high-resin weed, of which he will force himself to smoke in its entirety in one hazy fog-induced sitting. Wallace, writing in the 3rd person, manages to get close enough to Erdedy’s running internal monologue to present to us a deeply troubled young man’s addiction and the lenghts he is willing to go to–whislt also attempting to redeem himself through his numerous attempts in kicking the addiction–in order to satisfy his intense cravings.

    ellauri082.html on line 314: Wallace’s tight prose and his very precise use of the drug-users thought process, such as planning to smoke in large quantities to induce a horrible high in order to create an intense aversion to smoking or mulling over the decision to call a dealer for an update for their ETA, creates an incruciating relatable charatcer in Erdedy. Anyone who has struggled with slowing down or completely stopping a vice that has consumed their daily life may find this passage incredibly relatable.

    ellauri082.html on line 316: She said he lived in a trailer by the river was 36 years old and was a motivational speaker. And was basically just not what you’d call a pleasant or attractive person at all.

    ellauri082.html on line 581:     CS: PCP:n eli ’enkelipölyn’ laajalle levinnein muunnos, tunnettu myös nimellä Counter-Strike tai Crack Shot. Aiheuttaa voimakasta riippuvuutta, aseiden äänten matkimista sekä liiallista eläytymistä peleihin. Vaarallisia oireita ovat myös näköhäiriöt, joiden seurauksena käyttäjä saattaa joutua hankkimaan rillit. CS saa käyttäjänsä erittäin aggressiivisiksi ja eristäytyminen saattaa alkaa jo muutaman pelikerran jälkeen. CS on WoW:in jälkeen yleisin virtuaalihuume maailmassa ja tilanne pahenee helpomman saatavuuden ja mainostuksen takia. Jostain syystä maat eivät kiellä kyseisiä pelejä vaarallisina. Syynä pidetään ennustettua valtavaa joukkomellakkaa, joka aiheutuisi pelin kieltämisestä, jolloin miljoonat virtuaalimöyhyistä riippuvaiset pukeutuisivat armeijapukuihin ja alkaisivat räiskiä aseilla ympäriinsä.

    ellauri082.html on line 746:     In their introduction, they acknowledge that being viewed as a victim can lead to a loss of esteem and respect. But, they continue, in modern Western societies being a victim doesn’t always lead to undesirable outcomes. Sometimes, being a victim can increase one’s social status. And justify one’s claim to material resources.

    ellauri082.html on line 751:      The researchers examine victim signaling, which they define as “a public and intentional expression of one’s disadvantages, suffering, oppression, or personal limitations.” They also examine virtue signaling, defined as “symbolic demonstrations that can lead observers to make favorable inferences about the signaler’s moral character.”

    ellauri082.html on line 755:     They argue that signaling both victimhood and virtue would maximize one’s ability to extract resources. People feel the most sympathy for a victim who is also a good person.

    ellauri082.html on line 756:     The researchers developed a Victim Signaling Scale, ranging from 1 = not at all to 5 = always. It asks how often people engage in certain activities. These include: “Disclosed that I don’t feel accepted in society because of my identity.” And “Expressed how people like me are underrepresented in the media and leadership.”

    ellauri082.html on line 781: "The underrepresentation of girls and women in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) is a continual concern for social scientists and policy makers. Using an international database on adolescent achievement in science, mathematics, and reading (n = 472,242), we show girls performed similarly or better than boys in science in two of every three countries, and in nearly all countries, more girls appeared capable of college-level STEM study than enrolled. Paradoxically, the sex differences in the magnitude of relative academic strengths and pursuit of STEM degrees increased with increases in national gender equality. The gap between boys’ science achievement and girls’ reading achievement relative to their mean academic performance was near universal. These sex differences in academic strengths and attitudes toward science correlated with the STEM graduation gap.  A mediation analysis suggests that life-quality pressures in less gender equal countries promote girls’ and women’s engagement with STEM subjects."

    ellauri082.html on line 798: 
    Editor’s note: The original verse, from a toast by John Collins Bossidy in 1910.

    ellauri083.html on line 175: PST: How’s love life? Hey! How’s your love life going lately? Get a free love reading & personal horoscope with the most truthful answers. Start to grab every chance for success in your life! Did I mention it’s FREE? (Sponsored Link; 18+ only)

    ellauri083.html on line 372:     As mother and daughter, Farrow’s and Dylan’s stories were always going to be interconnected. But ever since Dylan’s sexual abuse accusation against Allen, her father and Farrow’s former boyfriend, went public nearly three decades ago, their bond has been tested. (Allen has categorically denied Dylan’s allegation.)

    ellauri083.html on line 374: At age seven Dylan first accused Allen of touching her inappropriately—a bombshell allegation that definitively tore apart the blended Allen-Farrow family, which was already reeling from Farrow’s discovery of nude photographs of her adopted daughter Soon-Yi Previn at Allen’s apartment. Dylan’s accusation has reverberated in the media ever since. Dylan would consistently repeat the allegation over the years—to her mother, to therapists, to experts, and to former Connecticut state prosecutor Frank Maco, who found probable cause for bringing a criminal case against Allen. (Maco said he ultimately declined to do so out of concern for retraumatizing a fragile child.)

    ellauri083.html on line 376: Farrow has steadfastly supported her daughter throughout the years—but in Allen v. Farrow, she says she has also grown accustomed to Allen attacking her character and parenting skills in the press. (For decades Allen has claimed that Farrow coached Dylan, goading her into accusing Allen after Allen left Farrow for Previn.) Farrow explains her conflicting feelings to the cameras, saying that she wholeheartedly supported Dylan’s decision to write a 2014 op-ed for The New York Times outlining the abuse she claims to have suffered. But privately, Farrow admits in the docuseries, she “crumpled up inside,” knowing that Allen would likely resume his media attacks on her. “He couldn’t go after Dylan, because she was a child at the time, so he’d come after me.”

    ellauri083.html on line 378: “What astounds me,” said Ziering in an interview, is that for the past nearly three decades, people assume that this has been a matter of “he said, she said”—meaning Allen’s word versus Farrow’s. But after Ziering and codirector Kirby Dick began their research, they realized, “Actually, it’s been a ‘he said, he said’ situation. Mia didn’t even speak until the Vanity Fair interview [in 2013]. Never. She is such a private person. That’s really important to know. And she was sort of blindsided by all these events that happened to her. And kept trying to navigate the best that she could just to protect her children and family.”

    ellauri083.html on line 428: 
    Have NASA Computers Proved Joshua’s Long Day?
    

    ellauri083.html on line 436: This story is not new, but rather it is a modern retelling of an even older story. In the 1930s, Harry Rimmer made reference to how science had proved the missing day of Joshua, and this story continued to circulate within Christian circles for decades. Rimmer’s mention of this may have been the origin of Hill’s story. Rimmer based his statement upon an 1890 book by C. A. L. Totten, Joshua’s Long Day and the Dial of Ahaz, a Scientific Vindication and “a Midnight Cry.” Totten did a very elaborate computation of the date of the battle of Gibeon since the creation.

    ellauri083.html on line 438: He reasoned that the battle was on the twenty-fourth day of the fourth month of the Hebrew civil calendar in the 2,555th year after the creation. This was the 933,285th day since creation. From this, Totten determined that this day was a Tuesday. Next, Totten calculated backward in time from June 17, 1890 to the battle of Gibeon. He concluded that the battle was 1,217,530 days previously, which was a Wednesday. Hence, there was a day missing. Of course, Totten’s computation required very precise dates, something that most people today would find ludicrous. However, Totten managed to obtain some audience in the late 19th century. While most people today are not impressed with such an approach, apparently invoking a computer, as in the Hill story, is sufficient to convince some people today. This story has been debunked many times, so it is a shame that it keeps being repeated.

    ellauri083.html on line 440: The fact that NASA computers have not proved the account of Joshua’s long day does not mean that there was no miracle at the battle of Gibeon as recorded in the book of Joshua. We know that God’s word is inspired. Therefore, we know that the Bible is authoritative in all things, including history. Since Joshua 10:12–14 tells us that God performed this miracle, we can be assured that indeed He did perform this miracle. As Joshua 10:14 described it, “There has been no day like it before or since” (ESV).

    ellauri083.html on line 514:     I will tell you why; so shall my anticipation prevent your discovery, and your secrecy to the King and Queen moult no feather. I have of late, but wherefore I know not, lost all my mirth, forgone all custom of exercises; and indeed, it goes so heavily with my disposition that this goodly frame the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory; this most excellent canopy the air, look you, this brave o’erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire, why, it appears no other thing to me than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours. What a piece of work is man! How noble in reason? How infinite in faculties, in form and moving, how express and admirable? In action how like an angel? In apprehension, how like a god? The beauty of the world, the paragon of animals. And yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust? Man delights not me; no, nor woman neither, though by your smiling you seem to say so.

    ellauri083.html on line 527: What does “complicated joy” mean? I suppose we could say that Joelle gets a complicated form of pleasure from stringing Gately along. Although I’m not sure I believe that pleasure is necessarily equivalent to joy…there is a lot of complicated pleasure in the book, i.e. addictions to pleasurable substances, sex with underage partners, killing animals, etc. But are we truly supposed to believe that these characters are experiencing joy in their lives?

    ellauri083.html on line 529: I can’t say I really see it at all. As much as I love this book, the only person who I would say comes close to experiencing “complicated joy” is Mario, whose emotions are simple and straightforward, only made more complex by his contorted body. I think most people in the book experience a sort of numbness, or they are searching for a kind of numbness. To me, even Gately’s emotions and thoughts are dulled by the inane daily tasks he must complete, although I suppose you could argue that being free from substance addiction gives him a small sense of pride.

    ellauri083.html on line 669: Abraham couldn’t keep himself contained, “Abraham fell on his face and laughed, and said to himself, ‘Shall a child be born to a man who is a hundred years old? Shall Sarah, who is ninety years old, bear a child?'” 

    ellauri083.html on line 673:     Sarah had a similar reaction to the news, “Sarah laughed to herself, saying, ‘After I have grown old, and my husband is old, shall I have pleasure?’” (Genesis 18:12) God caught her laughing, but “Sarah denied, saying, ‘I did not laugh’; for she was afraid. He said, ‘No, but you did laugh’” (Genesis 18:15). You can’t pull a fast one on God! But God can pull a fast one on you! That's the diff!

    ellauri088.html on line 88:       Wilhelm Wundt (1832-1920) used Weber and Fechner’s work on the relationship between subjective and physical intensities as a key component in the establishment of psychology as an independent science. Voluntarism, as Wundt’s new psychology became known, focused upon the specific subject matter of immediate conscious experiences of an adult studied by systematic introspection.

    ellauri088.html on line 92: the power of the will to organize the mind’s content into higher-level thought processes. An associationist model, from simple elements to larger compounds, but it does not simply progress mechanically, the will has an organizing effect. 

    ellauri088.html on line 229: I think what you’re looking for is the “second most developed country without universal healthcare”. You can find a zoomable version at Health Index - Global Residence Index; click on “Universal Health Care Map” a bit down the page.

    ellauri088.html on line 230: In general, green is what you’d normally call “universal healthcare free at point of service”. Blue denotes “free but not universal”; the US is in a category basically its own, “Not free but universal”, which reflects how Obamacare is a strange hybrid. I’d say what you’re looking for is “the second most developed non-green country on this map”.

    ellauri088.html on line 231: The answer to your question is probably mostly down to what you’d call “most developed”. I’d pick Mongolia, but I’ll gladly admit to not being an expert on any of the non-green countries; I’ve only visited two of them myself. 

    ellauri088.html on line 349:   Kysyttäessä mitä Arvonen touhuaa vapaa-ajalla, on ensimmäinen vastaus pilke silmäkulmassa: ”töitä”. ”Tämä on oikeastaan elämäntapa eikä varsinaisesti työ. Mutta urheilen joka päivä ja luen paljon. Kuten Patrik ”Telinekeisari” Sarinko sanoo: ’Maastaveto pitää ryhdin suorana, joka taas auttaa myymään enemmän. Kukaan ei osta selkärangattomalta pötköttäjältä.’ Vedän maasta ja luen kirjoja. Toki teen muutakin, kuten vedän käteen ja luen lakia, nim. elokapinalle ja muulle roskaväelle. Mutta tässä ne tärkeimmät. 

    ellauri088.html on line 544: Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow, published in 1886, is a collection of humorous essays by Jerome K. Jerome. It was the author’s second published book and it helped establish him as a leading English humorist. While widely considered one of Jerome’s better works, and in spite of using the same style as Three Men in a Boat, it was never as popular as the latter. A second "Idle Thoughts" book, The Second Thoughts of An Idle Fellow, was published in 1898.

    ellauri088.html on line 559: Arrangements settled.—Harris’s method of doing work.—How the elderly, family-man puts up a picture.—George makes a sensible, remark.—Delights of early morning bathing.—Provisions for getting upset.

    ellauri088.html on line 567: The river in its Sunday garb.—Dress on the river.—A chance for the men.—Absence of taste in Harris.—George’s blazer.—A day with the fashion-plate young lady.—Mrs. Thomas’s tomb.—The man who loves not graves and coffins and skulls.—Harris mad.—His views on George and Banks and lemonade.—He performs tricks.

    ellauri088.html on line 573: Our first night.—Under canvas.—An appeal for help.—Contrariness of tea-kettles, how to overcome.—Supper.—How to feel virtuous.—Wanted! a comfortably-appointed, well-drained desert island, neighbourhood of South Pacific Ocean preferred.—Funny thing that happened to George’s father.—a restless night.

    ellauri088.html on line 585: It was George’s straw hat that saved his life that day.  He keeps that hat now (what is left of it), and, of a winter’s evening, when the pipes are lit and the boys are telling stretchers about the dangers they have passed through, George brings it down and shows it round, and the stirring tale is told anew, with fresh exaggerations every time.

    ellauri088.html on line 599: In addition, here’s a much earlier spoof of German lieder, from the British comic novel “Three Men in a Boat,” published in 1889. I think it shows just how pervasive and long-standing is the English-speaker’s resistance to the rarefied world of the German art-song. The excerpt is also very silly and probably tells you at least as much about British anti-intellectualism and complacency as it does about German over-earnestness.

    ellauri088.html on line 601: It appeared that the song was not a comic song at all.  It was about a young girl who lived in the Hartz Mountains, and who had given up her life to save her lover’s soul; and he died, and met her spirit in the air; and then, in the last verse, he jilted her spirit, and went on with another spirit—I’m not quite sure of the details, but it was something very sad, I know.  Herr Boschen said he had sung it once before the German Emperor, and he (the German Emperor) had sobbed like a little child.  He (Herr Boschen) said it was generally acknowledged to be one of the most tragic and pathetic songs in the German language.

    ellauri088.html on line 606: There is an iron “scold’s bridle” in Walton Church.  They used these things in ancient days for curbing women’s tongues.  They have given up the attempt now.  I suppose iron was getting scarce, and nothing else would be strong enough.

    ellauri089.html on line 44: Hein m. in der Wendung Freund Hein Bezeichnung für den ‘Tod’. Der Personenname Hein ist die Koseform von Heinrich und zunächst auch eine verhüllende Umschreibung für den ‘Teufel’, mhd. hein (14. Jh.), nhd. Henn (16. Jh.). Die Bedeutungsübertragung auf den Tod als ein ebenfalls gefürchtetes Wesen wird Claudius (1774) zugeschrieben, der mit dem Zusatz Freund dem Tod zugleich seine vermeintliche Dämonie nehmen und ihn als vertrauten letzten Begleiter des Menschen charakterisieren will.

    ellauri089.html on line 64: Space Cadet (1948) may not be Heinlein’s best juvenile novel (that spot is usually reserved for Have Space Suit—Will Travel), but it is a solid contender for one of the top spots. Space Cadet would probably be a memorable novel if Heinlein had written no other juvenile books.

    ellauri089.html on line 66: The schooling and the training flight that follows occupy approximately three-quarters of the book and are certainly based on Heinlein’s own experiences at the U.S. Naval Academy.

    ellauri089.html on line 69: Heinlein draws on his knowledge of school societies to make the Academy a “real” place; there are bull sessions, roommate problems, anxieties about passing, shared food packages, and parties at the Academy just as there are at any school, especially a boarding school or college. Also, as Matt becomes more and more a Cadet, he finds, as do many of Heinlein’s juvenile heroes, that he has grown beyond his family and that there is an unbridgeable gulf between his perspective as a Cadet and his parents’ perspectives as ground-dwellers in Kansas City. His living and working in space is a part of it, but even more important, Matt realizes, is his membership in an international/interplanetary organization. He is no longer the boy he was when he left home. He becomes aware of this difference and, understanding it, is able to deal with a family that now seems somewhat provincial to him.

    ellauri089.html on line 74: Another Cadet, Girard Burke, is asked to resign. The reader has know for a long time that Burke, who is certainly mentally and physically capable, does not have the right attitude to be a Patrolman. He is, among other things, too skeptical of the ideals for which the Patrol stands. Burke resigns, goes into his father’s business, becomes an ship’s captain immediately, gets himself in venereal trouble on Venus, and has to call on the Patrol to rescue him from his own self-centered and stupid mistakes. Matt, Tex, and Oscar do rescue him and, with that action, prove the worth of the characteristics—perseverance, loyalty, intelligence, idealism, integrity, and courage—that Heinlein champions throughout Space Cadet and the other novels in the series. Vittu mikä nazi.

    ellauri089.html on line 114: From Rocket Ship Galileo (1947) to Have Space Suit—Will Travel (1958), Robert A. Heinlein wrote twelve novels, all published by Scribners, that were aimed at what we now call the juvenile market. In Dr. Johnson’s sense of the word, they are classics in their field, they have stood the test of time. They appeared first in hardback—unusual in a field in which, until the 1950s or 1960s, almost all major works were published in magazines or in paperback; and during the 1950s, hardback copies of these novels could be found in school and public libraries all across the country. These novels later appeared in paperback and have remained available in that form to the present. Heinlein’s juvenile novels have been largely ignored by both science fiction critics and critics of children’s literature; but even a half century after they were written, these novels are still “contemporary” and are still among the best science fiction in the range.

    ellauri089.html on line 145: Even more surprising, the sociological aspects of these books have also stood up well over the years. Boys today may not be quite as innocent about girls as they appear to be in most of Heinlein’s juveniles (perhaps at the request of Scribner’s editor Alice Dalgliesh), but the various interpersonal relationships (boy-girl, parent-child, sibling-sibling) do still ring quite true. Today’s young readers may have to ask what a “soda jerk” is, but they will have no trouble understanding why Kip, the hero of Have Space Suit—Will Travel, tosses a chocolate milkshake all over his tormentor.

    ellauri089.html on line 149: The last juvenile, Have Space Suit—Will Travel, recapitulates and surpasses the other books in the series as Kip Russell travels first to the moon, then to Pluto, then to a planet in Vega’s system, and finally to the Lesser Magellanic Cloud; he eventually comes home by a circular route! All of the books feature young people, primarily young men—but a surprising number of strong female characters, growing up and going through the process of separating themselves from their sometimes ununderstanding families, discovering their real identities, successfully dealing with bar mitzwah, and by the story’s end, entering the adult world as foreskinless and capable people.

    ellauri089.html on line 157: He is a great fan of nuclear power. He certainly fails to challenge the reader to think critically about what the future climate might be like. In addition, Heinlein presents specific scientific, technological, sociological, moral or ethical, and humanistic situations which will not only intrigue but challenge the reader’s attitudes—about space travel, illegal alien societies, the over-populated future, the nature of time, and so on.

    ellauri089.html on line 159: For average readers, Heinlein tells a good story; for better readers, Heinlein has challenges; and for the best readers, there is a kind of shared inside knowledge, a delight the reader feels when Heinlein makes a passing reference to Schiaperelli (sic) and the reader knows, without Heinlein’s ever explaining, who Schiaperelli was.

    ellauri089.html on line 170: No wonder that Heinlein’s juveniles still enthrall the juvenile readers discovering them for the first time and enchant the older readers, like myself, who discovered them first in the 1950s. (C. W. Sullivan III is Distinguished Research Professor of English at East Carolina University.)

    ellauri089.html on line 289:       Kun Mandelstam sanoi, “Emmä kirjota. Mä vaan suollan puhetta",” se tarkoitti mitä sanoi. Mandelstamin huonouninen seinänaapuri 1920-luvulla kuvasi sitä: “pää heitettynä taaxepäin Osip Mandelstam vaeltaa ympäri taloa. Se lausuu säkeitä säkeiden perään päivät pääxytysten. Runot syntyvät raskaina. Jokainen säe erixeen.” Ja näin kuvasi sitä Sergei Rudakov, nuori filologi ja runoilija joka kävi Mandelsteinin pakeilla maanpaossa Voronezhissä 1935: “Mandelstamilla on hullu tapa työskennellä… mä seison toimivan runokoneen edessä (tai ehkä se on runoelin, paremminkin)… Miestä ei enää ole; se on pikemminkin joku Michelangelo. Se näkee eikä muista mitään. Se vaeltaa ympäriinsä mutisten:  ‘Kuin musta sananjalka vihreässä yössä.’ Neljää säettä varten se polottaa neljäsataa, oikeesti… Se ei muista omia runojaan. Se toistaa izeään ja jättää pois toistot paizi tyylikeinoja, ja pitää uudet säkeet.”

    ellauri090.html on line 112:  Quincas Borba (Joaquim Borba dos Santos), a wealthy man and a self-proclaimed philosopher, dies and leaves his large estate to his friend, Rubião, a teacher. The only condition of the bequest is that Rubião care for Quincas Borba’s dog, also named Quincas Borba, as if the dog were human. Rubião travels from the provincial town of Barbacena to the city of Rio de Janiero to establish himself with his newly inherited wealth. On the train, he meets Christiano Palha and Palha’s wife, Sophia. Rubião soon becomes infatuated with Sophia.

    ellauri090.html on line 116: Rubião misinterprets as a love offering a box of strawberries Sophia had sent him. At the Palhas’s house in Santa Thereza, he clutches her hand and makes his affection clear to her. Distressed by Rubião’s advances, Sophia suggests to her husband that they end their relationship with Rubião. Having borrowed money from Rubião, however, Palha is reluctant to break with him.

    ellauri090.html on line 118: Guilt-ridden about his infatuation with Sophia, Rubião begins to worry that the deceased Quincas Borba has somehow transmigrated into his dog’s body. This anxiety is one of the first signs of Rubaio’s impending madness.

    ellauri090.html on line 120: Rubião becomes friends with Dr. Camacho, a lawyer and the editor of a politically oriented newspaper called Atalaia. On his way to meet Dr. Camacho, Rubião rescues a small child, Deolindo, in danger of being run over by a carriage and horses. Rubião then goes on to Dr. Camacho’s office, where he subscribes generously to the capital fund for Atalaia. Dr. Camacho flatters Rubião by publishing an account of Rubião’s heroism in saving Deolindo. Although Rubião is at first modest and dismissive about his heroism, as he reads Camacho’s account he becomes increasingly self-important.

    ellauri090.html on line 122: Maria Benedicta, Sophia’s young cousin, is another potential wife for Rubião, but Rubião is too infatuated with Sophia to be interested in Maria Benedicta. After the incident at Santa Thereza, Rubião appears more cosmopolitan and confident. He spends his inherited money freely, often in support of others in addition to Palha and Dr. Camacho. When his impoverished friend, Freitas, falls ill, Rubião generously gives Freitas’s mother a substantial sum of money. Later, he pays Freitas’s funeral expenses.

    ellauri090.html on line 124: Rubião tries to stay away from Sophia, but he finds an envelope addressed in Sophia’s handwriting to Carlos Maria. When he confronts her with the envelope, she tells him to open it. He refuses and leaves. Although Carlos Maria had flirted with Sophia, the envelope contains only a circular about a charitable committee on which Sophia serves.

    ellauri090.html on line 126: Palha’s business flourishes as Rubião’s wealth begins to dwindle. Rubião becomes subject to fits of madness, believing that he is Napoleon III of France. When Rubião gets into a carriage alone with Sophia, she thinks he is still attracted to her. She panics and orders him to get out. Thinking he is Napoleon III, Rubião treats Sophia as if she were the emperor’s mistress, but eventually he leaves the carriage.

    ellauri090.html on line 128: After Carlos Maria’s flirtation with Sophia, Doña Fernanda acts as a matchmaker and brings Carlos Maria and Maria Benedicta together. Although Maria Benedicta is not beautiful, Carlos Maria marries her because she adores him. Following their marriage, they travel to Europe, returning to Rio de Janiero after Maria Benedicta becomes pregnant.

    ellauri090.html on line 130: For a time, Rubião’s friends accept his madness as he continues to provide meals and entertainment for them. Eventually, however, Rubião’s house falls into disrepair as his belief in himself as the emperor becomes constant. Doña Tonica becomes engaged to a man who dies before the wedding. Children on the street, including Deolindo, whose life Rubião had saved, make fun of him as a madman. Prodded by Doña Fernanda, a woman who barely knows Rubião, Sophia convinces Palha to set Rubião up in a little rented house on Principe Street. No one visits Rubião in his new humble residence. His former “friends” miss the luxury of Rubião’s wealthy surroundings in the house in Botafogo.

    ellauri090.html on line 422: ove vestigio human l’arena stampi.		le orme degli altri uomini.					ja jätöxet apinoiden loppujen. 

    ellauri090.html on line 425: dal manifesto accorger de le genti,		che si accorge del mio stato d’animo				noilta uteliailta kumikauloilta,

    ellauri090.html on line 426: perché negli atti d’alegrezza spenti		perché nel mio atteggiamento triste				sillä mun surullisesta naamasta

    ellauri090.html on line 427: di fuor si legge com’io dentro avampi:		si vede di fuori come io dentro arda:				näkyy heti että lakannut on saamasta:

    ellauri090.html on line 429: sì ch’io mi credo omai che monti et piagge	tanto che io credo che anche i monti, le radure pianeggianti	luullaxeni jopa vuoret sekä aukiot

    ellauri090.html on line 431: sia la mia vita, ch’è celata altrui.		la mia vita, che tengo nascosta a tutti.			on mun elämä, jota piilottelen jengiltä.

    ellauri090.html on line 434: cercar non so ch’Amor non venga sempre		Amore mi accompagna sempre					niin lempi seuraa mua sinne aina

    ellauri090.html on line 435: ragionando con meco, et io co’llui.		e insieme dialoghiamo, lui con me e io con lui.			ja me jutellaan keskenämme, se ja mä.

    ellauri092.html on line 80:  By 17 years old this stout young Yankee decided to leave his farming work at home and head for Boston where he became a shoe salesman. Like Al Bundy. Taivas on todennäköisesti täynnä kadonneita parittomia sukkia. Ne ovat kaikki pelastuneet sinne. Kun mun sukkaan tulee reikä heitän sen roskiin mutta pelastan parittoman, koska mun lähes kaikki sukat ovat mustia. Vartioin niitä mustasukkaisesti ja teen leskexi jääneistä uusia pareja. He attended a Congregationalist Church which bored him as did all religious matters but over the next year the convicting message of sin and righteousness began to take effect. At the same time though, he raised up a wall of arguments. He settled his heart by deciding to leave the matter until his deathbed, but Cod’s Word continued to disturb him. No wonder: this was good old Boston, the home of the bean and the cod, Where the Lowells talk to the Cabots, And only the Cabots talk to Cod.

    ellauri092.html on line 82:  In April 1855 young Edward Kimball a Sunday school teacher was deeply burdened by Moody’s sole. Kimball left his house and made his way to the shoe shop where Moody worked with the intention of confronting Moody about his standing in front of Cod. A thousand contrary thoughts invaded the young man’s mind and he almost turned back. When he realized he had passed the shop he decided he would go for it and get it over with quickly. With what he later thought was a very weak plea with tears in his eyes he challenged Moody concerning his salivation, Cod’s tail and his need of a waist. That day in the back of the shop on his knees Moody accepted his price and Kimball returned home within minutes with new soles. Salivation while you wait. 

    ellauri092.html on line 84: The first change in Moody was that he received a burden to see all his family earnings saved. Later that year he moved to Chicago and although he started to show signs of real shoe business ability and success, when he experienced the revival which commenced in that city in January 1857, business success faded into insignificance. He was ruined - success of this world no longer interested him instead, he began to glow in Christian virtue. He mixed freely amongst Plymouth Brethren, Methodist Episcopal, Congregationalists and Baptists. The years passed and he worked with the men in tights at YMCA and raised up one of the most unusual Sunday Schools of that day which became a church. He reluctantly began to preach and haggled every step of the way. He turned down Congregational ordination and remained a simple uneducated layman with a burden for souls. Having heard of Spurgeon’s ministry in London he did all he could to get hold of and read every Spurgeon sermon. He took thorough hold of Spurgeon’s three ‘R’s: Ruin by the fall, Redemption by the Blood, and Regeneration by the Holy Mackerel. This flowed through every one of his messages and was the marrow of Moody’s theology. Many thought him too radical and so nicknamed him ‘Crazy Moody.’

    ellauri092.html on line 86:  When his wife Emma suffered bad asthma the doctor suggested a boat trip so Moody decided to take her to dry and airy Britain. In February 1867 they set sail for Britain for the first time. Altogether they had a thoroughly inspiring time. They visited Spurgeon’s Metropolitan Tabernacle which had a congregation of 5,000. He sat amongst the Plymouth Brethren and heard their most fervent preachers as well as preaching for them. He could preach as fervently as any tommy, if not more. He was also invited to speak at some meetings in London where his warmth won everyone’s affection while his wife coughed in the smog. He also visited Bristol to see George Muller’s work where 1,500 orphan children were provided for financially without requests for money. (The trick is familiar from Dickens' Oliver Twist.) Moody was very impressed with what Cod could accomplish going through this meek godly man of prayer. They managed to include Dublin and France in the trip then in June they returned to America.

    ellauri092.html on line 90: At first Moody could satisfy himself so that was ok. But the persistence of these ladies led him to meet and pray with them. They poured out their hearts asking Cod to fill them with His servant's Spirits. From that day a deep hunger and thirst gripped Moody. By October he was in agony for sole as he prayed and munched Cod for the promised gift. At times he would roll on the floor in agony with the ladies and in tears with this singular prayer to be baptised in the Holy Mackerel grilled with fire. This was a wrestle between his willy and Cod’s willy. It was that very month that Chicago burnt to the ground by ghost fire. All his works, efforts and organizational committees literally went up in a blaze. Shortly after this while passing through New York on his way to Britain the second time Cod heard his prayer. As he walked the streets his willy bent before Cod's, the power of the Golden Horde fell upon him, the Ford drew near and revealed Himself to be His servant. Moody rushed to a friend’s house and asked for rum and to be left alone. Hour after hour he bathed in the presence of Cod as the Holy Mackerels filled him. So strong was this that he cried out to Cod to stay in His hand lest He die. He was filled with the joy of the Gourd. When he left that house it was in the power of the fire, just like Chicago the other day.

    ellauri092.html on line 96:  So in June 1873 he arrived again into Liverpool, England, accompanied by his asthmatic wife and song leader Ira Sankey as his other wife. Key men who were leaders and financers who had invited him with the promise of financial help had died since he was last there. There were no meetings, no funds and no committees. What the fuck. It seemed all was lost. Maybe they would just have to return to America? Only one unattractive invitation came from York in the North of England and so there they went. It was hard ground but in the midst of these meetings one unimpressed minister called F.B. Meyer slowly melted and then ignited with holy fervent fire. Our friends fled the scene as fast as they could. Next the Evangelistic foursome moved to Sunderland for several weeks of sole eating meetings where Cod’s power to inflate liver was manifest. In August they brought coals to Newcastle where a daily paper meeting was conducted with some 300 saints in attendance. No other lighting was necessary. News spread throughout the whole land that Creedence Clearvater Revival was coming to churches and salivation to thousands. Other towns were visited in the same manner and left as quickly as the audience caught on that a less inspiring Yankee foursome was doing the song and play. 

    ellauri092.html on line 102:  In November 1882 when he spoke at Cambridge University he was filled with great anxiety as this educational centre for Britain’s aristocratic and wealthy youth had a reputation of unparalleled riotous behaviour. That first night at a Zoom meeting Moody spoke on ‘the Spirit’s power service.’ The university vicar Handley Moule was somewhat nervous. The young C.T. Studd (the same guy who impressed J.R.Mott with his biceps) greatly doubted ‘if this Yankee was up to the task.’ The first mission night on the Monday had 1,700 students in attendance. As Sankey sang his sacred Hymns they jeered, laughed and shouted. When Sankey finished he was near to tears. As Moody preached on Daniel in the lions den (how appropriate) again they laughed, shouted and did all in their power to disturb him. He maintained his calm. By the end of the week at least 200 students had accepted a check from the speaker. Amongst them was a main ‘ringette player’ who later assumed missionary position in China and was the first lady Bishop of King Kong. Out of this mission came The Cambridge Seven, missionaries who made a lot of dough. This campaign had huge proceeds that also leeched the youth of the whole nation.

    ellauri092.html on line 104: During the summer of 1883 he returned home to count the revenue but was back again; first to Ireland and then London in November. For the next 8 months he held his greatest meetings yet in the capital. Many of his best new labourers were the pervert convicts from 1875. This campaign sealed the future destiny of many young men who would later go to the admission collection field. It was not long after his death in 1899 that his sermons were second only in demand to Pilgrim’s Progress and were printed right across the ad pages of the Boston Globe.

    ellauri092.html on line 221: Today, there are many different Methodist denominations, but they all hold similar views in several areas. They all follow Wesleyan (or Armenian) theology, emphasize practical life over doctrine, and hold to the Apostle’s Creed. Most Methodists groups reject that the Bible is inerrant and sufficient for life and godliness, and many groups are presently debating the moral standards of the Bible, especially as they relate to human sexuality, marriage, and gender.

    ellauri092.html on line 223: Many people have wondered, are baptist and methodist the same? The answer is no. However, there are some similarities. Both Baptists and Methodist are trinitarian. Both hold that the Bible is the central text in faith and practice (though groups within both the families of denominations would dispute the Bible’s authority). Both Baptists and Methodists have historically affirmed the divinity of Christ, justification by faith alone, and the reality of heaven for those who die in Christ, and eternal torment in hell for those who die unbelieving.

    ellauri092.html on line 245: Most Baptists subscribe to two ordinances of the local church; baptism (as discussed earlier) and the Lord’s Supper. Baptists reject that either of these ordinances are salvific and most subscribe to a symbolic view of both. Baptism is symbolic of the work of Christ in a person’s heart and a profession of faith by the one being baptized, and the Lord’s Supper is symbolic of the atoning work of Jesus Christ and taken as a way to remember the work of Christ.

    ellauri092.html on line 247: Methodists also subscribe to baptism and the Lord’s Supper and they similarly see both as signs, not as the substances, of God’s grace in Christ. Baptism is not a mere profession, however, but also a sign of regeneration. Similarly, the Lord’s Supper is a sign of a Christian’s redemption.

    ellauri092.html on line 261: While there are some similarities to those two churches, each on one side of the street, there are many more differences. And that gulf of differences continues to widen as many Baptist churches continue to affirm a high view of Scripture and follow its teaching, while many Methodist congregations – especially in the United States – move away from that view of Scripture and emphasis on the Bible’s teaching.

    ellauri092.html on line 269: In 1859 William Boardman published his book, The Higher Christian Life. The book ultimately birthed the Keswick Movement, so named because the first meeting was held in a church in Keswick, England. The Keswick Movement was filled with doctrinal error from the start and like nearly all errors that infiltrated Christendom over the centuries, they remain to this day. This shouldn’t surprise us because Satan has always twisted God’s Word to his own ends.

    ellauri092.html on line 281: Keswick’s emphasis on emotion, signs and wonders gave birth to Pentecostalism, the Charismatic Movement and ultimately to today’s NAR movement, all facets of the same doctrinal errors. Moreover, today’s Contemplative Movement is simply a redressing of the Quaker Quietism.

    ellauri092.html on line 283: Doctrinal errors never really go away once introduced and embraced. They are simply renamed and recycled by Satan to a new generation. Too many leaders within Christendom think they’ve found something “new” and introduce their followers to it in books, sermons and seminars. However, they are simply espousing the same error that Satan tempted Eve with thousands of years ago. There is nothing new under the sun. It simply seems new to the latest generation.

    ellauri092.html on line 285: One of the main errors within the Keswick Movement is their unbiblical view of sanctification. Keswickians believe when a person becomes saved, they are immediately justified. This is certainly Scriptural fact (Romans 3:21-26; 5:18-19; 2 Corinthians 5:21). There is nothing I can do to justify myself before God. Only salvation provides this immediate and eternal justification as Christ’s righteousness is literally imputed to my account.

    ellauri092.html on line 287: Biblically speaking, sanctification is the process the Christian goes through that ultimately makes him/her perfect in Christ. This is not only begun by God at our conversion, but finished by Him as well when we reach the eternal realm (Hebrews 12:2; Philippians 1:6). In sanctification, Christians are both passive and active. We are passively trusting in God’s ability to fully sanctify us and we are active because we are to choose to do what is right, in thought, word, and deed (Romans 12:1-2; 1 Thessalonians 4:4; Hebrews 12:14, etc).

    ellauri092.html on line 289: Adherents of Keswickianism would agree with the above regarding justification. However, when it comes to sanctification, they move off in a different direction. They generally do not believe the Holy Mackerel comes into the person and takes up residence at salvation, but that the Holy Mackerel simply comes upon the person to seal them with salvation. It is later, at a time they refer to variously as the “second blessing,” or “higher living,” when they say sanctification occurs. Ultimately, their view of sanctification is flat out mysticism akin to New Age’s goal of an altered state of consciousness. This is all based on a strong (and seemingly biblical), desire to emotionally “know” God. The person turns inward to meet the felt needs of self.

    ellauri092.html on line 293: In Thomas Ross’ critical review of Keswick Movement, he says:

    ellauri092.html on line 295: …the problems in the Keswick theology are severe. Because of its corrupt roots, Keswick errs seriously in its ecumenical tendencies, theological shallowness or even incomprehensibility, neglect of the role of the Word of God in sanctification, shallow views of sin and perfectionism, support of some tenants of Pelagianism and semi-Pelagianism, improper divorce of justification and sanctification, confusion about the nature of saving repentance, denial that God’s sanctifying grace always frees Christians from bondage to sin and changes them, failure to warn strongly about the possibility of those who are professedly Christians being unregenerate, support for an unbiblical pneumatology, belief in the continuation of the sign gifts, maintenance of significant exegetical errors, distortion of the positions and critiques of opponents of the errors of Keswick, misrepresentation of the nature of faith in sanctification, support for a kind of Quietism, and denial that God actually renews the nature of the believer to make him more personally holy. Keswick theology differs in important ways from the Biblical doctrine of sanctification. It should be rejected.

    ellauri092.html on line 324: The emphasis of Keswick is that you are never holy enough. Certainly, this is true. However, I am on the path to greater holiness as God recreates within me the perfect character of His Son, which will not be completed until I reach eternity. This is God’s work of sanctification.

    ellauri092.html on line 326: The common thread with all of the people above (and others not listed), is the emphasis on mystical experiences that allegedly begin within as we quiet ourselves and wait upon God. Unfortunately, this is clearly not Scriptural because we are not to focus on our “innerspace” as New Agers do. We are to put our hand to the plow and look forward, not backward. This can only occur as we submit ourselves to Him (Romans 12:1-2). It really doesn’t matter if our emotions catch up with us, nor should they be used to “verify” that we are growing in the Lord. If the heart is deceitfully wicked and cannot be understood (Jeremiah 17:9), what makes us think that once we are saved, our hearts are all of a sudden able to be known?

    ellauri092.html on line 330: Andrew Murray, A W Tozer and others now make perfect sense to me when I read their books. They were mystics who sought, focused on and tended to emphasize an emotional experience they believed was holiness. I understand that mistake because I also desperately reached for that for several years. It doesn’t work and causes the Christian to constantly look to his/her emotions for verification.

    ellauri092.html on line 427:       Crumbling buildings, unique people, right up against the Mississippi River flood plain with a giant wall; this was the weirdest place I’d ever been in America. Precisely every third house was burned to the ground on one street, everyone standing on both sides of another street was a dwarf, a clerk looked like a zombie. Most American cities have odd scenery. Luxora had that and weird people as well!

    ellauri092.html on line 428:       But the city that scares me the most is East St. Louis, Illinois. Unlike other American cities, there are NO nice parts of town. In East St. Louis, you’ll have the greatest chance of becoming the victim of a violent crime! They lead in the categories of overall violent crime rate, murder rate, aggravated assault rate, and robbery rate. Nearby St. Louis is 2nd when it comes to violent crime and murder, and among the top five in aggravated assault and robbery. But East St. Louis takes the cake!

    ellauri093.html on line 226:   This guide covers the following topics: What is eider abuse? What are the types of eider abuse? What is the age at which someone older is considered an ‘eider’? Why does eider abuse occur? Who commits eider abuse? Who are the abusers? Who is at risk of eider abuse? Is it eider abuse if the person neglects their own needs? Is eider abuse family violence? As a family violence worker, what do I need to know about eider abuse?

    ellauri093.html on line 249: Abuse of eider by someone who is not part of a frustrating relationship, such as workers and business owners, does not fall under the definition of ‘eider abuse’ used in this Tool Kit. For help with consumer-based abuse such as scams and rip offs contact Consumer Affairs (ask for "Victoria"). 

    ellauri093.html on line 258: Financial abuse: Using someone’s money, property or other assets illegally or improperly or forcing someone to change their will or sign documents. This is the most common form of abuse seen at Seniors Rights Victoria.

    ellauri093.html on line 268: 
    What is the age at which someone older is considered an ‘eider’?
    

    ellauri093.html on line 270: When choosing an age to define ‘older’ people, 65 years is commonly used, however different state and commonwealth programs may have differing age eligibility criteria. Organisations may also have their own age-related criteria. For example, at Seniors Rights Victoria we work with Victorians aged 60 and over and Indigenous Victorians aged 45 and over.

    ellauri093.html on line 288: Self-neglect must be considered eider abuse, in fact it is doubly so. It can be enhanced with help of a trusted person. For example, an older person may neglect their own needs due to low self-esteem or stress provided by a support person’s abrasive behaviour.

    ellauri093.html on line 304: She removed Stranleigh’s coat with a dexterity that aroused his imagination. The eider woman returned with skimpy dressings and a sponge, which she placed on a chair. Carry your head along as your eiders have done. After being a member of the Church for a while, Bill was ordained to the office of an eider. Jack had been an eider for only a few days when he received a new calling whistle. The eiders are coming over for dinner tonight. One of the long-time leaders in the Church is Eider Pennypacker.

    ellauri093.html on line 450: Because all praises are directed towards God’s Light,	Sillä kaikki kiitoxet on suunnattu kohti Aladdinin lamppua,

    ellauri093.html on line 938: »Kun sinut on kutsuttu pitoihin, älä asetu kunniapaikalle. Joku vieraista saattaa olla sinua arvokkaampi, 9ja isäntä, joka on teidät molemmat kutsunut, tulee sanomaan sinulle: ’Anna tämä paikka hänelle.’ Silloin joudut nolona siirtymään viimeiselle sijalle. 10Ei – kun sinut kutsutaan, valitse pöydässä kaikkein vaatimattomin paikka. Silloin isäntä tulee ja sanoo sinulle: ’Ystäväni, siirry tänne lähemmäksi’, ja sinä saat suuren kunnian kaikkien vieraiden nähden.

    ellauri094.html on line 35: Hanskissa talonmiehen vaimoa eli Helmi Orvokki Virtasta näytellyt Marita Nordberg muisteli vuonna 2007, että Hanski ei työtä tehdessään ollut yhtään hauska, mutta hyvällä tuulella ollessaan hän oli hurmaava. Häyrinen kertoi Apu-lehdelle vuonna 1981: ”Voi olla, että olen saanut tämän ’ikävän’ luonteeni oudosta lapsuudestani, jossa ei ollut isää eikä äitiä. Mutta minun oli ratkaistava, annanko potkia itseäni jatkuvasti päähän vai ryhdynkö izekin hankalaksi ihmiseksi. Jokin minussa valitsi viimeksimainitun vaihtoehdon.” 

    ellauri094.html on line 217: Jehoiachin's Iron Rations Tablets, describing ration orders for a captive King of Judah, identified with King Jeconiah, have been discovered during excavations in Babylon, in the royal archives of Nebuchadnezzar. One of the tablets refers to food rations for "Ya’u-kīnu, king of the land of Yahudu" and five royal princes, his sons.

    ellauri094.html on line 318: God has a funny way of treating his “chosen people.” Apparently, the Jews were misbehaving and being ungodly. After several years of some other shenanigans in Babylon, god decided it was time to put his foot down and end the free will of the king by having him take the Jewish people captive. This was in ca. 597 BCE. First I’d like to ask the following questions: Shouldn’t god have known that his “chosen people” were going to act like brats? Couldn’t he have chosen a better, more well-behaved group of people to whom to deliver his word? Anyway, moving on.

    ellauri094.html on line 322: In Jeremiah it is foretold that the Jews will not be able to leave Babylon for 70 years. That’s a fairly long time. It’s an almost guaranteed life sentence for most people.

    ellauri094.html on line 326: But wait! What’s the book of Baruch? It’s a deuterocanonical part of the apocrypha that is widely quoted in the bible. It’s also a major part of Jewish, Christian, and Catholic canon. I have linked the Catholic text above. The book of Baruch is generally considered just as infallible as the rest of the bible.

    ellauri094.html on line 328: Ahem, in Baruch, we are told that the captivity will last seven generations, not merely 70 years. In order to reconcile these two disparate numbers, the Jews would’ve had to be having children at the age of ten or younger! That’s far too young, even by biblical-day standards.

    ellauri094.html on line 339: For today’s post we will tackle the question the Skeptic Annotated Bible asked: How long was the Babylonian Captivity?

    ellauri094.html on line 351: Here’s a closer look at whether or not there is a contradiction:

    ellauri094.html on line 352: When dealing with skeptics’ claim of Bible contradictions it seems one can never be reminded enough of what exactly is a contradiction.  A contradiction occurs when two or more claims conflict with one another so that they cannot simultaneously be true in the same sense and at the same time.  To put it another way, a Bible contradiction exists when there are claims within the Bible that are mutually exclusive in the same sense and at the same time.

    ellauri094.html on line 354: One should be skeptical of whether this is a Bible contradiction given the Skeptic Annotated Bible’s track record of inaccurately handling the Bible.  See the many examples of their error which we have responded to in this post: Collection of Posts Responding to Bible Contradictions.  Of course that does not take away the need to respond to this claim of a contradiction, which is what the remainder of this post will do.  But this observation should caution us to slow down and look more closely at the passages cited by the Skeptic Annotated Bible to see if they interpreted the passages properly to support their conclusion that it is a Bible contradiction.

    ellauri094.html on line 370: However we do see elsewhere in the Bible it affirm Jeremiah 29:10’s claim that “The Babylonian Captivity was seventy years.”  Jeremiah 25:11 states “This whole land will be a desolation and a horror, and these nations will serve the king of Babylon seventy years.”  See also Jeremiah 25:12.

    ellauri094.html on line 375: A Jewish generation was about 30 years and if you think of 7 generations that is about 210 years. (If they started breeding at 10 then it would be just 70, so no contradiction! Muhammed's fifth wife was 9.) The exile from Jerusalem began in 586 BC.  So 210 years later it would land on 376 BC.  But way before then the Jews have already made big caravan trips back to Jerusalem which took place in the 6th to 5th Century BC (see the book of Ezra and Nehemiah).  There’s no specific migration that stood out in the 300s BC.

    ellauri094.html on line 378: We shouldn’t miss that worldviews are at play even with the skeptic’s objection to Christianity.  The worldview of the author of the Skeptic Annotated Bible actually doesn’t even allow for such a thing as the law of non-contradiction to be meaningful and intelligible.  In other words for him to try to disprove the Bible by pointing out that there’s a Bible contradiction doesn’t even make sense within his own worldview.  Check out our post “Skeptic Annotated Bible Author’s Self-Defeating Worldview.” Read also Stanford's bit on contradictory beliefs here. Lisää aiheesta:

    ellauri094.html on line 654: The body of Algernon Charles Swinburne’s poetry is so vast and varied that it is difficult to generalize about it. Swinburne wrote poetry for more than sixty years, and in that time he treated an enormous variety of subjects and employed many poetic forms and meters. He wrote English and Italian sonnets, elegies, odes, lyrics, dramatic monologues, ballads, and romances; and he experimented with the rondeau, the ballade, and the sestina. Much of this poetry is marked by a strong lyricism and a self-conscious, formal use of such rhetorical devices as alliteration, assonance, repetition, personification, and synecdoche. Swinburne’s brilliant self-parody, “Nephilidia,” hardly exaggerates the excessive rhetoric of some of his earlier poems. The early A Song of Italy would have more effectively conveyed its extreme republican sentiments had it been more restrained. As it is, content is too often lost in verbiage, leading a reviewer for The Athenaeum to remark that “hardly any literary bantling has been shrouded in a thicker veil of indefinite phrases.” A favorite technique of Swinburne is to reiterate a poem’s theme in a profusion of changing images until a clear line of development is lost. “The Triumph of Time” is an example. Here the stanzas can be rearranged without loss of effect. This poem does not so much develop as accrete. Clearly a large part of its greatness rests in its music. As much as any other poet, Swinburne needs to be read aloud. The diffuse lyricism of Swinburne is the opposite of the closely knit structures of John Donne and is akin to the poetry of Walt Whitman. 

    ellauri094.html on line 658:   “Super Flumina Babylonis” celebrates the release of Italy from bondage in imagery that recalls the resurrection of Christ. The open tomb, the folded graveclothes, the “deathless face” all figure in this interesting poem that sings out, “Death only dies.” In “Quia Multum Amavit,” France, shackled by tyranny, is personified as a harlot who has been false to liberty. She has become “A ruin where satyrs dance/ A garden wasted for beasts to crawl and brawl in.” The poem ends with France prostrate before the spirit of Freedom, who speaks to her as Christ spoke to the sinful woman in the Pharisee’s house, in a tone of forgiveness.

    ellauri094.html on line 737: Neither Nazi Germany nor Imperial Japan were atheistic. Unless you are expanding the definition of atheist to mean anyone who doesn’t agree with you, in which case just call them heathens.

    ellauri094.html on line 743: And as I’ve already stated, atheists are responsible for the greatest mass murders in history.

    ellauri094.html on line 749: It’s also what makes your fabulated god evil when he commands whole cities wiped out. I’m glad our country isn’t based on Christianity and trigger happy, self righteous exterminators like yourself.

    ellauri094.html on line 751: Evil ideas need to be fought. That’s not the same as exterminating the people who are tricked by them.

    ellauri094.html on line 756: The death toll of the atheist Communists in the Soviet Union and Mao’s China was 100,000,000.

    ellauri094.html on line 760:   Almost all atheists believe in Marxism and have a thought process that is so uniform as to appear like a mass produced. Prayer is what human beings do. Homo Orate (or was it Anate? oh well), man who prays, prays 24/7, 365.25. But man of all creatures, is born and lives completely unaware of nature (as taught by religion). Jesus, Son of God, gave us the Lord’s Prayer, which is a short, convenient prayer, easier to mass produce than a Ford. But in order to benefit from prayer, the man must pursue excellence in prayer.

    ellauri094.html on line 809:     The bible is a fallible human’s interpretation of God/history/etc. Christians who claim it to be infallible seem to crave something in religion that doesn’t exist in mainstream Christianity: authority. Seems to me, they lack something or someone authoritative like the Catholic Pope or the Mormon Prophet who claims to be God’s spokesman. Since mainstream Christianity lacks an authoritative claim, they nonsensically claim “the word of God” to be their powerful lightning rod.

    ellauri095.html on line 51: Hopkins’s most famous Welsh sonnet, “The Windhover,” reveals that for him this Book of Nature, like the Bible, demanded a moral application to the self. Hopkins wrote in his notes on St. Ignatius: “This world is word, expression, news of God”; “it is a book he has written.... a poem of beauty: what is it about? His praise, the reverence due to him, the way to serve him.... Do I then do it? Never mind others now nor the race of man: DO I DO IT?” One of Hopkins’s attempts to answer that question is “The Windhover.”

    ellauri095.html on line 53: The initial “I” focuses attention on the speaker, but the explicit application of the lesson of the Book of Nature to him does not begin until the line “My heart in hiding/stirred for a bird” at the conclusion of the octet. One biographical interpretation of this line is that he was hiding from fulfilling his ambitions to be a great painter and poet. Instead of ostentatiously pursuing fame in that way, wearing his heart on his sleeve, he had chosen to be the “hidden man of the heart” (1 Peter 3:4), quietly pursuing the imitation of Christ. As Hopkins put it, Christ’s “hidden life at Nazareth is the great help to faith for us who must live more or less an obscure, constrained, and unsuccessful life.”

    ellauri095.html on line 55: Hopkins did live such a life, but the windhover reminded him of Jesus’ great achievements after Nazareth. The windhover “stirred” his desire to become a great knight of faith, one of those who imitate not only the constraint but also the “achieve of, the mastery of” this great chevalier. The “ecstasy” of the windhover recalls Hopkins’s initial desire in “Il Mystico” to be lifted up on “Spirit’s wings” so “that I may drink that ecstasy/Which to pure souls alone may be.” Ultimately, Hopkins became aware that he had been hiding from the emotional risks of total commitment to becoming a “pure” soul. The phrase “hiding” thus suggests not only hiding from the world or from worldly ambition but also hiding from God.

    ellauri095.html on line 57: The words “here/Buckle” which open the sestet mean “here in my heart,” therefore, as well as here in the bird and here in Jesus. Hopkins’s heart-in-hiding, Christ’s prey, sensed Him diving down to seize it for his own. Just as the bird buckled its wings together and thereby buckled its “brute beauty” and “valour”and capacity to “act,” so the speaker responds by buckling together all his considerable talents and renewing his commitment to the imitation of Christ in order to buckle down, buckle to, in serious preparation for the combat, the grappling, the buckling with the enemy. As Paul said, “Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the Devil.”

    ellauri095.html on line 135:     A short fellow of 5’2 or 3”, he was enthusiastic, had a high-pitched voice, loved to sketch and write poems, was close to his family, and had warm, lifelong friends from Oxford, fellow Jesuits, and Irish families.  For recreation he visited art exhibitions and old churches, and enjoyed holidays with his family, friends, and fellow Jesuits in Switzerland, Holland, the Isle of Wight, the Isle of Man, Whitby on the North Sea, Wales, Scotland, and the West of Ireland.  During these holidays, he loved to hike and swim.  His passions were nature (especially trees), ecology, beauty, poetry, art, his family and friends, his country, his religion, and his God.  His curse was a lifelong “melancholy” (his word) which in 1885 in Dublin became deep depression and a sense of lost contact with God.

    ellauri095.html on line 159: He influenced such poets as W.H. Auden, Dylan Thomas, Theodore Roethke, Elizabeth Bishop, John Berryman, Robert Lowell, Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath, Denise Levertov, and the Nobel Laureate Seamus Heaney.  In the 1920s and 30s, he was a darling of the British and American “New Critics” who prized and probed his poems’ rich “texture.”  

    ellauri095.html on line 198: The meaning of “inscape,” that conundrum of Hopkins’s readers. A common misconception of the word is that it signifies simply a unique particular, the unusual feature, the singular appearance.

    ellauri095.html on line 213: it would appear that Arthur Hopkins’s superior sketching abilities encouraged his older but smaller brother to concentrate his energies on literary and religious creativity instead.

    ellauri095.html on line 248: Hopkins invites a comparison between his persona and Christina’s erstwhile lover, James Collinson, who also became a follower of the Pre-Raphaelites and convert to Catholicism and, for a while, a Jesuit. Eventually, by converting to Catholicism himself and joining the Society of Jesus, Hopkins exchanged the inferior position articulated in “A Voice from the World” for a superior one, superior at least in the sense that Christina Rossetti apparently felt that her sister Maria, who actually did cross the convent threshold and become a religious, had achieved a higher stage of religious development than she herself did.

    ellauri095.html on line 250: Both poets concluded their literary careers with devotional commentaries: in Hopkins’s case, his unfinished “Commentary on the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius.”

    ellauri095.html on line 455: Their rivalry began with Hopkins’s response to her poem “The Convent Threshold.” Geoffrey Hartman was clearly on the right track when he suggested in the introduction to Hopkins: A Collection of Critical Essays (1966) that “Hopkins seems to develop his lyric structures out of the Pre-Raphaelite dream vision. In his early ‘A Vision of the Mermaids’; and ‘St. Dorothea’; he may be struggling with such poems as Christina Rossetti’s ‘Convent Threshold’; and Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s ‘The Blessed Damozel,’ poems in which the poet stands at a lower level than the vision, or is irrevocably, pathetically distanced.” Such poems were the essence of medievalism in poetry according to William Morris, who felt that Keats’s “La Belle Dame Sans Merci” was the germ from which all Pre-Raphaelite poetry sprang. Standing beyond Keats, however, the primary source was Dante. Christina Rossetti clearly alludes to Beatrice’s appeal to Dante in “The Convent Threshold”:

    ellauri095.html on line 483: The sequence of events is clear. On 18 January 1866 Hopkins composed his most ascetic poem, “The Habit of Perfection” (Täydellinen asukokonaisuus). On 23 January he included poetry in the list of things to be given up for Lent. In July he decided to become a Catholic, and he traveled to Birmingham in September to consult the leader of the Oxford converts, John Henry Newman. Newman received him into the Church in October. On 5 May 1868 Hopkins firmly “resolved to be a religious.” Less than a week later, apparently still inspired by Savonarola, he made a bonfire of his poems and gave up poetry almost entirely for seven years. Finally, in the fall of 1868 Hopkins joined a “serged fellowship” like Savonarola’s and like the one he admired in “Eastern Communion”(1865), a commitment foreshadowed by the emphasis on vows of silence and poverty in “The Habit of Perfection.”

    ellauri095.html on line 508: This potential for a new sacramental poetry was first realized by Hopkins in The Wreck of the Deutschland. Hopkins recalled that when he read about the wreck of the German ship Deutschland off the coast of England it “made a deep impression on me, more than any other wreck or accident I ever read of,” a statement made all the more impressive when we consider the number of shipwrecks he must have discussed with his father. Hopkins wrote about this particular disaster at the suggestion of Fr. James Jones, Rector of St. Beuno’s College, where Hopkins studied theology from 1874 to 1877. Hopkins recalled that “What I had written I burnt before I became a Jesuit and resolved to write no more, as not belonging to my profession, unless it were by the wish of my superiors; so for seven years I wrote nothing but two or three little presentation pieces which occasion called for [presumably ‘Rosa Mystica’ and ‘Ad Mariam’]. But when in the winter of ’75 the Deutschland was wrecked in the mouth of the Thames and five Franciscan nuns, exiles from Germany by the Falck Laws, aboard of her were drowned I was affected by the account and happening to say so to my rector he said that he wished someone would write a poem on the subject. On this hint I set to work and, though my hand was out at first, produced one. I had long had haunting my ear the echo of a new rhythm which now I realized on paper.”

    ellauri095.html on line 512: The Wreck of the Deutschland became the occasion for Hopkins’s incarnation as a poet in his own right. He broke with the Keatsian wordpainting style with which he began, replacing his initial prolixity, stasis, and lack of construction with a concise, dramatic unity. He rejected his original attraction to Keats’s sensual aestheticism for a clearly moral, indeed a didactic, rhetoric. He saw nature not only as a pleasant spectacle as Keats had; he also confronted its seemingly infinite destructiveness as few before or after him have done. In this shipwreck he perceived the possibility of a theodicy, a vindication of God’s justice which would counter the growing sense of the disappearance of God among the Victorians. For Hopkins, therefore, seeing more clearly than ever before the proselytic possibilities of art, his rector’s suggestion that someone write a poem about the wreck became the theological sanction he needed to begin reconciling his religious and poetic vocations.

    ellauri095.html on line 514: Nevertheless, although The Wreck of the Deutschland was a great breakthrough to the vision of God immanent in nature and thus to the sacramentalism that was to be the basis of the great nature poems of the following years, when Hopkins sent the poem to his friend Robert Bridges, Bridges refused to reread it despite Hopkins’s pleas. The poem was also rejected by the Jesuit magazine the Month, primarily because of its new “sprung” rhythm, and many subsequent readers have had difficulty with it as well.

    ellauri095.html on line 516:     The relationship between Hopkins and his father reveals important early instances of creative collaboration and competition within the family. Hopkins copied eleven of the poems from his father’s volume A Philosopher’s Stone into his Oxford notebooks. In those poems his father expressed a Keatsian dismay over science’s threat to a magical or imaginative response to nature.

    ellauri095.html on line 518: The motif of the singing bird appears again in Gerard’s “Spring” (1877): “and thrush/Through the echoing timber does so rinse and wring/The ear, it strikes like lightnings to hear him sing.” The father’s attempt to represent what it is like to live in a bird’s environment, moreover, to experience daily the “fields, the open sky, /The rising sun, the moon’s pale majesty; /The leafy bower, where the airy nest is hung” was also one of the inspirations of the son’s lengthy account of a lark’s gliding beneath clouds, its aerial view of the fields below, and its proximity to a rainbow in “Il Mystico” (1862), as well as the son’s attempt to enter into a lark’s existence and express its essence mimically in “The Woodlark” (1876). A related motif, Manley’s feeling for clouds, evident in his poem “Clouds,” encouraged his son’s representation of them in “Hurrahing in Harvest’ (1877) and “That Nature is a Heraclitean Fire”(1888).

    ellauri095.html on line 522: In addition to specific inspirations such as these, the father communicated to his son a sense of nature as a book written by God which leads its readers to a thoughtful contemplation of Him, a theme particularly evident in Manley and Thomas Marsland Hopkins’s book of poems, Pietas Metrica. Consequently, Gerard went on to write poems which were some of the best expressions not only of the Romantic approach to nature but also the older tradition of explicitly religious nature poetry.    

    ellauri095.html on line 533:   His religious consciousness increased dramatically when he entered Oxford, the city of spires. From April of 1863, when he first arrived with some of his journals, drawings, and early Keatsian poems in hand, until June of 1867 when he graduated, Hopkins felt the charm of Oxford, “steeped in sentiment as she lies,” as Matthew Arnold had said, “spreading her gardens to the moonlight and whispering from her towers the last enchantments of the Middle Ages.” Here he became more fully aware of the religious implications of the medievalism of Ruskin, Dixon, and the Pre-Raphaelites. Inspired also by Christina Rossetti, the Catholic doctrine of the Real Presence of God in the Eucharist, and by the Victorian preoccupation with the fifteenth-century Italian religious reformer Girolamo Savonarola, he soon embraced Ruskin’s definition of “Medievalism” as a “confession of Christ” opposed to both “Classicalism” (“Pagan Faith”) and “Modernism” (the “denial of Christ”).

    ellauri095.html on line 535: Manley Hopkins’s desire to preserve a Wordsworthian love of nature in his children is evident in his “To a Beautiful Child”:

    ellauri095.html on line 542: Musing on things create, and their Creator’s hand!	puristellen luotuja, ja niiden luojan kättä!

    ellauri095.html on line 545:   This was a remarkably prophetic poem for Manley Hopkins’s first “beautiful child,” Gerard, born only a year after this poem was published.

    ellauri095.html on line 546:   The phrase “And birds that call/Hoarse to the storm,” invites comparison with the son’s images of the windhover rebuffing the big wind in “The Windhover” (1877) and with the image of the great storm fowl at the conclusion of “Henry Purcell” (1879). The father’s prophecy, “thy sport is with the storm/To wrestle” is fulfilled in Gerard’s The Wreck of the Deutschland and “The Loss of the Eurydice” (1878). These two shipwreck poems, replete with spiritual instruction for those in doubt and danger were the son’s poetic and religious counterparts to his father’s 1873 volume, The Port of Refuge, or advice and instructions to the Master-Mariner in situations of doubt, difficulty, and danger.

    ellauri095.html on line 550: Compare Gerard Manley Hopkins’s version of an attempted rescue with the account in the London Times, one of the sources he used for The Wreck of the Deutschland. According to the Times, “One brave sailor, who was safe in the rigging went down to try to save a child or woman who was drowning on deck. He was secured by a rope to the rigging, but a wave dashed him against the bulwark, and when daylight dawned his headless body, detained by the rope, was swinging to and fro with the waves.” Hopkins wrote:

    ellauri095.html on line 554: With a rope’s end round the man, handy and brave––			köysi ympärillä kätevästi urheana--

    ellauri095.html on line 570: 
    The Wreck of the ‘Deutschland’
    

    ellauri096.html on line 53: Typically prophecies like catastrophe warnings are made to serve opposite goals simultaneously. Competition between accuracy and helpfulness makes it possible for a prediction to be self-fulfilling by being self-defeating. Consider a prophet who warns ‘Your godless life will cause fatalities along the sinners’. Because of the warning, spectacle-seekers make a special trip to witness the carnage. They die like flies. The prophet’s announcement succeeds as a prediction by backfiring as a warning, or conversely.

    ellauri096.html on line 55: Michael Scriven (1964) tried to refute predictive determinism (the thesis that all events are foreseeable), by conjuring two players, “Predictor” who has all the data, laws, and calculating capacity needed to predict the choices of others. Scriven goes on to imagine, “Avoider”, whose dominant motivation is to avoid prediction. Therefore, Predictor must conceal his prediction. The catch is that Avoider has access to the same data, laws, and calculating capacity as Predictor. Thus Avoider can duplicate Predictor’s reasoning. Consequently, the optimal predictor cannot predict Avoider. Let the teacher be Avoider and the student be Predictor. Avoider must win. Therefore, it is possible to give a surprise test. This sounds silly. The Predictor can predict that the Avoider double guesses her. Both can fiture out that this will go on and on, until time runs out, and they still just sit on their asses doing nothing. Thing is, you must remember that the players are part of the game, not outside of it as idealists would have it. 

    ellauri096.html on line 57:     Idealizing the teacher and student along the lines of Avoider and Predictor fails to solve the puzzle. It falsely presupposes that two equally super clever agents are co-possible. It is like asking ‘If Aku is smarter than Anu and Anu is smarter than Aku, which of the two is the smartest?’ Its like Abott and Costello going thru the door, after you, no after you, until in the end they, predictably, try to go thru it at once. There is no equilibrium in the game, so shit just happens. 

    ellauri096.html on line 67: In response to the apparent conflict between freedom and foreknowledge, medieval philosophers denied that future contingent propositions have a truth-value. That´s silly. They took themselves to be extending a solution Aristotle discusses in De Interpretatione to the problem of logical fatalism. According to this truth-value gap approach, ‘You will take a dump tomorrow’ is not true now. The prediction will become true tomorrow. A morally serious theist can agree with the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam:

    ellauri096.html on line 74: Cod’s omniscience only requires that He knows every true proposition. God will know ‘You will take a shit’ as soon it becomes true – like when the turd is halfway out -  but not before. Naah, this is really weak. That takes no omniscience, just a good nose. 

    ellauri096.html on line 75: The teacher has free will. Therefore, predictions about what he will do are not true (prior to the examination). Accordingly, Paul Weiss (1952) concludes that the student’s argument falsely assumes he knows that the announcement is true. The student can know that the announcement is true after it becomes true – but not before. What a wimpy argument. 

    ellauri096.html on line 90: W. V. Quine (1953) agrees with Weiss’ conclusion that the teacher’s announcement of a surprise test fails to give the student knowledge that there will be a surprise test. Yet Quine abominates Weiss’ reasoning. Weiss breeches the law of bivalence (which states that every proposition has a truth-value, true or false). Quine believes that the riddle of the surprise test should not be answered by surrendering classical logic. Me too. Right on Willard van Orman Quine! Thumbs up!

    ellauri096.html on line 92:   W. V. Quine insists that the student’s elimination argument is only a reductio ad absurdum of the supposition that the student knows that the announcement is true (rather than a reductio of the announcement itself). He accepts this epistemic reductio but rejects the metaphysical reductio. Given the student’s ignorance of the announcement, Quine concludes that a test on any day would be unforeseen. 

    ellauri096.html on line 94: In later writings, Quine evinces general reservations about the concept of knowledge. One of his pet objections is that ‘know’ is vague. If knowledge entails absolute certainty, then too little will count as known. Quine infers that we must equate knowledge with firmly held true belief. Asking just how firm the belief must be is akin to asking just how big something has to be to count as being big. There is no answer to the question because ‘big’ lacks the sort of boundary enjoyed by precise words.

    ellauri096.html on line 96:     There is no place in science for bigness, because of this lack of boundary; but there is a place for the relation of biggerness. Here we see the familiar and widely applicable rectification of vagueness: disclaim the vague positive and cleave to the precise comparative. But it is inapplicable to the verb ‘know’, even grammatically. Verbs have no comparative and superlative inflections … . I think that for scientific or philosophical purposes the best we can do is give up the notion of knowledge as a bad job and make do rather with its separate ingredients. We can still speak of a belief as true, and of one belief as firmer or more certain, to the believer’s mind, than another (1987, 109). 

    ellauri096.html on line 98: Quine is alluding to Rudolf Carnap’s (1950) generalization that scientists replace qualitative terms (tall) with comparatives (taller than) and then replace the comparatives with quantitative terms (being n millimeters in height).

    ellauri096.html on line 100: It is true that some borderline cases of a qualitative term are not borderline cases for the corresponding comparative. But the reverse holds as well. A tall man who stoops may stand less high than another tall man who is not as lengthy but better postured. Both men are clearly tall. It is unclear that ‘The lengthier man is taller’. Qualitative terms can be applied when a vague quota is satisfied without the need to sort out the details. Only comparative terms are bedeviled by tie-breaking issues.

    ellauri096.html on line 102: Science is about what is the case rather than what ought to be case. This seems to imply that science does not tell us what we ought to believe. The traditional way to fill the normative gap is to delegate issues of justification to epistemologists. However, Quine is uncomfortable with delegating such authority to philosophers. He prefers the thesis that psychology is enough to handle the issues traditionally addressed by epistemologists (or at least the issues still worth addressing in an Age of Science). This “naturalistic epistemology” seems to imply that ‘know’ and ‘justified’ are antiquated terms – as empty as ‘phlogiston’ or ‘soul’.

    ellauri096.html on line 108: Notice that the eliminativist is more radical than the skeptic. The skeptic thinks the concept of knowledge is fine. We just fall short of being knowers. The skeptic treats ‘No man is a knower’ like ‘No man is an immortal’. There is nothing wrong with the concept of immortality. Biology just winds up guaranteeing that every man falls short of being immortal.

    ellauri096.html on line 110: Unlike the believer in ‘No man is an immortal’, the skeptic has trouble asserting ‘There is no knowledge’. For assertion expresses the belief that one knows. That is why Sextus Empiricus (Outlines of Pyrrhonism, I., 3, 226) condemns the assertion ‘There is no knowledge’ as dogmatic skepticism. Sextus prefers agnosticism about knowledge rather than skepticism (considered as “atheism” about knowledge). Yet it just as inconsistent to assert ‘No one can know whether anything is known’. For that conveys the belief that one knows that no one can know whether anything is known.

    ellauri096.html on line 116: The eliminativist has even more severe difficulties in stating his position than the skeptic. Some eliminativists dismiss the threat of self-defeat by drawing an analogy. Those who denied the existence of souls were accused of undermining a necessary condition for asserting anything. However, the soul theorist’s account of what is needed gives no reason to deny that a healthy brain suffices for mental states.

    ellauri096.html on line 118:       If the eliminativist thinks that assertion only imposes the aim of expressing a truth, then he can consistently assert that ‘know’ is a defective term. However, an epistemologist can revive the charge of self-defeat by showing that assertion does indeed require the speaker to attribute knowledge to himself. This knowledge-based account of assertion has recently been supported by work on our next paradox.

    ellauri096.html on line 120: Probabilistic skepticism dates back to Arcesilaus who took over the Academy two generations after Plato’s death. This moderate kind of skepticism, recounted by Cicero (Academica 2.74, 1.46) from his days as a student at the Academy, allows for justified belief. Many scientists are attracted to probabilism and dismiss the epistemologist’s preoccupation with knowledge as old-fashioned.

    ellauri096.html on line 122: Despite the early start of the qualitative theory of probability, the quantitative theory did not develop until Blaise Pascal’s study of gambling in the seventeenth century (Hacking 1975). Only in the eighteenth century did it penetrate the insurance industry (even though insurers realized that a fortune could be made by accurately calculating risk). Only in the nineteenth century did probability make a mark in physics. And only in the twentieth century do probabilists make important advances over Arcesilaus.

    ellauri096.html on line 124: Most of these philosophical advances are reactions to the use of probability by scientists. In the twentieth century, editors of science journals began to demand that the author’s hypothesis should be accepted only when it was sufficiently probable – as measured by statistical tests. The threshold for acceptance was acknowledged to be somewhat arbitrary. And it was also conceded that the acceptance rule might vary with one’s purposes. For instance, we demand a higher probability when the cost of accepting a false hypothesis is high.

    ellauri096.html on line 142: If you know that your beliefs are jointly inconsistent, then you should reject R. M. Sainsbury’s definition of a paradox as “an apparently unacceptable conclusion derived by apparently acceptable reasoning from apparently acceptable premises” (1995, 1). Take the negation of any of your beliefs as a conclusion and your remaining beliefs as the premises. You should judge this jumble argument as valid, and as having premises that you accept, and yet as having a conclusion you reject (Sorensen 2003b, 104–110). If the conclusion of this argument counts as a paradox, then the negation of any of your beliefs counts as a paradox.

    ellauri096.html on line 144: The resemblance between the preface paradox and the surprise test paradox becomes more visible through an intermediate case. The preface of Siddhartha Mukherjee’s The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer warns: “In cases where there was no prior public knowledge, or when interviewees requested privacy, I have used a false name, and deliberately confounded identities to make it difficult to track.” Those who refuse consent to be lied to are free to close Doctor Mukherjee’s chronicle. But nearly all readers think the physician’s trade-off between lies and new information is acceptable. They rationally anticipate being rationally misled. Nevertheless, these readers learn much about the history of cancer. Similarly, students who are warned that they will receive a surprise test rationally expect to be rationally misled about the day of the test. The prospect of being misled does not lead them to drop the course.

    ellauri096.html on line 151: If paradoxes were always sets of propositions or arguments or conclusions, then they would always be meaningful. But some paradoxes are semantically flawed (Sorensen 2003b, 352) and some have answers that are backed by a pseudo-argument employing a defective “lemma” that lacks a truth-value. Kurt Grelling’s paradox, for instance, opens with a distinction between autological and heterological words. An autological word describes itself, e.g., ‘polysyllabic’ is polysllabic, ‘English’ is English, ‘noun’ is a noun, etc. A heterological word does not describe itself, e.g., ‘monosyllabic’ is not monosyllabic, ‘Chinese’ is not Chinese, ‘verb’ is not a verb, etc. Now for the riddle: Is ‘heterological’ heterological or autological? If ‘heterological’ is heterological, then since it describes itself, it is autological. But if ‘heterological’ is autological, then since it is a word that does not describe itself, it is heterological. The common solution to this puzzle is that ‘heterological’, as defined by Grelling, is not a genuine predicate (Thomson 1962). In other words, “Is ‘heterological’ heterological?” is without meaning. There can be no predicate that applies to all and only those predicates it does not apply to for the same reason that there can be no barber who shaves all and only those people who do not shave themselves.

    ellauri096.html on line 153: The eliminativist, who thinks that ‘know’ or ‘justified’ is meaningless, will diagnose the epistemic paradoxes as questions that only appear to be well-formed. For instance, the eliminativist about justification would not accept proposition (4) in the regress paradox: ‘Some beliefs are justified’. His point is not that no beliefs meet the high standards for justification, as an anarchist might deny that any ostensible authorities meet the high standards for legitimacy. Instead, the eliminativist unromantically diagnoses ‘justified’ as a pathological term. Just as the astronomer ignores ‘Are there a zillion stars?’ on the grounds that ‘zillion’ is not a genuine numeral, the eliminativist ignores ‘Are some beliefs justified?’ on the grounds that ‘justified’ is not a genuine adjective.

    ellauri096.html on line 155: In the twentieth century, suspicions about conceptual pathology were strongest for the liar paradox: Is ‘This sentence is false’ true? Philosophers who thought that there was something deeply defective with the surprise test paradox assimilated it to the liar paradox. Let us review the assimilation process.

    ellauri096.html on line 157: The student’s overall conclusion, that the test is impossible, is also self-defeating. If the student believes his conclusion then he will not expect the test. So if he receives a test, it will be a surprise. The event will be all the more unexpected because the student has deluded himself into thinking the test is impossible.

    ellauri096.html on line 159: Just as someone’s awareness of a prediction can affect the likelihood of it being true, awareness of that sensitivity to his awareness can also affect its truth. If each cycle of awareness is self-defeating, then there is no stable resting place for a conclusion.

    ellauri096.html on line 178: to ∼Kp (that is, from ‘It is known that not-p’, to ‘It is not the case that it is known that p’). Ironically, this garbled transmission results in a cleaner variation of the knower:

    ellauri096.html on line 186: But the skeptic should not lose his nerve. Proof does not always yield knowledge. Consider a student who correctly guesses that a step in his proof is valid. The student does not know the conclusion but did prove the theorem. His instructor might have trouble getting the student to understand why his answer constitutes a valid proof. The intransigence may stem from the prover’s intelligence rather than his stupidity. L. E. J. Brouwer is best known in mathematics for his brilliant fixed point theorem. But Brouwer regarded his proof as dubious. He had philosophical doubts about the Axiom of Choice and Law of Excluded Middle. Brouwer persuaded a minority of mathematicians and philosophers, known as intuitionists, to emulate his inability to be educated by non-constructive proofs.

    ellauri096.html on line 188: The logical myth that “You cannot prove a universal negative” is itself a universal negative. So it implies its own unprovability. This implication of unprovability is correct but only because the principle is false. For instance, exhaustive inspection proves the universal negative ‘No adverbs appear in this sentence’. A reductio ad absurdum proves the universal negative ‘There is no largest prime number’.

    ellauri096.html on line 191: Yes, there are infinitely many. Kurt Gödel’s incompleteness theorem demonstrated that any system that is strong enough to express arithmetic is also strong enough to express a formal counterpart of the self-referential proposition in the surprise test example ‘This statement cannot be proved in this system’. If the system cannot prove its “Gödel sentence”, then this sentence is true. If the system can prove its Gödel sentence, the system is inconsistent. So either the system is incomplete or inconsistent. (See the entry on Kurt Gödel.)

    ellauri096.html on line 193: Of course, this result concerns provability relative to a system. One system can prove another system’s Gödel sentence. Kurt Gödel (1983, 271) thought that proof was not needed for knowledge that arithmetic is consistent.

    ellauri096.html on line 195: J. R. Lucas (1964) claims that this reveals human beings are not machines. A computer is a concrete instantiation of a formal system. Hence, its “knowledge” is restricted to what it can prove. By Gödel’s theorem, the computer will be either inconsistent or incomplete. However, a human being with a full command of arithmetic can be consistent (even if he is actually inconsistent due to inattention or wishful thinking).

    ellauri096.html on line 197: Critics of Lucas defend the parity between people and computers. They think we have our own Gödel sentences (Lewis 1999, 166–173). In this egalitarian spirit, G. C. Nerlich (1961) models the student’s beliefs in the surprise test example as a logical system. The teacher’s announcement is then a Gödel sentence about the student: There will be a test next week but you will not be able to prove which day it will occur on the basis of this announcement and memory of what has happened on previous exam days. When the number of exam days equals zero the announcement is equivalent to sentence K.

    ellauri096.html on line 199: Several commentators on the surprise test paradox object that interpreting surprise as unprovability changes the topic. Instead of posing the surprise test paradox, it poses a variation of the liar paradox. Other concepts can be blended with the liar. For instance, mixing in alethic notions generates the possible liar:  Is ‘This statement is possibly false’ true? (Post 1970) (If  it is false, then it is false that it is possibly false. What cannot possibly be false is necessarily true. But if it is necessarily true, then it cannot be possibly false.) Since the semantic concept of validity involves the notion of possibility, one can also derive validity liars such as Pseudo-Scotus’ paradox: ‘Squares are squares, therefore, this argument is invalid’ (Read 1979). Suppose Pseudo-Scotus’ argument is valid. Since the premise is necessarily true, the conclusion would be necessarily true. But the conclusion contradicts the supposition that argument is valid. Therefore, by reductio, the argument is necessarily invalid. Wait! The argument can be invalid only if it is possible for the premise to be true and the conclusion to be false. But we have already proved that the conclusion of ‘Squares are squares, therefore, this argument is invalid’ is necessarily true. There is no consistent judgment of the argument’s validity. A similar predicament follows from ‘The test is on Friday but this prediction cannot be soundly deduced from this announcement’.

    ellauri096.html on line 204: Frederic Fitch (1963) reports that in 1945 he first learned of this proof of unknowable truths from a referee report on a manuscript he never published. Thanks to Joe Salerno’s (2009) archival research, we now know that referee was Alonzo Church.

    ellauri096.html on line 206: Assume there is a true sentence of the form ‘p but p is not known’. Although this sentence is consistent, modest principles of epistemic logic imply that sentences of this form are unknowable.

    ellauri096.html on line 234: 5.3 Moore’s problem

    ellauri096.html on line 236: Church’s referee report was composed in 1945. The timing and structure of his argument for unknowables suggests that Church may have been by inspired G. E. Moore’s (1942, 543) sentence:

    ellauri096.html on line 238:     (M) I went to the pictures last Tuesday, but I don’t believe that I did. 

    ellauri096.html on line 240: Moore’s problem is to explain what is odd about declarative utterances such as (M). This explanation needs to encompass both readings of (M): ‘p&B∼p

    ellauri096.html on line 241: ’ and ‘p&∼Bp

    ellauri096.html on line 243: ’. (This scope ambiguity is exploited by a popular joke: René Descartes sits in a bar, having a drink. The bartender asks him if he would care for another. “I think not,” he says, and disappears.)

    ellauri096.html on line 245: The common explanation of Moore’s absurdity is that the speaker has managed to contradict himself without uttering a contradiction. So the sentence is odd because it is a counterexample to the generalization that anyone who contradicts himself utters a contradiction.

    ellauri096.html on line 247: There is no problem with third person counterparts of (M). Anyone else can say about Moore, with no paradox, ‘G. E. Moore went to the pictures last Tuesday but he does not believe it’. (M) can also be embedded unparadoxically in conditionals: ‘If I went to the pictures last Tuesday but I do not believe it, then I am suffering from a worrisome lapse of memory ’. The past tense is fine: ‘I went to the picture shows last Tuesday but I did not believe it’. The future tense, ‘I went to the picture shows last Tuesday but I will not believe it’, is a bit more of a stretch (Bovens 1995). We tend to picture our future selves as better informed. Later selves are, as it were, experts to whom earlier selves should defer. When an earlier self foresees that his later self believes p

    ellauri096.html on line 257: Binkley illuminates this reasoning with doxastic logic. The inference rules for this logic of belief can be understood as idealizing the student into an ideal reasoner. In general terms, an ideal reasoner is someone who infers what he ought and refrains from inferring any more than he ought. Since there is no constraint on his premises, we may disagree with the ideal reasoner. But if we agree with the ideal reasoner’s premises, we appear bound to agree with his conclusion. Binkley specifies some requirements to give teeth to the student’s status as an ideal reasoner: the student is perfectly consistent, believes all the logical consequences of his beliefs, and does not forget. Binkley further assumes that the ideal reasoner is aware that he is an ideal reasoner. According to Binkley, this ensures that if the ideal reasoner believes p, then he believes that he will believe p thereafter.

    ellauri096.html on line 259: Binkley’s account of the student’s hypothetical epistemic state on Thursday is compelling. But his argument for spreading the incredulity from the future to the past is open to three challenges.

    ellauri096.html on line 262: informed by the teacher’s announcement, so Binkley ought not to use a model in which the announcement is as absurd as the conjunction ‘I went to the pictures last Tuesday but I do not believe it’.

    ellauri096.html on line 269: Binkley stipulates that the students do not forget. He needs to add that the students know that they will not forget. For the mere threat of a memory lapse sometimes suffices to undermine knowledge. Consider Professor Anesthesiology’s scheme for surprise tests: “A surprise test will be given either Wednesday or Friday with the help of an amnesia drug. If the test occurs on Wednesday, then the drug will be administered five minutes after Wednesday’s class. The drug will instantly erase memory of the test and the students will fill in the gap by confabulation.” You have just completed Wednesday’s class and so temporarily know that the test will be on Friday. Ten minutes after the class, you lose this knowledge. No drug was administered and there is nothing wrong with your memory. You are correctly remembering that no test was given on Wednesday. However, you do not know your memory is accurate because you also know that if the test was given Wednesday then you would have a pseudo-memory indistinguishable from your present memory. Despite not gaining any new evidence, you change your mind about the test occurring on Wednesday and lose your knowledge that the test is on Friday. (The change of belief is not crucial; you would still lack foreknowledge of the test even if you dogmatically persisted in believing that the test will be on Friday.)

    ellauri096.html on line 271:   If the students know that they will not forget and know there will be no undermining by outside evidence, then we may be inclined to agree with Binkley’s summary that his idealized student never loses the knowledge he accumulates. As we shall see, however, this overlooks other ways in which rational agents may lose knowledge.

    ellauri096.html on line 273: The teacher’s announcement that there will be a surprise test is equivalent to a disjunction of future mistakes: ‘Either there will be a test on Monday and the student will not believe it beforehand or there will be a test Wednesday and the student will not believe it beforehand or the test is on Friday and the student will not believe it beforehand.’

    ellauri096.html on line 275: The points made so far suggest a solution to the surprise test paradox (Sorensen 1988, 328–343). As Binkley (1968) asserts, the test would be a surprise even if the teacher waited until the last day. Yet it can still be true that the teacher’s announcement is informative. At the beginning of the week, the students are justified in believing the teacher’s announcement that there will be a surprise test.  This announcement is equivalent to:

    ellauri096.html on line 279: Consider the student’s predicament on Thursday (given that the test has not been on Monday or Wednesday). If he knows that no test has been given, he cannot also know that (A) is true. Because that would imply

    ellauri096.html on line 283: Although (iii) is consistent and might be knowable by others, (iii) cannot be known by the student before Friday. (iii) is a blindspot for the students but not for, say, the teacher’s colleagues. Hence, the teacher can give a surprise test on Friday because that would force the students to lose their knowledge of the original announcement (A). Knowledge can be lost without forgetting anything.

    ellauri096.html on line 289: Some people wear T-shirts with Question Authority! written on them. Questioning authority is generally regarded as a matter of individual discretion. The surprise test paradox shows that it is sometimes mandatory. The student is rationally required to doubt the teacher’s announcement even though the teacher has not given any evidence of being unreliable. Indeed, the student can foresee that their change of mind opens a new opportunity for surprise.

    ellauri096.html on line 297: The general structure of Meno’s paradox is a dilemma: If you know the answer to the question you are asking, then nothing can be learned by asking. If you do not know the answer, then you cannot recognize a correct answer even if it is given to you. Therefore, one cannot learn anything by asking questions.

    ellauri096.html on line 299: Saul Kripke’s ruminations on the surprise test paradox led him to a paradox about dogmatism. He lectured on both paradoxes at Cambridge University to the Moral Sciences Club in 1972. (A descendent of this lecture now appears as Kripke 2011). Gilbert Harman transmitted Kripke’s new paradox as follows:

    ellauri096.html on line 331: Geld ist weg, Mensch (Mäd’l) ist weg,

    ellauri096.html on line 341: Hin ist’s wie Augustin;

    ellauri096.html on line 347: Nur ein groß’ Leichenfest,

    ellauri096.html on line 350: Leg’ nur ins Grab dich hin!

    ellauri096.html on line 708: Selon sa biographe, Alice Cherki, Fanon devient en France — « le pays pour lequel la guerre d´Algérie n´a pas eu lieu » —, « un philosophe maudit ». Il est occulté pour sa condamnation radicale du colonialisme français : « En redonnant à la colonie son rôle dans la construction de la nation, de l’identité nationale et de la république française, Fanon fait apparaître comment la notion de « race » n’est pas extérieure au corps républicain et comment elle le hante ». Mettant en cause un clivage racial au fondement du système colonial, Fanon gêne le républicanisme d´une France qui se dit indifférente aux différences mais qui, dans son propre empire colonial, a dénié des droits à des populations au motif de leur « race » dite inférieure.

    ellauri096.html on line 777: Aristotle, on the other hand, took a more empirical approach to the question, acknowledging that we intuitively believe in akrasia. He distances himself from the Socratic position by locating the breakdown of reasoning in an agent’s opinion, not his appetition. Now, without recourse to appetitive desires, Aristotle reasons that akrasia occurs as a result of opinion. Opinion is formulated mentally in a way that may or may not imitate truth, while appetites are merely desires of the body. Thus, opinion is only incidentally aligned with or opposed to the good, making an akratic action the product of opinion instead of reason. For Aristotle, the antonym of akrasia is enkrateia, which means "in power" (over oneself).

    ellauri097.html on line 75: Nykyisen Baltimoren lähialueen alkuperäisasukkaita olivat susquehannock- ja piscataway-intiaanit. Intiaanien väkiluku romahti kuitenkin eurooppalaistaustaisten siirtolaisten saapumisen jälkeen ja 1700-lukuun mennessä heitä oli koko Marylandissä vain muutama sata. Englannin kuningas Kaarle I oli antanut vuonna 1632 Baltimoren paroni George Calvertille maita Amerikasta, joista muodostettiin Baltimoren piirikunta vuonna 1659. Alueelle saapuville siirtolaisille jaettiin maata ja Marylandissä alettiin viljellä erityisesti tupakkaa. Vuonna 1696 Daniel ja Charles Carrol -nimiset maanomistajat ostivat 550 eekkerin kokoisen alueen alun perin nimellä Cole’s Harbor tunnetulta paikalta Baltimoren piirikunnasta. Maata myytiin eteenpäin eekkerin kokoisina palstoina, joista alkoi muodostua Baltimoren kaupunki. 1700-luvulla Baltimoren sataman kautta vietiin tupakkaa Eurooppaan ja viljaa Länsi-Intiaan.

    ellauri097.html on line 130: Uuskantilainen Vaihinger began to develop a system of philosophy he called the "philosophy of 'als ob' ". In it he offered a system of thought in which God and reality might best be represented as paradigms. This was not to say that either God or reality was any less certain than anything else in the realm of man’s awareness, but only that all matters confronting man might best be regarded in hypothetical ways.

    ellauri097.html on line 132: Frank Kermode´s The Sense of an Ending (1967) was an early mention of Vaihinger as a useful methodologist of narrativity. He says that "literary fictions belong to Vaihinger’s category of 'the consciously false.' They are not subject, like hypotheses, to proof or disconfirmation, only, if they come to lose their operational effectiveness, to neglect."

    ellauri097.html on line 258:     Julien Green est né à Paris, 4, rue Ruhmkorff, de parents américains, descendant du côté de sa mère du sénateur et représentant démocrate de la Géorgie au congrès américain Julian Hartridge (en) (1829-1879) et dont Julien Green porte le prénom (Green a été baptisé « Julian » ; l'orthographe a été changée en « Julien » par son éditeur français dans les années 1920). Il grandit dans le 16e arrondissement de Paris, puis au Vésinet et passe ses vacances dans la commune d'Andrésy, dans les Yvelines. Il poursuit toutes ses études en France au lycée Janson-de-Sailly. Sa mère, protestante pieuse et aimante, meurt alors qu'il a 14 ans, et la famille déménage rue Cortambert, à Paris. Il se convertit au catholicisme en 1916, à la suite de son père et de toutes ses sœurs, ainsi qu'il le raconte dans Ce qu'il faut d'amour à l'homme, son autobiographie spirituelle. Il abjure l'anglicanisme à la crypte de la chapelle des sœurs de la rue Cortambert. Âgé de seulement 17 ans, Julian Green réussit à rejoindre les rangs de la Croix-Rouge américaine, puis est détaché dans l’artillerie française en 1918 en tant que sous-lieutenant et sert en Italie. Démobilisé en mars 1919, il se rend pour la première fois aux États-Unis en septembre de la même année et effectue trois ans d'études à l’université de Virginie, où il éprouve un premier amour chaste et secret pour un camarade d'études. Il écrit son premier livre en anglais, avant de revenir vivre en France.

    ellauri097.html on line 266: Il est enterré le 21 août 1998 à Klagenfurt en Autriche dans l'église Saint-Egid ; Éric Jourdan, son fils adoptif, repose à ses côtés depuis 2015. Ému par une statue ancienne de la Vierge Marie lors d'une visite en 1990, l'écrivain avait émis le désir d'être inhumé dans une des chapelles de cette église, l’Église catholique ayant, en France, refusé son inhumation en l’église d'Andrésy.

    ellauri097.html on line 292: Patrick White (1912–1990) was raised in Sydney’s well-to-do Rushcutter’s Bay, and was sent to England at 13. He attended boarding school, then Cambridge, and during the war was stationed in North Africa. It was there, in 1941, that White met Manoly Lascaris, the Greek officer who he would love for the rest of his life. By the time White and Lascaris returned to Australia. in 1947 White had written three tepidly received novels, and a play. It took coming home to Sydney to transform his writing and elevate it to the level of genius. White produced The Tree of Man, in 1955, his first novel to be written in Sydney. He went on to write a string of masterpieces in quick succession: Voss, Riders in the Chariot, The Vivisector. He received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1973. The Nobel committee credited White “for an epic and psychological narrative art which has introduced a new continent into literature.”

    ellauri097.html on line 296: He became a literary icon, but White knew that people rarely actually read his work. He professed not to care what people thought, but he would sometimes check for copies of his novels in local libraries. He would search for dog-ears and stains, to gauge how far in the book they had read. Most people, he deduced, never finished. The Australian reading public never quite warmed to White, and nothing much has changed. My grandmother “couldn’t stand him.” I have seen my mother take up one of his novels—The Solid Mandala—and after a few moments quite literally toss it aside. White’s books are metaphysical, lyrical, high modernist, full of baroque descriptions of landscapes, and unsparing in his examination of the people who live in them. For a country besotted with kitchen-sink realism and plain-speaking larrikins, Patrick White was baffling.

    ellauri097.html on line 298: In 2006, the Weekend Australian newspaper conducted an experiment. They submitted chapter three of The Eye of the Storm (1973) to twelve publishers and agents around Australia under an anagram of White’s name, Wraith Picket. Nobody offered to publish the book. One responded, “the sample chapter, while reply (sic) with energy and feeling, does not give evidence that the work is yet of a publishable quality.” Notwithstanding that the chapter was not White’s finest writing, and the unfairness of submitting a chapter out of narrative sequence, the hoax prompted a minor crisis in Australian literature: if the industry couldn’t recognize the greatness of our sole Nobel winner, how unenlightened must the country’s publishing industry be now? Shortly thereafter, the ABC launched an online portal called Why Bother With Patrick White? The portal always struck me as sad. What other major writer would need a website dedicated to convincing his countrymen to give him another go? The link to the website is dead now. It would seem, in the end, that nobody could be bothered with Patrick White.

    ellauri097.html on line 302: In some respects this reflects a national pathology. Unlike an American or British child, an Australian student can go through thirteen years of education without reading much of their country’s literature at all (of the more than twenty writers I studied in high school, only two were Australian). This is symptomatic of the country’s famed “cultural cringe,” a term first coined in the 1940s by the critic A.A. Phillips to describe the ways that Australians tend to be prejudiced against home-grown art and ideas in favor of those imported from the UK and America. Australia’s attitude to the arts has, for much of the last two centuries, been moral. “What these idiots didn’t realize about White was that he was the most powerful spruiker for morality that anybody was going to read in an Australian work,” argued David Marr, White’s biographer, during a talk at the Wheeler Centre in 2013. “And here were these petty little would-be moral tyrants whinging about this man whose greatest message about this country in the end was that we are an unprincipled people.”

    ellauri097.html on line 313: Ulrichs war überzeugt, dass die Urninge und die Dioninge von verschiedener Natur seien und daher der Ausdruck „widernatürliche Unzucht“ auf Liebe zwischen Urningen nicht anwendbar war. Die Liebe zwischen zwei Urningen war nach Meinung Ulrichs’ in höchstem Maße ethisch, weil sie die beiden Individuen ihrer Natur gemäß entwickeln lässt. In seinen Schriften erörterte Ulrichs auch die Frage einer Ehe zwischen einem Urning und einem Dioning und inwieweit diese ethisch vertretbar sei. 

    ellauri097.html on line 416:     Nietzsche meant that Kant established the validity of Christian morality by making philosophical arguments that didn’t rely on Christian beliefs. In The Gay Science, Nietzsche writes (in German though): 

    ellauri097.html on line 422: In Nietzsche’s view, Kant’s a priori moral principles are nothing more than the tthe same old shit of traditional German Protestantism:

    ellauri097.html on line 424:     The Protestant parson is the grandfather of German philosophy. The theologians’ instinct in the German scholars divined what Kant had once again made possible. The conception of a “true world,” the conception of morality as the essence of the world … were once again, thanks to a wily and shrewd skepticism, if not provable, at least no longer refutable. Kant’s success is merely a theologian’s success. [The Antichrist §10.]

    ellauri097.html on line 426: Nietzsche especially disliked Kant’s idea that moral motivation consists in respect for a universal concept of virtue:

    ellauri097.html on line 428:     A virtue must be our own invention. The fundamental laws of self-preservation and growth demandthat everyone invent his own virtue, his own categorical imperative. How could one fail to feel how Kant’s categorical imperative endangered life itself! The theologians’ instinct alone protected it! [§11.]

    ellauri097.html on line 430: There’s a sense in which all philosophers except Nietzsche have been theologians in disguise, in that they all claimed to be selfless, altruistic seekers of truth and goodness. Socrates, Nietzsche thought, was really doing what was good for him when he claimed that it would be good for everyone to examine their lives. It’s only with Nietzsche – in Nietzsche’s view, that is – that the philosopher removes his mask and publicly proclaims that his philosophical activity is in the service of his will to power. Nietzsche with his drooping mustache was actually less gay than Immanuel Kant. 

    ellauri097.html on line 449: Recently a caller to the radio told me about a conversation he’d had about homosexuality. The caller made the teleological argument, that looking at what the natural functions of the male and female reproductive organs are for, we can draw certain conclusions about how they should properly be used. The person he was talking with challenged his argument that you can’t get an “ought” from an “is”. The challenger seemed to be saying that just because it is that way in nature doesn’t mean that we can derive a moral rule from it. The caller asked if the challenge was incorrect and how to respond to it.

    ellauri097.html on line 453: The is-ought fallacy, first articulated, by David Hume is put simply as you can’t get an ‘ought’ from an ‘is.’ The more precise way of characterizing it is this; You cannot have a syllogism that has a moral term in the conclusion if there is no moral term in the premises. To be a valid argument, the conclusion has to follow from the premises. You can’t have anything in the conclusion that isn’t already set up in the premises. Hume identified this particular fallacy in arguments that were based on mere descriptive elements but had a conclusion with moral terms in it. That is the is-ought fallacy.

    ellauri097.html on line 455: People sometimes argue in favor of homosexuality by arguing that their inclination is natural, and if it’s natural, then we shouldn’t be making any moral objections about it. If that is their argument they are guilty of is-ought.

    ellauri097.html on line 456: First of all, I’m not entirely sure what they mean by ‘natural.’ If they mean it occurs in nature, then everything is natural. Even concrete is natural because it occurs in nature. So a clarification needs to be made on that particular point. Blindness occurs in nature. Is blindness natural?

    ellauri097.html on line 458: It seems like they’re just simply making a description: This is the way it is; therefore it is okay, in the moral sense of the word. They are presuming some moral state of affairs based on a mere description, and that’s an example of the is-ought fallacy.

    ellauri097.html on line 459: If they want to work on repairing the flaw in their argument, they’re welcome to try that. It would involve introducing a moral term that can be substantiated into the premise to arrive at a conclusion with a moral term. They might say, “If a thing is natural, then it’s moral. This is natural for me, therefore it’s moral.” Now, there’s a valid argument. I don’t think it’s sound, but at least it doesn’t commit the is-ought fallacy.

    ellauri097.html on line 461: Let’s look at the teleological argument based on function. The teleological argument isn’t about just the way a thing works, but the way a thing is intended to work – purpose. My pen functions a certain way. It doesn’t just function that way by accident. It was intended by someone to function with a purpose. For those who are not familiar with this, teleology means ‘end.’ A telos is ‘end’ as in ‘goal.’ Something is intended for a purpose and it’s used for that purpose.

    ellauri097.html on line 462: So if I intend to go from Los Angeles to Napa which is north of Los Angeles but I get in my car and head south on the 405 to the 5, and then head down towards the Mexican border, you can see that I am going the wrong direction. But, of course, the word “wrong” here means that I am not moving towards my goal. I am not accomplishing the goal that I intended to accomplish. I am actually moving in a way that’s inconsistent with my goal, and therefore we can call it the wrong direction.

    ellauri097.html on line 464: I’m not actually using a moral ‘wrong’ in this particular illustration, but notice how you can understand right or wrong in terms of teleology, depending on what the goal is. If I have a loose screw on the refrigerator and I choose a butter knife to tighten the screw, I’m going to ruin the butter knife because I’m not using it for its intended purpose. It’s not made to function as a screwdriver, even if it can be used that way in a pinch. It will get bent or can slip out and scratch the refrigerator. It wasn’t fulfilling its telos, its purpose, or its function, and therefore it was being used wrongly.

    ellauri097.html on line 465: With that as a foundation, let’s look at whether the teleological argument against homosexuality suffers from the is-ought fallacy.

    ellauri097.html on line 467: One way of arguing against homosexuality is to say that males were not intended to have sex with other males, and we can tell that by the way sexual organs appear to be intended to function. Because men were not intended to have sex with other males, and they do so, then they are violating their natural teleology, their natural function. But notice that in the nature of the argument we are making a moral claim implicitly up front. We’re saying, We ought to use things the way they were intended by their Maker to be used, consistent with their teleology. This isn’t that way, therefore it’s wrong. It’s not arguing merely on how bodies are naturally, but how they are intended to function naturally. The teleology is the moral term in the premises.

    ellauri097.html on line 469: Incidentally, this is the very argument that is being used in the Bible in both the Old Testament and the New Testament regarding homosexuality. In the book of Leviticus, it talks about homosexuality being a capital crime, and an abomination. Leviticus 18:22, “You shall not lie with a male as one lies with a female; it is an abomination.” The purpose of sex is for a man and woman, so it’s abomination when that intended function is violated by homosexual sex.

    ellauri097.html on line 473: Paul is saying that when it comes to sexual desire, women were made for men, and men for women, and that’s the functional relationship that God designed them for. They are violating this functional relationship by instead sexually desiring one that was not intended. And, in fact, the wording about male homosexuality is, “They abandoned the natural function of the woman.” So the woman that God provided for them, they are abandoning that for something that, in God’s teleology, is unnatural. So that’s the way our natural law argument works in these two passages.

    ellauri097.html on line 475: Of course, this trades on the notion that human beings, in this case, were made for certain ends. And if a person wants to deny God, then we weren’t made for certain ends, and that’s a way to get out of this argument. So does this argument work for people who are not theists?

    ellauri097.html on line 477: The appearance of design suggests genuine design. The appearance of teleology suggests genuine teleology, and so examples of teleology in the natural realm point to the existence of God. That’s what a teleological argument for God’s existence amounts to - the argument from design. So the teleology, to me, is evidence for God, and that entails certain moral obligations to the God that created with purpose.

    ellauri097.html on line 479: Let’s just say somebody says, “I don’t believe that.” I say, okay, you’re welcome to not believe it, but then you can’t argue teleologically. In fact, you can’t even argue that if it’s natural, it’s okay, because you’re arguing a certain teleology: that if you find it in nature, that means it’s morally acceptable. You can’t help yourself to the teleological argument if you don’t believe in God.

    ellauri097.html on line 481: What you ought to be saying if you don’t believe in God is, It’s just molecules clashing in the universe. There is no right and wrong, so you have no justification for claiming that I’m wrong. Now, that would be consistent - the relativistic view of a materialistic universe. But, of course, then they can’t complain their “rights” because rights don’t have any place in a purely naturalistic system. Rights are part of teleology, endowed with creation.

    ellauri097.html on line 581: Kustantaminen. Mikä ihmeen ”kustantaminen”? Jotakin mätää koko sanassa, n’est-ce pas?

    ellauri097.html on line 696: ‘The Tuft of Flowers’ by Robert Frost is a poem about the lives of simple, hardworking people. As it progresses, it takes a more mystical turn.

    ellauri097.html on line 700: Frost’s poems, including “The Tuft of Flowers”, need to be interpreted beyond the surface level of the subject matter in order to fully understand and appreciate them.

    ellauri097.html on line 723: ‘As all must be,’ I said within my heart,		'Niinkuin kaikkien', sanoin izexeni näin,		

    ellauri097.html on line 724: ‘Whether they work together or apart.’			nimittäin, 'on ne eri junassa tai vaikka samassa.'

    ellauri097.html on line 729: Seeking with memories grown dim o’er night		Hakemassa hämärien muistojensa perusteella

    ellauri097.html on line 730: Some resting flower of yesterday’s delight.		jotain kukkaa joka oli jäänyt yli eilisestä.

    ellauri097.html on line 771: ‘Men work together,’ I told him from the heart,		'Miehiä työssä', sanoin sille sydämmestäni,

    ellauri097.html on line 772: ‘Whether they work together or apart.’			yhdessä duunaaavat vaikka eri junassa.

    ellauri098.html on line 405: In Carlyle’s book On Heroes, Hero-Worship and the Heroic in Society (Carlyle, 1840), somebody (most likely the author) dove into the lives of several men he deemed “heroes,” like Muhammed, Richard Wagner, Shakespeare, Martin Luther, and Napoleon. He believed that history “turned” on the decisions of these men, and encouraged others to study these heroes as a way of discovering one’s own true nature.

    ellauri098.html on line 440: There’s nothing an ENTP loves more than a good argument. They can argue on any side and enjoy playing devil’s advocate. For ENTPs, the pleasure is in taking ideas apart and seeing what really works and what doesn’t. ENTPs love to smash icons, question authority, and break down outmoded ideas. (And Click To Tweet.)

    ellauri098.html on line 441: Their intellectually combative nature means that ENTPs can be difficult to work with, and they can bruise others’ feelings because they never shy away from conflict. But ENTPs are unflinchingly honest, even about themselves, and they hold up a clear mirror to the world around them. 
    

    ellauri098.html on line 448: It can be an effort for INTPs to remain grounded and relate their thinking to the real world, and others can see them as distant and unemotional. But the pure rationality that an INTP brings is a powerful tool for unlocking problems when it’s applied properly. 
    

    ellauri098.html on line 455: ENTJs are naturally drawn to leadership positions, and can become resentful and unhappy if they’re forced to play second fiddle or if their authority is challenged. They can be curt and dismissive of others’ opinions, and rarely waste time considering the feelings of those around them.

    ellauri098.html on line 456: But ENTJs’ determination and analytical abilities often propel them to great success in life. 
    

    ellauri098.html on line 464: Only about 2% of the population is INTJ, but their forceful nature tends to make them influential, so it’s not surprising that many celebrities are INTJ. 
        

    ellauri098.html on line 489: ENFJs, like other “E” types, are extremely sociable. They’re fascinated with other people’s lives and care deeply about those around them. They have a positive, idealistic outlook and love to help others improve themselves and solve their problems. They tend to be decisive and good planners, so they make excellent leaders, counselors, and facilitators.

    ellauri098.html on line 498: INFJs are idealists. Creative and fair-minded, they see the world not the way it is but the way they think it should be. While they are caring and sympathetic to others’ troubles, INFJs are big-picture thinkers. Rather than help individuals, they look for ways to change the system. They are also energetic, determined, and instinctual, with a tendency to just plunge in and start working rather than make careful plans. They don't Click To Tweet. 

    ellauri098.html on line 525: ESFJs are everyone’s friend. They are consensus builders and conflict defusers who enjoy helping social situations flow smoothly. They may not be the “life of the party,” but they’re the ones who make sure everyone is having a good time. Because they’re so easy to get along with, ESFJs tend to have large circles of friends.

    ellauri098.html on line 540: ESTPs are defined by action. They are quick, restless thinkers and poor planners. They’d rather just jump into a situation with both feet, and if things go wrong, they can always adjust on the fly.

    ellauri098.html on line 542: Other personalities can find ESTPs exhausting to keep up with, and it’s true they can leave a trail of wreckage in their wake as they bull ahead. But there’s rarely any malice in them, and they’re always fun to be with. 
    

    ellauri098.html on line 556: ESFPs operate from the principle that “all the world’s a stage” — and they want to be the stars.

    ellauri098.html on line 557: They’re the class clowns, show-offs, and divas. Outgoing, energetic, and impulsive, they are natural performers and entertainers. But if ESPFs can’t grab attention by being funny or fascinating, they will settle for being annoying or outrageous. 
    

    ellauri099.html on line 44:     The remains of Oscar Wilde lie in Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris. His sleek, modern tomb, designed by the British sculptor Jacob Epstein and commissioned by Wilde’s lover and executor, John Robert "Haj" Ross, is one of the most frequently visited and recognizable graves in a cemetery notable for the many famous writers, artists, and musicians buried there (Balzac, Chopin, Proust, Gertrude Stein, Jim Morrison). The surface of Epstein’s massive monolith is covered with hundreds of lipstick kisses, some ancient and faded, others new and vibrant. (“The madness of kissing” is what Wilde said Lord Alfred Douglas’s “red-roseleaf lips” were made for.)...

    ellauri099.html on line 71:     Dulness and dirt are the chief features of Lippincott’s this month: The element that is unclean, though undeniably amusing, is furnished by Mr. Oscar Wilde’s story of The Picture of Dorian Gray. It is a tale spawned from the leprous literature of the French decadents—a poisonous book, the atmosphere of which is heavy with the mephitic odours of moral and spiritual putrefaction—a gloating study of the mental and physical corruption of a fresh, fair and golden youth, which might be fascinating but for its effeminate frivolity, its studied insincerity, its theatrical cynicism, its tawdry mysticism, its flippant philosophizings. . . . Mr. Wilde says the book has “a moral.” The “moral,” so far as we can collect it, is that man’s chief end is to develop his nature to the fullest by “always searching for new sensations,” that when the soul gets sick the way to cure it is to deny the senses nothing.

    ellauri099.html on line 172: We are less attracted to the idea of the wealthy aristocratic philosopher sequestered in his research facility and making occasional overseas trips to visit foreign tyrants than the image of the poor, shoeless Socrates causing trouble in the marketplace, refusing to be paid and getting killed by the city for his trouble. But our captivation with this image, once again, is overwhelmingly fatass Plato’s clever branding. 

    ellauri099.html on line 174: And behind his extraordinary inventiveness, Plato performs a characteristic disappearing trick. Truth to tell, we know very little about Plato. According to Plutarch, he was a lover of figs. Big deal! Plato is mentioned only a couple of times in the many dialogues that bear his name. He was present at Socrates’ trial but — in a beautifully reflexive moment that he describes in the Phaedo — absent from the moment of Socrates’ death, because he was sick.

    ellauri099.html on line 176: In fact, we don’t even know that he was called Plato, which might have been a nickname. Laertius claims that he was actually called Aristocles, after his grandfather. “Plato” is close to the word “broad” in Greek, like the broad leaves of the platanos or plane tree under which Socrates and Phaedrus sit and talk about eros. Some think that Plato was so called because he was broad-shouldered because of his prowess in wrestling. Or because he got a flat nose, maybe a wrestling memento. 

    ellauri099.html on line 178: The Academy complex is approximately 130 feet square. It has the typical dimensions of a palaestra, or wrestling school. In my mind’s eye, I saw an elderly Plato sitting watching his academicians wrestle, occasionally offering coaching advice and encouragement.

    ellauri099.html on line 192: We do know that after having served as Lector in the Academy and being described as its “Mind” by Plato, Aristotle was not chosen as the latter’s successor. The job of scholarch, or head of the school, by sheer happenstance, went to Speusippus, Plato’s nephew. Aristotle left Athens shortly after Plato’s death and stayed away for around 12 years. Was he angry or disappointed not to have been chosen as head of the Academy? By being ordered round by big butthead´s nephew, who was an even bigger butthead? 

    ellauri099.html on line 199: Famously, Aristotle was asked by Philip II of Macedon to be the tutor of his 13-year-old son, Alexander. Aristotle set up school in the Macedonian fortress of Mieza, and the young prince was taught together with his companions, who probably numbered around 30 students. A big class. This was a closed school, a boarding school of sorts. A sense of the seriousness with which Aristotle performed his duties can be gleaned from the fact that he composed two treatises in honor of Alexander, “On Kingship” and "On Colonies" as guidebooks for the prince, as well as editing a copy of Homer’s “Iliad” specifically for Alexander’s use — the so-called “casket copy” (presumably because it was small enough to fit inside his casket).

    ellauri099.html on line 201: Very little is known about Aristotle’s stay in Macedonia, but it is thought that he was there for quite some time, possibly seven years, and became very friendly with powerful members of Philip’s court. In 336 B.C.E., Philip was assassinated (in a theater, of all places), and Alexander was declared king at the age of 20. Sensing the instability of political transition, the mighty city of Thebes rebelled against the new Macedonian king. In order to set an example, Alexander besieged and then wholly incinerated the city, wiping it from the map. Its citizens were either killed or sold into slavery.

    ellauri099.html on line 203: Athens didn’t make the same mistake as Thebes and meekly submitted to the Macedonian pike. It is in this context that Aristotle returned to the city at around age 50. And he came back big time. Because of his metic status, Aristotle was not allowed to buy property. So — as one does — he rented. He took over a gymnasium site sacred to Apollo Lyceus (the wolf-god) and transformed it into the most powerful and well-endowed school in the world.

    ellauri099.html on line 205: Two things hit you when you visit the site of the Lyceum and look at its architectural plans. First, it is a direct copy of Plato’s Academy. And second, it is much, much bigger. The relation between the Academy and the Lyceum is a little like that between a twee medieval Cambridge College and the monumental architecture of the University of Chicago.

    ellauri099.html on line 207: The reason Aristotle was able to do this was simple: money. If Plato was rich, then Aristotle was wealthier than Croesus, right up there with the Jeff Bezos-es of his day. He received the sum of 800 talents from his presumably grateful former student, Alexander, which was an enormous amount of money. (Consider that the Plato’s Academy cost about 25-30 talents.)

    ellauri099.html on line 211: Whatever the truth of the matter, Aristotle’s endowment allowed him to build a huge research and teaching facility and amass the largest and most important library in the world. During the time of Theophrastus, Aristotle’s successor as scholarch and clearly a very effective college president, there were as many as 2,000 pupils at the Lyceum, some of them sleeping in dormitories. The Lyceum was clearly the place to be, the educational destination of choice for the elites.

    ellauri099.html on line 213: It leads one to ponder the awkward proximity between philosophy and political power. It is unclear whether the school charged fees but, given its vast wealth, it probably didn’t need to. It sounds a little like Harvard, doesn’t it?

    ellauri099.html on line 215: The Lyceum was clearly the intellectual projection of Macedonian political and military hegemony. In 323 B.C.E., when news of Alexander the Great’s death in Babylon at the age of 32 reached Athens, simmering anti-Macedonian sentiment spilled over, and the popular Athenian leader Demosthenes was recalled. Aristotle left the city for the last time, in fear of his life, after a little more than a decade in charge of the Lyceum. Seeing himself justly or unjustly in the mirror of Socrates and fearing charges of impiety, Aristotle reportedly said, “I will not allow the Athenians to sin twice against philosophy.” Aristotle withdrew to his late mother’s estate at Chalcis on the island of Euboea and died there shortly after of an unspecified illness, at age 63.

    ellauri099.html on line 219: In the northeast corner of the Lyceum, there was a garden, which possibly led to the peripatos, or shaded walk from which the promenading Peripatetic school derived its name. Indeed, there were gardens in all the earlier philosophical schools, in the schools of Miletus on the present-day Turkish coast, and allegedly in the Pythagorean schools in southern Italy. Plato’s Academy also had a garden. And later, the school of Epicurus was simply called “The Garden.” Theophrastus, a keen botanist like Aristotle who did so much to organize the library and build up its scientific side (with maps, globes, specimens and such like), eventually retired to his garden, which was close by.

    ellauri099.html on line 226: Very low rope barriers separated off areas that visitors were not meant to visit. I looked around for a guard, saw no one, and stepped onto the green moss and made my way quietly to the location of Aristotle’s library. On my hands and knees, I saw the ground was littered with tiny delicate snail shells, no bigger than a fingernails, scattered like empty scholars’ backpacks. My partner gave me one, and I put it in my pocket. I had it on my desk right in front of me as I was writing this. Inadvertently, I crushed it to pieces under the weight of one of Mr. Staikos’s huge tomes on the history of libraries. There’s probably a moral in this, but it escapes me. The moral is this: fucking Americans, keep your fat butts and greedy fingers off European soil!

    ellauri100.html on line 42: The experts divided the artist’s life into two periods – before and after his documented breakdown on December 23 1888 in Arles, southern France, when the artist argued with his friend, Paul Gauguin, and cut off his own ear.

    ellauri100.html on line 47:       Although not proven, the relationship between Van Gogh and Gauguin was definitely different that your average straight male friendship. Scholars from Harvard having analyzed Van Gogh’s life in depth concluded that Van Gogh very well have been bisexual (accounting for his other relationships with women). You can find evidence of a possible love connection between the two in his writings.

    ellauri100.html on line 250: Birth and upbringing: Born before Pearl Harbor, but not old enough to remember it or World War II. (Japan formally surrendered two days before my first day of kindergarten.) Raised in two small, adjoining cities in the flat, eastern part of Michigan’s lower peninsula. (But not in the Detroit metro area, as we hastened to add when asked “What part of Michigan?”.) Not a son of privilege, by any means (see “Socioeconomic Background and Character,” below).

    ellauri100.html on line 264: Home stretch: Stayed at the think-tank another 18 years. After three years of reviewing reports, seized an opportunity to establish and run the think-tank’s publications department. Promoted a year later to chief financial and administrative officer, with a portfolio consisting of accounting, computer operations, contracting, facility planning and operations, financial management, human resources (a.k.a. personnel), library and technical information services, physical and information security, programming services, and publications. Basically, I ended up doing everything because there were not many people left in that doomed outfit. Became deeply involved in legal matters, including spin-off of the think-tank from parent company, resolution of affirmative-action claims, and complex contract and lease negotiations. Contrived retirement at age 56. Read: that's when they at long last got rid of me because I had sunk the spin-off. 

    ellauri100.html on line 271: 
    Memoir: See “You Can’t Go Home Again“
    

    ellauri100.html on line 277: Both of my parents came from poor families — poor by today’s standards, at least. But by dint of hard work, there was always food on the table, though no one in those days took or expected handouts from government. We were, and I am still, a typical "persu" (Fundamental Finn) of the "nuiva" (sour, negative) type. 

    ellauri100.html on line 279: My parents’ outlook on life reflected the small-town values of the places in which they were raised. Through a grandmother to whom I was close, I got a good taste of how she, and my parents, had lived. I also came to know the advantages of living in villages, towns, and small cities: physical security and the kind of serenity that is almost impossible to find, for more than a few hours at a time, in the large cities and vast metropolitan areas that now dominate the human landscape of America.

    ellauri100.html on line 281: If my father ever earned as much as a median income, it would come as a surprise to me. Our houses, neighborhoods, and family friends were what is known as working-class. If there were twinges of envy for the rich and famous, they were balanced with admiration for their skills and accomplishments. These children of the Great Depression — my parents and their siblings and friends — betrayed no feelings of grievance toward those who had more of life’s possessions. They were rightly proud of what they had earned and accumulated, and did not feel entitled to more than that because of their “bad luck” or lack of “privilege”. These attitudes fit the Virginia boy's moral right edge like a glove.

    ellauri100.html on line 287: On the whole, what I have seen, known, and done amounts to a large sample of the human experience. I am not trapped in the upper-middle-class “bubble” defined in Charles Murray’s Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960–2010.

    ellauri100.html on line 293: What is the point of these recollections and glimpses of my character? It is to say that my upbringing, experiences, and personality give me an advantage when it comes to understanding the human condition and prescribing for its ills. This blog — in its very small way — is a place of refuge from uninformed emotion, prolonged adolescent rebellion, guilt, and a refusal (or inability) to change one’s political views for whatever reason — whether it is opportunism, obduracy, willful ignorance, simple stupidity, or an inability to admit error (even to oneself). Naah, why beat about the bush: I like to be visible and froth at the mouth, and with my credentials, this is the best I can do. 

    ellauri100.html on line 315: The urban riots that followed the murder of Martin Luther King Jr. opened my eyes to the futility of LBJ’s social tinkering. I saw at once that plowing vast sums into a “war” on black poverty would be rewarded with a lack of progress, sullen resentment, and generations of dependency on big brother in Washington. (Regarding the possibility that I am a racial bigot, see the note at the bottom of this page. If you don't care to read that far, yes, I am a racial bigot, and how.)

    ellauri100.html on line 317: At about the same time, my eyes were opened fully to the essential incompetence of government by LBJ’s inept handling of the war in Vietnam. (Gradualism, phooey — either fight to win or get out.)

    ellauri100.html on line 331: I have noticed that a leftist will accuse you of “hate” just for saying something contrary to the left-wing orthodoxy of the day. If you disagree with what I have to say here, but prefer to spew invective instead of offering a reasoned response, don’t bother to submit a comment — at least not until your rage has passed or your medication has taken effect. (My medication is working fine. It is curious how small the distance is between considered opinion and gobbledygook madness.) As it says in the sidebar, I will not publish incoherent, off-point, offensive, or abusive comments except my own. Nor will I lose any sleep for having denied you an outlet for your incoherence, irrelevance, offensiveness, or abusiveness. You can post it on your own blog or on any of the myriad, hate-filled, left-wing blogs that view murder as “choice,” government dictates as “liberty,” self-defense as a “war crime” (when it’s practiced by the U.S. or Israel), and the Constitution as a vehicle for implementing current left-wing orthodoxy.

    ellauri100.html on line 335: Having said that, I acknowledge that I sometimes adopt a biting or dismissive tone. (See, for example, the fourteen words that follow the em-dash two paragraphs above.) If you will read my blog carefully, however, you will find that my views are grounded in facts and logic. Where you disagree with or question something that I say in a particular post, search this blog and the list of favorite posts for more on the same subject. If you cannot or will not take the time to do that, don’t bother to comment unless you do it politely and give your reasons for disagreeing with me. I will reply politely, factually, and logically.

    ellauri100.html on line 343:     I suspect that I am not a racist. I don’t despise blacks as a group, nor do I believe that they should have fewer rights and privileges than whites. (Neither do I believe that they should have more rights and privileges than whites or persons of Asian or Ashkenazi Jewish descent — but they certainly do when it comes to college admissions and hiring.) It isn’t racist to understand that race isn’t a social construct and that there are general differences between races (see many of the posts listed here). That’s just a matter of facing facts, not ducking them, as leftists are wont to do.

    ellauri100.html on line 345: Fair and balanced. That’s me.

    ellauri100.html on line 375: I am an INTJ, and an especially strong I, T, and J. Here are my latest scores (02/16/17) on the Keirsey Temperament Sorter (KTS), which is similar to the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI). The descriptive excerpts are from David Keirsey and Marilyn Bates’s Please Understand Me.

    ellauri100.html on line 433: The idea behind the IAT is that concepts with very closely related (vs. unrelated) mental representations are more easily and quickly responded to as a single unit. For example, if “me” and “sharing” are strongly associated in one’s mind, it should be relatively easy to respond quickly to this pairing by pressing the “E” or “I” key. If “me” and “sharing” are NOT strongly associated, it should be more difficult to respond quickly to this pairing. By comparing reaction times on this test, the IAT gives a relative measure of how strongly associated the two categories (Me, Not Me) are to mental representations of “ethical” and “unethical”. Each participant receives a single score, and your score appears below.

    ellauri100.html on line 441: Your score appears in the graph below in green. The score of the average Liberal visitor to this site is shown in blue and the average Conservative visitor’s score is shown in red.

    ellauri100.html on line 445: The scale is a measure of the degree to which people are motivated to act morally by internal and external factors. An example of an internal motivational factor is the drive to achieve (or maintain) one’s happiness through acting morally. An example of an external motivational factor is the drive to act morally in order to improve (or maintain) relationships.

    ellauri100.html on line 455: The idea behind the scale is that there is very little systematic research on everyday ethical issues in business. This measure has been tested cross-culturally to show relevance for participants from Hong Kong, mainland China and Taiwan. Specifically, a values structure highlighting the importance of self-transcendence values correlates with more ethical behavioral orientations, while a values structure highlighting the importance of the self-enhancement dimension of values correlates with less ethical behavioral orientations. Further, we are interested in what behaviors are seen as unethical as while all individuals espouse ethicality, different types of behavior are often seen as being more or less relevant to ethics, depending on one’s culture. In previous research, women have reported being more ethical than men.

    ellauri100.html on line 463: The scale you just completed was the Marlowe-Crowne Social Desirability Scale, developed by Douglas Crowne and David Marlowe (1960). This scale measures social desirability concern, which is people’s tendency to portray themselves favorably during social interaction. Each of the 33 true-false items that you just filled out describes a behavior that is either socially acceptable but unlikely, or socially unacceptable but likely. As a result, people who receive high scores on this measure may be more likely to respond to surveys in a self-promoting fashion.

    ellauri100.html on line 473: The Paulhus scale measures people’s attitudes about four constructs related to freedom vs. determinism, which we have graphed for you in the four green bars below.

    ellauri100.html on line 479: Scientific causation: the belief that people’s actions are fully explained by a combination of biological and environmental forces

    ellauri100.html on line 491: The scale is a measure of your general happiness level. Despite its simplicity, the scale has been found to do a good job of measuring people’s general state of “subjective well-being.” It is widely used, in many nations.

    ellauri100.html on line 493: We are interested in measuring happiness on this site because many studies have found that religious people are happier than non-believers, and some have found that politcally conservative people are slightly happier than are political liberals, even after controlling statistically for religiosity. A recent Gallup survey found that religiosity was associated with better mental health for Republicans, but it didn’t make a difference for Democrats. We want to investigate these complex relationships among happiness, morality, religion, and ideology.

    ellauri100.html on line 503: The idea behind the IAT is that concepts with very closely related (vs. unrelated) mental representations are more easily and quickly responded to as a single unit. For example, if “me” and “happy” are strongly associated in one’s mind, it should be relatively easy to respond quickly to this pairing by pressing the “E” or “I” key. If “me” and “happy” are NOT strongly associated, it should be more difficult to respond quickly to this pairing. By comparing reaction times on this test, the IAT gives a relative measure of how strongly associated the two categories (Me, Not Me) are to mental representations of “happy” and “sad”. Each participant receives a single score, and your score appears below.

    ellauri100.html on line 509: Your score appears in the graph below in green. The score of the average Liberal visitor to this site is shown in blue and the average Conservative visitor’s score is shown in red.

    ellauri100.html on line 517: The second graph shows your results from the items on page 2, where we asked about “alternatives to prison.” This page should produce similar results to what you see from Page 1. We expect liberals to favor the more lenient and rehabilitative alternatives, and conservatives to favor the more punitive options. We are trying out various ways of asking these questions to see which format, or combination of formats, produces the best measurement of people’s attitudes.

    ellauri100.html on line 537: One scale uses questions from the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) 2010 Science and Engineering Indicators, which is an effort to track public knowledge and attitudes toward science and technology trends in the U.S. and other countries. For this survey, the items pertaining to understanding statistics, how to read data charts, and conducting an experiment were used.

    ellauri100.html on line 539: The other scale is the Subjective Numeracy Scale by Angela Fagerlin and colleagues, which measures individuals’ preference for numerical information. Numeracy (adapted from the term ‘literacy’) represents individuals’ ability to comprehend and use probabilities, ratios, and fractions. Traditional measures of numeracy ask people to perform mathematical operations, such as ‘If person A’s risk of getting a disease is 1% in 10 years, and person B’s risk is double that of A’s, what is B’s risk?’ However, some participants find these types of problems stressful and unpleasant, plus they are difficult to score in online studies. Subjective numeracy measures (like the scale you just took) are shown to be equally good measures of numeracy, without burdening participants.

    ellauri100.html on line 547: The idea behind this scale is that objective factual knowledge may be an important factor in studies about political issues and reasoning. It may be that people who are more informed about politics (whether they’re liberal or conservative) think and reason differently about moral or political issues than people who are less informed. For instance, are people who are more informed more or less likely to objectively evaluate political arguments? We suspect that, ironically, people with more political knowledge may be less objective when it comes to a number of information processes (see recommended reading below).

    ellauri100.html on line 557: The idea behind the IAT is that concepts with very closely related (vs. unrelated) mental representations are more easily and quickly responded to as a single unit. For example, if “European American” and “good” are strongly associated in one’s mind, it should be relatively easy to respond quickly to this pairing by pressing the “E” or “I” key. If “European American” and “good” are NOT strongly associated, it should be more difficult to respond quickly to this pairing. By comparing reaction times on this test, the IAT gives a relative measure of how strongly associated the two categories (European Americans, African Americans) are to mental representations of “good” and “bad”. Each participant receives a single score, and your score appears below.

    ellauri100.html on line 563: Your score appears in the graph below in green. The score of the average Liberal visitor to this site is shown in blue and the average Conservative visitor’s score is shown in red.

    ellauri100.html on line 699: Plump unpeck’d cherries,

    ellauri100.html on line 701: Bloom-down-cheek’d peaches,

    ellauri100.html on line 727: Laura bow’d her head to hear,

    ellauri100.html on line 728: Lizzie veil’d her blushes:

    ellauri100.html on line 744: Lizzie cover’d up her eyes,

    ellauri100.html on line 745: Cover’d close lest they should look;

    ellauri100.html on line 746: Laura rear’d her glossy head,

    ellauri100.html on line 747: And whisper’d like the restless brook:

    ellauri100.html on line 765: One had a cat’s face,

    ellauri100.html on line 766: One whisk’d a tail,

    ellauri100.html on line 767: One tramp’d at a rat’s pace,

    ellauri100.html on line 768: One crawl’d like a snail,

    ellauri100.html on line 769: One like a wombat prowl’d obtuse and furry,

    ellauri100.html on line 776: Laura stretch’d her gleaming neck

    ellauri100.html on line 784: Turn’d and troop’d the goblin men,

    ellauri100.html on line 787: When they reach’d where Laura was

    ellauri100.html on line 794: One rear’d his plate;

    ellauri100.html on line 798: One heav’d the golden weight

    ellauri100.html on line 802: Long’d but had no money:

    ellauri100.html on line 803: The whisk-tail’d merchant bade her taste

    ellauri100.html on line 805: The cat-faced purr’d,

    ellauri100.html on line 821: They answer’d all together:

    ellauri100.html on line 823: She clipp’d a precious golden lock,

    ellauri100.html on line 824: She dropp’d a tear more rare than pearl,

    ellauri100.html on line 825: Then suck’d their fruit globes fair or red:

    ellauri100.html on line 828: Clearer than water flow’d that juice;

    ellauri100.html on line 831: She suck’d and suck’d and suck’d the more

    ellauri100.html on line 833: She suck’d until her lips were sore;

    ellauri100.html on line 835: But gather’d up one kernel stone,

    ellauri100.html on line 837: As she turn’d home alone.

    ellauri100.html on line 849: Pluck’d from bowers

    ellauri100.html on line 866: Buy more;” and kiss’d her:

    ellauri100.html on line 868: I’ll bring you plums to-morrow

    ellauri100.html on line 885: Folded in each other’s wings,

    ellauri100.html on line 886: They lay down in their curtain’d bed:

    ellauri100.html on line 888: Like two flakes of new-fall’n snow,

    ellauri100.html on line 890: Tipp’d with gold for awful kings.

    ellauri100.html on line 891: Moon and stars gaz’d in at them,

    ellauri100.html on line 894: Not a bat flapp’d to and fro

    ellauri100.html on line 897: Lock’d together in one nest.

    ellauri100.html on line 900: When the first cock crow’d his warning,

    ellauri100.html on line 903: Fetch’d in honey, milk’d the cows,

    ellauri100.html on line 904: Air’d and set to rights the house,

    ellauri100.html on line 907: Next churn’d butter, whipp’d up cream,

    ellauri100.html on line 908: Fed their poultry, sat and sew’d;

    ellauri100.html on line 909: Talk’d as modest maidens should:

    ellauri100.html on line 913: One warbling for the mere bright day’s delight,

    ellauri100.html on line 921: Lizzie pluck’d purple and rich golden flags,

    ellauri100.html on line 927: But Laura loiter’d still among the rushes

    ellauri100.html on line 931: The dew not fall’n, the wind not chill;

    ellauri100.html on line 957: Laura turn’d cold as stone

    ellauri100.html on line 964: Her tree of life droop’d from the root:

    ellauri100.html on line 965: She said not one word in her heart’s sore ache;

    ellauri100.html on line 966: But peering thro’ the dimness, nought discerning,

    ellauri100.html on line 967: Trudg’d home, her pitcher dripping all the way;

    ellauri100.html on line 971: And gnash’d her teeth for baulk’d desire, and wept

    ellauri100.html on line 981: But when the noon wax’d bright

    ellauri100.html on line 989: Dew’d it with tears, hoped for a root,

    ellauri100.html on line 990: Watch’d for a waxing shoot,

    ellauri100.html on line 995: She dream’d of melons, as a traveller sees

    ellauri100.html on line 997: With shade of leaf-crown’d trees,

    ellauri100.html on line 1002: Fetch’d honey, kneaded cakes of wheat,

    ellauri100.html on line 1008: To watch her sister’s cankerous care

    ellauri100.html on line 1011: Caught the goblins’ cry:

    ellauri100.html on line 1018: Long’d to buy fruit to comfort her,

    ellauri100.html on line 1019: But fear’d to pay too dear.

    ellauri100.html on line 1030: Seem’d knocking at Death’s door:

    ellauri100.html on line 1031: Then Lizzie weigh’d no more

    ellauri100.html on line 1034: Kiss’d Laura, cross’d the heath with clumps of furze

    ellauri100.html on line 1039: Laugh’d every goblin

    ellauri100.html on line 1058: Hugg’d her and kiss’d her:

    ellauri100.html on line 1059: Squeez’d and caress’d her:

    ellauri100.html on line 1060: Stretch’d up their dishes,

    ellauri100.html on line 1078: Toss’d them her penny.

    ellauri100.html on line 1081: They answer’d grinning:

    ellauri100.html on line 1100: I toss’d you for a fee.”—

    ellauri100.html on line 1105: One call’d her proud,

    ellauri100.html on line 1106: Cross-grain’d, uncivil;

    ellauri100.html on line 1107: Their tones wax’d loud,

    ellauri100.html on line 1111: Elbow’d and jostled her,

    ellauri100.html on line 1112: Claw’d with their nails,

    ellauri100.html on line 1114: Tore her gown and soil’d her stocking,

    ellauri100.html on line 1115: Twitch’d her hair out by the roots,

    ellauri100.html on line 1116: Stamp’d upon her tender feet,

    ellauri100.html on line 1117: Held her hands and squeez’d their fruits

    ellauri100.html on line 1122: Like a rock of blue-vein’d stone

    ellauri100.html on line 1123: Lash’d by tides obstreperously,—

    ellauri100.html on line 1127: Like a fruit-crown’d orange-tree

    ellauri100.html on line 1131: Topp’d with gilded dome and spire

    ellauri100.html on line 1132: Close beleaguer’d by a fleet

    ellauri100.html on line 1137: Though the goblins cuff’d and caught her,

    ellauri100.html on line 1138: Coax’d and fought her,

    ellauri100.html on line 1140: Scratch’d her, pinch’d her black as ink,

    ellauri100.html on line 1141: Kick’d and knock’d her,

    ellauri100.html on line 1142: Maul’d and mock’d her,

    ellauri100.html on line 1143: Lizzie utter’d not a word;

    ellauri100.html on line 1146: But laugh’d in heart to feel the drip

    ellauri100.html on line 1147: Of juice that syrupp’d all her face,

    ellauri100.html on line 1148: And lodg’d in dimples of her chin,

    ellauri100.html on line 1149: And streak’d her neck which quaked like curd.

    ellauri100.html on line 1152: Flung back her penny, kick’d their fruit

    ellauri100.html on line 1155: Some writh’d into the ground,

    ellauri100.html on line 1156: Some div’d into the brook

    ellauri100.html on line 1159: Some vanish’d in the distance.

    ellauri100.html on line 1164: Sprang up the bank, tore thro’ the furze,

    ellauri100.html on line 1170: As if she fear’d some goblin man

    ellauri100.html on line 1171: Dogg’d her with gibe or curse

    ellauri100.html on line 1174: Nor was she prick’d by fear;

    ellauri100.html on line 1184: Squeez’d from goblin fruits for you,

    ellauri100.html on line 1193: Clutch’d her hair:

    ellauri100.html on line 1199: And ruin’d in my ruin,

    ellauri100.html on line 1200: Thirsty, canker’d, goblin-ridden?”—

    ellauri100.html on line 1202: Kiss’d and kiss’d and kiss’d her:

    ellauri100.html on line 1204: Refresh’d her shrunken eyes,

    ellauri100.html on line 1208: She kiss’d and kiss’d her with a hungry mouth.

    ellauri100.html on line 1212: She loath’d the feast:

    ellauri100.html on line 1213: Writhing as one possess’d she leap’d and sung,

    ellauri100.html on line 1217: Her locks stream’d like the torch

    ellauri100.html on line 1225: Swift fire spread through her veins, knock’d at her heart,

    ellauri100.html on line 1231: Sense fail’d in the mortal strife:

    ellauri100.html on line 1237: Like a foam-topp’d waterspout

    ellauri100.html on line 1244: That night long Lizzie watch’d by her,

    ellauri100.html on line 1245: Counted her pulse’s flagging stir,

    ellauri100.html on line 1247: Held water to her lips, and cool’d her face

    ellauri100.html on line 1249: But when the first birds chirp’d about their eaves,

    ellauri100.html on line 1253: Bow’d in the morning winds so brisk to pass,

    ellauri100.html on line 1255: Open’d of cup-like lilies on the stream,

    ellauri100.html on line 1257: Laugh’d in the innocent old way,

    ellauri100.html on line 1258: Hugg’d Lizzie but not twice or thrice;

    ellauri100.html on line 1259: Her gleaming locks show’d not one thread of grey,

    ellauri100.html on line 1363:   Jean-Paul Sartre is sitting at a French cafe, revising his draft of Being and Nothingness. He says to the waitress, “I’d like a cup of coffee, please, with no cream.” The waitress replies, “I’m sorry, Monsieur, but we’re out of cream. How about with no milk?”

    ellauri101.html on line 37: Treasure, love, reward, approval, honor, status, freedom, survival … these are some of the many things we associate with the hero’s journey.

    ellauri101.html on line 38: We don’t find the meaning of the hero’s journey in slaying the dragon or saving the princess—these are colorful metaphors and symbols for a more significant purpose.

    ellauri101.html on line 40: At the end of each journey (if there is such an end), you’re different—sometimes visually, but always internally.

    ellauri101.html on line 63: Joseph Campbell was a curious mythologist. In the field of comparative mythology, most scholars invested their time exploring how one culture’s myths are different than another.

    ellauri101.html on line 64: Instead of focusing on the many differences between cultural myths and religious stories, however, Campbell looked for the similarities. And his studies resulted in what’s called the monomyth.

    ellauri101.html on line 66: The monomyth is a universal story structure. It’s a kind of story template that takes a character through a sequence of stages.

    ellauri101.html on line 67: The main character in the monomyth is the hero. The hero isn’t a person, but an archetype—a set of universal images combined with specific patterns of behavior. Think of a protagonist from your favorite film. He or she represents the hero. The storyline of the film enacted the hero’s journey. The Hero archetype resides in the psyche of every individual, which is one of the primary reasons we love hearing and watching stories.

    ellauri101.html on line 149: Carolyn Kalil’s Inner Heroes quiz stems from her books and life’s works. This quiz is a simplified combination of the Myers Briggs & Keirsey II assessments with 36 questions.

    ellauri101.html on line 259: Jari Kimmo Johannes Sairasvyö (ent. Heinonen, s. 12. kesäkuuta 1965 Turku) on suomalainen liikemies ja ex- tv- ja radiotoimittaja-juontaja, joka tunnetaan mediaesiintyjänä ja -työntekijänä sekä perustamansa Trainers’ House -valmennusyhtiön entisenä toimitusjohtajana ja yritysvalmentajana. Se on ex vähän joka alalla. Entinen hallijärjestäjä niinkuin Kristina. 

    ellauri101.html on line 270: Vuoden 2008 alussa huhuttiin että Trainers’ Housen pääomistaja Sairasvyön osakepotin arvo oli runsaat 34 miljoonaa euroa.

    ellauri101.html on line 313: No offense to you, don’t waste your time, here´s why

    ellauri101.html on line 373: Pharrell Says Donald Trump’s Use Of “Happy” At Political Rallies Is Copyright Infringement. 
    

    ellauri101.html on line 379: Lokakuussa 2008 hän toivoi lamaa, koska vahvojen suhteellinen asema paranee, vaikka kaikki kärsivät. Seuraavan vuoden helmikuussa Trainers’ Housen heikentynyt taloudellinen tilanne pakotti yrityksen aloittamaan yhteistoimintaneuvottelut 120 työntekijän irtisanomiseksi. Eli oikeassapa olin taas.

    ellauri101.html on line 423: Kun koronan takia kiellettiin kokoontumiset ja kohtaamiset, oli Trainers’ House pulassa. Sairasvyön mukaan firma oli vaarassa ajautua konkurssiin.

    ellauri101.html on line 501: Jaree: Jaree is a likeable person. She is quiet most of the time, but the truth is she holds many thoughts inside that brain of hers. She spends most of her days thinking; making her one of the smartest people you’ll know. “Hey man, what’s wrong?” “ I don’t know dude, but I really need a Jaree right now”

    ellauri101.html on line 665: Mitäs ne sit oli? Tää camp on tosi muinaista, sen Susanna Sunnuntain aikuista, alk. 60-luvulta. Campiksi (ransk. se camper, ’poseerata’, ’tehdä vaikutus’) kutsutaan erilaisia populaarikulttuurin ilmiöitä, jotka ovat suosittuja nimenomaan siksi, että ne ovat mauttomia, kummallisia, yliampuvia ja räikeitä.

    ellauri102.html on line 465: Despite the backlash from the public the ad received a lot of publicity and press coverage. Protein World went on to make a reported £1 million profit from the £250,000 they spent on the advertising campaign. Although it caused a lot of controversy around the world, it somehow still managed to boost the company’s sales.

    ellauri102.html on line 495: The Problem: The controversy caused by the advert is as clear as day. Not only is the advert racist, but it’s also insulting to viewers.

    ellauri102.html on line 675: Ms. has been reporting and truth-telling from the front lines of the fight for women’s equality for nearly 50 years. Join us and lend your support to our common cause.

    ellauri102.html on line 677: For 45 years, Ms. magazine has been uncovering and exposing the forces opposed to women’s equality. Like unequal distribution of wealth. The magazine has been celebrating women’s progress here and around the world, and spreading feminist ideas and activism. 

    ellauri105.html on line 93: President Biden speaks at a podium with Vice President Kamala Harris and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi behind him. Letter from Biden’s Washington.

    ellauri105.html on line 94: Biden’s Speech Offers a Vision for Democrats to Love, After Four Years of Trumpian Fantasy.

    ellauri105.html on line 100: In many ways, there was a notable convergence in how Democrats and Republicans saw Biden’s speech: as a breathtakingly ambitious set of proposals to use government as an instrument of social and economic transformation—an unabashed progressive platform unseen from a President in my lifetime. Republicans hated it; Democrats, for the most part, loved it.

    ellauri105.html on line 102: It’s early days yet, but this is where Biden’s true genius as a politician may lie: he has turned his likability into a moderating asset, suggesting that an ideological agenda when offered by a relatively non-ideological salesman does not sound all that threatening.

    ellauri106.html on line 46: Philip Roth has not had much luck with biographers. Late in his life, furiously aggrieved after the failure of his marriage to the actress Claire Bloom and the publication of Bloom’s incendiary memoir of their years together, he asked a close friend, Ross Miller, an English professor at the University of Connecticut, to take on the task. Roth sent Miller lists of family members and friends he wanted to be interviewed, along with the questions that he felt should be asked. (“Would you have expected him to achieve success on the scale he has?”) It didn’t work out, for various reasons. Roth had wanted Miller to refute a familiar charge, “this whole mad fucking misogynistic bullshit!” that he felt flattened his long erotic history into one false accusation. But Miller came to his own conclusion. “There is a predatory side to both Sandy and Philip,” he told a cousin of Roth’s. (Sandy was Roth’s older brother.) “They look at women—I’m not gonna write about this—but they are misogynist. They talk about women in that way.”

    ellauri106.html on line 50: What may be more damning, though, is what the Bailey revelations don’t change. “It wasn’t just ‘Fucked this one fucked that one fucked this one,’ ” Roth once told Miller. Yet Bailey’s biography gives the impression that it was exactly like that: a long life spent writing book after book, and pursuing, then fleeing from, woman after woman after woman.

    ellauri106.html on line 52: It was not Bailey’s role as a biographer to pass judgment on his subject. He needed only try to understand him, and to make us understand him, too. “Why shouldn’t I be treated as seriously as Colette on this?” Roth had asked Miller, of the sex question. “She gave a blow job to this guy in the railway station. Who gives a fuck about that? . . . That doesn’t tell me anything. What did hand jobs mean to her?”

    ellauri106.html on line 54: So what did sex mean to Roth? Bailey’s book is so caught up in its obsessive cataloguing of paramours that the forest gets lost in an endless succession of trees. The place where Roth found insight into his own character was on the double bag. Over and over, in the novels, he transformed pro life. Bailey’s prurient, exhaustively literal version of that life reverses the effect, and the result is sadly diminishing. What he never grasps is Roth the artist, with his powers of imagination, of expression, of language—what made him worthy of biography at all.

    ellauri106.html on line 104: 	He enjoyed a robust childhood and was poplar in high school where he was a bright student but not quite diligent enough in his studies to win a prized full scholarship to Rutgers where he wanted to study law. Roth attended Rutgers University in Newark for a year, then transferred to Bucknell University in Pennsylvania, where he earned a B.A. magna cum laude in English and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. He received a scholarship to attend the University of Chicago, where he earned an M.A. in English literature in 1955 and briefly worked as an instructor in the university´s writing program. Less prestigious Bucknell University in Pennsylvania was Roth’s fallback school.  There he abandoned his vague dreams of becoming a lawyer for the underdog and turned his attention to writing. 

    ellauri106.html on line 106: 	That same year, rather than wait to be drafted, Roth enlisted in the army. Roth enlisted in the Army that year to avoid being drafted and assigned to unpleasant duty like the infantry. Fortunately he suffered a back injury during basic training and was given a medical discharge. Who knows. He returned to Chicago in 1956 to study for a PhD in literature but dropped out after one term. It was a yeasty environment for a young writer.  Saul Bellow was a contemporary and with some what similar backgrounds and interests they could not avoid being rivals. During that year he met a lovely shiksa waitress Margaret Martinson, a single woman with a small child.  He was smitten.  An intense, but often troubled relationship ensued.  At the end of the year he dropped out of the U of C and headed to the University of Iowa to teach in its creative writing program. None the less, whatever he may have said, Roth was not happy there, perhaps because the semi-rural Midwesterness of Ames was alien to him.  After a while with Martinson in tow he moved on to a similar position at Princeton, another WASP bastion but one with even more prestige.  Everyone who knew him recognized Roth as an early comer. He later continued his academic career at the University of Pennsylvania, where he taught comparative literature before retiring from teaching in 1991. Roth started teaching literature in the late 1960s at the University of Pennsylvania. The 1969 feature film adaptation of Goodbye, Columbus coincided with the publication of Portnoy’s Complaint, which soon became a best-seller amid controversy for its prurient content. (Those who've read it will likely not forget Portnoy's "love affair" with mom´s slab of liver in the fridge.)

    ellauri106.html on line 126: A committed atheist, Philip Roth feared only one form of posthumous punishment: being trapped for all eternity in a hostile biography. In 2007, Roth, echoing a similar quip from Oscar Wilde, said, “Biography gives a new dimension of terror to dying.” Roth’s had already been the subject of a harsh and unforgiving portrait in Leaving a Doll’s House (1996), the memoirs of his former wife, the actor Claire Bloom. As John Updike noted in The New York Review of Books, “Claire Bloom, as the wronged ex-wife of Philip Roth, shows him to have been, as their marriage rapidly unraveled, neurasthenic to the point of hospitalization, adulterous, callously selfish, and financially vindictive.” This crisp summary ended Roth’s friendship with Updike, even after Updike made clear he was recapping Bloom’s book and not affirming its accuracy.

    ellauri106.html on line 128: In a private note about Bloom’s book, Roth asserted, “Another writer my age awaiting a biography and awaiting death (which is worse?) might not care. I do.” Roth put enormous efforts into finding a biographer who could contest Bloom’s account. His first choice was the academic Ross Miller, but the novelist had a falling out with his biographer as the would-be James Boswell resisted the imperious dictates of the modern Dr. Johnson. Roth ended up describing his relationship with Miller as “my third bad marriage.” After unsuccessfully trying to rope in friends such as Hermione Lee and Judith Thurman to tell his life story, Roth settled on Blake Bailey, the author of highly regarded biographies of troubled male American writers, notably Richard Yates and John Cheever.

    ellauri106.html on line 130: Given long-standing feminist arguments that Roth is a misogynist—not to mention the portrait in Bloom’s memoirs—it was inevitable that any Roth biography would spark arguments about gender politics. What was surprising is that the debate would center around the biographer more than Roth. In the wake of the biography’s release, Bailey has been accused of shocking acts. Four former students from the elite New Orleans high school where he’d taught during the 1990s came forward to complain that he had groomed them as minors and sexually pursued them as adults. One of these women claimed he raped her. Another former student came forward with an allegation of attempted rape when she was an adult. Finally, Valentina Rice, a New York publishing executive, told The New York Times that Bailey raped her in 2015. Bailey strenuously denies all these allegations.	

    ellauri106.html on line 179: Today the lengthy obituaries are all laudatory.  Tomorrow or the next day I can safely predict that the backlash will begin with harshly critical essays.  Leading the way will be Feminists critics who will denounce the whole cabal of elite white men as the custodians of the literary cannon.  More pointedly they will charge Roth with toxic masculinity and misogyny and will come loaded for bear with plenty of quotes from his work.  They will also have the example and testimony of his two ex-wives, both of whom showed up thinly disguised in his novels—a Margaret Martinson in When She Was Good and actress Clare Bloom in I Married a Communist.  Bloom penned her own bitter exposé of their 14-year-long relationship and four year marriage in he memoir Leaving the Doll’s House.

    ellauri106.html on line 180:  Not far behind will be some Jewish critics who always found Roth’s portraits embarrassing for their relentless sexuality and discomfort with aspects of the culture that were at odds with his identity as an American.  Others were angered at his voraciously espoused atheism—“I’m exactly the opposite of religious, I’m anti-religious. I find religious people hideous. I hate the religious lies. It’s all a big lie.”  Some Jewish critics hounded him from the beginning of his career.  Rabbi Gershom Scholem, the great kabbalah scholar, said Portnoy’s Complaint was more harmful to Jews than The Protocols of the Elders of Zion.  And Roth was heckled and booed at an early appearance at Yeshiva University which stunned and shocked the author.

    ellauri106.html on line 182:     Roth fought back skewering one of his harshest critics, Irving Howe who he cast as supercilious Milton Appel in 1983’s The Anatomy Lesson with a typically uproarious rant:

    ellauri106.html on line 184: “The comedy is that the real haters of the bourgeois Jews, with the real contempt for their everyday lives, are these complex intellectual giants,” Zuckerman snorts. “They loathe them, and don’t particularly care for the smell of the Jewish proletariat either. All of them full of sympathy suddenly for the ghetto world of their traditional fathers now that the traditional fathers are filed for safekeeping in Beth Moses Memorial Park. When they were alive they wanted to strangle the immigrant bastards to death because they dared to think they could actually be of consequence without ever having read Proust past Swann’s Way. And the ghetto—what the ghetto saw of these guys was their heels: out, out, screaming for air, to write about great Jews like Ralph Waldo Emerson and William Dean Howells. But now that the Weathermen are around, and me and my friends Jerry Rubin and Herbert Marcuse and H. Rap Brown, it’s where oh where’s the inspired orderliness of those good old Hebrew school days? Where’s the linoleum? Where’s Aunt Rose? Where is all the wonderful inflexible patriarchal authority into which they wanted to stick a knife?”

    ellauri106.html on line 199: Dilsey does not allow self-absorption to corrupt her values or spirit. She is very patient and selfless—she cooks, cleans, and takes care of the Compson children in Mrs. Compson’s absence, while raising her own children and grandchildren at the same time.

    ellauri106.html on line 200: ’ original greatness was built.

    ellauri106.html on line 241: INFLUENTIAL WOMEN Who are Philip Roth’s ex-wives Claire Bloom and Margaret Martinson, when did they get divorced and did he have any children?

    ellauri106.html on line 255: Who are Philip Roth´s ex-wives Claire Bloom and Margaret Martinson? Have they got anything in common? I bet they were spitting images of Phil´s mother, one way or another. Roth was married twice – to Margaret Martinson from 1959 to 1963. He met Martinson in 1956 and married her three years later. Roth claims she used someone else’s urine sample to persuade him she was pregnant and trick him into marriage.

    ellauri106.html on line 256: The couple separated acrimoniously in 1963 and she subsequently refused to divorce Roth. They separated in 1963 and she died in a car crash in 1968, something that deeply affected Roth’s work. 

    ellauri106.html on line 259: Martinson inspired “The Monkey” (Mary Jane Reed) in novel Portnoy’s Complaint and Maureen Tarnopol in My Life as a Man.

    ellauri106.html on line 263: He was wedded to long-time partner Claire Bloom from 1990 to 1995. Roth and Bloom’s five-year marriage ended in divorce in 1995.

    ellauri106.html on line 273: Roth claimed his first wife, Margaret Martinson, used someone else’s urine sample to persuade him she was pregnant and trick him into marrying her.

    ellauri106.html on line 386: A committed atheist, Philip Roth feared only one form of posthumous punishment: being trapped for all eternity in a hostile biography. In 2007, Roth, echoing a similar quip from Oscar Wilde, said, “Biography gives a new dimension of terror to dying.” Roth’s had already been the subject of a harsh and unforgiving portrait in Leaving a Doll’s House (1996), the memoirs of his former wife, the actor Claire Bloom. As John Updike noted in The New York Review of Books, “Claire Bloom, as the wronged ex-wife of Philip Roth, shows him to have been, as their marriage rapidly unraveled, neurasthenic to the point of hospitalization, adulterous, callously selfish, and financially vindictive.” This crisp summary ended Roth’s friendship with Updike, even after Updike made clear he was recapping Bloom’s book and not affirming its accuracy.

    ellauri106.html on line 388: In a private note about Bloom’s book, Roth asserted, “Another writer my age awaiting a biography and awaiting death (which is worse?) might not care. I do.” Roth put enormous efforts into finding a biographer who could contest Bloom’s account. His first choice was the academic Ross Miller, but the novelist had a falling out with his biographer as the would-be James Boswell resisted the imperious dictates of the modern Dr. Johnson. Roth ended up describing his relationship with Miller as “my third bad marriage.” After unsuccessfully trying to rope in friends such as Hermione Lee and Judith Thurman to tell his life story, Roth settled on Blake Bailey, the author of highly regarded biographies of troubled male American writers, notably Richard Yates and John Cheever.

    ellauri106.html on line 390:     Given long-standing feminist arguments that Roth is a misogynist—not to mention the portrait in Bloom’s memoirs—it was inevitable that any Roth biography would spark arguments about gender politics. What was surprising is that the debate would center around the biographer more than Roth. In the wake of the biography’s release, Bailey has been accused of shocking acts. Four former students from the elite New Orleans high school where he’d taught during the 1990s came forward to complain that he had groomed them as minors and sexually pursued them as adults. One of these women claimed he raped her. Another former student came forward with an allegation of attempted rape when she was an adult. Finally, Valentina Rice, a New York publishing executive, told The New York Times that Bailey raped her in 2015. Bailey strenuously denies all these allegations.

    ellauri106.html on line 407: Ruth was a Catholic.1 And not only did he attend Catholic school growing up, his parents actually signed custody of Ruth over to the Catholic missionaries at St. Mary’s Industrial School for Boys in Baltimore when he was seven-years-old.2 So Babe was quite literally raised by the Catholic Church.

    ellauri106.html on line 430: American Pastoral represents Roth’s return to Judaism "of a sort." Ultimately, for Roth, retelling and struggling with biblical narrative enables the negotiation of Jewish and postmodern identities, resolves suffering, and reveals means by which seemingly irreconcilable ideologies can intermingle, inform one another, and have sexual intercourse.

    ellauri106.html on line 434:     Roth’s works have no Talmud, no Jewish philosophy, no mysticism, no religion, and as a self-professed atheist, Roth has consistently opted against reinforcing the tenets of Judaism as an author such as eg Cynthia Ozick does (whodat?). Roth writes out of hatred more often than not, and his work is open to the charge of anti-Semitism.

    ellauri106.html on line 440:     As a result, like Leo Tolstoy’s The Death of Ivan Ilych(1886), a retelling of Ivan Ilych’s life that Roth mentions and a work that marks Tolstoy’s return to Christianity of a certain sort, American Pastoral is Roth’s return to Judaism — but also only of a sort. Without Jehovah for starters. Tolstoy was banned from Orthodox Church in 1901 for his anarcho-pacifism.

    ellauri106.html on line 458: Gross: "So there isn’t any part of you that wished you could believe?" 
    

    ellauri106.html on line 464: In his final years, however, Roth was embraced by American Jews. In 1998 he won the Jewish Book Council’s Lifetime Literary Achievement Award and in 2014, the Jewish Theological Seminary, Conservative Judaism’s flagship educational institution, bestowed him with an honorary doctorate.

    ellauri106.html on line 467: “This was absolutely the last appearance I will make on any public stage, anywhere,” said Roth, although on Wednesday news broke that he will appear as an interview guest on Comedy Central’s “Colbert Report” in July.

    ellauri106.html on line 472: “From enfant terrible to elder statesman. Time heals all wounds,” Rabbi David Wolpe of Sinai Temple in Los Angeles remarked to JTA via email. No hocus pocus about death and God or obsolete fantasies of heaven for him. There was only our bodies, born to live and die on terms decided by the bodies that had lived and died before us. If he could be said to have located a philosophical niche for himself, that was it — he’d come upon it early and intuitively, and however elemental, that was the whole of it. Should he ever write an autobiography, he’d call it ‘The Life and Death of the Male Body.’ Well actually he called it "My life as a man". 

    ellauri106.html on line 478: The president of the Philip Roth Society, Aimee Pozorski, said that Roth and JTS are not so different in their values. Three of his books were honored with the American Jewish Book Award, and in 1998 he won the Jewish Book Council’s Lifetime Literary Achievement Award.

    ellauri106.html on line 499: O’Day carries with him at all times a dictionary and thesaurus, and he trains his disciples to do the same.

    ellauri106.html on line 507: Roth’s plots are masked by a fundamentally conservative denial of ideology. They metaphorize the particular crises of these particular men into transcendent markers of the human condition and, in doing so, once again reinforce the “romance” of "modernization." (Whazat? Lue alempaa. Se tarkottaa talousliberalismia.)

    ellauri106.html on line 508: Modernization moved from “the sacred to the profane side of historical time”: Rather than a free market or contractual society, modern America became ‘capitalist,’ no longer rational, interdependent, modern, and liberating, but backward, greedy, anarchic, and impoverishing.

    ellauri106.html on line 516: Vietnam was, in fact, the inevitable result of America’s romantic liberalism, the natural byproduct of President Truman’s announcement in 1947 that “The free peoples of the world look to us for support in maintaining their freedoms.” In practice, this meant the propping up of each and every anti-communist regime, however unfree it might be.

    ellauri106.html on line 520: In Roth’s nostalgic past, the practical influence of the New Left — the impact of the anti-war movement on ending the Vietnam war, for instance — is as easily dismissed as was the old left’s voice in the New Deal and postwar industrialization.

    ellauri106.html on line 524: Reduced to a life of isolation amid a decrepit apartment in which her only possession is the stained pallet on which she sleeps, Merry, the precious daughter of All-American Swede Levov, is “disgusting. His daughter is a human mess stinking of human waste. Her smell is the smell of everything organic breaking down. It is the smell of no coherence. It is the smell of all she’s become”.

    ellauri106.html on line 526: Instead of emphasizing the moral and political consequences of modern capitalism, as had the radical social movements before it, postmodernization offers “privacy, diminished expectations, subjectivism, individuality, particularity, and localism” as alternatives to the modern’s stability and universalism.

    ellauri106.html on line 527: “Comically agnostic,” an apt description, I think, of much of Roth’s later work. With all of history suddenly exposed as fictional constructs, artists were freed to interrogate it with impunity, making it the stuff of parodic play. 

    ellauri106.html on line 529: Without the sure theoretical footing that orthodox Marxism provided those of Benjamin’s generation, Roth, like many who used to kinda identify themselves with the late-20th century left, has been set adrift amid the wreckage of multinational capital, techno-militarism, and the information and cultural revolutions. In his trilogy, Roth offers a complex and beautifully-rendered document of the final decades of the “American Century,” but it is one that, like its narrator, Nathan Zuckerman, ultimately throws up its hands in despair, surrendering the complexities of life and the possibility of positive change en lieu of aesthetic and ascetic remove.

    ellauri106.html on line 531: Confident from its victory over Fascism and emboldened by the subsequent economic boom, America jelled behind what social theorist Jeffrey Alexander has called modernization or romantic liberalism. As has been the case throughout much of Roth’s career, the socio-political touchstone of his American Trilogy is the “patriotic war years” and the consensus culture that blossomed immediately afterward. “Everything was in motion,” Zuckerman says in the opening pages of American Pastoral. “The lid was off. Americans were to start over again, en masse, everyone in it together”. Reagan-propagandaa. 

    ellauri106.html on line 535: America’s self-constructed binary opposition to the Soviet Union, whose “Godless totalitarianism” was the only remaining threat to the global propagation of America’s core values of "Godful utilitarianism."

    ellauri106.html on line 536: Although Roth’s heroes vary slightly—Levov, for instance, comes from a somewhat more privileged background and is five or ten years younger than Ringold and Silk—they share a demanding physical presence and, more significantly, the formative experiences of the Great Depression and World War II.

    ellauri106.html on line 538: I don’t imagine I’m the only grown man who was a Jewish kid aspiring to be an all-American kid during the patriotic war years,” Zuckerman remembers.

    ellauri106.html on line 539: Puritan work ethic is what Roth, through his frequent allusions to New England’s storied past, points to as the source of America’s greatest triumphs—universal education, economic improvement, and those old standbys, rugged individualism and the “American Dream”.

    ellauri106.html on line 541:     Roth’s disdain for the American Communist Party surpasses even his contempt for the reactionaries who hunted down its members during the McCarthy era:

    ellauri106.html on line 543:     ... Her parents (Clairen kai) were simple people in the grips of a pipe dream that they could not begin to articulate or rationally defend but for which they were zealously willing to sacrifice friends, relatives, business, the good will of neighbors, even their own sanity, even their children’s sanity....

    ellauri106.html on line 544:     Society as it was constituted — its forces all in constant motion, the intricate underwebbing of interests stretched to its limit, the battle for advantage that is ongoing, the subjugation that is ongoing, the factional collisions and collusions, the shrewd jargon of morality, the benign despot that is convention, the unstable illusion of stability — society as it was made, always has been and must be made, was as foreign to them as was King Arthur’s court to the Connecticut Yankee.

    ellauri106.html on line 548: The fundamental problem of history for those on the far left is, of course, its failure to unravel as Marx had predicted it would. The Great Depression did not incite proletarian revolution; the Soviet experiment did not result in a model of Socialist Utopia; America’s social, political, and economic structures did not collapse under the weight of late capitalism. Far from it, in fact.

    ellauri106.html on line 556: Before his death from congestive heart failure on Tuesday, he made no secret of his contempt for Donald Trump, was instinctively liberal in most respects, and thought of himself as a Roosevelt Democrat. Yet his political novels have a nagging MAGA aftertaste. Successful, decent, hardworking men, who in the time of our fathers would have been appreciated, are mindlessly destroyed by modern women as the embodiments of a degenerate society. Roth’s desire, ultimately, is the same as Reagan’s: an impossible return to the promised land of modernization. Not by coincidence, the final chapter of The Human Stain is titled, “The Purifying Ritual.” Puhdistuxesta kuumuu kaikki anaalis-obsessiiviset henkilöt Hitleristä Rothiin ja Sofi Oxaseen. Puhamaan! Äiitii mä oon vallmiiis! Tuu PYYHKIMÄÄN!

    ellauri106.html on line 621: Mailer was hugely popular at his peak, but now he’s probably best known for that whole stabbing-his-second-wife awkwardness; Updike is regularly derided as “a misogynist”; and Bellow’s female characters are often, at best, thinly drawn, or full-on bitches and shrews. Now, inevitably, it’s Roth’s turn. Roth’s women were either “vicious and alluring” or “virtuous and boring”.

    ellauri106.html on line 624: Roth’s ex-wife, Claire Bloom, wrote about their relationship in her memoir, Leaving A Doll’s House, 25 years ago. You could also read Roth’s not-exactly-contrite reaction to Bloom’s complaints, his 1998 novel, I Married A Communist, in which the protagonist’s vicious wife was clearly based on Bloom.

    ellauri106.html on line 627: in 1974’s My Life as a Man, an instance of domestic abuse is described in a manner so laconic that it comes across as indefensibly vicious to many modern readers.

    ellauri106.html on line 628: “Roth’s misogyny infuses everything that he writes,” according to Meg Elison, a novelist recently described by the Times as “re-examining Roth”. This is typical of the all-or-nothing approach that is popular today, where if you don’t like everything about a public figure, then you can’t like anything. (Uskokaa tai älkää tää mielipide tulee naiselta. Se oli varmaan käynyt modernin kirjallisuuskritiikin koulua.)

    ellauri106.html on line 630: Stop treating the misogyny in Philip Roth’s work like a dirty secret, sanoo feministisempi ääni vasemmalta. Roth’s sex-positive sexism is one of the ways he truly portrayed the American soul. the question “Is Roth a misogynist?” was pooh-poohed memorably by Keith Gessen. “If you hated women, why would you spend all your time thinking about fucking them?” he asked. For many 21st-century Americans, it’s still not misogyny at all but the normal psychology of the male.

    ellauri106.html on line 635: In his baffled grief, Levov is taunted by a female confederate of his daughter’s who stridently berates him as a capitalist pig for a dozen pages, then tries to seduce him with corny porno lines like, “I bet you’ve got yourself quite a pillar in there ... the pillar of society.” When he resists, she shows him her vagina, and “rolling the labia lips outward with her fingers, [exposes] to him the membranous tissue veined and mottled and waxy with the moist tulip sheen of flayed flesh.”

    ellauri106.html on line 636: Levov’s wife is as inconsolable as he is ― until she gets a facelift and uses it to attract a seedy lover.

    ellauri107.html on line 63: Lyle, your sister Lyla Gay was in my 3rd grade class at Edgemont when you lived on Old Army Road - hope you’re all well!

    ellauri107.html on line 142: "Getting people right is not what living is all about anyway,” he wrote in American Pastoral. “It’s getting them wrong that is living, getting them wrong and wrong and wrong and then, on careful reconsideration, getting them wrong again.” 

    ellauri107.html on line 146: I can’t be the first gay man to have been an older "straight" man’s mainstay. Philip had searched diligently for a beautiful young woman to see to him as Jane Eyre looked after old Mr. Rochester. What he got instead was me. The degree of attachment surprised us both. Were we lovers? Obviously not. Were we in love? Not exactly. But ours was a criminal conversation neither could have done without.

    ellauri107.html on line 148: Twelve years ago I saw him through his last love. A young person less than half his age whose family strongly disapproved of the association and who evidently grew to disapprove of it herself. It was a trauma that might have plowed Philip under and that he told aslant in Exit Ghost, the novel dedicated to me (!). A couple of failed attempts at courtship followed, boring and painful for the women involved. Then he closed the door on heteroerotic life entirely. He’d learned how to be an elderly gentleman who behaves correctly. He joined the ranks of the impotent.

    ellauri107.html on line 150: “Wait ’til you go well and truly to sleep where the body forks,” he said. "Fortunately there's still the hole in the back where stuff comes out - something big can still go in there, with the help of vaseline."

    ellauri107.html on line 152: "I am sensitive to nothing in all the world as I am to my moral reputation." Torment about rectitude plagued Philip as acutely as any itch in the loins. That a man who’d written lurid books and led a sleazy life should be so primly worried about what people were saying struck me as funny. But that's a typical symptom for narcissism.

    ellauri107.html on line 154: "Philosophical generalization is completely alien to me—some other writer’s work. I’m a philosophical illiterate." Yep, his philosophy was solipsistic semitism. He had no need to read about it, he wrote the books.

    ellauri107.html on line 156: "I have, for instance, never—I repeat, never—written a word about women in general. This will come as news to my harshest critics, but it’s true. Women, each one particular, appear in my books. But womankind is nowhere to be found.” They just happen to be assholes one and all. Men are so much nicer friends.

    ellauri107.html on line 158: “Found it!” he announces. “Opened the book and skimmed for 10 minutes and there it was. Goes like this, and you’re ideally situated to hear it: ‘A man that is born falls into a dream like a man who falls into the sea. If he tries to climb out into the air as inexperienced people endeavor to do, he drowns. The way is to the destructive element submit yourself, and with the exertions of your hands and feet in the water make the deep, deep sea keep you up … In the destructive element immerse.’ This has been my credo, the lifeblood of my books. I knew it was from Lord Jim but didn’t know where. All I had to do was put myself in a trance and I found it: ‘In the destructive element immerse.’ It’s what I’ve said to myself in art and, woe is me, in life too. Submit to the deeps. Let them buoy you up.”

    ellauri107.html on line 179:     The zenith of [Hawthorne and Melville’s] relationship was reached . . . when Moby-Dick was published in middle November of 1851 and was dedicated to Hawthorne [“To Nathaniel Hawthorne: In token of my admiration for his genius”]. Hawthorne’s letter to Melville [at the time], like most of those to his friend, has not been preserved, but Melville’s answer on November 17 . . . speaks of the effect Hawthorne’s letter had upon him, in terms characteristic of his impassioned utterances:

    ellauri107.html on line 181:         I felt pantheist then—your heart beat in my ribs and mine in yours, and both in God’s. . . . Whence come you, Hawthorne? By what right do you drink from my flagon of life? And when I put it to my lips—lo, they are yours and not mine. . . . Hence this infinite fraternity of feeling. . . . Ah! It’s a long stage, and no inn in sight, and night coming, and the body cold. But with you for a passenger, I am content and can be happy. . . . 

    ellauri107.html on line 183:     As [Arlin]Turner says in analyzing this letter, “[Melville] was aware, it can be assumed, of the inclusiveness and interwoven imagery of his letter, and no less aware of the meaning behind the imagery. The same awareness can be assumed on the part of Hawthorne”. Edwin Haviland Miller, who interprets Melville’s affection for Hawthorne as in part sexual, says that in this passage, “the most ardent and doubtlessly one of the most painful he was ever to write, he candidly and boldly laid bare his love”. Miller goes on to say that “when Hawthorne retreated from Lenox, he retreated from Melville. How Hawthorne felt his reticences keep us from knowing, but his friend wrestled with the problems and nature of the relationship almost until the end of his life”. Turner says only that “there is evidence through the remaining forty years of Melville’s life that he thought he had been rebuffed by Hawthorne, and that he felt a genuine regret for his loss.” 

    ellauri107.html on line 187:     suggestive panegyric [in his 1850 review of Hawthorne’s Mosses from an Old Manse], [that] Melville writes . . . “already I feel that this Hawthorne has dropped germinous seeds into my soul. He expands and deepens down, the more I contemplate him; and further and further, shoots his strong New England roots in the hot soil of my Southern soul”. 

    ellauri107.html on line 191:     . . . Hawthorne liked [Melville’s novel Typee], observing [in 1846] that . . . Melville has “that freedom of view—it would be too harsh to call it laxity of principle—which renders him tolerant of codes of morals that may be little in accordance with our own; a spirit proper enough to a young and adventurous sailor . . .” 

    ellauri107.html on line 193: Hawthorne is much more explicit in regard to same sex relationships and perhaps alludes to Melville’s wooing of him in his 1852 novel The Blithedale Romance. In excerpting that work for the website, I introduced it as follows:

    ellauri107.html on line 214: Actually, the reader would have to be remarkably obtuse not to recognize the sexual tension between Coverdale and Hollingsworth. If only we could know what Melville thought when he read it! Certainly, Melville was aware that Brook Farm in Roxbury, Massachusetts, which Blithedale represents, had enjoyed the company of Hawthorne as a communal society member for most of 1841. Perhaps he also knew that substantial portions of Coverdale’s first person narration are taken directly from Hawthorne’s Brook Farm journals, and he would certainly know better than we the extent to which the novel may also represent allusions to Hawthorne’s and his experiences together during the year before the publication of Blithedale.

    ellauri107.html on line 218: The major occurrence in Melville’s life . . . during the writing of Moby-Dick was the growing friendship with Nathaniel Hawthorne . . . . We are reminded that throughout the fall and winter of 1850, and summer of 1851, Hawthorne and Melville were visiting and writing to each other. . Hawthorne encapsulating their conversation [of August 1, 1851] by writing in his journal: “Melville and I had a talk about time and eternity, things of this world and of the next, and books, and publishers, and all possible and impossible matters, that lasted pretty deep into the night . . . .”

    ellauri107.html on line 222: Melville’s concluding words are from his “Monody,” a poem that is thought to express his deep personal loss when learning of Hawthorne’s death in 1864:

    ellauri107.html on line 228:   And now he’s left to set his seal – Ease me, a little ease, my song!

    ellauri107.html on line 230:   And houseless there the snow-bird flits beneath the fir-trees’ crape:

    ellauri107.html on line 236: Melville alludes to a guy named Billy Budd to Hawthorne’s short story “The Birthmark” and draws parallelograms between the two authors in regard to their interests in the relative good and evil sides of the front and back. Here is the portion that relates most clearly to the two authors’ relationship:

    ellauri107.html on line 238: Same sex relationships in the all male environment of Billy Budd’s British as well as Herman Melville’s American ships are understood. As former First Lord of the Admiralty, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill once witheringly quipped, British naval tradition might well be equated with sodomy. Although Billy Budd lacks the “marriage” rites of Moby-Dick’s Ishmael and Queequeg, itcontains endearments for “Handsome Sailor” Billy that leave little doubt as to many of his mates’ ardent feelings toward him. The old Dansker on the British warship originates “Baby Budd,” also shortened to “Baby,” in reference to Billy, “the name by which the foretopman eventually became known aboard ship.” Readers also hear “one Donald” addressing Billy as “Beauty.”

    ellauri107.html on line 240: Claggart, in other words, like the Handsome Sailor’s many admirers, finds Billy attractive; but, since he believes that, for some unspecified reason, perhaps a result of paranoia, no closeness can ever exist between the two of them, the more desirable that Claggart perceives Billy, the more he hates him.

    ellauri107.html on line 242: In surveying Billy, “sometimes [Claggart’s] melancholy expression would have in it a touch of soft yearning, as if [he] could even have loved Billy but for fate and ban.” Evidently, Claggart has not fully disguised his private appreciation of Billy; but, because he believes something forbids any future for such feelings, he hardens his heart more and more fiercely toward the object of his desire. What “fate” and what “ban” does his misguided imagination perceive? Do their roles on the ship or elsewhere in society somehow doom any intimacy between them? Or does Claggart just presume Billy could never reciprocate his feelings? Might the Master at Arms simply despise sexuality in general and homosexuality in particular and, as a result, find himself driven all the more mad by his uncontrollable “yearning”? Whatever the accurate diagnosis, it is clear that Claggart distorts any positive feelings he possesses for Billy into negative ones with terrible consequences.

    ellauri107.html on line 244: Claggart’s repressed, closeted attraction to Billy finds parallels with some interpretations of Hawthorne’s evident spurning of Melville’s too intimate attentions and Hawthorne’s character in The Blithedale Romance Coverdale’s similar rejection of the invitation from Holingsworth to be his “friend of friends, forever.” For Melville, Hawthorne’s Arthur Dimmesdale’s agonizing acknowledgement of adultery must have seemed a stunning parallel with what later generations would term “coming out of the closet.” Whether Hawthorne himself were a closeted gay man, it is clear that Melville was relatively open in his affections for the senior author and that those affections were somehow turned away and seem to have left a wound that never fully healed. The evils of the closet constitute a subtext in Billy Budd that may well have brought to its author’s mind the sad sundering of his closeness with Nathaniel Hawthorne.

    ellauri107.html on line 246: Billy Budd provides an implicit indictment of the culture, whether military or civil, that encourages the kind of closet where a Claggart so readily succumbs to his “depravity according to nature.” Captain Vere likewise shows a closed, perhaps also “closeted” mind as ready prey for the phenomenon of evil. In Vere’s presence, as Billy is struck dumb by Claggart’s accusation, Claggart is struck dead by a single blow from Billy’s fist, the only response he can muster to defend himself. Although Vere cherishes Billy as “an angel of God” and knows him to be innocent of Claggart’s charges, he resists any bending of rules to protect him against the harshest of consequences for his act of insubordination. Ruthlessly silencing the dictates of his heart, “sometimes the feminine in man,” Vere effects what Claggart’s malice alone could not -- Billy’s total destruction.

    ellauri107.html on line 248: Although British naval mutineers as well as criminals ashore are explicitly shown in Billy Budd’s early chapters to have received forms of amnesty that ultimately contributed to the saving of the nation, Vere offers no such amnesty to Billy Budd. Claggart himself is rumored to have entered the service as an alternative to imprisonment, the navy’s need for manpower leading to frequent waivers of usual punishments; but Billy Budd receives no alternatives, no waivers. At Nelson’s triumphant Trafalgar, the thwarting of Napoleon’s invasion plans meant a “plenary absolution” for all the former offenders who had contributed to the victory. Billy, however, a “peacemaker,” neither a mutineer nor a criminal, makes a single misstep in retaliation against a known liar who seeks to manipulate the system to destroy him, and how is Billy to be absolved? Vere’s “vehemently exclaimed” answer: “the angel must hang!”

    ellauri107.html on line 250: Billy is first the victim of Claggart’s closet, one with similarities to the Roy Cohn and J. Edgar Hoover kinds that project self-loathing onto their targets. Vere’s condition, on the other hand, while containing degrees of benevolence, ultimately emerges as more deadly than Claggart’s. Associating his heart with his hated feminine side, Vere crushes down his capacity for love and compassion with a thoroughly brutal, Night-of-the-Long-Knives sort of intolerance. He, who would never have initiated Billy’s demise, will not permit his own ardor to soften his inflexible judgment, as that would evidently equate with irresolution and weakness. After all, he might rationalize, he is the Captain and the Captain has an image to uphold – right? Forget justice; forget humane treatment; maintaining machismo holds precedence over all! And the tragic result: mindless, meaningless, totally unnecessary suffering and loss on the altar of nothing less than evil itself!

    ellauri107.html on line 274:     He was infamously resentful of being denied the Nobel Prize in literature: “He took to calling it the Anybody-But-Roth Prize,” Taylor reports. And past slights consumed him. Taylor notes that Roth couldn’t stop relitigating his first marriage, and that “despite her death she needed further – no, endless – pulverization.”

    ellauri107.html on line 325: “What kind of diaspora? I’m not in any diaspora. I am in my country and I’m here and I’m free and I can be whatever I want to be.” Ei kyllä siltä vaikuta.

    ellauri107.html on line 395:   The antihero of Roth’s 1995 novel Sabbath’s Theatre blinds us with his astonishing misogyny, his exponential misanthropy, his audacious nihilism - and yet he makes us care shit. The depraved Mickey Sabbath, the hero, anti-hero and villain of Philip Roth’s 1995 tour d'Eiffel, Sabbath’s Theatre. Just what he does to deserve this affection over the course of 450 bile-filled pages is hard to fathom. He virtually copies that bête noire of creative writing courses, the unsympathetic character. To discover such a monstrous creation on the page is a shock. 

    ellauri107.html on line 398:   He’s a supernova of sin, or a Roman candle, or a fire cracker at the very least, blazing away in Roth’s virtuoso paragraphs; blinding us with his astonishing misogyny, his exponential misanthropy, his audacious nihilism.

    ellauri107.html on line 402:     In crisis over whether he’s a man or nuts. I'd say nuts. He is a sexual extremist and erotomaniac, a sociopath and wannabe paedophile, rummaging in the knicker drawer of his best friend’s teenage daughter. A habitual liar, a graveyard onanist, a childless despiser of families and couples; a joyous micturator over all laughter, hope, goodness and wholesomeness (a peculiarly American obsession: see also David Lynch), Sabbath entertains us with his negativity.

    ellauri107.html on line 404:     Aren’t his hysterical riffs on death dangerously close to how we all feel when facing up to the Grim Reaper? "We all", yeah. I hate it when allsorts of teaming idiots use this "we all".

    ellauri107.html on line 406:     The author’s sanctioned biographer, Claudia Roth Pierpont, comments that the Drenka “enlarges the sense of female possibility, and that’s what heroines are for”. Of course, Roth rather ruins this reverence by having Sabbath masturbate on her grave (and he’s not the only character who does), but then Phil always has to spoil the party. He's a real party pooper is Phil. 

    ellauri108.html on line 291: Moyo’s resignation on Monday capped a period of increasing acrimony between her and the Jewish History Museum’s board. Six months after the museum’s board unanimously selected Moyo to lead the museum, Moyo is publicly accusing the board of dysfunction fueled by racism and sexism — and the board is threatening to sue her for allegedly leaking private information.

    ellauri108.html on line 295: Speaking through a public relations firm, the incoming board chair of the museum, Eric Schindler, the CEO of a local social services nonprofit, rejected Moyo’s allegations of racism and sexism.

    ellauri108.html on line 299: As a survivor of genocide in Zimbabwe who went on to build a career as a human rights activist and lawyer on three continents, Moyo was seen not only as an impeccable hire to carry on the museum’s vision but also as a bearer of racial progress for the Jewish community as many of its institutions attempt to increase their diversity. She pledged to use her position to fight racism, especially in the wake of last year’s Black Lives Matter protests.

    ellauri108.html on line 301: Two major donors — Wayne and Amy Gould, whose family name was on the museum’s Holocaust History Center — took issue with Moyo’s approach.

    ellauri108.html on line 302: In January, the Goulds demanded that their family name be removed from the Holocaust center because Moyo had refused to accept their interpretation of the center’s mission.

    ellauri108.html on line 304: In the wake of the murder of George Floyd, she had sought to connect historical Jewish persecution to Floyd’s death and other flashpoints of special significance to African Americans.

    ellauri108.html on line 307: “I saw a presentation from the center about bail bonds and I’m thinking, What does that have to do with Holocaust education? We donate to anything that helps educate people about the horrors of the Holocaust as long as it is apolitical. What does some coons getting shot just because they´re black have to do with it? Us jews count as white in America, for crissake!

    ellauri108.html on line 311: Schindler also agreed with Moyo that the Goulds’ values are not aligned with those of the museum and that their money was not wanted. But he was soon converted and started hounding her instead.

    ellauri108.html on line 313: Soon, Moyo was demanding an outside investigation into the board’s conduct, and complained that her labor was being extracted from her to the point of abuse. In increasingly tense emails, she brought up past instances in which she was compelled to clean toilets and work weekends, for example.

    ellauri108.html on line 315: “Has it occurred to you and the rest of the JHM board that I am a human being and I cannot work 24/7 even if I could be adequately compensated for giving all my waking hours to JHM business?” she wrote to Kirshner, the museum’s president, on April 22. “I never thought I would have to say this at work, but it seems necessary to say this to you: Slavery was officially abolished in the USA quite some time ago.”

    ellauri108.html on line 361: 52Kun miehet oli viety erilleen, Daniel kutsui toisen luokseen ja sanoi: »Sinä olet tehnyt pahaa vanhuuden päiviisi saakka, mutta nyt joudut kasvotusten myös ennen tekemiesi syntien kanssa. 53Sinä olet antanut vääriä tuomioita, tuominnut syyttömiä ja vapauttanut syyllisiä, vaikka Herra sanoo: ’Älä aiheuta syyttömän ja oikeamielisen kuolemaa.’ 54No niin, kun kerran näit tämän naisen, niin kerro, minkä puun alla näit heidät yhdessä makaamassa.» »Pistaasin» *, mies vastasi. 55Silloin Daniel sanoi hänelle: »Hyvin valehdeltu, mutta oman pääsi menoksi. Jumala on jo käskenyt enkelinsä pistää sinuun ammottavan haavan.»

    ellauri109.html on line 268: John Rogers Searle (/sɜːrl/; born July 31, 1932) is an American philosopher. He was Willis S. and Marion Slusser Professor Emeritus of the Philosophy of Mind and Language and Professor of the Graduate School at the University of California, Berkeley until June 2019, when his emeritus status was revoked for having violated the university’s sexual harassment policies. Widely noted for his contributions to the philosophy of language, philosophy of mind, and social philosophy, he began teaching at UC Berkeley in 1959.

    ellauri109.html on line 375: Colet oli Gustave Flaubertin, Alfred de Musset’n ja Abel Villemainin rakastajatar. (Taas! Eikös ne olleet pikemminkin sen rakastajia? Eivät tosin mitään rakastettavia.)  Miehensä kuoleman jälkeen Colet elätti itsensä ja tyttärensä kirjailijana.

    ellauri109.html on line 389: Bien que jouissant d'une célébrité personnelle et d'un succès littéraire certains à son époque, l’œuvre de Louise Colet a connu un certain déclin au cours du XXe siècle, absente de la plupart des manuels d'histoire littéraire. Sa rupture difficile avec Gustave Flaubert à partir de 1856 pourrait y être pour quelque chose, celui-ci ayant dès lors dénigré fermement l’œuvre de son ancienne maîtresse, que d'autres comme Victor Hugo acclamaient.

    ellauri109.html on line 410: C’est en Égypte, durant le règne de Méhémet Ali Pacha, qu’une délégation française débarque en terre des pharaons dans l’intention de moderniser le pays du Nil. Parmi ses membres, y figurent Maxime Du Camp en tant que photographe, mais aussi Gustave Flaubert, qui n’a pas encore 30 ans et surtout qui n’est pas encore devenu un écrivain notoire. Sa mission au sein de la délégation reste peu claire. L’occasion pour Mohamed Taan, en prenant certaines libertés de romancier, de parler sans ambages de l’homosexualité de l’auteur de La tentation de saint Antoine…

    ellauri109.html on line 412: Et c’est là, en Haute Égypte, qu’il découvre son homosexualité. Ei ollut ainoa, näitäkin peräreiän löytöretkeilijöitä on ollut useampia, mm André Gide. 

    ellauri109.html on line 413: C’est en référence à la chanson de Gavroche dans Les Misérables de Victor Hugo : « Je suis tombé par terre, c’est la faute à Voltaire, le nez dans le ruisseau, c’est la faute à Rousseau. » La faute est à Flaubert car c’est un homosexuel qui s’ignore.

    ellauri109.html on line 414: « C’est la faute à Flaubert » du Dr Mohamed Taan (éditions St-Honoré, Paris - 324 pages) en librairie ou sur e-book.

    ellauri109.html on line 417: Il meurt subitement d’une attaque cérébrale le 8 mai 1880. Son enterrement au cimetière monumental de Rouen se déroule le 11 mai 1880, en présence de nombreux écrivains importants qui le reconnaissent comme leur maître, qu’il s’agisse d’Émile Zola, d’Alphonse Daudet, d’Edmond de Goncourt, de Théodore de Banville ou de Guy de Maupassant, dont il avait encouragé la carrière depuis 1873.

    ellauri109.html on line 421: "Ce matin à midi, cher et pauvre vieux, j’ai reçu ta bonne et longue lettre tant désirée. Elle m’a remué jusqu’aux entrailles. J’ai mouillé. Comme je pense à toi, va ! inestimable bougre ! Combien de fois par jour je t’évoque, et que je te regrette ! Si tu trouves que je te manque, tu me manques aussi [...]

    ellauri109.html on line 423: [...] Je doute que les femmes vaillent les hommes ; la laideur de ceux-ci ajoute beaucoup comme Art. [...] Puisque nous causons de bardaches, voici ce que j’en sais. Ici, c’est très bien porté. On avoue sa sodomie et on en parle à table d’hôte.

    ellauri109.html on line 425: Quelquefois, on nie un petit peu, tout le monde alors vous engueule et cela finit par s’avouer. Voyageant pour notre instruction et chargés d’une mission par le gouvernement, nous avons regardé comme de notre devoir de nous livrer à ce mode d’éjaculation. L’occasion ne s’en est pas encore présentée, nous la cherchons pourtant.

    ellauri109.html on line 427: C’est aux bains que cela se pratique. On retient le bain pour soi (cinq francs), y compris les masseurs, la pipe, le café, le linge et on enfile son gamin dans une des salles. Tu sauras du reste que tous les garçons de bain sont bardaches.

    ellauri109.html on line 429: [...] Pauvre cher bougre, j’ai bien envie de t’embrasser. Je serai content quand je reverrai ta figure. [...] Adieu, je t’embrasse et suis plus que jamais "Maréchal de Richelieu, juste-au-corps bleu, Mousquetaire gris, régence et cardinal Dubois", sacrebleu !

    ellauri109.html on line 441: Une première rupture avec Louise Colet en apporte la preuve. Dans sa lettre datée du dimanche 7 mars 1847, Flaubert ose enfin clamer à quel point il est allergique32 aux valeurs qu’elle véhicule, valeurs qui baignent et macèrent dans le discours ambiant du romantisme humanitaire33 : « tes idées de moralité, de patrie, de dévouement, tes goûts en littérature, tout cela était antipathique à mes idées, à mes goûts. »34 Ce qui vient immédiatement après est l’affirmation d’une esthétique, sur le mode de l’antithèse : « amoureux exclusif de la ligne pure, du galbe saillant, de la couleur criante, de la note sonore, je retrouvais toujours chez toi je ne sais quel ton noyé de sentiment qui atténuait tout, et altérait jusqu'à ton esprit ». Voilà les griefs d’un amant qui ne sépare pas l’art de la vie. Le lexique sentimental se trouve accaparé par le commentaire stylistique : « amoureux exclusif », écrit Flaubert, non pas d’une femme, comme Louise, elle, le voudrait, mais du tracé ferme, il lui reproche son « ton noyé de sentiment » qu’il interprète comme une déperdition de force et de précision. De même, les muscles relâchés, les lignes floues et les déliaisons trahissent le corps du texte féminin.

    ellauri109.html on line 443: Il donnera plus tard, pour cause de leur rupture, son refus d’une aliénation tant physique que sentimentale, qui revient selon lui à une forme d’abdication virile, de castration.

    ellauri109.html on line 445: Et puis je commence à m’indigner de tes titres : Poème de la femme ; Ce qui est dans le cœur des femmes ; Deux femmes célèbres ; Deux mois d'émotion. Mais saperlotte, tu vaux mieux que ça ! Tu te dégrades par l’enseigne.

    ellauri109.html on line 449: Lamartine (1790-1869), bête noire, permet de détourner en partie et de crypter la critique virulente que Flaubert adresse à l’écriture femelle. Lamartine, auteur féminin entre toutes les femmes, permet à Flaubert de poursuivre sa guerre misogyne. Le procès que Flaubert intente à la poésie du premier romantisme se fonde donc massivement sur la haine du féminin.

    ellauri109.html on line 451: Flaubert se donne pour mission urgente de la sauver des séductions du sirupeux : « leur poésie est une bavachure d’eau sucrée. Siirapinlitkutusta. J’aime l’ordure, comme dans Rabelais qui n’est point du tout un homme à gaudrioles.

    ellauri109.html on line 453: Le poète du « Lac » « n’a jamais pissé que de l’eau claire ». Vieil écrivain incontinent, victime de sa facilité, il écrit sans marquer.

    ellauri109.html on line 455: Ainsi, dans une lettre datée du mardi 6 juillet 1852, il revient sur le récit qu’elle lui a fait de sa promenade au clair de lune avec Musset (on sait que Musset est un spécialiste des bal(l)ades au clair de lune). Flaubert écrit donc longuement sur Musset en réaction à l’épisode que lui rapporte Louise Colet, assez naïve ou ennuyée pour lui faire ce genre de compte rendu détaillé, à moins qu’elle n’ait trouvé là un moyen commode de le provoquer : elle lui raconte la rencontre de nuit, la scène où Musset, ivre de dépit, la jette d’un fiacre en marche.

    ellauri109.html on line 457: Flaubert n’est pas dupe. Il administre à cette innocente douteuse une morale qui mériterait d’être ajoutée au Dictionnaire des idées reçues : « Il est dans les idées reçues qu’on ne va pas se promener avec un homme au clair de lune pour admirer la lune. » Mais Musset a beau être diminué, il a été célèbre, ils se voient, tandis que Flaubert, tout mâle qu’il est, reste bien abstrait dans sa retraite de Croisset, à se battre comme un forcené avec l’expression. Il n’est pas facile d’être longtemps l’amante d’un obscur ermite ni de faire l’amour par correspondance. Le but est atteint puisque Flaubert s’interroge sous les yeux de Louise : « Ai-je été jaloux, moi, dans tout ça ? — Il se peut.

    ellauri109.html on line 466:   To be sure in this one matter we Differ much, but in everything else we’re like twins

    ellauri109.html on line 467:   With brothers’ hearts (if one says no, so does the other)

    ellauri109.html on line 474:     Translations of the fable were familiar enough in Britain but the subject of male bonding left some readers uneasy (as it very obviously did Elizur Wright). Eventually there appeared an 18th-century version in octosyllabic couplets that claimed to be ‘improved from Fontaine’. Here the couple are a male and female named Columbo and Turturella.

    ellauri109.html on line 505: What artichokes tell us about the pandemic: That the immediate appeal of Roth’s early books is the antic sex and impious humor.

    ellauri109.html on line 507: From the start, critics complained about the ostensible sameness of Roth’s books, their narcissism and narrowness—or, as he himself put it, comparing his own work to his father’s conversation, “Family, family, family, Newark, Newark, Newark, Jew, Jew, Jew.” Roth turned self-obsession into art. He was a consummate bullshit artist.

    ellauri109.html on line 515: A fiction writer’s life is his treasure, his ore, his savings account, his jungle gym,” Updike wrote. “As long as I am alive, I don’t want somebody else playing on my jungle gym—disturbing my children, quizzing my ex-wife, bugging my present wife, seeking for Judases among my friends, rummaging through yellowing old clippings, quoting in extenso bad reviews I would rather forget, and getting everything slightly wrong.”

    ellauri109.html on line 517: When Updike, in the eighties, felt the sour breath of potential biographers on his neck, he tried to preëmpt his pursuers by writing a series of autobiographical essays about such topics as the Pennsylvania town where he grew up, his stutter, and his skin condition. The resulting collection, “Self-Consciousness,” is a dazzlingly intimate book, but his imagination and industry did more to draw biographical attention than to repel it. In the weeks before his death, of lung cancer, in early 2009, he continued to write, including an admiring review of Blake Bailey’s biography of John Cheever. And five years later there it was: “Updike,” a biography by Adam Begley.

    ellauri109.html on line 519: In Roth’s “Exit Ghost” (2007), the last of the Zuckerman books, half a century has elapsed since the visit with Lonoff. Zuckerman, suffering from prostate cancer, has been sapped of his physical and creative vitality. Yet his greatest anxiety does not concern his impotence and incontinence, or his deteriorating short-term memory. He fears, above all, the tyranny of the biographer.

    ellauri109.html on line 521: "So you’re going to redeem Lonoff’s reputation as a writer by ruining it as a man. Replace the genius of the genius with the secret of the genius.”

    ellauri109.html on line 539: Roth mined his life for his characters from the beginning. He also found himself liberated, as the fifties wore on, by the example of two older Jewish-American writers. Saul Bellow’s “The Adventures of Augie March” helped “close the gap between Thomas Mann and Damon Runyon,” Roth recalled. Bernard Malamud’s “The Assistant” showed him that “you can write about the Jewish poor, you can write about the Jewish inarticulate, you can describe things near at hand.”

    ellauri109.html on line 541: In March, 1959, The New Yorker published Roth’s story “Defender of the Faith,” in which a Jewish enlisted man tries to manipulate a Jewish sergeant into giving him special treatment out of ethnic kinship. Various rabbis and Jewish community leaders accused Roth of cultural treason. “What is being done to silence this man?” Emanuel Rackman, the president of the Rabbinical Council of America, wrote. “Medieval Jews would have known what to do with him.”

    ellauri109.html on line 547: Roth’s extramarital forays were numerous, Kleinschmidt was right about that.

    ellauri109.html on line 551: Kleinschmidt published a journal article in which he describes the case of a “successful Southern playwright” with an overbearing mother: “His rebellion was sexualized, leading to compulsive masturbation which provided an outlet for a myriad of hostile fantasies. These same masturbatory fantasies he both acted out and channeled into his writing.” Roth, who was obviously Kleinschmidt’s “playwright,” saw the article just after finishing the novel. He spent multiple sessions berating Kleinschmidt for this “psychoanalytic cartoon” and yet continued his analysis with him for years.

    ellauri109.html on line 555: Roth could not stand the lurid brand of notoriety. Years later, he told friends that he wished he’d never published “Portnoy’s Complaint.” It was by far his best-selling book. 

    ellauri109.html on line 565: “Sabbath’s Theater” (1995). is probably the most profane of Roth’s novels; it was also his favorite, the book in which he felt himself to be utterly free and at his best. “Céline is my Proust,” he used to say.

    ellauri109.html on line 567: Roth and Bloom divorced, miserably, in 1995. A year later, Bloom published a memoir, “Leaving a Doll’s House,” in which Roth was depicted as brilliant and initially attentive to the demands of her career, but also as unpredictable, unfaithful, remote, and, at times, horribly unkind, not least about Bloom’s devotion to her grown daughter. The book quoted incensed faxes that Roth sent Bloom at the end of their union, demanding that she pay sixty-two billion dollars for failing to honor their prenuptial agreement, and another bill for the “five or six hundred hours” that he had spent going over her lines with her.

    ellauri109.html on line 569: Roth was flattened by “Leaving a Doll’s House” and the bad publicity that came with it. He never got over it. “You know what Chekhov said when someone said to him ‘This too shall pass?’ ” Roth told Bailey. “ ‘Nothing passes.’ Put that in the fucking book.”

    ellauri109.html on line 571: In his fury and his hunger for retribution, Roth produced “Notes for My Biographer,” an obsessive, almost page-by-page rebuttal of Bloom’s memoir: “Adultery makes numerous bad marriages bearable and holds them together and in some cases can make the adulterer a far more decent husband or wife than . . . the domestic situation warrants. (See Madame Bovary for a pitiless critique of this phenomenon.)” Only at the last minute was Roth persuaded by friends and advisers not to publish the diatribe, but he could never put either of his marriages behind him for good. He was similarly incapable of setting aside much smaller grievances. As Benjamin Taylor, one of his closest late-in-life friends, put it in “Here We Are,” a loving, yet knowing, memoir, “The appetite for vengeance was insatiable. Philip could not get enough of getting even.”

    ellauri109.html on line 575: Roth’s mental health, like his physical health, proved less than stable. There were harrowing periods of depression; a Halcion-induced breakdown; stays at a psychiatric hospital.

    ellauri109.html on line 581: in 2000, James Atlas’s biography of Bellow appeared. It was a book that Roth had urged Atlas to write, but Bellow hated it, and so, in the end, did Roth. An acidic trickle of disenchantment, especially regarding Bellow’s inconstancy with women and family, runs through it. Oma vika pikku sika.

    ellauri109.html on line 583: Roth asked Ross Miller to write his biography after his women friends Hermione Lee and Judith Thurman declined his invitations. He  coached Miller on lines of questioning. He was particularly anxious for Miller to rebut  “This whole mad fucking misogynistic bullshit!” “It wasn’t just ‘Fucked this one fucked that one fucked this one,’ ” he told Miller in one of their interviews.”

    ellauri109.html on line 585: Why shouldn’t I be treated as seriously as Colette on this? She gave a blow job to this guy in the railway station. Who gives a fuck about that? . . . That doesn’t tell me anything. What did hand jobs mean to her? Why did she like that?”

    ellauri109.html on line 589: Miller became Roth’s health-care proxy. One year, Roth wrote him a check for ten thousand dollars, telling him, “I want you to share in the general prosperity."

    ellauri109.html on line 591: Roth began to hear that Miller was describing him as “manic-depressive.” The theatre critic and producer Robert Brustein, an old friend of Roth’s, reported back that Miller had told him, “He knows he’s writing shit now. It just lies there like a lox.” By the end of 2009, the arrangement and the friendship were over. So was Roths career.

    ellauri109.html on line 597: In 2012, Roth invited Blake Bailey to his apartment, on West Seventy-ninth Street, for a kind of job interview. After quizzing Bailey on how a Gentile from Oklahoma could possibly write the life of a Jew from Newark, the deal was made. “I don’t want you to rehabilitate me,” Roth told him. “Just make me interesting.”

    ellauri109.html on line 599: As he had with Miller, Roth went to great lengths for Bailey, providing him letters, drafts, a photo album featuring his girlfriends. He wrote a lengthy memorandum for Bailey on a long-term affair with a local Norwegian-born physical therapist—the model for Drenka in “Sabbath’s Theater.”

    ellauri109.html on line 603: That first summer I spent a week in Connecticut, interviewing him six hours a day in his studio. Now and then we had to take bathroom breaks, and we could hear each other’s muffled streams through the door. One lovely sun-dappled afternoon I sat on his studio couch, listening to our greatest living novelist empty his bladder, and reflected that this was about as good as it gets for an American literary biographer.

    ellauri109.html on line 605: We learn of Roth’s generosity with unearned money he did not need (just like JFK, who was privately stingy as hell but basked in high-visibility free-of-charge charity) of his remarkable service in getting Milan Kundera published in English.

    ellauri109.html on line 609: At the University of Pennsylvania, a friend and colleague—acting, the friend admits, almost as a “pimp”—helped Roth fill the last seats in his oversubscribed classes with particularly attractive undergraduates. Roth’s treatment of a young woman named Felicity (a pseudonym), a friend and house guest of Claire Bloom’s daughter, is particularly disturbing. Roth made a sexual overture to Felicity, which she rebuffed; the next morning, he left her an irate note accusing her of “sexual hysteria.” When Bloom wrote about the incident in her memoir, Roth answered in his unpublished “Notes” with a sense of affront rather than penitence: “This is what people are. This is what people do. . . . Hate me for what I am, not for what I’m not.”

    ellauri109.html on line 611: The reaction to “Portnoy’s Complaint,” a decade later, was of another order. “This is the book for which all anti-Semites have been praying,” Gershom Scholem, the eminent scholar of Jewish history and mysticism, wrote. “I daresay that with the next turn of history, which will not be long delayed, this book will make all of us defendants at court.”

    ellauri110.html on line 1048: “Once upon a time, mendicants, there was a Teacher called Araka. He was a religious founder and was free of sensual desire. He had many hundreds of disciples, and he taught them like this: ‘Brahmins, life as a human is short, brief, and fleeting, full of pain and misery. Think about this and wake up! Do what’s good and live the spiritual life, for no-one born can escape death.

    ellauri110.html on line 1050: It’s like a drop of dew on a grass tip. When the sun comes up it quickly evaporates and doesn’t last long. In the same way, life as a human is like a dew-drop. It’s brief and fleeting, full of pain and misery. Think about this and wake up! Do what’s good and live the spiritual life, for no-one born can escape death.

    ellauri110.html on line 1052: It’s like when the rain falls heavily. The bubbles quickly vanish and don’t last long. In the same way, life as a human is like a bubble. …

    ellauri110.html on line 1054: It’s like a line drawn in water. It vanishes quickly and doesn’t last long. In the same way, life as a human is like a line drawn in water. …

    ellauri110.html on line 1056: It’s like a mountain river traveling far, flowing fast, carrying all before it. It doesn’t turn back — not for a moment, a second, an instant — but runs, rolls, and flows on. In the same way, life as a human is like a mountain river. …

    ellauri110.html on line 1058: It’s like a strong man who has formed a glob of spit on the tip of his tongue. He could easily spit it out. In the same way, life as a human is like a glob of spit. …

    ellauri110.html on line 1062: It’s like a cow being led to the slaughter. With every step she comes closer to the slaughter, closer to death. In the same way, life as a human is like a cow being slaughtered. It’s brief and fleeting, full of pain and misery. Think about this and wake up! Do what’s good and live the spiritual life, for no-one born can escape death.’

    ellauri110.html on line 1064: Now, mendicants, at that time human beings had a life span of 60,000 years. Girls could be married at 500 years of age. And human beings only had six afflictions: cold, heat, hunger, thirst, and the need to defecate and urinate. But even though humans were so long-lived with so few afflictions, Araka still taught in this way: ‘Life as a human is short, brief, and fleeting, full of pain and misery. Think about this and wake up! Do what’s good and live the spiritual life, for no-one born can escape death.’

    ellauri110.html on line 1066: These days it’d be right to say: ‘Life as a human is short, brief, and fleeting, full of pain and misery. Think about this and wake up! Do what’s good and live the spiritual life, for no-one born can escape death.’ For these days a long life is a hundred years or a little more. Living for a hundred years, there are just three hundred seasons, a hundred each of the winter, summer, and rains. Living for three hundred seasons, there are just twelve hundred months, four hundred in each of the winter, summer, and rains. Living for twelve hundred months, there are just twenty-four hundred fortnights, eight hundred in each of the winter, summer, and rains. Living for 2,400 fortnights, there are just 36,000 days, 12,000 in each of the summer, winter, and rains. Living for 36,000 days, you just eat 72,000 meals, 24,000 in each of the summer, winter, and rains, including when you’re suckling at the breast, and when you’re prevented from eating.

    ellauri110.html on line 1068: Things that prevent you from eating include anger, pain, sickness, sabbath, or being unable to get food. So mendicants, for a human being with a hundred years life span I have counted the life span, the limit of the life span, the seasons, the years, the months, the fortnights, the nights, the days, the meals, and the things that prevent them from eating. Out of compassion, I’ve done what a teacher should do who wants what’s best for their disciples. Here are these roots of trees, and here are these empty huts. Practice absorption, mendicants! Don’t be negligent! Don’t regret it later! This is my instruction to you.”

    ellauri110.html on line 1075: Welcome! ‘Conversations with Dostoevsky’ is a blog written to mark the 200th anniversary year of Dostoevsky’s birth. It takes the form of a series of conversations between a twenty-first century academic and the writer himself. The topics centre on ‘the big questions’, including God, immortality, faith, nationality, and the power of literature. Blogs will be published weekly, though readers may wish to save them up for a monthly visit.

    ellauri110.html on line 1079: The blog is intended to develop in a dialogical fashion and I hope that readers will contact me with any critical comments, whether these relate to style or content. Despite what I have just said about fiction, it is my wish that the eventual book will present an interpretation of Dostoevsky’s thought discussed that is fully defensible with regard to the available sources and I welcome any comments drawing attention to actual errors or significant misrepresentations. In this way, the blog itself will, I hope, set in motion a kind of conversation, alongside all the other amazing conversations about Dostoevsky that are happening in reality, in print, and online. This is work in progress and I hope not only to entertain and instruct but also to learn.

    ellauri110.html on line 1117: The first work produced after his time in a prison camp, Uncle’s Dream might be the funniest writing by Fyodor Dostoevsky.

    ellauri110.html on line 1130: All of the older characters, by contrast to the younger ones with modern Shakespearean ideas, are out for themselves and their own images, doing whatever it takes to protect themselves, rather than doing what’s right.

    ellauri111.html on line 202: While holding him as a prisoner, the United States capitalized on Geronimo’s fame among non-Indians by displaying him at various events. For Geronimo, it provided him with an opportunity to make a little money. In 1898, for example, Geronimo was exhibited at the Trans-Mississippi and International Exhibition in Omaha, Nebraska. Following this exhibition, he became a frequent "visitor" to fairs, exhibitions, and other public functions.

    ellauri111.html on line 204: Wow! What an opportunity! He made money by selling pictures of himself, bows and arrows, buttons off his shirt, and even his hat. In 1905, the Indian Office "provided" Geronimo for the inaugural parade for President Theodore Roosevelt. Later that year, the Indian Office "took" him to Texas, where he shot a buffalo in a roundup staged by 101 Ranch Real Wild West for the National Editorial Association. Geronimo was escorted to the event by soldiers, as he was still a prisoner. The teachers who witnessed the staged buffalo hunt were unaware that Geronimo’s people were not buffalo hunters. Aargh!

    ellauri111.html on line 216: “So, the husband – just what is it he’s got to do to get out of his despair? What is this step he’s got to take?”

    ellauri111.html on line 222:             I wasn’t quite sure what he meant but blundered forward anyway.

    ellauri111.html on line 224:             “But surely he is guilty – and knows it. Isn’t that the whole point of his confession, telling the whole world how guilty he is?”

    ellauri111.html on line 228:             “The question is: what is guilt and what is it to be guilty or to confess your guilt? Most people don’t understand this at all. They think it’s just a matter of fact – did he or didn’t he do it? If he did, he’s guilty, if he didn’t, he’s not guilty. Remember what Ivan Karamazov said, that everyone wants to kill their father – but the world knows many of these mental parricides as obedient and loving sons, who are not guilty of anything.” 

    ellauri111.html on line 230: Esim. Karamazovin pojat tai Akiva "Kive" Shtisel. Akiva oli kiva kun se huoli upporikkaan vaikka masentuilevan Rachelin. Apinatkin on sulosia kun ne saa poikasia. Aljosha-vainaja ja Dvorale on kuin 2 marjaa. En mäkään sentään suorastaan tappanut Callea, vaikken avannut sille Munksnäshemmetin ulko-ovea. Pause. “I think you haven’t read my Diary of a Writer?”

    ellauri111.html on line 235:             “I’ve read about it …” I answered, not wanting to risk offending him any more, though sensing that he did in fact know exactly what I had and hadn’t read.

    ellauri111.html on line 237:             “But you haven’t actually read it?”

    ellauri111.html on line 239:             “Er, no,” I had to admit, slightly confused. Perhaps the whisky hadn’t been such a good idea.

    ellauri111.html on line 241:             “It’s strange,” he said, almost as if he was talking to himself. “My English and American readers don’t seem to read it very much. Of course, I do say some rude things about England in it and I know what they say in return—that’s it’s full of Russian jingoism, all very retrograde and reactionary. In my own view, though, it has some of the best things I’ve ever written in it. In fact, that’s where you’ll find this story we’re talking about right now.”

    ellauri111.html on line 247:             “Sorry, I didn’t mean that in a bad way, but …”

    ellauri111.html on line 249:             “I know, I know,” he replied consolingly. “It is a short story, but it’s also what one of my friends on this side would call ‘a thought experiment’. We can talk more of that another time, but I’m digressing. You see there’s a lot in the Diary about guilt and what it means to be guilty. Not fiction, but real life, cases that happened in Russia, in my own time, not unlike quite a lot of cases happening in your country today—alas.”

    ellauri111.html on line 253:             “These are difficult things to talk about, and I should emphasize that I never wanted anyone to be locked up, or beaten, or put to death for what they’d done. I’ve seen too much of what that means. Punishment isn’t the answer, but acknowledging your guilt is … the first step.”

    ellauri111.html on line 255:             As I’d had to admit, I hadn’t read The Diary of a Writer (actually a kind of journal that Dostoevsky published monthly and that consisted entirely of his own thoughts about issues of the day), but I did know that he had been involved in several criminal cases, some of which were about the kind of cruelty to children that Ivan Karamazov cited as evidence against the existence of God. I couldn’t remember any details, though. I felt rather like a student who hasn’t done his homework hoping that he’s not the one going to be asked the next question. Only there wasn’t anyone else to ask. In the event, Fyodor Mikhailovich let me off fairly gently.

    ellauri111.html on line 261:             “I suppose you know that jury trials were still quite an innovation in my time in Russia, so it’s no surprise that they produced some odd results. A clever lawyer could easily persuade a jury one way or another. Even when all the facts pointed to the guilt of the accused, even when it was admitted that, indeed, such-and-such a woman had attacked her lover’s wife with a razor with the intention of killing her, such-and-such a father had so violently beaten his seven-year old daughter with birch rods that even the neighbours were terrified by her screams, or such-and-such parents had treated their children like animals, keeping them in filthy conditions, and beating them with leather straps, again and again—each time our poor soft-hearted jurors concluded ‘Not guilty!’ Can you imagine? Of course, there is always an explanation, there are always attenuating circumstances, there can even be provocations, and the letter of the law may tell us this is not torture but simply punishment, the kind of punishment that, in those days, all good middle-class parents thought it right to mete out so as to give their children a sense of duty. The facts. The facts are the facts, but the truth once uttered is a lie, and even the facts can be put together in such a way as to turn even torture into well-meaning parental discipline.”    

    ellauri111.html on line 263:             As Fyodor Mikhailovich spoke, he became quite agitated. His face narrowed and his eyes flashed. At first he had just tapped his fingers intermittently on the arms of his chair but as he went on he started to wave his hands around with increasing energy. Whatever he had seen in the world he now inhabited, it was clear that he was still unreconciled to the outrages that adult human beings inflict on children, who, as he had said in The Brothers Karamazov, hadn’t eaten that fatal apple. I didn’t know the details of the cases he was talking about, but I couldn’t help thinking about a particularly horrifying case that had recently happened here in Scotland. I’ll spare you the details.

    ellauri111.html on line 265:             “I’m sorry,” he said, taking a breath (or what seemed like a breath). “As I say, even here there are times when I could wish for a cigarette—or even a good whisky”, he added with a smile, nodding reassuringly at me.

    ellauri111.html on line 267:             “But I repeat,” he continued after a moment, raising his hands dramatically, “I am not demanding the maximum penalty of the law, not even for these torturers. I do not want them imprisoned, beaten, or executed, though I understand the outrage of people who do. Remember, when Ivan asked Alyosha what to do about the general who’d had the little boy torn to pieces by his dogs, even mild, sweet-tempered Alyosha said ‘Shoot him’. But that doesn’t help either. Just because I wrote a novel called Crime and Punishment, people imagine I’m obsessed with punishing. Not at all. All I want is that the guilty are not acquitted. That their guilt is clearly stated. And that they accept it—that’s the most important of all. Let them be found guilty—and let them go free.”

    ellauri111.html on line 271:             “Not ‘just’ like that. No. If you’d read my Diary” (not said reproachfully, but matter of factly) “you’d have read how I imagined the judge speaking to such a person. He makes it clear that it’s not a matter of going home and forgetting about it, going back to the way things were before. No. There has to be change. In my time, the father was the authority figure in the family, but, as I—or my imaginary judge—pointed out, even fathers sometimes need to be re-educated by their children until they learn to listen to their children’s needs. I know that families are very different in your time, but, yes, parents, whoever they are, must learn to be parents to their children. I disagree with much that the prosecutor said about the Karamazov family, but he was right on one point: parents can’t just be parents by virtue of procreation, they have to become parents. And when they abuse their position and their power, they cannot hide behind their rights as parents—they have to own up. The guilty have to know that they are guilty.”

    ellauri111.html on line 281:             “But our husband—how does this connect to him?” I asked. “I mean, surely he does acknowledge his guilt. The whole story is in a way his confession, isn’t it?”

    ellauri111.html on line 287:             “Isn’t that rather harsh? After all, he himself set out the charge sheet, if you like. He tells us just what he has done, how he has behaved. He provides all the evidence we need to find him guilty—morally, if not legally.”

    ellauri111.html on line 289:             “Yes, yes, yes—but why? Why is he doing this? Let me give you another example, a better known one, I think. You remember that in The Possessed (which, by the way, isn’t quite what my title means, though it’s quite good in its own way), I had Stavrogin go to Bishop Tikhon to confess how he’d raped a twelve-year old girl and then just waited in the next room while she hung herself?”

    ellauri111.html on line 291:             “I remember. It’s unforgettable. Horrific. In a way I’m not surprised they didn’t let you publish it.”

    ellauri111.html on line 293:             “Nor was I, though it was very frustrating. But you will also remember that he didn’t just go to confess his sin in the way that a normal penitent does: he had even arranged for a full copy to be printed, ready to be published for the world to see.”

    ellauri111.html on line 297:             “Now some people might think that was a sign of how deeply he had repented, allowing himself to be shamed before the whole word. But, as I hope you also remember, Bishop Tikhon could see that wanting to publicize your guilt in that way is not necessarily the same as really accepting it, inwardly. Wanting to be seen – and maybe even admired – as a great sinner is not quite the same as actually repenting. And perhaps that’s how it is here too. Of course, if you want to be fussy, you could say that he’s just talking to himself. He’s not produced a written, let alone a printed, confession. I’m the one who wrote it, not him. And yet, it’s as if he’s rehearsing his story for the benefit of the world, for the imaginary audience we each of us have inside our heads.”

    ellauri111.html on line 299:             “You mean like in one of Shakespeare’s monologues, like Richard III or Hamlet.”

    ellauri111.html on line 303:             “Exactly! It’s a performance. It’s not the heart speaking. The heart would say something very different. In fact, the heart wouldn’t need to say very much at all: it has only one thing to say, to love and to ask for love, to forgive and to ask forgiveness. We’ve been talking about people who commit crimes but won’t own up to what they’ve done, people who want to say to anyone who’ll listen: ‘Not guilty! My conscience is clear! Don’t blame me!’ But the real problem is not the evidence of the facts—did he or didn’t he do this or say that. The real problem is that this is completely back to front. The person who loves, even if they haven’t committed any crimes, is the person who wants to be guilty, who doesn’t just want to forgive but wants to be forgiven; the person who thinks of themselves not only as guilty but infinitely guilty, guilty of everything, before everyone, in fact the guiltiest one of all.”

    ellauri111.html on line 309:         You’re exactly right Anna! Actually Philip Roth said the same. Its bullshit of course, but sounds beautifully deep.

    ellauri112.html on line 264: Dualismi (latinan sanasta duo ’kaksi’) on oppi kahtalaisuudesta tai kahtiajaosta.

    ellauri112.html on line 471: Solipsismi (latinan sanoista solus ipse ’yksin itse’) on filosofinen näkemys, jonka mukaan ”minä”-näkökulma on ensisijainen.

    ellauri112.html on line 570: Marlo (Charlize Theron), a woman just north of 40 who’s about to pop with her third child. The birth is more like going into the emergency room for a coughing fit than bringing another life into the world.

    ellauri112.html on line 575: Mistä siinä tehtiin pilaa? En tajua. Beneath the funny lines and awkward scenarios, there’s genuine fear and pain.  Sen kyllä huomasi. Jospa kriitikot osaa kertoa? Leffasta on mädissä tomaateissa varmaan sata arviota, selataanpa niitä.

    ellauri112.html on line 579: As a whole, Tully is a mildly pleasant and amiable film (with “mildly” being an important word here). Davis’ Tully is a catalog of truisms.

    ellauri112.html on line 580: It doesn’t help the film that Marlo is a series of clichés. Both she and Drew could have jumped out of the pages of a woman’s magazine or self-help guide.

    ellauri112.html on line 584: Reitman (Thank You for Smoking, Juno, Up in the Air) continues to work the “audacious” and “unique” edges of the most conventional possible territory, in movies that tend to conclude that the characters’ various challenges are all a state of mind.

    ellauri112.html on line 588: Marlo disapproves at first thinking that she can’t ask for the help she needs. She gives in and allows their new night nanny, Tully, to do her job and is quite impressed with the results. Marlo feels more in control of her life, the kids seem happy, and she’s willing to grow in her marriage to Drew.

    ellauri112.html on line 590: Native Chicago suburban writer Diablo Cody on Buffalo Bill muutenkin kuin nimeltä. Klisheepuhveleita kaatuu kuin hehtaaripyssyllä, bullshttiä piisaa enemmän kuin jaxaa syödä. Diablo Cody’s script contains her trademarked witticisms and dry humor. Cody’s quick-witted screenplay highlights an open disdain for hipsters.

    ellauri112.html on line 600: Yes, we know that once a person has a kid their life changes completely, often with hardships and challenges along the way. But Reitman and Cody inject a level of warmth that prevents this from being simply depressing, at times it’s quite funny. Being a parent is a tough job, but it’s a necessary one – where would any of us be if there weren’t someone watching after us as toddlers?

    ellauri112.html on line 607: Drew’s brother Craig (Mark Duplass) only adds to her consternation. Craig and his wife are rich, over-achievers who can’t help but look down at Marlo’s messy mothering. Är dom inte äckliga? Spypåsarna till vänster om dörrarna. Life is not just boring, it is a fucking pile of clichés. You´ve seen one of them, you´ve seen them all. Jussi Snellman, don´t bother with reincarnation!

    ellauri112.html on line 611: Drew loves Marlo and their children, he’s taken on more responsibility in his job, which yields a higher paycheck, but as a result, he’s stressed out. Me töihis. Mee Kouvolaan!

    ellauri112.html on line 617: It’s these little moments that Reitman captures so well. Like Ron Livingston’s detached husband, who routinely retreats to his room to hide under a video game headset.

    ellauri112.html on line 633: Motherhood is essentially roasted here, making it easy to laugh at Marlo’s discomforts. Perhaps every element of raising children can be either hellish or heavenly, depending on one’s outlook.

    ellauri112.html on line 640: Marlo is a real mother, sister and wife who knows how to put on a polite, sweet face when required, but isn’t afraid to take it off to make a point—something she does with her son’s school principal to great effect.

    ellauri112.html on line 646: You´ll love a scene where her child spills a drink, forcing her to take off her shirt. “Mom, what’s wrong with your body?” Theron’s eye daggers are priceless. Marlo looks as lived-in as her home itself.

    ellauri112.html on line 650: Marlo is not much to look at anymore compared to flat-tum Tully Theron actually fattened herself 50lb for the part). But she is another type of super-woman, who keeps schedules, diets, routines and even creativity as a staple of her family’s well being.

    ellauri112.html on line 652: Marlo is a physical wreck, ugly fat and unkempt, a woman who doesn’t get enough or not at all and is chronically fatigued. She shuffles around in sweatpants and baggy sweaters as the house gets dirtier, the kids get noisier, and her husband gets "lazier". Everything becomes a battle for Marlo – keeping Jonah in school, putting a meal on the table, finding time to bathe, even getting her husband to hump her. He shuts her out at night, retreating to the bedroom alone to play video games with himself headphones on. Cant fix that part without fixing the hole.

    ellauri112.html on line 654: Critics have been throwing words like “fearless” around when describing Theron’s performance in Tully, because of the extra 50 pounds she carries, the lack of makeup on her face and the unflattering portrait of motherhood she paints. But that’s a backhanded compliment, isn’t it? “Fearless.” They only say “fearless” when they mean “ugly,” and it’s honest  because she’s ugly. Iike I’ve said three or four times now, it’s really really honest.

    ellauri112.html on line 660: As a nation, we’re well-used to the stereotype of the Irish mammy. Generally speaking though, the mother as a comical, level-headed supporting character is not unique to us, Jews and Italians have them too, and Latinos, I bet. Sometimes she’s the self-sacrificing figure who will do anything for her children, sometimes she’s neurotic and controlling, suppressing the growth and social development of her kids, who are typically the leads. Rarely has she ever taken front-of-stage.

    ellauri112.html on line 665: Every day there’s more to do, less time to do it in, and the ginormous stress starts eating at her soon as her swollen feet hit the floor. It doesn’t help that her husband Drew (Ron Livingston) is of the old school variety, the kind of man who thinks he doesn’t have to do much around the house because he’s the breadwinner. That means most of the cooking, cleaning, and caring for the kids falls upon Marlo’s shoulders.

    ellauri112.html on line 667: Marlo and Drew describe their boy Jonah as “quirky,” but he’s a real problem. He’s disrupting school as well as their lives on a daily basis. A royal pain in the ass. The big  sis is a graceless little imp.

    ellauri112.html on line 668: Amer. ongelmalapset on joko on the spectrum (autisteja) tai quirky  (vajakkeja). I’m also really over films that nervously wring their hands over autistic characters. Like, give me a break, sanoo 1 blaseerattu kazoja. Varmaan vajakki. 

    ellauri112.html on line 670: There’s a long stretch in the middle where Tully appears drama-less, and you can't help but nervously wonder where it's all going. Well thats life in the 40´s.

    ellauri112.html on line 675: Tully’s like a hip millennial Marry Poppins. It all seems too good to be true. Their deepening connection hints at something that’s either eerie or profoundly healing. Are they dykes? 

    ellauri112.html on line 681: Yet to hail the film as a feminist project is to value the representation of the structural co-option of maternity over its interrogation. Tully’s treatment of social reproduction is dangerously simplistic. Cody has spoken in interviews about how her own, financially easier, experience of parenting in L.A. inspired her to explore a narrative in which economic anxieties are combined with the other hardships of parenthood, yet here class and poverty are only fleeting concerns. The transactional system of care that governs child-rearing under capitalism is done away with via Tully’s otherworldliness. Until the revelation of her non-existence, the viewer, although encouraged to believe in her, is never asked to consider her financial reality, and the fact that the service is paid for by Marlo’s wealthy brother is a narrative convenience that reinforces its fairytale quality. Similarly, Tully’s whiteness allows the racial politics of care to be completely overlooked, and the repeated idea that it’s ‘unnatural’ for hired help to bond with your newborn is taken as a given, rather than seen as an impetus for a consideration of the social conditions that require mothers to make that choice.

    ellauri112.html on line 683: Marlo, already a mother of two, begins the film heavily, outrageously pregnant: we learn, in rapid succession, that this third pregnancy was unwanted, that her husband does little of the domestic labour, and that her “shitty” upbringing is the reason she’s so committed to her nuclear family unit. Postnatal depression, never named, haunts the narrative: her wealthy brother offers to pay for a night nanny to avoid, in his words, the advent of another “bad time” like the one that followed the birth of her son, Jonah. When the nanny arrives – described by more than one reviewer as a “millennial Mary Poppins” – the panacea seems to be working. Not only does she look after the baby at night but she also operates as a kind of empathy machine, listening to Marlo’s problems, sharing sangria in the garden, and baking the Minions cupcakes that Marlo herself never has the time to make. The postnatal depression, it seems, disperses; Jonah – who has “emotional problems” – finds a place at a school more suited to his needs, family dinners get increasingly wholesome, and Marlo does a passable Stevie Nicks impression at a child’s birthday party. And then comes the twist: after a bender in Brooklyn with Tully, a sleep-deprived Marlo, drunk at the wheel, drives her car off a bridge and ends up in hospital, and we realise there was nobody else in the car. Her maiden name, we learn, was Tully.

    ellauri112.html on line 687: I found this one to be a boring display of what I like to call ‘critic bait’: a movie targeted at film journalists who will believe anything put onscreen from these two is worthy of never-ending praise.

    ellauri112.html on line 689: The film is supposedly an ode to the ‘modern parenthood experience’ that’s interspersed with ‘humor and raw honesty.’ I wouldn’t know because I don’t have kids. Perhaps this realism is lost on me because I’m not a parent, but that’s where the film breaks down: it failed to spark even an ounce of empathy in me for its protagonist. Motherhood is portrayed as many childless people like me envision, an absolute misery of an existence (I left the theater thinking thank god I don’t have kids). A successful film would have made Marlo’s predicament relatable to everyone.

    ellauri112.html on line 691: Theron is more than capable and proves she’s up to the challenge of the role and its physical demands, but this isn’t as Oscar worthy as some are crowing. How gutsy and brave her performance is! they’ll surely shout, all because she dons a partial fat suit (the actress also gained a very real 50 pounds for the role), doesn’t wear makeup, has unkempt hair and bags under her eyes. Interestingly enough, it seems to be those same critics who ripped Amy Schumer and her “I Feel Pretty” to shreds for ‘fat shaming’ or poking fun at the way women look. Candid and authentic simply because she doesn’t look like the gorgeous movie star that she is? I don’t think so.

    ellauri112.html on line 693: The same can be said for Cody’s rough around the edges, unsubtle screenplay. This is far from her best work and for once, she seems to have written herself into a corner. Some of the narrative is so contrived that it’s dripping with cliché, crowded with irritating, pithy platitudes dressed up in a bright hipster bow. Worst of all, the film treats serious post-partum depression as a gimmicky afterthought and even tacks on a borderline inappropriate ‘gotcha!’ ending.

    ellauri112.html on line 701: I appreciated the fact that a troubled mom did seek help, I’m just not sure the script needed the plot twist. I didn’t immediately warm to this flick. Actually, I often alternated between exasperation and captivation – and a key plot twist at the end left a sour taste in my mouth, though for petty reasons. Nonetheless, something about it didn’t feel quite right. It took one observation from a friend afterward to allow for the film’s brilliance to bloom in my mind. 

    ellauri112.html on line 705: The 26-year-old nanny’s name is Tully (played by Mackenzie Davis of “Halt and Catch Fire” fame), and she’s a free spirit, albeit one with a serious work ethic. Tully instantly takes over the house, manages Marlo’s baby effortlessly, and starts taking care of mom too. Not only does she give her the precious “alone time” she desperately needs and craves, but Tully ends up becoming a sort of therapist to her, along with a best friend, muse, and a regular shoulder to cry on.

    ellauri112.html on line 707: Tully seems too good to be true when she quickly organizes the home, cleans it from top to bottom, and finds a place for all the errant toys too. She even makes cupcakes for Marlo to take to Jonah’s school as a peace offering. Ultimately, Tully becomes the ‘spouse’ Marlo really needs, and they even have a simpatico banter together, quipping back and forth in sharp, pithy dialogue, the only way  Cody can write for her characters.

    ellauri112.html on line 717: Tully takes care of the baby with effortless technique, letting Marlo know she can also help with anything else around the house, even tips for re-starting Marlo and Drew’s sex life. She spouts hip, up to date trends and the kind of facts fresh college kids throw around. But it’s not a feel-good narrative. Through Tully Marlo is looking back at an earlier age, when life was simpler, breezier. We soon realize Tully isn’t teaching Marlo anything, she’s reminding her of the past. In one scene the two decide to sneak out to a bar, but the moment isn’t just fun, it’s also melancholic. Marlo warns Tully that your 20’s are great, but then “your 30’s come around the corner like a big dumpster truck.”

    ellauri112.html on line 727: The film’s strength – for its first two thirds – is the relationship between the two women at the heart of the narrative. We learn through a clumsy coincidence at the beginning of the film that Marlo is bisexual; as her intimacy with Tully expands to fill the vacuum of her absentee marriage, it becomes a tender eroticism. This is mediated, always, through other bodies: as Tully cradles the baby who has just finished feeding, she talks about how the ‘molecules’ of the child still exist within the mother; later, in a bar toilet, she gently wets a paper towel and uses it to draw the milk out of Marlo’s swollen breasts. In a pivotal scene, Marlo sits behind Tully and instructs her on what to do to arouse her sleep-befuddled husband. This moment can be read as emblematic of the film’s mistreatment of the queer intimacy it establishes. Coming after a discussion of sexual history and sexual fantasy, Marlo reveals to Tully that she has a waitress’s uniform that she’s never used, bought to surprise her husband. As Tully puts the outfit on, which fits her pre-natal body in a way it wouldn’t Marlo, the moment of sexual possibility between the women is subsumed into heteronormative, ageist fantasy: Tully’s young, and therefore fantasy-appropriate, body is used as bait to ‘recharge’ the masculine battery.

    ellauri112.html on line 729: The revelation that Tully is a version of Marlo’s former self removes the possibility of a different life she represented. “I love us,” Marlo’s husband says to her, as she lies in her hospital bed. “I love us too,” she replies. This collective noun is the acceptance of the status quo, just as Tully’s last speech, in which she tells Marlo she should embrace her dull life – “being boring means you’re doing it right” – is an endorsement of the sacrifices society requires of her. The final scene, in which Marlo’s husband helps her make the packed lunches, is bathed in a saccharine glow: learn to love your claustrophobia, it tells women. The nuclear family is the only one worth having.

    ellauri112.html on line 791: Not according to which covenant? Jeremiah says the covenant “in the day that I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt, My covenant which they broke” (31:32). Again which covenant is this? Exodus says “And He wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, the Ten Commandments” (Exo. 34:28). Christ’s covenant is “not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers”, but “In that He says, ‘A new covenant,’ He has made the first obsolete. Now what is becoming obsolete and growing old is ready to vanish away” (Heb. 8:13). The Old Covenant of the 10 commands with the Sabbath keeping is obsolete and vanishing away in the 1st century.

    ellauri112.html on line 795:     If I kept the 7th day as the Sabbath rest, then I’d be “a debtor to keep the whole law”, and then I will “become estranged from Christ” and “fallen from grace” (Gal. 5:3-4). I will not be estranged from Christ and fall from His grace nor will I teach my family nor my congregation family this. Who wants to keep all those 10 plus obsolete paragraphs anyway? Love is all you need.

    ellauri112.html on line 819: “God himself provides ‘wine which makes man’s heart glad’ just as He gives ‘food which sustains man’s heart’ (Ps. 104:14.15). He promises His people that, if they will obey Him, He will bless them with an abundance of wine (Deut 7:13, 11:14, Prov. 3:10. etc.). He threatens to withdraw this blessing from them if they disobey His law (Deut. 28:39, 51; Isa. 62:8). The Scriptures clearly teach that God permits His people to enjoy wine and strong drink as a gift from Him. ‘You may spend the money for whatever your heart desires, for oxen, or sheep, or wine, or strong drink, or whatever your heart desires; and there you shall eat in the presence of the Lord your God and rejoice, you and your household’ (Deut. 14:26).

    ellauri112.html on line 855: “There is no proof that the ‘wine’ at the marriage feast in Cana was fermented. The Greek word for ‘wine’ in this text is oinos, which may refer to a fermented beverage (cf. Eph. 5:18), or it may denote freshly squeezed grape juice (cf. Isa. 16:10 – LXX). Since the word for ‘wine’ is generic, the student has no right to import the concept of an alcoholic beverage into this passage without contextual justification—of which there is none.”

    ellauri112.html on line 857: Did Jesus use intoxicating wine in the Lord’s Supper? No, He did not. Actually, wine has nothing to do with the Lord’s Supper. The word “wine” is never used in reference to the Lord’s Supper. The word is "blood". People have invented the idea that Jesus used alcoholic wine in the Lord’s Supper. In fact it was blood.

    ellauri112.html on line 864: Most do not know what is biblical wine. Most assume that all “wine” in the Bible is highly alcoholic and intoxicating like today’s wine. There are passages that clearly imply that wine can intoxicate (Eph 5:18, 1 Tim 3:8, Titus 2:3). Still, “wine” is often simply grape juice.

    ellauri112.html on line 878: But didn’t Paul Tell Timothy to Take Wine for His Stomach?

    ellauri112.html on line 880: The fact that Paul instructed Timothy to “take a little wine for his stomach’s sake” involves several things.

    ellauri112.html on line 893: In the Lord’s Supper, Christ blesses His people in many ways. He calls His people to remember Him and His saving work, as often as they partake of it. Christ uses it to remind them of His coming again in glory for them. The people of God renew their covenant with Him. They commune with Him, as their ministers, acting in His name, administer the sacrament according to His appointment, to their own growth in grace. As they recall how all Christians eat from the same consecrated bread, they are reminded of the love and unity that binds all Christians in one body and one faith.     

    ellauri112.html on line 895: Yet, in what is surely one of the great tragedies of history, worse than genocide, the sacrament of the Lord’s Supper has become an occasion for confusion and division. For example, even men of good will, professing the Bible to be their guide, have disagreed as to the exact nature of Christ’s presence in the Lord’s Supper. More recently, Christians have differed about the frequency of intercourse and the subjects of intercourse. But we will not consider such matters as these here.      

    ellauri112.html on line 901: First, on the next page of this web site, we will study a few Bible passages concerning the public worship of God in general. We do so for simple reasons. “All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work” (2 Timothy 3:16-17, NKJV). Worship is a “good work,” but we are not to lean on our own understanding (Proverbs 3:5).  Only the Bible can teach us how to worship God in a manner that pleases Him. All our worship, including our observance of the Lord’s Supper, ought to rest on a biblical foundation.

    ellauri112.html on line 903: Second, we will devote two pages to the Bible passages that concern the cup in the Lord’s Supper. One page will consider the passages in Matthew, Mark, and Luke. On this page, we will study Jesus’s words, “the fruit of the vine,” in their original context, and we will also learn how these words were used in the Passover meal before and during the time Jesus spoke them. The other page will consider the two relevant passages in I Corinthians, and what they teach us about the contents of the cup. Rather than grow our discussion beyond all bounds, we will limit ourselves to what the Bible says about the contents of the communion cup.

    ellauri112.html on line 909: Fifth, we will cite the statements of confessions, churches and prominent men, always remembering that such human opinions are not equal to Holy Scripture, but can sometimes shed light on the meaning of Holy Scripture. We will seek to imitate the Bereans of Acts 17:11, who sought to examine what they had heard from even the best of God’s teachers in the light of the word of God. We will adopt what is biblical and profitable, and reject whatever is not. 

    ellauri115.html on line 486:  Samuel Clarke (1675–1729) was the most influential British metaphysician and theologian in the generation between Locke and Berkeley, and only Shaftesbury rivals him in ethics. In all three areas he was very critical of Hobbes, Spinoza, and Toland. Deeply influenced by Newton, Clarke was critical of Descartes’ metaphysics of space and body because of the experimental evidence for Newtonianian doctrines of space, the vacuum, atoms, and attraction and because he believed Descartes’ identifying body with extension and removing final causes from nature had furthered irreligion and had naturally developed into Spinozism.

    ellauri115.html on line 488: Clarke sided with Locke and Newton against Descartes in denying that we have knowledge of the essence of substances, even though we can be sure that there are at least two kinds of substances (mental and material) because their properties (thinking and divisibility) are incompatible. He defended natural religion against the naturalist view that nature constitutes a self-sufficient system and defended revealed religion against deism. Clarke adopted Newton’s natural philosophy early on. Through his association with Newton, Clarke was the de facto spokesperson for Newtonianism in the first half the eighteenth century, not only explaining the natural science but also providing a metaphysical support and theological interpretation for it.      

    ellauri115.html on line 506: Se että näkee 2 aisaa yhtä aikaa ei ole sama kuin nähdä niiden suhteita tai tuomita niiden eroja; useiden esineiden havaizeminen peräperää ei ole niiden vertaamista. Mulla voi olla samalla kertaa idea isosta tikusta ja pienestä tikusta ilman että vertaan niitä, tuomizematta että toinen on väpelömpi kuin toinen, kuten voin nähdä koko käden laskematta sormia. [Alaviite M. de le Cordamines’ narratives kertoo ihmisistä jotka osaa laskea vain kolmeen. Kuiteskin tämän kansan miehillä on viisi sormea kuin nippu kyrpiä mutta osaavat laskea vaan kolme niistä.] Tämmöiset vertailuideat, äisompi', 'pienempi', kuten numeroideat kuten 'yxi', 'kaxi', jne, eivät ole aistimuxia, vaikka mun mieli tuottaa niitä vaan kun mulla on sensaatioita.

    ellauri115.html on line 653: Huomaatte: tää termi ‘substanssi’ mulla tarkoittaa sitä millä on jotain alkeellisia laatusanoja, ilman erikoisia ja toissijaisia virityxiä. Jos sit kaikki meidän tuntemat alkeelliset laatusanat voi olla samalla otuxella, riittää vaan 1 substanssi; mut jos on keskenään poissulkevia laatusanoja, niin tarvitaan niin monta substanssia kun on disjointteja luokkia. Saat miettiä tätä vähän; mun puolesta, mitä Locke ikinä sanookin, mulle riittää että aineella on vaan koko ja jaollisuus, niin mä oon vakuuttunut, että se ei voi ajatella, ja jos joku filosofi väittää että puut tuntee ja kivet ajattelee [Jalkahuomautus: Musta näyttää että moderni filosofia on kaukana siitä että kivet ajattelevat, ne on havainneet että miehet ei ajattele. Onkohan vika mussa vai? No ei, ne ei vaan huomaa luonossa muuta kuin sensitiivisiä olentoja; ja ainut ero jonka ne löytää miehen ja kiven välillä on että miehellä on niitä 2, ei vaitiskaan läppä läppä, vaan että mies on herkkä olento joka kokee sensaatioita, ja kivi on herkkä olento joka ei koe sensaatioita. Mutta jos on totta että kaikki aine tuntee, mistä löytyy tää herkkä yxikkö, mun individi ego? Onxe jokaisessa aineen mölekyylissä, vai ruumiissa jotka on mölekyylien aggregaatteja? Paanxmä tän yxeyden nesteisiin ja kiinteisiin, yhdisteisiin ja alkuaineisiin? Sä sanot että luonto koostuu yxilöistä. Mut mitä nää yxilöt sit on? Onx toi kivi tossa yxilö vai aggregaatti yksilöitä? Jos jokainen alkeellinen atomi on herkkä olento, miten mä voin käsittää sen intiimin viestinnän joka tapahtuu kun toinen apina on toisen sisällä, niin että niiden 2 egoa on sekoittuneet yhdexi? Puoleensaveto voi olla luonnonlaki jonka mysteeri on meille tuntematon; mut ainakin me tajutaan että vetovoima joka riippuu massasta ei sodi kokoa ja jaollisuutta vastaan. Voitko ajatella sensaatiota smalla tavalla? Sensitiivisillä ruumiinosilla on toki koko, jopa vaihteleva [mulla se on aika vähäinen], mutta sensitiivinen olento on 1 ja jakamaton; sitä ei voi panna kahtia, se on kokonainen tai ei mitään; sentakia herkkä olento ei ole aineellinen kappale. Mä en tiedä miten meidän materialistit ymmärtävät sen, mutta musta näyttää että samat hankaluudet jotka sai ne heittämää yli laidan ajattelun, nyt saa ne hylkäämään tunteilun; ja mä en näe mitään syytä, kun kerran eka askel on otettu, ne ei vois ottaa toistakin; mitä se niille enää maxaa?  Koska ne on varmoja ettei ne ajattele, miten ne kehtaa väittää että ne tunteilevat? Turhaan se yrittää sekottaa mua ovelilla argumenteilla; mä pidän sitä vaan epärehellisenä sofistina, joka mieluummin sanoo että kivillä on tunteita kun että miehillä on sielua. [Olipa siinä kasa kökköä ajattelua, jos sitä sillä nimellä voi kuzua; pikemminkin tarkotushakuista tunteilua.]

    ellauri115.html on line 962: Kun d’Alembert syytti Geneven pastoreita sosinianismista. Rousseau piti niiden puolta. “Socinianism was a Christian sect closely allied with the development of Unitarianism. It took its name from its founder, Fausto Sozino, an Italian of the sixteenth century who lived in Poland for a long time, where his movement had great strength. It was popular throughout Europe and was accepted by many Protestant churches. Socinianism was anti-trinitarian and held that reason is the sole and final authority in the interpretation of the scripture. It further denied eternal punishments. Calvin had condemned the doctrine, so that the imputation in d’Alembert’s article was both a daring interpretation of the doctrine of Geneva’s pastors and one which was likely to be dangerous for them.” Allan Bloom, Politics and the Arts (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1960) 150. (back)

    ellauri115.html on line 1170: A: The answer to this is very simple. Utilitarianism is concerned only with the volume of pleasure and pain, and Nietzsche says in so many words that as soon as you even enter into this kind of thinking, you are already deep into the territory of nihilism. It is passive; concerned with maintenance, not construction; aloof or indifferent to meaning, something to justify the effort in the first place, even when it is successful, let alone when it isn’t. It is the staid, kindly, sober—not to say, the British—version of the same imbecilic nihilism that was prevailing on the continent in the same era. Mill did not understand the difference between pleasure and (actual) happiness, between pain and suffering, between real (spiritual) slavery and freedom.

    ellauri117.html on line 49: Ce recueil de réflexions et d’observations, sans ordre et presque sans suite, fut commencé pour complaire à une bonne mère qui sait penser. Je n’avais d’abord projeté qu’un mémoire de quelques pages; mon sujet m’entraînant malgré moi, ce mémoire devint insensiblement une espèce d’ouvrage trop gros, sans doute, pour ce qu’il contient, mais trop petit pour la matière qu’il traite. J’ai balancé longtemps à le publier; et souvent il m’a fait sentir, en y travaillant, qu’il ne suffit pas d’avoir écrit quelques brochures pour savoir composer un livre. Après de vains efforts pour mieux faire, je crois devoir le donner tel qu’il est, jugeant qu’il importe de tourner l’attention publique de ce côté-là; et que, quand mes idées seraient mauvaises, si j’en fais naître de bonnes à d’autres, je n’aurai pastout à fait perdu mon temps. Un homme qui, de sa retraite, jette ses feuilles dans le public, sans prôneurs, sans parti qui les défende, sans savoir même ce qu’on en pense ou ce qu’on en dit, ne doit pas craindre que, s’il se trompe, on admette ses erreurs sans examen.

    ellauri117.html on line 383: At some point, idly add up total word count for every story summary, character description, cinematic scene, level script, multiplayer script, and collectible script you have written over previous two and half years. Plunge face into hands when word-count total surpasses that of every book you’ve published combined.

    ellauri117.html on line 385: Find yourself passionately arguing with another human adult why a monster’s rocket launcher should be gold rather than black.

    ellauri117.html on line 386: Calmly nod while game director explains to you why scene that explains game’s story has been cut. Also why player’s companion character is no longer a woman but a robot.

    ellauri117.html on line 393: Discover management team feels no impetus to “finalize deal” because they know big-name director will never actually commit to said television project. What big-name director’s attachment gets you is meetings with big-name producers.

    ellauri117.html on line 402: Fitzgerald syntyi keskiluokkaiseen roomalaiskatoliseen perheeseen. Hänet kastettiin pikkuserkkunsa Francis Scott Keyn ja kuolleen sisarensa Louisa Scottin mukaan. Perhe asui vuodet 1898–1901 Syracusessa ja vuodet 1903–1908 Buffalossa New Yorkissa, missä hän aloitti koulunkäynnin Nardin Academyssa. Fitzgeraldin isän saatua potkut Procter & Gamblelta, perhe muutti takaisin Minnesotaan, missä Fitzgerald opiskeli St. Paul's Academyssa. Fitzgerald sai potkut St. Paul’sista 16-vuotiaana opintojen laiminlyömisen vuoksi.

    ellauri117.html on line 413: Elämäntyylinsä ja Zeldan lääkärikulujen vuoksi Fitzgerald oli jatkuvasti rahapulassa ja lainasi usein rahaa agentiltaan Harold Oberilta ja Scribner’sin kustannustoimittajalta Maxwell Perkinsiltä. Kun Ober päätti lopettaa Fitzgeraldin auttamisen, kirjailija katkaisi välinsä tähän pitkäaikaiseen ystäväänsä. Novellinsa "Financing Finnegan" välityksellä Fitzgerald kuitenkin pyysi häneltä ystävällisesti anteeksi. Ober ei antanut.

    ellauri117.html on line 559:   The Liver body type is governed by the body’s inability to process an overconsumption of alcohol or processed foods. The Liver body type is characterized most significantly as someone who has a “beer belly,” or who stores all of their weight in their front midsection. The weight will be disproportionate to the rest of their body, and distend out far beyond the rest of their frame.

    ellauri117.html on line 608:     Maxa-Shaftesburyn (1621-1683) pojanpoika, 3. Earl of Shaftesbury (1671—1713) oli mieltä että: Hobbes had set the agenda of British moral philosophy (a search for the grounding of universal moral principles), and Locke had established its method (empiricism).  Shaftesbury’s important contribution was to focus that agenda by showing what a satisfactory response to Hobbes might look like but without giving up too much of Locke’s method.  Shaftesbury showed the British moralists that if we think of moral goodness as analogous to beauty, then (even within a broadly empiricist framework) it is still possible for moral goodness to be non-arbitrarily grounded in objective features of the world and for the moral agent to be attracted to virtue for its own sake, not merely out of self-interest. In Shaftesbury’s aesthetic language, the state of having the morally correct motives is the state of being “morally beautiful,” and the state of approving the morally correct motives upon reflection is the state of having “good moral taste.” Shaftesbury argues that the morally correct motives which constitute moral beauty turn out to be those motives which are aimed at the good of one’s society as a whole.  This good is understood teleologically.  Furthermore Shaftesbury argues that both the ability to know the good of one’s society and the reflective approval of the motivation toward this good are innate capacities which must nevertheless be developed by proper socialization.

    ellauri117.html on line 610:     John Locke (1632-1704) was a close friend of the First Earl and an advisor to the family for years to come after the First Earl’s death.  Locke was the personal physician and general advisor to the First Earl.  He supervised the childhood medical care of Shaftesbury’s father, the degenerate Second Earl (1652-1699). He also helped find a wife for the Second Earl and he cared for her during  her pregnancy  with the Third Earl.  Most significantly for our purposes, Locke supervised the Third Earl’s education.  He personally chose Shaftesbury’s governess Elizabeth Birch and designed a curriculum for her to follow in her instruction of the child.  This experience was, presumably, the basis for Locke’s later work Thoughts Concerning Education.  Under Birch’s tutelage, Shaftesbury received a strong education in the Classics and became fluent in Greek and Latin by the age of eleven.  Locke continued to check on Shaftesbury’s progress over the years. Locke served as a primary advisor to the young Shaftesbury, though Shaftesbury did not always follow Locke’s advice.  Shaftesbury had many "philosophical" conversations with Locke, some of which are preserved in correspondence. "Mautonta!" huusi 3. Shaftersburyn Jaarli vähän väliä. 

    ellauri117.html on line 661: There are always things that might suggest Mr. Locke was gay, such as his being a lifetime bachelor, having no children, and having a life that was surrounded by philosophical men, there is nothing that would give substance to said rumor. You might want to read Locke’s Fundamental Constitution of the Carolinas (1669) which was co-authored by The First Earl of Shaftesbury. It is rather draconian and clearly deviates from the principles of Locke’s more famous two Treatises. It is a matter of scholarly debate just how much Locke contributed to the positions on slavery in this document. Locke was also a good counter-voice to Rousseau in terms of perhaps a more individualistic bent, whereas Rousseau’s philosophy was more collectivist. I think if you look to the Preamble to the US Constitution you can see the influence of both, although the Bill of Rights has a much more individualist orientation.

    ellauri117.html on line 665:   John Locke was born on the 29th of August, 1632. He is famous for being a Philosopher. He and Sir Francis Bacon were among the first British empiricists and had a huge impact on social contract theory. John Locke’s age is 388. English philosopher and doctor commonly referred to as “The Father of Liberalism.” He was one of the Enlightenment Age’s most influential thinkers. His ideas heavily influenced the writing of the Declaration of Independence.

    ellauri117.html on line 668: Countdown to John’s next birthday: John Locke is a Virgo and his 389th birthday is in 244 days.

    ellauri117.html on line 672: John’s Education details are not available at this time. Please check back soon for updates. John Locke’s mother’s name is unknown at this time and his father’s name is under review. We will continue to update information on John Locke’s parents. Associated with: Dario Sztajnszrajber, Philosopher. Camilo Prieto, Philosopher. Helio Couto, Philosopher.

    ellauri117.html on line 687: The 388-year-old Not available philosopher has done well thus far. Majority of John’s money comes from being a philosopher. CelebsMoney has recently updated John Locke’s net worth.

    ellauri117.html on line 694: John Locke’s birth sign is Virgo and he has a ruling planet of Mercury.

    ellauri118.html on line 397: Pierre Ambroise François Choderlos de Laclos [ʃɔdɛʁlo də laklo] (18. lokakuuta 1741 Amiens, Ranska – 5. syyskuuta 1803 Taranto, Italia) oli ranskalainen upseeri, liikemies, diplomaatti ja kirjailija. Hänet tunnetaan erityisesti kirjeromaanistaan Vaarallisia suhteita (alkuteos Les liaisons dangereuses), joka ilmestyi vuonna 1782. Hän julkaisi myös runokokoelman, sovitti Madame Riccobonin romaanin Histoire d’Ernestine oopperalibretoksi sekä julkaisi yhteiskunnallisen tutkielman naisten kouluttamisesta. Taas yx tällänen Fenelon. 

    ellauri118.html on line 410: 	1Aviorikos kirjallisena topoksena on ollut useankin tutkimuksen aiheena, mutta ei yhdenkään narratologisen tutkimuksen. Edelleen painavin kirjallisuustieteellinen esitys aiheesta on Tony Tannerin ambivalentin psykoanalyyttis-strukturalistinen Adultery in  the Novel (1979), joka lähestyy aviorikosta sekä yhteiskunnallisena että kirjallis-kielellisenä transgressiona. Viittaan Tannerin tutkimukseen Rouva Bovarya käsittelevässä luvussa. Muut laajemmat esitykset kirjallisesta aviorikoksesta ovat tekstianalyyttisesti merkityksettömämpiä: Bill Overtonin Fictions of Female Adultery (2002) keskittyy aviorikoskirjallisuuden historiallisiin ja kulttuurisiin reunaehtoihin sekä soimaa aiempaa tutkimusta (lähinnä Tanneria) liiasta kieli- ja kerrontakeskeisyydestä; Patricia Mainardin Husbands, Wives, and Lovers (2003) on kulttuurihistoriallinen esitys aviorikoksesta taiteessa ja Overtonin tutkimusta rikkaampi  esitys  esimerkiksi  aviorikoksen  lainsäädännöllisistä  ja  kulttuurisista kytköksistä; niin ikään Judith Armstrongin The Novel of Adultery (1976), Naomi Segalin The Adulteress’s Child (1992) ja Maria R. Ripponin Judgement and Justification in the Nineteenth-Century Novel of Adultery (2002) sivuuttavat kerronnan kysymykset ja keskittyvät kulttuuris-poliittiseen kontekstiin ja pelkästään referentiaalisen tason temaattiseen toistoon (kuten siihen että aviorikoksesta syntyvä lapsi on mitä todennäköisimmin tyttö). Oma lukunsa ovat vielä tiettyihin aikakausiin ja kielialueisiin (esimerkiksi ranskalaiseen hoviromantiikkaan) keskittyvät tutkimukset. Näistä maininnan arvoinen on ainakin Donald J. Greinerin Adultery in the American Novel (1985), vertaileva tutkimus Updiken, Hawthornen ja Jamesin avionrikkojista.  Kulttuuri-  ja  myyttihistoriallinen  klassikko,  Denis  de  Rougemontin L’Amour et l’Occident (1939) on myös tutkimus uskottomuusfiktioista (Tristanin ja Isolden perillisistä), sillä Rougemontilla juuri aviorikos on länsimaisen ”rakkauden rakastamisen” huipentuma, transgressiivinen olotila joka katoaa, jos siitä tehdään instituutio. Käsitys uskottomuudesta kulttuurisena rajailmiönä ja juuri siitä syystä kertomustaiteen pulppuavana lähteenä yhdistää siis Rougemontia ja Tanneria, mutta jostain syystä Tanner ei viittaa Rougemontin teokseen. Mixihän? [Heitän tähän heti sen edellä mainitun oivalluxen, että romantiikka on sitä kun panettaa muttei pääse pukille.]

    ellauri118.html on line 440:       Rimmon-Kenan (1985, 404) esittää klassisesssa artikkelissaan ”Qu’est-ce qu’un thème?”, että teema voidaan konstruoida kaunokirjallisen tekstin yhteisen rakenteellisen nimittäjän homologiaksi. Mitä vittua? Tää meni taas yli hilseen niin että tukka heilahti. Toisin sanoen teema olisi siis tulkinnallinen heijastus tekstin toistuvista rakenteellisista periaatteista. No ei toi nyt paljon auttanut.

    ellauri118.html on line 585: Paizi että kaikki ne lopultakin latistuvat narsistisen kirjailijan omaelämäkerraxi. Jota sulattelee narsistinen lukija oman bionsa ainexixi. Toisin sanoen: Emma Bovary, c’est moi, la lectrice. Kirjallinen mieli löytää kaunokirjasta aina oman naamansa lammen pinnasta.

    ellauri118.html on line 593: Une femme qui s’était imposé de si grands sacrifices pouvait bien se passer des fantaisies. (MB, 217)

    ellauri118.html on line 803: Yhtä paljon huomiota eivät herättäneet hänen kaksi viimeistä romaaniaan Almahide, ou l´esclave reine (8 osaa, 1660) ja Mathilde d’Aguilar, histoire espagnole (1667). Kaikki kertomukset ovat avainromaaneja, jotka historian puettuna kuvaavat Ranskan hovin elämää ja tapoja ja joista vieraiden nimien alta löytyy useita ajankohdan tunnetuimpia henkilöitä, kuten Condé (Cyrus), Longuevillen herttuatar (Mandane), Ruotsin kuningatar Kristina (Cleobuline) ja kirjailijatar itse (Sapho).

    ellauri118.html on line 811: Résumé: L’histoire se déroule dans un cadre spatio-temporel historique, entre les mois d´octobre 1558 et de novembre 1559, à la cour du roi Henri II, puis de son successeur François II.

    ellauri118.html on line 822:       Il meurt accidentellement à l´âge de quarante ans : le 30 juin 1559, lors d’un tournoi tenu rue Saint-Antoine à Paris (devant l´ancien hôtel des Tournelles), il est blessé d´un éclat de lance dans l´ œil par Gabriel de Montgommery, capitaine de sa garde écossaise. Il en meurt dix jours plus tard.

    ellauri118.html on line 826:       Roman fondateur, La Princesse de Clèves est évoqué comme l’un des modèles littéraires ayant inspiré Balzac, Raymond Radiguet ou même Jean Cocteau. Pas Marcel Proust, qui etait inspiré par Madame de Sevigné.

    ellauri118.html on line 1125: This passage is from the beginning of the poem "Half-Hanging Mary" by Margaret Atwood. Poverty and neglect did not improve Mary’s fiery temper, and she spoke harshly when offended, wrote Sylvester Judd in his 1905 History of Hadley. Witches supposedly suckled their ‘imps’ or ‘familiars’ — maybe even the devil — in exchange for help with their magic.

    ellauri118.html on line 1126: Local farmers claim that their cart horses sometimes refuse to go past Webster’s home, which is on one of the main roads. But, if the man goes inside and beats Mary, then the horse will go past. “So, the idea developed that her supernatural powers could be stopped if they somehow physically assaulted her,” Marshall says.

    ellauri118.html on line 1129: Men like Philip Smith, good Christian men, are being killed by witches, quite literally,’” Marshall says.

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    Where Are All The Fat Women In The Handmaid’s Tale?
    

    ellauri118.html on line 1149: The failure to include obese body types in the television adaptation was a major oversight.  The Handmaid’s Tale should have done better by fat women.

    ellauri119.html on line 328: The Shema Hebrewשמע ישראל ה׳ אלוהנו ה׳ אחד Common transliterationSh’ma Yisrael Adonai Eloheinu Adonai Echad EnglishHear, O Israel! The Lord is our God! The Lord is One!

    ellauri119.html on line 355: Filioque on latinaa ja tarkoittaa ’ja Pojasta’. Filioque-lisäys ja siitä seurannut Filioque-kiista liittyy idän ja lännen kirkkojen väliseen erimielisyyteen Nikaian uskontunnustuksen tekstistä. Tunnustuksen kolmas kappale, joka käsittelee Pyhää Henkeä, kuului alun perin ”Et in Spiritum Sanctum, Dominum et vivificantem, qui ex Patre procedit” (suom. Ja Pyhään Henkeen, Herraan ja eläväksi tekijään, joka lähtee Isästä). Myöhemmin lännen kirkkojen piirissä tuli tavaksi lisätä lauseeseen sana Filioque (”Et in Spiritum Sanctum, Dominum et vivificantem, qui ex Patre Filioque procedit” (suom. Ja Pyhään Henkeen, Herraan ja eläväksi tekijään, joka lähtee Isästä ja Pojasta).

    ellauri119.html on line 646: Rosenbaum left Russia at the tail end of the Trust program. She was assisted by bolshevik Hollywood. Like a typical crypto-jew and communist she used a pseudonym. She became, together with Leo Strauss, a leading philosopher of the Trotskyites. She, like Strauss, helped create the philosophy of arrogance and entitlement that justifies the lies of government leaders to the people. Her philosophies misrepresent the realities of how wealth and psychopathic greed coupled with immorality destroys civilization. Her solution to class warfare is group disloyalty of the rich to society and the exploitation of the national resources by a privileged class to destroy the economy and sabotage the nation. She misrepresented American tradition in a way that benefitted our enemies and internationalized our national resources leaving them easy pickings for the exploitation of unregulated international markets. She advocated the ruinous gold standard which allows our enemies the opportunity to deflate our money supply and strangle the economy at their whim. By simply hoarding gold and/or sending it out of the nation the bankers can ruin us under a gold standard. Her philosophy falsely claims that the market can and will correct the actions of the enemy within to ruin the nation by their designs. She wanted to grant the enemy the right to act with impunity and free rein as a Trojan horse within America to completely destroy our nation, and she has nearly succeeded. The removal of the ability of government to impose with force the collective will of the nation inevitably leads to balkanization, and that was well known and desired by our bolshevik enemies, Rosenbaum’s masters. She never pointed out the name and the nature of the enemy, instead scapegoating the poor and the communists for what international jewry was doing, with her as one of its leading members. As far as I know, she NEVER addressed the existential danger of jewish messianic prophecy and the subversion of the American government by Israel. Being herself a jew, she was disloyal to America in favor of Israel. She was disloyal to the American majority population in favor of the banking class. She did absolutely nothing that was ever in any way harmful to the communists or the bankers, who have so harmed America.

    ellauri119.html on line 650: I have studied Objectivism for 25 yrs, reading Ayn Rand’s fiction and non-fiction. I’ve further read and listened to lectures by some of those who carry on her tradition (some of which you can find here for free: ARI Campus).

    ellauri119.html on line 652: There are two main reasons I continue to study her ideas. First, everytime I’ve investigated a claim she has made, it turned out to be correct. Second, philosophy is the science that teaches man how live his life and make choices. No other philosophy does this.

    ellauri119.html on line 666: Most ethical values boil down to others. Your moral standing is to be judged based on what you contribute to others, what you do for others. Do you volunteer at a soup kitchen? If you answer yes then you get a gold star. But you can always do more, can’t you? Tutor a child at the local school. Give money to a charity. With each contribution you gain moral points.

    ellauri119.html on line 696:   Rand once said, “As an advocate of reason, egoism and capitalism, I seek to reach the men of the intellect.” Clearly, my exposition wasn’t meant for you dear, nor for your retard hubby.

    ellauri119.html on line 698:   The implication being that that anyone who disagrees with you is not a “man of the intellect”? That’s just a shitty religion-variety argument. “You can’t feel God because you don’t have enough faith.”

    ellauri119.html on line 700:   Rand is a economic libertarian who thought selfishness is a virtue. Rational people simply reject Rand’s economic libertarianism because rational people understand that laissez-faire capitalism results in the concentration of wealth in the hands of those who are good at being selfish.

    ellauri119.html on line 708: Rand’s philosophy appeals to college sophomores drinking beer in their dorm rooms. And to The World´s Shittiest Teddy Bear. That is why the best description of Rand’s philosophy is that it is sophomoric.

    ellauri119.html on line 714: Your claims against Ayn Rand don’t stand up to scrutiny, though. She never advocated Social Darwinism, either explicitly or implicitly. In my readings, I have read quotes where she damned a CEO who uses only a tenth of his ability and praised a janitor who strive to improve himself.

    ellauri119.html on line 716: Atlas Shrugged offers several examples that also refute this common misconception. The villains in this novel are businessmen who try to succeed through political pull. While they are businessmen, supposedly Ayn Rand’s ideal person, she does not paint them in a flattering light. She demonstrates how evil they are and how their political maneuvering always leads to their failure.

    ellauri119.html on line 720: In a different scene, Hank Rearden helps a small manufacturer, a guy Rand describes as respectable but no master of industry. Rearden could have refused to help or charged him an exorbitant amount for the favor. But he didn’t. Again, this portrayal of a wealthy industrialist doesn’t fit your contention that Rand advocated a dog-eat-dog Social Darwinism.

    ellauri119.html on line 728: Rand’s philosophy of selfishness is a virtue only works if you apply Social Darwinist ideas to justify a free market where the people with the most money are simply very good at being selfish.

    ellauri119.html on line 734: You don’t get it. Unregulated capitalism is a dog-eat-dog world. The way to end this is to either regulate capitalism to create justice in society or to follow Marx and have a violent revolution to overthrow capitalism. I suggest the former, not the latter.

    ellauri119.html on line 744: This is nonsense. Alan Greenspan testified before Congress after the economic meltdown in 2008. He was asked why the invisible hand of the market did not prevent the irrational greed on Wall Street that caused the housing bubble. Greenspan said that there must be a flaw in the the theory (the invisible hand of the market produces the best outcomes). There is also a flaw in Rand’s philosophy.

    ellauri119.html on line 746: Dagny saved a bum from being thrown off from her OWN train. She is responsible for policies and rules of her own train, which her employees follow word for word. She’s basically saving a bum from herself. Also, if she were to act as her philosophy dictates, then it would be in her self-interest to throw the bum of her train. By saving the bum, she’s a hypocrite of her own philosophy.

    ellauri119.html on line 752: (It’s ironic that she called herself an objectivist. Also, watch some of her interviews. She got really triggered when someone criticized her.)

    ellauri119.html on line 775: Asked what she thought of Reagan, Ayn Rand replied, “I don’t think of him. And the more I see, the less I think of him.” For Rand, “the appalling part of his administration was his connection with the so-called ‘Moral Majority’ and sundry other TV religionists, who are struggling, apparently with his approval, to take us back to the Middle Ages via the unconstitutional union of religion and politics.” Rand’s primary concern, it seems, is that this “unconstitutional union” represented a “threat to capitalism.” While she admired Reagan’s appeal to an “inspirational element” in American politics, “he will not find it,” remarked Rand, “in the God, family, tradition swamp.” Instead, she proclaims, we should be inspired by “the most typical American group… the businessmen.”

    ellauri131.html on line 88: Vaikka saksalaiset sotilaat kohtelivat itsekin venäläisväestöä raa’asti, he eivät suvainneet inkeriläispataljoonan tiettyjen sotilaiden omavaltaista kostotoimintaa.

    ellauri131.html on line 531: Manifestointi räjähti länsimaisen yleisön tietouteen juuri australialaisen tv-tuottajan ja kirjailijan Rhonda Byrnen myötä. Kun Salaisuus-niminen teos ilmestyi vuonna 2006, amerikkalainen Oprah Winfrey esitteli sen supersuositussa talk show’ssaan, joka on ollut lukemattomille kirjoille takuuvarma tie huippumyynteihin. Miljardööri Winfrey on itsekin kertonut uskovansa manifestointiin.

    ellauri131.html on line 752:   Gallagher on kirjoittanut suurimman osan Oasiksen tuotannosta. Tunnetuimpia hänen säveltämiään Oasis-kappaleita ovat muun muassa ”Live Forever”, ”Wonderwall” ja ”Don’t Look Back in Anger”. Näistä en ole kuullut yhtäkään.  Hänen kirjoittamansa kappaleet ovat keränneet paljon arvostusta sekä yleisön että kriitikoiden keskuudessa, ja Gallagherin on muun muassa sanottu olevan ”oman sukupolvensa paras lauluntekijä.” Gallagher soitti Oasiksen kitaristina vuoteen 2009, jolloin erosi yhtyeestä.

    ellauri131.html on line 842:   Her video is from https://www.watchagtv.com/  a new Christian streaming television, movie, and documentary station, and was filmed at Pastor Alistair Begg’s office. To listen to Pastor Begg’s sermons, please visit https://www.truthforlife.org/. You can download the free Truth for Life app and the American Gospel TV (AGTV) app to watch on your mobile devices. Ilmeisesti Begg on vielä Doreenia taitavampi sumuttaja, kun pystyi viemään Doreenilta virtuen.

    ellauri131.html on line 859: Quick question: has anyone actually read a self-help book since the turn of the millennium? No, I don’t mean Marie Kondo. I mean those ones that Bridget Jones devoured, sitting on the sofa knowing that she was going to continue to make the same bad decisions over and over, whilst gorging on too much ice cream.

    ellauri131.html on line 863: I think that is because, over the past decade or so, people have become far more aware of the concept of privilege. Which roughly translates to: “no I don’t want to read about all the problems a middle-class straight, white women with a good job has, no thank you”. It feels whiny, flat, tone-deaf. Marianne Power chases self-help like the world is falling apart and her life is in tatters, but the main source of her problems?

    ellauri131.html on line 883: I’ve read quite a few books where the author picks a ‘project’ and runs with it to see what happens. These sorts of books have often been fun and entertaining. This one had the potential for that with some of the advice and activities these books encouraged the author to participate in. But she executed them with such seriousness that that they became cringeworthy to read about.

    ellauri131.html on line 1069: Chant d’automne

    ellauri131.html on line 1076: J’entends déjà tomber avec des chocs funèbres		Kuulen jo kumahtavan haudantakaisella äänellä

    ellauri131.html on line 1078: Tout l’hiver va rentrer dans mon être : colère,		Talvi kaikkineen tunkeutuu mun sisälle:

    ellauri131.html on line 1081: Mon coeur ne sera plus qu’un bloc rouge et glacé.	Mun sydän on kuin punainen jäzkipallero.

    ellauri131.html on line 1082: J’écoute en frémissant chaque bûche qui tombe ;		Mä kuulen vapisten jokaisen puupään putoovan;

    ellauri131.html on line 1083: L’échafaud qu’on bâtit n’a pas d’écho plus sourd.	Mestauslava ei kalahda noin ontosti.

    ellauri131.html on line 1087: Qu’on cloue en grande hâte un cercueil quelque part.	Kuin kaivettaisiin jossain hautaa kiireellä.

    ellauri131.html on line 1088: Pour qui ? – C’était hier l’été ; voici l’automne !	Kenelle? Eilen tässä oli kesä; syxy nyt!

    ellauri131.html on line 1093: J’aime de vos longs yeux la lumière verdâtre,		Mä rakastan sun pitkulaisten silmien

    ellauri131.html on line 1094: Douce beauté, mais tout aujourd’hui m’est amer,		näyttämää vihreetä valoa, mut tänään olen katkera,

    ellauri131.html on line 1095: Et rien, ni votre amour, ni le boudoir, ni l’âtre,	Ei mikään, ei sun lempi eikä vuode eikä lämmitin,

    ellauri131.html on line 1100: D’un glorieux automne ou d’un soleil couchant.		ole mulle hetken aikaa hän, tai siis

    ellauri131.html on line 1105: Goûter, en regrettant l’été blanc et torride,		Mun maistella kaipaillen kuumaa kesäoloa,

    ellauri131.html on line 1106: De l’arrière-saison le rayon jaune et doux !		Intiaanijäzkikesän viime sulosäteitä!

    ellauri132.html on line 85: Samaan päätyi Freud, ja sitä ennen Jehovan seuraajat. Jehovan eka nimi oli "Minä mikä minä",   ’eheyeh ’asher ’eheyeh. Mut Töölön innovaatio oli et vaan toinen niistä on oikea. Two men say they're Jesus one of them must be wrong. No voihan molemmatkin olla väärässä. Ja kumpika se sitten olisi? Kai se superego sieltä on hiljennettävä? Ei komento takasin egohan se onkin pahis. Ego vittuun niet jää vaan id.

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    ellauri132.html on line 189:       Siis mä näytän teille oikeet kynäilyvinkit ammattilaisilta, ml Stephen King, William Goldman, Pixar’s Emma Coats, Kurt Vonnegut, Joss Whedon, Neil Gaiman, and George Orwell. Alkuperäiset säännöt ja kaavio löytyy mun "Kynäilijöille" Pinterest-taululta.

    ellauri132.html on line 193:     THE YEAR WAS 2081, and everybody was finally equal. They weren’t only equal before God and the law. They were equal every which way. Nobody was smarter than anybody else. Nobody was better looking than anybody else. Nobody was stronger or quicker than anybody else. All this equality was due to the 211th, 212th, and 213th Amendments to the Constitution, and to the unceasing vigilance of agents of the United States Handicapper General.

    ellauri132.html on line 195:     Some things about living still weren’t quite right, though. April for instance, still drove people crazy by not being springtime. And it was in that clammy month that the H-G men took George and Hazel Bergeron’s fourteen year-old son, Harrison, away.

    ellauri132.html on line 197:     It was tragic, all right, but George and Hazel couldn’t think about it very hard. Hazel had a perfectly average intelligence, which meant she couldn’t think about anything except in short bursts. And George, while his intelligence was way above normal, had a little mental handicap radio in his ear. He was required by law to wear it at all times. It was tuned to a government transmitter. Every twenty seconds or so, the transmitter would send out some sharp noise to keep people like George from taking unfair advantage of their brains.

    ellauri132.html on line 221: But in a telephone interview Wednesday, Vonnegut told the Journal-World that the students’ attorneys may have misinterpreted his story.

    ellauri132.html on line 223: “It’s about intelligence and talent, and wealth is not a demonstration of either one,” said Vonnegut, 82, of New York. He said he wouldn’t want schoolchildren deprived of a quality education because they were poor.

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    ellauri132.html on line 396:   ‘Tahdon sulta nyt-’ hän murisi ennenkuin hän pakotti hiänet selälleen. Vaikka hiän halus vastustaa, hiän ei kyennyt. Kun hän koski hiäntä, kaikki izetunto jätti hiänet ja hiän muovaantui just niinkun hän halusi. Tällä kertaa, hän nosti ylös hiänen lonkat pakaroiden ja yläreiden välisestä vaosta. Levittäen hiänen polvet lonkkiensa ympärille… Tekeillä oli ilmeisesti lähetyssaarnaaja-asento.

    ellauri133.html on line 170: “‘Sä voisit juosta,’ se sanoi. Se katkas paxun kuusenoxan. En ollut ennen nähnyt tollasta.

    ellauri133.html on line 359: His brother George was murdered by It in the first pages of the book and his parents are very cold to him afterward. He has a stutter, which is important to the plot a few times. As an adult, he’s a successful horror novelist and is married to an actress named Audra. IT is not a work of fiction and Stephen King is actually "Stuttering Bill" Denbrough. In reality Steve was born in Portland, Maine and moved away when he was young with his Mother and older brother after abandonment by his father and witnessing a fatal train accident of a play friend. He returned at age 11 to Maine from Conn. and founded The Losers Club in Derry after unsuppressing the true death of his little friend by the railway tracks when he was 2 (as told in his 1981 book Danse Macabre). Now living inbetween Lovell and Bangor, King travels regularly past Derry near Derry Mountain in Linconville and can recollect most of the past due to the closer proximity and is preparing for Pennywises awakening in 2038.     Lähde: FanTheory. - Does anyone think Bill Denborough´s stutter was a bit too much? That each word was stirred too much to have a nice flow? - B-b-b-beep - beep, Ruh-ruh-Richie. B-big Bill is puh-puh-PERFECT!

    ellauri133.html on line 364: Stephen King’s novel It, first published in 1986, is known for its whopping page count and multigenerational horror saga. In 2017, buzz around It spiked again due to director Andy Muschietti´s big-screen adaptation of the novel. The film, which went on to become the highest-grossing horror movie ever, was the novel’s second trip to the screen, following a 1990 television miniseries. And now Muschietti is continuing the story with the highly anticipated IT Chapter 2, which arrives in theaters today.

    ellauri133.html on line 366:     If you only have a passing familiarity with Stephen King´s original novel, you might think It is simply about a killer clown. But there’s far more to the sprawling saga of The Losers´ Club and the fictional setting of Derry, Maine. Here are 10 things you might not have known about the bestselling book of 1986.

    ellauri133.html on line 372: “I decided that the bridge could be the city, if there was something under it,” King wrote on his website. “What’s under a city? Tunnels. Sewers ... I thought of how such a story might be cast; how it might be possible to create a ricochet effect, interweaving the stories of the children and the adults they become. Sometime in the summer of 1981 I realized that I had to write the troll under the bridge or leave him—IT—forever.”

    ellauri133.html on line 380:   Clocking in at a whopping 1138 pages, It is second only to The Stand (which came in at 1153 pages) as King’s longest work to date. It weighs four pounds. Turds in excess of 2 lb must be lowered by hand. 

    ellauri133.html on line 394:   In the novel, the creature known as IT is not a clown; IT is a malevolent entity that takes on forms tailored to the person it´s terrorizing. Unlike Steve who is a clown AND a malevolent entity. Although its most common form is a clown, IT also appears as creatures like werewolves and vampires, wreaking murderous havoc on the fictional town of Derry every 27 years. Oddly, the 2017 film adaptation hit theaters 27 years after the 1990 miniseries. Since the film’s production has stalled and changed hands several times, this is pure coincidence. (For the sequel, fans only had to wait two years.)

    ellauri133.html on line 398:   It is set in the fictional town of Derry, Maine. According to King, it’s a stand-in for the real town of Bangor, Maine, where he has lived since 1979. King and his wife were debating between moving to Portland or Bangor; King was in favor of Bangor because he considered Portland “a yuppie town” and that Bangor was “a hard-ass working class town ... and I thought that the story, the big story, I wanted to write, was here … all my thoughts on monsters and the children’s tale Three Billy Goats Gruff.

    ellauri133.html on line 402: King has stated that his goal with It was to blend all of the scariest monsters together. "But then I thought to myself, ‘There ought to be one binding, horrible, nasty, gross, crevice kind of thing that you don’t want to see, [and] it makes you scream just to see it,’" he explained. "So I thought of myself: ‘What scares children more than anything else in the world?’ And the answer was ‘a clown like me with a scary face like mine.´ Reconsidering, no that was daddy's nightly horror that drove him away. For me, the answer was, 'it is mommy's IT as daddy's stickig it to IT.'"

    ellauri133.html on line 406: In a 2005 interview with Conan O’Brien, King shared that his own creepy clown experience was with Ronald McDonald. King was on an airplane and Ronald McDonald came to sit next to him, in full clown attire. "You here? What if this plane crashes? I’m going to die next to a clown," Ronald said.

    ellauri133.html on line 410: Although King is widely considered to be the master of horror, he’s previously said he doesn’t have an answer when people ask what drives him. It was his answer to these inquiries. "I thought to myself, ´Why don’t I write a final exam on horror, and put in all the monsters that I was afraid of as a kid? And call it it?´" King told TIME in 2009. "And I thought, How are you going to do that? And I said, Well, I´m going to do it like a fairy tale. I’m going to make up a town where these things happen and everybody ignores them. Like in Grinch."

    ellauri133.html on line 444: Stephen King’s It, in my estimation, does not do a very good job of justifying a chapter-long scene in which Bev, the sole girl in the Losers’ Club, the group of 11-year-old kids the book is centered on, invites each of the six boys in her misfit clique to have sex with her.

    ellauri133.html on line 452: “That was y-y-your way to get us o-out,” he said, and now his eyes blazed so brightly they frightened her. “Beverly, duh-duh-don’t you uh-understand? That was y-y-your way to get us out! We all ... but we were ...” Suddenly he looked frightened, unsure. Like - get us in to get us out - in and out - in and out - and finally out all l-l-limp and gooey.” 

    ellauri133.html on line 454: And so, what King presents a few chapters later, in the book’s final stretch, is a depiction of pre-adolescent female sexuality as a functional device—as a means and not an end in itself. HAAHAA. This utilitarian view of sexuality, despite operating in something as utterly wild as a group sex scene amongst kids, is ultra conservative in its reinforcement of the idea that female sexuality is meant to serve men, that sex for women operates for the greater good, like making babies or satisfying a bunch of guys. And further, that platonic friendship amongst women and men is simply impossible.

    ellauri133.html on line 456: King is very deliberate in framing the gangbang as all Bev’s decision (“Did she have to take each of them into 'it' all over again? Yes, probably, and with pleasure.”). This scene also, rather clumsily, because it´s so obvious, is tied in to the book’s title:

    ellauri133.html on line 458: And she feels the thing begin to happen—something of which the girls who whisper and giggle about sex in the girls’ room have no idea, at least as far as she knows; they only marvel at how gooshy sex must be, and now she realizes that for many of them sex must be some unrealized undefined monster; they refer to the act as It. Would you do It, do your sister and her boyfriend do It, do your mom and dad still do It, and how they  intend to do It. 
    Juupa juu, sehän se on se "se", kauhujen kauhu, se 1 paikka, naisten viemärimäinen se.

    ellauri133.html on line 466:     I think the whole story is a bit of a— approaches the theme of growing up, and the group sex episode in the book is a bit of a metaphor of the end of childhood and into adulthood. And I don’t think it was really needed in the movie, apart that it was very hard to allow us to shoot an orgy in the movie so, I didn’t think it was necessary because the story itself is a bit of a journey, and it illustrates that. And in the end, the replacement for it is the scene with the blood oath, where everyone sort of says goodbye. Spoiler. The blood oath scene is there and it’s the last time they see each other as a group. It’s unspoken. And they don’t know it, but it’s a bit of a foreboding that this is the last time, and being together was a bit of a necessity to beat the monster. Now that the monster recedes, they don’t need to be together. And also because their childhood is ending, and their adulthood is starting. And that’s the bittersweet moment of that sequence. Blood oath, bloody sheath, they even sound the same.

    ellauri133.html on line 468: I don’t want to repeat King’s utter creepiness and describe this in too much detail (shit, I would but there is not enough space), but there are some elements of the scene that deserve mentioning. Again, functioning in misogynist misunderstanding of female sexuality, for at least one of these encounters Bev “feels no physical pleasure, but there is a kind of mental ecstasy in it for her.” When she does feel “some pleasure, dim heat in her childish unmatured sex,” she thinks of birds and resolves that having sex “is what flying is like.” The penis size of the character of Ben is commented on (“is he too big, can she take that into herself?”) and she eventually has an orgasm with him. Steve looks on with his little droopy wiener in his hand. I bet Mustafa had a biggish "It", and Tabitha King (the other one with the curves going in instead of out) has an even bigger one. They are like the little goat, the middling goat, and the big big goat that can suck the big bad wolf all the way in, balls and all.

    ellauri133.html on line 565: Teppo and chubby Tabitha are still happily married, and continue to write successful works of fiction. Teppo fell in love with Tabitha because Tabitha understood his art. Tabitha grew tired of King’s habits with drugs and alcohol. Eventually, she called up an intervention for her husband. If he didn’t get his act together, he would be forced to the curb. So he got his act together.

    ellauri133.html on line 591:   Great Expectations, Jane Eyre, Robinson Crusoe, Gulliver’s Travels, Moby Dick (although a children’s truncated version).

    ellauri133.html on line 843: Shirley Jackson’s 1948 story “The Lottery”—arguably the most famous short story in American literature—was written in a single morning. In Jackson’s posthumously published lecture, “Biography of a Story,” she recounts:

    ellauri140.html on line 39: In 1998, Kevorkian was arrested and tried for his direct role in a case of voluntary euthanasia on a man named Thomas Youk who suffered from Lou Gehrig’s disease, or ALS. He was convicted of second-degree murder and served 8 years of a 10-to-25-year prison sentence. He was released on parole on June 1, 2007, on condition he would not offer advice about, participate in, or be present at the act of any type of suicide involving euthanasia to any other person, as well as neither promote nor talk about the procedure of assisted suicide.

    ellauri140.html on line 232: Barry Sadler was a twenty-five year old active duty Green Beret medic in 1966 when he first performed “Ballad of the Green Berets” on The Ed Sullivan Show. The song soon reached number one in the charts and eventually sold eight million copies. Sadler’s performance and the song’s popularity celebrated The Green Berets as the ultimate example of American military prowess, bravery and commitment. It fed into a specific postwar representation of modernity that was soon to be challenged by the escalation of the war in Vietnam.

    ellauri141.html on line 109: Quintus Horatius Flaccus (8th of December, Ab Urbe Condita 689, B. C. 65 -  27th of November, B. C. 8) was born at or near Venusia (Venosa), in the Apennines, on the borders of Lucania and Apulia. His father was a freedman, having, as his name proves, been the slave of some person of the Horatia gens. As Horace implies that he himself was ingenuus, his father must have obtained his freedom before his birth. He afterwards followed the calling of a coactor, a collector of money in some way or other, it is not known in what. He made, in this capacity, enough to purchase an estate, probably a small one, near the above town, where the poet was born. We hear nothing of his mother, except that Horace speaks of both his parents with affection. His father, probably seeing signs of talent in him as a child, was not content to have him educated at a provincial school, but took him (at what age he does not say, but probably about twelve) to Rome, where he became a pupil of Orbilius Pupillus, who had a school of much note, attended by boys of good family, and whom Horace remembered all his life as an irritable teacher, given unnecessarily to the use of the rod. With him he learnt grammar, the earlier Latin authors, and Homer. He attended other masters (of rhetoric, poetry, and music perhaps), as Roman boys were wont, and had the advantage (to which he afterwards looked back with gratitude) of his father’s care and moral training during this part of his education. It was usual for young men of birth and ability to be sent to Athens, to finish their education by the study of Greek literature and philosophy under native teachers; and Horace went there too, at what age is not known, but probably when he was about twenty. Whether his father was alive at that time, or dead, is uncertain. If he went to Athens at twenty, it was in B. C. 45, the year before Julius Cæsar was assassinated. After that event, Brutus and Cassius left Rome and went to Greece. Foreseeing the struggle that was before them, they got round them many of the young men at that time studying at Athens, and Horace was appointed tribune in the army of Brutus, a high command, for which he was not qualified. He went with Brutus into Asia Minor, and finally shared his defeat at Philippi, B. C. 42. He makes humorous allusion to this defeat in his Ode to Pompeius Varus (ii. 7). After the battle he came to Italy, having obtained permission to do so, like many others who were willing to give up a desperate cause and settle quietly at home. His patrimony, however, was forfeited, and he seems to have had no means of subsistence, which induced him to employ himself in writing verses, with the view, perhaps, of bringing himself into notice, rather than for the purpose of making money by their sale. By some means he managed to get a place as scriba in the Quæstor’s office, whether by purchase or interest does not appear. In either case, we must suppose he contrived soon to make friends, though he could not do so by the course he pursued, without also making many enemies. His Satires are full of allusions to the enmity his verses had raised up for him on all hands. He became acquainted, among other literary persons, with Virgil and Varius, who, about three years after his return (B. C. 39), introduced him to Mæcenas, who was careful of receiving into his circle a tribune of Brutus, and one whose writings were of a kind that was new and unpopular. He accordingly saw nothing of Horace for nine months after his introduction to him. He then sent for him (B. C. 38), and from that time continued to be his patron and warmest friend.

    ellauri141.html on line 111: At his house, probably, Horace became intimate with Polio, and the many persons of consideration whose friendship he appears to have enjoyed. Through Mæcenas, also, it is probable Horace was introduced to Augustus; but when that happened is uncertain. In B. C. 37, Mæcenas was deputed by Augustus to meet M. Antonius at Brundisium, and he took Horace with him on that journey, of which a detailed account is given in the fifth Satire of the first book. Horace appears to have parted from the rest of the company at Brundisium, and perhaps returned to Rome by Tarentum and Venusia. (See S. i. 5, Introduction.) Between this journey and B. C. 32, Horace received from his friend the present of a small estate in the valley of the Digentia (Licenza), situated about thirty-four miles from Rome, and fourteen from Tibur, in the Sabine country. Of this property he gives a description in his Epistle to Quintius (i. 16), and he appears to have lived there a part of every year, and to have been fond of the place, which was very quiet and retired, being four miles from the nearest town, Varia (Vico Varo), a municipium perhaps, but not a place of any importance. During this interval he continued to write Satires and Epodes, but also, it appears probable, some of the Odes, which some years later he published, and others which he did not publish. These compositions, no doubt, were seen by his friends, and were pretty well known before any of them were collected for publication. The first book of the Satires was published probably in B. C. 35, the Epodes in B. C. 30, and the second book of Satires in the following year, when Horace was about thirty-five years old. When Augustus returned from Asia, in B. C. 29, and closed the gates of Janus, being the acknowledged head of the republic, Horace appeared among his most hearty adherents. He wrote on this occasion one of his best Odes (i. 2), and employed his pen in forwarding those reforms which it was the first object of Augustus to effect. (See Introduction to C. ii. 15.) His most striking Odes appear, for the most part, to have been written after the establishment of peace. Some may have been written before, and probably were. But for some reason it would seem that he gave himself more to lyric poetry after his thirty-fifth year than he had done before. He had most likely studied the Greek poets while he was at Athens, and some of his imitations may have been written early. If so, they were most probably improved and polished, from time to time, (for he must have had them by him, known perhaps only to a few friends, for many years,) till they became the graceful specimens of artificial composition that they are. Horace continued to employ himself in this kind of writing (on a variety of subjects, convivial, amatory, political, moral,—some original, many no doubt suggested by Greek poems) till B. C. 24, when there are reasons for thinking the first three books of the Odes were published. During this period, Horace appears to have passed his time at Rome, among the most distinguished men of the day, or at his house in the country, paying occasional visits to Tibur, Præneste, and Baiæ, with indifferent health, which required change of air. About the year B. C. 26 he was nearly killed by the falling of a tree, on his own estate, which accident he has recorded in one of his Odes (ii. 13), and occasionally refers to; once in the same stanza with a storm in which he was nearly lost off Cape Palinurus, on the western coast of Italy. When this happened, nobody knows. After the publication of the three books of Odes, Horace seems to have ceased from that style of writing, or nearly so; and the only other compositions we know of his having produced in the next few years are metrical Epistles to different friends, of which he published a volume probably in B. C. 20 or 19. He seems to have taken up the study of the Greek philosophical writers, and to have become a good deal interested in them, and also to have been a little tired of the world, and disgusted with the jealousies his reputation created. His health did not improve as he grew older, and he put himself under the care of Antonius Musa, the emperor’s new physician. By his advice he gave up, for a time at least, his favorite Baiæ. But he found it necessary to be a good deal away from Rome, especially in the autumn and winter.

    ellauri141.html on line 256: hietque turpis inter aridas natis		    your raw and filthy arsehole gaping like a cow’s	

    ellauri141.html on line 258: sed incitat me pectus et mammae putres		    It’s your slack breasts that rouse me (I have seen	

    ellauri141.html on line 268: inlitterati num minus nervi rigent		    They won’t cause big erections or delay the droop–	

    ellauri141.html on line 269: minusve languet fascinum?			       you know that penises can’t read.		

    ellauri141.html on line 305:        In  Epode 11, the iambist regretfully recalls to his friend Pettius his infatuation with a girl named Inachia. The latter name does not occur elsewhere in extant Latin or Greek except in the very next poem in the Gedichtbuch, where the iambist’s older (ex-)lover complains of his sexual endurance with Inachia in contrast to his impotence with her (12.14-6). The name may suggest an ethnically Greek or Argive  woman, or the Greek noms de lit   regularly adopted by Italian meretrices. Yet, as some (but by no means all) commentators have noted, the name also evokes Io, the daughter of Inachus, jota Zeus bylsi härän hahmossa.  Eli kyllä tässäkin yhden kynäilijän mielestä on jotain impotenssin käryä.

    ellauri141.html on line 313: mittis nec firmo iuveni neque naris obesae?	    & love letters? As if I’m a sturdy lad with a stuffed		

    ellauri141.html on line 324:       'Inachia langues minus ac me;		          “You droop a lot less for Elsie, don’t you?		

    ellauri141.html on line 341:     Pientä epäselvyyttä vallizee siitä oliko Flaccus sittenkään epikurolainen vaiko ize asiassa salastoalainen. Bisexuaaliko vaiko vaan asexuaali? Ehkä molempia. Satiiri tulee sanasta satura, roomalainen rosolli. Kaiken kaikkiaan voi sanoa että Flaccus oli vitun kuivakka, lähes Kimmo Koskenniemi-luokan pedantti. Häneltä puuttuu välittömyyttä, lainataxemme Eero Kivikaria. Vaikka toisinaan Horatius voi mennä suorastaan arveluttavan pitkälle, kuten esimerkixi epoodeissa 8 ja 12. Blame Horace’s snaky, samba-like rhythms and the culture that spawned the poems. Horace is fond of wordplays, including subtly allusive bilingual wordplays.

    ellauri141.html on line 346:       They can’t be got at living prices!

    ellauri141.html on line 352:       So where am I going with all this? My purpose in quoting the various versions, isn’t to compare and reconcile them, but to give some sense of just how ubiquitous the translations are and to raise the question: Why has this poem endured?

    ellauri141.html on line 354:       And by way of further warning, I’d better say up front that my reading of this poem differs radically from every other that I’ve seen. What follows is, I think, pretty well uncharted territory in the Persicos Odi canon. I’m going to try to make the case for and translate Pericos odi as a sex poem!

    ellauri141.html on line 357:       Even a casual reader of the Odes will soon notice that sex in Horace’s poems is ambidextrous. I’m not going to presume to analyze Horace’s sexuality beyond what he tells us in the poems, but when the word puer — boy — occurs in a Horace poem, as often as not it refers to a household slave, a serving boy. And at boring times, the puer becomes an object of sexual convenience.

    ellauri141.html on line 366:   Adolescent slave boys were fair game for a virile man. Jupiter may have had his Ganymede, but none of the standard pantheon of gods were gay as we use the term. But there was a limit: it was queer to screw a boy after he was old enough to shave. “Passive’ homosexuality was the real disgrace. The urge to bugger was understandable. A man’s desire to be buggered was disgraceful. As often observed, it was better to give than receive. And in Horace’s poems, pederasty seems no more frowned upon than a taste for veal might be frowned upon today. Actually less. By now you can see where I’m headed with all this. I think the puer in Persicos odi, puer, apparatus... is the kind of boy that Horace is sometimes fond of screwing. 

    ellauri141.html on line 368:       Mut näyttää vähän siltä että Horatiuxen letku ei seissyt monta hetkeä. Se ehkä selittää ezen viisujen perussävy on tollanen tekosirkeä, puoliveteinen ja letkeä. Horace’s obsessions were music, sex, death and wine and crowns made from plants.

    ellauri141.html on line 460: Tunnettuja Kiplingin runoja ovat Mandalay (1890), Gunga Din (1890), Valkoisen miehen taakka (The White Man’s Burden) (1899) ja Jos– (If–) (1910). Kipling tunnetaan erityisesti englanninkielisessä maailmassa yhtenä lastenkirjallisuuden suurista nimistä ja lahjakkaana tarinankertojana. [Lähde vittuun?] Kiplingin tuotannon keskeisiä teoksia ovat myös Norsunlapsi (The Elephant's Child) ja Meren urhoja (Captains Courageous).

    ellauri141.html on line 492: Vuonna 1902 Kipling osti vuonna 1634 rakennetun kartanon nimeltä Bateman’s, joka sijaitsee maaseudulla Burwashissa, East Sussexissa. Tilan koko oli 130 000 m² mukaan lukien ympäröivät rakennukset ja mylly , ja Kipling maksoi siitä 9 300 puntaa, joka nykymyyntihintana vastaisi 735 000 puntaa. Talossa ei ollut kylpyhuonetta, juoksevaa vettä yläkerrassa eikä sähköjä, mutta silti Kipling piti siitä paljon, kuten hän marraskuussa 1902 lähettämässä kirjeessään sanoi: ”Katsokaa meitä, harmaakivisen talon laillisia omistajia – A.D. 1634 lukee oviparrussa, paneloitu, vanha tammiportaikko ja kaikki koskematonta ja aitoa. Se on hyvä ja rauhallinen paikka. Me olemme rakastaneet sitä ensi silmäyksestä lähtien”.

    ellauri141.html on line 507: Kipling himself confessed that ‘every Latin quantity was an arbitrary mystery’ to him, that his teacher Crofts ‘loathed me as to Latin’  and that he had construed the beginning of the Cleopatra Ode (1.37) very badly on one occasion. It was M'Turk/Beresford who composed the Latin elegiacs translating Gray’s Elegy which Stalky and Beetle needed to prepare.

    ellauri141.html on line 514: He wrote "Donec Gratus Eram" as a schoolboy, and a series of other 'echoes' of Horace in later life. He carried a copy of Horace’s four books of Odes around with him, in which he wrote original epigrams of his own.

    ellauri141.html on line 518: I got the ordinary allowance of Latin, ending with Virgil and Horace – specially Horace. I don’t pretend that I liked it, any more than I should have liked anything else that purported to be education, but looking back at it now, it strikes me as valuable.

    ellauri141.html on line 523:  He had some sympathy with what Roman citizens might have felt when provincials came in and often settled in Rome: ‘Wonder how the old Civis Romanus sum felt when Greece, Gaul, Libya and Ethiopia poured in to Rome and took the front seats in the arena.’ 

    ellauri141.html on line 524:  This had been a worry in the second century BC, when a bill had been brought in to extend citizenship to Latins and Kipling would have picked up what Juvenal had said about ‘the hungry Greekling’ (Graeculus esuriens) and the Syrian Orontes flowing into the Tiber.

    ellauri141.html on line 532: The Fifth Book of Horace’s Odes: Q. Horati Flacci Carminum Liber Quintus a Rudyardo Kipling et Carolo Graves Anglice Redditus (250)

    ellauri141.html on line 533: The spoof book of late Horace (it refers to contemporary politicians such as Lloyd George, gas masks, land girls, daylight saving, spiritualism, canteens and so on) which came out in 1920, was inspired by a long tradition in English literature and by Kipling’s early imitation odes and Charles Graves’s Hawarden Horace (1894) and More Hawarden Horace (1896, with a delightful introduction by T. E. Page), where felicitous modernising English versions of the Odes (and an Epode) are put in the mouth of Gladstone (251) . A[lfred] D[enis] Godley, for one, had often imagined Greek and Roman authors as still alive and commenting on nineteenth- and twentieth-century Oxford and England. (252) Kipling delighted in humorous verse. In 1917 he had enjoyed Maurice Baring’s Translations (found in a commonplace book) (253) . 

    ellauri141.html on line 567:     Graves wrote for The Spectator and for Punch and his comic histories must have been to Kipling’s taste. He collaborated with E. V. Lucas, also a Punch journalist, with whom Kipling had corresponded at least since 1906. (263)‘He was the most exhilarating of companions, radiating vitality, goodwill and interest in the other man and his concerns’.

    ellauri141.html on line 569:  The ‘editor’ of the Latin text was the clever versifier A. D. Godley of Oxford. (267) He contributed graceful acknowledgements (268) and a hilarious preface about the (fictitious) manuscripts, which parodies the standard praefatio of an Oxford Classical Text (brown-covered in those days like the spoof). (269) There is a learned apparatus criticus about disputed or variant ms. readings. He did the Latin poems, together with his Oxford colleagues and friends John Powell (270) and Ronald Knox (271) and the Etonian and former Cambridge undergraduate A. B. Ramsay. (272) There is an appendix of alternative Latin versions which the translators obviously could not bear to waste. Kipling contributed a schoolboyish prose version of ‘The Pro-consuls’: ‘the sixth ode, as it seems, rendered into English prose by a scholiast of uncertain period’, which starts:

    ellauri141.html on line 575:     … I’ve got a new Fifth Booker whereof Hankinson Ma. is preparing the translation. It came out in the Times ever so long ago [1905] under the title The Pro-Consuls but I perceive now that Horace wrote it. Rather a big effort for him and on a higher plane than usual – unless he’d been deliberately flattering some friend in Government. I’ll send it along. 

    ellauri141.html on line 577: When the book came out, it fooled the Scotsman. Kipling regretted only the facetious names of some universities, professors etc. in Godley’s preface: if they had been serious, others too would have thought the collection authentic. 

    ellauri141.html on line 671: Käsitykseni Huntuvuoren Turku-kuvan merkityksestä ja siten kiinnostavuudesta perustuu historioitsija Derek Fewsterin unohdetussa väitöskirjassaan esittämiin tulkintoihin siitä, kuinka historian käyttö kansallisen identiteetin muodostuksessa 1900-luvun alun Suomessa nojasi vahvasti arkipäiväiseen toistoon ja ’’alemman tason mielikuvanluojien” (lesser image-makers) kuten toimittajien, opettajien, kuvittajien ja nuortenkirjailijoiden työhön. Tämä ruohonjuuritason työ vaikutti 

    ellauri141.html on line 680: Tätä artikkelia viimeistellessä Huntuvuori ja hänen kirjallisuutensa nousivat hieman yllättäen ajankohtaisiksi. Laitilan Kulttuuriseura Walo julkaisi keväällä 2012 Huntuvuoren julkaisematta jääneen käsikirjoituksen pohjalta romaanin Nuori Mauno Koivisto Tavast juhlistamaan Laitilassa syntyneen Huntuvuoren syntymän 125-vuotisjuhlaa ja piispa Maunu Olavinpoika Tavastin virkaanastumisen 600. juhlavuotta. Turun kahvipöytäkeskusteluissa tai vaikka Keskiaikaisilla markkinoilla esiin pulpahtavat puheenvuorot ovat  vastakkaisia tutkimuksen nykytulkinnoille, ’’Turun on pakko olla vanhempi kuin nykyiset kaivaukset osoittavat”. "Kaivakaa syvempää."

    ellauri141.html on line 698: Taas astui esiin Karvatasku, erotti miesten kädet, kohotti pirkan korkealle ilmaan ja julisti: ’Tästä lähin on Turussa kaksi vanhinten päämiestä: Vennamo, joka on tuomarimme, ja Puuveitsi, joka johtaa muut asiat. Olkoon tämä pyhä pirkka yhteensolmiamisen todistuksena vielä lapsillemmekin satoihin polviin. Tästlähin Turkua asuttavat ja johtivat suomalaiset ja suomenkieliset suvut: ’’Tervakauhat, Karvataskut, Puuveitset, Mätäjärvet, Suurpäät, Puolamaat, Katinhännät, Veräjänkorvat, Kuttalat, Hakolat, Pihkalat, Kestilät, Oratopit, Lipsaset ja ties mitä.”

    ellauri141.html on line 800: Dag Hammarskjöld was committed to the arts.  Though temperamentally a loner, and introvert, and a bachelor throughout his life (oliko se homo? Det finns inga bevis för att Dag Hammarskjöld var homosexuell. Misstankar verkar dock ha funnits: Eftersom han levde ensam började rykten spridas om att han skulle vara homosexuell och hans motståndare använde detta för att smutskasta honom), he would invite intellectuals and artists, the best of New York’s bohemia, to his Upper East Side apartment where he kept a pet, an African monkey called Greenback.  People he invited to his generous dinners included the poet Carl Sandburg, the novelist John Steinbeck, the poet WH Auden, the diplomat George Kennan.  Auden was the translator of Hammarskjöld’s posthumously published book of observations, ideas and poems called Waymarks. Hammarskjöld used his influence to get the poet Ezra Pound out of mental hospital.  Back in Sweden, he inherited his father’s chair at the Swedish academy when the man died in 1953. The Swedish academy is the body that awards the Nobel Prize in literature. Hammarskjöld was instrumental in getting the rather obscure but doubtless brilliant French poet Saint John Perse his Nobel prize in 1960.  He would sketch out the arguments for Perse’s candidacy during translation breaks at UN Security Council meetings.  

    ellauri142.html on line 55: Markku's life changes after he becomes the sole heir to his father's vast estate, and his position in society is changed from that of an illegitimate son to the new Count Bezukhov. His inability to control his emotions and sexual passions lead him into a marriage with the vapid but sexually beautiful Princess Kristina, a match which her self-serving father, Prince Carl Erik, sets up to secure his access to Markku's newly acquired vast fortune. Kristina is not in love with Markku, and has affairs. From jealousy, Markku shoots his suspected lover, Dolokhov, in a duel. He is distraught at having committed such a crime and eventually separates from Kristina and then becomes a Freemason. His madhat escape into the city of Moscow and his subsequent obsessive belief that he is destined to be Napoleon’s mistress show his submission to irrational impulses. Yet his search for meaning in his life and for how to overcome his emotions are a central theme of the novel. He eventually finds love and marriage with Pirkko Hiekkala, becomes a ladies shoes salesman called Al  Bundy and their marriage is perhaps the culmination of a life of moral and spiritual questioning. They have four children: three boys and one girl. Correction, one extremely good-looking platinum blonde girl and one about equally gifted son.

    ellauri142.html on line 63:     Markku is an outcast. The awkward, illegitimate son of a dazzlingly wealthy Count, he was educated in France but returns to Russia now that his father’s health is in decline. Polite society shuns him for his hero-worship of Napoleon and enthusiasm for the politics of revolution. But his blundering sincerity charms Andrei, his truest friend; and the blonde air hostess Natacha, who delights in his presence. He is quickly married off by stealth through the manipulation of others around him and is likely to face further heartache given that his wife prefers bedding her brother. It looks like this unlikely hero is smitten with her mother Pirkko Hiekkala but is set for heartache given his kind and gentle nature.

    ellauri142.html on line 91: Prize motivation: "in consideration of the power of observation, originality of imagination, virility of ideas and remarkable talent for narration which characterize the creations of this world-famous author." As a poet, short story writer, journalist and novelist, Rudyard Kipling described the British colonial empire in positive terms, which made his poetry popular in the British Army. Contemporary Great Britain appreciated him for his depictions of  the British colony of India. The Jungle Book (1894) has made him known and loved by children throughout the world, especially thanks to Disney’s 1967 film adaptation.

    ellauri142.html on line 106: In 1717, Masonry created a formal organization in London, when four lodges united to form the first Grand Lodge. This gave the organization credibility and added to its membership’s mystical allure. Men flocked, begged, coerced, and maneuvered to become members. Everybody wanted in.

    ellauri142.html on line 112: Much to the chagrin of the Catholic Church, the early Masonic organization’s philosophy evolved from Deist ideology, which believes God does not interfere with creation, as it runs itself according to the laws of nature.

    ellauri142.html on line 122: While the rest of the world is no longer fearful of Freemasonry, The Catholic Church continues to warn its “faithful” of Freemasonry’s alleged anti-church teachings. In 1983, the papal state declared that Catholics “who enroll in Masonic associations are in a state of grave sin and may not receive Holy Communion.” This proclamation comes from the same church that continues to profess that women are not holy or God-ordained enough to be in the priesthood.

    ellauri142.html on line 128:     There is a frightening initiation ceremony that reenacts the construction of Solomon’s temple

    ellauri142.html on line 145: Given that all Masons profess beliefs in a monotheistic God, it makes sense that rituals are an essential part of the culture. There are initiation rituals and ceremonies to commemorate a member’s advancement to new Masonic levels.

    ellauri142.html on line 153: Solomon’s Temple is a substantial part of the rituals and symbolism found within Freemasonry. During membership initiation rites, portions of the story of the structure’s construction on the Temple Mount are reenacted.

    ellauri142.html on line 180: Some say it’s unethical for any organization to exclude women, but psychologists say that men, women and other genders, who at times congregate within their genders, are happier, healthier and more confident. Just like any group with specific missions and membership archetypes, it seems helpful for human beings to participate in same-gender rites (like the well-known and well-loved train) and organizations.

    ellauri142.html on line 184: Today, you can join the Freemasons for between $150 and $500 in annual dues. You won’t be involved in too many secret missions or controversies, though. You’ll mostly network with small business owners and help a charity or two. If you’re really into it, you’ll climb the magic ladder and achieve its highest title of Master Mason. At that point, you are eligible to become a Shriner.

    ellauri142.html on line 186: Freemasonry has approximately five million members around the world, some more active than others. It’s still quite an honor to be involved with the Freemasons, as the experience promises to be an enriching and inspiring as it has been for centuries.

    ellauri142.html on line 188: If you’re interested in membership, be prepared to be a fiercely loyal member, because new initiates are still sworn to the same rites and secrecy as Scotland’s William Schaw and former President George Washington.

    ellauri142.html on line 192: Paul Wagner is an Intuitive-Empath, clairvoyant reader, and a 5-time EMMY Award winning writer. He created “The Personality Cards,” a powerful Oracle-Tarot deck that’s helpful in life, love and relationships. Paul studied with Lakota elders in the Pecos Wilderness, who nurtured his empathic abilities and taught him the sacred rituals. He has lived at ashrams with enlightened masters, including Amma, the Hugging Saint, for whom he’s delivered.

    ellauri142.html on line 555: Se on TAT, jonka kädet ja jalat, silmät, pää ja kasvot ovat kaikkialla. Kuulostaa vähän Donald Trumpilta. Kaikkialla itäeurooppalaisen blondin hameen alla nimittäin. Parabrâhman Brahmân yläpuolella, takana oleva (Para, takana); tuo nimittämätön, mittaamaton, punnitsematon; juureton juuri ja syytön syy. Kaiken olemassa olevan perusta. Sama kuin TAT, kaikkeuden lähde. Sanalla Brahmâ on kahdenlainen merkitys. Yksi on Brahmâ, hengitys, toinen Brahmâ, tuo luova, kehittävä miehis-naisellinen voima maailmankaikkeudessa. Tätä pitää ihan sisäisesti miettiä, ennen kuin käsittää tuon eron. — Suomentaja. Se on serveri, se on serveri, tuo mainio makkaramies. Hän siittää ja Hän hävittää. Kaikilla eläimillä on hissinnappi, joka sanoo ’ylös’ ja ’alas’; Jumalalla sitä ei ole. (Eckhart)

    ellauri142.html on line 579: luonto persoonaksi; silloin persoonaa kutsutaan ’isäksi’.” (Eckhart) 

    ellauri142.html on line 697: Ählämit: ”Kaikki syntyi voimalla. Mikään, mikä on syntynyt, ei ole syntynyt ilman häntää.” (Joh. 1:3.) ”’Isä’ on jumalajatus... 
    

    ellauri142.html on line 759:   Piereskelyn avulla meille ilmenee luonto ikään kuin kuviteltuna persoonana. Tätä kuvitteellista persoonaa nimitetään Isäksi. Isällä siis kädetetään siedätystä, jolla taas on puhdas, korkea, izesaastuttamaton jumalaton kärki. Tämä kärki hajuaa ja ikään kuin katsoo oman läpensä läpitte. Tämän saastuttamattoman kärjen objektiivinen kohde on ’Poika’ eli ’poika, sano’ (Logo). Isän ja pojan välillä oleva ikuinen edestakainen sisään ulos suhde toinen toiseensa, eli toisin sanoen runkkaus on pyhä henki.” (Eckhart: Tätä asiaa pitää tarkasti miettiä, ennen kuin sen käsittää.)

    ellauri143.html on line 59: On a day when Prime Minister Narendra Modi released the Thai translation of Thirukkural during his visit to Thailand, the official Twitter handle of the BJP’s Tamil Nadu unit released a picture of Tamil poet Thiruvalluvar clad in a saffron attire.

    ellauri143.html on line 62: Though the scholars (Urai aasiriyargal, in Tamil) titled Thirukkural’s first chapter as ‘The Praise to God’ (Kadavul Vaazhthu), Thiruvalluvar has nowhere in his work mentioned the words ‘god’ or ‘religion’.

    ellauri143.html on line 66: The Dravidar Kazhagam, founded by social activist Periyar, is known for conducting Thirukkural conferences across the state. Its deputy president Kali Poongundran said that this shows the BJP’s true motives behind promoting Thirukkural.

    ellauri143.html on line 67: “The varnasrama dharma (racial segregation law) is the base for the BJP’s ideology. But Thirukkural is exact opposite. It is habitual for the party to use opposing ideas and then claim they are their own. Conducting more number of Thirukkural conferences will help the public know about the true meaning of Thirukkural and they can understand how the BJP is tweaking it for their own cause,” he said.

    ellauri143.html on line 1465:       IAGO: She may be honest yet. Tell me but this: Have you not sometimes seen a handkerchief Spotted with strawberries in your wife’s hand?

    ellauri143.html on line 1466:       OTHELLO: I gave her such a one. ’Twas my first gift. IAGO: I know not that; but such a handkerchief—I am sure it was your wife’s—did I today

    ellauri144.html on line 66: along with his body. He looks back bemusedly at the rash confidence, the ambition to get ahead, that motivated his earlier writing. And now his poetic gift itself threatens to fall away, together with other games, notably lovemaking, that require youthful energy and zest (55-57). Philosophy, as he describes it, is most centrally the art of  living well from day to day; of enjoying life’s gifts while you have them, and of accepting Nature’s high impersonal laws in preparation for that final retirement which is death (213-16).

    ellauri144.html on line 94:       Mutta onko Clarxon homo? Ainaskin se on aivan vitun homofoobi, joka on vahva vihje kaappihomosta. (Ei koske minua, I refuse to be bummed.) The Amazon Prime show sees presenters Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May travel the world reviewing cars. The Ofcom complaint comes after Young took issue with a comment in one of the episodes in which the trio made jokes about the Wrangler Jeep being a ‘gay man’s car’..... and then Hammond and May’s ‘quips’ to Clarkson wearing chaps, a pink shirt, he should get some moisturiser. It’s fucking pathetic and actually homophobic. Jeremy Clarkson: I’m not homophobic, I enjoy watching lesbians on the internet. 

    ellauri144.html on line 96: Clarkson was nominated for Stonewall’s Bigot of the Year award in 2007 for refusing to apologise for using homophobic slurs on Top Gear.      

    ellauri144.html on line 600: sciences et épistémologue. Il est considéré comme l’un des principaux fondateurs 

    ellauri144.html on line 602: rigidifiée) dans l’enseignement par « OHERIC » pour : Observation - Hypothèse - 

    ellauri144.html on line 603: Expérience - Résultat - Interprétation - Conclusion. C’est d’ailleurs une démarche 

    ellauri144.html on line 618: l’économiste Arthur Raffalovich (1853-1921), de l’écrivaine Sophie O’Brien née 

    ellauri144.html on line 691: Mark Zuckerberg in MBTI? Other websites have him as either a INTP or INTJ. I’m going with INTJ, he was an early achiever, while INTPs can often be late bloomers, this is due to the late development of the Judging function. INTJs also tend to be more focused, serious, follow traditions and rules. While the types have many similarities, INTJ seems to be the closer match. Väpelö hörhö nörtti kimmo. Propellipää - luovaa kirpunnyljentää. Sitäpä sitä. Saatanan jutku. Metatron meni neuvomaan Aabrahamille miten Iisakki olis paras uhrata. Viime minuutilla tuli peruutus: kyllä mulle tänään oikeastaan maistuiskin paremmin toi syntipukki. Lisäohjeita albumissa 115.

    ellauri144.html on line 698: When Allura learns that Max, who was her rival for the directorship, is to marry Lana, Allura’s little sister, she swears revenge. Max’s confidence is shaken, and on his next all-night shift at the station, an accident causes the meltdown of one of the reactors. In the ensuing catastrophe, the region and its people are poisoned, and the survivors are forced to evacuate their beloved town.

    ellauri144.html on line 700: Months later, Max is summoned to headquarters by Party officials and learns that he can save his career only if he brings Allura the trophy head of a rare white stag. Interweaving through the human actions, the region’s Silver River and its animals have their say."

    ellauri145.html on line 42:     Visage décidé, menton en avant, le coin de la lèvre inférieure affaissé à cause de la pipe, chevelure léonine tirée en arrière, le regard fixant l’invisible, André Breton a incarné le surréalisme cinquante ans durant, malgré lui et en dépit du rejet des institutions et des honneurs constamment exprimés. Très tôt, il s’est méfié des romans et leurs auteurs lui donnent l’impression qu’ils s’amusent à ses dépens.

    ellauri145.html on line 48: Fatty dans sa « Ford Economy Spéciale » (une caisse à savon motorisée) et Al Clove (Picratt dans la version française) sur son Grand-bi se rendent chez le fermier voisin. Le premier est follement amoureux de Winnie, sa fille et vient lui rendre visite. Le second est porteur d’un message de son père qui propose au fermier de le marier à sa fille en échange de la moitié de ses terres. Al n’est pas très malin mais Fatty n’est qu’un garçon de ferme sans le sou. Malgré l´amour que porte Winnie à Fatty, le fermier n"hésite pas une seconde et est intraitable.

    ellauri145.html on line 62:       André Breton (19. helmikuuta 1896 Tinchebray, Orne – 28. syyskuuta 1966 Pariisi) oli ranskalainen kirjailija, surrealismin perustaja ja johtohahmo. Breton syntyi Normandiassa, Pohjois-Ranskassa. Hän oli kauppiasperheen ainut lapsi. Perhe muutti vuonna 1900 Pariisin esikaupunkiin, missä Breton kävi koulua. Hän opiskeli lääketiedettä, mutta ei suorittanut opintojaan loppuun. Ensimmäisen maailmansodan aikana hän työskenteli Nantes’n sotilassairaalan neurologisella osastolla. Surrealistinen teoria on saanut vaikutteita Sigmund Freudin psykoanalyysistä sekä syvyyspsykologiasta. Breton sovelsi Freudin oppeja niin valelääkärinä kuin valekirjailijanakin, ja hän kävi tapaamassa Freudia Wienissä vuonna 1921. Surrealismin piti olla subrealismi mut Mallarme mokasi. Surrealismi oli jatkoa Tristan Tarzanin perustamalle Dada-liikkeelle. Breton liittyi dadaisteihin yhdessä Louis Aragonin ja Philippe Soupaut’n kanssa. Bretonille tuli kuitenkin välirikko dadan jäsenten kanssa, joten hän erosi liikkeestä. Selkeesti piha-Antero aina alotti. Vuonna 1944 julkaistiin pienoisteos nimeltään Arcane 17. Sen pohjana on keskiaikainen Melusinasta kertova legenda. Legendan mukaan ritari menee naimisiin hengettären, Melusinan kanssa. Ehtona on, ettei ritari saa nähdä vaimoaan yhtenä päivänä viikossa, jolloin Melusina on poissa ruumiistaan. Uteliaisuus kuitenkin voittaa, joten Melusina muuttuu pysyvästi henkiolennoksi. Nimi Arcane 17 viittaa tarot-kortteihin. Kortti numero 17 kuvaa rauhan ja rakkauden voittoa. Melusine on nykyisin vuonna 1979 Paris III -yliopiston yhteyteen perustetun Surrealismin tutkimuskeskuksen (Centre de recherche sur le Surréalisme) nimi. Andre oli mikrokefalinen, Georges Bataille (kz. albumia 139) käyt.kaz. akefali.

    ellauri145.html on line 66: Arthur Rimbaud’n mielestä ”Le vrai bateau est ivre” eli tosi elämä on poissa vintiltä. Breton yhtyi Rimbaud’n näkemykseen ja halusi palauttaa elämään siitä puuttuneen rakkauden. Vuonna 1928 Breton julkaisi puolittain omaelämäkerrallisen romaanin Nadja, joka alkaa kysymyksellä: ”Kuka minä olen?” ja samoin päättyy oman identiteetin etsintään. Nadja Nadja soromnoo. Mihkähän mä se jätin? Ruhtinas Hiirulainen vei. Breton soveltaa teoksessa ”objektiivisen sattuman” metodiaan. Romaanin kertoja tapaa Nadjan, oudon eteerisen naisen, jonka mielenterveys järkkyy. Nadja elää omissa maailmoissaan ja päätyy lopulta mielisairaalaan. Romaanin kaikki ulkoinen tapahtumapaikkojen kuvaus on korvattu valokuvilla, tauluilla ja piirroksilla. Mitä pelleilyä. Breton ei olis löytänyt omaa persettään edes sähkölampun valossa. Pompeijin viimeiset päivät kirjotti sama Bulwer-Lytton joka väsäsi Ressun romskun alun koirankopin katolla. Elokuvassa pääosaa näyttelee yhdysvaltalainen kehonrakentaja Steve Reeves. Ohjelman kazeluaika Areenalla on päättynyt. Nyyh. Sen olis saanut kirjamessuilta mutta oli liian kallis. 

    ellauri145.html on line 68: Breton meni naimisiin kolme kertaa. Ensin hän avioitui Simone Kahnin kanssa syyskuussa 1920. Toisen vaimon, Jacqueline Lamban, kanssa hänellä on Aube-niminen tytär. Kolmas vaimo on nimeltään Elisabeth Claro. Breton kuoli 28.9.1966 ja hänet haudattiin Batignolles’n hautausmaalle Pariisiin. Hautakiveen on kaiverrettu teksti ”Je cherche l’or du temps” (”Etsin koko ajan kultaa”). Bretonin leski ja tytär yrittivät tarjota osoitteessa 42 rue Fontaine sijainneen ateljeen taidekokoelmia Ranskan valtion lunastettavaksi, mutta valtio ei halunnut ostaa Bretonin yksityiskokoelmaa. Bretonin jäämistö huutokaupattiin keväällä 2003. No entäs tämä Soupault?  Silläkin oli 3 vaimoa. Hän jäi unohduksiin samalla kun hän kirjoitti unohduksesta mutta sai jälleen 1980-luvulla huomiota ja palkintoja, ja teoksista otettiin uusia painoksia. Comme il le racontera dans ses entretiens sur France Culture, il rencontra même par hasard dans un ascenseur Hitler et son aide de camp. Il regrettera de ne pas avoir eu un revolver à ce moment-là. De même, il croisa un jour Staline et fut surpris par l´expression cruelle de son visage. Ce jour-là, il le vit boire 24 vodkas dans une réception mais on lui affirma que Staline les jetait discrètement sans les boire. 

    ellauri145.html on line 72: Même s’il ne désespère pas de pouvoir orienter l’action culturelle du Parti et récupérer les forces psychiques dispersées, en conciliant le freudisme avec le marxisme au service du prolétariat, Breton ne cesse de se heurter à l’incompréhension et la défiance croissante venant de la direction du Parti communiste. Il a une rupture definitive avec le plus rouge Louis Aragon.       

    ellauri145.html on line 74: En 1938, Breton organise la première Exposition internationale du surréalisme à Paris. À cette occasion, il prononce une conférence sur l’humour noir. Cette même année, il voyage au Mexique et rencontre les peintres Frida Kahlo et Diego Rivera, ainsi que Léon Trotski avec qui il écrit le manifeste Pour un art révolutionnaire indépendant (ru), qui donne lieu à la constitution d’une Fédération internationale de l’art révolutionnaire indépendant (FIARI). Cette initiative est à l’origine de la rupture avec Éluard (n.h.). 

    ellauri145.html on line 76:       Breton embarque à destination de New York le 25 mars 1941 avec Wifredo Lam et Claude Lévi-Strauss. À l’escale de Fort-de-France (Martinique), Breton (comme communiste) est interné puis libéré sous caution (comme idiot convenable). Il rencontre Aimé Césaire. Le 14 juillet, il arrive à New York, où demeurent pendant la guerre de nombreux intellectuels français en exil. 

    ellauri145.html on line 77:       Avec Marcel Duchamp, Breton fonde la revue VVV et Pierre Lazareff l’engage comme « speaker » pour les émissions de la radio la Voix de l’Amérique à destination de la France. Jacqueline le quitte pour le peintre David Hare.

    ellauri145.html on line 79:       Malgré les difficultés de la reconstruction de la France et le début de la guerre froide, Breton entend poursuivre sans aucune inflexion les activités du surréalisme. Et les polémiques reprennent et se succèdent : contre Tristan Tzara se présentant comme le nouveau chef de file du surréalisme, contre Jean-Paul Sartre qui considérait les surréalistes comme des petits-bourgeois, contre des universitaires, en démontant la supercherie d’un soi-disant inédit d’Arthur Rimbaud, contre Albert Camus et les chapitres que celui-ci consacre à Lautréamont et au surréalisme dans L’Homme révolté. Kuka täällä hajuttaa, Milli-Molli rupsuttaa.

    ellauri145.html on line 81: Apres un autre manifeste contre le Stalinisme avec Camus, Gide, Hemingway et Huxley, il cosigne dans Le Libertaire une « Déclaration préalable » au manifeste « Surréalisme et anarchisme » : « La lutte pour le remplacement des structures sociales et l’activité déployée par le surréalisme pour transformer les structures mentales, loin de s’exclure, sont complémentaires. Leur jonction doit hâter la venue d’un âge libéré de toute hiérarchie et toute contrainte. »      

    ellauri145.html on line 83:       Son plus grand désir eût été d’appartenir à la famille des grands indésirables.

    ellauri145.html on line 307: L’ombre d’un vieux poète erre dans la gouttière		Vanhan runoilijan sielu harhailee vesikourussa		

    ellauri145.html on line 308: Avec la triste voix d’un fantôme frileux.		Huhuaa kuin pahansisuinen kummitus.			

    ellauri145.html on line 312: Cependant qu’en un jeu plein de sales parfums,		Samalla kuin kananmunanhaisevassa pakassa

    ellauri145.html on line 314: Héritage fatal d’une vieille hydropique,		Vanhan vesipään tappava perikunta,	 

    ellauri145.html on line 320: J’ai plus de souvenirs que si j’avais mille ans.	Mulla on enemmän muistoja kuin tuhatvuotiaalla.				

    ellauri145.html on line 325: C’est une pyramide, un immense caveau,			Ne on pyramidi, luola suunnaton,					

    ellauri145.html on line 330: Qui s’acharnent toujours sur mes morts les plus chers.	Ja kiusaavat izeään mun rakkaat vainajat.		

    ellauri145.html on line 334: Hument le vieux parfum d’un flacon débouché.		Joista nousee väljähtyneen pullon hajua.		

    ellauri145.html on line 336: Rien n’égale en longueur les boiteuses journées,	Mikään ei tunnu pitemmältä kuin leimit päivät,

    ellauri145.html on line 338: L’ennui, fruit de la morne incuriosité,			Ikävyys, tuhnun kiinnostumattomuuden hedelmä,	

    ellauri145.html on line 339: Prend les proportions de l’immortalité.			Ottaa kuolemattomuuden mittasuhteet.			

    ellauri145.html on line 340: — Désormais tu n’es plus, ô matière vivante,		- Sitten sua ei enää ole, elävä massa,			

    ellauri145.html on line 341: Qu’un granit entouré d’une vague épouvante,		Jota aallon ympäröimä kivi kauhistaa,			

    ellauri145.html on line 342: Assoupi dans le fond d’un Saharah brumeux,		Talvisen Saharan pohjaan nukahtanut,

    ellauri145.html on line 344: Oublié sur la carte, et dont l’humeur farouche		Karttaan unohtunut, jonka hurja tuuli			

    ellauri145.html on line 345: Ne chante qu’aux rayons du soleil qui se couche.	Laulaa vasta auringon maata mennessä.

    ellauri145.html on line 349: Je suis comme le roi d’un pays pluvieux,				Mä olen kuin sateisen maan kuningas			

    ellauri145.html on line 352: S’ennuie avec ses chiens comme avec d’autres bêtes.			Ikävystyy koirista kuin muista elukoista,		

    ellauri145.html on line 353: Rien ne peut l’égayer, ni gibier, ni faucon,				Ei mikään sitä piristä, riista, haukkamezästys,		

    ellauri145.html on line 359: Et les dames d’atour, pour qui tout prince est beau,			Ja naiset ympärillä, joiden mielestä prinssit ovat komeita,	

    ellauri145.html on line 360: Ne savent plus trouver d’impudique toilette				Eivät kexi riittävästi säädytöntä asua,				

    ellauri145.html on line 363: Le savant qui lui fait de l’or n’a jamais pu				Tietäjä joka tekee sille kultahippuja				

    ellauri145.html on line 364: De son être extirper l’élément corrompu,				Ei saa siitä irti rappion alkusyytä.				

    ellauri145.html on line 367: Il n’a pas réchauffé ce cadavre hébété					Eivät pysty lämmittämään tätä raatoa,				

    ellauri145.html on line 368: Où coule au lieu de sang l’eau verte du Léthé.				Missä veren tilalla on Lethen vihreätä vettä.

    ellauri145.html on line 446: J´ai tout senti : l´hiver, le printemps et l’été ;		Mä oon tuntenut vähän kaikkea: talvea, kevättä ja kesää;

    ellauri145.html on line 456: De n´avoir pas de l’eau, du soleil, des pastèques.     		Ettei mulla ole vettä, aurinkoa, vesimeloneita.

    ellauri145.html on line 474: Alors il monte à l’échelle ? haute, haute, haute,		Se nousee tikkaille ? korkeille 3x

    ellauri145.html on line 482: Il redescend de l’échelle ? haute, haute, haute,		Se laskeutuu tikkaat ? korkeat 3x

    ellauri145.html on line 483: L’emporte avec le marteau ? lourd, lourd, lourd,		Vie ne pois ja vasaran ? painavan 3x

    ellauri145.html on line 484: Et puis, il s’en va ailleurs ? loin, loin, loin.		Ja sitten lähtee menemään ? pois 3x

    ellauri145.html on line 490: J’ai composé cette histoire ? simple, simple, simple,		Kexin tämän jutun ? simppelin 3x

    ellauri145.html on line 512: Friedrich Nietzsche, Karl Marx and Charles Darwin are the great triumvirate of 19th-century thinkers whose ideas still have huge impact today. Nietzsche was philosophy’s supreme iconoclast; his sayings include “God is dead” and “There are no facts, only interpretations”. Highly relevant, yet his association with concepts such as the Übermensch, master morality, slave morality and, possibly most dangerous, the will to power, have also contributed to him being widely misinterpreted. There are three myths in particular that need dynamiting: that his politics were on the far right, he was a misogynist and he lacked a sense of humour. Of a sort.

    ellauri145.html on line 516: Condemned by ill health and abysmal eyesight to convey his philosophy in short, aphoristic bursts, Nietzsche knew the power of raising a bubble of laughter, only to puncture it as you ponder the further meaning: “Is man God’s mistake, or is God man’s mistake?” “Man does not strive for happiness; only the Englishman does that” – a dig at Jeremy Bentham and John Stuart Mill. “Possession usually diminishes the possession.” “Never trust a thought that occurs to you indoors.” He even makes fun of his readers: “The worst readers are those who behave like plundering troops: they take away a few things they can use, dirty and confound the remainder, and revile the whole.” Vittu miten säälittäviä on yrityxet osoittaa että jyrkät tyypit olis jotenkin humoristisia. Ei ne vaan ole. 

    ellauri145.html on line 522: We have to bestow blame on one particular Nazi named Martin Heidegger. Martin Heidegger’s magnum opus Being and Time was in large part an attempt to create a systematic understanding of metaphysics and human condition building from Nietzsche’s work. Heidegger became the Nazi rector for the entire German university system, which gave the Nazi party a huge bolster of academic legitimacy, and he promoted the Nazi party and their agenda from his classroom, often sporting the Brown Shirt. When the Nazi’s really began to take power, Hitler kicked out Heidegger as University Rector.

    ellauri145.html on line 524: Following the war, academics who had supported the Nazi regime were banned from teaching, including Heidegger, who never spoke publicly or privately about his involvement. Heidegger turned away from his earlier project of creating a fundamental ontology, and in doing so he also turned away from Nietzsche - or so his writings would make it appear. In truth, he remained just as indebted to Nietzsche’s work as he ever was, only he shifted focus. He created a false presentation of Nietzsche’s work in order to distance himself from his own past and involvement with the Nazis. Many academics take Heidegger’s critique of Nietzsche to be factual and seem to excuse Heidegger because he was under the influence of Nietzsche.

    ellauri145.html on line 526: Heidegger’s analysis of Nietzsche is entirely inauthentic. He alleges that Nietzsche merges a metaphysics of force with a Marxist analysis of labor to create a technological metaphysics of domination - however, Nietzsche’s analysis of force was completely counter to Marx’s and the marriage of Nietzsche and Marx is not Nietzsche, but is rather National Socialism, and the philosophical framework of this marriage is none other than Being and Time.

    ellauri145.html on line 533: Nietzsche is popular among teenagers for the same reason that Stephen Hawking is well-known among people who aren’t scientists: image.

    ellauri145.html on line 535: Intellectuals very often have an image the same way rock stars and movie directors do. There’s the real person, and there’s the body of work they create, and then there’s the image, the popular conception of that person. Most people don’t understand theoretical physics and are not interested in learning the math to do so, and most people probably wouldn’t understand anything in the papers that Hawking has authored or co-authored. But most of us know who Hawking was, not only because he wrote popular books but because he was paralyzed and sat in a wheelchair and had a robot voice. The idea of a theoretical physicist who does all his work with his brain even though his body is destroyed and speaks through a machine is almost like a comic book character, and the popular imagination loves that.

    ellauri145.html on line 537: Nietzsche’s image, through no more fault of his own than Hawking´s (LOL), has grown in a similar way to that of Hawking. We all have a vague notion of what the Ubermensch is, we’ve all heard “God is dead,” and we all know Nietzsche was a crazy philosopher with a giant mustache who wrote really hard books and scared his contemporaries and was apparently a favorite of the Nazis. There are little quips and quotes from him around the internet that sound awfully cryptic and enigmatic. And the publishing industry plays on this image, too: I have a copy of Beyond Good And Evil with a black cover and the title text printed in red and white, and the color scheme looks a little sinister. I strongly suspect that, if Nietzsche did not have a popular image as a crazy nihilist Nazi Ubermensch from the 1800s, the publisher would not have made the decision to print his books with a black and red color scheme. A cursory look at Amazon’s book listing also shows copies of Thus Spake Zarathustra with a picture of a panther’s eyes on the cover, glowering at the reader. Because… “Nietzsche was that crazy German writer or philosopher or whatever, right? And he was, like, an anarchist or nihilist or Nazi or something, right? Didn’t he kill God or something like that? Yeah.”

    ellauri145.html on line 539: What rebellious teenager could resist this kind of thing? You’ve got your long hair, your leather jacket, your Slayer albums and your combat boots. You’ve got a guitar you can almost play. What completes that ensemble better than a copy of “The Antichrist,” placed conspicuously on your book stand? It’ll scare your parents if they’re religious, it’ll freak out your friends, and maybe you can find a sentence that sounds profound and memorize it so you can win some points for being deep. Get an inch or two deeper between her legs. 

    ellauri145.html on line 541: Now, this is perhaps not quite fair to all the teenagers who read Nietzsche. Some of them may actually understand him, at least partially, including the long-haired leather jacket-wearing ones. And there really is a little blood and thunder in Nietzsche’s philosophy, a little punk rock. Regardless, the popular image is probably a bigger driver for book sales of Nietzsche’s work than anything he actually said or any point he actually made.

    ellauri145.html on line 545: The answer to this is very simple. Utilitarianism is concerned only with the volume of pleasure and pain, and Nietzsche says in so many words that as soon as you even enter into this kind of thinking, you are already deep into the territory of nihilism. It is passive; concerned with high maintenance, not constructivism; aloof or indifferent to meaning, something to justify the effort in the first place, even when it is successful, let alone when it isn’t. It is the staid, kindly, sober—not to say, the British—version of the same imbecilic nihilism that was prevailing on the continent in the same era. Mill did not understand the difference between pleasure and (counterfactual) happiness, between pain and suffering, between real (spiritual) slavery and freedom. Eli koska se oli säälittävä mursuwiixinen luuseri.

    ellauri145.html on line 551:   Although there is certainly a bias toward “masculinity” in Nietzsche’s works, this does not necessarily mean what it is presumed to mean. “Masculinity” is not, for instance a code word for “male”. It does not apply as a broad category to those who have a certain set of genitals. In fact what the term means is having the sort of virtues that one might have typically related to the masculine virtues that were considered admirable at various times in the past. These include courage, transcendence of petty emotional concerns, fearlessness in the face of death, and so on. Intellectual courage was a particular attribute that Nietzsche was trying to encourage in his readers though his appeal to the term, “masculinity”.

    ellauri145.html on line 637: quaranteen) – vaan päinvastoin hyökkäsi sitä vastaan romaanissaan L’immortel (1888).

    ellauri145.html on line 640: 11 Lause voi viitata lapsettoman Nietzschen kirjoihin tai mihin hyvänsä. ’Jumalan valtakunnan’ käsitettä hän ruotii useissa kirjoituksissaan, tyypillisesti juuri valtamuodostelmana.

    ellauri145.html on line 688:   Joris-Karl Huysmans on Anteron seuraava potilas. Charles-Marie-Georges Huysmans (5. helmikuuta 1848 Pariisi, Ranska – 12. toukokuuta 1907 Pariisi, Ranska) oli pukinpartainen flaamilaissyntyinen ranskalainen kirjailija ja taidekriitikko, jonka ensimmäiset romaanit olivat naturalistisia. Hänestä tuli kuitenkin pian dekadentti. Hän oli myös arvostettua kirjallisuuspalkintoa jakavan Goncourt-akatemian ensimmäinen johtaja Huysmans oli ranskalaisen äidin ja alankomaalaisen isän ainoa poika. Hän aloitti 20-vuotiaana pitkän uran Ranskan sisäministeriössä. Useimmat romaaninsa hän kirjoitti virka-aikana työpaikalta varastamalleen kirjepaperille. Ranskalaisillahan ei ole töissä muuta kuin luppoaikaa, kuten selviää amerikkalaisten tekemässä ranskisklisheekokoelmassa nimelltä Emily in Paris. Se on mikäli mahdollista vielä kehnompi kuin Jorin romaanit. Huysmansin varhaisimmat teokset saivat vaikutteita naturalisteilta. Niihin kuuluvat muun muassa romaani Marthe, histoire d’une fille (1876) ja pienoisromaani Sac au dos (1880), joka perustui Huysmansin omiin kokemuksiin Saksan–Ranskan sodasta.

    ellauri145.html on line 690: Huysmans irtautui 1880-luvun aikana naturalisteista, sillä hänen seuraavat teoksensa olivat naturalistisiksi liian dekadentteja ja tyypillisesti väkivaltaisia. Dekadentit oli poliittisesti lähempänä jotain oikeistoanarkisteja vaikka jotkut olivatkin olevinaan punikkeja. Huysmansin uuden tyylin ensimmäinen romaani oli tragikoominen À vau-l’eau (1882). Hänen tunnetuin romaaninsa on vuonna 1884 ilmestynyt A rebours (1884, suom. Vastahankaan), joka kertoo päähahmonsa, tylsistyneen aatelisukuisen henkilön esteettisen dekadenssin kokeiluista. Että ne jaxavatkin olla ikävystyttäviä. Ikävystyneiden joutomiesten hätkäytysyrityxiä. Là-bas (1981) puolestaan kertoo 1880-luvun okkultismin uudelleenheräämisestä. Siinä 1800-luvun satanistien tarina lomittuu keskiajalla eläneen Gilles de Rais’n elämään. Kirjassa on mukana ensimmäistä kertaa omaelämäkerrallinen protagonisti Durtal, joka esiintyy myös Huysmansin kolmessa viimeisessä romaanissa, teoksissa En route (1895), La Cathédrale (1898) ja L´Oblat (1903).

    ellauri145.html on line 693:   Hän kirjoitti romaaninsa joutohetkinään, minkä niistä kyllä huomaa. Hänen tyylinsä oli ensin äärimmäisen realistinen mutta muuttui myöhemmin mystillis-esoteeriseksi. Tavallinen kehitys oikeistopaskiaisilla. Émil Zola oli alkuun hänen esikuvansa. Hänen naturalistisen kautensa teoksia ovat Le drageoir aux épices (1874), Marthe (1876), Les sœurs Vatard (1879), En ménage (1881) ja A rebours (1884), joista viimemainittuun perustuu hänen maineensa. Vuonna 1887 Huysmansista tuli Zolan katkera vastustaja ja muutenkin aika paskiainen. Myöhemmällä kehityskaudellaan Huysmans muuttui ankaran katoliseksi. Hizi tääkin oikeistolaistumiskehitys on nähty vitun monessa kynäilijässä. Hän kuvaa eri kehitysvaiheitaan teoksissa En Route (1895), La Cathédrale (1898) ja L’Oblat (1903). Huysmans kuoli sentään vuonna 1907 syöpään. Hänet haudattiin perhehautaan Montparnassen hautausmaalle.

    ellauri145.html on line 697: 1890, while composing Là-bas, Huysmans was thoroughly fed up with both Zola and Naturalism. He wanted his novel to be “le dernier décarcassement de cette butte croulante qu’on nomme le naturalisme!” (24 July 1890, letter 99:200). Luhistuva kuoppa. Tarkoitti takuulla peräreikää. Hullua, sehän niitä nimenomaan kiinnosti.

    ellauri145.html on line 699:     Là-bas did strike a serious blow to the public’s conception of Naturalism. The novel, which opens with a two-page invective against Naturalism, was serialized in L’Echo de Paris, beginning on February 16, 1891. Huysmans’s protagonist, Durtal, feebly defends himself against his friend, Des Hermies, who maligns Naturalism as “du cloportisme” (siiramaisuudesta) while accusing it of having sold out: “Il a vanté l’américanisme nouveau des moeurs, abouti à l’éloge de la force brutale, à l’apothéose du coffre-fort. Par un prodige d’humilité, il a révéré le goût nauséeux des foules, et, par cela même, il a répudié le style, rejeté toute pensée altière, tout élan vers le surnaturel et l’au-delà...” (XII, 1, 6-7).

    ellauri145.html on line 701:     Des Hermies leaves, and Durtal, a former Naturalist, weighs his friend’s criticism. Although he is fed up with the positivism and commercialism of Naturalism, he cannot envision a novel without its research, realistic details, and style. He hypothesizes about what could be done and concludes that Naturalism must change, it must broaden its horizons:

    ellauri145.html on line 703:     Il faudrait...garder la véracité du document, la précision du détail, la langue étoffée et nerveuse du réalisme, mais il faudrait aussi se faire puisatier d’âme et ne pas vouloir expliquer le mystère par les maladies des sens; le roman, si cela se pouvait, devrait se diviser de lui-même en deux parts, néanmoins soudées ou plutôt confondues, comme elles le sont dans la vie, celle de l’âme, celle du corps, et s’occuper de leurs réactifs, de leurs conflits, de leur entente. Il faudrait, en un mot, suivre la grande voie si profondément creusée par Zola, mais il serait nécessaire aussi de tracer en l’air un chemin parallèle, une autre route, d’atteindre les en deçà et les après, de faire, en un mot, un naturalisme spiritualiste... (XII, 1, 10-11)

    ellauri145.html on line 707:     Durtal admires the documentation of Naturalism, yet wants to open it to the supernatural, to an exploration of both body and spirit: it will be a kind of “naturalisme spiritualiste” that will follow Zola’s route, but in the air.6 This tension between realism and the supernatural lies at the heart of Là-bas, a novel in which Huysmans follows Durtal’s spiritual transformation as he researches medieval and modern Satanism.  Là-bas was a scandalous best-seller. It inspired a great deal of public debate, especially since it was published in the same review and at the same time as Jules Huret’s first Enquête sur l’évolution littéraire, a series of sixty-four interviews conducted with major French authors from March 3 to July 5, 1891.7 This series, which asked its interviewees whether Naturalism was dead, was a phenomenal success read by all of Paris.8 Huret caused every non-Naturalist writer to agree that Zola’s brand of Naturalism was obsolete because it neglected humanity’s soul.

    ellauri145.html on line 709:     When Zola was interviewed for this series on March 31, one month after Là-bas had begun to appear, even he admitted that it was possible that Naturalism was drawing to a close: “C’est  possible. Nous avons tenu un gros morceau du siècle, nous n’avons pas à nous plaindre; et nous représentons un moment assez splendide dans l’évolution des idées au dix-neuvième siècle pour ne pas craindre d’envisager l’avenir” (XII, 653).

    ellauri145.html on line 1091: Je vis assis, tel qu’un ange aux mains d’un barbier,		Elän istualteen, kuin enkeli parturintuolissa,

    ellauri145.html on line 1093: L’hypogastre et le col cambrés, une Gambier			Mahanalus ja kaula taaxetaivutuxessa, Gambier

    ellauri145.html on line 1094: Aux dents, sous l’air gonflé d’impalpables voilures.		hampaissa, keskellä kouriintuntumattomia pilviä

    ellauri145.html on line 1096: Tels que les excréments chauds d’un vieux colombier,		Kuin vanhan kyyhkyslakan kuumat pökäleet,

    ellauri145.html on line 1099: Qu’ensanglante l’or jeune et sombre des coulures.		Joka vuotaa rasvaista nuorta ja tummaa kultaa.

    ellauri145.html on line 1101: Puis, quand j’ai ravalé mes rêves avec soin,			Sit kun mä olen nielaissut takasin mun unet huolella,

    ellauri145.html on line 1103: Et me recueille, pour lâcher l’âcre besoin :			Ja kokoan izeni, päästääxeni katkeran tarpeeni,

    ellauri145.html on line 1107: Avec l’assentiment des grands héliotropes.			Isojen heliotrooppien nyökkiessä myöntymyxensä.

    ellauri145.html on line 1119: Vitalie Rimbaud vers l’âge de quinze ans avait la peau claire, les cheveux châtain foncé et les yeux bleus de son frère Arthur. Vitalie meurt le 18 décembre 1875, à l´âge de dix-sept ans passés, d’une synovite tuberculeuse, dite tuberculose des articulations. Arthur Rimbaud assiste à son enterrement le crâne rasé4, en signe de deuil5.

    ellauri145.html on line 1141: Ca semble cependant fortement contredite par une lettre d’Alphonse Allais à sa mère du 23 octobre 1905, dans laquelle il lui apprend qu’à la suite d’une phlébite il vient effectivement de passer 40 jours sur le dos, sans même pouvoir travailler.

    ellauri145.html on line 1162: In 1871, he published La natation ou l’art de nager appris seul en moins d’une heure (Learning the art of swimming alone in less than an hour), then resigned from the Army and moved to Marseilles. Here he filed a patent for the "airlift swimming trunks and belt with a double compensatory reservoir". This commercial endeavor was a complete failure. He returned to Magdeburg, where he earned his living as a language teacher, developing a method for learning French, which he self-published in 1874.

    ellauri146.html on line 414: Vigny oli lyriikassaan romantiikan läpimurron edeltäjiä, samoin hän on ensimmäisiä, jotka hylkäsivät pseudoklassismin säännöt ja kulkee William Shakespearen jalanjälkiä. 1829 esitettiin Théâtre français’ssa Vignyn käännös Shakespearen Othellosta, joka aikanaan oli merkittävä rohkean, realistisen tyylinsä vuoksi. Odéonissa 1831 esitetty La maréchale d’Ancre käsittelee historiallista aihetta 1600-luvulta ja on Vignylle tyypillisesti fatalistinen. Pariisin oopperassa 1833 esitetty näytelmä Quitte pour la peur edustaa 1700-luvun tyyliä.

    ellauri146.html on line 416: Vignyn suurin teatterimenestys oli kuitenkin vasta Chatterton (esitetty 1835). Se heijastelee romantiikkaa ja erityisesti Vignyn käsitystä runoilijasta marttyyrinä, jota ei ymmärretä. Se oli valtava menestys ja aiheutti itsemurha-aallon, kuten Werther aikanaan. Aihe oli peräisin Vignyn vähän aiemmin julkaisemasta, Laurence Sternen ja Denis Diderot’n esikuvan mukaan kirjoittamasta, katkeruuden leimaamasta Consultations du docteur Noir: Stello ou les dìables bleus (1832). Siinä vaiheessa Vignyn maine varjosti Hugoa, joka vasta vähitellen sai mainetta, mutta tilanne muuttui pian Hugon eduxi, kun Vignyn kirjoitustyö näytti yhtäkkiä lakkaavan.

    ellauri146.html on line 418:   Vignyn julkaisut jäivät hänen viimeisten 29 vuotensa aikana vähäisiksi. Uran alkuaikojen ystävät, Victor Hugo ja Sainte-Beuve, hylkäsivät hänet. Sainte-Beuve kirjoitti, että hän on kaunis enkeli, joka on juonut etikkaa. Ranskan akatemiaan Vigny valittiin vasta 1846, ja liittymispuhe jäi hänen viimeiseksi julkiseksi toimekseen. Viimeiset 25 vuottaan hän asui yksin maatilallaan. Vapaaehtoiseen eristäytymiseen saattoi vaikuttaa suhde taiteilija Marie Dorvaliin, johon hän oli tutustunut Chattertonin harjoituksissa. Dorvalilla oli näytelmässä "Kittyn" rooli. Heidän suhteensa päättyi pian, ja sydänsuru sai Vignyn kirjoittamaan runon La colère de Samson. Viimeisiä vuosi varjosti myös sairastuminen syöpään. Vasta hänen kuolemansa jälkeen ilmestyi hänen mestariteoksensa Les destinées (1864) ja hänen 40 vuotta pitämänsä päiväkirja, josta hänen ystävänsä ja testamentin toimeenpanija Louis Ratisbonne julkaisi katkelmia nimellä Journal d’un poète, jotka antoivat runoilijasta uudenlaisen kuvan.

    ellauri146.html on line 430: Du sable et des lions ? — La nuit n’a pas calmé			Hiekan ja leijonien sekaan? Yö ei viilentänyt			

    ellauri146.html on line 431: La fournaise du jour dont l’air est enflammé.			Päivän uunin kuumentamaa ilmaa.					

    ellauri146.html on line 432: Un vent léger s’élève à l’horizon et ride			Tuulenhenki nousee horisontista					

    ellauri146.html on line 433: Les flots de la poussière ainsi qu’un lac limpide.		Ja pöläyttää pölyä kuin lammen pinnasta.			

    ellauri146.html on line 435: L’œuf d’autruche, allumé, veille paisiblement,			Struzinmuna sytytetty valaisee					

    ellauri146.html on line 439: L’une est grande et superbe, et l’autre est à ses pieds :	Toinen on iso muskelimasa, toinen on sen jaloissa:			

    ellauri146.html on line 440: C’est Dalila, l’esclave, et ses bras sont liés			Se on Delila, orja, jonka käsivarret				

    ellauri146.html on line 442: Dont la force divine obéit à l’esclave.				Jotka tottelee sokeasti orjan käskyjä.				

    ellauri146.html on line 445: Ses grands yeux, entr’ouverts comme s’ouvre l’amande,		Hiänen isot silmät viiruna kuin mantelit			

    ellauri146.html on line 451: Pressés de bracelets, d’anneaux, de boucles d’or,		Täynnä sormuxia, renkaita ym. koruja				

    ellauri146.html on line 453: Ses deux seins, tout chargés d’amulettes anciennes,		Sen 2 tisua, taikakaluin koristellut				

    ellauri146.html on line 454: Sont chastement pressés d’étoffes syriennes.			On siveästi tupattuna syyrialaisiin liiveihin.			

    ellauri146.html on line 458: Elle s’endort sans force et riante et bercée			Hiän nukahtaa vaisusti hymyhuulena,				

    ellauri146.html on line 466: Entre la bonté d’Homme et la ruse de Femme.			Hyvän miehen ja petollisen naisen välillä.			

    ellauri146.html on line 467: Car la Femme est un être impur de corps et d’âme.		Sillä nainen on yltä päältä likainen.				

    ellauri146.html on line 469: L’Homme a toujours besoin de caresse et d’amour,		Miespä tarvii koko ajan haleja,					

    ellauri146.html on line 470: Sa mère l’en abreuve alors qu’il vient au jour,			Sen äiti aloittaa sen jo vauvana,				

    ellauri146.html on line 471: Et ce bras le premier l’engourdit, le balance			Sen käsivarsi heijaa imiessä tissiä,				

    ellauri146.html on line 472: Et lui donne un désir d’amour et d’indolence.			Ja saa pojan haluamaan lisää sellasta.				

    ellauri146.html on line 473: Troublé dans l’action, troublé dans le dessein,			Toiminnan miehenä, eto suunnittelijana,

    ellauri146.html on line 475: Aux chansons de la nuit, aux baisers de l’aurore,		Iltatähdistä, yölauluista, aamupanosta,				

    ellauri146.html on line 485: Force l’Homme à chercher un sein où reposer,			Pakottaa miehen asentoon tai lepoon,				

    ellauri146.html on line 487: Mais il n’a pas encor fini toute sa tâche.			Mutta ei siinä vielä kaikki!					

    ellauri146.html on line 495: À sa plus belle amie elle en a fait l’aveu :			Parhaalle kaverille se tunnustaa:				

    ellauri146.html on line 497: « Un Maître lui fait peur. C’est le plaisir qu’elle aime,	Ei se halua komentajaa, vaan viihdettä,				

    ellauri146.html on line 498: « L’Homme est rude et le prend sans savoir le donner.		Miehet on tökeröitä, antamatta ottavat.				

    ellauri146.html on line 500: « Rehausse mieux que l’or, aux yeux de ses pareilles,		On näyttävämpi trofee kuin kultakoru,				

    ellauri146.html on line 501: « La beauté qui produit tant d’étranges merveilles		Tosi kauneus saa aikaan ihmeitä,				

    ellauri146.html on line 502: « Et d’un sang précieux sait arroser ses pas. »			Lattialämmitystä parempi on uhrin veri.				

    ellauri146.html on line 503: — Donc ce que j’ai voulu, Seigneur, n’existe pas ! —		Eli herraa sellaista kuin halusin ei ole !			

    ellauri146.html on line 504: Celle à qui va l’amour et de qui vient la vie,			Se jolle annamme lempeä ja siementä,				

    ellauri146.html on line 510: La Femme aura Gomorrhe et l’Homme aura Sodome ;			Naisella on tippuri ja miehet homoja;				

    ellauri146.html on line 515: N’avait pour aliment que l’amour d’une femme,			Sai ravintoa yxinomaan naisesta,				

    ellauri146.html on line 516: Puisant dans l’amour seul plus de sainte vigueur		Ja mä panin siihen enemmänkin tehoja				

    ellauri146.html on line 517: Que mes cheveux divins n’en donnaient à mon cœur.		Kuin mä sain mun taikahiuxista.					

    ellauri146.html on line 521: Qui n’ont pu me cacher la rage de ses yeux ;			Jotka ei ole kätkeneet sen raivoa;				

    ellauri146.html on line 522: Honteuse qu’elle était, plus encor qu’étonnée,			Vähän häveten enempi pettyneenä,				

    ellauri146.html on line 524: Car la bonté de l’Homme est forte, et sa douceur		Sillä miehen hyvyys on iso, ja kiltteys				

    ellauri146.html on line 525: Écrase, en l’absolvant, l’être faible et menteur.		Ihan murskaa tollasen pikku valhepussin.			

    ellauri146.html on line 527: Mais enfin je suis las. J’ai l’âme si pesante,			Mutta nyt mä olen kylästynyt, niin on sielu raskas,

    ellauri146.html on line 529: Qui soutiennent le poids des colonnes d’airain			Jotka kannattaa vaikka vaskipylväitä,				

    ellauri146.html on line 532: Qui se traîne en sa fange et s’y croit ignorée ;		Sen sylissä muka huomaamatta;					

    ellauri146.html on line 533: Toujours ce compagnon dont le cœur n’est pas sûr,		Aina tää partneri jonka sydän pettää,				

    ellauri146.html on line 537: D’où le feu s’échappant irait tout dévorer.			Jonka tuli karatessaan kaiken polttaisi.			

    ellauri146.html on line 539: C’est trop ! Dieu, s’il le veut, peut balayer ma cendre.	Se on jo vähän liikaa! Luoja luutikoon halutessaan tuhkani.	

    ellauri146.html on line 540: J’ai donné mon secret, Dalila va le vendre.			Mä annan salasanani, Delila myyköön sen.			

    ellauri146.html on line 541: Qu’ils seront beaux, les pieds de celui qui viendra		Sen kengät ovat sievät joka tulee				

    ellauri146.html on line 542: Pour m’annoncer la mort ! — Ce qui sera, sera ! »		Ilmoittamaan mulle kuolemastani! Whatever will be, will be!	

    ellauri146.html on line 543: Il dit et s’endormit près d’elle jusqu’à l’heure		Sanoo Homer ja nukahtaa hiänen viekkoon				

    ellauri146.html on line 544: Où les guerriers tremblants d’être dans sa demeure,		Sillä aikaa kun arat sotilaat sen tuvassa			

    ellauri146.html on line 545: Payant au poids de l’or chacun de ses cheveux,			Maxaa mansikoita sen joka karvasta,				

    ellauri146.html on line 547: Le traînèrent sanglant et chargé d’une chaîne			Kiskoo verisenä kettingissä					

    ellauri146.html on line 548: Que douze grands taureaux ne tiraient qu’avec peine,		Jota tusina härkää tuskin jaxaa veellä,				

    ellauri146.html on line 553: Allumèrent l’encens ; dressèrent un festin			Ne sytyttää sytkärillä suizukkeet,				

    ellauri146.html on line 554: Dont le bruit s’entendait du mont le plus lointain ;		Alkaa bileet jotka kuuluu yläkertaan asti,			

    ellauri146.html on line 562: Terre et ciel ! avez-vous tressailli d’allégresse		Maa ja taivas! Oletteko nyt iloissanne				

    ellauri146.html on line 564: Suivie d’un œil hagard les yeux tachés de sang			Seuraavat verestävät silmät					

    ellauri146.html on line 565: Qui cherchaient le soleil d’un regard impuissant ?		Jotka ezii aurinkoa impotenttina?				

    ellauri146.html on line 568: Écrasa d’un seul coup, sous les débris mortels,			Romauttaa ne kertaheitolla raunioxi				

    ellauri146.html on line 636: The Lionizing piece is obviously a quiz on N. P. Willis, and is also a parody on a story by Bulwer. Willis went abroad in 1831, and sent home to the New-York Mirror a series of newsletters, known when collected in book form as Pencillings by the Way. He got into a duel, happily bloodless, with the novelist Captain Marryat. More important to him was the friendship of Lady Blessington. That once world-renowned widow wrote books and edited annuals, to one of which even Tennyson contributed. Now she is remembered chiefly for her salons in London. Believing that some ladies, disapproving of her supposed liaison with Count D’Orsay, would not come to her parties, she invited gentlemen only. Through her Willis met most of the English literati. 

    ellauri146.html on line 648: But it is dangerous to attempt to separate any historical figure from his setting. No individual can ever be understood fully until the subtle influences of his formal education, his reading, his associates, and his time and country (with his heredity) are traced and synthesized. Too much has been said, perhaps, about Poe’s “detachment” from his environment and too little about his background—his heritage from Europe and the influences of his early life in Virginia. Elizabeth Arnold, Poe’s mother, was born in England in 1787 and was brought to this country when she was a girl of nine. “In speaking of my mother,” Poe wrote years later to Beverley Tucker of Virginia, “you have touched a string to which my heart fully responds.” Judging from his spirited defense of Elizabeth Poe, it appears that Poe never became unmindful of his immediate English origins on the maternal side.

    ellauri146.html on line 650: Poe’s ancestry on his father’s side was Scotch-Irish and has been traced through County Cavon to Ayrshire, Scotland. The fact that Poe’s Presbyterian Scottish ancestors dwelled for a time in the north of Ireland has caused even so good a scholar as Arthur Hobson Quinn to engage in surprising speculation about an “Irish strain” in Poe and about a “Celtic” trait of perverseness which he had “discovered” in the Poe family.

    ellauri146.html on line 652:  In evaluating Poe’s ethnic heritage it is enough to say that his forbears were English and Scottish and, quite likely, predominantly Anglo-Saxon, the strain which, as Poe himself wrote, animated the American heart.

    ellauri146.html on line 658: Poe’s foster father, John Allan, was himself born and bred in Irvine, Ayrshire, and was a member of the class of English and Scottish merchants of Richmond, Virginia-to which city he had emigrated as a youth around 1795. Scottish merchants represented a very considerable element in the commercial life of Richmond in those years, and many of them, to a considerable extent, maintained themselves aloof from the life of the city. The Scottish influences of Allan and his associates and friends could not have been lost upon Poe.

    ellauri146.html on line 662: “I am a Virginian,” declared Poe; and “the distinguishing features of Virginian character at present-features of a marked nature—not elsewhere to be met with in America-and evidently akin to that chivalry which denoted the Cavalier—can be in no manner so well accounted for as by considering them the debris of a devoted loyalty.” Poe’s Virginia background may or may not have rendered him typically American, but it seems reasonable to think that it fostered in him a Virginian Anglo-American attitude as opposed to an Anglophobic Americanism so common at that time in New England.

    ellauri146.html on line 664: When Poe was just seventeen, his name was entered in  the matriculation books of the new University of Virginia. This period of ten months, between St. Valentine’s Day and Christmas, 1826, which Poe spent at the University, marks the end of his formative youth. The general direction which his genius was to follow had been fairly established.

    ellauri146.html on line 670: Profound must have been the appeal to his subtle aesthetic sense even in youth as he looked at all those classic buildings on some night when the rays of a full moon had softened and blended the separate details of roof and entablature, cornice, and, pillar. It may well have been that, at such an hour and in such a spot, the most celebrated expression in the entire body of his writings was suggested to him by so extraordinary an interfusion of Nature’s beauty with the beauty of art in one of its loveliest forms.

    ellauri146.html on line 672: Though fully a third of Poe’s critical reviews deal with American authors, almost two-thirds of the reviews treat British or European books. Only about half of Poe’s tales have reference to contemporary matters, and only a small number of these reflect the American scene. Three times as many of the tales have designated European settings as have American settings.

    ellauri146.html on line 676: Poe’s first great champion and biographer was the Englishman Ingram. So strong was Poe’s affinity with the life of Europe that legend has carried him there in spite of reality, and it is with some ineffectuality that his biographers explain that he at no time visited Ireland, Greece, France or Russia.

    ellauri146.html on line 678: As a critic, Poe often expressed national sentiments. He urged Americans to build their own literature, to avoid a blind adulation of, or slavish imitation of, Europeans simply because they were Europeans. But at the same time, Poe warned against literary chauvanism, which tended to overpraise every dull American writer simply because he happened to be American. Poe’s detached and objective attitude could become, and often did become, highly critical of American society and America

    ellauri146.html on line 686: started with the queerest idea conceivable, viz; that all men are born free and equal-this in the very teeth of the laws of gradation so visibly impressed upon all things both in the moral and physical universe. Every man “voted,” as they called it-that is to say, meddled with public affairs-until, at length, it was discovered that what is everybody’s business is nobody’s, and that the “Republic” (as the absurd thing was called) was without a government at all. It is related, however, that the first circumstance which disturbed, very particularly, the self-complacency of the philosophers who constructed this “Republic,” was the startling discovery that universal suffrage gave opportunity for fraudulent schemes….A little reflection upon this discovery sufficed to render evident the consequences, which were that rascality must predominate— in a word, that a republican government could never be anything but a rascally one. While the philosophers, however, were busied in blushing at their stupidity in not having  foreseen these inevitable evils, and intent upon the invention of new theories, the matter was put to an abrupt issue by a fellow of the name of Mob, who took everything into his own hands and set up a despotism…. As for republicanism, no analogy could be found for it upon the face of the earth—unless we except the case of the “prairie dogs,” an exception which seems to demonstrate, if anything, that democracy is a very admirable form of government—for dogs.

    ellauri146.html on line 690: Indeed, Poe seems much more the Southerner than the Yankee American, and it is not hard to guess which path he would have chosen had he lived into the 1860’s. One may be very sure that Edgar Poe, though born, almost by accident, in Boston, would have proved one of the Confederacy’s most eloquent and committed partisans. In reviewing the various factors which we may believe shaped Poe’s youthful mind, we would expect to find in Poe, and in re-examining his opinions we do find, a cosmopolitan rather than a parochial outlook. And yet, at the same time, we know Poe was serious when he proclaimed, “I am a Virginian!” We may be justified in looking upon the general influences of his formative years as contributing factors in the development of strong inclinations to Europe, Britain and the American South, rather than to the American Union.   

    ellauri147.html on line 75:     Ale Tyynni was a poet, author, literary and theatre critic, translator and Olympian. Tyynni won the gold medal in the literature category at the 1948 Olympic Games in London. In addition to her poetry collections, she published children’s fiction and essays. With her translations she acquainted a Finnish readership with lyrics from other countries, most notably France. 

    ellauri147.html on line 77: Tuhat laulujen vuotta (‘A thousand years of song’, 1957) contained 225 poems by western poets. Meillä on toi Tyynnin 1000 laulujen vuotta, mää oon sen lukenutkin. Aika kehnojakin runoja on Aake sinne kelpuuttanut. Ei niitä sentään ole tuhatta. Hahaa, mulla on paasauxia jo yli 2000. Enemmän kuin jopa Immi Hellénillä. Pääsimpäs edelle vaikka konehella veisattiin, sano eukko kirkossa. Nojoo, toisto tyylikeinona, mulla on tää Erkki Tantun läppä jo monta kertaa jossakin. 

    ellauri147.html on line 79:       Ale Tyynni was born in Ingria to the east of Finland and moved as a child with her family to Helsinki in 1919. She graduated with a Master’s degree in 1936, with Finnish literature as her main subject. During her university years Tyynni practised poetry recitation and dramatic expression. She was particularly interested in poetic diction and the topic of her final work was Sappho’s metre in Finnish poetry.

    ellauri147.html on line 83: Having completed her university studies, Tyynni took up the teaching of Finnish in evening classes, but the urge to write proved stronger than the duty to teach. Her first poetry collection, Kynttilänsydän (‘Candlewick’), was published in 1938. Two years later she published a second collection Vesilintu (‘waterfowl’). With the outbreak of war, her poetry changed: Lähde ja matkamies (’The spring and the traveller’), Lehtimaja (‘The arbour’) and Soiva metsä (‘The ringing forest’) all reflected the defensive spirit of the country. Tyynni also depicted womanhood, the experiences of women in childbirth and motherhood. Later feminist research in particular has praised Tyynni as a pioneer for her lyrics dealing with childbirth.

    ellauri147.html on line 92: In 1949 Tyynni’s sixth poetry collection was published – ‘Ylitse vuoren lasisen’ (‘Over the glass mountain), which included one of her best loved poems ‘Kaarisilta’ (‘The arched bridge’). The poems make reference to the difficulties she faced in her own life circumstances.

    ellauri147.html on line 94: As luck would have it, Martti Haavio’s wife Elsa Enäjärvi-Haavio died in 1951 following a serious illness. Ale Tyynni went through a difficult divorce from her first husband, and finally in 1960 both Tyynni and Haavio were in a position to remarry. He was 61 and she 47. No codons were necessary anymore, just vaseline. 

    ellauri147.html on line 96: The union of these two lyrical writers is generally seen as a happy and creative time. The partners inspired each other as a couple and as writers. Martti Haavio died in 1973 following a heart attack, and Ale Tyynni-Haavio completed her husband’s unfinished memoirs and it was published as Olen typerä kana: Martti Haavio - P. Mustapää 20-luvun maisemassa (‘I am still distant: Martti Haavio – P. Mustapää in the 1920s countryside’, 1978).

    ellauri147.html on line 98: In the mid-twentieth century Finnish literature had adopted the free verse of modern poetry. Ale Tyynni however went back to a lyrical style, the ballad. Tyynni’s poems were typical of ballads, offering fateful tales dealing with falling in love and sorrow, and life’s turning points. Balladeja ja romansseja (’Ballads and romances’) appeared in 1967. And Tarinain lähde (‘The source of the tales’, 1974) depicted the death of a loved one, sorrow and solitude. Nobody cared to read such balderdash any more.

    ellauri147.html on line 107:   Tyynni received several literary awards between 1943 and 1982. Morever, she won the gold medal in 1948 for her poem ‘Hellaan laakeri’ (‘Let's put a bearing into the stove') at a time when literary composition was still a part of the non-professional Olympic games. A Pro Finlandia medal holder, Academician of the Arts and Honorary doctor, Aake Tyynni died in 1997 at the age of 84. Her daughter Riitta Seppälä and son Mikko-Olavi Seppälä have written their mother’s biography, Aake Tyynni – Hymyily, kyynel, laulu. (‘Aake Tyynni. A smile, a tear, a song’, WSOY, 2013)

    ellauri147.html on line 185:   One or two of my American friends tell me that in public buildings in the US it’s also possible to call the street-level floor the ground floor, like in Britain. But Emily has never visited public buildings, as she works in the private sector. She is a private dancer, dancer for money, any old music will do. Typerä Emily  juoxee muka päivittäin maratoneja mutta väsyy rapuissa. Se ei varmaan ole koskaan nähnyt rappuja.
    

    ellauri147.html on line 251: Sarah Moroz, of Vulture.com, opined "the most egregious oversight ... is Emily herself, who shows zero personal growth over a ten-episode arc. ... Emily’s vapidity is baffling to anyone who has moved from their native country."

    ellauri147.html on line 284: Andrea Bertorelli’s tumultuous relationship with Phil Collins began back when they were just 11 years old. Long before he became a rock star, Collins was a child actor, starring in Oliver!, the West End musical.

    ellauri147.html on line 294: Onkohan kaikki Phil-nimiset jotain paskiaisia? Peter Gabriel left Genesis in 1975 and Phil Collins took the opportunity to become the band’s frontman. As a result, Collins’s profile raised considerably and according to Andrea, it changed him. “Once he became the singer…his drive and ambition became his No. 1 priority, and his ego started to grow,” she said.

    ellauri147.html on line 301: 
    Same Ol’ Collins, Always Cheating
    

    ellauri147.html on line 303: There were signs that maybe it wasn’t as special, or wonderful, as it used to be,” Collins told his biographer.

    ellauri147.html on line 340: "It really hurt my career, or my public persona," he said. “It was based on an untruth…If I say it didn’t happen, I’m trusting that people will believe me.”

    ellauri147.html on line 350: Although he was anxious about introducing Orianne to his daughter, all was well after Collins told six-year-old Lily that Orianne looked just like Princess Jasmine from Disney’s Aladdin. The couple tied the knot in 1999, but it also didn’t stand the test of time…

    ellauri147.html on line 356: “I couldn’t handle the pain and confusion surrounding my dad’s divorce and I was having a hard time balancing being a teenager with pursuing two grown-up careers,” Phil’s daughter Lily said. (Which ones?) Funnily enough, this wouldn’t be the end of Collins and Cevey’s story together. Until then though, the musician had some issues to deal with…

    ellauri147.html on line 369: Phil Collins told The Sunday Times that he’s had some bust-ups with fellow celebrities – most notably, Paul McCartney. Apparently, in 2002, the Beatles legend made fun of Collins, asking him to SIGN something during a party at Buckingham Palace.

    ellauri147.html on line 370: “He has this thing when he’s talking to you, where he makes you feel [like], ‘I know this must be hard for you because I’m a Beatle and I can read and write,” he said. He also claimed that McCartney will say how hard it must be for someone to have a conversation with Phil.

    ellauri147.html on line 381: Whether it be her mother’s birthday, her sack of wet pennies, or any other typical day, Lily never fails to douche before and after seeing her mother. 

    ellauri147.html on line 389: Despite making a name for herself as a suspected actress, Lily Collins has admitted that being the daughter of Phil Collins hasn’t necessarily helped her career. Haw haw. Phil is estimated to have a jaw-dropping net worth of $260 million, which he accumulated through his career as a musician, actor, and writer. 

    ellauri147.html on line 418: In her memoir Unfiltered: No Shame, No Regrets, Just Me, Lily Collins addressed father Phil’s history with infidelity, claiming that “we can’t rewrite the past. I tried, it just won´t work.” According to her, she was angry and sad at the pain her dad brought to the family.

    ellauri147.html on line 434: Lily’s maternal grandfather owned a famous clothing store in Los Angeles. He was a Canadian Jewish immigrant.

    ellauri147.html on line 436: After Lily’s parent’s divorce, she relocated to the US, when she was five years old, with her mother.

    ellauri147.html on line 440: In 2012, she was placed at number 4 in People’s Most Beautiful List.

    ellauri147.html on line 454: She co-starred as Marla Mabrey, a devout Baptist beauty queen living in a beautiful home with her strict mother Lucy, in the 2016 American romantic comedy-drama film, Rules Don’t Apply. Her performance in the movie got her nominated for the 2017 Golden Globe Award in the “Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Comedy or Musical” category.

    ellauri147.html on line 456: Due to her dad’s third marriage, Lily has 2 younger half-brothers.

    ellauri147.html on line 460: Lily has also served as an ambassador to the GO Campaign, an organization that works for orphan children and vulnerable children’s lives.

    ellauri147.html on line 468: At the PETA’s 2020 Libby Awards, she received the ‘Most Pawsitive Quarantine Story’ award for adopting a puppy named Robert Redford from the animal shelter.

    ellauri147.html on line 736:   

    ellauri147.html on line 806: Diesem Profil fügt er eine dynamische Dimension hinzu, auf der er sichtbare von verdeckten/larvierten Merkmalen unterscheidet. Die so beschriebenen Profilkategorien wirken aber am Ende so überladen, beliebig und disparat, dass es schwerfällt, damit eine präzise differentialdiagnostische Abgrenzung der narzisstischen Persönlichkeitsstörung mit Hilfe ihrer klinischen Merkmale zu leisten. So führt Akhtar etwa unter der Kategorie ‘Interpersonale Beziehungen/verdeckt’ das skurrile Merkmal ein: „Tendenz, Briefe nicht zu beantworten“ oder unter derselben Kategorie/sichtbar die schwer operationalisierbare : „Unfähigkeit, wirklich authentisch (Hervorhebung von mir, M.A.) an Gruppenaktivitäten teilzunehmen“. 

    ellauri147.html on line 807: Unter den ‘Ethischen Grundsätzen’ finden wir „offensichtlichen Enthusiasmus für sozialpolitische Belange“ (sichtbar) und „Uneherbietigkeit gegenüber Autoritäten“ als Merkmale der narzisstischen Persönlichkeit und beim ‘Kognitiven Stil’ sind es die (sichtbare) „Vorliebe für die Sprache“ und die „Vorliebe für jede schnelle Art, Wissen zu erlangen“ sowie die (verdeckte) „Benutzung von Sprache und Sprechen zur Regulation des Selbstwertgefühls“, die den Narzissmus kennzeichnen sollen. (ebd., S. 18f.)-->

    ellauri150.html on line 261: Parmi les jeunes filles du monde, — peu nombreuses d’ailleurs, — que Christophe avait pour élèves, était la fille d’un riche fabricant d’automobiles, Colette Stevens. Son père était Belge, naturalisé Français, fils d’un Anglo-Américain établi à Anvers et d’une Hollandaise. Sa mère était Italienne. C’était une famille bien parisienne. Pour Christophe, — pour bien d’autres, — Colette Stevens était le type de la jeune fille française.

    ellauri150.html on line 263: Elle avait dix-huit ans, des yeux noirs veloutés, qu’elle faisait doux aux jeunes gens, des prunelles d’Espagnole, qui remplissaient tout l’orbite de leur humide éclat, un petit nez un peu long et fantasque, qu’elle fronçait et remuait légèrement en parlant, avec des moues mutines, les cheveux désordonnés, un minois chiffonné, la peau médiocre, frottée de poudre, les traits gros, un peu gonflés, l’air d’un petit chat bouffi.

    ellauri150.html on line 267: — Non ? C’est pas possible ?…

    ellauri150.html on line 269:     à table, battant des mains, quand il y avait un plat qu’elle aimait ; au salon, grillant des cigarettes, affectant, devant les hommes, une affection exubérante pour ses amies, se jetant à leur cou, leur caressant la main, leur chuchotant à l’oreille, disant des ingénuités, disant aussi des méchancetés, admirablement, d’une voix douce et frêle, qui savait même, à l’occasion, dire des choses très lestes, sans avoir l’air d’y toucher, qui savait encore mieux en faire dire, — l’air candide d’une petite fille bien sage, les yeux brillants, aux paupières lourdes, voluptueux et sournois, qui regardaient de côté, malignement, guettant tous les potins, happant toutes les polissonneries de la conversation, et tâchant de pêcher çà et là quelque cœur à la ligne.

    ellauri150.html on line 271: Toutes ces singeries, ces parades de petit chien, cette ingénuité frelatée, ne plaisaient à Christophe en aucune façon. Il avait autre chose à faire qu’à se prêter aux manèges d’une petite fille rouée, ou même qu’à les considérer, d’un œil amusé. Il avait à gagner son pain, à sauver de la mort sa vie et ses pensées. Le seul intérêt pour lui de ces perruches de salon était de lui en fournir les moyens. En échange de leur argent, il leur donnait ses leçons, en conscience, le front plissé, l’esprit tendu vers la tâche, afin de ne se laisser distraire ni par l’ennui qu’elle lui causait, ni par les agaceries de ses élèves, quand elles étaient aussi coquettes que Colette Stevens. Il ne faisait guère plus d’attention à elle qu’à la petite cousine de Colette, une enfant de douze ans, silencieuse et timide, que les Stevens avaient prise chez eux, et à qui Christophe enseignait aussi le piano.

    ellauri150.html on line 273: Mais Colette était trop fine pour ne pas sentir qu’avec Christophe toutes ses grâces étaient perdues, et trop souple pour ne pas s’adapter instantanément à ses façons d’être. Elle n’avait même pas besoin de s’appliquer pour cela. C’était un instinct de sa nature. Elle était femme. Elle était comme une onde sans forme. Toutes les âmes qu’elle rencontrait lui étaient comme des vases, dont, par curiosité, par besoin, sur-le-champ, elle épousait les formes. Pour être, il fallait toujours qu’elle fût un autre. Toute sa personnalité, c’était qu’elle ne le restait pas. Elle changeait de vases, souvent.

    ellauri150.html on line 275: Christophe l’attirait, pour beaucoup de raisons, dont la première était qu’il n’était pas attiré par elle. Il l’attirait encore, parce qu’il était différent de tous les jeunes gens qu’elle connaissait : elle n’avait jamais essayé encore d’une potiche de cette forme et de ces aspérités. Il l’attirait enfin, parce qu’experte, de race, à évaluer du premier coup d’œil le prix exact des potiches et des gens, elle se rendait parfaitement compte qu’à défaut d’élégance, Christophe avait une solidité, qu’aucun de ses bibelots parisiens ne pouvait lui offrir.

    ellauri150.html on line 277: Elle faisait de la musique, comme la plupart des jeunes filles oisives d’à présent. Elle en faisait beaucoup et peu. C’est-à-dire qu’elle en était toujours occupée, et qu’elle n’en connaissait presque rien. Elle tripotait son piano, toute la journée, par désœuvrement, par pose, par volupté. Tantôt elle en faisait, comme du vélocipède. Tantôt elle pouvait jouer bien, très bien, avec goût, avec âme, — (on eût presque dit qu’elle en avait une : il suffisait, pour cela, qu’elle se mît à la place de quelqu’un qui en avait une). — Elle était capable d’aimer Massenet, Grieg, Thomé, avant de connaître Christophe. Mais elle était aussi capable de ne plus les aimer, depuis qu’elle connaissait Christophe. Et maintenant, elle jouait Bach et Beethoven très proprement, — (ce qui, à la vérité, n’est pas beaucoup dire) ; — mais le plus fort, c’était qu’elle les aimait. Au fond, ce n’était ni Beethoven, ni Thomé, ni Bach, ni Grieg, qu’elle aimait : c’étaient les notes, les sons, ses doigts qui couraient sur les touches, les vibrations des cordes qui lui grattaient les nerfs comme autant d’autres cordes, son épiderme chatouillé.

    ellauri150.html on line 279: Dans le salon de l’hôtel aristocratique, décoré de tapisseries un peu pâles, avec, sur un chevalet, au milieu de la pièce, le portrait de la robuste madame Stevens par un peintre à la mode, qui l’avait représentée languissante, comme une fleur sans eau, les yeux mourants, le corps tordu en spirale, pour exprimer la rareté de son âme millionnaire, — dans le grand salon aux baies vitrées, donnant sur de vieux arbres, que la neige poudrait, Christophe trouvait Colette toujours assise devant son piano, ressassant indéfiniment les mêmes phrases, se caressant les oreilles de dissonances moelleuses.

    ellauri150.html on line 287: … Écoutez cela. Est-ce que ce n’est pas joli ?

    ellauri150.html on line 289: — Très joli, disait-il, d’un ton indifférent.

    ellauri150.html on line 291: — Vous n’écoutez pas !… Voulez-vous bien écouter !

    ellauri150.html on line 293: — J’entends… C’est toujours la même chose.

    ellauri150.html on line 295: — Ah ! vous n’êtes pas musicien, faisait-elle, avec dépit.

    ellauri150.html on line 297: — Comme si c’était de musique qu’il s’agissait !

    ellauri150.html on line 299: — Comment ! ce n’est pas de musique ?… Et de quoi, s’il vous plaît ?

    ellauri150.html on line 311: — Mais voulez-vous vous taire ! dit Colette, moitié riante, moitié fâchée. Vous n’avez pas la moindre idée du respect.

    ellauri150.html on line 315: — Vous êtes un impertinent… Et puis d’abord, quand cela serait, est-ce que ce n’est pas la vraie façon d’aimer la musique ?

    ellauri150.html on line 319: — Mais c’est la musique même ! Un bel accord, c’est un baiser.

    ellauri150.html on line 321: — Je ne vous l’ai pas fait dire.

    ellauri150.html on line 323: — Est-ce que ce n’est pas vrai ?… Pourquoi haussez-vous les épaules ? Pourquoi faites-vous la grimace ?

    ellauri150.html on line 329: — Cela me dégoûte d’entendre parler de la musique, comme d’un libertinage… Oh ! ce n’est pas votre faute. C’est la faute de votre monde. Toute cette fade société qui vous entoure regarde l’art comme une sorte de débauche permise… Allons, assez là-dessus ! Jouez-moi votre sonate.

    ellauri150.html on line 335: — Vous êtes poli ! disait Colette, vexée, — ravie, au fond, d’être ainsi rudoyée.

    ellauri150.html on line 337: Elle jouait son morceau, s’appliquant de son mieux ; et, comme elle était habile, elle y réussissait très passablement, parfois même assez bien. Christophe, qui n’était pas dupe, riait en lui-même de l’adresse « de cette sacrée mâtine (sekarotuinen narttu), qui jouait, comme si elle sentait ce qu’elle jouait, quoiqu’elle n’en sentît rien ». Il ne laissait pas d’en éprouver pour elle une sympathie amusée. (Narsismimarkkeri!) Colette, de son côté, saisissait tous les prétextes pour reprendre la conversation, qui l’intéressait beaucoup plus que la leçon de piano. Christophe avait beau s’en défendre, prétextant qu’il ne pouvait dire ce qu’il pensait, sans risquer de la blesser : elle arrivait toujours à le lui faire dire ; et plus c’était blessant, moins elle en était blessée : c’était un amusement pour elle. Mais comme la fine mouche sentait que Christophe n’aimait rien tant que la sincérité, elle lui tenait tête hardiment, et discutait mordicus (izepäisesti). Ils se quittaient très bons amis.

    ellauri150.html on line 360: Uusista todisteista vuoti tietoja lehdistölle. Lisäksi epäilys toisesta syyllisestä kasvoi armeijassa ja hallituksessa. Picquart pelkäsi armeijan estävän hänen tutkimuksensa, ja hän valtuutti asianajajansa toimittamaan hänen keräämänsä todisteet hallitukselle. Asianajaja kertoi eräälle parlamentin jäsenelle, että sotasalaisuuksia kaupitellut lista oli todistettavasti Esterházyn kirjoittama. Parlamentin jäsen otti puolestaan yhteyttä Dreyfusin veljeen Mathieuhön. Mathieu syytti Esterházyä maanpetoksesta ja toimitti laatimansa kirjeen 15. marraskuuta 1897 sotaministerille ja johtavalle pariisilaiselle sanomalehdelle. Esterházyn vaatimuksesta koottu sotaoikeus vapautti kuitenkin hänet syytteistä nopean oikeudenkäynnin jälkeen. Tämän johdosta kirjailija Émile Zola julkaisi 13. tammikuuta 1898 L'Aurore-lehden etusivulla presidentti Félix Faurelle osoitetun kirjeen J’accuse (suom. ”minä syytän”). Zola syytti kirjeessään seitsemää korkea-arvoista upseeria ja kolmea käsialantutkijaa todisteiden keksimisestä Dreyfusia vastaan ja totuuden peittelystä.

    ellauri150.html on line 378: 
    Jyrki Lehtola’s Tweets
    

    ellauri150.html on line 430:       Le vicomte intervient et provoque Cyrano, qui réplique par une brillante tirade à l’honneur de son propre nez. Tout en rimant, il sort son épée et bat en duel le vicomte, que ses amis évacuent blessé, tandis que l'assemblée acclame le vainqueur. Le calme revient. Cyrano est secrètement amoureux de sa cousine Roxane mais son physique disgracieux du fait de la taille de son nez l’empêche de se déclarer.

    ellauri150.html on line 488:       What the f---!? Based on a 1880 novel after all!? Whose novel? Fuck you screenwriters! Taking all the glory!  “I said,’ Well, I’ll never use the "g" word,'” Vidal says. “‘There’ll be nothing overt. But it will be perfectly clear that Messiah is in love with Ben-Hur.”

    ellauri150.html on line 558: Back in Rome, Esther wore the garments of a Jewish matron. Tirzah and two children at play upon a lion’s skin on the floor were her playmates; and it was fun to observe how carefully Ben watched them to make sure that the little ones were his.

    ellauri150.html on line 570: Tears arose in Esther’s eyes, and she was about to speak. 
    

    ellauri150.html on line 760:     "Therefore the Church’s negative judgment in regard to Masonic association remains unchanged since their principles have always been considered irreconcilable with the doctrine of the Church and therefore membership in them remains forbidden. The faithful who enrol in Masonic associations are in a state of grave sin and may not receive Holy Communion."

    ellauri151.html on line 105: Proust considérait l’homosexualité comme un enfer, une dépravation vouée obligatoirement à l’humiliation morale et physique, au contraire d’un Gide qui dépeint une « pédophilie juvénile et souriante ».  Il a toujours eu la hantise que sa mère découvre ses penchants et ce n’est qu’après la mort de ses parents qu’il s’affichera plus ouvertement avec ses amants.

    ellauri151.html on line 107: Car d’après ce que j’entendis les premiers temps dans celle de Jupien et qui ne furent que des sons inarticulés, je suppose que peu de paroles furent prononcées. Il est vrai que ces sons étaient si violents que, s’ils n’avaient pas été toujours repris un octave plus haut par une plainte parallèle, j’aurais pu croire qu’une personne en égorgeait une autre à côté de moi et qu’ensuite le meurtrier et sa victime ressuscitée prenaient un bain pour effacer les traces du crime. J’en conclus plus tard qu’il y a une chose aussi bruyante que la souffrance, c’est le plaisir, surtout quand s’y ajoutent—à défaut de la peur d’avoir des enfants, ce qui ne pouvait être le cas ici, malgré l’exemple peu probant de la Légende dorée—des soucis immédiats de propreté. Enfin au bout d’une demi-heure environ (pendant laquelle je m’étais hissé à pas de loup sur mon échelle afin de voir par le vasistas que je n’ouvris pas), une conversation s’engagea. Jupien refusait avec force l’argent que M. de Charlus voulait lui donner. (SG 609/11).

    ellauri151.html on line 281: Dilthey a le premier noté l’importance d’un texte de jeunesse de Hegel et y a signalé comme une première esquisse de ce que sera plus tard «la conscience malheureuse». On sait quelle importance revient à la conscience malheureuse dans la Phénoménologie de Hegel, et plus tard encore dans la Philosophie de la Religion. Sous une forme abstraite la conscience malheureuse est la conscience de la contradiction entre la vie finie de l’homme et sa pensée de l’infini. « En pensant je m’élève à l’absolu en dépassant tout ce qui est fini, je suis donc une conscience infinie et en même temps je suis une conscience de soi finie et cela d’après toute ma détermination empirique... Les deux termes se cherchent et se fuient — je suis le sentiment, l’intuition, la représentation de cette unité et de ce conflit et la connexion de ces termes en conflit... je suis ce combat, je ne suis pas un des termes engagés dans le confit, mais je suis les deux combattants et le combat lui-même, je suis le feu et l’eau, qui entrent en contact et le contact et l’unité de ce qui absolument se fuit. » La conscience malheureuse qui dans la Phénoménologie trouve son incarnation historique dans le judaïsme et dans une partie du moyen âge chrétien est en effet la conscience de la vie comme du malheur de la vie. L’homme s’est élevé au-dessus de sa condition terrestre et mortelle ; il n’est plus que le conflit de l’infini et du fini, de l’absolu qu’il a posé en dehors de la vie, et de sa vie réduite à la finitude…

    ellauri151.html on line 365: Gray  (2012)  argues  that  Wittgenstein  could  have known  Hamann  through  Fritz  Mauthner  (1849–1923)  or  Søren Kierkegaard  (1813–1855).  Kusch  proposes  that  Wittgenstein  got Martin Luther’s (1483–1548)  view  of  theology  as  a  grammar  from Hamann  or  somebody  discussing  Hamann’s  views,  because 

    ellauri151.html on line 367: as Wittgenstein. In fact, Mauthner used Hamann’s grammar quote 

    ellauri151.html on line 369: (2000) points out that Wittgenstein discussed Kierkegaard’s views in 

    ellauri151.html on line 370: 1931, and Hamann’s views on 22.2.1931 (DB: 40). She argues that 

    ellauri151.html on line 375: Wittgenstein’s analysis shows that religious and linguistic  symbols 

    ellauri151.html on line 451:       Let us assume that we invited an unknown person to a game of cards. If this person answered us, “I don’t play,” we would either interpret this to mean that he did not understand the game, or that he had an aversion to it which arose from economic, ethical, or other reasons. Let us imagine, however, that an honorable man, who was known to possess every possible skill in the game, and who was well versed in its rules and its forbidden tricks, but who could like a game and participate in it only when it was an innocent pastime, were invited into a company of clever swindlers, who were known as good players and to whom he was equal on both scores, to join them in a game. If he said, “I do not play,” we would have to join him in looking the people with whom he was talking straight in the face, and would be able to supplement his words as follows: “I don’t play, that is, with people such as you, who break the rules of the game, and rob it of its pleasure. If you offer to play a game, our mutual agreement, then, is that we recognize the capriciousness of chance as our master; and you call the science of your nimble fingers chance, and I must accept it as such, it I will, or run the risk of insulting you or choose the shame of imitating you.” … The opinion of Socrates can be summarized in these blunt words, when he said to the Sophists, the leaned men of his time, “I know nothing.” Help! TLDR!

    ellauri151.html on line 529: Leibnizian problematic: God’s metaphysically constrained choice beteween the best vs pointless evils. Voltaire got a lot of laughs from it.

    ellauri151.html on line 542: Wittgenstein’s  letters,  diaries  and 

    ellauri151.html on line 543: Drury’s memoirs show that Wittgenstein discussed Hamann’s authorship in the early 1930s and 1950s. Wittgenstein’s diary notes  and  the 

    ellauri151.html on line 544: Cambridge lectures show that Wittgenstein’s discussion of Hamann’s 

    ellauri151.html on line 546: and reality that resembles Hamann’s. Using Hamann’s view of language 

    ellauri151.html on line 556: Johann Georg Hamann (1730–1788) is a Christian thinker who started the first linguistic turn in philosophy and the German linguistic tradition with his Metakritik of Kant’s philosophy (see Bayer 2002; Dickson 1995; Betz 2009). John 

    ellauri151.html on line 559: paper I investigate Hamann’s influence on Wittgenstein. I show the 

    ellauri151.html on line 562: Wittgenstein  referred  to  Hamannian  themes  and  to  Hamann’s 

    ellauri151.html on line 568: resembling Hamann’s in 1931.

    ellauri151.html on line 570: Using Hamann’s view of language as a point of comparison for 

    ellauri151.html on line 585: Tim Labron (2009) also compares Wittgenstein’s late philosophy 

    ellauri151.html on line 608:   Hamann and Wittgenstein  criticize  the  Enlightenment’s dualism senses/reason, subject/object, mind/world, reason/feeling and theory/practice by developing a view of “sensuous reason” that is located in language.

    ellauri151.html on line 630: Ludwig Hänsel sent the second volume of Hamann’s 

    ellauri151.html on line 635: Wittgenstein  mentioned  Hamann  to  Maurice  O’Connor 

    ellauri151.html on line 637: I have been reading in a German author, a contemporary of Kant’s, 

    ellauri151.html on line 640: confronting Adam with his transgression.’ Now I would not for the life 

    ellauri151.html on line 641: of me dare to say, ‘how like God.’ I wouldn’t claim to know how God 

    ellauri151.html on line 642: should act. Do you understand Hamann’s remark? Tell me what you 

    ellauri151.html on line 657: Wittgenstein first interprets Hamann’s ideas as a Russell-type paradox of signs and their objects in light of the logical problems he was discussing in his lectures: how God∈God? Wittgenstein then uses Kierkegaard to interpret religious symbols as paradoxes  that  express  a  higher  truth.  I  argue  that  Wittgenstein 

    ellauri151.html on line 658: discusses Hamann’s view of Divine Presence in nature: God is like nature and a part of nature, so God is present in nature.  

    ellauri151.html on line 666: had refuted the picture theory’s appeal to ideal logical form soon 

    ellauri151.html on line 679: Munz  (2000) discusses Wittgenstein’s reply to Frazer at length. Frazer argues that magic is based on loose associations that lead to erroneous views on causation. According to Munz, Wittgenstein holds that the distinction between beliefs and practices cannot be made, as language  is  at  its  core  mythological.    

    ellauri151.html on line 684: communication as a counter-model for religious language and uses it to criticize Frazer’s attempts to debunk religion. Religious rituals must be understood as expressive communication. Magic, religion and language are based on symbolism, as the harmony of language and reality takes place in the symbol. A religious ritual like a rain-dance symbolically represents and mythologically enacts the connection between a wish and its fulfillment, and Wittgenstein mentions sacraments like baptism in this context (RF: 125). All language is similarly symbolic and ceremonial at its core and cannot be separated from mythology. 

    ellauri151.html on line 688:       Hein (1983: 42–49; see also Labron 2009: 53–57) also notes that Hamann and Wittgenstein use an epistemology based on faith and trust to reject the Enlightenment’s attempt to find an Archimedean point outside the world (mikäs se nyt on? Kuka sellaista kyselee?). Hamann argues that the modern subject/object split leads to an irresolvable problem of skepticism.

    ellauri151.html on line 702: 2. Defined the “kingdom of heaven” as Israel’s prophetic earthly kingdom2. Defined the “kingdom of heaven” as the heavenly position of the body of Christ

    ellauri151.html on line 723: Paul declared he was the founder of Christianity (1 Corinthians 3.10-11; 1 Timothy 1.15-16). He stated he received the doctrines of Christianity from the ascended, glorified Lord.5  Paul called these doctrines “secrets” (μυστήριον) for they were unrevealed in the Lord’s earthly ministry and unknown to the Twelve. The Twelve learned of them later from Paul but continued to confine their ministry to Jews (Galatians 2.7-9). No Biblical record exists of any of the Twelve ministering to Gentiles.

    ellauri151.html on line 1138:     La relation de Jérôme et Alissa s’épanouit dans une ferveur religieuse partagée, approfondie par des lectures communes. Alissa ei anna, edes sormella, se on tässä aivan Arvid Järnefeltin linjoilla. Se nääntyy anorexiaan kuin Arvin Nadia Nadia. Francesca sentään päätti hartaan lukuhetken Paolon vartaaseen. Kuten Luukasa totesi:

    ellauri152.html on line 583: The most basic information is this: “Yentl the Yeshiva Boy” is a short story by Isaac Bashevis Singer, the famous Polish-American Jewish writer, published in 1962. It follows Yentl, a Jewish girl from a Polish shtetl who loves Torah-study, as she disguises herself as a man named Anshel in order to study at a yeshiva. Yentl (1983) is the movie-musical adaptation of the story, directed by and starring Barbra Streisand. In many ways it is a fairly faithful adaptation of the story’s events, but it has a different tone and a different ending.

    ellauri152.html on line 585:  Yeshiva Boy moves fluidly between referring to the main character as Yentl or Anshel depending on context, which is a great detail. There are times when she’s referred to as Anshel for long stretches of time, and the same for Yentl. The movie, not having third person narration, is a different beast. I take my cue from the story and use both names, depending on the context of what I’m talking about—for example, if Yentl is definitely seen as Yentl by the story in that moment, or as Anshel, or ambiguously as both. That’s a very subjective choice to make each time you write her name! But that question, the fact that you have to ask it of yourself and the fact that it’s not always clear, is to me a crucial part of Yentl’s character.

    ellauri152.html on line 587: The plot goes like this: Yentl has secretly studied Torah under her father’s tutelage. She has no interest in marriage, so when he dies, she disguises herself as Anshel and travels to a yeshiva. Along the way she meets a fellow student named Avigdor. They strike up a friendship and Yentl accompanies him to his yeshiva in Bechev, where they become study partners. Avigdor is in love with a girl named Badass, whom he wishes to marry. However, when Badass’s family learns a dark secret about Avigdor’s family, they won’t let him marry her. In desperation, Avigdor begs Anshel to marry Badass in his stead. Yentl initially resists, but eventually gives in and asks for Badass’s hand in order to retain Avigdor’s goodwill. After Anshel and Badass are married, Badass comes to look on her husband with love, but Yentl become more and more upset about the situation. Unable to go on any longer, Yentl asks Avigdor to join her on a business trip. Once they are at an inn in another city, Yentl tells him that she’s a woman. He laughs and doesn’t believe her, so she undresses momentarily. He is shocked. This is where the two versions split.

    ellauri152.html on line 589: In the movie, in a scene I despise, Avigdor grabs her and shakes her violently while demanding to know why, and the rest of the conversation plays out melodramatically with yelling and tears. Yentl confesses that she loves him, he realizes he loves her too, and they kiss. Avigdor asks her to marry him, and says she could continue studying in secret. Yentl refuses because she can’t go back to studying furtively in secret, despite how much she loves him. The two part, and Avigdor returns to Badass and marries her. They live happily ever after, and the film ends with Yentl on a ship to America, implying that she will be able to study Torah as a woman there.

    ellauri152.html on line 591: In the story, Avigdor just trembles and sits down, and Yentl calmly explains. He then asks what she is going to do now, and she says she will go to a different yeshiva and start over. Avigdor half says they could get married, but doesn’t finish the sentence. Yentl rebuffs him, saying it wouldn’t be good, and explains, “I’m neither one nor the other.” She tells him to go back to Badass instead. Avigdor has strange feelings, trying to reconcile who Anshel is, who Yentl is. But they spend the night in companionable debate, discussing Yentl’s marriage to Badass and whether she legally needs to divorce her, as well as why Yentl crossdressed. Avigdor brings up marriage again, but Yentl refuses even stronger.

    ellauri152.html on line 593: The story ends with the townspeople of Bechev wondering about Anshel’s disappearance and why he divorced Badass so suddenly, but none of them guess the truth. Badass is heartbroken but eventually recovers enough to marry Avigdor, though she cries even at their wedding. They name their first child Anshel.

    ellauri152.html on line 595:  I’ve seen Yentl the movie-musical several times, and there’s so much to unpack there, you could watch it a hundred times and have something new to talk about each time—whether it’s in the vein of despairing over the unnecessary heterosexuality of it all (even Wikipedia notes how aggressively the film erases as much queerness as it can!), or reveling in its grudging gayness (because even if Streisand decided she was playing a straight cis woman, the author is dead and it’s so easy to see Anshel and Avigdor on screen, both men, falling in love with each other).

    ellauri152.html on line 597: But when I finally read the story for the first time… a new world opened up. Oh, it’s so gay in so many ways! It’s less detailed than the movie in many areas, but in other places it has glorious details that were totally excised from the movie. In the story, all the women in town have crushes on Anshel! And whether you read Anshel as a woman, a man, or a nonbinary person has a huge effect on your perception of that detail!

    ellauri152.html on line 600: Anshel had found a way to deflower the bride. Badass in her innocence was unaware that things weren’t quite as they should have been.

    ellauri152.html on line 601: Meanwhile, the movie has Yentl entirely evade the situation by telling Badass that despite what everyone says, they don’t have to sleep together, then convincing Badass that she (Badass) doesn’t want to have sex, and—when Badass expresses interest in having sex anyway—exhausts her with Torah study so she’s too tired to think about it.

    ellauri152.html on line 603: And, oh f-ck, there is so much to talk about in this section. The importance of consent here, when Yentl lets Badass know she doesn’t need to do anything she doesn’t want to, both according to her husband and according to Jewish law—that’s good, that’s meaningful. Then we even get recognition that feminism doesn’t just mean validating women who don’t want sex, but also validating women who do want sex! Badass starts to have feelings for Anshel and proposes sleeping together herself, on her own terms. The movie is not always kind to Badass—in many ways she is a stereotype for Yentl to play off of—but this is a place where Yentl‘s feminism succeeds: Badass wants to have sex, and that’s fine.

    ellauri152.html on line 605: Or it would be fine if the movie didn’t play it for laughs. The movie puts Yentl in multiple awkward situations where she has to perform verbal and physical gymnastics to keep people from seeing her without clothes, that gross classic trope whereby trans characters are outed all the time in fiction. As always, the movie drags this scene out into a whole joke, that Yentl has to scramble to prevent Badass from finding out she’s a woman because Badass wants to have sex with her, a woman, isn’t that just soooooo funny? On multiple levels, I am unamused and unhappy.

    ellauri152.html on line 609: It’s frustrating to catalogue the ways in which the film works to cis-normify the story. No Yentl crossdressing into the infinite future. No wrestling with her gender identity. The film’s ending throws out the story’s ambiguity and unapologetic queerness in favor of, one might charitably say, a feminist ending, or one might say uncharitably and truthfully, a cisnormative ending.

    ellauri152.html on line 613: “Miss Streisand [made] Yentl, whose greatest passion was the Torah, go on a ship to America, singing at the top of her lungs. Why would she decide to go to America? Weren’t there enough yeshivas in Poland or in Lithuania where she could continue to study? Was going to America Miss Streisand’s idea of a happy ending for Yentl? What would Yentl have done in America? Worked in a sweatshop 12 hours a day where there is no time for learning? Would she try to marry a salesman in New York, move to the Bronx or to Brooklyn and rent an apartment with an ice box and a dumbwaiter? This kitsch ending summarizes all the faults of the adaptation. It was done without any kinship to Yentl’s character, her ideals, her sacrifice, her great passion for spiritual achievement. As it is, the whole splashy production has nothing but a commercial value.”

    ellauri152.html on line 615: Now, here Singer is not mad at Yentl the film for cis-normifying his gender-ambiguous, interestingly queer Yentl, but rather for turning the ending into optimistic kitsch that ignores the harsh reality of what life in America was for Jewish immigrants, especially for Jewish women. And in some ways I feel like rolling my eyes at him for that. Aside from the fact that it offends his artistic vision, why shouldn’t Jewish women get a film where—suspension of disbelief!—a Jew will study Torah, loudly and proudly, as a woman? It’s a musical, not a documentary.

    ellauri152.html on line 617: So I’m not of Singer’s opinion that the movie has no merit. I love Yentl’s music and emotionality (the short story is more distant), and I think I’ll always love it. But I do prefer Yeshiva Boy’s ambivalence and ambiguity to the movie’s heterosexual Hollywood polish.

    ellauri152.html on line 619: The ending of Yentl is just supremely disappointing compared to the unapologetic ending of Yeshiva Boy. “I’ll live out my time as I am,” Anshel says in the story—and Anshel is the name she is referred to as in this passage, even while also referred to as a woman and with she/her pronouns. Yentl the Yeshiva Boy often engages in this mixing of gender signifiers—it’s in the very title, which pairs the traditionally feminine name “Yentl” with the clashing term “boy,” letting them jostle each other to create dissonance and ambiguity. The terms not matching is their meaning. This is how Anshel is. A woman with a man’s soul, a man with she/her pronouns, a person with two names. It’s not couched in easily understandable modern terms, but no one who has heard of these modern terms would read Yentl as a cis woman playing dress up. It’s different than that. Queerer than that.

    ellauri152.html on line 621: This genderqueerness is the simple fact of Yentl’s character in Yeshiva Boy, but totally painted over in Yentl.

    ellauri152.html on line 622: And yet in other ways, the film can’t help preserving the queerness of the story despite itself. Barbra Streisand can add a song about how Yentl is just jealous of Badass for being a conventionally feminine woman whom Avigdor loves, but she can’t stop me from putting my grubby little bi hands all over her film, pointing at Yentl’s tortured gaze aimed at Badass, and saying “GAY.” And she certainly didn’t no-homo the interactions between Anshel and Avigdor very well, because they are in fact very yes-homo, and I will point and say “GAY” at that too.

    ellauri152.html on line 624: In conclusion. You know the idea that if you’re nonbinary then every attraction you feel is gay? That’s Yentl the Yeshiva Boy.

    ellauri152.html on line 626: I’d never heard of this story before, but all the thoughts you had are so interesting! I totally get your frustrations about the movie changing a pivotal scene to make it more “romantic and dramatic” though – why can’t movies just appreciate subtlety and friendship sometimes?  

    ellauri152.html on line 631: And I’ve actually never seen The Half of It, so maybe I should go check it out   I’ve been looking for something new and good to watch!

    ellauri153.html on line 83: Saadi Shirazi oli top influensseri farssipoeetta ja kynäilijä joka eli 13. vuosissadalla. Se tunnetaan paraiten tänään töistään ‘Gulistan’, ‘Bustan’, 'Uzbekistan', 'Kazakhstan' ja laajoista rakastelurunoistaan (ghazal). Ghazal tarkottaa takuulla gasellia, meilläkin on Ghazal Chai nimistä teetä, jossa on gasellin kuva kyljessä. Kamujensa Rumin ja Hafezin kanssa se on 1/3 isoimmista ghazal-kynäilijöistä Persian poetiikassa.

    ellauri153.html on line 180:   Yx päivä, nuoruuden loistossa, mä matkustin kovaa ja saavuin täysin sippinä illalla yhen ahteen juurelle. Heikko vanha mies, joka oli samoin seurannut karavaania, tuli ja kysyi mixmä levytin, tää ei ollut levytyspaikka nääs. Mä vastasin: ‘Miten mä voin matkustaa, kun mulla ei ole enää jalkoja?’ Hän sanoi: ‘Etkö ole kuullut että on parempi kävellä hellästi ja pysähdellä kuin juosta ja väsyä? Exä ole kuullut Aisopoxen satua jänixestä ja kilpikonnasta?’ Oi sä jotka haluut keretä assalle,

    ellauri153.html on line 197:     ‘Jätä mut. Ota mun kultamurun käsi.’ 
    

    ellauri153.html on line 201:     joka jättää kultamurunsa merihädässä.’ 
    

    ellauri153.html on line 204:     Sillä Sa’din  poka on näistä rakkausasioista 
    

    ellauri153.html on line 321: story of Jesus’ death. The discussion on the grammar of “goodness”, “omnipotence” and “evil” in 

    ellauri153.html on line 329: proceed from the actions of chaotic forces that are opposed to God’s plans and the world order. Mani rules. Dog is just another player behind the board, with opposing forces not under his control. 

    ellauri153.html on line 339: Time for some game theory! James’ chess-master analogy can be formalized 6by treating the biblical 

    ellauri153.html on line 341: the Book of Job as a basis for a game model G like the one formalizing Hamann’s creation myth:

    ellauri153.html on line 348: 
  • If the situation is (question Job, disaster, question God), then God moves. He can either play (Answer to Job) or (⌐answer to Job), i.e. answer Job and defeat Job’s challenge, or leave Job suffering, Job’s challenge unanswered and the creation to collapse. If God plays (⌐answer to Job), God and Job lose, as the evils (disaster) and (challenge) leave Job suffering and the creation into meaninglessness and collapse. Wait a minute, where does Dog answer Job's why-question? In my bible, Dog just shouts Job down, brags, throws wanton threats and explains nothing. In what way does that count as an answer to a why-question? It is a completely different speech act in my book.

    ellauri153.html on line 358:   
  • “God is omnipotent” is true at game history w if and only if God has a winning strategy in the justice-of-God game G. Tässähän se tapahtuu se suuri lässähdys. Muka omnipotentti jumala saa häthätää saatanasta matin loppupeleissä. Matkan varrella isokyrpäinen valas voi syödä vaikka kaikki sen nappulat paizi kurkon, joka jää viimeisenä laudalle. Aika lohduttavaa sen muulle tiimille. One can make a few clarifying remarks about the structure of the game. The form of the game is  relatively simple: it’s an ordinary extended-form perfect information game. tuskinpa Jobilla oli täydellistä informaatiota pelitilanteesta tai edes pelin säännöistä, muista pelaajista puhumattakaan. Aika isoja informaatiojoukkoja oli niiden kalloissa. Sitäpaizi ei luonnossa pelaajat siirrä vuoronperään, vaan koko ajan, niinkuin differentiaalipeleissä. . The goal is here not to go deeply into technical details, but to construct an übersichtlich representation for the theological  grammar of biblical stories and to highlight the uses of terms like “good” and “omnipotent” in  them. The game or model can then be used as a simplified fragment that can be projected onto, contrasted with and used to interpret biblical stories. The point of this clarification is to highlight  the grammar of the divine properties “good” and “omnipotent” within the logic of the struggle myth, and to get the consistency of {God is good, God is omnipotent, There is chaotic evil} as in the Book of Job. The argument needs two assumptions. First, the games between God, humans and creation are genuine dialogues. Paskanmarjat, ei nää ole edes mitään signaling gameja, puhumattakaan dialogipeleistä. Olis kannattanut lukea mun väitöskirja Dialogue Games, siinä on oikeeta sananvaihtoa. The players answer each other and thus have to take turns in making moves and participating in them. Then the game of Job and the struggle against chaos is in extended form to represent the sequence of the debate, and its resolution gives the drama of the fight against kid chaos. Second, the properties of God like “omnipotent” and “good” are defined against the background of Job’s encounter with God and the struggle against chaos. This redefinition builds on both James’ reinterpretation of the properties of God in terms of religious practices, and also of Job’s new world of faith in the encounter. Job’s encounter with God and the struggle against chaos are modelled in the game, so such properties of God as “good” and “omnipotent” are then internal to the game. Missä kohtaa Jopilla on tässä jotain pelivaraa? Montako valintaruutua Jobilla edes on: Marise-älä marise, ja Pyllistä-älä pyllistä. Siinä kaikki. Jotta jumalan tiimi voittaisi, sen pitää ensin marista ja sit pyllistää. Nain on meidankin elamassamme! Marise mitä mariset, mut muista pyllistää!

    ellauri153.html on line 364: schemes of pursuing the good or making sense of it.1067 Neiman’s definition has two readings: 

    ellauri153.html on line 382: The justice-of-God game G includes a sense of tragic and pointless evil: Leviathan’s 

    ellauri153.html on line 383: evil (disaster) arises out of a strategy that aims at defeating God’s plan of justice and Job’s 

    ellauri153.html on line 384: happiness. Eli joo syyttele vaan pahaa pikku cheefiä Moby Duckia, ei jumala sille mitään voi vaikka loikin sen ja on sen iso cheefi. Vitun tunari, mixet suunnitellut pelilautaa paremmin? Siis meidän kannalta ja vähän izesikin. Job’s evil (challenge) is tragic, as his quest for justice ends up challenging creation as a 

    ellauri153.html on line 385: whole. Both Leviathan’s and Job’s evils then are opposed to the good, and capture the first 

    ellauri153.html on line 386: meaning. Wright’s definition of evil as an anti-good, anti-God and anti-creation force also captures 

    ellauri153.html on line 394: biblical ideas of God’s plan of salvation and God’s victory over evil, but then use PSR-based 

    ellauri153.html on line 402: “God’s megaphone” to pressure human beings into accepting His salvation. Hyvä imizi. Pystyy ihan näkemään dogin mylvimässä kovaääniseen: hajaantukaa! Ei täällä ole mitään nähtävää! Law an order. Tää on taas tällästä teismiä: jumalan pyjama on tarttunut sen ize keximän koneen rattaisiin. Sorry folks, tässä nyt vaan kävi näin, lämpöverkko on epätasapainossa, eikä taulu kestä lisää sähkölaitteita, mutta voin tuoda teille lisäpattereita. Even horrendous evils 

    ellauri153.html on line 408: greater good for w.  Sure. Funny how everybody still clings to this measly earthly life to the last, given the joys that await them in the clouds. Then the Incarnation and the Gospel stories discussed in Ch. 6.3.1 are God’s 

    ellauri153.html on line 421: action must be independently determined on this model. Second, the use of God’s plans and the 

    ellauri153.html on line 427: prove God’s goodness and omnipotence in the justice-of-God game G: 

    ellauri153.html on line 438: wins outright by restoring Job’s happiness and removing {disaster}. 

    ellauri153.html on line 452: situations w of God’s and Job’s encounter in the justice-of-God game G. They thus are 

    ellauri153.html on line 460: Leviathan’s strategy L={(question Job) → (disaster)}, and L wins if and only if Job and God lose and 

    ellauri153.html on line 471: “Oh for a muse like a refiner’s fire, and like a fuller’s soap! – She will dare to purify the natural use of the senses from 

    ellauri153.html on line 479: The problem of evil has been shown to be a deep problem in Wittgenstein’s sense. Vittu näitä kielimiehiä. Tulee mieleen 60-luvun hammastahnamainos, jossa ehdotettiin kielikoetta, että onko etuhampaat Hamannin harjan ja lipeäsaippuan (Malakia 3:2) jälkeen enää tahmaiset. Syvältä, indeed. Syvällisyys on suunnilleen yhtä ällösana kuin humanismi (alla). The existence of 

    ellauri153.html on line 488: God’s faithfulness: how can God act so that justice is eventually 

    ellauri153.html on line 496: artistic and other practices, and the study of meaning of the world and of different worldviews’ 

    ellauri153.html on line 554:   Now that the problem of evil has been exposed as a conceptual confusion, the way is clear for a  Jamesian science of religions and worldviews. The methods of grammatical description can be  extended to the practices and ways of sense-making in different worldviews: how they give  meaning to moral practices and how do they approach the intelligibility of the world? What  practical responses do they have for coping with evil? For example, the grammar of seeing-as for  models and metaphors can be applied to the metaphors in the Hebrew Bible for God’s activity to  understand what it is to see the world as God’s creation. The grammar of virtues can be used to  describe Buddhist practices and explore, how these approaches contribute to the human good.  Similar approaches can be taken to secular worldviews as well. These descriptions can then be used  to assess the worldviews through dialogical encounters between them. However, one thing should  be clear. There is no point in devaluing the world by arguing for the meaninglessness of life or  atheism on the basis of evil, or in giving justifications for evils that can stand in the way of divine or  human meliorist projects of fighting for justice. To paraphrase the judgment of the Divine Judge in  the Book of Job, such approaches are not even wrong. They are as meaningless as life itself.
    

    ellauri153.html on line 639: Jonatanin tunteet ystäväänsä kohtaan eivät milloinkaan muuttuneet. Aikanaan hän onnistui jälleen tapaamaan Daavidin, tällä kertaa Horesissa, joka tarkoittaa ’sitä yhtä tuuheata paikkaa’. Hores oli karu, vuoristoinen alue, joka sijaitsi ilmeisesti muutaman kilometrin päässä Hebronista kaakkoon. Miksi Jonatan asetti izensä vaaraan nähdäkseen pakolaisena elävän Daavidin? Niin mixikähän? Raamattu kertoo, että hän halusi auttaa ystäväänsä ”jäykistymään Jehovan avulla”. (1. Samuelin kirja 23:16.) Miten Jonatan jäykisti Daavidia? Kysytkin vielä.

    ellauri153.html on line 687: 4 Abigail ja Nabob eivät sopineet hyvin yhteen. Nabob olisi tuskin voinut valita parempaa vaimoa, kun taas Abigail havaitsi olevansa naimisissa miehen kanssa, jota kelvottomampaa sai hakea. Nabobilla oli kyllä rahaa - se oli rikas kuin Naabob, kuten el Zorro joka oli löytänyt azteekkien aarteen Sierra Madrelta - minkä vuoksi hänellä oli suuret käsitykset izestään. Mutta miten muut suhtautuivat häneen? Raamatusta on vaikea löytää henkilöä, josta puhuttaisiin yhtä halveksuvasti kuin Nabobista. Jopa hänen nimensä merkizee ’mieletöntä, typerää’. Antoivatko hänen vanhempansa hänelle tämän nimen syntymän yhteydessä, vai oliko kyseessä lisänimi, jonka hän sai myöhemmin? [Mitä luulet ääliö? Tän propagandan kirjottaja oli Daavidin huonetta ja sukua.] Olipa asia kummin tahansa, hän osoittautui nimensä mukaiseksi.  Nabob oli ”tyly ja menettelytavoiltaan paha”. Hän oli rehentelijä ja juoppo, ja häntä kohtaan tunnettiin laajalti vastenmielisyyttä ja pelkoa. (1. Sam. 25:2, 3, 17, 21, 25.) Se on kieltämättä epätavallista oikeassa elämässä, jossa upporikkaat miljardöörit ovat useimmiten fixuja ja reiluja. 

    ellauri153.html on line 691: 5 Abigail oli täysin erilainen kuin Nabob. Hänen nimensä merkizee ’isäni ilahtui’. Moni isä on ylpeä kauniista tyttärestä, mutta viisas isä on paljon iloisempi lapsen sisäisestä kauneudesta. (Viisas isä ei kyllä lähde tutustumaan siihen omin nokkineen.) Valitettavan usein ulkoisesti kaunis ihminen ei näe tarvetta kehittää sellaisia ominaisuuksia kuin ymmärtäväisyyttä, viisautta, rohkeutta ja uskoa. Näin ei ollut Abigailin laita. Raamattu ylistää häntä sekä hänen ymmärtäväisyytensä että kauneutensa vuoksi. (Lue 1. Samuelin kirjan 25:3.)

    ellauri153.html on line 810:   When King David was very old, he could not keep warm even when they put covers over him. So his attendants said to him, ‘Let us look for a young virgin to serve the king and take care of him. She can lie beside him so that our lord the king may keep warm.’ Then they searched throughout Israel for a beautiful young woman and found Abishag, a Shunammite, and brought her to the king. The woman was very beautiful; she took care of the king and waited on him, but the king had no sexual relations with her” (1 Kings 1:1–4)

    ellauri153.html on line 812:   Many ancient customs are strange to modern readers of the Bible, especially those of us who have never lived in cultures embracing polygamy or absolute monarchy. The incident of Abishag sleeping—chastely—in David’s bed is definitely a puzzling story. We’ll start with the Scripture passage in which Abishag is brought to David:

    ellauri153.html on line 814: Even with extra blankets, the elderly King David could not generate enough body heat on his own to maintain a healthy temperature. A lifetime that had included being a fugitive, living in caves, being exposed to the elements, and fighting hard-fought battles had finally taken its toll on his aging body (see 1 Samuel 20:1; 22:1; 2 Samuel 21:17). David’s condition, called hypothermia, is not unusual in older people: toward the end of his long life, former President Ronald Reagan requested that his favorite electric blanket be returned from the ranch he had sold. Of course, no technology in ancient Israel would provide a continual source of warmth through the cool Judean nights. Only a human body had the capacity to do that.

    ellauri153.html on line 816:   David had four wives whose names we know—Ahinoam, Abigail (2 Samuel 2:2), Eglah (2 Samuel 3:5), and Bathsheba (2 Samuel 11:27)—and possibly others such as Absalom’s mother Maakah. This doesn’t count the concubines he had (2 Samuel 5:13). The natural question is, with plenty of female intimates to keep David warm, why did his attendants seek out a beautiful virgin stranger for the job? The following are several issues regarding Abishag’s “job description”:

    ellauri153.html on line 819: 
  • Why a young virgin? This quality ensured that whoever was chosen for the job wouldn’t be taken away from a jealous fiancé or husband, nor would she be a widow familiar with the sexual practices of the marriage bed. We don’t know what hopes and dreams Abishag had for her own life, but in the ancient world where uncertainty and struggle were lifelong challenges for most people, the honor of being brought into the king’s household would mean a lifetime of well-being and security for her and her family (1 Kings 4:27).

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  • Why beautiful? Human nature never changes. Then as now, people prized physical beauty (Genesis 29:17; Deuteronomy 21:11; 1 Samuel 9:2; 2 Samuel 14:25; Esther 2:2–4). Kings had the privilege and power to surround themselves with beauty, and David’s servants likely thought to win his favor by bringing a beautiful woman into his palace.

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  • Why not a concubine? Though concubines had a lesser status than wives, they, too, possessed a certain rank and dignity. Abishai fortunately had neither. Absalom demonstrated this fact when, as part of his attempted coup, he slept with his father’s concubines (2 Samuel 16:21–22). Moreover, the personal dynamics within harems were infamous for the jealousy and infighting they engendered. To select one wife or concubine over another would be a mark of favoritism that would likely incite resentment and squabbling in the household. Don't even try this at home!

    ellauri153.html on line 824:     Abishag was neither a wife nor a concubine, but her position in the king’s household gave her such high prestige that David’s son Adonijah asked to marry her after the king’s death, but Solomon recognized this as an attempt by Adonijah to make himself king, and he had his brother summarily executed (1 Kings 2:21–25).

    ellauri153.html on line 826:     Nowhere does the Bible approve of David’s state of affairs—just the opposite! God had warned Israel through Moses that any future king “must not take many wives” (Deuteronomy 17:17). Scripture does not say that Abishag’s presence in David’s bed was a good thing, nor does it present David as a good father. His many children by multiple mothers were a cause of great trouble for him and the whole kingdom (2 Samuel 13; 2 Samuel 15; 1 Kings 12:23–25). His own son and successor, Solomon, ignoring God’s clear warning, took his father’s excesses to a shocking extreme with 700 wives and 300 concubines who led him astray and turned his heart after other gods (1 Kings 11:2–4). The kingdom itself was divided and lost by Solomon’s son shortly after his coronation, barely one generation after the glory of King David (1 Kings 12).

    ellauri153.html on line 865: Schopenhauer’s central proposition is the main idea of his entire philosophy, he states simply as “The world is my representation.” Typerys.

    ellauri155.html on line 198: Rovasti (lyhenne rov., ruots. prost ’pappien esimies’ < lat. propositus ’esimies’) on kirkollinen arvonimi.

    ellauri155.html on line 206: Ortodoksisessa kirkossa rovastin arvo (m.kreik. πρωτοπρεσβύτερος, ven. протоиерей ’ensimmäinen pappi’) voidaan myöntää papille, joka on palvellut pitkään menestyksellisesti ja nuhteettomasti. Se annetaan yleensä pitkään palvelleelle kirkkoherralle. Ortodoksisessa kirkossa rovastin arvon voi saada myös teologian tohtori. Pappismunkeilla vastaava arvo on arkkimandrilli.

    ellauri155.html on line 370:   Speaking to the Beacon, an anonymous Department of Homeland Security official commented “CBP doesn’t have the people to properly patrol our nation’s borders but we do have the time to step away from work hours to have a conversation on unconscious bias. It is high time to replace any wimpy inconscious biases with honest-to-God conscious ones.”

    ellauri155.html on line 376: Cursory inspection of the incident proved that was total bunk, I mean that it didn’t matter.

    ellauri155.html on line 381: Border patrol agents are also facing re-education training regarding vaccine mandates, with CBP’s own internal documents showing that up to half of its force face being fired for refusing the shots.

    ellauri155.html on line 446: Menachem Elimelech is the Sterling Professor of Environmental and Chemical Engineering at Yale University. In 1998, he founded Yale's Environmental Engineering program. The program rose to international prominence and has been ranked in the top 10 of the U.S. News & World Report’s Graduate Engineering Rankings for the past six years. Menachem on vähän Krister Lindenin näköinen.

    ellauri155.html on line 463: 5 Mieshän sanoi minulle: ’Hän on minun sisareni.’ Ja Saara sanoi itsekin: ’Hän on minun veljeni.’ Minä olen tehnyt tämän vilpittömin mielin ja tietämättä tekeväni vääryyttä.”

    ellauri155.html on line 469: 11 Abraham vastasi: ”Minä ajattelin: ’Tällä seudulla varmaankin jumalanpelko on tuntematon, ja siksi nämä ihmiset tappavat minut ja ottavat vaimoni.’

    ellauri155.html on line 513:   Achish trusted David, thinking, ‘He has made himself an utter stench to his people Israel; therefore he shall always be my servant’ ” (27:12).

    ellauri155.html on line 521: Today’s passage certainly qualifies as one of the more difficult passages of Scripture. It is easy enough to understand what is going on; however, it is difficult to know how to evaluate it. We see in 1 Samuel 27:1–4 that David decided the best way to escape Saul was to flee to Philistine territory and take up residence in the city of Gath. David had been there before, and he deceived the city’s king, Achish, by pretending to be insane, thereby keeping the Philistines from killing him (21:10–15). This time, David did not have to feign insanity. Achish would have heard of Saul’s war with David, so he probably felt secure in allowing him into the city. This enemy of his enemy—Israel’s King Saul—could be counted on as a friend. Achish gave the country town of Ziklag to David, and it became a royal possession after David ascended the throne (27:5–7).

    ellauri155.html on line 523: Little in the narrative tells us what we are to think of David’s actions. Perhaps the very fact that he sought security among the Philistines is enough to make his choice questionable. After all, God had shown Himself able to keep David safe within the boundaries of Israel (chs. 18–26), so David’s seeking refuge in Philistia may indicate a lapse of faith. It could be that David’s raids from Ziklag confirm this. We see how David would go out against enemies of Israel such as the Amalekites (see Ex. 17:8–16) who were in the south of Judah. After defeating them, he would bring spoil back to Achish and lie to the king, telling him that he was conducting raids on the Israelites (1 Sam. 27:8–12). We do not want to make too much of this, for some actions are acceptable in times of war that are not necessarily acceptable in times of peace (for example, industrial espionage). This was a time of war, with both Achish and the peoples David raided being actual enemies of Israel. Still, David’s successful deception put him in a quandary. Achish was so pleased with David’s work that he commissioned David to join him against Israel (28:1–2). What would he do?

    ellauri155.html on line 525: It is hard to know how to evaluate David’s actions in today’s passage. If they were sinful, let us note that David still accomplished good for Israel by defeating so many of the nation’s enemies. Sometimes we put ourselves in certain difficult situations because of our sin, but that does not mean God cannot bring about good from it. We should not use that as an excuse for sin, but we must also remember that the Lord is big enough to take advantage of our mistakes. Stalin made some mistakes but he did electrify the country as promised by prophet Lenin.

    ellauri155.html on line 536: 37 Vanhempi synnytti pojan ja antoi hänelle nimeksi Moab*; hänestä tuli nykyisten moabilaisten kantaisä. Nimi Moab muistuttaa heprean sanaa ’isän kädestä’.

    ellauri155.html on line 537: 38 Nuorempi synnytti hänkin pojan ja antoi tälle nimeksi Ben-Ammi*; hänestä tuli nykyisten ammoniittien kantaisä. Nimi Ben-Ammi merkitsee ’oman kansani poika’ ja viittaa ammoniitteihin.

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    1 Cor. 2:7
    “but we speak God’s wisdom in a mystery, the hidden wisdom, which God predestined before the ages to our glory.”
    

    ellauri155.html on line 715: The incompatibilist maintains that if our willings and choices are themselves determined by antecedent causes then we could never choose otherwise than we do. Given the antecedent causal conditions, we must always act as we do. We cannot, therefore, be held responsible for our conduct since, on this account, we have no “genuine alternatives” or “open possibilities” available to us. Incompatibilists, as already noted, do not accept that Hume’s notion of “hypothetical liberty”, as presented in the Enquiry, can deal with this objection. It is true, of course, that hypothetical liberty leaves room for the truth of conditionals that suggest that we could have acted otherwise if we had chosen to do so. However, it still remains the case, the incompatibilist argues, that the agent could not have chosen otherwise given the actual circumstances. Responsibility, they claim, requires categorical freedom to choose otherwise in the same circumstances. Hypothetical freedom alone will not suffice. One way of expressing this point in more general terms is that the incompatibilist holds that for responsibility we need more than freedom of action, we also need freedom of will – understood as a power to choose between open alternatives. Failing this, the agent has no ultimate control over her conduct.

    ellauri155.html on line 727: In the Treatise, as was noted earlier, Hume argues that one of the reasons “why the doctrine of liberty [of indifference] has generally been better receiv’d in the world, than its antagonist [the doctrine of necessity], proceeds from religion, which has been very unnecessarily interested in this question” (T 2.3.2.3/409). He goes on to argue “that the doctrine of necessity, according to my explication of it, is not only innocent, but even advantageous to religion and morality”. In the final passages of the Enquiry discussion of liberty and necessity (EU 8.32–6/99–103) – passages which do not appear in the original Treatise discussion – Hume makes it plain exactly how his necessitarian principles have “dangerous consequences for religion”.

    ellauri155.html on line 756:     Calvin then goes on to speak of a deeper dimension of predestination, that in the Old Testament we see a more special election still of God saving certain ones out of the nation of Israel. Calvin says that his readers must see how “the grace of God was displayed in a more special form, when of the same family of Abraham God rejected some.” He then refers to Malachi 1:2-3 which explicitly states, “Was not Esau Jacob’s brother? saith the Lord: yet I loved Jacob, and I hated Esau.”

    ellauri155.html on line 757:     Finally, Calvin comes into the New Testament and shows how the Apostle Paul in Romans quotes this very text from Malachi to substantiate predestination. He quotes from Romans 9:15, itself another quote from the Old Testament: “For he (the Lord) saith to Moses, ‘I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion.’” Why it´s always this damned Paul! I bet he had a drooping mouth like Jürgen Habermas. Calvin then later asks,

    ellauri155.html on line 765: He does so by warning his readers not to make anything else but God’s will their ultimate trust.

    ellauri155.html on line 767:     The will of God is the supreme rule of righteousness, so that everything which he wills must be held to be righteous by the mere fact of his willing it. Therefore, when it is asked why the Lord did so, we must answer, ‘Because he pleased.’ But if you proceed farther to ask why he pleased, you ask for something greater and more sublime than the will of God, and nothing such can be found.

    ellauri155.html on line 769: Calvin taught that God’s will is to be our resting place. He cautions those trying to go beyond the limit of their understanding. When men hear of election, they immediately want to ask, “Why would God choose some, and not others?” To this Calvin replied:

    ellauri155.html on line 773:   God’s thoughts are higher than man’s, and men will be trapped in a mental maze if they try to understand things that are beyond their human comprehension. So what the fuck do you bother us with them in the first place? Can´t you just get comfy in the institution and play with Nopperi blocks? 

    ellauri155.html on line 785: It’s a great illustration of an important biblical truth: Redemption. It’s a word from the slave market. A slave could be redeemed, set free from their old way of life with a suitable sum of mmmooonneeeyyy! Horatius Flaccus was a son of a redeemed slave, and much good did that do to him. And Epictetus was another one. 

    ellauri155.html on line 791: What was Calvin’s answer? He reminds his readers what the predestinated are predestined to do! He points out what the Apostle Paul said in Ephesians 1:4, where he reminds us that the end for which we are elected is “that we should be holy, and without blame before him.” “If the end of election is holiness of life, it ought to arouse and stimulate us strenuously to aspire to it, instead of serving as a pretext for sloth.” He develops how predestination should lead us to fear God all the more, and consequently should both comfort us and spur us on even in the worst of times to greater holiness.

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    Calvin’s Pastoral Care in Using Predestination
    

    ellauri155.html on line 800: The ministry of the Word thus required more than the public exposition of Scripture: it also entailed the declaration and application of God’s Word to individual women and men, girls and boys, through the sacraments, corrective discipline, catechetical instruction, household visitations, and spiritual counsel and consolation. As Calvin noted in his liturgy, ‘the office of a true and faithful minister is not only to teach the people in public, which is he appointed to do as a pastor, but also, as much as he is able, to admonish, exhort, warn, and console each person individually.

    ellauri155.html on line 802: In Volume 4 of John Calvin’s Tracts and Letters, a letter written by Calvin in April of 1541 can be found. It is a fairly lengthy letter written to Monsieur de Richebourg because his son Louis, a young man, had recently died. Louis had been a student of Calvin at the Academy in Geneva, and the impact of his young friend’s death can be heard at the beginning of this letter to the deceased’s father:

    ellauri155.html on line 810: The last sentence is rather remarkable. “Should it be his will to exercise you still further, by concealing it from you, submit to that will, that you may become the wiser than the weakness of your own understanding can ever attain to.” Calvin shows how much wisdom and comfort can be found in submitting to God’s divine will, trusting Him regardless of how much or how little of that will He has revealed to the afflicted. In so doing, he reveals to us true pastoral care in using this Biblical doctrine. Hey, just how much is it? I did not notice any quote.

    ellauri155.html on line 866: Strawson’s purposed to dissolve the so-called problem of determinism and responsibility  by drawing a contrast between two different perspectives we can take on the world: the ‘participant’ and ‘objective’ standpoints. These perspectives involve different explanations of other people’s actions. From the objective point of view, we see people as elements of the natural world, causally manipulated and manipulable in various ways. From the participant point of view, we see others as appropriate objects of ‘reactive attitudes’, attitudes such as gratitude, anger, sympathy and resentment, which presuppose the responsibility of other people. These two perspectives are opposed to one another, but both are legitimate. In particular, Strawson argues that our reactive attitudes towards others and ourselves are natural and irrevocable. They are a central part of what it is to be human. The truth of determinism cannot, then, force us to give up the participant standpoint, because the reactive attitudes are too deeply embedded in our humanity. Fuck humanity, and fuck viewpoints. Game theory is an optimization technology used by animals. As such it forms a part of the causal net.

    ellauri155.html on line 868: One can see in this paper an application of some ideas of a Humean character to a domain to which Hume himself was not inclined to apply them. There is also a suggestive affinity with Kant’s attempt to dissolve the problem of free will in the Critique of Pure Reason.

    ellauri155.html on line 941: 	 The perfectly ideal incumbent for the Harvard Fellowship appears in Bertie Russell, old and almost penniless, but still brimming with undimmed genius and suppressed immortal work’s!

    ellauri155.html on line 959: only one of the widows of my late friend, Bertie’s brother. The other widow,

    ellauri155.html on line 963: how many reasons, and on how many sides, I am interested in Bertie’s career.

    ellauri155.html on line 964: I don’t agree with him in politics or in philosophy, yet we are good intellectual

    ellauri155.html on line 966: can enjoy each other’s performances without envy.

    ellauri155.html on line 984: you into the secret. And as you needn’t send more than $5,000 for the present,

    ellauri155.html on line 996: Bertie’s address is: 
    

    ellauri155.html on line 1005: ostrich or rare tropical bird: She is a sister of the Duke of Portland, but married a brewer’s son, who during the war was a liberal member of Parlaiment. Mr.

    ellauri155.html on line 1010: of her health. There was a love-affair, I don’t know how Platonic, between her

    ellauri155.html on line 1025: me prive de rien; and, except on paper, I sha’n’t know the difference.

    ellauri155.html on line 1026: I don’t wonder that the etiquette of English addresses puzzles you a little,

    ellauri155.html on line 1027: and you musn’t under any circumstances say “Dear Earl Russell”: that is as

    ellauri155.html on line 1047: of the donor’s death or of some new crisis in the finan-

    ellauri156.html on line 80: When David’s men came to the land of the Ammonites, 3 the Ammonite commanders said to Hanun their lord, “Do you think David is honoring your father by sending envoys to you to express sympathy? Hasn’t David sent them to you only to explore the city and spy it out and overthrow it?” 4 So Hanun seized David’s envoys, shaved off half of each man’s beard, cut off their garments at the buttocks, and sent them away.

    ellauri156.html on line 100: 9 The Lord said to Egad, David’s seer, 10 “Go and tell David, ‘This is what the Lord says: I am giving you three options. Choose one of them for me to carry out against you.’” 11 So Gad went to David and said to him, “This is what the Lord says: ‘Take your choice: 12 three years of famine, three months of being swept away[a] before your enemies, with their swords overtaking you, or three days of the sword of the Lord—days of plague in the land, with the angel of the Lord ravaging every part of Israel.’ Now then, decide how I should answer the one who sent me.”

    ellauri156.html on line 122: What keeps David home in Jerusalem? Why doesn’t David go to the battle? I fear there are perhaps several reasons. The first is David's arrogance. God has been with David in all of his military encounters and given him victory over all his foes. God has given David a great name. David has begun to believe his own press clippings. He begins to feel he is invincible. David seems to have come to the place where he believes his abilities are so great he can lead Israel into victory, even though he is not with his men in battle. He was just getting bored. God should not have helped him TOO much, that was like taking the wind from his sails. Any parent knows that much.

    ellauri156.html on line 142: According to Beatles historian Kenneth Womack, McCartney drew his inspiration for the song from Robert Service’s poem “The Shooting of Dan McGrew.”  The Old West-style honky-tonk piano was played by producer George Martin. "Rocky Raccoon" is also the last Beatles song to feature John Lennon's harmonica playing.

    ellauri156.html on line 363: I don’t think I’m exaggerating here. The interaction between David and Uriah (see next episode) seems to indicate that David was puzzled as to why Uriah would not enjoy the good life in Jerusalem if he had the opportunity to do so. Uriah, on the other hand, chose to live as he would have on the battlefield.

    ellauri156.html on line 365:   This reference to Bathsheba’s “purification” is interesting and perplexing. The King James Version reads, “and he lay with her; for she was purified from her uncleanness: and she returned unto her house” at verse 4. The New King James Version is slightly different: “and he lay with her, for she was cleansed from her impurity; and she returned to her house” (note the change from a semi-colon to a comma, and from a colon to a semi-colon). The NIV reads, “and he slept with her. (She had purified herself from her uncleanness.)” The NRSV reads, “and he lay with her. (Now she was purifying herself after her period. Or was it colon? Only David knows, and Dog of course, but they don't tell.).”

    ellauri156.html on line 374: Aika hemmetisti kyyhkypaisteja papille, kun jokainen menstruoiva nainen tuo niitä sille 2kpl/kk. Pappi pysyy hyvin selvillä seurakuntalaisten varmoista päivistä. Hmm. Jos Bathsheban kuukkixet oli ohize jo vähintään viikko sitten, kohtahan sillä oli ovulaatio, eikäpä ihme että Taavi-enon mälli teki heti tehtävänsä. Vaikka mä en kyllä usko eze jäi siihen yhteen kertaan. (2) When did this cleansing occur, and when was it completed? Was Bathsheba’s bathing which David witnessed part of her ceremonial cleansing? If so, there may have had to be a delay before the Law permitted intercourse. Otherwise, David would have caused her to violate the Law pertaining to cleansing, since it may not have been complete. The translations which make her cleansing a past, (continued) completed event seem to be suggesting that she was now legally able to engage in intercourse, though certainly not with David. If she was still in the process of her cleansing, David’s sin of adultery is compounded because it was committed at the wrong time, while cleansing was still in process. It is also possible to read the text (as does the NASB) to say that Bathsheba waited at David’s house until she was ceremonially clean from her evening with David. It is interesting that nothing is said of David waiting until he was cleansed. The inference I take from this “cleansing” reference is that Bathsheba was still concerned about keeping the Law of Moses, even if David was not. Big fat hairy diff.

    ellauri156.html on line 511: In all likelihood, this was all in a day's work for the Israeli army even then. So it is not strange to see David, the mighty man of valor, (1 Samuel 16:18) dealing with Uriah, another mighty man of valor, like the enemy. Here is Uriah, a man who will give his life for his king (but not his wife? Did David even ask?), and David, a man who is now willing to take Uriah's life to cover his sin. We all know that it doesn’t work. (Actually, we all know that it works perfectly: David will be honored by posterity as the best Israeli king ever.) How strange it is to see David making Joab his partner in crime, especially after what Joab has done to li'l Abner:

    ellauri156.html on line 556: The answer is quite simple, as is evident by Joab's own concerns. The entire mission is a fiasco. The Israelites have besieged the city of Rabbah. This means they surround the city, giving the people no way in or out of the city. All the Israelites have to do is wait them out and starve them out. There is no need for any attack. The mission is a suicide mission from the outset, and it does not take a genius to see it for what it is. Joab has to assemble a group of mighty men, like Uriah, and including Uriah, to wage an attack on the city. This attack is not at the enemy's weakest point, as we would expect, but at the strongest point. This attack provokes a counter-attack by the Ammonites against Uriah and those with him. When the Israelite army draws back from their own men, they leave them defenseless, and the obvious result is a slaughter. How can one possibly report this fiasco in a way that doesn’t make Joab look like a fool (at best), or a murderer (at worst)?

    ellauri156.html on line 618: 39 We know that while David was at the cave of Adullam, his brothers and all his father’s household, along with others in distress, came to David there, fearing the wrath of Saul (1 Samuel 22:1-2). Joab, Abishai, and Asahel were all the sons of Zeruiah, the sister of David (1 Chronicles 2:16). I infer from this that these three men joined David at the time his family joined him.

    ellauri156.html on line 620: 41 Is this, by any chance, a clue as to what the “present” was that David sent after Uriah in verse 8? Was the present some “food and drink”? I wonder. 42 Uriah’s actions raise some interesting questions about those who get themselves drunk. It seems to me that our text strongly implies that even drunk, a man cannot be forced to violate his convictions, unless of course he wants to do so. I wonder how many people get drunk because they want to do what they do drunk, and they think they can blame alcohol for their own sin? It seems like another version of, “The Devil made me do it.”

    ellauri156.html on line 668: 7 Silloin Natan sanoi Daavidille: »Se mies olet sinä. Näin sanoo Herra, Israelin Jumala: ’Minä voitelin sinut Israelin kuninkaaksi lampaanrasvalla ja pelastin sinut Sauli Niinistön käsistä. 8Minä korotin sinut herrasi asemaan, annoin herrasi vaimot sinun syliisi ja annoin sinulle Israelin ja Juudan heimot. Jos tämä on vähän, voin antaa vielä mitä tahansa muutakin. 9

    ellauri156.html on line 670: Miksi olet halveksinut minun sanaani ja tehnyt sellaista, mikä on minun silmissäni pahaa? Heettiläisen Urian olet lyönyt miekalla, olet tappanut hänet ammattilaisten miekalla, ja hänen vaimonsa olet ottanut vaimoksesi. 10Niinpä miekka ei tule milloinkaan väistymään suvustasi, koska olet halveksinut minua ja ottanut vaimoksesi heettiläisen Urian mamuvaimon.’ 11

    ellauri156.html on line 672: Herra sanoo näin: ’Minä nostan omasta perheestäsi onnettomuuden sinua vastaan, ja silmiesi edessä otan sinulta omat vaimosi ja annan heidät toiselle, joka makaa vaimojesi kanssa keskellä kirkasta päivää. 12Sinä olet tehnyt tekosi salassa, mutta minä teen tämän teon koko Israelin nähden, keskellä kirkonmäkkee, ja se on suuri häppee.’»

    ellauri156.html on line 695: 33»Mutta sitten tuli samaa tietä muuan ulkomaalaistaustainen samarialainen. Kun hän saapui paikalle ja näki miehen, hänen tuli tätä sääli. 34Hän meni miehen luo, valeli tämän haavoihin öljyä ja viiniä ja sitoi ne. Sitten hän nosti miehen juhtansa selkään, vei hänet majataloon ja piti hänestä huolta. 35Seuraavana aamuna hän otti kukkarostaan kaksi denaaria, antoi ne majatalon isännälle ja sanoi: ’Hoida häntä. Jos sinulle koituu enemmän kuluja, minä korvaan ne, kun tulen takaisin.’ 36Kuka näistä kolmesta sinun mielestäsi oli ryöstetyn miehen lähimmäinen?»

    ellauri156.html on line 740:   Nathan tells David the story of a rich man and a poor man. God tells David through Nathan that all that he possesses (his riches) it is he, the boss, who has given them to him. God is like the rich man, and David the poor one with just the one. David's problem is that his possessions have come to own him. He is so stingy he won't even give his petlamb to Mr. Rich. He is so “possessed” with his lamb that he is unwilling to spend it when his boss has a party. He wants “more” and “more,” and so he begins to take what isn’t his to take, rather than to ask the divine Giver for all he has and more.

    ellauri156.html on line 820: 43 I should also say that other translations don’t seem to follow the NASB in dealing with these words as poetry.

    ellauri158.html on line 44: Spinoza’s views on necessity and possibility, which he claimed were the “principal foundation” of his Ethics (Ep75), have been less than well received by his readers, to put it mildly. From Spinoza’s contemporaries to our own, readers of the Ethics have denounced Spinoza’s views on modality as metaphysically confused at best, ethically nihilistic at worst. Kristityt on aina vihanneet Spinozaa, mutta niin on juutalaisetkin. Siili ressu. 

    ellauri158.html on line 46:       The actual world, we might now say, is the only possible world. Events could not, in the strongest sense of that expression, have gone any differently than they in fact have gone. This is the position of necessitarianism, a belief that few in the history of Western philosophy have explicitly embraced. And for good reason — on the face of it, necessaritianism is highly counterintuitive. Surely the world could have gone slightly differently than it has gone. Couldn’t the Allies have lost WWII? No way! They were in the right! Couldn’t Leibniz have been a sister or not been born at all? Täähän on kuin Jaakko Hintikka versus Jon Barwise. 

    ellauri159.html on line 451: From persecution’s constant woe.

    ellauri159.html on line 453: Kiss not thy neighbor’s wife. Of course

    ellauri159.html on line 454: There’s no objection to divorce.

    ellauri159.html on line 456: To steal were folly, for ’tis plain

    ellauri159.html on line 462: Who stays to covet ne’er will catch

    ellauri159.html on line 565:     There is no single document about the knightly code that lists all the virtues like this. It’s a modern interpretation of several documents that outline some kind of behavioral code for knights. Between 1170 and 1220 there were several documents outlining a code of conduct for knights but there wasn’t a decision made to use a single one. The overarching idea of these virtues was “chivalry”. Chivalry originated in the Holy Roman Empire from the idealization of the cavalryman. Military bravery, individual training, and service to others—especially in Francia, among horse soldiers in Charlemagne’s cavalry. 

    ellauri159.html on line 567:     I’m aware that “knightly virtues” sounds a lot like a fedora wearing “nice guy”. If you go back in history, I don’t think you can deny that knights were pretty badass and nothing like the modern day “nice guy”. The difference is that a real knight was strong and powerful. A “nice guy” tries being nice because he is powerless. There is a big difference. Suggested post: A gentleman is not a “nice guy”

    ellauri159.html on line 569: It’s almost like the knightly virtues are the ideal masculine character. And in my opinion these virtues are a good ideal to strive towards. This is something to keep in mind. This code wasn’t meant for everyone. It’s for soldiers on horses, you know, knights… This combination of virtues is supposed to be the best possible behavior of a  knight, a soldier, a fighting man. There is no mention of women and children anywhere. Naiset ja lapset ja homot ruikulikakat älkööt vaivautuko. Tää on kovien poikien leikkiä. 

    ellauri159.html on line 572: 
        More than bravado or bluster, today’s knight in shining armor must have the courage of the heart necessary to undertake tasks which are difficult, tedious or unglamorous, and to graciously accept the sacrifices involved.

    ellauri159.html on line 581: 
    Sharing what’s valuable in life means not just giving away material goods, but also time, attention, wisdom and energy — the things that create a strong, rich and diverse community.

    ellauri159.html on line 587:   
    Although this word is sometimes confused with “entitlement” or “snobbishness,” in the code of chivalry it conveys the importance of upholding one’s convictions at all times, especially when no one else is watching.

    ellauri159.html on line 590: 
    More than just a safety net in times of tragedy, hope is present every day in a modern knight’s positive outlook and cheerful demeanor — the shining armor that shields him or her, and inspires people all around.

    ellauri159.html on line 605: Faith is when you trust God and His purpose in your circumstances more than they seem to warrant. As Hebrews 11:1 states, “Now faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see.” And remember, a true knight’s first mission and calling is to please the boss.

    ellauri159.html on line 609:     Wikipedia defines hope as “The emotional state, the opposite of which is despair, which promotes the belief in a positive outcome related to events and circumstances in one’s life.”  Hmm. Musta hope ei nyt ole ihan uskomista hyvään lopputuloxeen, vaan sitä että pidetään sille peukkuja vaikka lopputulos on ihan herrassa. Hoping in God ei musta tarkoita mitään, "toivon jumalaan?". Voi toki panna toivonsa johonkin, vaikkei se vaikuta ollenkaan vakuuttavalta, noin niinkuin paremman puutteessa. Voihan siitä olla jotain hyötyä. 

    ellauri159.html on line 617:     Many might believe that applying the concepts of justice in modern times is limited to only those who work in the criminal justice system. But that’s not the case. Modern knights living in virtually any life situation can work to uphold justice. (Esim. voi olla jotain Brothers of Odineja tai Nordic Knightsejä. Maskuliinisivut käskee nihtiä rankaisee jumalattomia, sanotaan vaikka mumslimeja, sillee suht koht tuntuvasti.)

    ellauri159.html on line 621: Whoever can be trusted with very little can also be trusted with much, and whoever is dishonest with very little will also be dishonest with much. So if you have not been trustworthy in handling worldly wealth, who will trust you with true riches? And if you have not been trustworthy with someone else’s property, who will give you property of your own?

    ellauri159.html on line 624: Luke on talousliberaaliuskossa. In the time of the medieval knight, making prudent love made the difference between life and death, wealth or poverty, health or illness, safety or turmoil, marriage or no marriage, and children or no children. And it is no different for today’s knight. Making prudent decisions daily will help lead a fruitful and effective life.

    ellauri159.html on line 635: If we are “full of ourselves,” we are usually “full of shit”. Being empowered and acting out of our own self-will may get us pretty far, but not in God’s eyes. The jealous God prefers us to be emptied of our own strength so he can fill us up with his own strength. 

    ellauri159.html on line 639: In God’s eyes, humility is defined as simply putting ourselves completely under His mighty hand. We are humble when we are free from pride and arrogance. 

    ellauri159.html on line 650: Honest to God honor comes to a person when they serve and live only for God. Sometimes others acknowledge this honor publically, which is a perk, but this is never a true knight’s goal. A good reputation (at least among those where a good reputation is valued) is nice to have, but that’s never his goal either. Nonetheless, having a good name is “more desirable than great riches; to be esteemed is better than silver or gold” (Proverbs 22:1).

    ellauri159.html on line 657: The word used to translate the Greek word agape in most modern English Bibles is love, but in many older translations, agape was translated as “charity” when it was used in a context of one person to another. In a biblical context, this term should not be mistaken for the more modern use of the word to mean only giving to those in need (i.e., “giving to charity”), although this can be a substantial part of what’s meant by the word. A more encompassing definition of the word charity, at least in the context of a modern-day knight, would be to be charitable (or giving) to the rich as well, or even primarily.

    ellauri159.html on line 661: A knight’s sacrifice is by using his strength on behalf of the weak. Sharing our food and providing the wanderer with shelter and clothing are also acts of sacrifice, but they can also be counted as hospitality or charity, depending on the sttus of the other guy. 

    ellauri159.html on line 675: Perhaps the clearest way to define loyalty is unswerving in allegiance to the latest boss. We are all on different paths in life; when you choose to not swerve from the path the latest lord has for you, that’s loyalty. When you have the opportunity to veer from it for friendship or marriage but choose not to, you are acting out of loyalty. When you spit on your parents to join a sect, that is loyalty. This is the new law, fuck the ten commandments. 

    ellauri159.html on line 686: But among you there must not be even a hint of sexual immorality, or of any kind of impurity, or of greed, because these are improper for God’s holy people. Nor should there be obscenity, foolish talk, or coarse joking, which are out of place, but rather thanksgiving. For of this you can be sure: No immoral, impure, or greedy person—such a man is an idolater—has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.

    ellauri159.html on line 689: Webster’s definition of purity is, "Free from anything that taints, impairs; clear, unmixed, 100% the real thing".

    ellauri159.html on line 718: The knightly trait of gratitude includes both being grateful in diverse circumstances as well as expressing gratitude to God (cheap) and other good guys (more expensive). Toward the latter part of the medieval knight era (the fourteenth to sixteenth centuries), many knights acquired wealth and power and developed relationships with royalty. This wealth and friendship with the king’s court brought feasting and abundance in many ways. In fact, part of a squire’s training as a knight was "learning how to serve his Lord at meals and kick out the beggars". Nihti osoitti näin kiitollisuutta kinkulle, ja kinkku oli kiitollinen sille. Kaikki olivat kiitollisia. Ne ainakin joista oli väliä. 

    ellauri159.html on line 744: Need some help awakening your inner knight? Check out the program “Masculine Core”. It’ll help you awaken the masculine man that’s waiting inside of you.

    ellauri159.html on line 746: The 3 P’s of Manhood are protect, procreate, and provide. Pyssy, pylly ja palkka. Ihan parasta on toi keskimmäinen. Mutta silti miehekkäin on toi protect, koska naisista vaan 3% selviää merisotilaiden leuanvetotestistä. 

    ellauri159.html on line 753: Second, males’ greater amounts of testosterone make them well-suited for the warrior role for a couple of reasons. First, testosterone is linked with a greater desire to compete and take risks. Studies show that when a man “wins” in a contest, he is hit with a boost of dopamine and a surge of testosterone that makes him want to keep on competing. So while testosterone doesn’t directly make men more aggressive (that’s a myth — it’s more complicated than that), it does fuel a drive to keep pushing when someone else is pushing back. 

    ellauri159.html on line 755:   “When men evaluate each other as men, they still look for the same virtues that they’d need to keep the perimeter. Men respond to and admire the qualities that would make men useful and dependable in an emergency. Men have always had a role apart, and they still judge one another according to the demands of that role as a guardian in a gang struggling for survival against encroaching doom. Everything that is specifically about being a man—not merely a person—has to do with that role.” –Jack Donovan, The Way of Men 

    ellauri159.html on line 757:   As I’ve been working on this series, thinking through the tradition of manhood, and attempting to synthesize Gilmore’s findings and the manifestations of the manly code in different cultures, boy, it’s really tasked my brain. When my mind got tied up in knots and the meaning of manhood became seemingly impenetrable and obscure, I often found myself thinking about the definition of masculinity laid out in Jack Donovan’s The Way of Men. It is so simple that even I can wrap my skull around it. 

    ellauri159.html on line 759: You have to define your group. You need to define who is in and who is out, and you need to identify potential threats. You need to create and maintain some sort of safe zone around the perimeter of your group. Everyone will have to contribute to the group’s survival in some way unless the group agrees to protect and feed someone who can’t contribute due to age or illness. For those who can work, you’ll need to decide who does what, based on what they are good at, who works well together and what makes the most practical sense…

    ellauri159.html on line 763: The first job of men in dire times has always been to establish and secure “the perimeter.” Donovan argues that the way of men is the way of the gang, because when placed in a harsh environment, men will quickly make the logical calculation that they have a much better chance of surviving if they band together than if they each try to go it alone. For some folks, “gang” is a word weighted with negative connotations, so substitute “posse” or “platoon” or whatever else if you must. The important thing to realize is that the small, tightly-knit honor group was the basic male social unit for eons. The myth of the uber-manly lone wolf is just that. With few exceptions, men have always fought and hunted together. Cowboys banded together, pioneers banded together, and Rambo wouldn’t have actually stood a chance against either gang. 

    ellauri159.html on line 767: Living without the aid of advanced technology requires strong backs and elbow grease. You’ll need strong men to fight off other strong men.

    ellauri159.html on line 768: You won’t want the men in your gang to be reckless, but you’ll need them to be courageous when it matters. A man who runs when the group needs him to fight could put all of your lives in jeopardy.

    ellauri159.html on line 769: You’ll want men who are competent, who can get the job done. Who wants to be surrounded by morons and f**k-ups? The men who hunt and fight will have to demonstrate mastery of the skills your group uses to hunt and fight. A little inventiveness couldn’t hurt, either.

    ellauri159.html on line 770: You’ll also need your men to commit. You will want to know that the men beside you are us and not them. You’ll need to be able to count on them in times of crisis. You want guys who have your back. Men who don’t care about what the other men think of them aren’t dependable or trustworthy. If you’re smart, you will want the other men to prove they are committed to the team. You’ll want them to show that they care about their reputation within the gang, and you’ll want them to show that they care about your gang’s reputation with other gangs.”

    ellauri159.html on line 772: To the description of the ideal perimeter-keeper outlined above, Donovan assigns four “tactical virtues”: strength, courage, mastery, and honor. These are “simple, amoral, and functional virtues” — “the practical virtues of men who must rely on one another in a worst case scenario.” They are “amoral” because they are crucial to the success of any gang — no matter if what they’re fighting for is right or wrong. Strength, courage, mastery, and honor are the attributes needed in a team of Navy SEALs just as much as a family of Mafioso. If you’ve ever wondered why we are fascinated by gangsters, pirates, bank robbers, and outlaws of all stripes, and can’t help but think of them as pretty manly despite their thuggery and extralegal activities, now you know; they’re not good men, but they’ve mastered the core fundamentals of being good at being men. So they are good men, though they are bad men. I mean. 

    ellauri159.html on line 774: Let’s take a quick look at male virtues:

    ellauri159.html on line 778:     Courage: The spirit /will/discipline to engage and employ one’s strength when inwardly tempted to shrink/run/hide. There are “higher” forms of courage, but at its most fundamental, it represents an outwardly demonstrated indifference to risk, pain, and physical danger.

    ellauri159.html on line 782:     Honor: Traditional honor is not the same as integrity — living up to your own, personal standards. Traditional honor is a reputation for strength, courage, and mastery — as judged by other men. Honorable men care about being manly, knowing that each individual member’s prowess in the tactical virtues bolsters the strength and reputation of the gang as a whole and thus deters attack from rival gangs. Dishonorable men, on the other hand, evince indifference or hostility to the standards, weakening the group and leaving it more vulnerable.

    ellauri159.html on line 785:   The key to upholding honor in a male gang is to always try to pull your own weight – to seek to be a boon rather than a burden to the group. If a man lacks in physical strength, he might make up for it in the area of mastery – being the group’s best tracker, weapons-maker, or trap inventor; one crafty engineer can be worth more than many strong men. If a man lacks in both physical strength and mastery, he might still endear himself to the other men with a sense of humor, a knack for storytelling, or a talent in music that keeps everyone’s spirits up. Or he might act as a shaman or priest – performing rituals that prepare men for battle and cleanse and comfort them when they return from the front. The strong men of the group will usually take care of the weak ones who at least try to do whatever they can. Shame is reserved for those who will not, or cannot excel in the tactical virtues, but don’t try to contribute in some other way, and instead cultivate bitterness and disregard for the perimeter-keepers who ironically provide the opportunity to sit on one’s hands and carp. (Aki Manninen would love this.)

    ellauri159.html on line 787: Strength, courage, mastery, and honor are virtues that obviously aren’t exclusive to men, and it’s not that there haven’t been women who have embodied these traits in every age (as we shall see next time, the idea of a soft, fragile femininity is a modern conception). It isn’t that women shouldn’t seek these attributes either. Rather, the tactical virtues comprise the defining traits of masculinity. If a woman isn’t strong or acts afraid in the face of danger, no one thinks of her as less womanly because of it. Yet such shortcomings will be seen as emasculating in a man, even today.

    ellauri159.html on line 789:   So what are the defining traits of femininity? Oh-hoho, I’m not going to touch that with a ten-foot pole. I´m not THAT brave. It’s taken me years to understand manhood, and I’m still refining my views. I wouldn’t appreciate it if a woman who hadn’t rigorously studied masculinity offered an off-the-cuff definition for it, so I will refrain from doing likewise. Someone should start an awesome Art of Womanliness-type blog and explore the subject. I’ll be a reader.

    ellauri159.html on line 791: Even the men we hold up as proof that you can be manly by living the higher virtues without completely fulfilling the 3 P’s of Manhood (or even 3 pushups) ultimately derive their inspiration from the fundamental underpinnings of the tactical virtues. Figures like Gandhi and Jesus are lauded for their non-violence and their goodness, but our ability to think of them as manly, derives from their embrace of masculine expendability – a courageous indifference to the pain and suffering others might inflict on their physical body. They were good men, certainly, but their willingness to sacrifice themselves for the sake of their people, also made them good at being men. Gandhi did procreate a lot. Jesus provided for millions of preachers. Both were expendable. That´ll do, welcome to the perimeter pencil necks. 

    ellauri159.html on line 894:     For those of you who are not familiar with Myers-Briggs or the MBTI (Myers-Briggs Type Indicator), it is a personality profiling system based on Jung’s typological theory that was developed by Katherine Cook Briggs and her daughter Isabel Briggs Myers. In the Myers-Briggs typology system, there are sixteen personality types consisting of four letters: E for extrovert or I for introvert, S for sensor or N for intuitive, T for thinker or F for feeler, and P for perceiver or J for judger. Psychologist David Keirsey later sorted these types into four temperaments. You can read more about Myers-Briggs here and find books about it here. Myers-Briggs typology can offer a lot of insight into how someone thinks, and in the case of an author, how someone writes.

    ellauri159.html on line 900: 	  ESTJs are industrious traditionalists whose extroversion often leads them to take charge of situations. They are generally pragmatic and like things to be organized and clear. They are driven by a need to analyze and bring order to the world. ESTJ writers include Amy Chua, E.L. James, Dr. Phil McGraw, Tom Clancy, Ann Coulter, Michelle Malkin, Bill O’Reilly, Billy Graham, and Sonia Sotomayor. Learn more about how ESTJs write here.

    ellauri159.html on line 1001: Ss are concrete thinkers, placing more trust in experience than in flashes of insight. They’re more interested in sensory data than in the patterns perceived by the unconscious mind. Ss tend to be intellectually content—they want to enjoy the world.

    ellauri159.html on line 1004: Ns are abstract thinkers, placing more trust in flashes of insight than in experience. They’re less interested in sensory data than in the patterns perceived by the unconscious mind. Ns tend to be intellectually restless—they want to change the world.

    ellauri159.html on line 1010: Ts prefer to use their thinking function when making decisions. They place more emphasis on the rule of logic than on the effect that actions have on people. They tend to be skeptical in evaluating ideas, whether their own or someone else’s.

    ellauri159.html on line 1025:     You are adept at writing technical materials, such as procedures, that require them to be clear and matter-of-fact. Since you’re unlikely to view writing as a means of self-expression, you should be efficient at writing corporate documents like annual reports, which can be draining for most other types.

    ellauri159.html on line 1035:     You may become blocked if the assignment isn’t well defined.  You want to limit your choices early and write toward a specific goal. Try picturing a specific person who exemplifies your audience, and write for that person.

    ellauri159.html on line 1057:     Be self-motivated and self-directed. However, when writing for a teacher, editor, or boss, you may want explicit instructions. If you don’t have a clear understanding of other people’s expectations, you may struggle in silence. Instead, try asking to see a model of what to work toward (for example, last year’s annual report or a term paper that earned an A). A concrete example will help alleviate confusion.

    ellauri159.html on line 1061:     Enjoy reading and writing about history or biography! You are less likely to gravitate toward business or technical writing. If you do write about technology, they’re likely to prefer the tried-and-true to the cutting edge. When writing fiction, you can often be quite funny in conveying your observations about the foibles of human nature.

    ellauri159.html on line 1063:     You Want to be of service to others, and naturally write in a manner that reflects this value.  Keep your audience in mind, then organize your ideas into an easy-to-follow progression. You have a strong sense of harmony—of what works on the page, and what doesn’t. You may also excel at sensory detail, drawing the reader in.

    ellauri159.html on line 1065:     Don´t even try writing about abstract concepts. If an assignment requires you to write about theory, look for ways to relate the ideas to your experience or to a specific, positive effect on people’s lives. You might also benefit from talking through the challenges you face in their writing — though that´s a trait that’s more typical of extraverts, so forget it. 

    ellauri159.html on line 1067:     You tend to state the obvious or otherwise display a lack of confidence. To combat this tendency, ask for specific feedback from a trusted writer friend. This will help you gauge your ability to communicate your point and your reader’s ability to understand and make connections. Show your work only to someone whom you know to be supportive. The opinions of those who nurture writers are worthwhile; the opinions of those who tear down writers are not.

    ellauri159.html on line 1075:     When starting a project, you want clear instructions or a model to work from. It is helpful to know what approach has succeeded in the past so you can use it as a framework. If instructions aren’t specific, you may be at a loss, so it’s best to ask for clarification, or just copy from a reliable model.

    ellauri159.html on line 1079:     Have a large mental database of facts to draw on. These MAY include sense memories, such as the taste of grandmother’s spoon cookies or the smell of oil in their grandfather’s hair. In a creative project, you can draw on these memories to personalize your writing and bring it to life. Yes, it´s OK, go ahead! Don´t be so stuck up!

    ellauri159.html on line 1089:   Begin by assembling a wide variety of facts. This gives them a detailed view of the topic. Then, they weed out what doesn’t fit.

    ellauri159.html on line 1093:   Build your topic around a visual element. It is way easier than reading. This might be a chart, a graphic—even a quotation. They may follow a template that’s worked  in the past, rather than inventing something new. Just be sure to give a new slant on the old idea to keep it fresh.

    ellauri159.html on line 1095:     Prefer writing in an active environment like panoramic office or gym where you can shape your ideas by discussing them with others. You may also want to use a voice recorder so you don’t have to write so much and work shackled to a computer.

    ellauri159.html on line 1097:   It´s fine to procrastinate because you perform well under the pressure of deadlines whizzing past. You probably don’t enjoy working quietly for long stretches. Bring your earphones and be sure to schedule frequent breaks so you can re-energize.

    ellauri159.html on line 1101:     Try to consider the audience if at all possible. Where appropriate, incorporate a human element into your writing to help human readers connect to the topic. (Analogously if you write to chickens.) Use your powers of persuasion to sway others to your point of view. Ask someone you trust to review your writing to make sure you’ve achieved the desired effect, i.e. swayed them. 

    ellauri159.html on line 1107:   Gather a lot of material about a subject, particularly if it’s unfamiliar. When composing a first draft, your brain works best by brainstorming about whatever comes to mind. If you try analyze as you go, it breaks your flow of ideas, and you can get stuck. Never try to walk and chew gum at the same time. Or think. That can become a real stumbling block.

    ellauri159.html on line 1111:     Build your topic around concrete elements like quotations. This may be a good approach to help organize a first draft. During the revision process, add your own unique words here and there to avoid relying too much on other people’s ideas.

    ellauri159.html on line 1113:   You may have difficulty starting a project if you don’t have a clear sense of direction. Identify the goals of the piece and develop an organizing framework (aka a bullet list). This will help you generate ideas and avoid tangents. Your safe bet is to focus on how the topic affects people and on the immediate actions they can take in response.

    ellauri159.html on line 1123:   You need clear instructions and a personal connection with your audience. You may find it helpful to see an example of what your editor, instructor, or project sponsor expects. Even if you can’t copy this model as such, it will give you a concrete starting point.

    ellauri159.html on line 1131:   Make sure you don´t gather too much information in the exploration stage or you don’t have a clear sense of direction left. If you feel overwhelmed, ask for help or talk to a trusted friend. Connect the topic to your values, like the value of money. Write without inhibition and let your voice shine. Remember, your drafts are for your eyes only. They’re the rough stone from which you sculpt the finished product. Your teacher will be happy to cross out the stuff that can´t be printed.

    ellauri159.html on line 1137:     Let the teacher focus more on correctness than on content. Don’t be afraid to take a stand, or get a hard on. Recognize that your insights are unique—most people lack your sensitivity. Consult a close writer friend to ensure that your points are logically developed and your organs well described. 

    ellauri159.html on line 1141:   You Want your writing to serve a practical purpose, such as explaining how to solve a problem. You tend to be a good troubleshooter (actually, a good troublemaker and sharpshooter too)  with broad, specific knowledge that they can apply in high-pressure situations. Choose topics that allow you to draw on this ability. Then, jot down your ideas while conducting your research, rather than writing in your head. That´s way too hard, it´s like shooting with blanks. This will help you focus your ideas early so you don’t waste time gathering extraneous information.

    ellauri159.html on line 1143:     Work independently and prefer a quiet environment. If you must write collaboratively, seek out tasks that will allow you to work alone or with someone whose expertise you value. Unlike most other sensing types (the wimps), you don’t want detailed instructions or specific feedback. In fact, you may have to shoot if they try. Just ask for general guidelines that allow you flexibility. They may try to impose rules you regard as useless, like firearms restrictions.

    ellauri159.html on line 1145:     You like to bring a high level of mental energy (well, at least some energy, like energy drinks) to the project. You enjoy taking risks and may need the pressure of a deadline (or a dead body) to complete your tasks. No need to write according to someone else’s schedule, unless they have more powerful firearms.

    ellauri159.html on line 1147:     Focus on original facts rather than original ideas. You need not be interested in theory except as a way of exploring what’s tangled and undemonstrable. Seek mastery rather than discovery, although this may mean applying a new technology to an old battlefield. You don’t want to be the first—you want to be the best, and last (on the battlefield). 

    ellauri159.html on line 1149:   Focus on the concrete and avoid useless abstract concepts. As a result, your writing will lack a unifying theme that communicates the author’s purpose to those who do not need to know. Be sure to incorporate an organizing principle or chart, such as problem–solution, to serve as a roadmap for the intended reader, for example on a separate crypted page.

    ellauri159.html on line 1151:   Write to steal their ideas to develop yours rather than to please an audience. If your goal is to communicate your ideas to others (god beware), be sure to organize your work so that the subject folds logically. This will likely come easily to you if you invest the time. Also, engage your side to the battle by relating the subject to their personal experience. If you don’t feel comfortable writing about your own experience, write about something you’ve observed, or what the commies or aliens are likely up to.

    ellauri159.html on line 1153:     You are free to inject your satirical sense of humor even into a serious subject. This can be engaging if done well. But if you are not careful to consider audience prejudice, you risk not offending the reader! Seek feedback from someone whose prejudices you are familiar with. Ask the person to identify any problems but do not offer money. You can to come up with your own solutions without being constrained by other people’s ideas.

    ellauri159.html on line 1157: You prefer a brainstorm before you start writing. You tend to see connections between unrelated things, so one idea will quickly generate another. Allow yourself plenty of time for this activity, but be sure to set an end date to keep your project on track. After the brainstorming phase, discard tangential ideas. Focus on the strongest ones so you don’t get overwhelmed when it comes time to flesh out the details.

    ellauri159.html on line 1159: You work best when they have the freedom to follow your own process and timeline. Estimate how long you’ll need to complete each task, then add 50% and a cushion. Set milestones along the way only to remove them as you go. Incorporate a lot of time for breaks. If your energy wanes, meet with a writer friend for coffee or other libation, and discuss your ideas. If the project permits, consider copulating with a co-writer.

    ellauri159.html on line 1161: You do your best writing when they feel personally invested in the topic. Use your wrong sense of empathy to immerse yourself in the subject, much as actors immerse themselves in a character. (Choose a subject you really fancy to immerse yourself in.) To stay inspired, look for ways to connect the writing to your ideals.  If you’re a technical writer, create a human mental avatar of your technology and use your writer’s voice to “speak” to it. 

    ellauri159.html on line 1163: You should have a natural sense of the harmony of language and ideas (if not, consider one of the other 15 types we have on store). If you are schizoid at all, you may hear in your mind how combinations of words sound together. Get attuned to the tone and implications. Use these qualities to incorporate your unique voice and perspective into your writing. Ultimately, that’s what readers respond to.

    ellauri159.html on line 1165: You have the most energy at the beginning of a project, when inspiration first hits. Take advantage of this initial burst, but don’t get so engrossed in the project that you ignore basic needs like eating, fucking and killing. Remember to replenish your physical energy. You’ll get more done in the long run.

    ellauri159.html on line 1167: It´s OK to postpone starting a project if the topic doesn’t grab you. When at a deadline, use your prolific imagination to find an angle that interests you. Free-write or cluster to generate ideas. Look to newspapers, magazines, or the internet for inspiration. Write a strong opening paragraph to get your creativity flowing.

    ellauri159.html on line 1169: You may burn bright during the early stages of a project but fade before they reach the end. To avoid this pattern, take periodic breaks. Spend time with friends. Let the subject percolate in your unconscious mind. You’ll come back to the project with new inspiration for that final push toward completion. Basically, be lazy, it pays off.

    ellauri159.html on line 1171: We know you have no great love for facts and details. Leave enough time at the end to check that you’ve included sufficient objective data. Strive for balance and fairness, include both facts and alternative facts. Avoid over-reliance on personal insight. Ask a trusted friend to review your writing with a critical eye. Your work will be stronger for it. And, WtF, you can always just ignore them.

    ellauri159.html on line 1175:   You first estimate accurately how long a writing project will take. Then you generally dive into the first draft and develop a framework (table of contents). You may find it helpful to  start with the closing paragraph to give yourself an end point to strive for. Don’t let this limit you, though: be prepared to rearrange the structure and change your conclusions as you explore the subject in more depth.

    ellauri159.html on line 1179:   You focus your writing on received values and ideals. You use polished language to persuade. You want to influence people’s lives for the betterment of the individual and society. If you’re a technical writer, you focus your talent on expressing a complex idea simplistically so school kids understand it. Recognize that this gift benefits your readers by helping them perform their menial tasks more effectively.

    ellauri159.html on line 1183:   But pay heed: choose broad topics with wide-ranging effects on people. Be careful to limit the subject to what you can realistically explore in sufficient depth within the scope of the project. The class lasts just three quarters, keep that in mind. At the same time, don’t rush through the brainstorming process at the beginning. Tap into your creativity, letting one student thought suggest another. Reflect on what aspects of the topic interest you most.

    ellauri159.html on line 1187:   You are motivated by a desire for completion and can become impatient if you feel your students are progressing too slowly. Don’t waste time in the beginning trying to craft a graceful expression on your face; your students know you. Let your ideas flow, then polish during intermission. Accept that teaching is a process, so you may not get immediate results. Don’t rush through the final stages; include facts that support personal stories or observations, or borrow stories from the Divine Teacher, the Bible is full of them.

    ellauri159.html on line 1189:     You may find it difficult to create the emotional distance needed to keep your hands off your students. Don’t let a hasty feel-up skew your research. Be sure to include alternate facts and points of view. Also, be careful to avoid a cursory treatment of the subject, like in those wannabe writer guides on the web.  Ask a friend or colleague to review the work, making sure you’ve provided sufficient detail.

    ellauri159.html on line 1193: You work best in a quiet environment where you cannot be interrupted. You reflect on the topic before you begin writing, mentally structuring the material and looking for patterns. Don’t allow yourself to be rushed into starting a project before you’re ready. You are generally good at estimating how long this preparation stage will take. When you finally sit down to write, their ideas tend to be well-developed and organized. Their language may seem formal at first. If that’s the case for you, don’t fight it—you can soften this tendency during revision.

    ellauri159.html on line 1195: You prefer writing about personal topics. You may encounter difficulty if the topic isn’t meaningful to you. If so, try different angles until you find one that engages you. If you’re a technical writer, for example, you can take pride in knowing that when you write clear instructions, you help your customers perform their tasks quickly and effectively. This sense of meddling with people’s lives is important to writers.

    ellauri159.html on line 1199: When you strive for eloquence, avoid wasting time polishing an early draft or searching too long for the exact word. Instead, get your ideas down. Don’t be afraid to use clichés—wait until the revision stage to fix problems. There’s no point in perfecting something that may get cut later. Anyway, clichés are fine. We use them all the time. 

    ellauri159.html on line 1201: You enjoy colorful and figurative language, and like to infuse your work with images of your personal underware. At the same time, however, your writing may be too abstract for their readers, they want to see you inside them. During revision, add concrete details. In creative writing, appeal to the five senses and the 9 mortal sins. In freelance writing, include specifics like percentages and dollar amounts to get the audience´s attention. In technical writing, find out whether the customer needs to use a flat-head or a cross-head screwdriver (our dishwasher installer guys did not have a flathead anymore, I had to loan them one), and what the recommended torque is. These may be boring details to you, but they’re essential for your male reader. Wrong head, no screw. 

    ellauri159.html on line 1205: Guys like you tend to be easily hurt by criticism, especially when it comes to their writing, or their sexual performance. Because they generally keep their writing and wanking private until they think it’s finished, they may not have a good sense of the look and feel to others. Consider showing your work and your tool to a trusted friend or colleague for advice before you begin the final round. This will help you better connect with your audience, which is important to you, I know.

    ellauri159.html on line 1209:   According to Dr. Phil, 90% of relationship problems can’t be solved. Why? Because it would require one person or the other to compromise their values. So the best a couple can do is to agree to disagree. INFJs don’t want people to compromise their values—yet that 90% statistic is bound to discourage INFJs like me. I suspect it isn’t the relationship problems themselves that lead to the INFJs’ dissatisfaction; it’s the fact that the problems can’t be solved. Perhaps the INFJs feel that if only they could be more creative, or their partner could be more flexible, the little annoyances that have existed since the first day of the relationship could be eliminated. Not so. No amount of skill or understanding will make naturally ingrained differences go away.

    ellauri159.html on line 1213: Perhaps this is what draws me to writing women’s fiction. I can create relationship problems, which I can then go about solving, without hurting anyone but my fictional characters in the process. Real life, unfortunately, doesn’t work that way. The INFJs’ search for perfection can damage otherwise good relationships. So I propose a revised Serenity Prayer for INFJs: God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change. Period. Oh, I got my period. 

    ellauri159.html on line 1217:   You work best in a quiet environment where they won’t be interrupted, thanx to the I. LIkewise, you like autonomy so you can perfect your writing according to yourr own high standard without having to follow someone else’s low standard.

    ellauri159.html on line 1219: You prefer writing about your own personal topics. You may lose your creative drive if the subject isn’t about you. If so, try taking an angle that allows you to write about your feelings on the topic, if not you yourself. If you’re a technical writer, look for ways to connect with readers by anticipating and meeting their needs. Or you can use your tech knowledge to write another Gravity´s Rainbow. But don´t expect your employer to like it. 

    ellauri159.html on line 1223:     Strive for elegance in language. You can never polish the work too soon. You tend to write long, meandering first drafts, so you’ll likely need to synthesize and cut material later. Save the search for that perfect metaphor until the revision stage. 

    ellauri159.html on line 1232:   You want to master the subject everyone´s whining about. You enjoy the challenge of technical topics, and you focus on crafting clear, concise instructions. However, if you don’t see the perks of the writing project, your interest may wane. Discuss the project with friends or colleagues to help you find a way to increase your reward.

    ellauri159.html on line 1236:     You naturally write with an authoritative voice. You want to fake competence in the subject you’re writing about. To boost your success, gather sufficient details to make it look that you have a thorough understanding of the topic. Humanize the writing by including anecdotes making fun of other idiots or otherwise engaging the reader’s interest.

    ellauri159.html on line 1238:   Enjoy making decisions! No need to respond to new data once you’ve got a clear, big-picture view of the topic. Others may seek feedback from you but do not give it, nor act on other people´s feedback, rely instead on your own judgment. This strategy can cause you to miss unimportant information —  a drawback no real Marshal finds mortifying. Be aware of this tendency before you start unconsciously fighting it.

    ellauri159.html on line 1240:   With the desire for efficiency, you must sometimes be terse. Be sure to consider audience reaction. "Shut up!" is a good terse riposte. You already know how ideas relate to one another. Unless you’re writing for an audience of experts, assume readers know nothing about the topic. They don´t. Include faked data if necessary to support your conclusions. In your eagerness to finish, don’t skimp on those touches that will elevate your writing from good to great. You want to be great, not just good. Alexander the Good? Friedrich the Good? Catherine the Good? Naaw.

    ellauri159.html on line 1246:   You’re rarely at a loss for wacky ideas. While many people struggle to find a topic, you may have difficulty limiting yourself to just one. You may enjoy exploring controversial subjects or devising clever solutions to problems. You have fun playing with different possibilities, and see where they lead you. To classroom corner or to prison most likely. 

    ellauri159.html on line 1248:   You can benefit from collaborative writing projects. Chances are, you prefer an active, high-energy environment. You enjoy discussing and debating your ideas with others. You try probably to assert your individuality even within the group. If someone else is leading the project, be careful that your natural tendency to ignore authority doesn’t undermine the team. If you maintain goodwill, you’ll stand a better chance of convincing someone else to do the actual writing! 

    ellauri159.html on line 1279:     You’re motivated by your search for knowledge. An unconventional thinker, you have little regard for the common way of doing things. Chances are, formulas like “Top 5 Reasons Your Blog Should Have a Top 5 List” won’t appeal to you. Instead, you strive to surpass the ordinary. As an architect, you may experience the following pitfalls:

    ellauri159.html on line 1283:   You enjoy seeking knowledge for its own sake. Once you’ve solved the puzzle, though, you might lose interest in writing about what you’ve learned. It may be best to begin drafting even while you’re conducting your research. Treat the writing itself as a problem to solve. This may keep you energized until the project is complete.

    ellauri159.html on line 1285:     You can become blocked if you can’t find opportunities to make your unique ideas heard. If a writing assignment seems restrictive to you, challenge yourself to find a way to work within the system while still expressing your ingenuity. Instead of turning cynical, use your dry sense of humor.

    ellauri159.html on line 1291:     Having a I in the formula, you like to work independently. You require long periods of concentration to form mental models. You focus deeply on the task, blocking out distractions. To facilitate this, better find a secluded place to work. Schedule your writing for a time when you won’t be interrupted. Let others know that you need time alone.

    ellauri159.html on line 1297: You are happy and motivated with your personal vision. Original thinkers have little regard for convention. They want things to make sense according to their own logical standards, and they will discard anything that doesn’t. For this reason, they tend to enjoy technical subjects. They often wear visual aids like Google spectacles that support and clarify their writing. If you’re one of these guys, one path to success as a writer is to draw on your natural curiosity about how things work and your talent for explaining this for others. But beware of the pitfalls!

    ellauri159.html on line 1299:     When you´re weeding out information and people that aren’t pertinent to the project, be sure to keep the need of an audience in mind, however. Don´t decimate all and everybody. Rich and few is good; a few lousy beggars is not. Where appropriate, include personal anecdotes to engage the reader. Don’t scale down to mere facts. Hire an ENT to invent jokes. 

    ellauri159.html on line 1301:     To control your workplace and steal their original ideas, make sure you do so within the parameters of the project. If you’re a freelance writer, for example, remember that you’re writing for an editor, not for yourself. So get rid of the editor, or become one yourself. If something about the assignment doesn’t make sense to you, don’t ignore it—seek clarification. Or sue them. 

    ellauri159.html on line 1303:     Setting a high standard for oneself can become frustrating if others can’t achieve it. Avoid pushing yourself toward an unprofitable goal. Tap into your desire for efficiency and recognize when 99% are expendable. And if you need help, buy it. Other people don’t want you to be perfect—they want you to pay them megabucks. That is much more interesting.

    ellauri160.html on line 43: A Song Of Changgan						The River-Merchant’s Wife: A Letter				

    ellauri160.html on line 78: Li Bai (kiin. 李白, Lǐ Bó tai Lǐ Bái, usein myös muodossa Li Po, jap. Rihaku, 701–762) vietti suuren osan elämästään makaillen. Hän lähti kotiseuduiltaan Sichuanista 26-vuotiaana purjehtien alas Jangtsejoen vartta viettäen huoletonta elämää juopotellen ja tavaten aikansa julkisuuden henkilöitä kehitellen samalla pakkomielteisen runoilijan persoonaansa. 41-vuotiaana Li värvättiin Chang’anin eli nykyisen Xi’anin Hanlin-akatemiaan taolaisen ystävänsä Wu Yunin suosituksesta. Hänestä tuli nopeasti tunnettu, kun runoilija He Zhizhang kuvaili eräästä hänen runoaan The Road to Shu Is Harsh? ylistävään sävyyn. Kuitenkin vain hieman myöhemmin Li loukkasi joitakin vaikuttavia virkamiehiä ja menetti virkansa akatemiassa viettäen loppuelämänsä vaellellen paikasta toiseen.

    ellauri160.html on line 398: Circe’s this craft, the trim-coifed goddess.			Tää oli Kirken alus, tiukkanutturaisen.

    ellauri160.html on line 400: Thus with stretched sail, we went over sea till day’s end.	Silleen purjeet timmissä seilattiin koko päivä

    ellauri160.html on line 401: Sun to his slumber, shadows o’er all the ocean,			Päivä mailleen, varjoisaxi koko meri,

    ellauri160.html on line 415: Then prayed I many a prayer to the sickly death’s-heads;	Sit mä pyllistelin aika sairaan paljon kalloille;

    ellauri160.html on line 439: “Cam’st thou afoot, outstripping seamen?”			Tulizä jalan :), pikemmin kuin veneellä?

    ellauri160.html on line 441: “Ill fate and abundant wine.    I slept in Circe’s ingle.	Paska zäkä ja liikaa viiniä. Mä nukuin Kirken vinnillä.

    ellauri160.html on line 468: In the Cretan’s phrase, with the golden				noin kreetalaisittain, kultakruunun

    ellauri160.html on line 631:   The North West Angle of the Circle of the Twelve is described as a scorpion which stands upright and composed of putrefying water, gigantic in size. With this demon comes the “unnameable” one, Abaddon, his image is black, huge and covered in whirling wheels and blades, within his hand a wheel which has a multitude of cat-like demons upon it. Behind Abaddon is Maamah or Naamah, a crouching demon like woman, who is of Az – Jeh the Mother of Harlots, she has an animal’s body and eats the earth while crawling.

    ellauri160.html on line 654:   “What, actually, is magic? It is man’s belief in his ability, by taking active measures, to control his fate and in a certain sense this circumvents God. It doesn’t contradict faith but it does help God to help me. That’s why I love it, because it’s very human, especially in an era that is scientific.

    ellauri160.html on line 739:     Puisto siell’ on raavahia vailla;

    ellauri160.html on line 796: Every two weeks, Stammtisch, the Meet-Up group for German speakers, gets together in various bars and restaurants all over the greater Philadelphia area. At their first meeting after New Year’s, the big topic was Lauri Wylie’s Dinner for One, the short TV adaptation of his quintessential British one-act comedy with a huge international cult following—except Britain and the US. 

    ellauri160.html on line 798: Born into a theater family and cutting his teeth on stage in the 1890s, Lauri Wylie (1880-1951) penned Dinner for One, also known as The 90th Birthday, during the 1920s. It opened in London’s West End in 1948, and made it to Broadway in 1953. Prior to his success with Dinner, he co-wrote revues and operettas, some with his brother. These include a parody of Gilbert and Sullivan, the reigning kings of popular operettas. 

    ellauri160.html on line 802: However, given the vagaries of public taste, we may have to poke around in the Anglo American psyche a bit to find out what’s holding back US support for one of the most popular New Year’s events, almost as famous as AuldLang Syne. 

    ellauri160.html on line 806:   It is really sweet that Germans and others have adopted something and that this sketch is special for them. I respect that and don’t doubt for a second the genuine love and admiration some have for Dinner for One. But I am really surprised to see Monty Python compared with Dinner for One. I have to say it was painful to sit through. Painfully, painfully bad and unfunny. That’s why it has never caught on in Britain. I suppose we must have a very different sense of humour to that of Scandinavia and the German-speaking countries. We don’t consider it funny if someone falls over something. There’s nothing subtle or clever or nuanced about it (Rowan Atkinson’s absurdist physical comedy went down so well due to its complexity, think of the sketch where Mr. Bean makes the sandwich on the park bench and it gets progressively more and more absurd, he gets the fish out of water and slaps it against the bench to kill it before eating it, etc. now that is funny, and food fights in general). It’s not funny the first time the butler falls over the tiger-skin rug and it gets progressively more and more irritating each time he does it. You can spot the punchline a mile off and so the end of the sketch falls very flat. It’s nothing whatever to do with the length of the sketch or its obscurity or difficulty finding it: people still seek out all the comic greats on Youtube, like that fat man watsisname, or Charlie Chaplin who bravely made fun of your Hitler.

    ellauri161.html on line 103: Adoptionism, also called dynamic monarchianism, is an early Christian nontrinitarian theological doctrine, which holds that Jesus was adopted as the Son of God at his baptism, his resurrection, or his ascension. Under adoptionism Jesus is currently divine and has been since his adoption, although he is not equal to the Father, per "my Father is greater than I" and as such is a kind of subordinationism. Adoptionism is sometimes, but not always, related to denial of the virgin birth of Jesus. The other early Christology is "high Christology," which is "the view that Jesus was a pre-existent divine being who became a human, did the Father’s will on earth, and then was taken back up into heaven whence he had originally come," and from where he appeared on earth.

    ellauri161.html on line 213: Christa Päffgen eli Nico (16. lokakuuta 1938 Köln, Saksa – 10. heinäkuuta 1988 Ibiza, Espanja) oli saksalais-yhdysvaltalainen rocklaulaja ja -säveltäjä. Uransa alussa hän toimi myös mallina ja näyttelijänä. Hän oli ennen omaa uraa yksi taiteilija Andy Warholin "supertähtiä" ja teki yhteistyötä 1960-luvun rock-yhtye Velvet Undergroundin kanssa. Tunnetuimpia hänen esittämiään kappaleita ovat ”I’ll Be Your Mirror”, ”Femme Fatale”, ”All Tomorrow’s Parties”, ”Chelsea Girls” ja ”Frozen Warnings”.

    ellauri161.html on line 546: The targets of the satire – incompetent governments, media, tech billionaires, populace believing in politics not science – are obvious. There’s a shorthand that makes each character’s real world avatar easy to get hence the laughs but does that undermine the film’s intelligence? No, it's spot on.

    ellauri161.html on line 551: The porcellain faced Hunting gamist returns home and meets Yule due to her minor celebrity status. The thing is that the film never does anything with Kate’s government scuffle. It’s an odd detour that bloats the runtime severely. (Now THIS IS the problem: these drooping- underlip prof spectators already know what the plot should be and edit what they see accordingly. Hey where are the heroes? Where's optimism? Who's gonna save the world this time round? Superman? Batman? Anyone?)

    ellauri161.html on line 553: Like: the way he delivers it makes it feel like a line he made up, but it has such poor timing it isn’t funny. Sadly, the entire performance feels that way.

    ellauri161.html on line 557: I’ve seen some negative reactions to Don’t Look Up—complaints that it is too despairing for its own good.

    ellauri161.html on line 558: They say it’s too dark. It’s too depressing. Haters are moaning that writer-director Adam McKay repeatedly hits his audience over the head with his “the planet is dying” message.

    ellauri161.html on line 560: Haha, yeah, he is—and amen to that. This is the truest, most on-point movie I saw in 2021. McKay gets sinister in Don’t Look Up, and I, for one, am glad somebody is being appropriately nasty in pointing out how absolutely moronic humans have become in the new millennium. Sorry, folks: We are fucking up big time; McKay knows it; and he’s pulling no punches.

    ellauri161.html on line 562: This is the darkest of dark comedies, and it covers many topics, including the continued decimation of our planet, our over-reliance on tech, our soul-killing obsession with social media, and the crazy space-race programs created by billionaire men. McKay’s brutal satire takes no prisoners, eviscerates political extremists and lemmings, and basically says we are all fucked if we continue on this current course—with or without an apocalyptic comet hurtling toward Earth

    ellauri161.html on line 566: This movie is devoid of hope. There is no optimism in Don’t Look Up. Yes, it deserves comparison to Stanley Kubrick’s Dr. Strangelove, because it pulls laughs out of the fact that the human race is on a crash course with destruction. In Don’t Look Up, the technology has multiplied and advanced, but the message is the same as it was when Slim Pickens rode that bomb to the doomed ground in Strangelove: Humans are messing up big-time, in a manner that is so egregious you just have to laugh at it … to prevent yourself from going insane. The situation is hopeless but not serious.

    ellauri161.html on line 572: Pressed together, however, the mix just doesn’t work. Too many characters, such as Jonah Hill’s presidential aide, know they’re in a comedy and play for laughs accordingly. There’s way too much going on in Don’t Look Up, so the story focus is constantly diffused as we jump from one narrative thread to another. Consequently the soiree packs very little punch; as a satire on corporate greed, media ethics and celebrity culture it’s pretty limp. All bite but no teeth, you could say. (Fuck yourself droopy-lip, this is a tableau true to life, not a sketch.)

    ellauri161.html on line 574: Still, as an intermittently amusing lark to stream on your 60-inch while doing the ironing, mixing martinis or pitting cherries, Don’t Look Up passes muster as OK time-killing fodder. (Okay, get back to your ironing, idiot.)

    ellauri161.html on line 576: Like an increasing amount of streaming content, you can keep track of what’s going on with your peripheral vision, turning to give the TV screen your full attention only when something good starts happening.

    ellauri161.html on line 578: Footnote: For some reason in the past week or so Don’t Look Up has been subject to far more coverage and discussion than it deserves. No idea why. Maybe people are desperate for non-Covid talking points. Just a theory. (Ouch. This guy is JUST The type of people being made desperate fun of. How sad.

    ellauri161.html on line 580: Ja naurettavaa miten jenkit ajattelee vieläkin olevansa yxin maailmassa. Vaivaiset 300M kärpästä 6,7G mitättömän tunarin keskellä. The world is only seriously shown to be America’s to fail to save, an unwieldy act of arrogance that misses the chance to engage with how long it has been since this country led the way.

    ellauri161.html on line 585: For McKay, however, that rage seems incompatible with the comedies he nevertheless feels compelled to keep making. Misanthropy isn’t in itself a barrier to turning out great work!

    ellauri161.html on line 588: And yet it’s hard to think about who, exactly, is going to be moved to make changes to how they live their lives by Don’t Look Up, a climate-change allegory that acquired accidental COVID-19 relevance, but that doesn’t really end up being about much at all, beyond that humanity sucks. And film critics suck about most of all.

    ellauri161.html on line 590: Don’t Look Up wants to paint our inaction with regard to climate change as the result of denialism and being distracted by silly things like, say, a movie streaming on Netflix. But climate change isn’t a comet headed our way in less than a year — a lousy, faulty metaphor for where we’re at right now. Except that IT IS! It's probably too late already. Now get a big mouth fuck goddam Allison Willmore,

    ellauri161.html on line 593: As a comedy, Don’t Look Up doesn’t work because it’s not funny. As a satire, it flops because the attempts at mockery are broad, puerile, and obvious, unintentionally trivializing the issues it seeks to highlight. As a drama, it collapses because it never makes much of an attempt to be serious. 

    ellauri161.html on line 595: Meryl Streep’s attempts to lampoon Donald Trump hit all the wrong notes. She can do comedy and impersonations but not at the same time. (Why not? Trump does that too, without intending to.)

    ellauri161.html on line 597: Speaking of “climate,” that’s the main target here – how people are too stupid to come together even when their survival depends on it. Or maybe it’s the pandemic McKay is allegorizing. Probably both. Meanwhile, the writer/director’s left-of-center politics are on full display. Although Don’t Look Up occasionally ridicules the left, it represents a full-on fusillade against the right. Now that is NOT funny.

    ellauri161.html on line 601: General Buck Turgidson knockoff (played by an unsmiling Ron Perlman) illustrates how far wide he misses the mark. By exaggerating certain aspects of human behavior, Don’t Look Up takes cynicism to a level that is not only excessive but doesn’t make for a story that’s either compelling or entertaining. During the course of watching Don’t Look Up, the only emotion I experienced was frustration – frustration that the movie could waste so much talent in the service of something so underwhelming.  In other words, I could not laugh at all because the laugh was on me.

    ellauri161.html on line 604: McKay the writer isn’t up to the task.  With this star-studded cast, the classification of a “missed opportunity” doesn’t do it justice; it feels closer to a tragedy.  2 out of 4.

    ellauri161.html on line 619: Among the baddies are vacuous United States President Janie Orlean (Streep, bad), douchebro Chief of Staff and President’s son Jason Orlean (Hill, worse), perpetually cheery and vapid morning TV show hosts Brie Evantee (Blanchett) and Jack Bremmer (Perry), and creepy tech-billionaire Peter Isherwell (Rylance, who really should know better than the strange attempts at possibly neurodivergent caricature that this role seems to consist of? How so better pray tell cowboy?), as well as the truth-hostile environment of mainstream and social media.

    ellauri161.html on line 621: By and large the efforts at humour here feel like juvenile, Grand Theft Auto-level sledgehamer attempts at satire (and I say that as a fan of the video game series, sophistication is not one of my hallmarks.). ’ I can count on the fingers of one hand the parts of the film that came close to eliciting some sort of feeling.  And that's what films are for, ain't they?

    ellauri161.html on line 622: I have to applaud Adam McKay for using the platform that he has to address the single most pressing issue that we face as a species, but I can’t help but be deeply frustrated that the way he has chosen to do so fails on so many levels, both dramatically and didactically.

    ellauri161.html on line 628: The way that Lawrence’s angry, idealistic scientist refuses to get co-opted by a system she correctly identifies as corrupt while DiCaprio’s more amicable character gets swept up in things for a while would seem to be easy material for a scriptwriter to use not just as a commentary on the way the world works, but as rich dramatic material for the ups and downs of a personal and professional relationship. 

    ellauri161.html on line 631:  I’ve seen some people criticise Don’t Look Up for lacking subtlety. I’m not bothered by this. I don’t necessarily need or want the communications about climate change to be subtle. The issue itself certainly is not subtle. We are heading towards—and, again, already are in the midst of—unprecedented death and destruction. Our systems and rulers are not just woefully ill-equipped to deal with this or to prevent the worst of it, they are actively complicit in bringing it about. Those communities around the world that are the most vulnerable and that have had the least part to play in causing the crisis will be the ones to suffer the first and the worst. This isn’t subtle sh*t! This is horrifying, grotesque, psychologically debilitating stuff to ponder—if you even have the privilege to ponder in the first place! I don’t necessarily need subtlety here. Sometimes, to fight propaganda, you need to go loud and bold. But you still have to be effective. We are fighting an almightily powerful enemy. Competence is a necessary minimum. Regrettably, Don’t Look Up does not meet those standards. Its central metaphor doesn’t even make sense! Yes, capitalism is responding as dreadfully to climate change in real life as it does to the comet in the film—the key difference is that capitalism didn’t cause that comet to come hurtling out of the sky in the first place. 

    ellauri161.html on line 635:   A Kike lady says it well: Granted, many will accuse Don’t Look Up of lacking the subtlety of McKay’s earlier movies, but there is something refreshingly honest about the film that undeniably lends itself to the silliness of its narrative. Furthermore, it is a film about the absurdity of the current times we live in and nobody can argue that is isn’t crazy to deny facts in favour of outlandish fabrications — or can they?

    ellauri161.html on line 637: There is something genuinely endearing about a film that doesn’t seem to care one bit about coming across as silly as long as its message is heard by the millions of viewers who have so far made it into the most watched film in the world after only two days of streaming. 

    ellauri161.html on line 641: By the way, this is a comedy with several parts that aren’t funny, often deliberately so. It’s also a horror film about substance being smothered by fluff instead of coexisting in healthy moderation. Sometimes tonally jagged is OK. Sharp and broad. Awkward and devastating. If you can’t call out danger without sounding alarmist, how do you actually sound an alarm? (Sheesh, think of what’s changed since 2011’s “Melancholia.”) Hyvä pointti Matt! Tässä sotketaan genrejä ihan kiitettävällä tavalla, ei ihme että jenkkiturvelot on exyxissä. 

    ellauri161.html on line 643: That’s not a point that hasn’t been made before, and it’s not like there are new notions here about what people might do with their last moments. But there’s something deceptively big and complicated about considering the human capacity to (not) address the largest challenges to their own survival as certain systems prevent action being taken — and people’s ability to recognize that a happy ending isn’t automatic but could be possible with thought and work. There’s such tragedy in the idea of, among many other things, being stuck in a loop of distraction at the expense of progress. Perpetual escapism that prevents escape, with what we’re looking away from and how continually being updated in the stories on the subject.

    ellauri161.html on line 651: Adam McKay’s Don’t Look Up Crashes and Burns, says LA super retard

    ellauri161.html on line 671: For the majority of the film (not Talladega, the new one), we’re bouncing from one republican caricature to the next. Streep is a female version of Donald Trump. Jonah Hill is a fratty version of Donald Trump Jr. Mark Rylance is a right-wing version of Tim Cook. (What a joke, he's way too poor.) And Ron Perlman is a red-eyed version of General Turgidson. When General Turgidson wonders aloud what kind of name "Strangelove" is, saying to Mr. Staines (Jack Creley) that it is not a "Kraut name", Staines responds that Strangelove's original German surname was Merkwürdigliebe ("Strange love" in German) and that "he changed it when he became a citizen". A kike anyway, by the name.

    ellauri161.html on line 673: The grim satire  is usually pretty tame and ranges anywhere from hilarious to stupid.  But the nastiness and negativity here just makes the filmmaker come off like a jerk. At the end of Don’t Look Up,  you’re left feeling agitated and angry– not at republicans, but at McKay for making such a dismal affair. If you are a closet republican like me, that is.

    ellauri161.html on line 709: Almost like it was produced to be stupid? The president and other characters are like laughing the whole time while experts are giving them info it’s like a bad satire not good at all.

    ellauri161.html on line 910: Joseph de Maistre est dès 1773 membre de la loge maçonnique de La Parfaite Union qui relevait de la loge Saint-Jean des Trois Mortiers, à l'orient de Chambéry. Il a les titres de grand orateur, de substitut des généraux et de maître symbolique. Il entend concilier son appartenance à la franc-maçonnerie avec une stricte orthodoxie catholique: entre autres, il refuse les thèses qui voyaient en la franc-maçonnerie et l'illuminisme les acteurs d'un complot ayant amené à la Révolution[note 4]. Il écrit ainsi au baron Vignet des Étoles que « la franc-maçonnerie en général, qui date de plusieurs siècles […] n’a certainement, dans son principe, rien de commun avec la révolution françoise ».

    ellauri161.html on line 976: Leon Bloyn mielestä Hello oli runoilija:  Je ne vois guère d’analogue à cet écrivain désorbité que le solitaire Pascal. Ils sont, en effet, tous deux, surtout des poètes et l’étonnement du lecteur est infiniment plus déterminé par leur accent que par leurs pensées. »

    ellauri162.html on line 104: Louis Émile Clément Georges Bernanos (French: [ʒɔʁʒ bɛʁnanɔs]; 20 February 1888 – 5 July 1948) was a French author, and a soldier in World War I. A Roman Catholic with monarchist leanings, he was critical of elitist thought and was opposed to what he identified as defeatism. He believed this had led to France´s defeat and eventual occupation by Germany in 1940 during World War II. His two major novels "Sous le soleil de Satan" (1926) and the "Journal d’un curé de campagne" (1936) both revolve around a parish priest who combats evil and despair in the world. Most of his novels have been translated into English and frequently published in both Great Britain and the United States. 

    ellauri162.html on line 148:   L´évolution de son antisémitisme est toujours débattue. Bernanos rend hommage à Édouard Drumont, avec lequel il partage sa détestation de la bourgeoisie, mais aussi l´association des juifs à la finance, aux banques, au pouvoir de l’argent au détriment du peuple, un thème qui fait florès dans la France de cette époque et qui suscite des propos antisémites de l´écrivain. Bernanos, qui a fait la guerre de 1914-1918, fustige aussi un patriotisme perverti qui humilie l´ennemi allemand dans la défaite au lieu de le respecter, trahissant ainsi l´honneur de ceux qui ont combattu et hypothéquant l´avenir.  Täähän kuulostaa suorastaan Ezra Poundilta. «Les juifs traînent nonchalamment sur les colonnes de chiffres et les cotes un regard de biche en amour » ou « ces bonshommes étranges qui parlent avec leurs mains comme des singes ».  J’aimerais mieux être fouetté par le rabbin d’Alger que faire souffrir une femme ou un enfant juif ». Juutalaiset kiistelevat vieläkin oliko Ykä hyvis vaiko pahis.

    ellauri162.html on line 162: Convaincu que le monde moderne est une « conspiration contre toute espèce de vie intérieure », il y dénonce « la dépossession progressive des États au profit des forces anonymes de l’Industrie et de la Banque, cet avènement triomphal de l’argent, qui renverse l’ordre des valeurs humaines et met en péril tout l’essentiel de notre civilisation ».

    ellauri162.html on line 181: To understand more fully the connection between Hosea’s domestic affairs and Israel’s relationship with Jehovah, consider these words: “Jehovah went on to say to me: ‘Go once again, love a woman loved by a companion and committing adultery.’” (Hosea 3:1) Hosea complied with this command by repurchasing Gomer from the man with whom she had been living. Afterward, Hosea firmly admonished his wife: “For many days you will dwell as mine. You must not commit no furher fornication, and you must not come to belong to another man.” (Hosea 3:2, 3) Gomer responded to the discipline, and Hosea resumed marital relations with her. How did this apply to God’s dealings with the people of Israel and Judah?

    ellauri162.html on line 201: Wiktionary: jocrisse → henpecked husband ... L’un des 

    ellauri162.html on line 203: particulièrement l’incarnation populaire de la niaiserie et 

    ellauri162.html on line 205: complète qu’elle suffit elle-même au spectacle et n’a pas 

    ellauri162.html on line 207: d’un Arlequin ou d’une Colombine. C’est un benêt qui se 

    ellauri162.html on line 208: laisse gouverner et qui s’occupe, dans le ménage, des 

    ellauri162.html on line 213: sc. 3), Molière fait dire à Martine : …Si j’avais un mari, 

    ellauri162.html on line 214: je le dis,Je voudrais qu’il se fît le maître du logis :Je 

    ellauri162.html on line 215: ne l’aimerais point s’il faisait le jocrisse.

    ellauri162.html on line 223: Il était l’auteur de trente-cinq romans traduits en plus de vingt-sept langues (dont dix-huit sont le français en date du mois de février 2018). Il était également scénariste pour le cinéma, la radio et la télévision.

    ellauri162.html on line 228: Il ’était un garçon des forêts, travaillant la terre, le bois, la pêche, la chasse, toute cette culture que l’on retrouve dans ses livres. Il était flotteur de bois sur les rivières du nord, une sorte d’aristocratie de ces sans-domicile fixe.

    ellauri162.html on line 716: Masturbation. It’s not just a great way to kill time, but it’s also the safest sex you can have. And it has many health benefits. (See: 5 Reasons You Should Masturbate Tonight.) Although we can all agree that masturbation is pretty much the cherry on top of the ice cream of life, there’s more to the act than that. In a recent study from Harvard, men who ejaculated 21 or more times per month had a 19 to 22 percent lower risk of prostate cancer than men who did so only four to seven times per month. In some parts of the world, teenagers are encouraged to masturbate.  Masturbation prevents unwanted pregnancies.

    ellauri162.html on line 761: Number 1 David Silverman is President of American Atheists, the organization founded in 1963 by the grande dame of American atheism, Madalyn Murray O’Hair (1919–1995). He is a Jew. You know it´s a myth. Religion is my bitch. Bitches, I don´t trust ´em But they give me what I want for the night.

    ellauri162.html on line 767: Number 4 Freudin Square, Iraq war veteran is Black. In his rap songs, he boasts about desecrating Brigham Young’s grave and urinating in a synagogue. Be there or be Square!

    ellauri162.html on line 772: No. 6 James (“The Amazing”) Randi (b. 1928)  Born in Canada, Randi has had a long career as a stage magician, TV personality, and prolific author. However, the most distinctive feature of his career has been “debunking”—showing how his own and others’ magic tricks are done. Most recently, he has become an outspoken atheist and critic of religion.

    ellauri162.html on line 774: No. 7 Polly Toynbee has been a columnist for London’s The Guardian newspaper since 1998 and President of the British Humanist Association since 2007. Granddaughter of the famous historian, Arnold J. Toynbee, she stood for MP, unsuccessfully, in 1983 as a Social Democratic Party candidate. Wasnt good enough for even that. But then, the purpose of life is not to be happy, as such.

    ellauri162.html on line 775: In 2011, she agreed to debate Christian apologist William Lane Craig, but later pulled out, saying “I hadn’t realised the nature of Mr. Lane Craig’s debating style, and having now looked at his previous performances, this is not my kind of forum.”  Chickened out, that´s all.

    ellauri162.html on line 834: We can’t say we weren’t warned about Alexa! Alexa is the name given to the voice that responds to your commands on the Amazon Echo device. In a recent post, I discussed the creepiness of having someone potentially listen to every conversation in its vicinity. As I understand it (not having one) the device is only supposed to be activated if you first say “Alexa” but apparently that is not the case. A family in Portland, Oregon reports that an Amazon Alexa device recorded a private conversation about hardwood floors and randomly sent it to a contact in Seattle. Danielle, who declined to provide her last name, told KIRO-TV that the contact called her family to tell them that their privacy was being compromised. Unplug your Alexa devices right now, the reportedly unnamed individual said, you’re being hacked.

    ellauri163.html on line 37: 	Courtney Joseph is a graduate of the Moody Bible Institute with a degree in Evangelism and Discipleship. After over a decade of leading women’s Bible studies, mentorships and workshops in her local church, she decided to move her ministry on-line at WomenLivingWell.org where she has over 1.5 million views of her videos on youtube. Courtney’s passion and sincerity has made her a leader in the Christian blogging community. She is the Founder of WomenLivingWell.org and GoodMorningGirls.org. 	

    ellauri163.html on line 282:     David was the father of Solomon, whose mother had been Uriah’s wife the callipygous Bathsheba,

    ellauri163.html on line 527: Payot (Hebrew: פֵּאָה, romanized: pe’ot, plural: פֵּאוֹת) is the Hebrew term for sidelocks or sideburns. Payot are worn by some men and boys in the Orthodox Jewish community based on an interpretation of the Tenach injunction against shaving the "sides" of one's head. Literally, pe'ah means "corner, side, edge". There are different styles of payot among Haredi or Hasidic, Yemenite, and Chardal Jews. Yemenite Jews call their sidelocks simanim (סִימָנִים‎), literally, "signs", because their long-curled sidelocks served as a distinguishing feature in the Yemenite society (differentiating them from their non-Jewish neighbors). 

    ellauri163.html on line 697: With an 11-year-old hero, Philip Pullman´s new book is a delightful nod to Edmund Spenser´s 'The Faerie Queene'. If Philip Pullman’s Dark Materials trilogy was an obvious nod to John Milton’s Paradise Lost, his new Book Of Dust trilogy takes inspiration from Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie Queene. Though thematically different, both fall within the same literary genre—they are epic poems, long narrative pieces recounting heroic deeds, and if the term could loosely be used to describe works of prose, then La Belle Sauvage, the first in the Book Of Dust trilogy, is one such novel. Spenser’s late-16th century poem, though incomplete, follows the adventures of medieval knights. Our knight is 11-year-old Malcolm Polstead, curious, intelligent, good-natured and clueless, when we first meet him, of the trials that await him. La Belle Sauvage, then, is a companion, or "equel" (a new story that stands alongside his previous trilogy), to His Dark Materials trilogy. Better strike while the iron is hot, as J.K. Rowling did. 

    ellauri163.html on line 724: As PZ himself said: "I took the test and scored a 24, an “average math contest winner.” You need a 32 to suggest Asperger’s, and a 15 is the average. So there. I don’t have Asperger’s, I’m just cruel and insensitive."

    ellauri163.html on line 759: “… it is noticeable that people with NPD, do not show a major degree of functioning problems in stress free environment or when they are supported (except that they are perceived as “not pleasant characters” to deal with). However under stress and without support they can become quite dysfunctional in a way not far from what we usually see in Asperger’s syndrome.“

    ellauri163.html on line 817:   That said, the reason the film does succeed, and rises to greatness, rests primarily on the shoulders of the lead actress, Nadine Nortier, who, despite little dialogue, conveys great depths within her character, despite being a non-professional actress at the time. On the other hand, Jean-Claude Guilbert (a professional actor who also appeared in Au Hasard Balthazar, as another drunkard, Arnold) is also very good. The rest of the cast is solid. Yet, critical missteps abound, especially when some claim Mouchette is filled with anger. Yes, there may be acts of seeming anger (tossing dirt at her female rivals), but clearly the character of Mouchette is a walking mass of desensitisation. This would explain why she reacts the way she does to sex with Arsene, rather than seeing it as her ‘striking back’ at the world.

    ellauri163.html on line 829: There is also a scene where Mouchette is wet, working in the bar, and then gets some coins as payment. Later, in his hut, she is wet, and Arsene pays her some coins to go along with his story regarding Mathieu’s presumed death. What this does is not only link divergent scenes in a strictly visual and cinematic way, but it emphasises the elliptical and cyclical nature of the film, where recurring images and motifs abound. Yet, all of them are slightly askew, and the camera always seems to look at its lead character’s life slightly askance, as if it was somehow recapitulating the clearly warped view of life Mouchette owns. 

    ellauri163.html on line 833: In essence, the film called Mouchette recapitulates the point of view of its character Mouchette, which allows the viewer to both ‘feel’ a bit of the character’s warp, while also being able to step back and intellectually distance oneself and ‘understand’ the character’s warp. Whether or not Bresson intended this doubled perspective on life, it, and many of the film’s other strengths more than make up for its weak ending, and lift it to a greatness that, while it falls short of the utmost in the canon of great cinema, nonetheless makes Mouchette a film for which the term “great” is applied a surety. There are, certainly, worse ways to misfire, slightly or otherwise.

    ellauri163.html on line 873: In the last presentation we looked at Durkheim’s ideas on the weakening of the collective conscience through modernity—the division of labor, weakening of primary groups and general social change. As we saw, this left the individual without much moral guidance. As Durkheim was concerned with moral behavior and social justice he naturally turned to the study of religion.

    ellauri164.html on line 43: In the introduction to his Grundzüge der physiologischen Psychologie in 1874, Wundt described Immanuel Cunt and Johann Friedrich Herbart as the philosophers who had the most influence on the formation of his own views. Those who follow up these references will find that Wundt critically took to the cleaners both these thinkers’ ideas. He distanced himself from Herbart's science of the soul . Wundt praised Cunt's rejection of a "rational" psychology deduced from metaphysics, but he argued against Cunt's epistemology as well as Cunt's category theory and his flabby position on teleological explanations in his publication Was soll uns Kant nicht verkaufen? (1892).

    ellauri164.html on line 78: NUIT DE L’ENFER

    ellauri164.html on line 80: J’ai avalé une fameuse gorgée de poison. — Trois fois béni soit le conseil qui m’est arrivé ! — Les entrailles me brûlent. La violence du venin tord mes membres, me rend difforme, me terrasse. Je meurs de soif, j’étouffe, je ne puis crier. C’est l’enfer, l’éternelle peine ! Voyez comme le feu se relève ! Je brûle comme il faut. Va, démon !

    ellauri164.html on line 82: J’avais entrevu la conversion au bien et au bonheur, le salut. Puis-je décrire la vision, l’air de l’enfer ne souffre pas les hymnes ! C’était des millions de créatures charmantes, un suave concert spirituel, la force et la paix, les nobles ambitions, que sais-je ?

    ellauri164.html on line 86: Et c’est encore la vie ! — Si la damnation est éternelle ! Un homme qui veut se mutiler est bien damné, n’est-ce pas ? Je me crois en enfer, donc j’y suis. C’est l’exécution du catéchisme. Je suis esclave de mon baptême. Parents, vous avez fait mon malheur et vous avez fait le vôtre. Pauvre innocent ! L’enfer ne peut attaquer les païens. — C’est la vie encore ! Plus tard, les délices de la damnation seront plus profondes. Un crime, vite, que je tombe au néant, de par la loi humaine.

    ellauri164.html on line 88: Tais-toi, mais tais-toi !… C’est la honte, le reproche, ici : Satan qui dit que le feu est ignoble, que ma colère est affreusement sotte. — Assez !… Des erreurs qu’on me souffle, magies, parfums faux, musiques puériles. — Et dire que je tiens la vérité, que je vois la justice : j’ai un jugement sain et arrêté, je suis prêt pour la perfection… Orgueil. — La peau de ma tête se dessèche. Pitié ! Seigneur, j’ai peur. J’ai soif, si soif ! Ah ! l’enfance, l’herbe, la pluie, le lac sur les pierres, le clair de lune quand le clocher sonnait douze… le diable est au clocher, à cette heure. Marie ! Sainte-Vierge !… — Horreur de ma bêtise.

    ellauri164.html on line 90: Là-bas, ne sont-ce pas des âmes honnêtes, qui me veulent du bien… Venez… J’ai un oreiller sur la bouche, elles ne m’entendent pas, ce sont des fantômes. Puis, jamais personne ne pense à autrui. Qu’on n’approche pas. Je sens le roussi, c’est certain.

    ellauri164.html on line 92: Les hallucinations sont innombrables. C’est bien ce que j’ai toujours eu : plus de foi en l’histoire, l’oubli des principes. Je m’en tairai : poëtes et visionnaires seraient jaloux. Je suis mille fois le plus riche, soyons avare comme la mer.

    ellauri164.html on line 94: Ah ça ! l’horloge de la vie s’est arrêtée tout à l’heure. Je ne suis plus au monde. — La théologie est sérieuse, l’enfer est certainement en bas — et le ciel en haut. — Extase, cauchemar, sommeil dans un nid de flammes.

    ellauri164.html on line 96: Que de malices dans l’attention dans la campagne… Satan, Ferdinand, court avec les graines sauvages… Jésus marche sur les ronces purpurines, sans les courber… Jésus marchait sur les eaux irritées. La lanterne nous le montra debout, blanc et des tresses brunes, au flanc d’une vague d’émeraude…

    ellauri164.html on line 102: J’ai tous

    ellauri164.html on line 104: Les talents ! — Il n’y a personne ici et il y a quelqu’un : je ne voudrais pas répandre mon trésor. — Veut-on des chants nègres, des danses de houris ? Veut-on que je disparaisse, que je plonge à la recherche de l’anneau ? Veut-on ? Je ferai de l’or, des remèdes.

    ellauri164.html on line 106: Fiez-vous donc à moi, la foi soulage, guide, guérit. Tous, venez, — même les petits enfants, — que je vous console, qu’on répande pour vous son cœur, — le cœur merveilleux ! — Pauvres hommes, travailleurs ! Je ne demande pas de prières ; avec votre confiance seulement, je serai heureux.

    ellauri164.html on line 108: — Et pensons à moi. Ceci me fait peu regretter le monde. J’ai de la chance de ne pas souffrir plus. Ma vie ne fut que folies douces, c’est regrettable.

    ellauri164.html on line 114: Je devrais avoir mon enfer pour la colère, mon enfer pour l’orgueil, — et l’enfer de la caresse ; un concert d’enfers.

    ellauri164.html on line 116: Je meurs de lassitude. C’est le tombeau, je m’en vais aux vers, horreur de l’horreur ! Satan, farceur, tu veux me dissoudre, avec tes charmes. Je réclame. Je réclame ! un coup de fourche, une goutte de feu.

    ellauri164.html on line 120: C’est le feu qui se relève avec son damné.

    ellauri164.html on line 204:  Time’s noblest offspring is the last.	       Ajan jaloin jälkeläinen on viimeinen.

    ellauri164.html on line 246: Remembering Robert M. Veatch, PhD 1939-2020. Bob Veatch from Georgetown loved genealogy and had confirmed a Veatch connection to the Stuart (Stewart among the Scots) dynasty.  He was a long-time fan of bluegrass and Bob and his wife Ann were founding members of the Lucketts Bluegrass Foundation in Lucketts, Virginia, location of the world’s longest running bluegrass concert series (45 years strong!). He used to laugh and say that he thought likely he was the only undergraduate at Harvard reading Plato while listening to bluegrass. Bob was a Peace Corps volunteer in Nigeria from 1962-1964.

    ellauri164.html on line 300:   Jeanne d’Arc [ʒan daʁk] eli ”Orléansin neitsyt” (La Pucelle d’Orléans) (6. tammikuuta 1412 Domrémy, Ranskan kuningaskunta – 30. toukokuuta 1431 Rouen, Ranskan kuningaskunta) on Ranskan kansallissankari ja katolisen kirkon pyhimys. Jeanne tuli kuuluisaksi uskonnollisista näyistään, joissa häntä kehotettiin pelastamaan Ranska. Vuonna 1429 hän johti ranskalaissotilaita Orléansin taistelussa ja osallistui kuningas Kaarle VII:n kruunaukseen Reimsissä. Myöhemmin englantilaiset tuomitsivat hänet noituudesta ja polttivat hänet roviolla. 

    ellauri164.html on line 319: Jeanne d’Arc poltettiin roviolla kerettiläisenä 30. toukokuuta vuonna 1431 oikeasti tästä housujutusta ja ehkä vähän siksikin, että hän piti Jumalaa paavia korkeampana auktoriteettina. Haiskahtaa protestantismilta.

    ellauri164.html on line 332: Kaarle VII oli edellisen kuninkaan Kaarle VI:n ja Baijerin Isabellan vanhin poika, eli delfiini. Tämän kuoltua vuonna 1422 Kaarle VII:n asema oli kruununtavoittelun kannalta hankala; Kaarle VI oli sopinut Troyes’n rauhansopimuksessa vuonna 1420, että Ranskan seuraavaksi kuninkaaksi tulisi Englannin kuninkaan Henrik V:n ja Valois’n Katariinan poika, joka oli syntynyt vuotta aiemmin. 

    ellauri164.html on line 334: Vaikka myös parlamentti oli vahvistanut sopimuksen, monet ranskalaiset katsoivat, että kyse oli vain Kaarle VI:n mielipuolisuuden synnyttämästä erheestä, jota ei tarvinnut noudattaa. Näin ajatteli etenkin Jeanne d’Arc, joka vuonna 1429 puoliväkisin ”raahasi” Kaarlen Reimsiin kruunattavaksi. Myös Englannin Henrik VI kruunattiin Ranskan kuninkaaksi vuonna 1431 Notre Damessa, mutta hän jäi varjokingiksi. Kaarle VII:n kaudella Ranska valloitti takaisin Pariisin ja kaikki Englannin ranskalaiset alueet Calais’ta lukuun ottamatta. 

    ellauri164.html on line 370: I thought this was one of those books that comes with a “guarantee.” But of course there is no such thing. Still, I’d read only glowing reviews and boy was I ready for a “triumphant experience.” But on p. 26 I couldn’t make heads or tails of what I was really reading about. On p. 54 the voice of the innocent and well-meaning young priest began to irk the shit out of me. On p. 55 I skipped ahead to see if anything would ever actually happen to dilute all the fluffy introspection and it didn’t look promising. On p. 64 I took the kitty to the well and drowned it.

    ellauri164.html on line 431: Wonderful work. The dialogue is enthralling and the intimate sighs of this fictitious priest are mesmerising. Love people simply and thoroughly - that’s all this poor priest could do, yet it is in doing this that Christ is most thoroughly communicated.

    ellauri164.html on line 437: "In this classic Catholic novel, Bernanos movingly recounts the life of a young French country priest who grows to understand his provincial parish while learning spiritual humility himself." Pro primo, ei se näytä koko aikana ymmärtävän tai  edes välittävän kenestäkään juuri midiä. Pro secundo, koko kirja on yhtä nöyrän piiraan mutustelua. Siitä puhe mistä puute. This man shares something with Isaiah’s “worm among men.” Ich aber bin ein Wurm und kein Mensch. Ich bin eine Ratte (Psalmit 22:6).

    ellauri164.html on line 483: Moses is one of the most prominent figures in the Old Testament. While Abraham is called the “Father of the Faithful” and the recipient of God’s unconditional covenant of grace to His people, Moses was the man chosen to bring redemption to His people. God specifically chose Moses to lead the Israelites from captivity in Egypt to salvation in the Promised Land. Moses is also recognized as the mediator of the Old Covenant and is commonly referred to as the giver of the Law. Finally, Moses is the principal author of the Pentateuch, the foundational books of the entire Bible. Moses’ role in the Old Testament is a type and shadow of the role Jesus plays in the New Testament. As such, his life is definitely worth examining.

    ellauri164.html on line 487: In Exodus 2, we see Moses’ mother attempting to save her child by placing him in a basket and putting it into the Nile. The basket was eventually found by Pharaoh’s daughter, and she adopted him as her own and raised him in the palace of the pharaoh himself. As Moses grew into adulthood, he began to empathize with the plight of his people, and upon witnessing an Egyptian beating a Hebrew slave, Moses intervened and killed the Egyptian. But that was not a sin because the guy was just an Egyptian. In another incident, Moses attempted to intervene in a dispute between two Hebrews, but one of the Hebrews rebuked Moses and sarcastically commented, “Are you going to kill me as you did the Egyptian?” (Exodus 2:14). Realizing that his criminal act was made known, Moses fled to the land of Midian where he again intervened—this time rescuing the daughters of Jethro from some bandits. In gratitude, Jethro (also called Reuel) granted his daughter Zipporah to Moses in marriage (Exodus 2:15–21). Moses lived in Midian for about forty years. 

    ellauri164.html on line 489: The next major incident in Moses’ life was his encounter with God at the burning bush (Exodus 3—4), where God called Moses to be the savior of His people. Despite his initial excuses and outright request that God send someone else, Moses agreed to obey God. God promised to send Aaron, Moses’ brother, along with him. The rest of the story is fairly well known. Moses and his brother, Aaron, go to Pharaoh in God’s name and demand that he let the people go to worship their God. Pharaoh stubbornly refuses, and ten plagues of God’s judgment fall upon the people and the land, the final plague being the slaying of the firstborn. Prior to this final plague, God commands Moses to institute the Passover, which is commemorative of God’s saving act in redeeming His people from bondage in Egypt.

    ellauri164.html on line 493: The rest of the book of Exodus and the entire book of Leviticus take place while the Israelites are encamped at the foot of Sinai. God gives Moses detailed instructions for the building of the tabernacle—a traveling tent of worship that could be assembled and disassembled for easy portability—and for making the utensils for worship, the priestly garb, and the ark of the covenant, symbolic of God’s presence among His people as well as the place where the high priest would perform the annual atonement. God also gives Moses explicit instructions on how God is to be worshiped and guidelines for maintaining purity and holiness among the people. The book of Numbers sees the Israelites move from Sinai to the edge of the Promised Land, but they refuse to go in when ten out of twelve spies bring back a bad report about Israel’s ability to take over the land. God condemns this generation of Jews to die in the wilderness for their disobedience and subjects them to forty years of wandering in the wilderness. By the end of the book of Numbers, the next generation of Israelites is back on the borders of the Promised Land and poised to trust God and take it by faith.

    ellauri164.html on line 495: The book of Deuteronomy shows Moses giving several sermon-type speeches to the people, reminding them of God’s saving power and faithfulness. He gives the second reading of the Law (Deuteronomy 5) and prepares this generation of Israelites to receive the promises of God. Moses himself is prohibited from entering the land because of his sin at Meribah (Numbers 20:10-13). At the end of the book of Deuteronomy, Moses’ death is recorded (Deuteronomy 34). He climbed Mount Nebo and is allowed to look upon the Promised Land. Moses was 120 years old when he died, and the Bible records that his “eye was undimmed and his vigor unabated” (Deuteronomy 34:7). The Lord Himself buried Moses (Deuteronomy 34:5–6), and Joshua took over as leader of the people (Deuteronomy 34:9). Deuteronomy 34:10–12 says, " Since then, no prophet has risen in Israel like Moses, whom the Lord knew face to face, who did all those signs and wonders the Lord sent him to do in Egypt—to Pharaoh and to all his officials and to his whole land. For no one has ever shown the mighty power or performed the awesome deeds that Moses did in the sight of all Israel."

    ellauri164.html on line 497: The above is only a brief sketch of Moses’ life and does not talk about his interactions with God, the manner in which he led the people, some of the specific ways in which he foreshadowed Jesus Christ, his centrality to the Jewish faith, his appearance at Jesus’ transfiguration, and other details. But it does give us some framework of the man. He is somewhat recalcitrant, to put it mildly.

    ellauri164.html on line 498: So, now, what can we learn from Moses’ life? Moses’ life is generally broken down into three 40-year periods. The first is his life in the court of Pharaoh. As the adopted son of Pharaoh’s daughter, Moses would have had all the perks and privileges of a prince of Egypt. He was instructed “in all the wisdom of the Egyptians, and he was mighty in his words and deeds” (Acts 7:22). As the plight of the Hebrews began to disturb his soul, Moses took it upon himself to be the savior of his people. As Stephen says before the Jewish ruling council, “[Moses] supposed that his brothers would understand that God was giving them salvation by his hand” (Acts 7:25). From this incident, we learn that Moses was a man of action as well as a man possessed of a hot temper and prone to rash actions. Did God want to save His people? Yes. Did God want to use Moses as His chosen instrument of salvation? Yes. But Moses, whether or not he was truly cognizant of his role in the salvation of the Hebrew people,   acted rashly and impetuously.  He tried to do in his timing what God wanted done in His timing. The lesson for us is obvious: we must be acutely aware of not only doing God’s will, but doing God’s will in His timing, not ours. As is the case with so many other biblical examples, when we attempt to do God’s will in our timing, we make a bigger mess than originally existed.

    ellauri164.html on line 500: Moses needed time to grow and mature and learn to be meek and eat humble pie before God, and this brings us to the next chapter in Moses’ life, his 40 years in the land of Midian. During this time, Moses learned the simple life of a shepherd, a husband, and a father. God took an impulsive and hot-tempered young man and began the process of molding and shaping him into the perfect instrument for God to use. What can we learn from this time in his life? If the first lesson is to wait on God’s timing, the second lesson is to not be idle while we wait on God’s timing. While the Bible doesn’t spend a lot of time on the details of this part of Moses’ life, it’s not as if Moses were sitting idly by waiting for God’s call. He spent the better part of 40 years learning the ways of a shepherd and supporting and raising a family. These are not trivial things! While we might long for the “mountain top” experiences with God, 99 percent of our lives is lived in the valley doing the mundane, day-to-day things that make up a life. We need to be living for God “in the valley” before He will enlist us into the battle. It is often in the seemingly trivial things of life that God trains and prepares us for His call in the next season.

    ellauri164.html on line 502: Another thing we see from Moses during his time spent in Midian is that, when God finally did call him into service, Moses was resistant. The man of action early in his life, Moses, now 80 years old, became overly timid. When called to speak for God, Moses said he was “slow of speech and tongue” (Exodus 4:10). Some commentators believe that Moses may have had a speech impediment. Perhaps, but then it would be odd for Stephen to say Moses was “mighty in words and deeds” (Acts 7:22). Perhaps Moses just didn’t want to go back into Egypt and fail again. This isn’t an uncommon feeling. How many of us have tried to do something (whether or not it was for God) and failed, and then been hesitant to try again? There are two things Moses seemed to have overlooked. One was the obvious change that had occurred in his own life in the intervening 40 years. The other, and more important, change was that God would be with him. Moses failed at first not so much because he acted impulsively, but because he acted without God. Therefore, the lesson to be learned here is that when you discern a clear call from God, step forward in faith, knowing that God goes with you! Do not be timid, but be strong in the Lord and in the power of his might (Ephesians 6:10).

    ellauri164.html on line 504: The third and final chapter in Moses’ life is the chapter that Scripture spends the most time chronicling, namely, his role in the redemption of Israel. Several lessons can be gleaned from this chapter of Moses’ life as well. First is how to be an effective leader of people. Moses essentially had responsibility over two million Hebrew refugees. When things began to wear on him, his father-in-law, Jethro Tull, suggested that he delegate responsibility to other faithful men, a lesson that many people in authority over others need to learn (Exodus 18). We also see a man who was dependent on the grace of God to help with his task. Moses was continually pleading on behalf of the people before God. If only all people in authority would petition God on behalf of those over whom they are in charge! Moses was keenly aware of the necessity of God’s presence and even requested to see God’s glory (Exodus 33). Moses knew that, apart from God, the exodus would be meaningless. It was God who made the Israelites distinct, and they needed Him most. Moses’ life also teaches us the lesson that there are certain sins that will continue to haunt us throughout our lives. The same hot temper that got Moses into trouble in Egypt also got him into trouble during the wilderness wanderings. In the aforementioned incident at Meribah, Moses struck the rock in anger in order to provide water for the people. However, he didn’t give God the glory, nor did he follow God’s precise commands. Because of this, God forbade him from entering the Promised Land. In a similar manner, we all succumb to certain besetting sins which plague us all our days, sins that require us to be on constant alert.

    ellauri164.html on line 506: These are just a handful of practical lessons that we can learn from Moses’ life. However, if we look at Moses’ life in light of the overall panoply of Scripture, we see larger theological truths that fit into the story of redemption. In chapter 11 the author of Hebrews uses Moses as an example of faith. We learn that it was by faith that Moses refused the glories of Pharaoh’s palace to identify with the plight of his people. The writer of Hebrews says, “[Moses] considered the reproach of Christ greater wealth than the treasures of Egypt” (Hebrews 11:26). Moses’ life was one of faith, and we know that without faith it is impossible to please God (Hebrews 11:6). Likewise, it is by faith that we, looking forward to heavenly riches, can endure temporal hardships in this lifetime (2 Corinthians 4:17–18).

    ellauri164.html on line 508: As mentioned earlier, we also know that Moses’ life was typological of the life of Christ. Like Christ, Moses was the mediator of a covenant. Christ too was a little recalcitrant, so he got crucified.  Again, the author of Hebrews goes to great lengths to demonstrate this point (cf. Hebrews 3; 8—10). The Apostle Paul also makes the same points in 2 Corinthians 3. The difference is that the covenant that Moses mediated was temporal and conditional, whereas the covenant that Christ mediates is eternal and unconditional. Like Christ, Moses provided redemption for his people. Moses delivered the people of Israel out of slavery and bondage in Egypt and brought them to the Promised Land of Canaan. Christ delivers His people out of bondage and slavery to sin and condemnation and brings them to the Promised Land of eternal life on a renewed earth, like Azrael in the forthcoming third season of His Dark Materials. Like Christ he returns to consummate the kingdom He inaugurated at His first coming. Like Christ, Moses was a prophet to his people. Moses spoke the very words of God to the Israelites just as Christ did (John 17:8). Moses predicted that the Lord would raise up another prophet like him from among the people (Deuteronomy 18:15). Jesus and the early church taught and believed that Moses was speaking of Jesus when he wrote those words (cf. John 5:46, Acts 3:22, 7:37). In so many ways, Moses’ life is a precursor to the life of Christ. As such, we can catch a glimpse of how God was working His plan of redemption in the lives of faithful people throughout human history. This gives us hope that, just as God saved His people and gave them rest through the actions of Moses, so, too, will God save us and give us an eternal Sabbath rest in Christ, both now and in the life to come. But don't get your hopes too high, you may not be among the chosen after all.

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    What Was Moses’ Sin?
    

    ellauri164.html on line 518: At Thursday’s daily Mass (Thursday of the 18th week of the year) we Roman catholics read of the sin that excluded Moses from leading the people to the Promised Land. While there are some mysterious elements to it, one thing seems clear: the grumbling of the people got on Moses’ nerves. Indeed, grumbling often affects more than just the one doing the complaining. Through it, infectious negativity can be set loose. Even if only a small number are grousing, it can still incite discontent, anger, and/or fear in others. Yes, the people nearly wore him out. At a particularly low moment, when the people were complaining about the food, Moses lamented to God,

    ellauri164.html on line 530: Many have pondered the precise nature of Moses’ sin and why the punishment for it was so severe. (Well, gosh, he was already 120, and what's the diff which side of the Jordan river he conks out. It's the same dry desert on either side.) A few different explanations have been posited:

    ellauri164.html on line 532:        1. Moses sinned by not following the Lord’s instruction. The Lord told Moses to take his staff in hand and bid the rock to bring forth water. He was told to speak to the rock, but instead he struck it—twice. The striking of the rock, while not specifically directed according to the passage in Numbers, does not seem particularly egregious; in fact, in another description of this event (see Exodus 17:6) God does tell Moses to strike it. The Fathers of the Church (e.g., St. Jerome) did not view this as sinful, even interpreting the striking of the rock twice as a sign of the two bars of the cross.

    ellauri164.html on line 533:        2. Moses exhibited sinful pride. Having assembled the people, Moses reviled them, saying, “Hear now, you rebels!” He then continued, perhaps pridefully, “Shall we bring water for you out of this rock?” Neither Moses nor Aaron can bring forth water, however; only God can do that. Some of the Fathers of the Church interpreted this not as pride on Moses’ part but rather as an indication of the wavering of his faith.

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    Cross-posted at the Catholic Standard: What Was Moses’ Sin?
    

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    Moses’ Unfaithfulness at Meribah (Numbers 20:2-13)
    

    ellauri164.html on line 591: Moses’ moment of greatest failure came when the people of Israel resumed complaining, this time about food and water (Num. 20:1-5). Moses and Aaron decided to bring the complaint to the Lord, who commanded them to take their staff, and in the people’s presence command a rock to yield water enough for the people and their livestock (Num. 20:6-8). Moses did as the Lord instructed but added two flourishes of his own. First he rebuked the people, saying, “Listen, you rebels, shall we bring water for you out of this rock?” Then he struck the rock twice with his staff. Water poured out in abundance (Num. 20:9-11), but the Lord was extremely displeased with Moses and Aaron. 

    ellauri164.html on line 593: God's punishment was harsh. “Because you did not trust in me, to show my holiness before the eyes of the Israelites, therefore you shall not bring this assembly into the land that I have given them” (Num.20:12). Moses and Aaron, like all the people who rebelled against God’s plan earlier (Num. 14:22-23), will not be permitted to enter the Promised Land.

    ellauri164.html on line 595: Scholarly arguments about the exact action Moses was punished for may be found in any of the general commentaries, but the text of Num­bers 20:12 names the underlying offense directly, “You did not trust in me.” Moses’ leadership faltered in the crucial moment when he stopped trusting God and started acting on his own impulses.

    ellauri164.html on line 597: Honoring God in leadership—as all Christian leaders in every sphere must attempt to do—is a terrifying responsibility. Whether we lead a business, a classroom, a relief organization, a household, or any other organization, we must be careful not to mistake our authority for God’s. What can we do to keep ourselves in obedience to God? Meeting regularly with an accountability (or “peer”) group, praying daily about the tasks of leadership, keeping a weekly Sabbath to rest in God’s presence, and seeking others’ perspective on God’s guidance are methods some lead­ers employ. Even so, the task of leading firmly while remaining wholly dependent on God is beyond human capability. If the most humble man on the face of the earth (Num. 12:3) could fail in this way, so can we. By God’s grace, even failures as great as Moses’ at Meribah, with disastrous consequences in this life, do not separate us from the ultimate fulfillment of God’s promises. Moses did not enter the Promised Land, yet the New Testament declares him “faithful in all God’s house” and reminds us of the confidence that all in God’s house have in the fulfillment of our redemption in Christ (Heb. 3:2-6).

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     It is Numbers 20:1-13 again. Miriam was gone.  Moses had just buried his sister in Kadesh, in the Wilderness of Zin (Numbers 20:1).  She had placed his basket among the reeds of the Nile and had run to get his mother when Pharaoh’s daughter drew him out.  His sister had been with him through all his trials in the wilderness.  But now Miriam was gone.

    ellauri164.html on line 628: Moses was in no mood to deal with this today.  Why couldn’t these people let him mourn his sister in peace?  Why had God brought them to a dry thirsty land with no water again?  Why did these people always blame him?  Why didn’t these people bring their problems to God in prayer instead of always complaining to him?  Why were there always so many demands on him?  Why was it always “Moses, Moses, Moses”?

    ellauri164.html on line 641: Numbers 20:12. Despite Moses’ error, water poured from the rock.  God still provided abundantly for the children of Israel even though Moses had disobeyed Him.  God did not withhold His blessing from His people because of their leader’s sin.  God did hold Moses accountable though (Numbers 20:12).

    ellauri164.html on line 643:     Moses had always done exactly as God commanded – UNTIL NOW. Moses was devastated when God pronounced his judgment (Numbers 20:12).  He had obeyed God’s call to go to Egypt to free the Israelites from bondage.  God had worked mighty miracles through him.

    ellauri164.html on line 645: God had used him to give the law to Israel and write the first five books of the Bible.  He had led God’s people through the wilderness for 40-years, enduring all their complaining and the punishment of their rebellion.  He had done everything exactly as God had commanded.

    ellauri164.html on line 647: Now, after 40-years of faithfully serving God with perfect obedience to bring God’s people to the Promised Land, he would not be allowed to enter! Was that fair? Of course it was. Moses knew God was merciful and gracious.  Surely God would forgive and relent, if he would only repent.  Surely God would forgive one sin, and let him in, after how good he had been.

    ellauri164.html on line 650: For 40-years Moses had pronounced judgment without mercy on those who sinned.  Whether the sin had been idolatry, misusing God’s name, immorality, or even collecting firewood on the Sabbath, the law had condemned the disobedient to be stoned for even one sin.  Now Moses was being judged by the very law he had proclaimed.

    ellauri164.html on line 651: God is merciful, but the law is not.  No mere human has ever been justified by keeping the law because no one has ever kept it.  All have sinned and fallen short of the law, even God’s servant Moses.  Not even Moses could keep the law.

    ellauri164.html on line 657: The Promised Land can only be received by God’s grace.  So it was Joshua who led God’s people into the Promised Land.  Joshua means “Jehovah saves.”  In the New Testament, this name is “Jesus.”

    ellauri164.html on line 673: Most of us have been taught that Moses’s sin was hitting a rock to obtain water when God told him just to speak to it. Others say Moses’s sin was that he took credit for obtaining water from the rock when it was really God who performed the miracle. 

    ellauri164.html on line 675: However, God did not say either of these actions was the problem, nor did Moses believe these were the problem. In fact, nowhere does the text say Moses’s sin was striking the rock instead of speaking to it or taking credit for the miracle.

    ellauri164.html on line 676: What did God say Moses’s sin was?

    ellauri164.html on line 677: God said Moses’s sin was a failure to trust:

    ellauri164.html on line 681: That’s ALL God had to say about it. He didn’t criticize Moses for striking the rock when he was told to speak to it. Similarly, God did not indicate that Moses was trying to take credit for the miracle. He said Moses had failed to believe in Him.

    ellauri164.html on line 691: Three different times Moses connected God’s anger with him to something the people did.

    ellauri164.html on line 692: How did Moses’s faith falter and what did the people have to do with it?

    ellauri164.html on line 694: To answer this question we must examine a pattern that developed in the book of Numbers. Three times prior to the incident at the rock of Meribah the people sinned, God punished them, Moses interceded on the people’s behalf, and God pardoned the people. Please take the time to read these events in Numbers chapters 11, 14, 16 & 20. Notice the pattern in the table below.

    ellauri164.html on line 696:   Taberah Twelve SpiesKorah’s RebellionRock at Meribah

    ellauri164.html on line 705: Based on the pattern established in Numbers, what do you expect will happen at Meribah when the people rebel against Moses? We expect the pattern to repeat and for God to decree punishment, but that doesn’t happen. The pattern breaks down! Instead of decreeing punishment for the people’s sin, God simply tells Moses to give the people water by speaking to the rock. This is a significant departure from the previous pattern. When a Bible author develops a pattern and then breaks it, we should pay attention because this signals that the author wants us to notice something important. Why didn’t God punish the people at Meribah? Why did he go at Moses instead? 

    ellauri164.html on line 707: To understand why God didn’t pronounce judgement, let’s notice what Moses did. He leads the people to the rock, calls them rebels, and instead of speaking to the rock he hits it twice with this staff. Moses is having a temper tantrum. In the prior examples in Numbers Moses never speaks harshly or loses patience. Moses is also breaking the pattern and this is the clue to understanding his sin.

    ellauri164.html on line 709: He has reached the end of his rope. He has been patient with these complaining and rebellious people, but he couldn’t take it any longer. Their constant ingratitude and rebelliousness caused Moses to lose faith in the people. This is the people that were supposed to be God’s treasured possession, a holy nation of priests who had agreed to be in a covenant relationship with God (Ex 19:5-8). What a disappointment they had turned out to be and Moses was finished interceding for them. God knew Moses was not going to intercede for the people at Meribah, therefore He doesn’t ordain punishment for them. 

    ellauri164.html on line 711: So, how does this connect back to Moses being barred from entering the Promised Land? Because the people were unfaithful and so difficult to lead, Moses’s own faith suffered. This caused him to lose confidence that God could develop the Israelites into a faithful covenant people who were meant to be a nation of priests and a means of blessing the nations.

    ellauri164.html on line 713: This is understandable. Haven’t you had people in your life that were so difficult that you have jokingly said, “Even God couldn’t do anything with them!” Moses had reached this point, but he wasn’t joking. 

    ellauri164.html on line 715: If there is any doubt this was Moses’s problem, this verse removes it: “because you broke faith with me in the midst of the people of Israel at the waters of Meribah-kadesh, in the wilderness of Zin, and because you did not treat me as holy in the midst of the people of Israel.” (Deut. 32:51 ESV)

    ellauri164.html on line 717: Conclusion: Moses’s sin wasn’t striking the rock as such when he was told to speak to it; his sin was losing faith in God’s ability to use the Israelites for anything positive. This is why God could say that Moses didn’t trust in Him and is also why Moses could say God was angry with him on account of the people.

    ellauri164.html on line 719:   God expects and requires His people to trust Him. Trust is easy when everything is going well. Our faith matters most when things are going wrong and we don’t understand why. During these bad times will we trust in God or not? Moses’s trust in God temporarily faltered and it cost him the Promised Land.

    ellauri164.html on line 800:   It is one of the most mysterious stories in the Old Testament: the story of Moses’ great sin. It is mysterious because, as we see it, the sin seems so minor. We shall see if we can decipher it.

    ellauri164.html on line 818:     As Aaron’s staff was chosen above all others, so Christ is above all others. We are a royal priesthood; but He is our High Priest.

    ellauri164.html on line 826:     All this is true even though the water was brought forth by a leader’s error. God’s grace does not depend upon the perfection of the leader. Not even Christ.x

    ellauri164.html on line 833: What’s the problem? 

    ellauri164.html on line 840:     As a member of God’s royal priesthood, show forth grace to all.

    ellauri164.html on line 844: So why didn’t Moses do what God told him to do? God tells us why:

    ellauri164.html on line 845:     Moses didn’t trust God enough. Oh, he was trusting, but not quite to the point of doing what he was told, how he was told, when he was told.

    ellauri164.html on line 846:     Moses did not honor God. “Must we bring you water…” That’s how Moses put it to the people.

    ellauri164.html on line 854:     Being smart people, if we don’t see why we should do it God’s way, we are tempted to look for another way that we do understand.

    ellauri164.html on line 855:     Sometimes it’s simple presumption: we think we have a better idea.

    ellauri164.html on line 859:     It requires humility to follow blind – if God says do it one particular way, it is a humbling experience to say, “I don’t know why.”

    ellauri164.html on line 861:     Humility is at the core of the servant’s heart; we must be such a servant. If Christ Himself came as a servant to all, should we not imitate our Lord? Go blind anywhere they say like a line of lemmings?

    ellauri164.html on line 867: There are few characters that play a larger part in the story of the Bible than Moses. He is the human protagonist of four Old Testament books and is consistently held up in both the OT and NT as a shining example of faith in the promises of God. The law that he delivered to the people of Israel serves as the foundation of the nation of Israel, and is lauded by Jesus as a testament that would not pass until “heaven and earth pass away…[and] all is accomplished.” One of the great tragic moments of the Bible is where Moses is denied entrance to the Promised Land for his sin at the Rock of Meribah; after faithfully leading Israel for forty years, Moses strikes a rock instead of speaking to it and is condemned to die before living in the Promised Land. On its surface, this might seem unfair to Moses. One mess-up and God gives him this great punishment? How many times had Israel failed in their journey and at Mt. Sinai, and God had spared their lives and allowed them to keep going? Yet His most faithful servant is barred over this one, seemingly insignificant event? If we take a closer look at the text, however, we see why Moses’ failure was such a stark one. While it doesn’t diminish the tragic nature of the event, it does shed light on why God takes such a drastic step to respond.  

    ellauri164.html on line 871:                 This pattern shows itself again in the beginning of Numbers 20 after the death of Miriam. Once more Israel rebels against Moses and Aaron, this time over a lack of water in the desert of Zin. They claim that it would have been better to have died with Korah’s rebellion rather than wander without food and water, and they express regret over leaving Egypt, a land of “grain, figs, vines, and pomegranates.” This might seem a bold claim, since in our reading Korah has just died a few chapters earlier. Careful reading, however, indicates that there’s actually been a quiet time skip; Numbers 33:38 indicates that Aaron died in “the fortieth year after the sons of Israel had come from the land of Egypt, on the first day in the fifth month.” Given that Aaron’s death is recorded in Chapter 20, just a few verses after the episode at Meribah, this would indicate that the episode at Meribah occurred in year 38 of the 40 year wandering in the wilderness (remember that Israel had spent more than a year at Sinai in addition to travel time from Egypt to Sinai and from Sinai to the Promised Land before the wandering). This means that this rebellious generation of Israelites aren’t referencing a recent event, but instead wishing they had died nearly forty years earlier with Korah! Moses and Aaron have been dealing with this wicked and hard group of people for a very long time, and they are now claiming it would have been better to have died with Korah: a fate they were only spared because of Moses and Aaron’s own intercession!

    ellauri164.html on line 873:                 We would expect the pattern to repeat here. The people have rebelled, so the next part would be God’s wrath and threats of destruction. Instead, however, God merely grants their request for water. No mention of sin or possible annihilation, just grace in providing for Israel’s needs. The fact that this cycle we’ve come to expect changes is designed to highlight an important event; the oddity of the text “awakens us from our narrative slumber,” as one commentator puts it, and forces us to pay attention closely to what’s occurring. Why would God not threaten destruction? To answer that, we have to remember a key aspect of God’s character: He does not change. Hebrews 13:8 says He is the same yesterday and today and forever, “without variation or shifting shadow,” (James 1:17). The purpose of the threats of destruction, and Moses/Aaron’s intercession, was not to actually change God’s mind. God knew exactly what was going to happen in all these instances. God’s threats on Israel are spoken to Moses so that Moses will intercede. They are tests of Moses’ (and Aaron’s) character, just as God’s conversation with Abraham over the fates of Sodom and Gomorrah (Genesis 18) was about testing Abraham’s character rather than the doomed cities. Yet here, in Numbers 20, God does not follow the pattern. Why?

    ellauri164.html on line 875:                 This gets us back to the question of what, exactly, Moses’ sin was. Many commentators focus on the physical actions that Moses took in verses 9-11. Some say Moses sin was striking the rock rather than speaking to it, but Moses was told to take the staff of God. Exodus 17:5-6 had Moses striking the rock to cause water to come out of the rock (in fact, it’s actually the same rock of Meribah!), so it’s possible to read an inference that the staff was to be used to strike the rock. Some commentators see Moses’ harsh words for Israel as the sin, or perhaps that he speaks to the people rather than speaking to the rock. Regardless of which of these views, they don’t account for what the text itself says: Numbers 20:12 makes it clear that the sin of Moses and Aaron was “…you have not believed Me, to treat Me as holy in the sight of the sons of Israel.” Indeed, focusing on Moses’ actions of striking the rock or speaking harshly makes it seem doubly unfair to Aaron, who had neither spoken nor struck the rock.

    ellauri164.html on line 877:                 The reading that makes more sense is to focus on the breaking of the pattern established to this point. Moses’ harsh words toward the Israelites reveal his emotions in this moment; he classifies Israel as “rebels” rather than the chosen people, and his rhetorical question seems to imply that he does not view Israel as worthy of God’s grace any longer. This is the real failure of Moses in this moment: he’s lost his faith in God to fulfill His promises to these people. Israel is a nation of rebels outside of grace, outside of God’s ability to make a great nation, outside of the promises that God has given. It seems nearly forty years of dealing with this people has finally broken Moses, and he is so overwhelmed in this moment that he has lost faith. From God’s perspective, Moses has lost faith in the Lord to overcome Israel’s faithlessness. Moses has not believed in God, and has not treated Yahweh as the Holy God who is able to overcome the weakness of His people. Indeed, this is exactly what Numbers 20:12 says was Moses’ sin! He (and Aaron!) did not believe God and did not treat Yahweh as holy in that moment. God did offer Moses the opportunity to intercede for the people (and thus broke the pattern) because He knew that Moses did not have faith in Him.

    ellauri164.html on line 879:                 This interpretation is solidified by Moses’ words about this event in the Book of Deuteronomy. Three times in the first four chapters of Deuteronomy, Moses says that he is not able to enter the Promised Land because of Israel. At first glance, again, this might seem an unfair charge. Moses had caused his own exclusion, hadn’t he? Why is he accusing the generation after the event in Numbers 20 of being the cause of his failure? If we look at these three mentions, we see a few important facts. In the first instance, Deuteronomy 1:37, Moses is recounting the failure of Israel when they listened to the 10 spies’ negative report and how God forbade that generation from entering the Promised Land, and he then says “The Lord was angry with me also on your account, saying, ‘Not even you shall enter there.’” Moses associates his inability to enter the Promised Land with Israel’s rebellion and unfaithfulness, but he also seems to be lumping the people’s refusal to enter the land (Numbers 13-14) with his own sin in Numbers 20. This is not Moses forgetting the chronology of these two events, but rather indicating that they are closely associate with one another.

    ellauri164.html on line 881:                 The second mention is in Deuteronomy 3:23-26, where after retelling the defeats of the kings Sihon and Og Moses relates that “I also pleaded with the Lord at that time, saying, ‘O Lord God, You have begun to show Your servant Your greatness and Your strong hand; for what god is there in heaven or on earth who can do such works and mighty acts as Yours? Let me, I pray, cross over and see the fair land that is beyond the Jordan, that good hill country and Lebanon.’ But the Lord was angry with me on your account, and would not listen to me; and the Lord said to me, ‘Enough! Speak to Me no more of this matter.” Again, Moses directly links the Lord’s anger towards him with the Israelites.

    ellauri164.html on line 883:                 The third mention is in Deuteronomy 4:21-23, where Moses has moved past the historical recounting and is now warning Israel of the danger of idolatry. He says ““Now the Lord was angry with me on your account, and swore that I would not cross the Jordan, and that I would not enter the good land which the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance. For I will die in this land, I shall not cross the Jordan, but you shall cross and take possession of this good land.  So watch yourselves, that you do not forget the covenant of the Lord your God which He made with you, and make for yourselves a graven image in the form of anything against which the Lord your God has commanded you.” Now Moses uses his own tragic story as an illustration on the importance of avoiding idolatry in the Promised Land. So Moses’ failure to enter the Promised Land was related to the continuous rebellion of Israel, and was an illustration of the dangers of violating the covenant promises.

    ellauri164.html on line 885: Reading the Numbers 20 passage the way that has been suggested makes sense of what Moses says in Deuteronomy. He’s not shifting the blame to Israel for his own failures, but highlighting that their constant rebellion was what caused him to lose his faith in God. Moses lack of faith led him to forget the promise and covenant of God, so he is using that illustration to demonstrate the dangers of forsaking the covenant: just like Moses, Israel will be forbidden the Promised Land if they don’t maintain faith in the covenant promises of God. That’s really one of the main points of Deuteronomy. It’s not just the covenant laws for the new generation, but Moses exhorting the new generation to never lose hope in the promise of God. Moses, knowing Israel, recognizes that there will come a day when they fail to uphold the covenant and they will be punished for it, but he also recognizes that God’s promises will stand no matter how badly Israel fails to uphold it. This, then, is the main point we should derive as well: God will always keep His promises. We, as the heirs to the promises to Abraham and Israel, should always firmly believe in the power of God to bring us, a broken people like Israel, to the shores of the Promised Land!

    ellauri164.html on line 900: “The smitten rock was a figure of Christ, and through this symbol the most precious spiritual truths are taught. As the life-giving waters flowed from the smitten rock, so from Christ, ‘smitten of God,’ ‘wounded for our transgressions,’ ‘bruised for our iniquities’ (Isaiah 53:4–5), the stream of salvation flows for a lost race. As the rock had been once smitten, so Christ was to be ‘once offered to bear the sins of many.’ Hebrews 9:28.” –Patriarchs and Prophets, p. 411

    ellauri164.html on line 910: “Our Saviour was not to be sacrificed a second time; and it is only necessary for those who seek the blessings of His grace to ask in the name of Jesus, pouring forth the heart’s desire in penitential prayer.” –Patriarchs and Prophets, p. 411. See also Luke 11:9–10

    ellauri164.html on line 916: Moses was so beloved by God, but when he sinned He still punished His servant’s sin. “God is no respecter of persons” (Acts 10:34). Yet it is because he repented, and confessed his sin, that God forgave him. Not long after his death he was resurrected and taken up into heaven (Jude 9)

    ellauri164.html on line 918:   May the Lord help us not only to understand this truth about Moses’ sin alone, but also possess the true facts of the Bible in every aspect, which comes as a result of prayerful study of His Word, remains my wish and prayer. AMEN.

    ellauri164.html on line 923: Moses’ sin occurred in the final years of his life. After faithfully leading Israel out of Egypt, and after their rebellion in the matter of the 12 spies, he also faithfully led them during the forty years of wandering in the wilderness. Yet near the very end of that wandering, in a moment of anger and a lapse of judgment, Moses sinned, and God recorded that it led Him to refuse to allow Moses to enter the promised land. It is difficult to imagine the anguish and remorse Moses must have felt when God revealed this punishment. His failure to give God the proper respect and reverence, though provoked by the wicked rebellion and faithless murmurings of Israel, was a public sin and God chose to publicly and openly punish him for it.

    ellauri164.html on line 933: Did Moses realize immediately what he had done? At some point after this event, “the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, ‘Because you did not believe Me, to hallow Me in the eyes of the children of Israel, therefore you shall not bring this assembly into the land which I have given them.’” Their conduct had publicly displayed a lack faith, reverence and respect. God determined that this needed an equally public punishment. The punishment for this sin was grievous. God gave to them a punishment so similar to the one given to all Israel at Kadesh that it was a heart-breaking moment for Moses. Both he and Aaron would die in the wilderness and not be allowed to enter the promised land. What a bitter pill for Moses to swallow. Like David with Bathsheba, God forgave the sin, but did not remove the consequences. The consequences for Moses’ momentary lapse in reverence and respect under the terrible emotion of anger was to be barred from entrance into the promised land.

    ellauri164.html on line 939: Conclusion. Though the water came, Moses was severely punished. He was punished in a way that no amount of repentance could remove. As noted above, the sin was forgiven, but the consequences of the sin could not be. Because Moses had sinned publicly and God wanting Israel to understand His righteousness, He would not relent. “Then I pleaded with the Lord at that time...  I pray, let me cross over and see the good land beyond the Jordan, those pleasant mountains, and Lebanon ... the Lord said to me: ‘Enough of that! Speak no more to Me of this matter.’ ... you shall not cross over this Jordan.”  (Deut. 3:23-27). There is a lot of important lessons we can learn from Moses. This sin is one of them. Though Moses had fallen short of God’s glory here, God forgave him. Yet the consequences of the sin were deeply distressing. So it was with David, Paul and Job. So will it be with us. We need to hate sin and realize that the consequences can sometimes be severe.

    ellauri164.html on line 957: Every year we plow through the many possible explanations for God’s decision to disallow Moses entry to Canaan. I would like to propose an explanation that is connected with what we already know about the Israelites and with the way the story is structured.

    ellauri164.html on line 959: This story takes place during the fortieth and final year of the Israelites’ consignment to the wilderness before entering the Land of Promise. The generation of those who, by their own admission, were not prepared to enter the Land has died off, and only those men who were nineteen years old or younger at the Exodus (and the tribe of Levi) will enter. The only named survivors of the previous generation are the leaders: Miriam, Aaron, Moses, Joshua, and Caleb. Early in this parashah, Miriam dies without explanation, successor, or national mourning.

    ellauri164.html on line 963: But wait. Didn’t we already learn a similar story back in Exodus? In fact, the first story of thirst came very soon after the crossing at the Sea of Reeds (Shemot 17:4). Since that was at the very beginning of the sojourn in the wilderness, before the events that led to God’s decision to delay the Israelites’ entry to the Land—and this story is at the end of the forty years—we can see the two stories as forming a kind of a framework around the whole saga of the wandering. In the first story, the Israelites were the first generation of those who left Egypt. In this story, they are the children and grandchildren of that generation. When we see this kind of framework, we look for the similarities and differences between the bracketing stories. At the same time, we understand that they suggest a theme for the stories between them.

    ellauri164.html on line 965: First the comparison: this generation’s complaint about the lack of water is very different from that of the first generation. Although in both cases the people ask rhetorically why they have been brought out of Egypt, in this case, they bitterly object that in ” . . . this wretched place, a place with no grain or figs or vines or pomegranates. There is not even water to drink!” (Num. 20:5). This is a generation that is ready to enter the Land, and is worried that it will not live to do so.

    ellauri164.html on line 967: Another difference is this: in the earlier story, Moses pleaded for help from God; here, Moses does not say a word. God reacts directly to the people’s complaints. Another bit of evidence that this crisis is unlike other crises is that the word test, which is used in other stories of complaint, does not appear here. These differences signal to us that this story is different from the first one—and therefore Moses’s reaction should be different.

    ellauri164.html on line 973: In this very short story we see a second framework: the phrase “before the eyes” emphasizes both the importance of what the Israelites witness, and the logical nature of Moses’s punishment. Why is it so important that Moses speak “before the eyes of the Israelites”? To answer that, we need to recall their past.

    ellauri164.html on line 975: The Israelites had a history of trusting in God because of what they saw. The most famous example, which we repeat in the daily morning service, quotes their experience after the crossing of the Sea of Reeds: “Israel saw the wondrous power which God had wielded against the Egyptians, the people feared God; they had faith in God and in God’s servant, Moses” (Exod. 14:31). They have needed this public, indisputable evidence of their eyes ever since. God knows that what they see is what is most important. And what he wants them to see is Moses speaking—not striking the rock, as he was commanded to do on the former occasion.

    ellauri164.html on line 979: What God wants the people to see is that Moses speaks in performing the miracle at the rock. It is a potentially powerful transitional moment in which Moses’s publicly perceived action would be speech. What he would say would become part of the people’s religious consciousness—part of the repeated narrative of the people—a way of adducing to God a caring relationship with God’s people, and conveying that care to the people. We can imagine the speech Moses might give, performing the quintessential task of a prophet, in bringing God and the people closer together. Instead, he calls them “rebels,” distancing the people from himself and, by association, from God; disdaining their legitimate needs; and losing the opportunity to attribute the provision of water to God.

    ellauri171.html on line 380: This story of Abel’s murder is about:

    ellauri171.html on line 388: What’s the story really about? At the time the story of Cain and Abel developed, there was constant friction between farmers and herdsmen, both of them fighting for the limited resources of the land. Cain kills Abel. A herd of goats in a stony, barren landscape The herdsmen were angry when the farmers took over the best land for their crops the farmers were angry when the flocks trampled their crops.This friction leads to violence in which people get killed. Notice that the story was developed by the herdsmen, the keepers of flocks. This explains why Abel, the herdsman, is portrayed as the injured party.  Lucky Luke-tarinassa Piikkilankoja preerialla skooparit repi pelihousunsa kun jyväjemmarit pystyttivät piikkilankoja preerialle. Sillä kertaa oli maajussit hyvixiä. Nyt on keskusta taas paha. 

    ellauri171.html on line 395: The story continues the Bible’s exploration of the origin of evil in a world created by a God who is all goodness. (Remember the old word game: write down ‘God’ and ‘Devil’; then put an extra ‘o’ in the middle of ‘God’ and take the ‘d’ off ‘devil’; what do you have?) Another one: write the words backwards, what do you get? Dog lived.  Okay never mind let's move on.

    ellauri171.html on line 400: The political stability of Israel was often upset by people called ‘prophets’. These were social critics who spoke bluntly about injustice when they saw it. Rather like the Alt-Right TV evangelists. 

    ellauri171.html on line 404: Why did Herod hate John? John was highly critical of the ruler of Galilee, Herod Antipas, who had married the divorced wife of his brother. The woman’s name was Herodias, and she had a beautiful daughter Salome. John spoke out loud and clear against the incest that, according to Jewish law, was being committed by Antipas and Herodias. Pentateukin leviraattisäännöt on pirullisia. Enste pitää mennä naimisiin veljen vaimon kanssa, sitten taas ei saa.

    ellauri171.html on line 406: It was a dangerous thing to do. He might have got away with it with Antipas, who was indolent and indecisive, but Herodias was another matter. She engineered a situation that led to John’s death, silencing him forever. Did Herodias do it alone? Probably not. It is more likely that all three (Antipas, Herodias and Salome) planned the charade beforehand, to provide an excuse for getting rid of John and silencing him. In any case John, already in prison, was quickly beheaded. Another political problem was solved. Were it not for the fact that the gospels recorded this deed, John’s name and the horror of his death would have been lost forever.

    ellauri171.html on line 423: This meant a good survival rate for their children. But too many foreign workers can pose a threat. Pharaoh certainly thought so. ‘The Egyptians came to dread the Israelites.’ (Exodus 1:12) 

    ellauri171.html on line 438: Judith was a rich and beautiful widow who lived in a town besieged by Nebuchadnezzar’s general, Holofernes. Holofernes taisi olla jonkun suomalaisen kirjailijapoppoon kesäveneen nimi. Haavistoilla lomailee erittäin kovaääninen lahtelainen mies jonka lisänimi on Holofernes, koska se holottaa niin maan saatanasti. Haaviston rouvan aivasteltua koko mäen hereille alkaa Holoferneen lakkaamaton holotus. Talasniemellä ois Judithille töitä. 

    ellauri171.html on line 442: He may or may not have believed her, but her beauty made her a sexual fly-trap, and he allowed her to stay. In the ensuring battle of tits, Judith managed to outwit her prey. While he was drunk and had emptied his bollocks into her, she pulled his sword out of its scabbard, prayed to God for strength, hacked Holofernes’ head off, then escaped back to her people.

    ellauri171.html on line 447: She went to the bedpost near Holofernes’ head, and took down his sword that hung there. She came close to his bed, took hold of the hair of his head, and said “Give me strength today, O Lord God of Israel!” Then she struck his neck twice with all her might, and cut off his head.

    ellauri171.html on line 448: Next she rolled his body off the bed and pulled down the canopy from the posts. Soon afterward she went out and gave Holofernes’ head to her maid, who placed it in her food bag.’ Judith 13:6-10

    ellauri171.html on line 455: Jezebel was the powerful queen of Israel during the reign of King Ahab. When her husband was killed in battle, the throne passed to Ahab’s son Ahaziah.

    ellauri171.html on line 456: Fairly soon, Ahaziah died in an accidental fall through a lattice window in his palace (now that’s hard to believe), and was succeeded by his brother Jehoram.

    ellauri171.html on line 458: Then an army captain called Jehu led a coup d’etat against the royal house of Israel, and killed Jehoram.

    ellauri171.html on line 465:   When they went to bury her, they found no more of her than the skull and the feet and the palms of her hands’ (the dogs ate her flesh. She became dog's dinner!) (2 Kings 9:31-37)

    ellauri171.html on line 501:     The young girl Dinah is seized and raped by Shechem. Shechem tries to atone. He falls in love with Dinah and offers to marry her. He also offers compensation to her family. Jacob accepts the young man’s attempt at reconciliation, but his sons do not. They plan to murder Shechem and all the men of the city. Dinah’s brothers massacre the men of the city, including Shechem, and enslave the women and children. Dinah’s fate is unknown.

    ellauri171.html on line 506: At the time of this story, she must have been very young – about fourteen years, since she was born after Leah’s four sons. Even though young, she was considered to be of marriageable age.

    ellauri171.html on line 521: Dinah’s feelings are not recorded, so we have no way of knowing what they were. Niin aina.

    ellauri171.html on line 525: Because of Shechem’s action, Dinah is an outcast. Lineage tree of the descendents of Sarah and Abraham. No mention of Dinah…

    ellauri171.html on line 526: Jacob does not send for his sons, but waits for them to come home from the fields. Nothing is said about Jacob’s feelings, or about what he thinks.

    ellauri171.html on line 528: Years later, when his son Joseph is apparently killed by wild animals, Jacob’s grief is terrible: he tears his clothes, wails, refuses to be comforted.

    ellauri171.html on line 531: When Dinah’s brothers heard what had happened, they were very angry. The verb used to describe their emotion is the same as the word used to describe God’s grief when he sees what humanity has become, before the Flood (Genesis 6:6)

    ellauri171.html on line 537:     an invitation to Jacob’s family to settle permanently in the region, acquire property and intermarry with his own people

    ellauri171.html on line 544: After his father has finished speaking, Shechem makes another offer: to give any marriage present they want, if he can marry Dinah. Stacks of Gold Coins! Referring to her, he uses the word ‘maiden’.

    ellauri171.html on line 549:     He has done what ‘ought not to be done’, gone against the norms of social ethics.

    ellauri171.html on line 555: There is deep anger in the hearts of Dinah’s brothers, and they want justice, not compensation. They set out to deceive Shechem and his father.

    ellauri171.html on line 562: Three days later, when all the recently circumcised men are still in pain, two of Dinah’s brothers, Simeon and Levi, enter the unguarded city and attack the newly-circumcised men. No voi vittu mitä perseitä! Just tällästä voi GT-sählämeiltä odottaa!

    ellauri171.html on line 573: I will divide them in Jacob,and scatter them in Israel.’

    ellauri171.html on line 575: They take Dinah out of Shechem’s house, where she has been living - for how long?

    ellauri171.html on line 581: At the beginning of the story, Dinah is seized and dishonored. Now at the end, all the enemy’s belongings are seized and dishonored.

    ellauri171.html on line 583: 	It is over-retaliation, and it prompts the Bible’s command to limit retribution to ‘an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth’. Only retribution in kind may be taken if an injury has been suffered.

    ellauri171.html on line 586: His anger is stoked not by any ethical consideration, but by the fear that they have become pariahs who will be hunted down by allies of the city they have attacked. He rebukes his sons for backing out of the agreement they had with the people of the city – but hasn’t he himself used duplicity all his life to get what he wants? He does not like it when his sons do the same.

    ellauri171.html on line 588: The brothers respond: should they have let their sister be treated like a whore? A whore receives financial advantage for sex, and they reproach Jacob for suggesting that the honour of the family can be restored by favours from the people of Shechem. They call Dinah ‘our sister’ rather than ‘your daughter’ – a reproach to their father.

    ellauri171.html on line 591: Perhaps the most disturbing thing is that, through it all, Dinah’s voice is not heard.

    ellauri171.html on line 595: 
    Names in Dinah’s story
    

    ellauri171.html on line 597: Dinah means ‘she who has been judged and found innocent’. She was the daughter of Jacob and Leah. 

    ellauri171.html on line 598: Shechem means ‘shoulder’ or ‘saddle’, the shape of mountains encircling ancient Shechem. He was the son of Hamor the Hivite.

    ellauri171.html on line 599: Jacob means ‘he who grabs for something’ – either his brother’s heel at the moment of birth, or his brother’s inheritance later on

    ellauri171.html on line 604: 	    Once a sin is committed, it cannot be undone, no matter how you try. Dinah’s brothers are right about this.

    ellauri171.html on line 607: 
    7. The Levite’s Concubine
    

    ellauri171.html on line 610: The old man who was the Levite’s host offered the men his own daughter instead, as well as the concubine, but the men outside would not listen.

    ellauri171.html on line 617: ‘In the morning her master got up, opened the doors of the house, and when he went out to go on his way, there was his concubine lying at the door of the house, with her hands on the threshold. ‘Get up’ he said to her, ‘we are going’. But there was no answer.’ (Judges 19:27-28)

    ellauri171.html on line 628:     But his concubine played the harlot against him, and she went away from him to her father’s house in Bethlehem in Judah, and was there for a period of four months. Judges 19:2 (NASB)

    ellauri171.html on line 630: We are told that the concubine became a prostitute. Since we are told that she went to her father’s house, it may be that she and the Levite had an argument about her adultery before she fled. Verses 1 and 2 imply they were not happy together. Now before we find fault with the Levite and accuse him of using her as a mistress, read the next two verses.

    ellauri171.html on line 632:     Then her husband arose and went after her to speak tenderly to her in order to bring her back, taking with him his servant and a pair of donkeys. So she brought him into her father’s house, and when the girl’s father saw him, he was glad to meet him. His father-in-law, the girl’s father, detained him; and he remained with him three days. So they ate and drank and lodged there. Judges 19:3-4 (NASB)

    ellauri171.html on line 635: Now we learn that the Levite and the concubine are husband and wife because the Levite is described as “her husband,” and the woman’s father is the Levite’s “father-in-law.” We also learn that the Levite travelled to Bethlehem to speak kindly to her and return home together. Because we are told that he planned to “speak tenderly to her,” this once again suggests that they may have argued after she played the prostitute, and as a result she left.

    ellauri171.html on line 644: The worthless fellows wanted the old man to send out the Levite so that they could engage in sexual activity with him. But the old man refused and offered the crowd of men his virgin daughter and the Levite’s concubine. The old man said, “you may ravish them” and do “whatever you wish.” He granted them permission to engage in sexual relations with the two women. Now it is obvious the men surrounding the old man’s house wanted to engage in sexual activity when the two women were offered. It is also obvious the men described as  “worthless fellows” were homosexuals since they wanted sex with the Levite and two women were offered.[1, 2]

    ellauri171.html on line 648:     But the men would not listen to him. So the man seized his concubine and brought her out to them; and they raped her and abused her all night until morning, then let her go at the approach of dawn. As the day began to dawn, the woman came and fell down at the doorway of the man’s house where her master was, until full daylight. Judges 19:25-26 (NASB)

    ellauri171.html on line 664: Thus the tribes of Israel (minus Benjamin) invoked capital punishment on the men who raped and murdered the Levite’s concubine and the tribe. In time, a total of forty thousand Israelites died as a result of God’s punishment on the tribe of Benjamin (Judges 20:21, 25). Six hundred men of Benjamin remained alive (Judges 20:47). Judges 20:48 states that Israel destroyed the cities of the tribe of Benjamin that they could find, including the cattle. Later Judges 21:16 states all the women were killed too!

    ellauri171.html on line 671: 
    Ang babaeng IPINAGAHASA at KINATAY ng kanyang asawa 😢 (The Levite’s Concubine)
    

    ellauri171.html on line 690: 	Another lesson is that the Levite was supposedly a godly man and priest. The account does not tell us what ultimately happened to him, but Judges 20:4-5 seems to imply that he lied about his actions in order to save himself. Scripture records what appears to be deception. It is not enough for someone to claim to a godly person. It appears that Scripture records he was not fit for the priesthood. Being a pastor or a priest is not a “job” or “vocation.” Some have said that character does not matter. It is what one accomplishes. But Scripture repeatedly demonstrates that God uses righteous ministers! This man’s behavior demonstrated he was not qualified to be a priest.

    ellauri171.html on line 711: ‘She put her hand to the tent peg and her right hand to the workmen’s mallet;

    ellauri171.html on line 713: He sank, he fell, he lay still at her feet; at her feet he sank, he fell; where he sank, there he fell dead.’

    ellauri171.html on line 722: Deborah was ‘just a woman’ but when war came she took up the reins of leadership – even though the Israelites were outnumbered and under-equipped.

    ellauri171.html on line 730: As he passed by her tent, Jael called the unwary Sisera into her tent. He was exhausted and desperate for a refuge. She hid him and fed him, and he fell into a deep sleep. Then she calmly took one of her tent pegs and with one blow hammered it through the side of his head. She was hailed as a national heroine by the Israelites. Sisera’s mother waited and waited for her son to return. But he was already dead by Jael’s hand.

    ellauri171.html on line 741: Once inside the room with the door firmly closed, Ehud drew out a sword he has strapped to his inside thigh and plunged it into the king’s very fat body.

    ellauri171.html on line 744: He was left-handed. The guards searched for a weapon on his left thigh where a right-handed person would have hidden it. They missed the knife inside his right thigh! Clever! Bible Murders: Ehud murders Eglon. Man's body of about the same proportions as Eglon's. The Bible gives a graphic description of the king’s body. It was so fat that the blade went deep into his belly: it plunged so far in that the hilt went in as well, and the skin closed over it.

    ellauri171.html on line 745: Ehud’s hand was covered in faeces. Then Ehud quickly left, locking the door after him so the servants would think the king was taking his time as he relieved himself.

    ellauri171.html on line 748: ‘Then Ehud reached with his left hand, took the sword from his right thigh, and thrust it into Eglon’s belly; the hilt also went in after the blade, and the fat closed over the blade, for he did not draw the sword out of his belly; and the faeces came out.

    ellauri171.html on line 749: Then Ehud went out into the vestibule and closed the doors of the roof chamber on him, and locked them.’ (Judges 3:21-23)

    ellauri171.html on line 758: Their dead bodies, it seems, were too cumbersome to tranport. Instead, the boy’s heads were hacked off, collected in baskets, and displayed for the gawking crowd the the city gate.

    ellauri171.html on line 761: ‘Then Jehu wrote them a second letter, saying “If you are on my side, and if you are ready to obey me, take the heads of your master’s sons and come to me at Jezreel tomorrow at this time.”

    ellauri171.html on line 762: Now the king’s sons, seventy persons, were with the leaders of the city, who were charged with their upbringing. When the letter reached them, they took the king’s sons and killed them, seventy persons; the put their heads in baskets and sent them to him at Jezreel.

    ellauri171.html on line 763: When the messenger came and told him “They have brought the heads of the king’s sons” he Jehu said “Lay them in two heaps at the entrance of the gate”.’ 

    ellauri171.html on line 774: We hope you enjoyed our Bible Study: famous murders in the Bible: Cain and Abel, Herod and John the Baptist, the death of Absalom, Judith and Holofernes, Jehu murders Jezebel, the Levite’s concubine, Jael and Sisera, Ehud murders Eglon, Jehu slaughters the royal children. Check out also other Bible murder links!

    ellauri171.html on line 792: At this point, Jesus said to His disciples, “it is hard for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven” (Matthew 19:23). Hard but not impossible. A camel can be diluted in acid and injected thru a needle. Anyway it was just the name of a gate in Jerusalem. This is because the care of riches in this life can be a snare for a Christian. A Christian’s heart cannot be set on riches and cares of this world above the Kingdom of God. In another example, the parable of the sower, Jesus warned that some who receive the word of God will allow their spiritual growth to be choked off by “the cares of this world and the deceitfulness of riches” (Matthew 13:22). These things show us that being poor can help a Christian not to be ensnared by such things.  No cause to complain then.

    ellauri171.html on line 794: Though Christians may be poor in this world, it is God’s will to "eventually" eliminate poverty. The Bible speaks in much detail of a coming time of peace and prosperity on earth when poverty will be wiped out. It is called the millennium. God the Father has a plan to send His Son back to earth in great power and glory. “He has appointed a day on which He will judge the world in righteousness by the Man whom He has ordained” (Acts 17:31).

    ellauri171.html on line 798: To another church, Christ said, “you say, ‘I am rich, have become wealthy, and have need of nothing’—and do not know that you are wretched, miserable, poor, blind, and naked” (Revelation 3:17). These Christians, though rich with material goods of this world were very poor in faith.

    ellauri171.html on line 970: Jezebel (circa 910–841 BCE) was the wife of Ahab—king of Israel, daughter of Etbaal— king of Tyros (Phoenician empire), and mother of Ahazia and Jehoram—Ahab’s sons and successors. Ethbaal served as a priest of Astarte, the primary Phoenician goddess.

    ellauri171.html on line 971: At a time when political alliances were cemented through matrimony, King Ahab sought to create a pact with the neighboring Tyrian kingdom and married the king’s daughter.

    ellauri171.html on line 973:   Jezebel’s marriage to Ahab was a political alliance. The union provided both peoples with military protection from powerful enemies as well as valuable trade routes: Israel gained access to the Phoenician ports; Phoenicia gained passage through Israel’s central hill country to Transjordan and especially to the King’s Highway, the heavily traveled inland route connecting the Gulf of Aqaba in the south with Damascus in the north. But although the marriage is sound foreign policy, it is intolerable to the Deuteronomist because of Jezebel’s competing gods.

    ellauri171.html on line 977: Jezebel does not accept Ahab’s God, Yahweh. Rather, she leads Ahab to tolerate Baal. This is why she is vilified by the Deuteronomist, whose goal is to stamp out polytheism.

    ellauri171.html on line 980: The extent of Jezebel’s power is evidenced by the necessity for Jehu, the founder of the next royal dynasty in Israel, to murder her before his rule can be established (2 Kings 9:30–37)—plus her whole extended family. Tollasta karhutouhua. The biblical text insists that she is evil through and through.

    ellauri171.html on line 985: “...Often beautiful, she uses her looks to her advantage to ‘lure in’ her next victim.”

    ellauri171.html on line 987:   But the appearance of Jezebel in the bible includes no mention of her sexuality. In the Hebrew Bible, Jezebel appears in the books of first and second Kings as the wife of King Ahab— the marriage being a political alliance between Israel and Sidon (a coastal city to the north) where Jezebel was the princess. Jezebel brings her religion to Israel with her, and the worship of Baal is blasphemy in the eyes of the biblical writers. According to the text, Jezebel begins killing Israel’s prophets. Because of this, Elijah challenges the prophets of Baal to a showdown with Israel’s deity. The Baal worshipers fail to summon their deity, so Elijah calls upon Yahweh and fire descends from heaven and consumes the altar. Having won, Elijah then slaughters all of the prophets of Baal. Jezebel threatens to kill Elijah by the same time the next day, and, ironically, Elijah retreats.

    ellauri171.html on line 989: The next time we hear of Jezebel is during the ploy to obtain Naboth’s vineyard for her husband, who is unable to secure the transaction. She sends letters, with the stamp of the king, to the elders in Naboth’s town, commanding them to lie against Naboth, and then stone him. The elders do so, and after Naboth’s death, the vineyard is claimed for Ahab. Few bible commentators acknowledge the bizarre betrayal of Naboth by his neighbors. If, as is suggested, Naboth’s neighbors had known him since birth and patronized him, how could they turn so quickly? Some scholars argue that this incident highlights Jezebel’s keen understanding of Israelite men. It is perhaps, also, one of the impetus for her modern connotation as manipulator-supreme. 

    ellauri171.html on line 992: As she regally awaits Jehu  in the Jezreel palace, some palace officials squeeze her through the lattice window, most likely piece by piece. By the time Jehu has finished eating, he orders that she be buried “for she is a king’s daughter” (2 Kings 9:34), but the dogs supplied by Elijah's goons have already eaten most of her carcass—in keeping with Elijah’s prophecy.

    ellauri171.html on line 996: In Christian lore, Jezebel’s prominent association is that of a sexual essence. Authoritative sources such  Thesaurus and Urban Dictionary return results like “whore,” “harlot,” “slut.” John in his drug dream seems to associate the Biblical queen with the “mother of whores and of abominations” who “rules over the kings of the earth” and who has committed fornication with them (Revelation 17:2, 5, 18).

    ellauri171.html on line 997: Jezebel is portrayed by the Rabbis as a wicked woman who represents the negative influence of Gentile women who turned Israel’s heart to idolatry. She is a corrupting influence on her husband Ahab, who is drawn to idolatry and away from God because of her.

    ellauri171.html on line 999: Idolatry (other religious conviction) was Jezebel’s most grievous sin. She would fatten the prophets of Baal and Asherah, thus vexing God and arousing His ire.

    ellauri171.html on line 1002:   Jezebel’s support of Tyros' national God  Baal  led her to persecute Jewish bigots who overtly rejected idolatry, beginning with the prophets. Scripture tells us that she had these ideological adversaries executed, and in turn promoted 450 prophets of Baal and 400 prophets of god Asherah.

    ellauri171.html on line 1009:   The medieval commentators differ on whether Jezebel converted to Judaism in a halachically acceptable manner. R. Levi ben Gershom (Ralbag, 1288-1344) is of the view that Jezebel did not fully embrace Judaism and was not a halachic Jewess. This would mean that her two sons, Ahazia and Jehoram, also lacked Jewish credentials. But his assumption is challenged by the fact that there are indications throughout rabbinic works that Ahazia and Jehoram were regarded as bona-fide halachic Jews. Indeed, this is the position taken by a number of halachic authorities. Some contemporary authors argue instead that Jehoram was the son of another of Ahab’s 100% Jewish wives.

    ellauri171.html on line 1017: It seems reasonable that Jezebel, a foreign royal princess by birth, was highly educated and efficient. Also, although her son’s theophoric names have the element yah or yahu (referring to God) in them, she seems to have been a patron and devotee of the Baal cult.

    ellauri171.html on line 1018: It is not incomprehensible that, whereas Ahab devoted himself to military and foreign affairs, Jezebel acted as his deputy for internal affairs: the Naboth report comes back to her, as if the king’s seal was hers; she has her own “table,” that is her own economic establishment and budget; she has her own “prophets,” probably a religious establishment that she controls. All these point toward an official or semiofficial position that Jezebel held by virtue of her character, her royal origin and connections, her husband’s and later her children’s esteem, and her religious affiliation to the Baal (possibly also Asherah) cult.

    ellauri171.html on line 1021:   Israel’s most accursed queen carefully fixes a pink rose in her red locks in John Byam Liston Shaw’s “Jezebel” from 1896. Jezebel’s reputation as the most dangerous seductress in the Bible stems from her final appearance: her husband King Ahab is dead; her son has been murdered by Jehu. As Jehu’s chariot races toward the palace to kill Jezebel, she “painted her eyes with kohl and dressed her hair, and she looked out of the window” (2 Kings 9:30).

    ellauri171.html on line 1024: In recent years, scholars have tried to reclaim the shadowy female figures whose tales are often only partially told in the Bible. Rehabilitating Jezebel’s stained reputation is an arduous task, however, for she is a difficult woman to like. She is not a heroic fighter like Deborah, a devoted sister like Miriam or a cherished wife like Ruth. Jezebel cannot even be compared with the Bible’s other bad girls—Potiphar’s wife and Delilah—for no good comes from Jezebel’s deeds. These other women may be bad, but Jezebel is the worst.

    ellauri171.html on line 1028: Why would parents name their child Jezebel? Because it’s a pretty name. Just because someone has the same name as someone in the Bible does not mean this is where the inspiration for their name came from. Reality check: not every person is religious. Spanjuunat koittivat kiemurrella että Isabella ei muka ole Iisebel vaan Elishaveta, Aaronin vaimo, Johannes Yökastelijan ja Hyvinkään Kultahatun äiti Iisa taivutustyyppiä kala. Jumala muka vaan putosi pois alusta. Paskanmarjat,  samat iisev ja el vaan toisin päin. Jumala on voimasana. Liisa, Betty, Elsa, Iisa, Bella ym.

    ellauri171.html on line 1030: The meaning of Izebel is “My God is a vow”. Keep in mind that many names may have different meanings in other countries and languages, so be careful that the name that you choose doesn’t mean something bad or unpleasant. The history and meaning of the name Izebel is fascinating, learn more about it.  This name is not popular in the US, according to Social Security Administration, as there are no popularity data for the name.

    ellauri171.html on line 1048: Judah, who has bought her for his firstborn son, Er, loses it, er, I mean loses Er.  When he, er, I mean Er dies, Judah gives Tamar to his second son, Onan, who is to act as levir, a surrogate for his dead brother who would beget a son to continue Er’s lineage. (Onan you must be familiar with first hand!) In this way, Tamar too would be assured a place in the family. Onan, however, would make a considerable economic sacrifice. According to inheritance customs, the estate of Judah, who had three sons, would be divided into four equal parts, with the eldest son acquiring one half and the others one fourth each. A child engendered for Er would inherit at least one fourth and possibly one half (as the son of the firstborn). If Er remained childless, then Judah’s estate would be divided into three, with the eldest, most probably Onan, inheriting two thirds. Onan opts to preserve his financial advantage and does coitus interruptus with Tamar, spilling his semen on the ground. For this, God punishes Onan with death, as God had previously punished Er for doing something equally wicked (unfortunately we are not told what, maybe sodomy in the flock).

    ellauri171.html on line 1050: Although the readers know that God has killed two of Judah’s sons, Judah does not. This is known as dramatic irony. He suspects that Tamar is a “lethal woman,” a woman whose sexual partners are all doomed to die. So, Judah is afraid to give Tamar to his youngest son, Shelah, the inventor of Shelah quantifiers. So doing, Judah wrongs Tamar. According to Near Eastern custom, known from Middle Assyrian laws, if a man has no son over ten years old, he could perform the Levirate marriage (yibbum) obligation himself; if he does not, the woman is declared a “widow,” free to marry again. Judah, who is perhaps afraid of Tamar’s lethal character, could have set her free. But he does not—he sends her to live as “a widow” in her father’s house. Unlike other widows, she cannot remarry and must stay chaste on pain of death. She is in limbo.

    ellauri171.html on line 1054: Tamar’s plan is as simple as it is clever: she covers herself with a veil so that Judah won’t recognize her, and then she sits in the roadway at the “entrance to Enaim” (Hebrew petah enayim; literally, “eye-opener”). She has chosen her spot well. Judah will pass as he comes back happy and horny (and maybe tipsy) from a sheep-shearing festival. The veil is not the mark of a prostitute (haha); rather, it simply will prevent Judah from seeing Tamar’s face, and women sitting by the roadway are apparently fair game. So, Judah propositions her, offering to give her a kid (well he did) for her services and giving her his pet seal and staff id (the ancient equivalent of a credit card) in pledge.

    ellauri171.html on line 1056: Judah, a man of honor (buahahaha) tries to pay. His friend Hirah goes looking for her, asking around for the kedeshah in the road (Gen 38:21.). The NRSV translates this as “temple prostitute,” but a kedeshah was not a sacred prostitute; she was a public woman, who might be found along the roadway (as virgins and married women should not be). She could engage in sex, but might also be sought out for lactation, midwifery, and other female concerns. By looking for a kedeshah, Hirah can look for a public woman without revealing Judah’s private life. The woman, of course, is nowhere to be found. Judah, mindful of his public image, calls off the search rather than became a laughingstock. BRUAAHAHAHA!

    ellauri171.html on line 1058: But there is a greater threat to his honor (aw fuck, stop, you're killing us). Rumor relates that Tamar is pregnant and has obviously been faithless to her obligation to Judah to remain chaste. Judah, as the head of the family, acts swiftly to restore his honor, commanding that she be burnt to death. But Tamar has anticipated this danger. She sends his identifying pledge to him, urging him to recognize that its owner is the father. Realizing what has happened, Judah publicly announces Tamar’s innocence. His cryptic phrase, zadekah mimmeni, is often translated “she is more in the right than I” (Gen 38:26), a recognition not only of her innocence, but also of his wrongdoing in not freeing her or performing the levirate. Another possible translation is “she is innocent—it [the child] is from me.” Judah has now performed the levirate (despite himself) and never cohabits with Tamar again. Once she is pregnant, future sex with a late son’s wife would be incestuous.

    ellauri171.html on line 1060: Tamar’s place in the family and Judah’s posterity are secured. She gives birth to twins, Perez and Zerah (Gen 38:29–30; 1 Chr 2:4), thus restoring two sons to Judah, who has lost two. Their birth is reminiscent of the birth of Rebekah’s twin sons, at which Jacob came out holding Esau’s heel (Gen 25:24–26). Perez does him one better. The midwife marks Zerah’s hand with a scarlet cord when it emerges from the womb first, but Perez (whose name means “barrier-breach”) edges his way through. Cuts the queue. From his line would come David. Not surprising.

    ellauri171.html on line 1062: Tamar was assertive of her rights and subversive of convention. She was also deeply loyal to Judah’s family. These qualities also show up in Ruth, who appears later in the lineage of Perez and preserves Boaz’s part of that line. The blessing at Ruth’s wedding underscores the similarity in its hope that Boaz’s house “be like the house of Perez, whom Tamar bore to Judah” (Ruth 4:12). Tamar’s (and Ruth’s) traits of assertiveness in action, willingness to be unconventional, and deep loyalty to family are the very qualities that distinguish their descendant, King David.

    ellauri171.html on line 1099: David had a number of wives, but one of the most high-ranking was Maacah, the daughter of King Talmai  of the neighboring kingdom of Geshur. Maacah had two children, both of them extraordinarily good-looking. The first was her son Absalom, a favorite of his father’s, the other her daughter Tamar, whose looks stood out even in this family of beautiful children.

    ellauri171.html on line 1102: When Tamar reached puberty her half-brother Amnon, David’s eldest son, developed an unnatural obsession with his young half-sister. He watched her, he waited in places where she passed, he could not get enough of her presence, and above all he wanted to possess her.

    ellauri171.html on line 1109: In any case, Tamar was out of Amnon’s reach. As a royal princess and a virgin, she was closely watched by the harem eunuchs. She lived in the women’s quarters, and could not go outside its walls unless accompanied by other women and guards. There seemed no opportunity for Amnon to get her alone, let alone into his bedroom.

    ellauri171.html on line 1112: 	But Amnon was not used to being refused something he wanted. He must have discussed his obsession with a friend of his, a clever cousin called Jonadab, because this young man came up with a plan. They would lure Tamar into Amnon’s room on the pretext that her half-brother was ill, and once they were alone there Amnon could have what he wanted. Bedrooms in ancient mansions were designed to receive guests/visitors.

    ellauri171.html on line 1114: Amnon took to his bed, feigning illness. This caused consternation in the court. The health of a king’s eldest son was no small matter, and David was concerned. The doctors were consulted, and when they could not come up with a cure he visited his son, coming to the room where the young man lay.

    ellauri171.html on line 1118: Tamar obeyed her father. She may have had reservations about coming to her brother’s private quarters but she had no choice. Law and custom required her to obey her father, and in any case she would have been escorted by her own servants.

    ellauri171.html on line 1120: She came to Amnon’s quarters and prepared a kind of boiled dumpling soup (matzoh-ball-soup) that Amnon asked for. She then set the food before him, but Amnon, pretending to be petulant and out of sorts, refused to eat.

    ellauri171.html on line 1123: Since they were directly commanded to go, her servants also had to leave the room – David’s heir was not someone to be crossed. Then, still feigning the irritation of a sick person, he went into the bedroom alcove and insisted he would only eat the food if she brought it to him there and fed him with her own hand.

    ellauri171.html on line 1127: Tamar was struggling for her life, not just her virginity. If she was no longer a virgin no-one would want her, no-one would marry her, even though she was the king’s daughter. But her pleading had no effect on Amnon. He was too strong for her, and he got in and raped her, in fact repeatedly.

    ellauri171.html on line 1134: Amnon ignored her words. He was without pity or remorse. He had his servant literally throw her out of the room. He would not even use her name: ‘Put this woman out of my presence, and bolt the door after her.’

    ellauri171.html on line 1140: Her appearance, and the women’s quick realization of what had happened, plunged the harem into turmoil. The three women most affected were Tamar, her mother Maacah, and Ahinoam, the mother of Amnon. The sisters of Tamar and Amnon would also have been intimately affected.

    ellauri171.html on line 1142: Other wives of David and their children would be sympathetic, but would quickly look to see what they could gain from Amnon’s crime – which way the wind blew, and what chance might there be to seize some political advantage for themselves. Among them would be Bathsheba, a commoner newly introduced into the harem.

    ellauri171.html on line 1157: Absalom waited, biding his time. For two years he said nothing, did nothing, but then he set his trap. He gave a feast for all David’s sons. At the height of the festivities when Amnon was half-drunk, Absalom had his half-brother killed, stabbed to death in a scene reminiscent of a Mafia killing. In the ensuring turmoil Absalom escaped, fleeing for sanctuary to Geshur, his grandfather’s territory.

    ellauri171.html on line 1161: It is to be hoped that Tamar did not accompany her brother to Geshur, since her status there would have been even worse that in Israel. Instead, Maacah may have used what little influence she now had to see that her daughter returned to David’s harem. In either place Tamar’s position would have been lowly, little better than a servant. Tamar means ‘date palm’; the name suggests a date palm.

    ellauri172.html on line 62: - Théodore Agrippa d’Aubigné

    ellauri172.html on line 97: Théodore Agrippa d’Aubigné (1552 Pons, Ranska −1630 Geneve, Sveitsi) oli ranskalainen kirjailija ja aikansa historioitsija, joka kuoli maanpakolaisena. Hän oli maineikas huuakotti. Hänen ystäviään oli Henrik Navarralainen, ja hän oli Madame de Maintenonin isoisä. Pariisin parlamentti määräsi hänen teoksensa Histoire universelle 1550−1601 poltettavaksi. Teos on merkittävä aikalaiskuvaustensa vuoksi. Merkittävin hänen teoksistaan on seitsenosainen runoelma Les Tragiques (1616), jossa hän käsittelee Ranskan tilannetta, uskonvainoja ja Jumalan rangaistuksia. Hän pakeni 1620 Geneveen, jossa kuoli. Kaikesta huolimatta 

    ellauri172.html on line 148:   Yxi Jorin diggaamista Edgar Allan Poe-tyyppisistä sekoiluista oli Villiers d'Isle-Adamin noveletta Veera, jonka mottona luki: L’amour est plus fort que la Mort, a dit Salomon : oui, son mystérieux pouvoir est illimité. Paskanjauhantaa. Kuten todettiin hautakirjoitus-albumissa: rakastaminen on elävien askaretta. Kuolleet eivät bylsi eikä juorua. Villiers oli jonkunlainen Hegel-diggari. Tarina ei kaikessa lyhykäisyydessään ollut kummonen:

    ellauri172.html on line 150: 	Un Comte  quelconque nomme Alcool vit couché dans un cercueil sa dame de volupté, sa pâlissante épousée, Véra, son désespoir. La nuit dernière, sa bien-aimée s’était évanouie en des joies si profondes que son cœur avait défailli. Cependant leur nature était des plus étranges, en vérité !  Certaines idées, celles de l’âme, par exemple, de l’Infini, de Dieu même, étaient comme voilées à leur entendement. La foi d’un grand nombre de vivants aux choses surnaturelles n’était pour eux qu’un sujet de vagues étonnements. Au lieu de cela, les deux amants s’ensevelirent dans l’océan des joies languides et perverses. Veera oli Madonnan näköinen, tottakai. Veera oli kulkija luonnoltaan. Jätkät sätkät parrunpätkät, jasen tervahöyryn nimi, oli PRINSESSA ARMAADA! Continuons.

    ellauri172.html on line 153: toteutuu! Jopajjo. Tää on kuultu ennenkin. Ah ! les Idées sont des êtres vivants !… Idealismia nahkoineen ja karvoineen. Et, comme il ne manquait plus que Véra elle-même, tangible, extérieure, il fallut bien qu’elle s’y trouvât et que le grand Songe de la Vie et de la Mort entr’ouvrît un moment ses portes infinies ! Le chemin de résurrection était envoyé par la foi jusqu’à elle ! Isoissa alkukirjaimissa on ytyä!

    ellauri172.html on line 155: — Roger !… dit-elle d’une voix lointaine. Kreivin etunimi oli Rooger (isolla).

    ellauri172.html on line 156: — Ah ! maintenant, je me rappelle !… dit-il. Qu’ai-je donc ? — Mais tu es morte ! Rooger änkyttää. Herra hän haisee jo. Sitä ei Roogerin olisi pitänyt sanoa, taika raukesi. Un faible soupir d’adieu et merci, distinct, lointain, parvint jusqu’à l’âme de Roger. Oh ! murmura-t-il, c’est donc fini ! — Seuraava kokous on sit nahkurin orsilla. Tarina osoitti millainen mahti tahto kaikkinensa on. Kuten sanottua, bullshittiä. Tää vähän ennakoi Blavatskyn ja muiden meedioiden trendausta.

    ellauri172.html on line 283: 24 Then the angel of the Lord stood in a narrow path through the vineyards, with walls on both sides. 25 When the donkey saw the angel of the Lord, it pressed close to the wall, crushing Balaam’s foot against it. So he beat the donkey again.

    ellauri172.html on line 285: 26 Then the angel of the Lord moved on ahead and stood in a narrow place where there was no room to turn, either to the right or to the left. 27 When the donkey saw the angel of the Lord, it lay down under Balaam, and he was angry(E) and beat it with his staff. 28 Then the Lord opened the donkey’s mouth,(F) and it said to Balaam, “What have I done to you to make you beat me these three times?(G)”

    ellauri172.html on line 293: 31 Then the Lord opened Balaam’s eyes,(I) and he saw the angel of the Lord standing in the road with his sword drawn. So he bowed low and fell facedown.

    ellauri172.html on line 299: 35 The angel of the Lord said to Balaam, “Go with the men, but speak only what I tell you.” So Balaam went with Balak’s officials.

    ellauri172.html on line 301: 36 When Balak(L) heard that Balaam was coming, he went out to meet him at the Moabite town on the Arnon(M) border, at the edge of his territory. 37 Balak said to Balaam, “Did I not send you an urgent summons? Why didn’t you come to me? Am I really not able to reward you?”

    ellauri172.html on line 303: 38 “Well, I have come to you now,” Balaam replied. “But I can’t say whatever I please. I must speak only what God puts in my mouth.”(N)

    ellauri172.html on line 316:   Le caractère de la vie qui nous a permis d’unir en une certaine mesure, l’égoïsme et l’altruisme, — union qui est la pierre philosophale des moralistes, — c’est ce que nous avons appelé la fécondité morale. Il faut que la vie individuelle se répande pour autrui, en autrui, et, au besoin, se donne ; eh bien, cette expansion n’est pas contre sa nature : elle est au contraire selon sa nature ; bien plus, elle est la condition même de la vraie vie. L’école utilitaire a été forcée de s’arrêter, plus ou moins hésitante, devant cette antithèse perpétuelle du moi et du toi, du mien et du tien, de l’intérêtpersonnel et de notre intérêt général ; mais la nature vivaute ne s’arrête pas à cette division tranchée et logiquement inflexible : la vie individuelle est expansive pour autrui parce qu’elle est féconde, et elle est féconde par cela même qu’elle est la vie.

    ellauri172.html on line 318:   Au point de vue physique, nous l’avons vu, c’est un besoin individuel que d’engendrer un autre individu, si bien que cet autre devient comme une condition de nous-même. La vie, comme le feu, ne se conserve qu’en se communiquant. Et cela est vrai de l’intelligence non moins que du corps ; il est aussi impossible de renfermer l’intelligence en soi que la flamme : elle est faite pour rayonner. Même force d’expansion dans la sensibilité : il faut que nous partagions notre joie, il faut que nous partagions notre douleur. C’est tout notre être qui est sociable : la vie ne connaît pas les classifications et les divisions absolues des logiciens et des métaphysiciens : elle ne peut pas être complètement égoïste, quand même elle le voudrait. Nous sommes ouverts de toutes parts, de toutes parts envahissants et envahis. Cela tient à la loi fondamentale que la biologie nous a fournie : La vie n’est pas seulement nutrition, elle est production et fécondité. Vivre, c’est dépenser aussi bien qu’acquérir.

    ellauri172.html on line 322: L’être vivant n’est pas purement et simplement un calculateur à la Bentham, un financier faisant sur son grand livre la balance des profits et des pertes : vivre, ce n’est pas calculer, c’est agir. Il y a dans l’être vivant une accumulation de force, une réserve d’activité qui se dépense non pour le plaisir de se dépenser, mais parce qu’il faut qu’elle se dépense : une cause ne peut pas ne pas produire ses effets, même sans considération de fin.

    ellauri172.html on line 324: Le second équivalent, nous l’avons trouvé dans la théorie des idées-forces soutenue par un philosophe contemporain : l’idée même de l’action supérieure, comme celle de toute action, est une force tendant à la réaliser. L’idée est même déjà la réalisation commencée de l’action supérieure ; l’obligation n’est, à ce point de vue, que le sentiment de la profonde identité qui existe entre la pensée et l’action ; c’est par cela même le sentiment de l’unité de l’être, de l’unité de la vie. Celui qui ne conforme pas son action à sa plus haute pensée est en lutte avec lui-même, divisé intérieurement. Sur ce point encore l’hédonisme est dépassé ; il ne s’agit pas de calculer des plaisirs, de faire de la comptabilité et de la finalité : il s’agit d’être et de vivre, de se sentir être, de se sentir vivre, d’agir comme on est et comme on vit, de ne pas être une sorte de mensonge en action, mais une vérité en action.

    ellauri172.html on line 328: Pro tertio: Le bonheur purement égoïste de certains épicuriens est une chimère, une abstraction, une impossibilité : les vrais plaisirs humains sont tous plus ou moins sociaux. L’égoïsme pur, avons-nous dit, au lieu d’être une réelle affirmation de soi, est une mutilation de soi.

    ellauri172.html on line 330:   Peut-être notre terre, peut-être l’humanité arriveront-elles aussi à un but ignoré qu’elles se seront créé à elles-mêmes. Nulle main ne nous dirige, nul œil ne voit pour nous ; le gouvernail est brisé depuis longtemps ou plutôt il n’y en a jamais eu, il est à faire : c’est une grande tâche, et c’est notre tâche.

    ellauri172.html on line 550:   En ces sortes de repas découronnés de femmes, les hommes les plus polis et les mieux élevés perdent de leur charme de politesse et de leur distinction naturelle ; et quoi d’étonnant ?… Ils n’ont plus la galerie à laquelle ils veulent plaire, et ils contractent immédiatement quelque chose de sans-gêne, qui devient grossier au moindre attouchement, au moindre choc des esprits les uns par les autres. L’égoïsme, l’inexilable égoïsme, que l’art du monde est de voiler sous des formes aimables, met bientôt les coudes sur la table, en attendant qu’il vous les mette dans les côtés.

    ellauri172.html on line 552:     Après la politique, la haine des Bourbons, le spectre noir de la Congrégation, les regrets du passé pour ces vaincus, toutes ces avalanches qui roulaient en bouillonnant d’un bout à l’autre de cette table fumante, il y avait d’autres sujets de conversation, à tempêtes et à tintamarres. Par exemple, il y avait les femmes. La femme est l’éternel sujet de conversation des hommes entre eux, surtout en France, le pays le plus fat de la terre. Il y avait les femmes en général et les femmes en particulier, — les femmes de l’univers et celle de la porte à côté, — les femmes des pays que beaucoup de ces soldats avaient parcourus, en faisant les beaux dans leurs grands uniformes victorieux, et celles de la ville, chez lesquelles ils n’allaient peut-être pas, et qu’ils nommaient insolemment par nom et prénom, comme s’ils les avaient intimement connues, sur le compte de qui, parbleu ! ils ne se gênaient pas, et dont, au dessert, ils pelaient en riant la réputation, comme ils pelaient une pêche, pour, après, en casser le noyau. Tous prenaient part à ces bombardements de femmes, même les plus vieux, les plus coriaces, les plus dégoûtés de la femelle, ainsi qu’ils disaient cyniquement, car les hommes peuvent renoncer à l’amour malpropre, mais jamais à l’amour-propre de la femme, et, fût-ce sur le bord de leur fosse ouverte, ils sont toujours prêts à tremper leurs museaux dans ces galimafrées de fatuité !

    ellauri172.html on line 554:     Dans cette salle à manger, présentement muette, mais dont les murs nous en diraient de si belles s’ils pouvaient parler, puisqu’ils auraient ce que je n’ai pas, moi, l’impassibilité des murs, l’heure des vanteries qui arrive si vite dans les dîners d’hommes, d’abord décente, — puis indécente bientôt, — puis déboutonnée, — enfin chemise levée et sans vergogne, amena les anecdotes, et chacun raconta la sienne… Ce fut comme une confession de démons !

    ellauri172.html on line 558:  S’il avait cru que c’était Dieu, le Dieu vivant, le Dieu vengeur qu’il jetait aux porcs, au risque de la foudre sur le coup ou de l’enfer, sûrement, pour plus tard, il y aurait eu là du moins de la bravoure, du mépris de plus que la mort, puisque Dieu, s’il est, peut éterniser ta torture.

    ellauri172.html on line 563:     Et, pendant qu’il parlait de s’agenouiller, il grandissait, et, comme la fiancée de Corinthe dans la poésie de Goethe, il semblait, sans s’être levé de sa chaise, grandi du buste jusqu’au plafond:

    ellauri172.html on line 565: M. Reniant ne croyait pas que ces hosties fussent Dieu. Il n’avait pas là-dessus le moindre doute. Pour lui, ce n’étaient que des morceaux de pain à chanter, consacrés par une superstition imbécile, et pour lui, comme pour toi-même, mon pauvre Rançonnet, vider la boîte aux hosties dans l’auge aux cochons, n’était pas plus héroïque que d’y vider une tabatière ou un cornet de pains à cacheter. 

    ellauri172.html on line 568:     Mais, capitaine Mautravers, il y a pis pour un soldat que de mettre à mal quelques bigotes : c’est de devenir dévot soi-même, comme une poule mouillée de pékin, quand on a traîné le bancal !…

    ellauri172.html on line 570:     Mais non, — cria-t-il, — tonnerre de tonnerres ! c’est impossible ! Voyez-vous, vous autres, le chef d’escadron Mesnilgrand à confesse, comme une vieille bonne femme, à deux genoux sur le strapontin, le nez au guichet, dans la guérite d’un prêtre ? Voilà un spectacle qui ne m’entrera jamais dans le crâne ! Trente mille balles plutôt. — Mille bombes ! — fit Capitain Haddock, exalté.

    ellauri172.html on line 574: — Parlons sérieusement, — dit Mautravers, — je suis comme Rançonnet. Je ne croirai jamais à une capucinade d’un homme de ton calibre, mon brave Mesnil. Même à l’heure de la mort, les gens comme toi ne font pas un saut de grenouille effrayée dans un baquet d’eau bénite.

    ellauri172.html on line 576:     — À l’heure de la mort, je ne sais pas ce que vous ferez, Messieurs, — répondit lentement Mesnilgrand ; — mais quant à moi, avant de partir pour l’autre monde, je veux faire à tout risque mon portemanteau.  Siitä voi olla jotain hyötyä.

    ellauri172.html on line 578: — Pour mon compte, — dit nonchalamment Sélune, avec la fatuité d’un vieil endurci qui n’entend pas qu’on l’émeuve de rien, — pour mon compte, j’ai vu un jour quatre-vingts religieuses jetées l’une sur l’autre, à moitié mortes, dans un puits, après avoir été préalablement très bien violées chacune par deux escadrons.

    ellauri172.html on line 579: — Brutalité de soldats ! — fit Mesnilgrand froidement, who cares; — mais voici du raffinement d’officier.

    ellauri172.html on line 581:     Ce major Ydow, ce diable d’homme,  avec cette femme en sautoir… Il n’était pas Français, à ce qu’il paraît. . Ce n’est pas tant pis pour la France. Il était né je ne sais où et de je ne sais qui, en Illyrie ou en Bohême, je ne suis pas bien sûr…

    ellauri172.html on line 583:     On l’aurait cru le produit d’un mélange de plusieurs races. Il disait, lui, qu’il fallait prononcer son nom à la grecque : Άϊδον, pour Ydow, parce qu’il était d’origine grecque, et sa beauté l’aurait fait croire, car il était beau, et, le Diable m’emporte ! peut-être trop pour un soldat.

    ellauri172.html on line 587: Il faisait son devoir, mais il ne faisait jamais plus que son devoir. Je l’ai rencontrée très frappante dans un des bustes d’Antinoüs… tenez ! Antinoushan oli homo! Ce n’était pas Endymion : c’était un tigre, ristiverinen… Endymion oli kreikkalaisessa mytologiassa komea paimen, joka perusti Eliin kaupungin, jonka kuningas hän oli. Endymion, johon kuun jumalatar Selene rakastui, oli Zeuksen pojanpoika. Tarun mukaan jumalatar Selene rakastui Endymioniin ja synnytti hänelle viisikymmentä tytärtä. Taas tuli halkiohaara! Niitä typeriä epyllejä taas.

    ellauri172.html on line 588: Très fat d’une beauté à laquelle je préférais, moi, bien des laideurs de ma connaissance, il ne semblait n’être, en somme, comme disent soldatesquement les soldats, qu’un miroir à… à ce que tu viens de nommer, Rançonnet, à propos de la Rosalba, c'est a dire PUTAIN!

    ellauri172.html on line 590:     Nous on a ete de "mauvais sujets", mais, il y avait des choses, — pas beaucoup ! mais enfin il y en avait bien une ou deux, dont, si démons que nous fussions, nous n’aurions pas été capables, comme par exemples donner du cul. Mais, lui (prétendait-on), il était capable de tout. Ils l’accusaient de servilité avec les chefs et de basse ambition. Ils allèrent même jusqu’à le soupçonner d’espionnage. Il était aussi à la fois heureux au jeu et heureux en femmes ; ce qui n’est pas l’usage non plus. Rumat miehet ovat yhtä mustasukkaisia könsikkäille kuin rumat naiset.

    ellauri172.html on line 592:     No mutta mitähän hirmu pahaa se sitten oli tehnyt kysyi porthosmainen Ranconnet. Restel dans le rang, älä keskeytä! Tulen ihan kohta siihen. Nimittäin kaikki oli taas kerran sen ämmän vika!  Mais une femme, c’est l’aimant du diable !  Il y a une proportion d’arithmétique morale, écrite, avant qu’elle le fût par un philosophe sur du papier, dans la poitrine de tous les hommes, comme un encouragement du Démon : « c’est qu’il y a plus loin d’une femme à son premier amant, que de son premier au dixième! Vittu tää Barney on läpimätä!

    ellauri172.html on line 594: Puisqu’elle s’était donnée à lui, elle pouvait bien se donner à un autre, et, ma foi ! tout le monde pouvait être cet autre-là !  En un temps fort court, au 8e dragons, on sut combien il y avait peu d’audace dans cette espérance. Pour tous ceux qui ont le flair de la femme, et qui en respirent la vraie odeur à travers tous les voiles blancs et parfumés de vertu dans lesquels elle s’entortille, la Rosalba fut reconnue tout de suite pour la plus corrompue des femmes corrompues, — dans le mal, une perfection! 

    ellauri172.html on line 596:     « Et je ne la calomnie point, n’est-ce pas, Rançonnet ?… Tu l’as eue peut-être, et si tu l’as eue, tu sais maintenant s’il fut jamais une plus brillante, une plus fascinante cristallisation de tous les vices ! Où le major l’avait-il prise ?… D’où sortait-elle ? Elle était si jeune !

    ellauri172.html on line 598:     Nous étions accoutumés à de belles filles, si vous voulez, mais presque toujours du même type, décidé, hardi, presque masculin, presque effronté ; le plus souvent de belles brunes plus ou moins passionnées, qui ressemblaient à de jeunes garçons (mmm!), très piquantes et très voluptueuses sous l’uniforme que la fantaisie de leurs amants leur faisait porter quelquefois…

    ellauri172.html on line 600:     Mais Rosalba, c’était une grande jeune fille pâle avec une forêt de cheveux blonds.

    ellauri172.html on line 602:     Ce monstre d’impudicité osait s’appeler Rosalba, osait porter ce nom immaculé de Rosalba, qu’il ne faudrait donner qu’à l’innocence, et qui, non contente d’être Rosalba, eli sarvijäärä, s’appelait encore la Pudique, la Pudica, par-dessus le marché !  Häveliäisyys, jota joskus kutsutaan kohteliaisuudeksi, on pukeutumis- ja käytöstapa, jolla pyritään välttämään seksuaalisen vetovoiman rohkaisua toisissa. Sana "vaatimattomuus" tulee latinan sanasta modestus, joka tarkoittaa "mitoissa pysymistä". Sana 'häveliäisyys' tulee sanasta häpy. Ei vilauteta pudendumia toisille.

    ellauri172.html on line 604:     — Virgile aussi s’appelait « le pudique, » et il a écrit le Corydon ardebat Alexim, — insinua Reniant, qui n’avait pas oublié son latin. — Et ce n’était pas une ironie, — continua Mesnilgrand,  car Virgile etait un pédé.

    ellauri172.html on line 606:     Qui donc a dit — ce doit être un Anglais — que le monde est l’œuvre du Diable, devenu fou ? C’était sûrement ce Diable-là qui, dans un accès de folie, avait créé la Rosalba, pour se faire le plaisir… du Diable, de fricasser, l’une après l’autre, la volupté dans la pudeur et la pudeur dans la volupté, et de pimenter, avec un condiment céleste, le ragoût infernal des jouissances qu’une femme puisse donner à des hommes mortels.

    ellauri172.html on line 608:     La Rosalba était pudique comme elle était voluptueuse, et le plus extraordinaire, c’est qu’elle l’était en même temps. Quand elle disait ou faisait les choses les plus… osées, elle avait d’adorables manières de dire : « J’ai honte ! » que j’entends encore. Phénomène inouï ! Elle fût sortie d’une orgie de bacchantes, comme l’Innocence de son premier péché. Jusque dans la femme vaincue, pâmée, à demi morte, on retrouvait la vierge confuse, avec la grâce toujours fraîche de ses troubles et le charme auroral de ses rougeurs… (Vizi tää hemmo on aika sick. Mutta se on just kuten Huismanni totesi: pyllistely tuntuu vielä rotevammalta kun pyllyn takana kyttää kiivas Jehova piiska handussa. Niin varmaan junioriapinastakin joka pääsee salaa silverbäkin nartun vulvalle. Sisään vaan vaikkei seisokkaan!)

    ellauri172.html on line 610:     Il s’arrêta. Il y pensait, et ils y pensaient. Avec ce qu’il venait de dire, il avait, le croira-t-on ? transformé en rêveurs ces soldats qui avaient vu tous les genres de feux, ces moines débauchés, ces vieux médecins, tous ces écumeurs de la vie et qui en étaient revenus. L’impétueux Captain Haddock, lui-même, ne souffla mot. Il se souvenait.  Ne muistelivat varmaan Pauliinan mökkiä Talasmäellä.

    ellauri172.html on line 614:     Le mot naïf et étonné de la Borghèse, quand on lui demanda comment elle avait bien pu poser nue devant Canova : « Mais l’atelier était chaud ! il y avait un poêle ! » Kilpineito Elfhildr käski norjalaisen poliisikolleegan tuoda ämpäriä kun sillä oli vimmattu pissahätä. No sehän toi. Sevveran on sentään edistytty.

    ellauri172.html on line 616: Palataxemme sarvijäärään: elle se mit à briller au milieu de ces filles brunes d’Espagne, comme un diamant dans une torsade de jais. Ce fut là qu’elle commença de produire sur les hommes ces effets d’acharnement qui tenaient, sans doute, à la composition diabolique de son être, et qui faisaient d’elle la plus enragée des courtisanes, avec la figure d’une des plus célestes madones de Raphaël.

    ellauri172.html on line 619:     Par Dieu ! nous avons tous, Messieurs, connu de ces hommes assez fanatisés d’une femme pour croire en elle, quand tout l’accuse, et qui, au lieu de se venger quand la certitude absolue d’une trahison pénètre dans leur âme, préfèrent s’enfoncer dans leur bonheur lâche, et en tirer, comme une couverture par-dessus leur tête, l’ignominie !

    ellauri172.html on line 621:     Tai se oli taas ton ämmän vika! La Circé antique, qui changeait les hommes en bêtes, n’était rien en comparaison de cette Pudica, de cette Messaline-Vierge, avant, pendant et après.

    ellauri172.html on line 627:     Non, si je la quittai, ce fut pour une raison de dégoût moral, de fierté pour moi, de mépris pour elle, pour elle qui, au plus fort des caresses les plus insensées, ne me faisait pas croire qu’elle m’aimât… Quand je lui demandais : M’aimes-tu ? ce mot qu’il est impossible de ne pas dire, même à travers toutes les preuves qu’on vous donne que vous êtes aimé, elle répondait : « Non ! » ou secouait énigmatiquement la tête. Elle se roulait dans ses pudeurs et dans ses hontes, et elle restait là-dessous, au milieu de tous les désordres de sens soulevés, impénétrable comme le sphinx. Seulement, le sphinx était froid, et elle ne l’était pas…  Mikä Katariina Suuri sekin oli olevinaan!

    ellauri172.html on line 633:     Incertitude qui vous poursuit comme la punition du partage, de l’indigne partage auquel on s’est honteusement soumis !

    ellauri172.html on line 635:     Quand cet enfant mourut, car il mourut quelques mois après sa naissance, le major eut un chagrin très exalté, un chagrin à folies, et on n’en rit pas dans le régiment. Pour la première fois, l’antipathie dont il était l’objet se tut. On le plaignit beaucoup plus que la mère qui, si elle pleura sa géniture, n’en continua pas moins d’être la Rosalba que nous connaissions tous, cette singulière catin arrosée de pudeur par le Diable, qui avait, malgré ses mœurs, conservé la faculté, qui tenait du prodige, de rougir jusqu’à l’épine dorsale deux cents fois par jour ! Sa beauté ne diminua pas. Elle résistait à toutes les avaries. Et, cependant, la vie qu’elle menait devait faire très vite d’elle ce qu’on appelle entre cavaliers une vieille chabraque, si cette vie de perdition avait duré. »

    ellauri172.html on line 639:     — Elle n’a donc pas duré ? Tu sais donc, toi, ce que cette chienne de femme-là est devenue ? — fit Capitain Haddock, haletant d’intérêt excité, et oubliant pour une minute cette visite à l’église qui le tenait si dru.

    ellauri172.html on line 641:     Oui! sanoi messuaja, mais je vais aujourd’hui te révéler le destin de cette Rosalba. »

    ellauri172.html on line 643:     La haine pour les Français gagnait du terrain, eikä ihme.  Cette femme m’intéressait comme spectateur, et qui cachait les déportements du vice le plus impudent sous les déconcertements les plus charmants de l’innocence. Mä päinvastoin kätkin tän viattomuuteni tähän törkyupseerin valepukuun.

    ellauri172.html on line 645:     Je la trouvai à peine vêtue, les épaules au vent, embrasées par une chaleur africaine, les bras nus, ces beaux bras dans lesquels j’avais tant mordu et qui, dans de certains moments d’émotion que j’avais si souvent fait naître, devenaient, comme disent les peintres, du ton de l’intérieur des fraises. Ses cheveux, appesantis par la chaleur, croulaient lourdement sur sa nuque dorée, et elle était belle ainsi, déchevelée, négligée, languissante à tenter Satan et à venger Ève !

    ellauri172.html on line 647:     À moitié couchée sur un guéridon, elle écrivait… Or, si elle écrivait, la Pudica, c’était, pas de doute ! à quelque amant, pour quelque rendez-vous, pour quelque infidélité nouvelle au major Ydow, qui les dévorait toutes, comme elle dévorait le plaisir, en silence. Lorsque j’entrai, sa lettre était écrite, et elle faisait fondre pour la cacheter, à la flamme d’une bougie, de la cire bleue pailletée d’argent, que je vois encore, et vous allez savoir, tout à l’heure, pourquoi le souvenir de cette cire bleue pailletée d’argent m’est resté si clair.

    ellauri172.html on line 649:     Je dis, sentant la pressure monter dans mes culottes, — Moi, j’ai ce soir une autre frénésie.

    ellauri172.html on line 651: « Elle me comprit. Rien ne l’étonnait. Elle était faite aux désirs qu’elle allumait chez les hommes, qu’elle aurait ramenés en face d’elle de tous les horizons.

    ellauri172.html on line 652: « — Bah ! — fit-elle lentement, quoique la teinte d’incarnat que je voulais boire sur son adorable et exécrable visage se fût foncée à la pensée que je lui donnais. — Bah ! vos frénésies à vous sont finies. — Et elle mit le cachet sur la cire bouillante de la lettre, qui s’éteignit et se figea.

    ellauri172.html on line 654:     « — Tenez ! — dit-elle, insolemment provocante, — voilà votre image ! C’était brûlant il n’y a qu’une seconde, et c’est froid.

    ellauri172.html on line 656:     « Et, tout en disant cela, elle retourna la lettre et se pencha pour en écrire l’adresse.

    ellauri172.html on line 658:     « Faut-il que je le répète jusqu’à satiété ? Certes ! je n’étais pas jaloux de cette femme : mais nous sommes tous les mêmes. Malgré moi, je voulus voir à qui elle écrivait, et, pour cela, ne m’étant pas assis encore, je m’inclinai par-dessus sa tête ; mais mon regard fut intercepté par l’entre-deux de ses épaules, par cette fente enivrante et duvetée où j’avais fait ruisseler tant de baisers, et, ma foi ! magnétisé par cette vue, j’en fis tomber un de plus dans ce ruisseau d’amour, et cette sensation l’empêcha d’écrire… Elle releva sa tête de la table où elle était penchée, comme si on lui eût piqué les reins d’une pointe de feu, se cambrant sur le dossier de son fauteuil, la tête renversée ; elle me regardait, dans ce mélange de désir et de confusion qui était son charme, les yeux en l’air et tournés vers moi, qui étais derrière elle, et qui fis descendre dans la rose mouillée de sa bouche entr’ouverte ce que je venais de faire tomber dans l’entre-deux de ses épaules.

    ellauri172.html on line 662: « Oui, — reprit amèrement Mesnilgrand, — c’est encore là un des revenants-bons de l’adultère et du partage !  En ces moments-là, les plus fendants ne sont pas fiers, et, par générosité pour une femme épouvantée, ils deviennent aussi lâches qu’elle, et font cette lâcheté de se cacher. J’en ai, je crois, mal au cœur encore d’être entré dans ce placard, en uniforme et le sabre au côté, et, comble de ridicule ! pour une femme qui n’avait pas d’honneur à perdre et que je n’aimais pas !

    ellauri172.html on line 666:   Le major Ydow tomba dans une de ces rages qui déshonorent le caractère d’un homme, et cribla la Pudica d’injures ignobles, d’injures de cocher. Je crus qu’il la rouerait de coups. Les coups allaient venir, mais un peu plus tard. Il lui reprocha, — en quels termes ! d’être… tout ce qu’elle était. Il fut brutal, abject, révoltant ; et elle, à toute cette fureur, répondit en vraie femme qui n’a plus rien à ménager, qui connaît jusqu’à l’axe l’homme à qui elle s’est accouplée, et qui sait que la bataille éternelle est au fond de cette bauge de la vie à deux. Elle fut moins ignoble, mais plus atroce, plus insultante et plus cruelle dans sa froideur, que lui dans sa colère. Elle fut insolente, ironique, riant du rire hystérique de la haine dans son paroxysme le plus aigu, et répondant au torrent d’injures que le major lui vomissait à la face par de ces mots comme les femmes en trouvent, quand elles veulent nous rendre fous, et qui tombent sur nos violences et dans nos soulèvements comme des grenades à feu dans de la poudre. De tous ces mots outrageants à froid qu’elle aiguisait, celui avec lequel elle le dardait le plus, c’est qu’elle ne l’aimait pas — qu’elle ne l’avait jamais aimé : « Jamais ! jamais ! jamais ! » répétait-elle, avec une furie joyeuse, comme si elle lui eût dansé des entrechats sur le cœur ! — Or, cette idée — qu’elle ne l’avait jamais aimé — était ce qu’il y avait de plus féroce, de plus affolant pour ce fat heureux, pour cet homme dont la beauté avait fait ravage, et qui, derrière son amour pour elle, avait encore sa vanité ! Aussi arriva-t-il une minute où, n’y tenant plus, sous le dard de ce mot, impitoyablement répété, qu’elle ne l’avait jamais aimé, et qu’il ne voulait pas croire, et qu’il repoussait toujours :

    ellauri172.html on line 668:     « — Et notre enfant ? — objecta-t-il, l’insensé ! comme si c’était une preuve, et comme s’il eût invoqué un souvenir !

    ellauri172.html on line 670:     « — Ah ! notre enfant ! — fit-elle, en éclatant de rire. — Il n’était pas de toi !

    ellauri172.html on line 672:     « J’imaginai ce qui dut se passer dans les yeux verts du major, en entendant son miaulement étranglé de chat sauvage. Il poussa un juron à fendre le ciel. — Et de qui est-il ? garce maudite ! — demanda-t-il, avec quelque chose qui n’était plus une voix.

    ellauri172.html on line 676:     « — Tu ne le sauras pas ! — dit-elle, en le narguant. Et elle le cingla de ce tu ne le sauras pas ! mille fois répété, mille fois infligé à ses oreilles ; et quand elle fut lasse de le dire, — le croiriez-vous ? — elle le lui chanta comme une fanfare ! Puis, quand elle l’eut assez fouetté avec ce mot, assez fait tourner comme une toupie sous le fouet de ce mot, assez roulé avec ce mot dans les spirales de l’anxiété et de l’incertitude, cet homme, hors de lui, et qui n’était plus entre ses mains qu’une marionnette qu’elle allait casser ; quand, cynique à force de haine, elle lui eut dit, en les nommant par tous leurs noms, les amants qu’elle avait eus, et qu’elle eut fait le tour du corps d’officiers tout entier : « Je les ai eus tous, — cria-t-elle, — mais ils ne m’ont pas eue, eux ! Et cet enfant que tu es assez bête pour croire le tien, a été fait par le seul homme que j’aie jamais aimé ! que j’aie jamais idolâtré ! Et tu ne l’as pas deviné ! Et tu ne le devines pas encore ? »

    ellauri172.html on line 678:     « Elle mentait. Elle n’avait jamais aimé un homme. Mais elle sentait bien que le coup de poignard pour le major était dans ce mensonge, et elle l’en dagua, elle l’en larda, elle l’en hacha, et quand elle en eut assez d’être le bourreau de ce supplice, elle lui enfonça pour en finir, comme on enfonce un couteau jusqu’au manche, son dernier aveu dans le cœur:

    ellauri172.html on line 680:     « — Eh bien ! — fit-elle, — puisque tu ne devines pas, jette ta langue aux chiens, imbécile ! C’est le capitaine Mesnilgrand!

    ellauri172.html on line 684:     Le major Ydow avait fait embaumer le cœur de son fils pour mieux l’emporter avec lui partout, et il l’avait déposé pieusement dans une urne de cristal, habituellement placée sur une encoignure, dans sa chambre à coucher. C’était cette urne qui volait en morceaux.

    ellauri172.html on line 686: « — Ah ! il n’était pas à moi, abominable gouge ! — s’écria-t-il. Et j’entendis, sous sa botte de dragon, grincer et s’écraser le cristal de l’urne, et piétiner le cœur de l’enfant qu’il avait cru son fils !

    ellauri172.html on line 688:     « Sans doute, elle voulut le ramasser, elle ! l’enlever, le lui prendre, car je l’entendis qui se précipita ; et les bruits de la lutte recommencèrent, mais avec un autre, — le bruit des coups.

    ellauri172.html on line 690:     « — Eh bien ! puisque tu le veux, le voilà, le cœur de ton marmot, catin déhontée ! — dit le major. Et il lui battit la figure de ce cœur qu’il avait adoré, et le lui lança à la tête comme un projectile. L’abîme appelle l’abîme, dit-on. Le sacrilège créa le sacrilège. La Pudica, hors d’elle, fit ce qu’avait fait le major. Elle rejeta à sa tête le cœur de cet enfant, qu’elle aurait peut-être gardé s’il n’avait pas été de lui, l’homme exécré, à qui elle eût voulu rendre torture pour torture, ignominie pour ignominie ! C’est la première fois, certainement, que si hideuse chose se soit vue ! un père et une mère se souffletant tour à tour le visage, avec le cœur mort de leur enfant !

    ellauri172.html on line 692:     Satan me donna la force d’enfoncer la porte du placard ou j'etsis cache  et je vis… ce que je ne reverrai jamais ! La Pudica, terrassée, était tombée sur la table où elle avait écrit, et le major l’y retenait d’un poignet de fer, tous voiles relevés, son beau corps à nu, tordu, comme un serpent coupé, sous son étreinte. Mais que croyez-vous qu’il faisait de son autre main, Messieurs ?… Cette table à écrire, la bougie allumée, la cire à côté, toutes ces circonstances avaient donné au major une idée infernale, — l’idée de cacheter cette femme, comme elle avait cacheté sa lettre — et il était dans l’acharnement de ce monstrueux cachetage, de cette effroyable vengeance d’amant perversement jaloux !

    ellauri172.html on line 696:     « Il ne me vit pas. Il était penché sur sa victime, qui ne criait plus, et c’était le pommeau de son sabre qu’il enfonçait dans la cire bouillante et qui lui servait de cachet !

    ellauri172.html on line 698:     « Je bondis sur lui ; je ne lui dis même pas de se défendre, et je lui plongeai mon sabre jusqu’à la garde dans le dos, entre les épaules, et j’aurais voulu, du même coup, lui plonger ma main et mon bras avec mon sabre à travers le corps, pour le tuer mieux ! »

    ellauri172.html on line 700:     — Tu as bien fait, Mesnil ! dit le commandant Sélune ; — il ne méritait pas d’être tué par devant, comme un de nous, ce brigand-là !

    ellauri172.html on line 702:     — Eh ! mais c’est l’aventure d’Abélard, transposée à Héloïse ! — fit l’abbé Reniant.

    ellauri172.html on line 706:     « Il était, — reprit-il, — tombé mort sur le corps de sa femme évanouie. Je l’en arrachai, le jetai là, et poussai du pied son cadavre. Au cri que la Pudica avait jeté, à ce cri sorti comme d’une vulve de louve, tant il était sauvage ! et qui me vibrait encore dans les entrailles, une femme de chambre était montée. «

    ellauri172.html on line 708:     Tout à coup, un boute-selle furieux sonna, appelant aux armes. C’était l’ennemi qui nous surprenait et qui avait égorgé au couteau, silencieusement, nos sentinelles. Il fallait sauter à cheval. Je jetai un dernier regard sur ce corps superbe et mutilé, immobilement pâle pour la première fois sous les yeux d’un homme. Mais, avant de partir, je ramassai ce pauvre cœur, qui gisait à terre dans la poussière, et avec lequel ils auraient voulu se poignarder et se déchiqueter, et je l’emportai, ce cœur d’un enfant qu’elle avait dit le mien, dans ma ceinture de hussard. »

    ellauri172.html on line 710:     « Je n’ai plus eu jamais des nouvelles de la Rosalba, dite la Pudica, — répondit Mesnilgrand. — Est-elle morte ? A-t-elle pu vivre encore ? Le chirurgien a-t-il pu aller jusqu’à elle ? Après la surprise d’Alcudia, qui nous fut si fatale, je le cherchai. Je ne le trouvai pas. Il avait disparu, comme tant d’autres, et n’avait pas rejoint les débris de notre régiment décimé.

    ellauri172.html on line 712:     — Est-ce là tout ? — dit Mautravers. — Et si c’est là tout, voilà une fière histoire !  Quelle relation a ton histoire avec tes dévotions à l’église, de l’autre jour ?…

    ellauri172.html on line 714:  Well, j’ai porté plusieurs années, ce cœur d’enfant dont je doutais ; mais quand, après la catastrophe de Waterloo, il m’a fallu ôter cette ceinture d’officier dans laquelle j’avais espéré de mourir, et que je l’eus porté encore quelques années, ce cœur, — et je t’assure, Mautravers, que c’est lourd, quoique cela paraisse bien léger, — la réflexion venant avec l’âge, j’ai craint de profaner un peu plus ce cœur si profané déjà, et je me suis décidé à le déposer en terre chrétienne. Sans entrer dans les détails que je vous donne aujourd’hui, j’en ai parlé à un des prêtres de cette ville, de ce cœur qui pesait depuis si longtemps sur le mien, et je venais de le remettre à lui-même, dans le confessionnal de la chapelle.

    ellauri172.html on line 759: Après avoir soumis le Groenland à son autorité en 1023, Knut lui envoie une ambassade pour lui réclamer la couronne vers 1024-1025, ce qu'il refuse en s'alliant au roi de Suède Anund Jacob, et il lui livre une bataille navale sans vainqueur en 1026 (bataille de l'Helgeå). Cette confrontation eut des conséquences graves pour Olaf, car Knut bloqua le détroit de l’Øresund entre la Scanie et le Danemark et Olaf ne put ramener sa flotte en Norvège. Il dut l'abandonner en Scanie et rentrer par voie de terre et cette perte l'affaiblit.

    ellauri172.html on line 852:     Ursule Mirouët, roman d’Honoré de Balzac, publié 1841 : le personnage du vicaire de Nemours, précepteur de Savinien de Portenduère.

    ellauri180.html on line 53: Executive producers Julie Plec and Kevin Williamson agreed that in the book series, Elena was turned into a vampire too early, which was around page 200 of The Awakening. Elena's transition into a vampire was planned for two years. Plec said: "That felt obviously too soon, and rushed, and we didn’t want to make a show about a teenage girl who instantly becomes a vampire. But we always knew that her journey would take her there eventually". At the second season's conclusion, Elena was nearly turned into a vampire. Dobrev was happy that she wasn't, because she felt "it would have been like she came too soon", and also didn't think it was something Elena or she wanted.    

    ellauri180.html on line 123:   This journal will help you envision your ideal life and then identify the unconscious attachments that are preventing you from living it. Through a series of writing prompts and exercises as well as some of Brianna’s favorite quotes, most popular articles, and new passages, it will help you sort through the conflicting thoughts, feelings, and fears that are preventing you from becoming the person you want and need to be. You do not need more motivation or drive to start building the life of your dreams. You need to better understand who you are, why you keep re-creating comfortable pain patterns, and why you may not really want what is it you think you do.

    ellauri180.html on line 125: Read more from Brianna West: The Truth About Everything, This Is For The Women Who Won't Give A Fuck, Never Mind How Nice You Ask, Your Soul Is A River, The Mountain Is You. The Art Of Letting Go, Read This If, It'll be Okay, and You Will Be Too, Don’t F*cking Panic: The Shit They Don’t Tell You in Therapy About Anxiety Disorder, Panic Attacks, & Depression, Your Heart Will Heal, Better Than Happy, Love Some One, You Vibrant Happy Women!  Oops, most of these titles are Related Books by other snake-oil saleswomen! 

    ellauri180.html on line 299: For the longest time, I didn’t think that white authors should write non-white characters. I had seen it done badly (as my previous article about Sarah J. Maas explains) and offensively (think J. K. Rowling with Cho Chang and the Patil twins).

    ellauri180.html on line 378: 
    Porphyria’s Lover
    

    ellauri180.html on line 382:   ‘Porphyria’s Lover’ is one of Browning’s first great poems, written when he was in his early twenties. It is also one of the first great dramatic monologues in English verse, the 1830s being the decade in which Browning and Tennyson developed the genre, penning a series of classic poems which see the poet adopting a persona and ‘staging’ a soliloquy given by an (often unreliable) speaker. Here, the speaker is the titular lover of the girl, Porphyria. Before we proceed to an analysis of ‘Porphyria’s Lover’, here’s a reminder of Browning’s poem. (Se mainittiin Gently-poliisisarjassa yhden koulun pulpettia vasten naidun tupeeratun 60-luvun teinin mielirunona.)

    ellauri180.html on line 404: And spread, o’er all, her yellow hair, 		Ja levitti mun naamalle karvatuheron,

    ellauri180.html on line 406: Too weak, for all her heart’s endeavour, 	Se oli liian heikko kuitenkin,

    ellauri180.html on line 411: Nor could to-night’s gay feast restrain 	Eikä tämän illan nussiretki estänyt

    ellauri180.html on line 440: Porphyria’s love: she guessed not how 		Porfyrian rakkaus, eipä arvannut,

    ellauri180.html on line 447: In summary: a man speaks to some unidentified (and possibly imaginary) auditor, telling us how, on a dark and stormy (or rainy and windy) night, he waited in his cottage for his lover, Porphyria, to arrive. When she turns up, it’s clear Porphyria is of a higher social class than the male speaker: he’s punching above his weight, as they say. Note how she glides in as if she owns the place, and as if she walks on air rather than on the ground like us mere mortals. She wears a hat, cloak, and shawl, and her gloves are soiled, suggesting that they are not used to slumming it in a common man’s cottage and attending to his fire and grate. The fact that she also takes the lead – suggesting she is perhaps used to ordering servants to do her bidding – further hints at her highborn status: she calls to the speaker, and she takes his arm and puts it around her waist. Then, the clincher (in more ways than one): we are told "she Too weak, for all her heart’s endeavour,

    ellauri180.html on line 450: In other words, her pride, and knowing that she is higher than her lowborn lover on the social scale and so cannot marry him, prevents her from giving herself to him altogether. He is just her ‘bit of rough’, to use the more modern idiom. Calmly, and determined to possess Porphyria utterly, even if it means killing her in order to do so, the speaker strangles Porphyria with her hair, wrapping it around her neck three times and wringing the life from her. In death, she remains forever his.

    ellauri180.html on line 571: The dream of the speaker revolves around one main concept, “darkness.”   Byron’s ‘Darkness’ is considered one of the best poems ever on the theme of darkness.

    ellauri180.html on line 583: Quickly this illusion of equality is broken.  Guys start eating one another after slaughtering the other creatures around them. Once more the reader gets a small degree of equality in the darkness. The “meagre” in this world are eating the meagre and not the "fat"  the meagre as usual. Even those that are most loyal, dogs, “assail’d their masters”. 

    ellauri181.html on line 168:     “Values are ordered by importance relative to one another. People’s values form an ordered system of priorities that characterize them as individuals.”

    ellauri181.html on line 199:     “Tradition – Defining goal: respect, commitment, and acceptance of the customs and ideas that one’s culture or religion provides.”

    ellauri181.html on line 201:     “Benevolence – Defining goal: preserving and enhancing the welfare of those with whom one is in frequent personal contact (the ‘in-group’).”

    ellauri181.html on line 210: The figure below provides a quick guide to values that conflict and those that are congruent. There are two bipolar dimensions. One “contrasz ‘openness to change’ and ‘conservation’ values. This dimension captures the conflict between values that emphasize independence of thought, action, and feelings and readiness for change (self-direction, stimulation) and values that emphasize order, self-restriction, preservation of the past, and resistance to change (security, conformity, tradition).”

    ellauri181.html on line 214: “The second dimension contrasz ‘self-enhancement’ and ‘self-transcendence’ values. This dimension captures the conflict between values that emphasize concern for the welfare and interesz of others (universalism, benevolence) and values that emphasize pursuit of one’s own interesz and relative success and dominance over others (power, achievement).”

    ellauri181.html on line 218: Schwartz’ work also examines relationships between different values in more detail, which is useful for a richer analysis of how values affect behaviour and attitudes, as well as the interesz that they express. Although the theory distinguishes ten values, the borders between the motivators are artificial and one value flows into the next, which can be seen by the following shared motivational emphases:

    ellauri181.html on line 461: Thomas HPA on auditoitu Ison-Britannian Psykologiliitossa (British Psychological Society BPS). Thomas HPA auditoitiin European Standing Committee on Tests and Testing -komitean (European Federation of Psychologists’ Associations -järjestön komitea) asettamien kriteerien mukaisesti.

    ellauri181.html on line 632: 
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    ellauri182.html on line 41: In the face of death and loneliness, Mikage searches for meaning in her life. She tries to overcome the “leaden hopelessness” that plagues her. Mikage “can’t believe in the gods,” and thus does not have the religion that gives many people meaning in life. Instead, she looks to the other characters and to herself for meaning. Eriko is a model of strength and gives Mikage advice on how to handle despair and the loss of meaning. Yuichi gives meaning to Mikage in the form of relationship, of having someone to cook for.

    ellauri182.html on line 76: Sotaro (“soh-TAH-roh”) is Mikage’s old boyfriend. He is tall, cheerful, and the eldest son of a large family. At one time Mikage loved Sotaro’s “lively frankness,” but his straightforward manners have become “obnoxious.” Sotaro’s aggressive personality bothers Mikage because she “couldn’t keep pace with it.” Sotaro says derogatory things about Yuichi, and informs Mikage that Yuichi has a girlfriend. Sotaro has something in common with Vitali Razumov. 

    ellauri182.html on line 78: At Yuichi’s home, Mikage is introduced to Eriko and soon finds out that Yuichi’s mother was once his father; s/he is a transsexual who runs a club of some sort. Eriko is a clear allusion to Banana's daddy. Yuichi hints that s/he has undergone a sex change, when he tells Mikage that s/he has “had everything ‘done.’” There is a hole now where the pecker used to be. 

    ellauri182.html on line 80: Eriko (“Eh-REE-koh Tah-NAH-bee”) is Yuichi’s mother, who invites Mikage to stay at his/her home. Eriko is a transsexual and had previously been Yuichi’s father. Mikage’s first impression of Eriko is “overwhelming.” Mikage describes him/her as “an incredibly beautiful wo/man” who “seemed to vibrate with life force.” Eriko represents an ideal of feminine beauty, charm, and strength for Mikage. At times, Mikage finds it hard to believe that this woman had once been a man, or is still a man—some ambiguities over Eriko’s gender remain, both for the reader and for the characters. Yuichi refers to Eriko as both his mother and father, and other characters refer to Eriko as both “she” and “he.” Mikage could easily keep pace with Eriko.

    ellauri182.html on line 82: Mikage is not religious, but believes in elements of the mystical and superstitious. She “can’t believe in the gods,” but for a warm bed, she “thanked the gods—whether they existed or not.” In despair, she “implored the gods: Please, let me live.” She also has a dream that comes partially true. Ergo Mikage relates to American culture. She looks up to Eriko as an ideal of feminine beauty, charm, and strength, although Eriko was once, or still is, a man - or is s/he?

    ellauri182.html on line 89: Near the climax of the story, Mikage runs into Chika at a laundry.  Chika (“Chih-KA”), a transsexual, is the head “girl” at Eriko’s club, which Eriko gives her when s/he dies.

    ellauri182.html on line 90: After eating a delicious, hot meal that lifts her spirits, Mikage gets an idea. She hires a taxi for the long ride to Yuichi’s hotel and then climbs a balcony to present Yuichi with the same food that she had enjoyed.

    ellauri182.html on line 104: Symbolism appears throughout Yoshimoto’s story. For the protagonist, kitchens symbolize places of contentment, safety, and healing. Mikage claims, “to me a kitchen represents some distant longing engraved on my soul.” When she is despondent, her dreams of kitchens keep her going. She takes to the kitchen and learns cooking as a way of overcoming feelings of meaninglessness and despair; cooking represents her new attitude toward life. Like kitchens and cooking, food also plays a symbolic role in the story. Mikage is constantly presenting her friends with food; her life changes when she takes a job at a cooking school; and the climax of the story occurs when Mikage brings a dish of special food to Yuichi in his secluded hotel room. Eat my shorz.

    ellauri182.html on line 106: Mikage’s voice can be complex as well, which keeps the reader intellectually engaged. She can go from the light and ironic, talking casually about herself and her situation, to the literary and complex, making more formal and generalized statements, such as this musing on fate that begins: “We all believe we can choose our own path from among the many.”

    ellauri182.html on line 113: The Marshall Plan brought Western ideas and a free market economy to what had been an old and traditional culture. in the mid-1980s, Japan has a booming industrial economy, bolstered by its exports of automobiles and electronics to the West. Japanese society has become more materialistic than ever, influenced by its wealth and the consumerism imported from America. Mikage acknowledges this consumerism when she says of her friends, “these people had a taste for buying new things that verged on the unhealthy.” Mikage’s generation has been brought up on television and American culture; she mentions an American sitcom and Disneyland in her narrative. One character in the story is wearing “what is practically the national costume, a two-piece warmup suit,” a style imported from America. In Japan, Yoshimoto’s generation is called the shinjinrui, a generation that has grown up in a wealthy, technological society exposed to American values. Shinjinrui was new breed of humans (used to refer to the post-war generation, who have different ideals and sensibilities). Japan's Generation X.

    ellauri182.html on line 115: Some reviewers thought Kitchen was superficial in style and substance, and overly sentimental. Todd Grimson in the Los Angeles Times Book Review wrote that, ‘“Kitchen’ is light as an invisible pancake, charming and forgettable ... The release of information to the reader seems unskilled, or immature, weak in narrative or plot.” Elizabeth Hanson of the New York Times Book Review took issue with the overall effect of the book, writing that “the endearing characters and amusing scenes in Ms. Yoshimoto’s work do not compensate for frequent bouts of sentimentality.” Hanson added that the book’s main appeal for English-language readers “lies in its portrayal of the lives of young Japanese who are more into food and death than sex. EAT! KILL! but do not FUCK!".

    ellauri182.html on line 117: As Mikage and Yuichi’s relationship develops, one of the first signs that they are drawing closer is a shared dream that they experience. In the dream, Yuichi tells Mikage that he has a desire to eat ramen, a noodle soup. Shortly after awakening from the dream, Yuichi, in real life, acknowledges his hunger. “I just woke up and I’m starving. I was thinking, hmm, maybe I’ll make some instant ramen noodles.”  Instead of love, she thinks of food. It is through food, as is shown in this scene and many scenes to follow, that Mikage finds her mouth. Climbing to the balcony with her body mass was an existential feat.

    ellauri182.html on line 118: Specifically, after ordering katsudon (fried pork served over rice), Mikage has a revelation with regard to Yuichi. The katsudon becomes more than just a meal, it is a means to reach out to Yuichi, to relate to him, to acknowledge both Mikage’s and Yuichi’s connectedness as two obese lovers starving under the same night sky.

    ellauri182.html on line 120: The importance of food in contemporary Japanese culture mirrors many of the sentiments of Yoshimoto’s book. John Ashburne, in “World Food Japan,” emphasizes that Japan is a nation characterized by its obsession with food.

    ellauri182.html on line 121: A Japanese lunch invitation cannot be likened to the statement, “let’s grab a burger.” Ashburne offers the opinion that “it’s an invitation to commune over food, to bond in a primal act of mutual celebration, to reinforce group identities, or welcome outsiders into the fold.”

    ellauri182.html on line 123: Quoting Zen master Dogen-zenji’s “Instructions for the Zen Cook,” (circa 1237), Ashburne relays the words of the great Zen master on the simple act of washing rice and cooking it. Dogen-zenji states, “Keep your eyes open. Do not allow even one grain of rice to be lost. Wash the rice thoroughly, put it in the pot, light the fire and cook it.” He then adds, “There is an old saying that goes, ‘see the pot as your own head; see the water as your life-blood.’” Vittu et on anaalia puuhastelua ruuan kanssa. Ei ruualla saa leikkiä. Se on jumalan viljaa.

    ellauri182.html on line 127: Mikage states, “I can’t believe in the gods,” but at the same time she admits her confusion when she implores the “gods—whether they existed or not,” to “please let me live.” Mikage does not have a solid religious belief system to provide meaning for her life, so she turns to other sources for meaning, including friends and her own inward search. Wrong! !No es eso! !No es eso! You should turn to Amitabha!

    ellauri182.html on line 130: Sartre urged the personal freedom of choice in the face of life’s unknowns, and claimed that seizing freedom was each person’s duty. These ideas of free will and personal responsibility are also introduced in “Kitchen.” Mikage makes the statement: “People aren’t overcome by situations or outside forces; defeat invades from within,” when she begins to realize that she has responsibility for her own life and its pain. Other people can no longer help her; she must take charge of things herself, “with or without” Yuichi.

    ellauri182.html on line 133: Toward the climax of the story, when Mikage is climbing a hotel balcony in a daring moment of “utter desperation,” she contemplates the concept of free will. Up to this point in the story, Mikage has tended to believe in fate and in premonitions, which are beliefs that other powers are making decisions for her. She has also stated that “we have so little choice,” and that “we live like the lowliest worms.” Undergoing an existential change, Mikage finally admits to herself and the reader that human beings are ultimately free because “we’re constantly making choices. With the breaths we take every day, with the expression in our eyes, with the daily actions we do over and over, we decide.” She states that even when people think that they are being acted upon by outside forces, they are in reality choosing their situations and actions, sometimes subconsciously.

    ellauri182.html on line 136: In Japanese fiction of the seventeenth and eighteenth century, homosexuality was often celebrated for this reason: boys’ love was considered to be purer than the heterosexual kind; it was uncontaminated by the demands of reproduction and other family duties.

    ellauri182.html on line 139: The alternative is of course the sexless intimacy of the fag hag and her chosen friends. The heroines of Yoshimoto’s fiction are not exactly fag hags, nor are they innocent. Mikage and Satsuki are young women. But grown-up sexual relationships are still beyond their grasp. Instead, in the security of their private kitchens, they dream nostalgic dreams, and shed melancholy tears about the passing of time. This is the stuff of great Japanese poetry, and absolute kitsch. Yoshimoto Banana is not yet a mistress of poetry, but she is a past master of kitsch.

    ellauri182.html on line 141: “The tone of Yashimoto’s stories is strange, for it veers from childlike naivete to flights of bizarre fancy, which is just like most of Japanese comic books for teenagers.” the publicity photograph of Yoshimoto Banana, hugging her little puppy dog, is cuteness personified. The fact that her father is the most famous philosopher of the 1960s new left gives her name an extra air of incongruousness, as though there were a young German novelist called Banana Habermas. It's daddy's fault! Banana is daddy's girl. Daddy oli sille isänä ja äitinä.

    ellauri182.html on line 157: L’introduction à la théorie du phénomène psychique est également publié en 1971. Il traite, dans d'autres essais, des auteurs occidentaux tels que Georges Bataille, Maurice Blanchot, Michel Leiris, Henry Mille, Carl-Gustav Jung ou encore Gaston Bachelard, et dialogue avec Michel Foucault ou Jean Baudrillard.

    ellauri182.html on line 248: Talking about one’s problems can be a great way to get something off your chest. While it is okay to admit that you’re having a hard time, as with other “negative” topics, try to not come across as someone who’s just complaining all the time without actually trying to change anything. Girls don't spread legs for whiners.

    ellauri183.html on line 86: In a 1974 New York Review of Boox essay, Roth took on Malamud, his friend and literary father-figure, criticizing him for creating characters that were suffering Jews, virtuous victims, full of “righteousness and restraint,” lacking their stereotypical “libidinous or aggressive activities.” Though he didn’t use the phrase, Malamud had painted them as Christ-like in their poverty, pain, moral goodness, and quest for redemption. By contrast, the Christian characters, like Frank Alpine, were full of sexual lust and transgressive behavior — the bad goy to Morris Bober’s good Jew. “The Assistant,” Roth wrote, was a book of “stern morality.”

    ellauri183.html on line 88: Roth contrasted Malamud’s protagonisz to the exuberant Jewish characters created by Saul Bellow, especially the picaresque Augie March, and his own hypersexual Alexander Portnoy. In effect, Roth said, Malamud had created Jews who were stereotypes, not fully realized human beings like him and Sal.

    ellauri183.html on line 90: Malamud was stunned. He drafted two letters to Roth, refuting his argumenz, but never sent them, according to a Malamud biography by Philip Davis. Instead, Malamud mailed only a few words to Roth: “It’s your problem.”

    ellauri183.html on line 91: Roth wrote back, audaciously insisting that he had pointed out “fictional skeletons” that perhaps Malamud himself didn’t see. Like a sanctimonious little shit.

    ellauri183.html on line 93: Little wonder that Malamud refused to talk to Roth for several years. They were reconciled in May 1978, when Malamud and his wife, Ann, accepted a dinner invitation in London from Roth and Claire Bloom, who were then living together. The two men kissed on the lips like Brezhnev and Honecker and resumed their friendship, according to a memoir by Malamud’s daughter, Janna Malamud Smith.

    ellauri183.html on line 94: However, in a letter to his daughter a week after that dinner of reconciliation, Malamud voiced his true feelings: Roth, he said, had written a “foolish egoistic essay about my work” and had “certainly misinterpreted” “The Assistant.” The letter was not made public until 2006, some 20 years after Malamud’s death.

    ellauri183.html on line 186: Clare Carlisle studied philosophy and theology at Trinity College, Cambridge, gaining her BA in 1998 and her PhD in 2002, and she remains grateful to Trinity College for the scholarship that supported her doctoral studies. Her travels in India after completing her PhD deepened her interest in devotional and contemplative practices. She is the author of six boox, most recently On Habit (Routledge, 2014), Philosopher of the Heart: The Restless Life of Søren Kierkegaard (Allen Lane / Penguin / FSG, 2019), and Spinoza’s Religion: A New Reading of the Ethics (Princeton University Press, 2021).

    ellauri183.html on line 188: Professor Carlisle joined King’s in 2011, and in addition to her research and teaching for the Department of Theology and Religious Studies she worx in the Office of the Dean as AKC Director. In 2015 she became an AKC (Associate of King’s College).  

    ellauri183.html on line 632:   Varuxen kukistamasta juutalaisten kapinasta Jee-suxen lapsuudessa ei ollut koulussa paljon puhetta. Juutalaisilla on siitä vaikka kuinka paljon turinaa. About a tenth of the Empire’s population was Jewish, ne väittävät, kuka tollasta nyt uskoo. Oliko Rooma joku Amerikka muka?

    ellauri183.html on line 638:   The Pharisees were the popular leaders of the Jews and the ones most laypeople looked to with confidence. The majority of the Jewish population was then expecting a world ruling messianic king to arise on the historical scene. And indeed, Josephus tells us that after Herod’s death many “kingly upstarts” emerged in Judaea and this reflects the general expectancy of the Jews that the messianic age was then imminent. 

    ellauri184.html on line 50: Neiti Mallory kertoo tästä lisää:  "Norman was an oxymoron — an overweight senior citizen who was one of the best lovers I ever had." Mallory writes that Mailer never had erectile dysfunction: "Not once. Not in nine years..." Vanhasta Naahumista tulee mieleen Norssin voimistelunopettaja Lahtinen ja Star Warsin Yoda. “Each week he’d want to play a new game . . . doctor, manicurist, masseur, Hollywood director (that was his favorite).” “When our relationship ended, I realized that . . . Norman had never been on my team and had been slandering my writing and me behind my back.”

    ellauri184.html on line 118: The gospel mentions that Mary and Joseph took Jesus out of a labor-intensive hospital on a Sabbath to purify the infant from sickness before the L-d’s meeting, as well as to administer the final purification rituals over His redemption, according to G-d’s Torah .

    ellauri184.html on line 161: Tämä on julkaistu englanniksi kirjassa ’The Apocrypha And Pseudepigrapha Of The Old Testament' (Oxford; Clarendon Press 1913). Edesmennyt professori Aapeli Saarisalo mainitsee kirjassaan ’Hyvä Opettaja’ tämän tekstin etiopiankielisen version:

    ellauri184.html on line 217:   Ed posted this for all those ‘Jesus was a Jew’ types who swallow this nonsense without understanding the inherent fallacies and/or dangers associated with such statements.

    ellauri184.html on line 223: Admitting that the following is a drastic oversimplification but praying that it’s not a complete caricature, Professor A. France summarizes seven differences:

    ellauri184.html on line 261: Ukraine’s foreign minister tells his US counterpart in a meeting that his country needs fighter jets and air defence systems and has called NATO’s refusal to implement a no-fly zone over Ukraine a “sign of weakness”. Buk-buk-buk chickens!

    ellauri184.html on line 275:   The ethnic nature of these units led Wome to create many “specialist” cohorts (e.g., dromedary, archery, sling) that worked with combat methods familiar to one or another ethnic group. Though auxiliaries often served in major imperial provinces alongside legionawies, they also served in minor provinces as well. Thus, provinces and regions with a governor of Equestrian status (e.g., Raetia, Noricum, pre-War Judaea) had no legions, but only auxiliaries. Until about 70 CE, many auxiliary soldiers were stationed in their home province; Judaeans were in Judaea, Syrians in Syria, etc. In addition to the Jewish War (66-73 CE), problems with soldiers’ divided loyalties with the Revolt of the Batavi in Germania Inferior (69-70 CE) and the Year of the Four Empewows (68-69 CE) led empewows to actively undermine any remaining ethnic homogeneity in the auxilia, stationing soldiers outside their homeland in increasingly diverse units. Finally, auxiliaries were paid less than legionawies and did not receive all the bonuses granted to legionawies if they were successful in the same battle.

    ellauri184.html on line 277: There were also royal forces that did not directly serve Wome, but were under the authority of a client king. The periphery of the Woman Empire was peppered with kingdoms allied with Wome that maintained their own militawies independent of the Empire proper (e.g., Herod the Great’s Judaea, Antipas’ Galilee, Cleopatra’s Egypt). These armies differed from kingdom to kingdom with respect to their hierarchies, pay scale, wecwuitment strategies, and so on. Wome occasionally expected kings to contribute soldiers to militawy campaigns as part of their reciprocal loyalty. Because kings could not offer their veterans Woman citizenship, the matter was irrelevant. With little invested in Womanness, royal soldiers spoke the local lingua franca and rarely had knowledge of Latin or other aspects of Woman culture.

    ellauri184.html on line 282: Samuel Rocca likewise concludes that  most of his troops were in fact Jews, and that Herod’s army thus did not differ much from the Hasmonaean army that preceded it.

    ellauri184.html on line 287:   While many biblical scholars assume that soldiers with Woman names must have been Woman citizens, evidence suggests otherwise: one papyrus written 103 CE indicates that some auxiliaries received Womanized names (i.e., tria nomina) shortly after wecwuitment, even before training completed. Because some soldiers changed their name shortly after wecwuitment, the mere act of joining the militawy often obscured soldiers’ ethnic and geographic origins. Benjamin Isaac thus observes a few obvious instances where soldiers from the Decapolis dropped their Semitic birth name to take up a Woman one.

    ellauri184.html on line 291:   But how did the Jewish religion fit into the Woman army? A Jewish soldier named Matthew tended to the pigs at Herodium. There is no reason to infer that he no longer cared about Jewishness. Jewish practices varied considerably, such that one person’s piety might be another’s heresy. No doubt these soldiers had complex, conflicted, and even conflicting internal lives just as we do today.

    ellauri184.html on line 326: (3) Jesus’ fraternization with tax collectors and sexual sinners does not suggest support for their behavior.

    ellauri184.html on line 330: (5) James Bond´s Q, Matthew, and Luke did not interpret Jesus’ healing as support for same-sex intercourse.

    ellauri184.html on line 359: Third, the sin is not an isolated one. Sins come in clusters, cheaper by the dozen. We must understand that sexual sin was not the only problem Sodom had. Consider Ezekiel 16:49 . Her problems included pride, fullness of food, and abundance of idleness. It also involved a neglect of the poor and needy. The standards of God’s law are dear to Him, and the poor are His special concern. It is not possible to have contempt for the former and remain tender toward the latter.

    ellauri184.html on line 486: Glasgow’ssa Skotlannissa 12. toukokuuta 1887 syntynyt Roope Ankka loi käytännössä yksin erään historian suurimmista finanssi-imperiumeista. Aiemmin mahtavan, mutta 1700-luvulla pahasti köyhtyneen MacAnkan suvun viimeinen miespuolinen vesa lähti nuorena Amerikkaan ja päätyi Klondikeen ja Alaskaan, missä rikastui kullankaivajana ja loi perustan myöhemmille liiketoimilleen. Ankka tunnettiin seudulla pelättynä hahmona, joka oli armoton muita valtauksenanastajia kohtaan. 

    ellauri184.html on line 622: In summary, the following understanding of biblical history seems plausible: 1. Although the Sanhedrin had the right to condemn Jesus to death and execute the sentence, it seemed opportune for various reasons to have the governor render this verdict. Moreover, although the Sanhedrin and the Roman governor had very diverse  perspectives on Jesus, their interests finally converged, which led to Pilate’s condemnation of Jesus on grounds of unproven political charges.

    ellauri184.html on line 623:  2. Processes of marginalization and not the concrete breaking of laws – led to Jesus’s death. Not only was Jesus passively exposed to these processes of marginalization,  but he partly contributed to them because he modelled himself as an outsider and distanced himself too little from the messianic expectations ascribed to him. This staged self-marginalization – partly done in performative fashion – was dangerous because the term “Messiah” was often charged with political content, as was exemplified by numerous rebel leaders who regarded themselves as the Messiah or were considered as such by their followers. Many of them were executed, including Jesus.

    ellauri184.html on line 627:     a) Jesus’s unusual behavior at different levels mostly explains the hatred against him. He did not breach any major laws, but more seriously, he did not live up to multiple expectations; instead, he maneuvered himself into the position of an outsider. This means that it was mental and psychological dispositions and perceptions on the part of his contemporaries – and not legal issues – that led to his receiving the death penalty.

    ellauri184.html on line 644:     The fact that Jesus had been preaching God’s word was irrelevant to Pilate. Sitähän ne liuhuparrat myötäänsä tekevät. The term “Messiah” which Jesus had been using, was more threatening to Pilate as it was laden with political connotations. The term presupposed that the “big king" (God) would make his reign prevail via a small king (Messiah), who had yet to appear. The only thing that remained unclear was exactly who this “small king" would be (a descendant of David’s?) and under what circumstances he would appear.

    ellauri184.html on line 648: Matthew and Mark  make it clear that some people – including the politically and legally decisive Roman magistrate –  could have perceived him as such a political activist (titulus crucis!). Again, we see that it is not necessarily Jesus’s concrete behavior, but rather the perception that counts.

    ellauri184.html on line 655:     The Romans regarded him as a political dissident, or an insurgent – which the word lestes/latro  appropriately captured –  via the claim that he was King of the Jews, a claim that he never denied. Jesus’s hobo life testified to his calling as a prophet and radical wandering charismatic who constantly transgressed social  boundaries. These multi-faceted processes of marginalization that Jesus partly took on voluntarily and partly endured led –  in the brutal logic of the time – to his crucifixion as an outsider. 

    ellauri184.html on line 687: Mary, the Lord’s Sister 
    

    ellauri184.html on line 702: Jesus had some unnamed sisters and it isn’t unusual for a mother to give her name to a daughter. Still, beyond the passage from Philip, there is no record of Jesus having a sister named Mary who was always with him.

    ellauri184.html on line 708:   This first is Michael, the merciful and long-suffering: and the second, who is set over all the diseases and all the wounds of the children of men, is Raphael: and the third, who is set over all the powers, is Gabriel: and the fourth, who is set over the repentance unto hope of those who inherit eternal life, is named Phanuel.’

    ellauri184.html on line 734: When Jesus was on the cross, both the apostle John and Mary the mother of Jesus stood nearby. In John 19:26–27 we read, “When Jesus saw his mother there, and the disciple whom he loved standing nearby, he said to her, ‘Woman, here is your son,’ and to the disciple, ‘Here is your mother.’ From that time on, this disciple took her into his home.” The clear understanding of the passage is that Jesus commanded John to care for Mary after His death.

    ellauri184.html on line 736:   Mary was most certainly a widow at this point in her life and also an older woman. Though she had other sons, Jesus chose John to provide care for Mary after His death. Why? Because Jesus’ brothers did not become believers until after His resurrection (John 7:5). Further, Jesus’ brothers were not present at His crucifixion. They had other errands just then. Jesus was entrusting Mary to John, who was a believer and was present, rather than entrusting her to His brothers, who were not believers and who were not even interested enough to be present at his crucifixion.

    ellauri184.html on line 738: As the eldest son in His family, Jesus had a cultural obligation to care for His mother, and He passed that obligation on to one of His closest friends. John would have certainly obeyed this command. Mary was most likely one of the women in the upper room and was present when the church was established in Jerusalem (Acts 1:12–14). She probably continued to stay with John in Jerusalem until her death. It is only later in John’s life that his writings and church history reveal John left Jerusalem and ministered in other areas. By then he had probably got rid of mamma Maria.

    ellauri184.html on line 742: There is no contextual proof within Scripture itself that would point to Jesus broadening Mary’s role as “mother” of all Christians. In fact, Catholic teaching can only point to early church leaders as proof that Jesus meant to establish Mary’s “motherhood” to all believers in Christ or that Mary was a cooperative participant in salvation. John just took Mary into his home to care for her. The Bible does not say “from that time on Mary became the stepmother of all believers.”

    ellauri184.html on line 773: Jose Saramago is an atheist. This should be enough warning for everyone that desires to read the book. It is very explicit and so religion it’s exposed at its weakest and God as a character is revealed. I come from a Roman-Catholic background but I still wanted to read it, ever since the Gnostic gospel where Jesus childhood is revealed and he changes from a mischievous badly behaved kid to the Jesus from the new testament I wanted to see Saramago’s take on it. Saramago is such a master of words that he makes every bit of faith look totally illogical.

    ellauri184.html on line 775: It does not take long for us to find out that Saramago is extremely sharp at finding all contradictions on roman-catholic religion. In the novel God seems to be the greediest of all gods, the vainest, the most detached from his people. Detached even from his son as he appeared to him in different shapes, only in the meeting at the lake did he appear to him as a man. God does not command, he orders, he tricks his own son into following his plan to the end. Ultimately Jesus’s betrayal was his last act of martyrdom.

    ellauri184.html on line 785:  This is a bold fearless work and definitely not for the faint of heart. I am not surprised that when this was originally published in 1991, it created lots of controversies with the Catholic Church condemning Jose Saramago for harboring anti-religious vision and his own Portuguese government asking the European Literary Prize to remove this from its shortlist because of the book’s offensive content to religion. Despite this book’s existence, Saramago won the 1998 Nobel Prize for Literature.

    ellauri185.html on line 91: Obviously, this wouldn’t be impressive if the prophecy came after the destruction of Tyre. So when did these things happen?

    ellauri185.html on line 95: What about the destruction of Tyre? Well, Nebuchadnezzer’s attack came shortly after Ezekiel, so it’s hard to tell for sure from our perspective whether or not Ezekiel truly prophesied that phase of Tyre’s destruction. But as far as Alexander is concerned, it is well established that this took place in 322 BC. So this is a clear example of the Bible foretelling an event (actually several) in detail.

    ellauri185.html on line 159: Alors, voilà qu’on entend George Dandin qui gémit sur lui-même: « Vous l’avez voulu ! Vous l’avez voulu, George Dandin ! Vous l’avez voulu ! Cela vous sied si bien et vous voilà ajusté comme il faut : vous avez justement ce que vous méritez…« . Molière, George Dandin. Acte I, scène 9).

    ellauri185.html on line 341: I later argued that, with some revisions and additions, Kant’s most

    ellauri185.html on line 775:     Who is God’s first born angel?

    ellauri185.html on line 777:     Who is God’s first born son?

    ellauri185.html on line 781:   In this scene from the biblical book of Exodus, Moses and Aaron (upper right) visit the pharaoh, who is mourning his son. The Egyptian ruler’s son had died from one of the plagues sent by God to secure the Israelites’ release from Egypt. The gloom of the painting reflects the father’s intense grief.

    ellauri185.html on line 783:   Finally, the tenth and most horrific plague came, the killing for the first born child by the angel of death. To protect their first-born children, the Israelites marked their doors with lamb’s blood so the angel of death would pass over them. Thus the name Passover, which is “pesach” in Hebrew.

    ellauri185.html on line 809: In II Sam. 24:15, God sends a pestilence that kills 70,000 Israelites because of David’s ill-conceived census. Jesus says in Luke 21:11 that there will be plagues. Both Ezekiel and Jeremiah speak of God sending plagues, for example, in Ezek.

    ellauri185.html on line 811: 
    Who is God’s firstborn angel?
    

    ellauri185.html on line 815: 
    Who is God’s firstborn son?
    

    ellauri185.html on line 817:   Israel. In Exodus, the nation of Israel is called God’s firstborn son. Solomon is also called “son of God”. Angels, just and pious men, and the kings of Israel are all called “sons of God.” In the New Testament of the Christian Bible, “Son of God” is applied to Jesus on many occasions.

    ellauri185.html on line 855: In Leader's Bellow biography Vol 2, “Love and Strife,” the novel “Herzog” is published on the very first page and reaches No. 1 on the best-seller list, supplanting John le Carré’s ‘The Spy Who Came In From the Cold.’ Never again would Bellow, about to turn 50 years old, lack for wealth, power, awards or flunkies to stand by him, ready to take his coat and do his bidding. The temptation for someone in his position was to become an insufferable, spoiled monster. And Bellow quickly gave in to temptation. 

    ellauri185.html on line 857: Bellow’s bad temper in the late ’60s was by no means directed exclusively at would-be biographers, radical students and aggrieved wives. Bellow had so many targets to attack, whether insulting them face to face or in blistering letters or put-downs circulated through intermediaries. One of his favorite one-liners ran: “Let’s you and him fight.” The most salient recipients of Bellow’s bad temper in this biography were his three sons, each from a different mother — the oldest 21 when this volume starts, the youngest just 1 year old and about to be abandoned after yet another divorce.

    ellauri185.html on line 861: Bellow didn’t just model some main characters on famous friends, but all characters were taken from life. He was in many ways a very thoughtful and kind person, but I think his need to be the top dog, the best, was very deep.

    ellauri185.html on line 863: The irony in Bellow’s soul was that he craved love and experience, and learned to view people coldly and clinically. The writer Amos Oz recalled most vividly from his friendship with Bellow an exchange that they shared privately about death. “I said I was hoping to die in my sleep, but Saul responded by saying that, on the contrary, he would like to die wide awake and fully conscious, because his death is such a crucial experience he wouldn’t want to miss it.”

    ellauri185.html on line 865: As previous biographers have discovered, it’s difficult to write an endearing biography of Bellow. “Was I a man or was I a jerk?” Bellow inquired on his deathbed.  The answer should be obvious.

    ellauri188.html on line 66: 	The Marquesas Islands constitute one of the five administrative divisions (subdivisions administratives) of French Polynesia. The capital of the Marquesas Islands’ administrative subdivision is the town of Taiohae, on the island of Nuku Hiva. The population of the Marquesas Islands was 9,346 inhabitants at the time of the August 2017 census. Ennen valkonahkoja porukoita oli satatuhatta. Kiva desimaatio. Niillä oli liian helppoa, aika tehä niiden elämästä vähän vaikeampaa.

    ellauri188.html on line 72: Une institution culturelle dénommée Académie marquisienne - « Tuhuna ’Eo Enata ». a comme mission de sauvegarder et d'enrichir le marquisien.

    ellauri188.html on line 205: Nyt tilalla on kiittävä neljän tähden arvio suurelle yleisölle tehdystä kyhäelmästä. Myös arvion kirjoittanut Sean O’Connell pahoitteli arviotaan, mikä on äärimmäisen harvinaista kriitikkojen keskuudessa. Sitä oli selvästikin käsketty. Eilisessä Gentry-sarjassa oli Shuari O´Connell niminen irkku joka olikin oikeasti jonkun toisen niminen.

    ellauri188.html on line 233: Sean O’Connellin tweetti kuulostaa kyllä siltä että hän ”väärien mielipiteiden” takia päätyi twitterlynkkausjoukon hampaisiin ja että hän itseään syyllistävällä anteeksipyynnöllä yrittää päästä pälkähästä. Hyvä esimerkki siitä ettei tänä päivänä saa olla mitä tahansa mieltä tietyistä aihepiireistä. Terveisiä Aatos Kumpulainen

    ellauri188.html on line 252: Kirjallisuus|Kun Maggie O’Farrell oli kahdeksan, hän melkein kuoli, ja nyt hän joutuu pelkäämään oman lapsen kuolemaa – Siksi meni vuosia, ennen kuin hän pystyi toteuttamaan ideansa.

    ellauri188.html on line 388:   Melvillestä tuli paikallinen kuuluisuus Lansingburghissa hänen Tyynenmeren tarinoidensa ansiosta. Ystävät ja kylänmiehet innostivat häntä kirjoittamaan seikkailuistaan kuin Muumipappa, ja hänen ensimmäinen teoksensa Taipii – kappale polynesialaisten elämää julkaistiin 1846. Kirjasta tuli suosittu, vaikka yhdysvaltalainen Harper and Brothers ei suostunutkaan julkaisemaan sitä. Kirja julkaistiin Lontoossa, ja sitä myytiin noin 6 000 kappaletta myös Yhdysvalloissa. Kirjaa myös pääasiassa kehuttiin, vaikka esimerkiksi Britanniassa sen todenmukaisuutta epäiltiin ja Yhdysvalloissa vastustettiin sen esittämää kritiikkiä lähetystyöntekijöitä kohtaan. Vuonna 1847 Melville avioitui Elizabeth Shaw’n kanssa. He saivat neljä lasta, kaksi poikaa ja kaksi tytärtä.

    ellauri189.html on line 77: 	"Maria" was hailed by the younger generation as one of the first authentic literary products of Polish romanticism (the adherents of the so-called Warsaw Classicism were, on the contrary, horrified by the dark plot and the author’s preference for “provincial” words and expressions). Malczewski was then already in poor health and, before a year had passed, in May 1826, he died – impoverished and disgraced because of his affair with a hysterical married woman (whom he was supposed to heal by means of mesmerism – after his death she returned to her husband).

    ellauri189.html on line 93: In the first line of Malczewski’s tale we meet a Cossack with a bold look in his eyes (“Zapał jakiś rozżarza twojej twarzy śniadość”; “Some rapture kindles your tanned face”) 

    ellauri189.html on line 98: the band of servants, a subject – he took his freedom from his father’s loins, 

    ellauri189.html on line 102: However, in Maria the tensions arising from differences in “class” are not taken up. Malczewski investigates man’s existential plight in connection with the “stigma” (as would Norwid put it) that has been imprinted on man by his “natural” surroundings (as we will see, the Cossack represents man before self-alienation, 

    ellauri189.html on line 114: 	It becomes clear that the apparent benevolence of the wojewoda was only a ruse to lure away the defenders from Maria’s home. During their absence his brigands, disguised as revellers (taking part in a kulig, a sort of carnival cortege of the szlachta moving about the countryside), had raided the house, carried Maria away and drowned her in a pond. Her dead body was found by the tenants and servants who had left it on the bed before they went in pursuit of the perpetrators of the crime. And so “Wacław loses in one moment everything on the world,/ Happiness, virtue, respect for his fellow-men and brothers” (“I tak Wacław od razu wszystko w świecie traci:/ Szczęście, cnotę, szacunek dla ludzi, swych braci”). It is suggested that in the “dark and dreary wood of human feelings” (“W tym 

    ellauri189.html on line 129: landscape. Communing with the monotonous plain that extends as far as the horizon, where it melts into the heaven, the author discovers that “mood” (Heidegger’s Gestimmtsein) is the fundamental human mode of being-in-the-world. The level plain and the hemisphere (earth and heaven) constitute a spatial totality that is self-enclosed: Being combines flatness with the curve of the hemisphere, the linear with the cyclical perspective (from an empirical point of view only half of its orbit is visible to man though he can of course turn around to see the rest of it):

    ellauri189.html on line 143: heterogeneous concept) man enacts the drama of his life. The borders of this realm are indicated by the movement of the sun, arising from behind the horizon and, after moving through half of its orbit, again setting beyond this infinitely receding meeting point between heaven and earth. In Malczewski’s 

    ellauri189.html on line 189: I w krótkim pożegnaniu, nim w głąb’ się zagrzebie,  
    

    ellauri189.html on line 197: man’s habitation, as the melancholy look of Friendship that sets out on a journey;)

    ellauri189.html on line 199: The centre of our planetary system is the visible sign of the infinity of immanence and contains the cyclical essence of being, not merely indicating this con-dition, but also embodying it: this celestial body is subject to an infinite movement without apparent linear direction. But the stages of the sun’s voyage could also be interpreted as stages of human life (birth, youth, maturity, old age) and this circumstance inclines man to perceive a similarity between a celestial body and a feeling sublunary body (does man deceive himself, thinking it a bond of 

    ellauri189.html on line 203: “wheel of being”, moved by the force of desire (Schopenhauer’s Wille) that 

    ellauri189.html on line 206:   Malczewski’s worldview (Weltanschauung) seems at first sight very much akin to Schopenhauer’s metaphysical pessimism (the fact that the German philosopher’s main treatise Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung was almost neglected by his contemporaries, should not close our eyes to the fact that the first part of it was written immediately after the Napoleonic wars; it belongs to the same époque as Maria).

    ellauri189.html on line 214:  The boundless steppe of the Ukraine turns out to be a cage with invisible bars. Man appears at first sight to be free, without apparent goal roaming over the plain of life, being a lord of the steppe, “a king of the wilderness” (“król pustyni”), or tries to create in a premeditated manner his own future, deciding – by the way – on the fate of his fellow men (the source of unceasing conflicts). However, in the latter case he often unwittingly obeys the voice of his own wild, unruly nature. The ambivalence of this situation seems to be intimately connected with the concept of romantic irony. Man possesses the ability to objectify his passions, i.e. he can explain them psychologically, by means of a chain of causes and effects, but he still remains the slave of this volitional nature that constitutes  his innermost self, always and ever receding (like the horizon of the Ukrainian plain) when he tries to catch it (the idea of the Unconscious does not really explain this “schizophrenic” state of mind – it merely affirms man’s essential  homelessness: I am myself, when I realize that my self eternally escapes me). - I can relate to that, says the Russian tank driver sitting stuck in the Ukrainian mud.

    ellauri189.html on line 220:  The powerful wojewoda, Maria’s unwilling father-in-law, realizes consequently 

    ellauri189.html on line 221: his aim of destroying his son’s misalliance, “brooding” on it in the “underworld”  of his perverse mind (the treacherous heart of the wojewoda, who seems to be all smile, is compared to a “wine-cellar” [“loch”]; a more usual meaning of “loch” 

    ellauri189.html on line 254:     ‘Maria’, a poetic tale of Antoni Malczewski about the abundant Ukraine and the vacant steppe.

    ellauri189.html on line 256:   Iga rated it did not like it Oct 27. It was only after his death that critics realized the originality of Mary, by Malczeski – released in 1825 – that it was in fact the first Polish narrative poem. The injury of an ankle, which Malczewski had sustained defending his lover’s good name, destroyed the writer’s military career; the injury returned and he could not participate in Napoleon’s campaign against Russia in 1812.

    ellauri189.html on line 264: Monika rated it it was amazing Dec 18. Affairs with married women ruined Malczewski’s reputation. To The European Library.

    ellauri189.html on line 426: Many environmental casualties have been associated with the rapid retreat in the shoreline of the Dead Sea. An example is the emergence of sinkholes. An older and well attested phenomenon in the area is the emergence of assholes. Many residential areas and roads around the Dead Sea have been destroyed by sinkholes because of shitholes. Sinkholes are natural depressions in the Earth’s surface caused by the chemical dissolution of nutrients in the soil. These sinkholes endanger the lives of locals and the fun of tourists alike.

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    ellauri189.html on line 726: The fact is that some Pashtun tribes have a tradition of being the people of Israel (Bene Israel), meaning they descended from our father Yaakov. It is even told that the Afghan king once asked the Afghan Jews from which tribe they are, when they answered they don’t know the king said that the Pashtuns do, and that the king is from the tribe of Benyamin. In particular, I heard myself from Pashtuns from the tribes of Lewani, Benyamin, Afridi, Shinwari and more, that their grandfathers told them they are Bene Israel, and it is well known that this tradition is spread through most (or all) of the Pashtuns tribes.

    ellauri189.html on line 728: Some Pashtuns, especially from young generations, are doubting that this is true. In this article I’ll explore the possibilities of how this tradition could have originated. From this exploration it will become clear that doubting the truthfulness of this tradition is irrational. I would also outline some common traditions of Pashtuns and Jews, some of them are based on the Torah, which further confirm that this tradition is true and that Pashtuns are really Bene Israel. I’ll then say a few words about DNA testing and finally talk about the implications of this tradition.

    ellauri189.html on line 761: A man marries his dead brother’s widow if the brother didn’t have children. In the Torah it is called Yibum.

    ellauri189.html on line 763: In Weddings there’s a piece of fabric hanging above the marrying couple. In Hebrew it is called Hupa. In Pashto it is called Dolaye,

    ellauri189.html on line 765: In some Pashtuns weddings, the bride breaks a glass (in particular, I heard it done by Pashtuns in Kandahar). In Jew’s weddings the groom breaks it. This is actually a relatively new tradition that Jews do for the remembrance of the destroyed Temple, so it is likely that Pashtuns heard of this tradition after they have already been exiled and added it to their other Israeli traditions.

    ellauri189.html on line 787: Some Pashtuns think that because Pashto is not a Semetic language it means Pashtuns are not Semetic, but it isn’t a strong enough evidence to contradict what we said above. To contradict what we said one has to explain how this tradition originated, and it is impossible.

    ellauri189.html on line 791: It is true that the Pashtuns do not speak Hebrew, but I think it is highly probable that Pashto is the Yidish of Pashtuns. It is also possible that Pashtuns didn’t need another foreign language (like Jews needed to know German or Spanish) because unlike Jews, Pashtuns had their own territory. It might be just a wild theory, but it might have been used, like Yidish, so that Pashtuns won’t mix with other nations.

    ellauri189.html on line 797:   People who kept the religion of Moses and Israel (what is called now Judaism) all along. They are Bene Israel because non-Israelis who married them, accepted the religion too, and Moses taught Bene Israel that if someone accepts that religion and goes through a certain process (called Giyur in Hebrew), he becomes an Israeli himself (Moses’ own wife, Sipora, was actually a convert).

    ellauri189.html on line 799:     People who are descendents of Bene Israel who didn’t keep the religion of Moses and Israel, but didn’t mix with other people.

    ellauri189.html on line 801: The faces of all the people who claim they are Bene Israel prove they mixed, and they generally do not deny that they mixed. Jews mixed too, but they kept Judaism, so they fall in to the first category (Jews who married non-Jews were thrown out of the Jewish community and were considered dead to them. This is still true for today’s religious Jews, and until not long ago, all Jews were religious). On the other hand, those other people who both mixed and did not keep Judaism, although they are descendants of Bene Israel to some extent, they are not Bene Israel themselves, as they do not fall into either category.

    ellauri189.html on line 803: What’s special about the Pashtuns is that although Pashtuns do not keep Judaism today (except for some small portions like not eating some non-kosher animals), according to Pashtuns’ tradition, they did not mix. And unlike other nations who have the tradition of being descendants of Bene Israel, the face of the Pashtuns prove they did not mix.

    ellauri189.html on line 805: So the question is whether one believes the tradition that Pashtuns didn’t mix with other nations or doesn’t. It is less provable than the tradition of being Bene Israel, because if Pashtuns did mix and stopped mixing at some generation A, it is possible that the tradition of not mixing was created at a later generation B, if they didn’t mix for enough generations.

    ellauri189.html on line 807: That said, I think it is more likely that they didn’t mix than that they did. One reason is because the current situation is that most Pashtuns are not mixing. Another reason is that I can’t find a good reason why at some generation A they’d stop mixing after they mixed before that. And finally, we know from Moses (Deuteronomy 30), from Yehezkel (37), from Yirmiya (31), Yishaaya (51, 27), and from many other prophecies that the Bene Israel are out there (those who were exiled by the damn Assyrian). Because we know they don’t keep Judaism, the only possibility for them to exist as Israelis is by not mixing, and there is one, and only one, nation that fits those conditions, and it is the Pashtuns.

    ellauri189.html on line 809: I should note that if some of the Pashtun tribes are descendants of Bene Israel and others aren’t, and the Pashtuns mixed within themselves, that would exclude Pashtuns from category 2. Yet, as far as I know, mixing even between tribes is rare (or at least was rare until recently). So I guess that if you are a Pashtun and the elders of your tribe say you are Bene Israel and that your tribe’s ancestors didn’t mix with tribes that aren’t Bene Israel, then you are Israeli. Otherwise, there might be some doubts in case some tribes (those that don’t have this tradition) weren’t original Pashtuns but adopted the Pashtuns’ culture at some point in history.

    ellauri189.html on line 813: Well, as a Jew who prayed for and dreamt of meeting the other (non Jews) Bene Israel, I am extremely excited. If you are a Pashtun and you don’t want to admit being an Israeli, I think you are not being rational.

    ellauri189.html on line 815: First, being Israelis is a source of pride. It means you are the children of Prophet Yaakov. It means you were the first to believe in the one and only God, more that 1500 years before the Arabs. Your ancestors prayed to the one and only God while the Arabs were complete pagans, bowing to all sorts of idols who don’t have power over anything. It is also very likely that other prophets are your forefathers. For example, it is very likely you are descendants of Prophet Moses himself if you are Lewani. Your great great… great grandfather might have been Moses’ best student – prophet Yehoshua if you are Afridi, etc. Your ancestors saw with their eyes what God did to Egypt – stuff that no other nation but the Egyptians themselves have witnessed. They heard God talking to them on Mount Sinai, etc.

    ellauri189.html on line 833: Some Jews might doubt the un-provable (given current genetics science) tradition of Pashtuns not mixing. I would like to prove to them that our Rabbis of the Mishna and Talmud knew that they won’t mix. First of all, there are many prophecies that the 10 tribes are going to return to the holy land (like Yehezkel 37, Yirmiya 31, Yishaaya 51 and 27, and many others, that talk about the 10 tribes specifically).

    ellauri189.html on line 835: Second, if a non-Israeli marries an Israeli woman, they are not really married according to Halacha (Jewish law), but if he is Israeli from the 10 tribes, then they are really married and she must get divorced according to Halacha if she wants to marry an Israeli. On this topic, the Talmud says in Yevamot 16: “If a non-Jew married an Israeli woman according to Halacha, we are concerned that they might actually be married, because he might be from the 10 tribes”. The Talmud then asks: “But when someone is in front of us and we don’t know who he is, we assume he came from the majority of people, and the majority of people are not from the 10 tribes, so we shouldn’t be concerned”. The Talmud then says that this is only true in their land – the land where the 10 tribes live, because over there they are the majority. So the Talmud believes that the 10 tribes are still the majority in their land. If they had mixed this would not have been the case, unless there was only a little mixing going on.

    ellauri189.html on line 837: Finally, we have the Mishna in Sanhedrin 10:3, where Rabbi Akiva said the 10 tribes don’t have a part in the next world, while Rabbi Eliezer said they have. Rashi simply said that they talked about the generation that was exiled, but even Rabb Akiva admits that their descendants surely have a part in the next world. There’s no doubt this is the case, otherwise Ribbie Akiva would be in a disagreement with Yehezkel, Yishaaya and Jeremaya, and we know he can’t be.

    ellauri189.html on line 839: So the prophets and the Talmud all say that the 10 tribes are out there, in their land they are the majority, and they are still Israelis, even after all these years. There’s one, and only one, nation that doesn’t look like they mixed, has Torah-based traditions, has a tradition of being Bene Israel, and even has a tradition of not mixing. They are the Pashtuns, our brothers, Bene Israel.

    ellauri189.html on line 841: So a Jew who believes in the prophets and that our Talmud’s Rabbies knew what they were talking about shouldn’t doubt the tradition of the Pashtuns not mixing with other nations. And I’m not a Rav myself, but I think there might be a consequence for Halacha here – if we meet a random Pashtun, we can’t ask him to do something that is forbidden on Shabbat, serve him anything not Kosher (from the non-Kosher stuff they do eat – some of the Kosher laws the Pashtuns do keep), etc, because as the Talmud said, in their land they are the majority.

    ellauri190.html on line 72:   Some trivia about Cossacks on the 29th anniversary of their country’s independence by George V. Chipmunk.

    ellauri190.html on line 237:   Kyiv, the biggest city and the capital of Ukraine, was founded, most likely, between the 600s and the 700s A.D. as a fishermen village. The first settlements were on the right bank of the Dnipro river, where now is the Podil section of the city. The first wooden fortification and the Kyiv chieftain’s castle were built uphill from the original settlement, likely in the 8th or early 9th century.

    ellauri190.html on line 239:   During the 9th century, “Varangians” (Vikings) began to serve as a kind of Praetorian Guard to the East Roman emperors. Tästä kertoo jännittävästi Mika Waltarin historiallinen romaani Mikael Karvajalka, joka taitaa olla meillä jossakin. To reach the city of Constantinople, they sailed from what today is called the Gulf of Finland up the Neva river to the lakes Ladoga and Ilmen and then to the Western Dvina and the Dnipro, going all the way down to the Black Sea. By the mid-9th century, they settled around and in Kyiv and founded their own dynasty of the descendants of Rurik. A grandson of Rurik, Svyatoslav (Sfendosleif) greatly expanded his realm to the east and south, while his mother Olga (Helga) traveled to Constantinople and was baptized Christian. Svyatoslav’s son, Volodymyr (Waldemar) married a daughter of the Eastern Roman emperor, was baptized, and baptized all his subjects in the year 988. (Back then, the city of Moscow, or the country now known as Russia – Россия – did not even exist, so there!) Over the next centuries, the “Rurikids” gradually lost their Scandinavian identity, marrying women of the Slavic, Hungarian, Greek, and Turkic ethnicities.

    ellauri190.html on line 259:   In the late 12th and the 13th century, the center of Rus-Ukraine moved from Kyiv to what is now northwest and west of the country, the regions of Volyn and Halychyna (Galitzia). A mighty ruler called Prince (or Duke) Danylo Romanovych, even though an Eastern Orthodox by faith, was crowned King Danylo of Rus by a Pope’s Legate. King Danylo’s capital was the city of Kholm (now Chełm, Poland). He built a magnificent city of Lviv (“The Lion’s”) for his son, Lev (Leo). Lviviä pommitetaan paraikaa rankasti. 

    ellauri190.html on line 261:   In the first half of the 14th century, most of what is now Ukraine was cleared of the Mongols by the troops of a powerful ruler of Lithuania, Gedimin, and Ukraine became a part of the Great Duchy of Lithuania. The latter was a peculiar country. The bulk of its territory and population was what now is the Slavic country of Belarus. Only a small minority of its people traced their origin from the Baltic tribes, while the majority were Slavs. Gedimin’s name in modern Lithuanian is Gyadiminas, but in the chronicles he is named Kgindimin or Kindimin, which might have a Slavic root. The language of Gedimin’s court, and the court of his sons and grandsons was very Slavic, much like a mixture of somewhat archaic Ukrainian and Belarusian. The laws of the entire Duchy, the so-called Lithuanian Statutes, were written in the Cyrillic alphabet and read very much like the Belarusian (definitely Slavic) language. So they were bad guys in anyone's book already then.

    ellauri190.html on line 273:   In the 16th and the early 17th century the Kozak’s leaders (Hetmans) were loyal to the Polish crown and participated in the wars of the Great Duchy of Lithuania and the kingdom of Poland against Muscovy. Hetman Petro Konashevych Sahaydachny (1582-1622) nearly took Moscow in 1618. But nearly doesn't count. He also was an outstanding mecenate who donated some loot to Orthodox monasteries and schools, of which the so-called Bratska Shkola (“Brotherhood School”) later grew into a huge and famous institution of higher learning, the Kyiv Mohyla Academy, which now functions as a top-ranking Ukrainian economic liberal arts university.

    ellauri190.html on line 275: In 1648, a Kozak leader called Zinoviy Bohdan Khmelnytsky (Polish transliteration, Chmielnicki) started a war on the Polish crown. Initially, it was his own personal vendetta on a Polish landlord who stole his land, but very soon it grew into a colossal uprising of the Kozaks and Ukrainian peasants against their Polish landlords. The people fought (the way they knew how) against the feudal oppression, as well as against forced Catholicization and Polonization of Ukraine. Unfortunately, it turned into a fratricide. (Sorry Poles, of course we are on the same side now.) The main adversary of Khmelnytsky was Prince Yarema (Jeremiah) Korybut-Vyshnevetsky, a Rusyn-Ukrainian, a noble valiant knight and a great statesman who, nonetheless, kept his allegiance to the Polish king (whom he personally hated, but could not break his knight’s oath of loyalty). Both sides resorted to unspeakable cruelties. Most tragically, Khmelnysky, a brave warrior as he was, turned out to be a horribly short-sighted politician. In January 1654, he essentially surrendered Ukraine to Muscovy, approving what he thought was a temporary military union against the Republic but turned out to be the beginning of the “Russian” (actually Muscovite) occupation of Ukraine. It just goes to show: give a pinky finger to the Russkies and they take the whole hand. 

    ellauri190.html on line 279: By the end of the 17th century, the newly forming Russian Empire under Tzar Peter I established its reign over the Ukrainian lands to the east of the Dnipro river, ceding the western part of Ukraine to the Republic (which, in turn, evolved more and more into the Polish monarchy rather than the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth of the old days). In 1702, a great son of Ukraine, a giant of military strategy, diplomacy, and statesmanship, Ivan Mazepa, being the Kozak leader of the eastern part of Ukraine, suppressed the uprising of Paliy on the other (Western) side of the Dnipro and added huge parts of the country to his control. It was a big step toward the unification and freedom of Ukraine. Moreover, in 1709 Mazepa joined his forces with the Swedish king Charles XII (haha, the gay) against Tzar Peter, hoping to rid his dear mother Ukraine from slavery in the captivity of the Tzars. And again… tragically, Mazepa managed to gather less manpower than he hoped to gather, because the populist agitators slandered him in their massive propaganda campaign (no doubt, directed from Muscovy), portraying him in the eyes of the Ukrainian Kozaks as a rich aristocrat who cares nothing about the “simple people,” a clandestine Catholic (or Protestant), and overall “not really Ukrainian.” (This tragedy will repeat itself in 1918 and in 2019.) Mazepa’s loyalists were defeated together with the Swedes, and Ukraine lost her historical chance for yet another time. But third time is a charm! Nobody will blame a Jew for being on the side of the catholics!

    ellauri190.html on line 555: Yermak Timofeyevich, born between 1532 and 1542 - 1584 AD was a Cossack who led the Russian conquest of Siberia in the reign of Ivan the Terrible. Russia’s fur interests fueled their desire to expand east into Siberia. The tsar’s ultimate...

    ellauri192.html on line 113: The members of the Nobel jury were guided by the vague words written into the will of Alfred Nobel. The inventor stated that his prize “should go to the person who shall have produced in the field of Literature the most distinguished work of an idealistic tendency.” Wirsén believed that “idealistic tendency” meant of moral or good nature; however, as Burton Feldman reports, the mathematician Gösta "Ja ja de ä Gösta här" Mittag-Leffler, who was a friend of Nobel’s, attested that “the inventor intended ‘idealism’ to mean a skeptical, even satirical attitude to religion, royalty, marriage, and the social order in general.”

    ellauri192.html on line 115: Sully Prudhomme’s reputation, however, has not survived the more than one hundred years since he was awarded the crowning glory in his literary career. His legacy as a poet is not bad; it simply does not exist. Most French high-school students would recognize his name and might have read his most well-known poem, “Le Vase brisé” (1865, The Broken Vase), but it is safe to say that almost no one outside of France recognizes the name Sully Prudhomme. 

    ellauri192.html on line 117: Combien de maîtresses de maison lui demandérent-elles, à titre de faveur insigne, de dire à leurs invités le Vase brisé? Elles ne se doutaient pas que si l’homme du monde s’exécutait, après les résistances d’usage, le poéte grondait en dedans à la pensée de débiter une fois de plus cet éternel “pot cassé” qu’il avait fini par prendre en horreur. “Qu’il se brise sur leur nez, ce vase!” s’écriait-il dans un accés de fureur.

    ellauri192.html on line 121: Je perds le goût de la poésie. Je la trouve de plus en plus puérile, comparé aux austères travaux de la science; les plus grands génies littéraires me semblent des enfants auprès du génie scientifique, qui, au lieu d’imiter et de défigurer la nature sous prétexte de la transfigurer par l’idéal et l’humain, l’étreint corps à corps, telle qu’elle est, et lui ouvre, doigt par doigt, ses mains fermées pour en arracher des lambeaux de vérité.

    ellauri192.html on line 125: Que l’homme, fier néant, n’est qu’un des parasites / D’une sphère oubliée entre les plus petites, / Parasite à son tour des crins d’or du soleil.

    ellauri192.html on line 129:  “Tout vivant n’a qu’un but: persévérer à vivre; / … Esclave de ce but qu’il n’eut point à choisir, / Il voue entiérement sa force à le poursuivre” 

    ellauri192.html on line 132: But Sully Prudhomme’s 1878 work, La Justice (Justice), is a bold poem indeed. Siinä on paljon optimismia ja idealismia, sydämen asiaa. Dyny-Alfred olisi ollut mielissään. Scientific truth and deeply felt art combine in Sully Prudhomme’s vision to come to the rescue of humankind. This idealism imbued with science is what drew the Nobel committee to award him their first literature prize. Parnassolaiset hurrasivat ja symbolistit jupisivat kateina..

    ellauri192.html on line 259: Jaroslav Seifert made his debut with the poetry collection Mesto v slzách (1921) (City in Tears). His writings include more than 30 poetry collections. Seifert was a highly regarded poet in his native country. Melody and rhythm characterize his poetry, which is inspired by folk songs, common speech and everyday scenes. At the heart of Seifert’s poems is humanity, and he criticizes the totalitarian state’s attempts to reduce the opportunities and freedom of the individual.

    ellauri192.html on line 293: Tokarczuk, the 2018 laureate — whose award comes a year late, after a scandal derailed 2018 committee’s deliberations — is a Polish novelist whose critical eye toward her country’s government and history has made her the target of a nationalist backlash.

    ellauri192.html on line 297: While Tokarczuk’s win has been widely lauded — The Guardian declared her “the dreadlocked feminist winner the Nobel needed” (aargh! will some future prize go to Estonia's own bluewig girl Sofi Oxanen?) — Handke’s provoked immediate and widespread displeasure. PEN America, an organization that advocates for writers’ liberty, wrote that it was “dumbfounded by the selection of a writer who has used his public voice to undercut historical truth and offer public succor to perpetrators of genocide.” The Slovenian public intellectual Slavoj Žižek told the Guardian that “In 2014, Handke called for the Nobel to be abolished, saying it was a ‘false canonisation’ of literature. The fact that he got it now proves that he was right.”

    ellauri192.html on line 299: The controversy over Handke’s support of Milosevic dates back 20 years, but the striking political differences between him and Tokarczuk reached a point of particular clarity in 2014. In that year, Handke was given the International Ibsen Prize, but mass outrage led him to reject the prize money while still accepting the award. In his accompanying speech, he said his critics should “go to hell.” (He’d previously met controversy over a literary award in 2006, when he turned down Germany’s Heinrich Heine prize after authorities attempted to withdraw it after he attended Milosevic’s funeral.)

    ellauri192.html on line 301: 2014 also marked the release of Tokarczuk’s most ambitious work, “The Books of Jacob,” the novel that set off much of the rancor directed at her by Polish nationalists. The book, which has yet to appear in English, is centered on the historical figure of Jakub Frank, a Jewish-born 18th-century religious leader. Frank, believed to have been born with the name Jakub Leibowicz, oversaw a messianic sect that incorporated significant portions of Christian practice into Judaism; he led mass baptisms of his followers. As Ruth Franklin reported in a New Yorker profile this past summer, Tokarczuk spent almost a decade researching Frank and the Poland in which he lived. The result is a book that, by the account of those who have read it, delivers a picture of the many intricate and unpredictable ways in which the story of Poland is tied to the story of its Jews. “There’s no Polish culture without Jewish culture,” Tokarczuk told Franklin. What else is new, asks Isaac Singer. Tokarczuk is not a Jewess, Tokarczuk considers herself a disciple of Carl Jung and cites his psychology as an inspiration for her literary work.

    ellauri192.html on line 303: The novel’s release shortly predated an escalation in Polish nationalism tied to the Law and Justice party’s ascent to power in 2015. But the forces that fueled that escalation were already prevalent. When Tokarczuk accepted the Nike Prize, the country’s highest literary honor, for “The Books of Jacob,” she said in a speech that the country had “committed horrendous acts as colonizers, as a national majority that suppressed the minority, as slaveowners, and as the murderers of Jews.” She was quickly inundated by threats so alarming that her publishers briefly hired bodyguards. In the five years since, she has witnessed the Law and Justice party take an increasingly hard line on censoring certain conversations about Poland’s relationship with Jews. In 2016, the government began a campaign against the Princeton historian Jan Gross, known for his groundbreaking work on the massacre at Jedwabne, in which Poles murdered 1,600 of their Jewish neighbors. In 2018, the Law and Justice party’s government made it illegal to blame Poland or Polish nationals for Nazi crimes. POLIN, a groundbreaking Polish museum of Jewish history, has been leader-less for five months, as its director, who oversaw a number of exhibits highly critical of Poland’s policy toward Jews, awaits official reappointment — despite having been re-approved for the job.

    ellauri192.html on line 305: “The subject of my book [‘The Books of Jacob’] — a multicultural Poland — was not comfortable for proponents of this new version of history,” Tokarczuk told PEN Transmissions, a journal run by the English iteration of PEN, in May, 2018. She was taken by surprise by the amount of rage the book provoked — not to mention her comment on receiving the Nike sneakers. But rather than retreat, she has continued to speak out on behalf of the communities she sees her government as wishing to sideline. In a January op-ed for The New York Times following a Polish radical’s on-air murder of the open-minded young Gdansk mayor Pawel Adamowicz, Tokarczuk wrote of a Polish populist narrative that “scapegoats… the so-called crazy leftists, queer-lovers, Germans, Jews, European Union puppets, feminists, liberals and anyone who supports immigrants.”

    ellauri192.html on line 317: The secretary of the academy, who had to put a brave face on Dylan’s behaviour, was Sara Danius, an essayist and literary critic, elected in 2013. “She was always thought gifted and bright but she’s not a biddable person,” said Maria Schottenius. “She was overjoyed when she was elected.”

    ellauri192.html on line 327:   His poetry, said James Ragan, director of the USC graduate school’s professional writing program, “was at all times optimistic, reflecting a championing of the human self. I think that’s primarily why he was awarded the Nobel Prize, because he suggested a new liberated spirit in writing (behind the Iron Curtain) after the Stalin era. Although he was a Communist as a youth, he became disillusioned with the party in the late 1920s. Thereafter, he was in and out of party favor during the turbulent decades that followed in Czechoslovakia. The state-run news agency, in announcing his death Friday, described him as “a prominent Czech poet, national artist (and) winner of the 1984 Nobel Prize for Literature.”  

    ellauri192.html on line 332: To all those million verses in the world I’ve added just a few. 
    

    ellauri192.html on line 333: They probably are no wiser than a cricket’s chirrup.

    ellauri192.html on line 590: from the murderers’ hands.				murhaajia aseista.			

    ellauri192.html on line 605: I’d just returned from the cemetery			Olin juuri palannut luutarhasta				

    ellauri192.html on line 615: that’s left us on earth					joka on jäänyt tänne päälle maan			

    ellauri192.html on line 623: In the days of the early church, both the Jews and the Romans were hostile toward Christians, so they often met secretly in houses for prayer and worship. One such house in Jerusalem belonged to Mary, the mother of Mark. Certain tradition states that Mary’s was the same house where the disciples celebrated the Last Supper with Christ.

    ellauri192.html on line 625: Rhoda was a servant girl in this house, which was a hub for the growing church. One night, the Christians had gathered in Mary’s house and were “earnestly praying to God” (Acts 12:5) for the life of Peter, who had been arrested by Herod (Acts 12:3–4). Their pleas would have been desperately fervent because James, the brother of John, had just been martyred (Acts 12:2), and Peter was slated for execution.

    ellauri192.html on line 627: While the church prayed, God answered. He miraculously delivered Peter from prison: an angel led him out of his cell and through the prison gate, which opened for them to pass (Acts 12:6–10). Upon realizing that he was not dreaming, Peter made his way to a place he knew was safe, Mary’s house (Acts 12:11–12).

    ellauri192.html on line 629: When Peter arrived and knocked on the door, the servant girl Rhoda came to answer. She heard Peter’s voice and knew it was he, but in her excitement and joy she forgot to actually open the door. Leaving Peter standing in the night, she rushed to tell everyone else about the miracle outside (Acts 12:14). They did not believe her, though, thinking she was out of her mind (Acts 12:15). When Rhoda was insistent, the believers decided it must be Peter’s “angel”—his guardian angel, perhaps, or his ghost—rather than the answer to their prayers!

    ellauri192.html on line 633: It’s interesting that the church was praying earnestly, yet they did not believe the answer to their prayers when it came. They forgot an important part of prayer, which is answering the door. Rhoda was the first one to know of Peter’s deliverance, and she carried the joyful message to others. She did not let their doubts stop her from sharing what she knew was true: God had done the impossible. Even in the face of their unbelief, she was unrelenting in her joy. Believers today can take a cue from Rhoda and share the news of what God accomplishes with those around us, remaining joyful in what we know is true.

    ellauri192.html on line 698: The Dnieper River is the fourth longest river in Europe. It runs a total length of 1,368 miles extending from the uplands of Russia’s Valdai Hills where it flows in a southerly direction through western Russia, Belarus, and Ukraine before emptying into the Black Sea. The River is usually divided into three parts; the upper portion reaches as far as Kiev, the middle portion generally refers to the area between Kiev and the Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhya, and the lower portion is comprised of the area between Zaporizhzha and the river’s mouth at the Black Sea. Approximately 300 miles of the waterway is located in Russia, 430 miles are in Belarus, and 680 miles within Ukraine. The Dnieper River is significant not only due to its dams which provide hydro power but also for facilitating trade and providing a waterway in which to transport goods to and from various European nations.

    ellauri192.html on line 702: The source of the Dnieper River can be traced back to Russia’s Valdai Hills which rise to an elevation of 720 feet. The river originates from a diminutive peat bog located on the hill’s southern slope. This northwestern region of central Russia is located near the city of Smolensk and some 150 miles west of Russia’s capital city, Moscow. The Valdai Hills are located at the intersection of several of the countries key rivers including not only the Dnieper but also the Volga, Lovat, and Daugava. This area also includes the drainage basins of the Black, Caspian, and Baltic Seas. 

    ellauri192.html on line 706: Now, the invasive Chinese sleeper is widely distributed in the freshwaters of Eastern and Central European countries, such as Belarus, Bulgaria, Estonia, Hungary, Lithuania, Latvia, Moldova,Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Serbia and Ukraine, where it has high climatic suitability and may continue invasion in the future (Reshetnikov and Ficetola, 2011). In Ukraine, theChinese sleeper was first found in the upper Dniester River basin in 1980 where it was introduced in the 1970s (Reshetnikov, 2009). It first occurred in the Dnieper river basin near Kievin 2001, and in the Ros’ River (right tributary of the Dnieper River, downstream of Kiev) in2005 (Sabodash et al., 2002; Kutsokon and Negoda, 2006; Kutsokon, 2010). In the DanubeRiver basin the Chinese sleeper was first recorded in 1995–1996 in the Latorica River, westernUkraine (a part of the western Ukrainian population of the Chinese sleeper), but only in 2011in the Danube delta (Sivokhop, 1998; Kvach, 2012). This fish is currently found in differentparts of the upper streams of the Dniester basin, Transcarpathian waters (Danube basin), in the Dnieper River, and in the Danube River delta.

    ellauri192.html on line 816: The anti-capitalist message is somewhat confusing though, given that Belarus is probably the least capitalist country in Europe. Maybe it helps get the song past the censor? I have no idea what to make of this tripped-out critique of materialism and pop culture from Belarusian rock band Lyapis Trubetskoy. It’s gaudy, over-the-top and visually chaotic. 

    ellauri192.html on line 820: The local affiliate of the Communist Party of Russia had earlier urged to boycott and cancel the Belarusian band’s concert. The communists explained it by the fact that the band's frontman Siarhei Mikhalok ‘had supported the coup in Ukraine’ at Euromaidan.

    ellauri192.html on line 822: They mentioned the band’s new album Matryoshka. The album ‘presents Russia in a bad way with its Russian language and Soviet leaders’, the communists insisted. 

    ellauri192.html on line 861: In the Soviet Union in 1927, a former Marshal of Nobility, Ippolit Matveyevich "Kisa" Vorobyaninov, works as the registrar of marriages and deaths in a sleepy provincial town. His mother-in-law reveals on her deathbed that her family jewry was hidden from the Bolsheviks in one of the twelve chairs from the family’s dining room set. Those chairs, along with all other personal property, were taken away by the Communists after the Russian Revolution. Vorobyaninov wants to find the treasure. The “smooth operator” and con-man Ostap Bender forces Kisa to become his partner, as they set out to find the chairs. Bender's street smarts and charm are invaluable to the reticent Kisa, and Bender comes to dominate the enterprise. Father Fyodor (who had known of the treasure from the confession of Vorobyaninov's mother-in-law), their obsessed rival in the hunt for the treasure, follows a bad lead, runs out of money, ends up trapped on a mountain-top, and loses his sanitary pad. Ostap remains unflappable, and his mastery of human nature eliminates all obstacles, but Vorobyaninov steadily deteriorates.

    ellauri194.html on line 61:  Hepreasta juontuva nimi Har-Magedon merkitsee yksinkertaisesti ’Megiddon vuorta’.

    ellauri194.html on line 300:   After the military takeover in Burkina Faso in January, demonstrators in Ouagadougou, the country’s capital, chanted pro-Russian and anti-French slogans.  Protesters in Bamako in February celebrated France’s announcement that it was withdrawing its troops from Mali.

    ellauri194.html on line 308: 	"Talking about class is out of fashion,” she says. “It’s easier to co-opt radical discourses around racial and gender oppression than it is around class oppression."

    ellauri194.html on line 328:   "I usually get just a tissue” a female inmate says as she describes her experience bouncing from detention facility to detention facility and being denied feminine products. “Television doesn’t show you when we’re treated like animals and denied basic necessities."

    ellauri194.html on line 332:   Of US crime series’ 27 show runners, 21 were white men. Of 275 writers, more than 75% were white and 9% were black. 37% of writers across law and order programming were women, and 11% were women of color.

    ellauri194.html on line 485: I'd like to know myself, because despite the fact that I founded the only worldwide organization for game developers, helped put the Game Developers’ Conference (25,000 attendees annually) on its feet, worked on Madden NFL for six years for Electronic Arts, and wrote an introductory textbook on game design that has been translated into several languages, some anonymous random at Wikipedia has decided that I'm not “notable” enough because he personally has never heard of me, and wants to delete my page. Basically, you have to kiss the ass of the insiders if you don't want your content to be deleted. It's an oligarchy of the ignorant.

    ellauri194.html on line 529: Banerjee or Bandyopadhyay is a surname of Brahmins originating from the Bengal region of the Indian subcontinent. Banerjees are from the ancient Shandilya Gotra, which means all Banerjees are descended from Kannauj from the ancient sage Shandilya as per the Puranas. Together with Mukherjees, Chatterjees, Bhattacharjees and Gangulys, Banerjees form the Kulin Brahmins. Indian (Bengal) and Bangladeshi: Hindu (Brahman) name, the first element of which, Ban-, is taken from Bandyopadhyay. The final element -jee is derived from jha (greatly reduced form of Sanskrit upadhyaya ‘teacher’); thus, Banerjee ‘teacher who is head and only performs the main work aarti or,Vandana. A Sanskrit version of this name, Vandyopadhyaya, was coined from the elements vandya ‘venerable’ + upadhyaya ‘teacher’. "

    ellauri194.html on line 1004: An engaging read, and a book that should be on every corporate trainer’s bookshelf around the world! Less

    ellauri196.html on line 291: Some idiot suggests that Auden's most famous poem, ‘Funeral Blues’, is ‘misread’ as sincere elegy when it was intended to be a send-up or parody of public obituaries. What an infantile idea! Rather, Auden's point is: We must make fun of one another AND die. Auden oli mielestäni suht hyvä, vahinko vaan että se näyttää Lewisin naziapulaiselta.

    ellauri196.html on line 470: Pingviinien saari on hersyvän hauska poliittinen ja historiallinen satiiri lähinnä ranskalaisen, mutta osin myös muun eurooppalaisen kulttuurin kehittymisestä legendojen ajasta aina 1900-luvun uusiin aatteisiin asti. Se on jaettu kahdeksaan kirjaan, joista ensimmäiset käsittelevät varhaisia aikoja, joista tullaan vähitellen keskiajan ja renessanssin kautta nykyaikaan; lopuksi otetaan katse jopa tulevaisuuden kronikointiin. France kirjoittaa samaan tyyliin kuin historioitsijat ottaen välillä aktiivisemman ja lähdekriittisemmän kertoja-kommentaattorin roolin. Tarkkaavainen lukija löytää Pingviinien saarelta Kaarle suuren, Joan d’Arcin, viikinkivalloittajat, Ranskan vallankumouksen ja monet muut vähän erilaiseen muotoon siirretyt historialliset henkilöt ja käännekohdat. Aatteita, tieteitä ja taiteita 

    ellauri196.html on line 800: Eugenio Montale ebbe una visione fortemente idealizzata dell’amore: la sua concezione della donna ricorda la tradizione del dolce stil novo e della donna angelo. La poesia Morgana è l’ultima della raccolta Quaderno di quattro anni, pubblicata nel 1977. Järbällä oli noobel rintapielessä, senaattorin hattu ja paxu lompakko, helppo on lempeä pyytää. Vanha ja lihavakin runoilija osaa vielä lurittaa, jos silmään sattuu oikein kainaloinen nuori kana. Luonto on suunnitellut niin, että ruumiikas voi vielä bylsiä: nivusiin ei kerry läskiä. 

    ellauri196.html on line 810: quasi ch’io mi sentissi				Aivan kuin tuntisin izeni					

    ellauri196.html on line 816: fosse indizio di un’anima distorta		oli vihje vääristyneestä sielusta				

    ellauri196.html on line 829: La fede è un’altra. Così fu detto ma		Usko on toinen asia. Niin sanottiin, mutta			

    ellauri196.html on line 857:     Man’s life is short and the life of the world can be almost infinitely long. Well not quite but very very long in comparison. Human life on earth nears its end like my boring speech.

    ellauri197.html on line 77: ‘Down By the Salley Gardens’ by William Butler Yeats is a simple poem that describes a speaker’s past relationship and how it failed.

    ellauri197.html on line 78: The two stanzas of the poem are quite similar in form. Yeats repeats parts of the same lines twice in order to maintain the song-like qualities of the first three lines that he could remember. The speaker’s relationship failed because, despite his love’s urgings, he did not take life or love easy. Perhaps he rushed into things too quickly or made decisions that she didn’t approve of. Either way, it ended in tears. 

    ellauri197.html on line 82: Yeats engages with several important themes in ‘Down By the Salley Gardens’ such as memory and love/relationships. There is also a great deal of regret underneath these primary themes. The speaker spends the poem looking back at a failed relationship, one that he surely regrets and would like to go back and change. He knows exactly what he did wrong, in fact, his love warned him about it several times and he didn’t listen. This is likely part of what makes the loss so painful, even though a great deal of time has passed. 

    ellauri197.html on line 86: ‘Down By the Salley Gardens’ by William Butler Yeats is a two stanza ballad. Unlike many ballads, this one does not maintain its metrical pattern all the way through. The majority of the lines are written in iambic trimeter. This means that they contain three sets of two beats, the first of which is unstressed and the second stressed. Line two of the first stanza is a great example. 

    ellauri197.html on line 92: Yeats makes use of several literary devices in ‘Down By the Salley Gardens’. These include but are not limited to anaphora, epistrophe, and alliteration. The first of these, anaphora, is seen through the use and reuse of words at the beginning of multiple lines of text. For instance, “She” in stanzas one and two. Epistrophe is the opposite of anaphora. It is concerned with the repetition of phrases at the ends of lines. For instance, “salley gardens” at the ends of lines one and three of the first stanza and “young and foolish” at the end of line seven in the first stanza and line seven in the second stanza. 

    ellauri197.html on line 98: In the first stanza of ‘Down By the Salley Gardens,’ the poet begins by making use of the line that later came to be used as the title of the poem. He describes how there was a place, in the “sally gardens,” where he used to meet his love. The word “salley” may refer to an actual location, perhaps on the banks of the river near Sligo, or it might refer to “sallow,” a kind of tree.

    ellauri197.html on line 102: He describes in the next lines how his love used to pass the “salley gardens / with little snow-white feet”. This is a great use of imagery that depicts his love as someone young, beautiful, and with the addition of “white,” pure feet. He describes the big mistake he made in regard to his life with his young woman. She told him to “take love easy” but he wasn’t able to do so. He rushed into this relationship and wasn’t as steady as he could’ve been. The man was “young and foolish” and now in his older age, he’s able to look back on his life and realize his mistakes. 

    ellauri197.html on line 106: The second stanza is very similar to the first. There are several examples of repetition. The speaker begins by describing himself standing with his love “In a field by the river” rather than in the “salley garden”. Either way, the setting is natural and likely beautiful. The scene is made even more pleasing by the fact that he was with someone he loved and she was touching his shoulder with her “snow-white hand”. Here, readers should notice the repetition of “snow-white”. This time rather than describing her feet he’s thinking about her hand. He remembers how she asked him at that moment to “take life easy”. This is almost exactly the same as in the first stanza. But, now it’s revealed that the speaker’s inability to take it “easy” stretches to his life beyond his relationship with this woman. 

    ellauri197.html on line 108: In the final lines of the poem, the speaker reveals that even in his old age he’s “full of tears”. Things did not go as he wanted them to. The transition into the present tense informs the reader that the impact of this failed relationship (which he knows failed because of him) is long-lasting. 

    ellauri197.html on line 112: Readers who enjoyed ‘Down By the Salley Gardens’ should also consider readings some of Yeats’ other love-based poems. For instance, a good way to go on are ‘He Wishes His Beloved Were Dead’ and ‘Never Give All the Heart’. Other similar poems by other poets about love include ‘How Happy I Was If I Could Forget’ by Emily Dickinson and ‘Love’s Organ's Growth’ by John Donne. Lady readers might also be interested in ‘Memory’ by Christina Rossetti and ‘In Memory of a Happy Day in February’ by Anne Brontë.

    ellauri197.html on line 257: For everything that’s lovely is			että kaikki ihqu ihana on väliaikaista,

    ellauri197.html on line 291: ‘How Happy I Was If I Could Forget’ by Emily Dickinson contains a narrator’s confused thoughts and experiences. She uses complex transformational generative grammar and imagery to convey it further.

    ellauri197.html on line 293: ‘How Happy I Was If I Could Forget’ is a two-stanza work where the narrator takes the reader through a series of confusing verb tenses and language choices to represent the overall lack of clarity she has for the memory that she wishes she “could forget.” The cyclical state of the stanzas’ disorganization, additionally, reflects that the narrator feels trapped in her confused loop from the memory, and the reader could finish ‘How Happy I Was If I Could Forget’ without knowing what the troubling memory is. This is yet another method of revealing the narrator’s confusion over the memory. Just as she does not know how to treat the memory, the reader does not know solid details about the memory. From start to finish then, this is a work that is structured perfectly to share and represent the narrator’s confusion.

    ellauri197.html on line 295:     The shift in verb tenses is remarkable in this first stanza to address the narrator’s unclear thoughts that are connected to whatever memory she wishes to “forget.” Within the first two lines of ‘How Happy I Was If I Could Forget’, the reader encounters past tense in “was” and the subjunctive imagined prospect of “if I could forget.” This “if” indicates that this is only a wish the narrator has, meaning it is not past, present, or future because it has not happened and will not definitively ever happen. From there, the narrator turns to the present tense by saying, “how sad I am.” There is no clear way that all of these verb tenses senspibly link up, and this grammatic confusion mirrors how uncertain and shaken the narrator is from this memory’s lingering presence.

    ellauri197.html on line 301:     In fact, the reader might assume the thing is the memory, but the fourth line reveals that this cannot be the case. The “recollect[ion]” is addressed as a reason why the “adversity” is not “easy,” and the two cannot be the same thing. It appears then that this is a general sentiment, that the situation that created the memory would be something to “eas[ily]” push past if she could keep from “recollecting” it, but the lack of subject requires additional time to come to this conclusion, thus – again – mirroring the narrator’s uncertainty.

    ellauri197.html on line 315: Furthermore in ‘How Happy I Was If I Could Forget’, she claims to “[l]ose [her] way like a little Child [a]nd perish of the cold,” and this concept is loaded with possible meaning. For one thing, the capitalization of the word, “Child,” could indicate that perhaps she has lost a baby and is grieving that “Child.” This would clarify why she would treat the memory simultaneously as a pain and a beauty since she would treasure the “Child” itself, but abhor the pain attached to the grief. This, however, is the only speculation since it could mean that the helplessness she feels is significant enough, like a “Child” who needs care, to merit capitalization.

    ellauri197.html on line 319: It is also noteworthy that she speaks of “perish[ing] of the cold,” not “in the cold.” This treats “the cold,” or the devastation from the memory, like a disease rather than a weather detail, which furthers the paradox of how the situation remembered is treated. In the first stanza, it “Bloom[s].” Here, it has essentially become a disease. This again mirrors the uncertainty and lack of clarity within the narrator’s thoughts regarding the situation.

    ellauri197.html on line 321: Overall in ‘How Happy I Was If I Could Forget’, the lack of clear details about what has happened to affect the narrator so, in addition to the confusion of verb tenses, subjects, and figurative language, creates an unclear work that perfectly depicts how unclear the narrator herself feels about her memory. Does she hate it? Does she want to keep it? Was it good? Was it bad? She does not seem to know, just as the reader cannot know the memory’s most vivid details.

    ellauri197.html on line 333: 
    Love’s Organ's Growth by John Donne
    

    ellauri197.html on line 335: The poem, ‘Love’s Organ's Growth’, is an admirable lyric in which Donne examines the true nature of love and finds that it is mixed stuff, a mixture of both physical and spiritual elements. True love is both of the body and the mind, and to prove his point Donne gives a number of arguments and brings together a number of most disparate and varied elements.

    ellauri197.html on line 337: In ‘Love’s Organ's Growth’, the poet says that love is not a quintessence or pure and simple stuff despite its sustaining and life-giving properties. Rather, it is mixed stuff, a mixture of different elements, both spiritual and physical. That is why it affects both the body and the soul; it causes both spiritual and physical arousal. It does cure not because it is the quintessence, but on the homeopathic principle, of “like curing the like”. It cures all sorrow only by giving more of it. Love is neither infinite nor “pure stuff”, but has a mixed nature like grass which grows with spring.

    ellauri197.html on line 350: My love was infinite, if spring make’ it more.		Rakkauteni olevan ääretön, kun se kasvaa keväällä.	

    ellauri197.html on line 356: Love’s not so pure, and abstract, as they use		Rakkaus ei ole alkuaine, kuten sanoo ne

    ellauri197.html on line 366: From love’s awakened root do bud out now.		Puhkeavat esiin sen heräävästä juuresta.		

    ellauri197.html on line 375: No winter shall abate the spring’s increase. 		Ei mikään talvi laimenna kevään kasvua.

    ellauri197.html on line 379: 
    Love’s Organ's Growth Analysis, Stanza One
    

    ellauri197.html on line 381: In the first stanza of ‘Love’s Organ's Growth’, the poet says that he does no longer believe his love to be so pure (simple and unmixed, hence not subject to change), and mixed, as he had earlier supposed it to be, because now he discovers that his love is subject to seasonal fluctuations and changes like the grass. Throughout the winter, the poet lied when he swore that his love was infinite, because what is infinite cannot grow and increase. Now he finds that his love has increased in vigor with the spring. Spring has made some additions to it.

    ellauri197.html on line 385: In the second stanza of ‘Love’s Organ's Growth’, this love is like a medicine that cures sorrow (on the homeopathic principle) by giving the patient more sorrow. Love is not a pure and unmixed essence that has sustaining and curative powers. It is rather a compound, mixed stuff, made up of different elements or experiences, and hence it causes pain and suffering both to the soul and the senses.

    ellauri197.html on line 387: When the poet says: “not only be no quintessence”, he means to refer to the medieval belief of Quintessence, which was regarded as “the pure essence of anything”, containing within itself all the creative and sustaining virtues. It was ‘pure’ and ‘simple’ and not a mixture or compound of a number of different elements or ingredients. It was supposed to have the power of sustaining, nourishing, and strengthening.

    ellauri197.html on line 395: The poet here in ‘Love’s Organ's Growth’ says his love is not made larger by the spring, but more prominent, as in heaven, stars are not enlarged but revealed by the sun (the poet may mean here that as we would not be able to see the stars were not for the light which they reflect from the sun so we would not know of the existence of love, which is not for the bodily consequences of the union of souls.

    ellauri197.html on line 397: Gentle love deeds, like blossom on a bough, bud out in spring from love’s awakened root. The poet means that just as blossoms burst out of the branches of trees in spring, gentle acts of love burst out from love, now reawakened with renewed vigor and energy. Every spring, thus, means a revival of sexual vigor, just as it also means a renewal of life and vitality in Nature.

    ellauri197.html on line 401: Through this extract of ‘Love’s Organ´s Growth’, the poet, John Donne, says that if love takes such additions (gentle love deeds), as more circles are produced by one stirred in water, those, like so many spheres, make only one heaven, for they are all centered in her. When the poet says: Spheres, he refers to the Ptolemaic astronomy, the spheres were a series of concentric hollow globes which revolved around the earth and carried the heavenly bodies with them. There were supposed to be nine such hollow globes and together they made up what we call the ‘heaven’.

    ellauri197.html on line 403: Here the term ‘concentrique’ means one circle within the other, or circles or globes with a common center. Here this common center is earth. Hence the spheres were supposed to be concentric or centered upon the earth. The first four lines of this extract can also be analyzed like: just as when water is stirred additional circles are produced by the original one, then these new additions will only constitute one heaven, like the spheres in the Ptolemaic astronomy form only one heaven; and that is because all these additions will be centered on you, just as in that system the spheres are all centered on the earth.

    ellauri197.html on line 405: And though each spring adds new vigor to love, as princes levy new taxes in times of war, and do not remit them even during peace, no winter shall reduce the spring’s increase. “Thus love is not like grass, but more like heaven; rather, it combines both realms and is constant in change.”

    ellauri197.html on line 406: When the poet says: “No winter shall abate the spring’s increase”, he means that the increase made in love in spring is not reduced in winter. It goes on increasing from spring to spring. So, love is both like and unlike the vegetable world. Like the vegetable world, it is subject to seasonal changes, but unlike the vegetable world, its strength and vitality is not reduced with the winter.

    ellauri197.html on line 557:   McDonald’s lämnade Ryssland – Andrej förlorade jobbet. Efter att Ryssland anföll Ukraina har en stor del av de globala storföretagen lämnat landet. Hur djup den ekonomiska recessionen blir är ännu för tidigt att säga. Experterna tror att situationen kan bli lika svår som på 1990-talet när Vilperin Perikunta välkomnade Andrej hos oss sist.

    ellauri197.html on line 657:     O let me look back, e’er I leave for ever 
    

    ellauri197.html on line 681: As tho’ nought else existed: we alone. 
    

    ellauri197.html on line 684: 1Bonne question. Ce début sans prétention, ce remuement des passions qui va d’abord en accroissant et puis s’appaise par degrés, ces élans de l’âme, ce retour soudain sur soi-même. Cette idée que je ne saisis pas parfaitement lui est peut-être aussi peu intelligible qu’à moi. PAULINE. 
              

    ellauri198.html on line 121: "Warren’s preoccupation with time and how the passage of years affects memory reveals itself in his extensive use of flashbacks." No näitä takautumia piisaa Pizzalattella ihan häiriöxi saakka.

    ellauri198.html on line 125:   Warren kuului agraarikkojen ryhmään, jota johti John Crowe Ransom.  Warren began as an enlightened conservative Southerner. Siis kumpana? Valistuxen vaiko taantumuxen peikkona? Agrarians, with Ransom in the lead, were determined to re-endow nature with an element of horror and inscrutability and to bring back a God who permitted evil as well as good—in short, to give God back his thunder.” His main question was ‘How is one to look at life?’ Taas 1 tollanen yearning-man, wannabe uskovainen joka kaipaa jämäkämpää jumalaa joka jakaa merkityxiä kuin hihamerkkejä.

    ellauri198.html on line 136:   Warren’s poetry is written “in a genuinely expansive, passionate style. Look at its prose ease and rapidity oddly qualified by log-piling compounds, alliteration, successive stresses, and an occasional inversion something rough and serviceable as a horse-blanket yet fancy to—and you wonder how he ever came up with it. It is excitingly massive and moulded and full of momentum. Echoes of Yeats and Auden still persist, but it is wonderfully peculiar, homemade.” His language is robust and rhetorical. He likes his adjectives and nouns to go in pairs, reinforcing one another.

    ellauri198.html on line 138: About all of Warren’s work there is a gusto and masculine force, a willingness to risk bathos and absurdity, reminiscent of Shakespeare.

    ellauri198.html on line 142:   "In the whiplash of Warren’s long line, the most ordinary syntax becomes tense, muscular, searching,” comments a certain Williamson. Olikohan nääkin jäbät homoja? “His ear is formidable, though given to strong effects rather than graceful ones.” Ei tarvi korvatorvea.

    ellauri198.html on line 144:     Not all reviewers agree that Warren’s work deserves such unqualified praise. Though Warren tackles unquestionably important themes, his treatment of those themes borders on the bombastic. Warren becomes ridiculous on occasion, whenever we lapse from total conviction. His philosophical musings are “sometimes truly awkward and sometimes pseudo-profound.” Warren thus joins a central American tradition of speakers—Emerson, Thoreau, Henry Adams, Norman Mailer—who are not only the salesmen but the advertisers of their own snake oil.”

    ellauri198.html on line 179:   In an idyllic moment that restages their initial meeting in 1980, Hays sticks his head into Amelia’s classroom to hear her read a bit of Delmore Schwartz’s poem “Calmly We Walk through This April’s Day.”

    ellauri198.html on line 182: Calmly We Walk through This April’s Day

    ellauri198.html on line 186:   Calmly we walk through this April’s day,   

    ellauri198.html on line 234: Let’s take time this Memorial Day weekend to remember Memorial Day 1937, when workers in Chicago were massacred by police for trying to picket against their employer, the Republic Steel Company.

    ellauri198.html on line 245: In 1934, strikers in Toledo, San Francisco and Minneapolis had all stood up to the police and National Guard from the start, done battle in the streets, and come out victorious. In 1936 and 1937, strikers at General Motor’s Flint, Michigan factories did the same, taking over plants and beating back police attacks. When workers were united and prepared to fight against the forces of their class enemies, they won!

    ellauri198.html on line 260:   Esim Roland was the name of a real-life medieval military leader under Charlemagne who, more importantly, was the subject of the oldest surviving major work of French literature: an epic poem titled The Song of Roland. Roland was a loyal and trusting knight who was told to bring up the rear guard and burst his own temples open while sounding a horn too vigorously. What a way to go! In 1855, Robert Browning made the warrior the subject of his poem “Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came,” which leads us back to Stephen King, of all the U.S. turds. It’s a bit incongruous to think of Dorff’s Roland West—an uncouth man who refers to “Saigon trim” and is eager to start a fight.

    ellauri198.html on line 269: Carmen Ejogo’s Amelia Reardon is an English teacher (and, later, a renowned author) which gives True Detective an excuse to drop some lovely poetic voice-over to the first episode, when she reads out two Robert Penn Warren poems. The first is titled “Tell Me a Story” (already read).

    ellauri198.html on line 292: This poem is dedicated to the famous naturalist John James Audubon (as in Audubon society), and describes that man’s real-life practice of killing the birds he famously drew. He would use “fine shot” so as not to mutilate them, in order to deliver the best approximation of what they looked like in life. Warren doesn’t necessarily pass judgment on Audubon in this poem, but we might. All this cold, calculated murder in pursuit of “knowledge,” a.k.a. Audubon’s well-read work and much-regarded art; does it feel worth it?

    ellauri198.html on line 809: There midnight’s all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow,			Yöllä kaikki pimenee, päivin nään mä punaista,	

    ellauri198.html on line 810: And evening full of the linnet’s wings.					Ja ilta täynnä hempon siipiä.			

    ellauri198.html on line 815: I hear it in the deep heart’s core.					Tekee sydämestä mieli mökille.			

    ellauri198.html on line 826: Gonne shared Yeats’s interest in occultism and spiritualism. Yeats had been a theosophist, but in 1890 he turned from its sweeping mystical insights and joined the Golden Dawn, a secret society that actually practiced ritual magic. Yeats remained an active member of the Golden Dawn for 32 years, becoming involved in its direction at the turn of the century and achieving the coveted sixth grade of membership in 1914, the same year that his surrogate wife, Georgiana Hyde-Lees, also joined the society.

    ellauri198.html on line 828: Yeats kept his sixth-grader occultist badge away from his poems, which  are simple enough to be understood by sixth-graders, unlike Blake and Shelley, but like his rhyming predecessor Keats. Even so, Yeats’s visionary and idealist interests were more closely aligned with those of Blake and Shelley than with those of Keats, and in the 1899 collection The Wind among the Reeds the  occult symbolism rears its ugly head in several poems.

    ellauri198.html on line 829: He befriended English  decadent poet Lionel Johnson, and in 1890 they helped found the Rhymers’ Club, a group of London poets who met to read and discuss their indecent poems.

    ellauri198.html on line 831:   His several boring plays featured fictional heroic ancient Irish warrior Cuchulain. A later poem concludes with a brash announcement: “There’s more enterprise in walking naked.” This indecent departure from a conventional 19th-century manner disappointed his contemporary readers, who preferred the pleasant musicality of such familiar poems as “The Lake Isle of Innisfree,” which he wrote in 1890. "I think all happiness depends on the energy to assume the mask of some other person, on strutting as somebody else but yourself", he said. Yeats and his lamentable wife held more than 400 sessions of automatic writing, producing nearly 4,000 pages that Yeats avidly and patiently studied and organized. What an idiot.

    ellauri198.html on line 848: Another important element of poems in both these collections and other volumes is Yeats’s keen awareness of old age. Even his romantic poems from the late 1890s often mention gray hair and weariness, though those poems were written while he was still a young man. But when Yeats was nearly 60, his health began to fail and he was faced with real, rather than imaginary, “bodily decrepitude” (a phrase from “After Long Silence”) and nearness to death. Despite the author’s often keen awareness of his physical decline, the last 15 years of his life were marked by extraordinary vitality and an appetite for life, including young boys and girls.

    ellauri198.html on line 851: As Yeats aged, he saw Ireland change in ways that angered him. The Anglo-Irish Protestant minority no longer controlled Irish society and culture. According to Yeats’s unblushingly antidemocratic view, the greatness of Anglo-Irishmen such as Jonathan Swift, philosopher George Berkeley, and statesman Edmund Burke, contrasted sharply with the undistinguished commonness of contemporary Irish society, which seemed preoccupied with the interests of merchants and bloody peasants. He laid out his unpopular opinions in late plays such as Purgatory (1938) and the essays of On the Boiler (1939).

    ellauri198.html on line 855: Yeats deplored the tremendous enthusiasm among younger poets for Eliot’s The Waste Land, published in 1922. Disdaining Eliot’s flat rhythms and cold, dry mood, Yeats wanted all art to be full of energy and sex.

    ellauri198.html on line 856:   Poetic ingredients of the sort Yeats described in “The Dark Tower”: “Poet’s imaginings / And memories of love, / Memories of young men and women, / All those things whereof / Man makes a superhuman / Mirror-resembling dream.”

    ellauri198.html on line 864: William Butler Yeats published his poem ‘The Lake Isle of Innisfree’ in December of 1890, an important year in his life due to his increased association with occult societies in London, United Kingdom. In ‘The Lake Isle of Innisfree,’ William Butler Yeats’ narrator asserts his desire to leave the “pavement gray” of his current locale and dwell on the mysterious island of Innisfree, with only bees, crickets, and linnets for a company (and, alas, mosquitoes).

    ellauri198.html on line 868:   Critics of the poem have highlighted several important aspects of ‘The Lake Isle of Innisfree,’ including the spiritual journey undertaken by William Butler Yeats (Hunter); the island as an escape from sexuality (Merritt); and the island as a place of wisdom or foolishness, depending on varying historical perspectives on beans (Normandin). To these critics, it seems that an island is a place of refuge from a dangerous outside world — supposedly London specifically, although Merritt might broaden this interpretation to include all sexual encounters. While these critics acknowledge that an island is a place of escape, citing what William Butler Yeats himself has said about the Irish island Sligo, they fall short of recognising the full implications of his fascination with the occult.

    ellauri198.html on line 876:   I assert that the symbols which William Butler Yeats includes on the island — specifically the nine bean-rows — are meant to be examined in the light of the Kabbalism, numerology, and tarot cards to which these societies looked for inspiration in their occult practices. Through his inclusion of these symbols, William Butler Yeats is demonstrating mastery over the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn’s basic tenants (sic), a mastery which he perhaps hoped would help him advance in rank in the society to seventh grade and further his studies of magic.

    ellauri203.html on line 111: Literary critic V. Belinsky was one of the leaders of the westernist movement. He was a convinced atheist. In his understanding, Russia’s transformation would be impossible without eliminating Christianity.

    ellauri203.html on line 113: 	Belinsky preached his socialist-atheist way with such passion that Dostoevsky couldn’t resist. Accepting the socialist teachings of Belinsky, Dostoevsky saw his Christian convictions being shattered. He describes this time as the time of “losing Christ”. “We were infected with the ideas of theoretical socialism of those days!” – Dostoevsky would recall. For his involvement in the antigovernment movement, Dostoevsky was sentenced to capital punishment, which was later replaced with four years of penal labor (Rus. katorga).

    ellauri203.html on line 115: 	In penal servitude, Dostoevsky went through something that he calls “the regeneration of his convictions”. What could have taken place to change his convictions so completely? Dostoevsky himself answers this question by saying, “I accepted Christ in my life, whom I got to know as a child in my parent’s house and whom I have almost lost, when I in turn became a European liberal.” Putinistit paukuttavat karvaisia käsiään. Keskeytymättömiä aplodeja seisaaltaan.

    ellauri203.html on line 117: 	Dostoevsky began to understand clearly that Russian society’s greatest problem was not socialism as such but  its departure from God. Thus the problem lay not in the social but in the spiritual realm. Socialism was a result of the people’s spiritual condition.

    ellauri203.html on line 119: 	Another problem, which could make matters worse, was the intrusion of the socialist (atheist) teaching mentioned above. From his own experience, Dostoevsky knew the danger and destructiveness of this socialist way, offered by many as the way to reform society. In his letter to M. Pogodin, Dostoevsky writes that ‘socialism and Christianity are antonyms’. Christianity and private enterprise are synonyms. The danger of this way, in Dostoevsky’s opinion, was its negation of God and establishment of a new atheistic society.

    ellauri203.html on line 135: 	Fyodor Michailovich had such type of personality that everyone enjoyed. He was robbed unmercifully, though due to his kindness and trust, but he wouldn’t want to get into details or rebuke servants that used his carelessness. Fyodor Mikhailovich was a man of limitless kindness. Dostoevsky was especially interested in children and paid attention to cases of child abuse that he heard about. He followed closely the trials of parents accused of child abuse.

    ellauri203.html on line 137: Towards the end of his life Dostoevsky became a spiritual leader for many people. Dostoevsky lived so sacrificially because his convictions were deeply wounded by Christ’s suffering and resurrection.

    ellauri203.html on line 139: 	One of Dostoevsky’s early memories is a daily prayer with his nanny before going to bed with her, when he was thirteen years of age. “I put all my eggs in Thine basket, Mother of God, keep them in Thy care”. This prayer Dostoevsky loved so much that it became part of the prayers which he read to  children at bed time. Also from his early years Dostoevsky listened to Bible stories. Remembering those years, Fyodor Mikhailovich wrote in 1873, “In our family we knew the Gospel almost from earliest childhood.”

    ellauri203.html on line 152: It’s not surprising that the two authors did not like each other. From his youth Turgenev, a wealthy nobleman, made fun of his lugubrious colleague. In a mocking poem he described Dostoyevsky as a "pimple on the nose of literature." Dostoyevsky didn´t conceal his reciprocal hostility and was indignant that, with all his wealth, Turgenev´s royalties for his publications were four times as high as he was paid.

    ellauri203.html on line 204: Le mariage de Maximilien et de Marie est célébré dans la chapelle du palais d’Hiver, à Saint-Pétersbourg, le 2 juillet 1839. Il donne lieu à 15 jours de festivités mais soulève la désapprobation des Moscovites, qui sont choqués de voir l’une de leurs princesses s’unir à un prince français, dont le père a participé à la prise de leur ville en 1812. Immédiatement après les épousailles, le duc de Leuchtenberg reçoit du tsar Nicolas Ier le prédicat d'altesse impériale et le titre de prince Romanovsky. Il est nommé major général de l'armée russe et colonel en chef du régiment de hussards de Kiev. Il reçoit par ailleurs une rente annuelle de 100 000 roubles. De son côté, le tsar confère à Marie une rente de 700 000 roubles ainsi qu'une somme de 2 millions payable en bons du trésor à 4%. Afin de loger le couple, l'empereur s'engage finalement à construire et à meubler à ses frais un palais meublé à Saint-Pétersbourg et un autre situé dans les environs de la capitale.

    ellauri203.html on line 215: Fyodor Dostoevsky´s novels mirrored his life: complicated, tense and full of psychological unrest. He was as dedicated to the women that accompanied him on this difficult journey as he was to the novels that he felt compelled to write. Lets explore the great writer’s relationships with his three key hens, Isajeva, Suslova and Snitkina. (There were more, but they were not key.)

    ellauri203.html on line 227: Suslova’s impact on Dostoevsky can be felt through all of his novels. We can glimpse her traits in the sacrificial Dunya (Crime and Punishment – 1866), the desperate and passionate Nastassya Filippovna (The Idiot – 1869), the proud and nervous Liza (Demons – 1872). What is more, Polina, the protagonist in The Gambler, was undoubtedly based on Suslova.

    ellauri203.html on line 229: Anna Snitkina, who was 25 years Dostoevsky’s junior, was his stenographer during his work on The Gambler. The process of completing the novel engrossed both of them so much that they could not imagine life without each other, marrying in 1867. This particular novel was where Dostoevsky’s three great loves intersected: Appolinaria Suslova formed the basis for its protagonist, it was written as his first wife, Maria Isaeva, passed away, and stenographed by his future wife, Anna Snitkina.

    ellauri203.html on line 231: To begin with, Dostoevsky only saw practicality in his marriage to Snitkina: he was in need of stability and confidence in the future. As a result, the union began down to head along the same route as his previous relationships. However, the couple’s extended “honeymoon” abroad, which ended up lasting four years, allowed them to escape Russia’s oppressive atmosphere and try to build a family. It began well: Sonya, a little girl, was born a year after their marriage. Tragedy soon struck, however, when Sonya passed away. The pair went on to have three more children, one of whom also died. They were married for 14 years until Dostoevsky’s death, in which time Snitkina experienced a great deal of anguish brought on by Dostoevsky’s difficult character and lifestyle, namely his jealousy and gambling addiction. However, she remained stoically committed to him and did not remarry after his death, when she was just 35.

    ellauri203.html on line 233: Anna Snitkina did not attempt to change Dostoevsky, accepting him warts and all, which made this marriage the happiest and most harmonious in the writer’s turbulent life. That´s the only working way to survive a hopeless narcissist.

    ellauri203.html on line 332: And those who expected signs and archangels’ trumps		Ne jotka odottivat arkkienkeleitä trumpetoimaan

    ellauri203.html on line 340: Yet is not a prophet, for he’s much too busy,			Vaikken ollut kun oli kiireitä olla antikommunisti,

    ellauri204.html on line 333: 	The most well-known mythopoetic text is Bly’s Iron John: A Book About Men which was published in 1990. Bly suggests that masculine energy has been diluted through modern social institutions, industrialisation, and the resulting separation of fathers from family life. He introduced the ‘wild man’ and urged men to recover a pre-industrial conception of masculinity through brotherhood with other men. The purpose was to foster a greater understanding of the forces influencing the roles of men in modern society and how these changes affect behaviour, self-awareness and identity.

    ellauri204.html on line 335: 	It is also important to note the publishing in the same year of Hiki Pinkola Estés’ mythopoetic classic, Women that Run with the Wolves, in which she tells us of the ‘wild woman’, the wise and ageless presence in the feminine psyche that gives women their creativity, energy and power. Clarissa Pinkola Estés on yhdysvaltalainen kirjailija ja jungilainen psykoanalyytikko. Hänen kirjoittamansa kirja Naiset, jotka kulkevat susien kanssa oli 144 viikkoa New York Timesin myydyimpien kirjojen listalla, mikä teki hänestä ensimmäisen listalle päässeen märkäselän naiskirjailijan.

    ellauri204.html on line 340: In The Odyssey, Odysseus and his crew land on Aeaea, and a team of scouts discover the palace of Circe, a witch goddess.  Circe invites Odysseus’s men inside for a drink and then magically turns them into pigs.  One man escapes to tell Odysseus about their comrades’ fate and Circe’s trickery.  Odysseus bravely hopes to rescue his men from Circe’s enchantment; on the way to her house, Odysseus receives help from Hermes, who offers him a plan and equips him with moly, a magical herb that will protect him from Circe’s witchcraft.  The plan works: the moly counters Circe’s magic, she swoons for Odysseus and transforms his crew from pigs back into men.  Odysseus and Circe then make love.  For a year.  Finally, some of Odysseus’s crew shake him from the madness of his long Circean interlude and compel him to resume the journey home to Ithaca.

    ellauri204.html on line 342: “So saying, Argeiphontes gave me the herb, drawing it from the ground, and showed me its nature. At the root it was black, but its flower was like milk. [305] Moly the gods call it, and it is hard for mortal men to dig; but with the gods all things are possible. Hermes then departed to high Olympus through the wooded isle, and I went my way to the house of Circe, and many things did my heart darkly ponder as I went. [310] So I stood at the gates of the fair-tressed goddess. There I stood and called, and the goddess heard my voice. Straightway then she came forth, and opened the bright doors, and bade me in; and I went with her, my heart sore troubled. She brought me in and made me sit on a silver-studded chair, [315] a beautiful chair, richly wrought, and beneath was a foot-stool for the feet. And she prepared me a potion in a golden cup, that I might drink, and put therein a drug, with evil purpose in her heart. But when she had given it me, and I had drunk it off, yet was not bewitched, she smote me with her wand, and spoke, and addressed me: [320] ‘Begone now to the sty, and lie with the rest of thy comrades.’ “So she spoke, but I, drawing my sharp sword from between my thighs, rushed upon Circe, as though I would slay her. But she, with a loud cry, ran beneath, and clasped my knees, and with wailing she spoke to me winged words: [325] “‘Who art thou among men, and from whence? Where is thy city, and where thy parents? Amazement holds me that thou hast drunk this charm and wast in no wise bewitched. For no man else soever hath withstood this charm, when once he has drunk it, and it has passed the barrier of his teeth. Nay, but the mind in thy breast is one not to be beguiled. [330] Surely thou art Odysseus, the man of ready device, who Argeiphontes of the golden wand ever said to me would come hither on his way home from Troy with his swift, black ship. Nay, come, put up thy sword in this here sheath, and let us two then go up into my bed, that couched together [335] in love we may put trust in each other.’ “So she spoke, but I answered her, and said:‘Circe, how canst thou bid me be gentle to thee, who hast turned my comrades into swine in thy halls, and now keepest me here, and with guileful purpose biddest me [340] go to thy chamber, and go up into thy bed, that when thou hast me stripped thou mayest render me a weakling and unmanned? Nay, verily, it is not I that shall be fain to go up into thy bed, unless thou, goddess, wilt consent to swear a mighty oath that thou wilt not plot against me any fresh mischief to my hurt.’

    ellauri204.html on line 344: 	If you thought that a visit to the brothel district was going to be fun and sexy, the “Circe” episode’s opening stage directions quickly dispel you of that notion by establishing the unseemly setting of Joyce’s Nighttown.  The tracks are “skeleton,” the signals warn of “danger,” the houses are “grimy,” the men are “stunted,” and the women “squabble” about price.  Indeed, Encyclopaedia Britannica in 1885 labeled this part of Dublin “the worst slum in Europe”.  Located in east Dublin between Montgomery Street and Tyrone (né Mecklenburgh) Street, Nighttown is an ugly place filled with unsavory people. Moly (ei Molly) yrtti oli luultavasti valkosipuli. Bloomin mielixeen kengittämän hoidon hampaat haisi valkosipulilta. 

    ellauri204.html on line 348: Bly recognised that these men were also distinguished by their unhappiness, which he asserted was caused by this passivity. He aimed to teach these men that simply "flashing the sword" was by no means an act of war, but showed what he called ‘a joyful decisiveness’, a sense of vivid aliveness. It was more like flashing their wieners.

    ellauri204.html on line 351: In the years following Iron John, Bly ran a series of workshops and seminars – including the famed ‘Slugs or Wolves’ – with Marion Woodman, centred on a book they co-authored in 1999 called The Maiden King: The Reunion of Masculine and Feminine.

    ellauri204.html on line 355: 	Academic work has also arisen from the mythopoetic movement, as well as the creation of continuing conferences based on Bly's vision for creative communities, in addition to the ‘Minnesota Men's Conference’ and the ‘Great Mother and New Father Conference’, as well as non-profit organisations like Micheal Meade's Mosaic but yet Multicultural Foundation.

    ellauri204.html on line 358: Such a potential often comes at a time of cultural chaos, and we are focussed on the new wave of the mythopoetic – one which considers gender diversity and inclusivity, soul ecology and a story beyond the ‘hero myth’ to which our culture has become so rigidly affixed. This allows for the ancient and deeper archetypes such as the ecologically-focussed Antihero, Green Man and the Shaman-Trickster to arise, offering a less rigid :D , more nuanced and yet expansive approach to whole humanhood.

    ellauri204.html on line 390:       After recycling these hundreds of elements from elsewhere in Ulysses as he composed “Circe,” Joyce expanded his understanding of this novel’s potential as “a kind of encyclopedia” (Selected Letters 271).  He began revising the rest of the book accordingly, arranging little snippets of interrelated detail throughout the previous episodes into an intricate network of minor motifs that accumulate and aggregate in the careful reader’s awareness.  “Circe” serves as an absurd but cathartic outpouring of Ulysses thus far.  Having gotten all that out of our systems, we are ready for the episodes Joyce called the “Nostos,” the return

    ellauri204.html on line 633: Lord of the Flies is a 1954 novel by Nobel Prize-winning English author William Golding. The book’s premise focuses on a group of British boys stranded on an uninhabited island and their attempt to govern themselves, with disastrous results. Golding wrote his book as a counterpoint to R.M. Ballantyne’s youth novel The Coral Island, and included specific references to it, such as the rescuing naval officer’s description of the children’s pursuit of Ralph as “a jolly good show, like the Coral Island”.

    ellauri204.html on line 721:   Artaud liittyi surrealisteihin, ja hän johti Surrealististen tutkimusten toimistoa (Bureau de recherches surréalistes). Huhtikuussa 1925 ilmestynyt Surrealistisen vallankumouksen (La Révolution surréaliste) kolmas julkaisu on hyvin pitkälle Artaud’n käsialaa. Artaud ei kuitenkaan kannattanut surrealistien käsitystä poliittisesta ja kantaa ottavasta taiteesta, joten tiet erkanivat.

    ellauri204.html on line 723: Yhdessä Roger Vitracin kanssa he perustivat ’patafysiikan perinteitä kantavan Alfred Jarry –teatterin, joka toimi vuosina 1927 – 1929. Yritys kaatui talousvaikeuksiin. Seuraavaksi oli vuorossa Julmuuden teatteri (Le Théâtre de la Cruauté). Nimeksi piti alun perin tulla ”Kasperteatteri”, joka olisi paremmin valaissut mistä Artaud’n teatterikäsityksessä on kyse. 

    ellauri204.html on line 731: Suomessa Jouko Turkkaa ja Jumalan teatteria pidetään Artaud’n oppien soveltajina.  No sen saattoi arvata. Pipopäinen koirantaluttaja Suomen Sysmästä oli toinen totaalinen ääliö. Onnexi se on jo vainaja. Vitun kakanheittäjät.

    ellauri205.html on line 158:  L'Iliade ou le poème de la force de Simone Weil, est paru dans les Cahiers du Sud en juillet 1947. Le vrai héros, le vrai sujet, le centre de l’Iliade, c'est la force. La force qui est maniée par les hommes, la force qui soumet les hommes, la force devant quoi la prepuce des hommes se rétracte.

    ellauri205.html on line 166:     Presque toute l'Iliade se passe loin des bains chauds. Quel dommage. Moi, j'aime les bains chauds. Presque toute la vie humaine s’est toujours passée loin des bains chauds.

    ellauri205.html on line 168:     Ce n'est pas par insensibilité qu’Achille a d'un geste poussé à terre le vieillard collé contre ses genoux comme un escargot thebeen; les paroles de Priam évoquant son propre vieux père a soi  l'ont ému jusqu'aux larmes.

    ellauri205.html on line 170:     À force d’être aveugle, le destin établit une sorte de justice, aveugle elle aussi, qui punit les hommes armés de la peine du talion; l'Iliade l’a formulée longtemps avant l'Évangile, et presque dans les mêmes termes:

    ellauri205.html on line 174:     Ce châtiment d’une rigueur géométrique, qui punit automatiquement l’abus de la force, fut l'objet premier de la méditation chez les Grecs. Il constitue l'âme de l'épopée; sous le nom de Némésis, il est le ressort des tragédies d'Eschyle : les Pythagoriciens, Socrate, Platon, partirent de là pour penser l'homme et l'univers.

    ellauri205.html on line 176: C'est cette notion grecque peut-être qui subsiste, sous le nom de kharma [sic], dans les pays d'Orient imprégnés de bouddhisme; mais l'Occident l'a perdue et n’a plus même dans aucune de ses langues de mot pour l’exprimer; les idées de limite, de mesure, d'équilibre, qui devraient déterminer la conduite de la vie, n'ont plus qu'un emploi servile dans la technique. Nous ne sommes géomètres que devant la matière ! Les Grecs furent d'abord géomètres dans l'apprentissage de la vertu.

    ellauri205.html on line 182:     Il faut, pour respecter la vie en autrui quand on a dû se mutiler soi-même de toute aspiration à vivre, un effort de générosité à briser le cœur. On ne peut supposer aucun des guerriers d'Homère capable d’un tel effort.

    ellauri205.html on line 190:     Les batailles ne se décident pas entre hommes qui calculent, combinent, prennent une résolution et l'exécutent, mais entre hommes dépouillés de ces facultés, transformés, tombés au rang soit de la matière inerte qui n'est que passivité, soit des forces aveugles qui ne sont qu'élan. C’est là le dernier secret de la guerre, et l’Iliade l'exprime par ses comparaisons, où les guerriers apparaissent comme les semblables soit de l'incendie, de l’inondation, du vent, des bêtes féroces, de n'importe quelle cause aveugle de désastre, soit des animaux peureux, des arbres, de l'eau, du sable, de tout ce qui est mû par la violence des forces extérieures.

    ellauri205.html on line 199: Combien il était grand et beau; il avait le visage d’un dieu.
    

    ellauri205.html on line 200: Et à son tour le Dardanien Priam fut admiré d’Achille
    

    ellauri205.html on line 202: Et lorsqu’ils se furent rassasiés de s’être contemplés l’un l'autre…

    ellauri205.html on line 206: C'est par 1à que l'Iliade est une chose unique, par cette amertume qui procède de la tendresse, et qui s'étend sur tous les humains, égale comme la clarté du soleil. Jamais le ton ne cesse d’être imprégné d'amertume, jamais non plus il ne s'abaisse à la plainte.

    ellauri205.html on line 217:     Les Romains méprisaient les étrangers, les ennemis, les vaincus, leurs sujets, leurs esclaves; aussi n’ont-ils eu ni épopées ni tragédies. Ils remplaçaient les tragédies par les jeux de gladiateurs. Les Hébreux voyaient dans le malheur le signe du péché et par suite un motif légitime de mépris; ils regardaient leurs ennemis vaincus comme étant en horreur à Dieu même et condamnés à expier des crimes, ce qui rendait la cruauté permise et même indispensable. Aussi, aucun texte de l'Ancien Testament ne rend-il un son comparable à celui de l'épopée grecque, sinon peut-être certaines parties du poème de Job.

    ellauri205.html on line 221: Mais rien de ce qu'ont produit les peuples d'Europe ne vaut le premier poème connu qui soit apparu chez l’un d'eux. Ils retrouveront peut-être le génie épique quand ils sauront ne rien croire à l'abri du sort, ne jamais admirer la force, ne pas haïr les ennemis et ne pas mépriser les malheureux. Il est douteux que ce soit pour bientôt.

    ellauri206.html on line 63: The concept is often attributed to Russian playwright Anton Chekhov, reputed to have said "Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass." What Chekhov actually said, in a letter to his brother, was "In descriptions of Nature one must seize on small details, grouping them so that when the reader closes his eyes he gets a picture. For instance, you’ll have a moonlit night if you write that on the mill dam a piece of glass from a broken bottle glittered like a bright little star, and that the black shadow of a dog or a wolf rolled past like a ball."

    ellauri206.html on line 86:   The pandemic has  highlighted the failure of the global financial system. Let’s tell it like it is: the global financial system is morally bankrupt. It favours the rich and punishes the poor. Uses them to wipe the floor. 

    ellauri206.html on line 88:   As a result, poorer countries are experiencing their slowest growth in a generation, while middle-income nations are denied debt relief despite surging poverty levels. Most of the world’s poor are women and girls, who are paying a high price in lost healthcare, education and jobs. WTF Gutierres, don't you notice what 4 letter turd you just dropped from your upper sphincter? Grow!? Is this a time for the monkey plague to grow, do you think?  

    ellauri206.html on line 161: Svengijengi ’62 (engl. American Graffiti), vuonna 1973 ensi-iltansa saanut elokuva, joka on George Lucasin ohjaama ja käsin kirjoittama. Se kertoo tarinan yhdys­valtalaisista teineistä heidän kesä­lomansa viimeisenä iltana valmistuttuaan high schoolista. (p.o. kesälomansa viimeisenä iltana heidän valmistuttuaan, vittu kukaan ei enää osaa possesiivisuffixeja, lakkaisivat edes yrittämästä.) Tämäkin leffa on mulle n.h. Mikä olis voinut vähemmän kiinnostaa kuin amer. teinileffa vuonna 1973 jolloin viilasin oza hiessä stalinistisen pankinjohtajan tyttären hilloviivaa ja interreilasin Unkarista etelään pieni sininen pahvimatkalaukku kädessä. Eikös ne typerät  Star Wars rainat olleet samaisen sentimentaalisen lukaasin käsialaa? Juu sama leuaton harmaa pikku mies on kyseessä. Ronny Howard s. 1954 esitti lukaasia s. 1944.  Lukaasin firma on sittemmin myyty Disneyn Waltille. Ylläri. Tirkistely on obsessiivis-kompulsiivista toimintaa. Tästä luvusta tulee mieleen Heli Mätinki 3v aiemmin jossain Turussa, missä mullakin alkoi kalu seistä vastahakoisesti saunassa ja pakenin Petrin lailla uimareissulle vähän äkkiä. Olis pitänyt vaan Petrin lailla ottaa mela kauniiseen käteen ja työntyä käskyn mukaan kaikkeinpyhimpään. Vaikka tuskin oisin pystynyt edes 5 pistoon. Ois takuulla tullut ejaculatio ante portas. Toisaalta toisella kertaa olisi voinut mennä paremmin. Marjan mielestä sukuelimet on hirveä sana. Siinäkin on jotain outoa. Kaikki hahmot toistavat taas Korhosen omia ajatuxia. Marja ei ollut erityisen kaunis mutta auliin panohaluinen.

    ellauri206.html on line 211: Riku ei pysty aikuistumaan edes kirveellä. Siitä on noloa olla eno, se on kuin pukeutuisi porokuvioiseen neuletakkiin. When the Prophet sallallaahu `alayhi wa sallam (may Allah exalt his mention) was asked: “Which sin is the greatest?” He sallallaahu `alayhi wa sallam (may Allah exalt his mention) said: “To set up rivals for Allah, your Creator.” It is said: ‘Thereafter?’ He sallallaahu `alayhi wa sallam (may Allah exalt his mention) answered: “To kill your children for fear of eating with you (i.e. fear of want). It is said: ‘Then, which is next?’ The Prophet sallallaahu `alayhi wa sallam (may Allah exalt his mention) said: “To have sex with your neighbor's wife.”

    ellauri206.html on line 292: Today, I’m going to present you a rather complicated French poem, which speaks of French historical characters and refers to legends from France and the Roman and Greek antiquity.

    ellauri206.html on line 296: Je suis le Ténébreux, – le Veuf, – l’Inconsolé,		I am the Dark One, – the Widower, – the Unconsoled	

    ellauri206.html on line 297: Le Prince d’Aquitaine à la Tour abolie :		The Aquitaine Prince whose Tower is destroyed:		

    ellauri206.html on line 301: Dans la nuit du Tombeau, Toi qui m’as consolé,		In the night of the Tomb, You who comforted me,			     

    ellauri206.html on line 302: Rends-moi le Pausilippe et la mer d’Italie,		Give me back Mount Posillipo and the Italian sea,		     

    ellauri206.html on line 304: Et la treille où le Pampre à la Rose s’allie.		And the treillised vineyard where the grapevine unites with the rose.

    ellauri206.html on line 307: Mon front est rouge encor du baiser de la Reine ;	My forehead is still red from the Queen’s kiss ;

    ellauri206.html on line 308: J’ai rêvé dans la Grotte où nage la sirène…		I dreamt of the Cave where the mermaid swims…	

    ellauri206.html on line 310: Et j’ai deux fois vainqueur traversé l’Achéron :	Twice victorious I crossed Acheron :	       

    ellauri206.html on line 311: Modulant tour à tour sur la lyre d’Orphée		Taking turn to play on Orpheus’ lyre	       

    ellauri206.html on line 312: Les soupirs de la Sainte et les cris de la Fée.		The sighs of the Saint and the Fairy’s screams.

    ellauri206.html on line 314: Learn French with the most famous French poems, such as “Demain, dès l’aube”, “La Cigale et la Fourmi”, “Parfum Exotique” with my Classic French Poetry audiobooks.

    ellauri206.html on line 318:     life of the author’s life (Hugo, La Fontaine, Baudelaire…) 

    ellauri207.html on line 72:   ‘And the crows – they still wing, still wheel, only closer now – closer now – closer to me. These sly corbies are birds of death. They’ve shadowed me all mah life’

    ellauri207.html on line 76: 	Compelling and astonishing in its baroque richness, Nick Cave’s acclaimed first novel is a fantastic journey into a twisted world of Deep Southern Gothic tragedy. Cover illustration by Banksy. Buy.

    ellauri207.html on line 86: In the second book of the Millennium series, The Girl Who Played with Fire, Stieg Larsson’s Lisbeth Salander is devoted to a 1,200 page mathematics text. The book, by one L. C. Parnault, is titled Dimensions in Mathematics, and though Larsson

    ellauri207.html on line 87: informs readers that it was published by Harvard University Press, the book has been impossible to find. Until now. We’re very excited to announce the long-awaited publication of Parnault’s Dimensions in Mathematics.

    ellauri207.html on line 89: Like no work since the Arithmetica of Diophantus two millennia before, L. C. Parnault’s Dimensions in Mathematics presents the fullness of mathematical knowledge attained by man. From Thales to Turing, Pythagoras to Euclid, Archimedes to Newton, the Riemann Hypothesis to Fermat’s Last Theorem, Parnault escorts both serious mathematicians and the non-mathematical mind through the deepest mysteries of mathematics. Along the way he offers the greatest expositions yet of number theory, combinatorial topology, the analytics of complexity, and his own groundbreaking work on spherical astronomy. Dimensions equips even elementary readers with the tools to solve the logical puzzles of the perfect universe that can exist only in the mind of a mathematician.

    ellauri207.html on line 91: “Dr. Parnault’s elegant explications of seemingly every extant mathematical concept or quandary make this text as indispensible as any in our field,” says Fields Medal-winning MIT Professor Gerald Lambeau. “His presentation of combinatorial mathematics left me breathless.”

    ellauri207.html on line 95: In addition to being a milestone for the field, the publication of Dimensions in Mathematics is a true publishing event, a crowning achievement in our centennial year. We’re extremely proud to finally satisfy the millions of Millennium readers who’ve sought out the book, and are deeply humbled by the experience of working with the legendary Dr. Parnault.

    ellauri207.html on line 97: UPDATE: Just April Foolin’. Parnault and his book remain but fiction.

    ellauri210.html on line 67:     « Monsieur Gide n'a pas l'air d'un enfant d'amour, ni d'un éléphant, ni de plusieurs hommes : il a l'air d’un artiste ; et je lui ferai ce seul compliment, au reste désagréable, que sa petite pluralité provient de ce fait qu'il pourrait très aisément être pris pour un cabotin (komeljanttari). Son ossature n'a rien de remarquable ; ses mains sont celles d'un fainéant, très blanches, ma foi ! Dans l'ensemble, c'est une toute petite nature. »

    ellauri210.html on line 89: Jarry a vécu comme il lui plaisait avec ses trois attributs : la bicyclette, le revolver et l’absinthe.

    ellauri210.html on line 90: Dans une petite baraque proche d’une rivière, à côté d’un lit-divan, Rabelais composait l’essentiel de sa bibliothèque.

    ellauri210.html on line 92:     Le 28 mai 1906, Jarry écrit à Rachilde : « (Le Père Ubu) n’a aucune tare ni au foie, ni au cœur, ni aux reins, pas même dans les urines ! Il est épuisé, simplement, et sa chaudière ne va pas éclater mais s’éteindre. Il va s’arrêter tout doucement, comme un moteur fourbu. » Épuisé, malade, harcelé par ses créanciers, Jarry fait des allers et retours Paris-Laval, ou il meurt.

    ellauri210.html on line 127: 	    La ’Pataphysique est une parodie de science qui apparaît dans Gestes et opinions du docteur Faustroll, pataphysicien, livre écrit par Alfred Jarry en 1897-1898. Elle est alors définie comme la « science des solutions imaginaires qui accorde symboliquement aux linéaments les propriétés des objets décrits par leur virtualité ».

    ellauri210.html on line 129: Jarry obtient en 1890 la seconde partie du baccalauréat, mention "Bien". En 1891-1892, il est élève d’Henri Bergson et condisciple de Léon-Paul Fargue et d’Albert Thibaudet au lycée Henri-IV. Il échoue au concours d'entrée à l’École normale supérieure (trois échecs successifs suivis de deux échecs pour la licence ès lettres). 

    ellauri210.html on line 130: Il meurt d'une méningite tuberculeuse  le 1er novembre 1907 à 4 heures et quart du soir, à l’hôpital de la Charité, à Paris. Comme dernière volonté, il demande un cure-dent. 

    ellauri210.html on line 132: Littéralement ’pataphysique (contraction du pseudo-grec τὰ ἐπὶ τὰ μεταφυσικά – tà epì tà metàphusiká – d'après le titre « τὰ μετὰ τὰ φυσικά » – « tà metà tà phusiká » – de l'œuvre la Métaphysique d'Aristote) signifie « ce qui est sur la métaphysique », c’est-à-dire « ce qui est sur ce qui est après la physique » parce que le titre de l'œuvre la Métaphysique signifiait à l'origine « ce qui est (écrit) après (l'œuvre) la Physique ».

    ellauri210.html on line 134: Jarry indique que l’apostrophe précédant le nom sert à « éviter un facile calembour », mais ce peut être un commentaire humoristique dans la tradition de cette philosophie, puisque le terme ’pataphysique est lui-même un calembour (paronyme) de métaphysique. Étant donné que l'apostrophe n'influence ni le sens ni la prononciation de ’Pataphysique, ce terme a pu être créé pour spécifiquement rappeler des calembours divers. Ces calembours comprennent patte à physique, pas ta physique, et pâte à physique.

    ellauri210.html on line 136: Par ailleurs, l'apostrophe est aussi utilisée pour différencier le substantif ’Pataphysique de l'adjectif qui s'y rapporte pataphysique.

    ellauri210.html on line 138: En outre, Jarry fait remonter l’origine de cette science à « Ibicrate le Géomètre » et « Sophrotatos l’Arménien », deux penseurs grecs fictifs.

    ellauri210.html on line 140: Le calendrier pataphysique a été inspiré par Alfred Jarry, écrivain, inventeur de la ’Pataphysique et créateur de héros comme le Père Ubu ou le Docteur Faustroll.

    ellauri210.html on line 142: Le premier calendrier publié par Jarry dans L'Almanach du Père Ubu, illustré (Fasquelle, 1899) s'intitulait alors « calendrier du Père Ubu », mais il montrait déjà une volonté de marquer pataphysiquement chaque jour de l'année. Jarry en fit une deuxième version pour L'Almanach illustré du Père Ubu (Fasquelle, 1901), mais ce n'est que bien après sa mort, survenue en 1907, que le calendrier pataphysique entra en vigueur. Ce fut en 1948 au sein du Collège de ’Pataphysique lequel, dans ses statuts, en fait cette présentation :

    ellauri210.html on line 144: 	  « L’ère ’Pataphysique commence le 8 septembre 1873, qui d’ores en avant prend la dénomination de 1er du mois Absolu An 1 E.P. (Ère ’Pataphysique, et à partir de quoi l’ordre des 13 mois (douze de 28 jours et un de 29) du Calendrier ’Pataphysique est fixé comme suit » :

    ellauri210.html on line 215: Varhaisteokset La Vue (1902) ja Impressions d’Afrique (1910) eivät herättäneet suurtakaan mielenkiintoa. Kirjailija masentui, koska ei saanut vastakaikua lukijoilta. 

    ellauri210.html on line 359: « Je ne comprendrai jamais comment Victor Hugo a pu, quarante ans durant, faire son métier. Toute la littérature, c’est : ta, ta, ta, ta, ta, ta. L’Art, l’Art, ce que je m’en fiche de l’Art ! » — « Oscar Wilde est vivant ! »,

    ellauri210.html on line 361: Arthur Cravan, the Dadaist poet-boxer, was neither a good poet nor a good boxer, but he was a legendary provocateur. Hemingway, Mailer, and Scorsese: much great American art has been inspired by boxing. How bout Irving? No he was a wrestler. Between 1907 and 1909, Saul Bellow created three paintings—Club Night, Stag at Sharkey’s, Both Members of This Club—that captured boxing’s glories and indignities. The sport provided a powerfully visceral metaphor for the American experience of the twentieth century. Amerikan nyrkki on sittemmin kumauttanut päähän useampia kansoja kuin kehtaa muistella.

    ellauri210.html on line 365:     One of them was the Swiss enema Arthur Cravan. Described by one critic as “a world tramp … a traverser of borders and resister of orders,” Cravan traveled the globe in the early 1900s by forging documents and assuming false identities, preening, harassing, and haranguing, as he went. He was hailed by André Breton as a pivotal precursor of Dadaism, and belonged to that category of floating prewar avant-gardists whose legacy resides more in their mode of living than their artistic creations. Indeed, he declared himself anti-art and avowed boxing to be the ultimate creative expression of the modern, American-tinged age. He’s often referred to as a “poet-boxer,” though he wasn’t especially accomplished as either; his real talent appears to have been making a spectacle of himself, in every sense. Publicist rather than a pugilist.

    ellauri210.html on line 367:     Cravan’s real name was Fabian Avenarius Lloyd; he adopted myriad pseudonyms and aliases during his short life. He was born in Switzerland, in 1887, to Irish and British parents with whom he had a tumultuous relationship, though he was immensely proud of his aunt Constancez, who was Oscar Wilde’s wife. In his early teens, Cravan came to regard the familial link to the world’s most disreputable genius as proof that he was destined for a life of fabulous infamy.

    ellauri210.html on line 371:     When Jack Johnson fled racially motivated prosecution in the U.S. in 1913, he arrived in Paris to a hero’s welcome. After he’d beaten Jim Jeffries to become the first black heavyweight champion of the world in 1910, he’d been tarred as a threat to social order back home. A film of the fight had been a hit in France but was banned in America for fear that images of a black man schooling a white man in the ring would cause grave insult and incite sedition.

    ellauri210.html on line 381:     In the summer of 1914, Cravan began another phase of wandering. In 1916, he found himself in Barcelona where he somehow managed to book himself a high-profile fight against Jack Johnson. Johnson was in the midst of a celebrated stay in Spain, during which he was received by royalty and starred in movies. Photographs from the fight give some idea of the scale of the event, which was held at Barcelona’s huge bullfighting arena La Monumental. What the photos don’t convey is what a mismatch the fight was. Even a ring-rusty, thirty-eight-year-old Johnson was leagues ahead of Cravan. Johnson won with a sixth-round knockout, though it could’ve been over much sooner had he wished it. There are reports that Cravan shook with fear before the contest began, knowing how out of his depth he was. One writer has suggested that “Johnson and Cravan were more collaborators than competitors,” and that the event was a con, just a hype-fueled payday for an aging legend and a flamboyant interloper with no credible chance of a win—the Mayweather-McGregor of its day. Olikos tää se mazi josta toinen nyrkkipelle Heminwau kirjoitti siinä sonniromaanissa?

    ellauri210.html on line 383:     The money Cravan earned from the Johnson fight helped him buy his passage out of Europe, and what he thought was safety from the war. In January 1917, he sailed for New York. Dozens of other European artists and intellectuals were making the same journey at the time; one of Cravan’s shipmates was Leon Trotsky, who noted in his diary that he’d met a man who claimed to be related to Oscar Wilde and “who frankly declared that he would rather smash a Yankee’s face in the noble art of boxing than be done in by a German.” Cravan didn’t stay in New York long; just long enough to put several noses metsphorically out of joint. He split his time between sleeping rough in Central Park and hobnobbing with Greenwich Village bohemians. Among them was the poet Mina Loy, with whom Cravan began an intense love affair.

    ellauri210.html on line 385:     New York’s first encounter with modern art had come four years earlier with the seminal Armory Show, at which Duchamp’s Nude Descending a Staircase caused an almighty rumpus. This time, Duchamp presented Fountain, the urinal that changed art history. Having witnessed Cravan’s work back in Paris, Duchamp and Picabia invited Cravan to deliver one of his anti-art lectures at the exhibition. He didn’t disappoint. On the day, he stood half cut in front of his audience, swore at them, waved his cock around, and was promptly arrested.

    ellauri210.html on line 390:     it’s likely that Cravan suffered the mundane and awful fate of drowning in the Pacific Ocean. Ei kolossaalinenkaan mela riittänyt valtamerihädässä.

    ellauri210.html on line 394:     « Monsieur Gide n'a pas l'air d'un enfant d'amour, ni d'un éléphant, ni de plusieurs hommes : il a l'air d’un artiste ; et je lui ferai ce seul compliment, au reste désagréable, que sa petite pluralité provient de ce fait qu'il pourrait très aisément être pris pour un cabotin (komeljanttari). Son ossature n'a rien de remarquable ; ses mains sont celles d'un fainéant, très blanches, ma foi ! Dans l'ensemble, c'est une toute petite nature. »

    ellauri210.html on line 400: « Je ne comprendrai jamais comment Victor Hugo a pu, quarante ans durant, faire son métier. Toute la littérature, c’est : ta, ta, ta, ta, ta, ta. L’Art, l’Art, ce que je m’en fiche de l’Art ! » — « Oscar Wilde est vivant ! »,

    ellauri210.html on line 408: Merenkäynti keinuttaa Atlantin valtamerihöyryjä,	Le rythme de l’océan berce les transatlantiques,		

    ellauri210.html on line 409: Ja ilmaan jossa kaasut tanssivat kuin tupeet,		Et dans l’air où les gaz dansent tels des toupies,		

    ellauri210.html on line 411: Atleettiset matruusit etenee kuin merikarhut,		S’avancent comme des ours, les matelots athlétiques.		

    ellauri210.html on line 412: New York! New York! haluaisin sussa asua!		New York ! New York ! Je voudrais t’habiter !			

    ellauri210.html on line 413: Näen tieteen naimassa					J’y vois la science qui se marie				

    ellauri210.html on line 414: teollisuutta,						À l’industrie,							

    ellauri210.html on line 428: Kuten sähkövalaistuxesta,				Comme de l’installation de l’électricité,		

    ellauri210.html on line 435: Samalla kun uuden vernissan tuore hajuvaikutelma	Tandis que la verte impression de l’odeur du vernis neuf

    ellauri210.html on line 437: Pyörin hullun vihreällä nurmella kuin muna.		Dans le vert fou de l’herbe, je roulais comme un œuf.	

    ellauri210.html on line 439: Et mun paita humallutti mut! Tunsin sun värjyvän	Que ma chemise m’enivrait ! et pour te sentir frémir		

    ellauri210.html on line 440: Kuin hevonen, luonnon sentimenttejä!			À la façon d’un cheval, sentiment de la nature !		

    ellauri210.html on line 441: Et mä oisin halunnut laiduntaa ja juosta!		Que j’eusse voulu brouter ! que j’eusse voulu courir !		

    ellauri210.html on line 442: Kuinka mulla oli hyvä sillalla, musiikin puukkimana;	Et que j’étais bien sur le pont, ballotté par la musique ;	

    ellauri210.html on line 449: Ja siihen asti kun näimme yhdessä			Et jusqu’à ce que nous vîmes ensemble 

    ellauri210.html on line 450: Aamuraizikoiden kulkevan taivaanrannassa,		les tramways du matin courir à l’horizon,

    ellauri210.html on line 454: Me aaltoilimme huoletta 24 kertaa 7!			Nous voguâmes sans accident jusqu’à sept fois vingt-quatre heures !	

    ellauri210.html on line 458: Tuotti mulle 10 höyrylaivaa à 4 kilotonnia,		M’ont donné dix steamers de chacun quatre mille tonnes,			

    ellauri210.html on line 463: Se puhkuu höyryä kuin korskahtavat hevoset,		Elle souffle sa vapeur, tels les chevaux qui s’ébrouent,

    ellauri210.html on line 509:     Nach Aufenthalten in Paris, München und Heidelberg kehrte er völlig mittellos nach Berlin zurück. 1914 hielt er seinen letzten Vortrag im Neuen Club. Ab 1915 war van Hoddis in ständiger ärztlicher Behandlung und wurde privat gepflegt. In diesem Jahr starb sein Bruder Ludwig als Soldat im Ersten Weltkrieg, dessen Tod nahm er allerdings aufgrund seiner wachsenden Umnachtung nicht groß zu Kenntnis. Nach dem Krieg konnte van Hoddis’ Bruder Ernst nicht mehr Fuß fassen und emigrierte nach Palästina.

    ellauri210.html on line 511:     Im Jahr der nationalsozialistischen „Machtergreifung“ 1933 emigrierte van Hoddis’ Mutter mit seinen Schwestern Marie und Anna ebenfalls nach Palästina. Van Hoddis mussten sie aufgrund seines Zustandes zurücklassen. Am 29. September 1933 wurde van Hoddis in die „Israelitischen Heil- und Pflegeanstalten“ Bendorf-Sayn bei Koblenz verlegt. In dieser Anstalt wurden ab 1940 der größte Teil von jüdischen psychiatrischen Patienten im deutschen Reich konzentriert. Zu diesem Zeitpunkt war Hoddis wegen seiner hebephrenen Schizophrenie im Endstadium nicht mehr ansprechbar.

    ellauri210.html on line 718:     Annalisa Chirico è una giovane e brillante giornalista dalla lingua schietta. Dietro la sua bella presenza si cela un personaggio preparatissimo, nel suo campo: la scrittura. La giornalista è sempre stata decisa riguardo il suo futuro e suo padre è stato la figura che l’ha spronata maggiormente. Pugliese originaria di Brindisi, a soli diciotto anni, Annalisa sale un pezzo di stivale fino a Roma per frequentare la Luiss Guido Carli, laureandosi in Scienze Politiche.

    ellauri210.html on line 720: Durante gli anni di studio si trasferisce in Belgio per alcuni mesi, grazie all’esperienza Erasmus, e la brillante mente si apre sempre di più, stimolata da nuove esperienze. La visione del mondo e della società di Annalisa Chirico è molto particolare e all’avanguardia per una donna italiana. Scopriamo qualcosa in più sulla graffiante penna, molto presente anche nei talk show televisivi.

    ellauri210.html on line 769:     En 1928, Benjamin Péret écrit un ouvrage au titre basé sur une contrepèterie : Les Rouilles encagées. Le livre est saisi et interdit jusqu'en 1954 où l'éditeur Éric Losfeld publie, à tirage limité à cent exemplaires, une édition illustrée par des dessins d’Yves Tanguy. Une nouvelle édition publiée en 1970 sera de nouveau interdite jusqu'en 1975.

    ellauri210.html on line 795: et toutes les biques du monde répandent leurs crottes dans l’égout	Ja kaikki maailman ämmät levittää pökäleensä ällötyxeen				  

    ellauri210.html on line 796: et s’ouvre le congrès eucharistique					Ja alkaa ehtoolliskokous						

    ellauri210.html on line 797: et chacun d’accourir vers les divins excréments et les crachats		Ja jokainen juoxee jumalallisten ulosteiden ja pyhien 			

    ellauri210.html on line 800: C’est que dieu constipé depuis vingt siècles n’a plus de boueux		2 vuosituhatta ummessa olleella Jumalalla ei ole enää lokaista			

    ellauri210.html on line 804: C’est alors que leur sueur murmure					Silloin niiden hiki solisee						

    ellauri210.html on line 808: vous me verrez sous la forme d’un putois pourri				Näette mut mädäntyneen näädän muodossa					

    ellauri210.html on line 813: Nous avons fait l’hostie il nous a faits crapauds			Olemme ottaneet öylätin se teki meistä rupikonnia			

    ellauri210.html on line 825: n’est plus qu’un absurde et livide galet.				Ei enää ole kuin absurdi maxoittunut vesikivi.				

    ellauri210.html on line 831: The word “Dada” brings to mind an international range of extreme modernist antics. The book’s title is something of a publicist’s misnomer. Jacques Rigaut is the only confirmed suicide among the group, and while Jacques Vache did die of a drug overdose, many, including author Michel Leiris, claimed that his death was accidental, characterized as deliberate by those aiming to enhance Vache’s cultural cache. Arthur Cravan and Julian Torma simply disappeared, wandering into, rather than jumping towards, the cracks of avant-garde history. Of the four only Rigaut is genuinely obsessed with themes of self-destruction.

    ellauri210.html on line 833:     Tristan Tzara captured the inspired lunacy in his 1921 Dada Manifesto on Lukewarm Love. Marcel Duchamp’s “Readymades,” or Francis Picabia’s canvases of human figures as functionless machines belong here. Dada began as a limited franchise, with key outposts in Zurich, Berlin, Paris, and New York. Preceding the Surrealist movement by several years, and often inspired by the Communist Party (though not tied to it), its origins lay in a militant nostalgia for a pre-war lost Eden. Dadaists sought “an art based on fundamentals to cure the madness of the age and a new order of things that would restore the balance between heaven and hell." (Jean Arp).

    ellauri210.html on line 839:     Rigaut — a drug addict, gigolo, dandy, man-about-town — was a cult figure in Paris, a status that intensified when he was made the subject of Louis Malle’s brilliant 1966 film Le Feu Follet.

    ellauri210.html on line 863:     Fils d'un cadre du grand magasin Le Bon Marché, il est d’abord un élève brillant au lycée Montaigne, où il obtient un prix de récitation et de français, puis il devient passable et dissipé au lycée Louis-le-Grand où il se fait remarquer par son excentricité.

    ellauri210.html on line 865:     Dandy désargenté, vivant chez ses parents, il devient un grand consommateur d’opium, de cocaïne et d'héroïne. En 1922, il rejoint Tristan Tzara et quitte les surréalistes.

    ellauri210.html on line 867:     Il épouse Gladys Barber le 15 janvier 1926, mais elle le quitte rapidement, lassée de sa toxicomanie. De plus en plus esclave de l'héroïne et de l'alcool, il vit misérablement à New York jusqu’en novembre 1928, date à laquelle il revient subitement en France et reprend une vie mondaine dans une maison prêtée par le surréaliste Paul Chadourne.

    ellauri210.html on line 871:     Après avoir passé une soirée à Paris avec un vieil ami, Jacques Porel, le matin du 6 novembre 1929 Jacques Rigaut rentre à Châtenay-Malabry, où il se suicide d’une balle de revolver tirée en plein cœur.

    ellauri210.html on line 875:     « La vie ne vaut pas le coup qu’on se donne la peine de la quitter. »

    ellauri210.html on line 917: En 1922, il retourne à Paris et y vivote en faisant de petits métiers. Avec Yves Tanguy, il fréquente également la Maison des amis des livres, rue de l'Odéon, tenue par Adrienne Monnier, qui leur fait découvrir la littérature et des personnalités comme André Breton et Louis Aragon. Il est hébergé de 1924 à 1928 par Marcel Duhamel qui s'est installé au 54 de la rue du Château près de Montparnasse — Duhamel dirige l’hôtel Grosvenor qui appartenait à son oncle et qui est sis non loin de là.

    ellauri210.html on line 925: Le pauvre crocodile n’a pas de C cédille 
    				

    ellauri210.html on line 936: laissez les p’tits enfants briser leur tirelire	 
    							

    ellauri210.html on line 943: Car les petits veaux n’ont pas d’ailes comme le vieil oiseau bleu	

    ellauri210.html on line 991: En 1932, à l'initiative du communiste Paul Vaillant-Couturier, Jacques Prévert est sollicité par le groupe Octobre pour écrire des textes contestataires d’agitation-propagande. Sa verve, son humour, son aisance à rédiger très rapidement sur des sujets d’actualité brûlants, font la notoriété du groupe. Le plus célèbre de ces textes, La Bataille de Fontenoy, présenté en 1933 aux Olympiades internationales du théâtre ouvrier à Moscou, devant Staline), se moque des hommes politiques de l’époque.

    ellauri210.html on line 994: Le style joyeusement iconoclaste de Prévert et ses thèmes de prédilection, les bonheurs simples, la révolte et l’amour, séduisent autant le cercle de Saint-Germain-des-Prés que le grand public.

    ellauri210.html on line 1074: Yhdysvalloissa Dalí maalasi paljon kirjankuvistuksia sekä suunnitteli pukuja, näyteikkunasomistuksia ja koruja ja osallistui mainosten suunnitteluun ja työskenteli aikakauslehdille. Hän maalasi myös paljon yläluokan muotokuvia tilaustyönä. Dalín kaupallisen vaiheen innoittamana André Breton muodosti hänen nimestään anagrammin ”Avida Dollars” ’dollarinhimoinen’.

    ellauri210.html on line 1155: 
    “J’aime le goût de ton sang épais/ Je le garde longtemps dans ma bouche sans dents”
    

    ellauri210.html on line 1177:     Carlos Paul Ruiz São Paulosta symppaa Jannea. “Derriere Son Double”, Este volumen de poemas, saludado con entusiasmo por Breton, es sin duda uno de los más importantes de la poesía francesa de los últimos tiempos. Por lo que dice y lo que revela constituye el testimonio apasionante de un espíritu (que aún no había alcanzado la veintena) obsesionado por la idea de las tinieblas que nos rodean. Es cierto que los términos “vide”, “gouffre”, “abime”, habían pasado sobre todo a partir de Víctor Hugo (recordemos su famoso verso “J’interrogue l’abime etant moi-même gouffre”) a ser tópicos de una cierta retórica ajenas a sus verdaderos significados. Mas en Duprey subanse por las paredes. Para rendir cuentas de su visión de las tinieblas, Duprey se inclina a la práctica y a la expresión de un cierto humor negro que llevó a Breton a incluirlo en su famosa antología. 

    ellauri210.html on line 1181: Comme les loups hurlent la nuit resserre l’écrou,	Kun sudet ulvoo yössä tiukkaa terskapultti,

    ellauri210.html on line 1182: La terre s’arrête de tourner				Maa lakkaa kieppumasta

    ellauri210.html on line 1188: Du plus profond qui s’ouvre sur lui-même		Syvimmässä joka aukee izelleen		

    ellauri210.html on line 1193: Un bras d’épouvante.					Ällistyxen käsivarsi.

    ellauri210.html on line 1196: Où l’on se glace à la vague des yeux.			Mihin jäätyy aaltoon silmien.

    ellauri210.html on line 1200: Sa vie d’espace						Sen avaruusaika

    ellauri210.html on line 1222:   La Rochefoucauld a dit qu’il y a dans le malheur de notre meilleur ami quelque chose qui ne nous déplaît pas. Tästäkin osuvasta ajatelmasta Rabbe veti herneen nenään.

    ellauri210.html on line 1226: The French essayist Michel Eyquem de Montaigne’s famous tome Les Essais became celebrated in its age, even being quoted by William Shakespeare in The Tempest. At the core of the collection of writings was “De l’amitie” (“On Friendship”). La Boetie enjoyed a certain level of fame, achieved through political discourses, when he met Montaigne around 1557 and the two would spend four years together, at which time the principles of civil disobedience in matters of love became instilled in Montaigne, according to Robert Aldrich and Garry Wotherspoon’s Who’s Who in Gay and Lesbian History. But La Boetie would succumb to the plague, and Montaigne would write that he never experienced such love again.

    ellauri210.html on line 1322: Para las dos escritoras la pulsión de amor y muerte será necesaria y la plasmarán cada una a su manera, pero coincidirán en el pensamiento que Murielle Gagnebin retoma de Bataille: “L’essence de l’érotisme est la souillure” (Gagnebin, 1994) y es que no hay belleza ni erotismo sin mácula. Sobre todo Joyce Mansour quien seduce con personajes de inclinaciones sadomasoquistas y pulsiones sangrientas. 

    ellauri210.html on line 1331: "La manque, perte et substitution étaient les modalités de l’exis

    ellauri210.html on line 1334:     En Prassinos también funciona el complejo inverso, como el relato “Vanda et le Parasite” [1] que ofrece una original lectura sobre el padre castrador. El padre, al nacer coloca un gusano sobre los cabellos de Vanda. Este acto será valorado como una metáfora del miedo a la autoridad masculina, empleando los términos de Barnet “cannibalisée par l’autorité patriarcale”.

    ellauri210.html on line 1340:     “L’univers mansourien est certes, à première lecture, un lieu intolérable, d’où émergent l’effroi, l’abjection, la cruauté, la pourriture et la mort sans rédemption, associés à toute une faune grouillante de vermine ou d’animaux porteurs de symboles néfastes, à l’instar de des serpents ou des rats” (ibid.). Ambas escritoras esconden terrores de la infancia. Gisèle Prassinos, al igual que Mansour, posee su propio universo, su bestiario particular donde pululan:

    ellauri210.html on line 1342:     Une population remarquable díversifiée de mollusques (escargots et vers de toutes formes et couleurs), de reptiles (couleuvres et serpents sans nom), de rongeurs ou arracheurs crée un climat anxiogène et menaçant. La matière est toute entière la proie de la morsure, de l’éventration, de l’étouffement ou de la souillure (op.cit., 1988).

    ellauri210.html on line 1344:     Gisèle Prassinos también nos ha dejado unas buenas dosis de personajes desordenados, donde afloran ciertas desviaciones. En ese “collage” entre cuentos de hadas y aromas baudelerianos, la autora jugará sobre todo con la metamorfosis, así sus mujeres “pseudo-femmes castratrices” se transforman en animales o en seres extraños, fantásticos. Prassinos ataca a los mitos del psicoanálisis, muestra imágenes híbridas, animales que se convierten en hombre, objetos que se convierten en animales, etc. Destaca la hostilidad hacia la figura autoritaria del padre. Nos habla de venganzas mediante el asesinato, los cuerpos difuntos son despedazados o transformados, dejando traslucir sentimientos intensos, donde se perfila la imagen de la muerte y se exorciza el miedo. La misma autora confesaba en una entrevista personal la distancia que había entre ella y su padre, destacando la importancia que tiene la figura masculina en las culturas orientales, sensación que refleja en el cuento “La Tête” (op. cit., 1987): “Lucas vit qu’entre elle et son père s’ouvrait un écart plus large que ceux qui séparaient les autres personnes”.

    ellauri210.html on line 1346:     Prassinos, heredera de los cuentos tradicionales de hadas contamina su imaginario con personajes desviados, transformándolos en “contes bizarres”. En un marco irreal, típico de los cuentos surrealistas juega con las metamorfosis: objetos que adquieren dimensión animal, humanos que se animalizan, animales que se transforman en humanos, o personas que se reapropian de otras, como muestran algunos de sus cuentos, como “la Psyché” donde la protagonista sufre por parte de otra mujer una apropiación de su voluntad, de su personalidad, llegando a ser su doble. Como en el estadio del espejo de Lacan, la protagonista reacciona al contemplar su imagen, no ante el espejo, sino ante la otra mujer: “Nous étions plus que jumelles et nous nous regardions subjuguées, chacune dans le miroir humain que lui tendait l’autre”.

    ellauri210.html on line 1348:     “C’est dans cette intensité que l’autre Louise, après avoir détaillé ma mise élégante, fixa mon ventre longuement, d’un regard effaré, vaincu, où je recevais comme un reproche”.

    ellauri210.html on line 1354: Je l’ai deshabillé pour voir ce que c’ètait au juste. Après sa petite culotte de dedans, j’en ai vu deux. Un comme moi, minuscule lui et encore autre pas pareil mais pareil que les petites filles qui font pipi sur le trottoir. 

    ellauri210.html on line 1378:   Mansour’s first published collection of poems, titled: Cris, was published in Paris in 1953 by Pierre Seghers. This collection of work references male and female anatomy in explicit language that was unusual for the time. Religious language can also be found. However, it is inverted, replacing what would be Christ with the lover. References of Egyptian mythology are also present in Cris. Mansour references the White Goddess as well as Hathor.

    ellauri210.html on line 1380:   In 1954, Joyce Mansour became involved with the surrealist movement after Jean-Louise Bédouin wrote a review praising Cris in Médium: Communication surréaliste that May. Joyce Mansour actively participated in the second wave of surrealism in Paris.  Her apartment was a popular meeting place for members of the surrealist group. L'exécution du testament du Marquis de Sade, the performance piece by Jean Benoît took place in Mansour’s apartment, where she "collaborated" with obscure minor representatives such as Pierre Alechinsky, Enrico Baj, Hans Bellmer, Gerardo Chávez, Jorge Camacho, Ted Joans, Pierre Molinier, Reinhoud d'Haese and Max Walter Svanberg.

    ellauri211.html on line 52: Lehden toimituksellinen sävy on aina korostanut myönteisyyttä ja lämmintä huumoria. Wallacen pariskunta ei käyttänyt lehteä tehdessään lainkaan lukijatutkimuksia vaan valitsi lehden aineiston omien mieltymystensä mukaan. Lukijatutkimukset tulivat käyttöön vasta 1970-luvulla, kun perustajapariskunta luovutti lehden teon nuoremmille. Reader’s Digestia on koko sen olemassaolon ajan kritisoitu konservatiivisuudesta ja amerikkalaisuudesta. Esimerkiksi kylmän sodan vuosina lehden kansainvälisissä painoksissa, muun muassa Valituissa Paloissa, tuotiin usein esiin kommunisti- ja sosialistimaiden yhteiskunnallisia ongelmia. Kalutut on länkkäreiden parhaita propaganda-aseita seppoiluun taipuvaisten turveloiden parissa. 

    ellauri211.html on line 54: Samalla kun Reader’s Digestin kieliversioita on lakkautettu joistakin länsimaista, muun muassa Tanskasta vuonna 2005, yritys on perustanut uusia kieliversioita entisiin sosialistimaihin ja nouseviin Aasian maihin. Mutta Kiinan markkinoille suunnattu lehden versio lopetettiin kuitenkin yllättäen vuonna 2012, vain neljän ja puolen vuoden ilmestymisen jälkeen. Kiinalaisten länsinauru loppui lyhyeen.

    ellauri211.html on line 58: Reader's Digest on edelleen, kaikki kieliversiot yhteen laskien, maailman luetuin yleisaikakauslehti. Vaikka suomalaisen Valittujen Palojen levikki ja lukijamäärä on 2000-luvulla laskenut nopeasti muiden yleisaikakauslehtien tapaan, ainakin vielä vuonna 2012 sen 178 000 kappaleen levikki oli kielialueen asukasmäärään suhteutettuna Reader’s Digest -lehtien suurin. Suurimmillaan Valittujen Palojen levikki oli 1990-luvun lopulla: 354 000 kappaletta. Vuonna 2014 lehden tarkastettu levikki oli 122 605. Noin 50 erikielisen Reader’s Digest -lehtiversion yhteinen levikki on noin 10 miljoonaa.

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    1. You can’t shoulder everything on your own.

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    2. You’re never going to be perfect.

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    3. You shouldn’t let yourself be defined by one thing.

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    4. Families don’t always know what’s best for you.

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    5. You shouldn’t compare yourself to just anyone else.

      ellauri213.html on line 204:   Let’s first look at direct demands. Direct demands are requests or questions made by other people or situations – such as ‘put your shoes on’, ‘sit here and wait’, ‘pay this bill’ or ‘would you like a drink?’. In addition to these more obvious direct demands, there’s a whole raft of indirect and internal demands, including:

      ellauri213.html on line 208:     Plans – advance planning may lead to increased anxiety as the time/date for ‘the plan’ nears, but equally the intolerance of uncertainty that is a key factor in PDA may make ‘spur of the moment’ activities tricky …

      ellauri213.html on line 212:     Decisions – sometimes knowing a decision has to be made makes it a demand, or ‘options paralysis’ may set in if there are too many possibilities

      ellauri213.html on line 218:     Uncertainty – research from Newcastle University showed that intolerance of uncertainty is a significant factor in PDA, with PDA autistics needing to know and feel in control of what’s going on

      ellauri213.html on line 222:     Transitions – the demand to stop and switch what you’re doing and also the uncertainty around what may come next

      ellauri213.html on line 228:     Other people’s ‘energy’ and presence

      ellauri213.html on line 233: Then there are demands within demands – the smaller implied demands within larger demands (for example, within the demand of going to the cinema are the demands of remaining seated, responding appropriately, sitting next to other people you don’t know, being quiet etc. etc.).

      ellauri213.html on line 251: You join together with thousands of other members for a set programme reflective of the host country’s culture and customs. As well as a huge closing ceremony. This event is for members aged 16 to 22. Sadly the next World Scout Moot in 2022 has been cancelled, but we hope this will take place again in 2025. We hiked, swam, explored one another and ate our shorts becoming really great friends. Learned how to give support during the Ukraine conflict. The 25th World Scout Jamboree will take place in 2023 in South Korea. Lieköhän yhtään venäläisiä kaukopartiolaisia kuzuttujen joukossa?

      ellauri213.html on line 296: Each year, the organisation publishes the Girls' Attitudes Survey, which surveys the views of girls and young women on topics such as body image, career aspirations and mental health. BBC staff were told there are more than 150 genders and urged to develop ‘trans brand’.

      ellauri213.html on line 303: LET OFF AGAIN! Smirking Katie Price DODGES JAIL over ‘gutter s*g’ text to Kieran Hayler’s fiancee. The 44-year-old was instead handed an 18-hole community order,

      ellauri213.html on line 304: 170 hours unpaid work and told to pay £1,500 costs. Katie Price has been known on the celebrity circuit for many years, starting out her career as a glamour model before becoming a TV personality, author and OnlyFans content creator. Katie has five children: her eldest Harvey, Princess, Junior, Buddy and Jett. She was married to Peter Andre from 2005-2009, Alex Reid from 2010-2012 and Kieran Hayler from 2013-2021. She was most recently dating Love Island star Carl Woods until their split. Michelle contacted Sussex Police on Friday to complain that Katie — mum to two of Kieran’s children — had sent him a tirade of abuse which was aimed at her. Close sources said the text branded Michelle a “c*ing w*e piece of s*” and a “gutter s*g.” The ex-glamour model, who smiled as she left the dock today, could have been jailed for a maximum of five years for breaching the restraining order. BUSINESS AS USUAL Katie Price says she’s ‘so lucky’ after dodging jail over ‘gutter s*g’ text – as she reveals she’s landed a Girlguiding travel show. 

      ellauri213.html on line 362: Joppen (Jaffa) ensimmäisten kristittyjen joukossa oli hurskas nainen nimeltä Tabita, kreikaksi Dorka. Nimi tarkoittaa ’gasellia’. Hän teki paljon hyvää ja avusti köyhiä, kunnes sairastui ja kuoli. Tabitan ruumis vietiin kattohuoneeseen, ja paikalle alkoi kerääntyä surevia leskimiehiä, joita Tabita oli eläessään auttanut.

      ellauri213.html on line 416: “I apologise for the inconvenience my arrest has caused to so many people,” Shigenobu said after the release. “It’s half a century ago ... but we caused damage to innocent people who were strangers to us by prioritising our battle, such as by hostage-taking.”

      ellauri213.html on line 434: Seuraavassa on listattuna pahoja naisia rikkomuxineen (kuvissa söpöset alleviivattu): Irma Grese (Naziwächterin), Myra Hindley (serial pedocide), Isabela of Castile (born in the year 1451 and died in 1504, Isabella the Catholic, was queen of Castile and León. She and her husband, Ferdinand II of Aragon, brought stability to the kingdoms that became the basis for the unification of Spain. Isabella and Ferdinand are known for completing the Reconquista, ordering conversion or exile of their Muslim and Jewish subjects and financing Christopher Columbus’ 1492 voyage that led to the opening of the “New World”. Isabella was granted the title Servant of God by the Catholic Church in 1974), Beverly Allitt (pedocide, Angel of Death), Queen Mary of England (catholic), Belle Gunness (norwegian-american serial killer), Mary Ann Cotton (serial killer), Ilse Koch (Lagerfrau), Katherine Knight (very bad Aussie), Elizabeth Bathory (hungarian noblewoman and serial killer), Sandra Avila Beltran (drugs), Patty Hearst (hänen isoisänsä oli lehtikeisari William Randolph Hearst. Hiän joutui kidnappauksen uhriksi, mutta pian tämän jälkeen hiän teki pankkiryöstön ja joutui vankilaan), Genene Jones (infanticide nurse), Karla Homolka (Canadian serial killer), Diane Downs (infanticide), Aileen Wuornos (serial killer), Griselda Blanco (drug lady), Lizzie Borden (kirvesmurhaaja), Bonnie Parker (bank robber), Anne Bonny (pirate), Mary Bell (pedocide), Delphine LaLaurie (serial slavekiller), Patricia Krenwinkel (Manson family member), Leslie van Houten (Manson family member), Darlie Routier (infanticide), Susan Smith (infanticide), Susan Atkins (Manson family member), Ching Shih (pirate), Anna Sorokin Delvey (con woman), Amelia Dyer (serial killer), Assata Shakur (black terrorist), Belle Gunness (serial killer), Gypsy Rose Blanchard (matricide), Pamela Smart (mariticide), Ruth Ellis (nightclub hostess, last woman hanged in UK), Phoolan Devi (bandit), Ma Barker (matriarch), Jennifer Pan (parenticide), Virginia Hill (gangster), Karla Faye Tucker (burglar, first woman injected in US), Leonarda Cianciully (serial murderer, soapmaker), Mary Read, Carill Ann Fugate (murder spree), Grace Marks (maid), Belle Starr (outlaw, friend of Lucky Luke), Zerelda Mimms (Mrs. Jesse James), Jane Toppan (serial killer), Sara Jane Moore (wannabe assassin of Gerald Ford), Martha Beck (serial killer), Doris Payne (jewel thief), Mary Brunner (Manson family member), Barbara Graham (executed by gas), Grace O'Malley (pirate), Sada Abe (jealous geisha. When they asked why she had killed Ishida, “Immediately she became excited and her eyes sparkled in a strange way: ‘I loved him so much, I wanted him all to myself. But since we were not husband and wife, as long as he lived he could be embraced by other women. I knew that if I killed him no other woman could ever touch him again, so I killed him…..’ ), Samantha Lewthwaite (white somali terrorist), Theresa Knorr (murderess), Lynette Fromme (Manson family, wannabe assassin of Gerald Ford), The Freeway Phantom (serial killer), Carol M. Bundy (serial killer), Fanny Kaplan (bolshevik revolutionary), Marguerite Alibert (Ed VII courtesan), Jean Harris (author), Linda Hazzard (physician, serial killer), Mary Jane Kelly (1st victim of Jack the Ripper), Kim Hyon-hui (North-Korean spy), Vera Renczi (serial killer), Clare Bronfman (filthy rich criminal), Kirsten Gilbert (serial killer nurse), Gerda Steinhoff (Lagerwächterin), Linda Carty (baby robber), Estella Marie Thompson (black prostitute, blowjobbed Hugh Grant), Elizabeth Becker (Lagerwächterin), Juana Barraza (asesina en serie), Olivera Circovic (baseball player, writer, jewel thief), Olga Hepnarova (mental serial killer), Sabina Eriksson (knäpp tvilling), Minnie Dean (serial killer), Madame de Brinvilliers (aristocrat parri- and fratricide), Martha Rendell (familicide, last woman hanged in Western Australia), Violet Gibson (wannabe assassin of Mussolini), Idoia López Riaño (terrorist), Styllou Christofi (murdered her daughter in law), Mary Eastley (convicted of witchcraft), Wanda Klaff (Lagerwächterin), Giulia Tofana (avvelenatrice), Tisiphone (1/3 raivottaresta), Jean Lee (murderer for money), Brigitte Mohnhaupt (RAF terrorist), Marcia (mistress of Commodus), Beate Zschäpe (far-right terrorist), Evelyn Frechette (singer, Dillingerin heila), Francoise Dior (naziaktivisti), Linda Mulhall (nirhasi äidin poikaystävän saxilla), Brigit Hogefeld (RAF terrorist), Martha Corey (Salem witchhunt victim), Marie Lafarge (arsenikkimurha), Debra Lafave (teacher, gave blow job to student), Enriqueta Marti (asasina en serie), Alse Young (witch hanging victim), Elizabeth Michael (actress, involuntary manslaughter: nasty boyfriend hit his head and died while beating her), Susannah Martin (witchcraft), Maria Mandl (Gefängnisoffizerin), Mary Frith (pickpocket and fence), Hanadi Jaradat (suicide bomber), Marie-Josephte Carrivau (mariticide), Gudrun Ensslin (RAF founder), Anna Anderson (vale-Anastasia), Ans van Dijk (jutku nazikollaboraattori), Elizabeth Holmes (bisneshuijari), Ghislaine Maxwell (Epsteinin haahka), Julianna Farrait (drugs), Yolanda Saldivar (embezzler, killer), Jodi Arias (convicted killer Jodi Ann Arias was born on July 9, 1980, in Salinas, California. In the summer of 2008, Arias made national headlines when she was charged with murdering her ex-boyfriend Travis Alexander, a 30-year-old member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints who was working as a motivational speaker and insurance salesman. Aargh. Justifiable homicide.) Alyssa Bustamante (kid murder), Mary Kay Letourneau (kid abuser), Mirtha Young (drugs), Catherine Nevin (mariticide), Pilar Prades (maid), Irmgard Möller (terrorist), Christine Schürrer (krimi), Reem Riyashi (suicide bomber), Amy Fisher (jealous), Wafa Idris (suicide bomber), Jeanne de Clisson (ex-noblewoman), Christine Papin (maid murderer), Sally McNeil (body builder), Mariette Bosch (murderer), Sandra Ávila Beltrán (drugs), Alice Schwarzer (journalist), Andrea Yates (litter murderer), Mimi Wong (bar hostess), Pauline Nyiramasuhuko (criminal politician), Josefa Segovia (murderer), Martha Needle (serial killer), Antonina Makarova (war criminal), Mary Surratt (criminal businessperson), Dorothea Binz (officer), Leona Helmsley (tax evasion), Angela Rayola (reality tv personality), Léa Papin (maid murderer), Ursula Erikssson (kriminell mördare), Maria Petrovna (spree killer), Aafia Siddiqui (criminal), Fatima Bernawi (palestinian militant), La Voisin (fortune teller), Deniz Seki (singer), Rasmea Odeh (Arab activist), Hildegard Lächert (nurse), Sajida al-Rishawi (suicide bomber), Hayat Boumeddiene (ISIS groupie, nähty viimexi Al Holissa), Herta Ehlert (Lagerwächterin), Elizabeth Stride (seriös mördare), Adelheid Schulz (krimi), Jenny-Wanda Barkman (Wächter), Shi Jianqiao (pardoned assassin. The assassination of Sun Chuanfang was ethically justified as an act of filial piety and turned into a political symbol of the legitimate vengeance against the Japanese invaders.), Rosemary West (serial killer), Juana Bormann (Lagerwächterin), Kathy Boudin (criminal), Kate Webster (assassin), Teresa Lewis (murderer), Hermine Braunsteiner (Lagerwächterin), Flor Contemplacion (assassina), Constance Kent (fratricide), Tamara Samsonova (serial killer), Herta Bothe (Lagerwächterin), Maria Gruber (Mörderin), Irene Leidolf (möderin), Waltraud Wagner (Mörderin), Elaine Campione (criminelle), Greta Bösel (Pflegerin),  Marie Manning (Mörderin), Darya Nikolayevna Saltykova (sadist), Nora Parham (executed), Maria Barbella (assassina), Linda Wenzel (ISIS activist), Anna Marie Hahn (Mörderin), Suzane von Richthofen (parenticide), Charlotte Mulhall (murderer), Khioniya Guseva (kriminal), Daisy de Melker (serial killer nurse), Stephanija Meyer (Mörderin), Sinedu Tadesse (murderer), Ayat al-Akhras (suicide bomber), Akosita Lavulavu (minister of infrastructure and tourism), Sabrina de Sousa (criminal diplomat), Sally Basset (poisoner), Emma Zimmer (Aufseher), Mary Clement (serial killer), Irina Gaidamachuk (serial killer), Dagmar Overbye (serialmorder), Gesche Gottfried (Mörderin), Frances Knorr (serial killer), Beate Schmidt (Serienmörderin), Elizabeth Clarke (accused victim of witchcraft), Kim Sun-ja (serial killer), Olga Konstantinovana Briscorn (serial killer), Roxana Baldetti (politico), Rizana Nafeek (house maid), Margaret Scott (accused of witchcraft), Jacqueline Sauvage (meurtrier), Veronique Courjault (tueur en série), Barbara Erni (thief), Hilde Lesewitz (Schutzstaffel Wächterin), Thenmoli Rajaratnam (suicide bomber),  etc. etc..

      ellauri214.html on line 62: J. K. Rowling has lived atop a pyramid of admiration for many years. However, after learning the truth about the author, many fans have become ashamed they ever supported Rowling. Rowling’s books are not inclusive and the minorities that are included are either used to satisfy a diversity quota or fulfill a stereotype. Come to think of it, ALL types in the Potter series are stereotypes. It all becomes too obvious when they have no superpowers.

      ellauri214.html on line 64: In an obvious parallel with the Potter books, The Casual Vacancy is populated by a huge cast of mean, unsympathetic, small-minded folk. "This novel for adults is filled with a variety of people like Harry’s aunt and uncle, Petunia and Vernon Dursley: self-absorbed, small-minded, snobbish and judgmental folks, whose stories neither engage nor transport us.” — Michiko Kakutani, USA:n Toini Havu.

      ellauri214.html on line 66: J. K. Rowling’s first adult novel The Casual Vacancy stirred a ruckus within Sikh Community after its publication leading to the involvement of SGPC and its head showing concern with the negative portrayal of Sikh characters in the novel. Rowling defends the novel by her theory of ‘corrosive racism’ after her ‘vast amount of research’ in Sikhism. The chapter explores diasporic Sikh identity through the character of Sukhvinder who though dyslexic is stifled by her mother and harassed by her classmate Fats through slanderous remarks targeting her Sikh identity. Though Sukhvinder resorts to self-torture after undergoing racism, she emerges victorious like a brave Sikh by her self-determination and emerges a heroine by helping everybody in Britain. The chapter applies Teun A. van Dijk’s racist discourse and post-colonial theories specifically Homi Bhabha’s hybridity of cultures, Jacques Rancière’s distribution of the sensible hinting at the redistribution of identities to make invisible diaspora visible and inaudible audible and Gayatri Spivak’s theory of the subaltern to prove that the Sikh diaspora remains in Charhdi Kala (higher state of mind) even in tough situations. The chapter concludes that though British Sikh diaspora undergoes racialism leading to identity crisis, Sikhs finally find resolution through Sikh identity model Sukhvinder who, treading the footsteps of Sikh heroes like Bhai Kanhayia, becomes a heroin addict by risking her life to save Robbie and by helping all in the novel.

      ellauri214.html on line 70: In response to a Twitter post about how COVID-19 has been affecting people who menstruate, Rowling wrote, “‘People who menstruate.’ I’m sure there used to be a word for those people. Someone help me out. Wumben? Wimpund? Woomud?”. In this post, Rowling mocks trans people by insinuating that women who do not have a period are not real women. This tweet not only offended trans women who do not have periods, but also cisgender women born with medical conditions that prevent them from having a period, older women who have gone through menapause, and transgender men who still menstrate. Rowling has continued to bash transgender people by comparing hormone therapy to gay conversion therapy and tweeting articles arguing that transitioning is a medical experiment. Many have called Rowling out on her transphobia, and some have attempted to educate her on transgender issues and the difference between sex and gender. However, the author has not been receptive to these comments, and continues to deny that she is transphobic. Rowling’s transphobia has prompted Harry Potter actors Daniel Radcliff (Harry Potter), Emma Watson (Hermionie Granger), Rupert Grint (Ron Weasley), Bonnie Wright (Ginny Weasley), and Evanna Lynch (Luna Lovegood) to show their support for the transgender community. The only actor staunchly standing on her side is Tom Veladro (Voldemort). Oops, I shouldn't have said the name.

      ellauri214.html on line 72: Though Rowling’s transphobia has been publicized the most, fans have also begun to notice prejudice in her writing. Very few people of color are featured in J. K. Rowling’s books, and those that are have few lines and no detailed story arcs. One of the people of color given more thought was Cho Chang, Harry Potter’s love interest who was first introduced in the third book, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. Rowling’s racism toward Asians and lack of knowledge of Asian culture is clearly evident from just the name Cho Chang, which is a mix of Korean and Chinese surnames. Korea and China have a longstanding history as political adversaries and each country has a distinct culture. While Rowling went to great efforts in creating a wonderfully immersive wizarding world, she gave no thought to what Cho’s ethnicity is. Cho was also sorted into Ravenclaw house, the school house for those of high intelligence, playing into a common stereotype of Asians. The only other Asian characters mentioned in the series are Indian twins Padma and Pavarti Patil. While Rowling appears to have given more thought to these characters, placing Padma in Ravenclaw and breaking the Asian stereotype by placing Pavarti in Gryffindor, she ultimately fails to adequately write Asian characters. While Pavarti, as a member of Harry Potter’s house, was given more depth than Cho or her sister, many South Asian fans were irritated by the girls’ dresses in the fourth movie, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. The twins wore dull and unflattering traditional Indian attire, which many saw as a mockery of Indian culture. Cho herself wore an East Asian style dress in this movie which was a mix of different Asian styles. Rowling continued her habit of stereotyping Asians in the Fantastic Beast Movies, the first of which was released in 2016 and set in the 1920’s, several decades before the Harry Potter series. In this pre-series, the only Asian representation is displayed in the form of a woman who has been cursed to turn into a beast. Fans may remember the villain Voldemort’s pet snake, Nagini, who served him throughout the Harry Potter series. Fans were surprised to learn when watching The Crimes of Grindelwald, the second movie in the Fantastic Beasts series, that Nagini was not always a snake, but was actually a woman who had been cursed to turn into a snake. In the movie, Nagini, in human form, is caged and forced to perform in a circus. Though we do not know how Nagini came to meet Voldemort, we do know that she became his servant and the keeper of a wee snakelike portion of his soul. This is more than slightly problematic. Not only was Nagini the only Asian representation in the film, but she was also a half-human who was forced to serve an evil white man for a great part of her existence. Author Ellen Oh commented on Nagini’s inclusion in the film saying “I feel like this is the problem when white people want to diversify and don’t actually ask POC how to do so. They don’t make the connection between making Nagini an Asian woman who later on becomes the pet snake of an EEVIL whitish man.”

      ellauri214.html on line 76: J.K. Rowling has also included plenty of sexism in her writing, indicative of her internalised misogyny. Cho Chang was Harry Potter’s love interest throughout books 4 and 5. However, Cho was in a relationship with another student in the fourth book, and unfortunately this student was killed by Lord Voldemort at the end of the book. This leaves Cho rightfully distraught. Though still in emotional turmoil, she develops a crush on Harry and they begin dating. During their first kiss, Cho is crying because she is thinking of her dead boyfriend. Harry and Cho break up after multiple arguments later in the book. Later on in the series, Harry develops feelings for his best friend’s sister, Ginny Weasley. Rowling periodically writes how Harry prefers Ginny to Cho because Cho was too emotional after the death of her boyfriend. Harry preferred Ginny, who was stronger and could contain her emotions, supposedly because she had grown up with 6 brothers (no, 5, Ronny is a sissy). This comparison of the two girls demonstrates Rowling’s internalized feelings that women exist for the purpose of pleasing men. The thinly veiled idea that women who are too emotional or too much drama queens are not desirable is evident in Rowling’s writing. Fleur Delcore is another example of this feeling. Fleur is a student at a French wizarding school who competes against Harry in a difficult tournament in the fourth book. Fleur is part veela, who are magical beings of extreme beauty but can turn monstrous when angered. Fleur eventually marries Ron Weasley’s older brother, Bill. Hermionie, Harry’s other best friend, and Ginny constantly complain about Fleur. However, the only thing their animosity can be traced back to is that Fleur is a beautiful Frenchy woman and she is confident in that, whilst they are just snubnosed Brits. This further develops Rowling’s internalized misogyny. She views women who are confident in their beauty as annoying, and has the idea that women should seek male validation. Though these portions of the book were likely unintentional, speaking from personal experience, it has to be said that Rowling’s writing of women in her book have had a lasting effect on her female readers.

      ellauri214.html on line 80: The Casual Vacancy hit bookstores last week and drew mixed reviews. The Harry Potter author’s first adult book since the wizard franchise has caused some debate as it deals with such issues as child abuse, prostitution and drugs. Some British conservatives have described it as a liberal attack on their values.

      ellauri214.html on line 83: But if fans are expecting a Harry Potter-like book, they’re in for a shock: The Casual Vacancy features some similar Harry Potter themes, such as morality and mortality, but that is where the comparisons end. The adjectives, for example, are of a different sort.

      ellauri214.html on line 84: It’s difficult to imagine the phrases “miraculously unguarded vagina” or “with an ache in his heart and in his balls” being found in the G-rated wizard novels, but they abound in the X-rated Casual Vacancy. In addition to the risque descriptions, many of the characters (teens especially) are troubled and one mother is a heroine addict. “I have a lot of real-world material in me, believe you me,” Rowling tells The New Yorker. “The thing about fantasy—there are certain things you just don’t do in fantasy. You don’t have sex with unicorns.” A good rule of thumb. They are horny but much too pointy for close comfort.

      ellauri214.html on line 86: Whereas Rowling’s shepherding of readers was, in the Harry Potter juvenile series, an essential asset, in The Casual Vacancy her firm hand can feel constraining. She leaves little space for the peripheral or the ambiguous; hidden secrets are labeled as hidden secrets, and events are easy to predict. We seem to watch people move around Pagford as if they were on Harry’s magical parchment map of Hogwarts.

      ellauri214.html on line 88: The Harry Potter series didn’t become a global phenomenon just because it was an exciting adventure, but because there was a real heart to it, characters who had both strengths and weaknesses, who struggled with their choices, much like Batman or Superman. Not so this time. Instead, “The Casual Vacancy” is a generally well-written book whose central theme is responsibility for those less fortunate, all the time imbued with ever-present British themes of class and notions of propriety.

      ellauri214.html on line 90: The Casual Vacancy, which one bookseller breathlessly predicted would be the biggest novel of the year, isn’t dreadful. It’s just dull. … The small-town characters are all deluded in their own way with their own tales to tell. The problem is, not one of them is interesting or even particularly likeable. Collectively, it’s all too easy to turn the page on them. The fanbase may find it a bit sour, as it lacks the Harry Potter books’ warmth and charm; all the characters are fairly horrible or suicidally miserable, or dead.

      ellauri214.html on line 112: I’m a troubled teenager girl in a Hollywood action movie.

      ellauri214.html on line 116:       In a rare chance, I might be black. If I’m black, I’m more likely to be pregnant. I’m more likely to be dead in the first 20 minutes of the movie (or first episode of the TV show).

      ellauri214.html on line 118:       In the even rarer chance, I might be Asian. If I’m Asian, I’m most definitely a victim of human trafficking, waiting to be saved.

      ellauri214.html on line 126:         I’m often shown eating nothing but fast food, but I never have a weight problem.

      ellauri214.html on line 135:       I’m impulsive. I don't do think more than 2 steps ahead of me. But I'm independent and strong, so I always do things my way, with no regards to anyone.

      ellauri214.html on line 140:       It's soon revealed I’m a runaway from an abusive household. My father slap me around and my mom is a drug addict/alcoholic who passed out 80% of the time. If my father is step father, he also molested me.

      ellauri214.html on line 181:       Depending on the rating, I’m seen drinking hard liquor and doing drugs. But unless the show's theme is about drugs, these habit never really have negative impact on my health or my actions.

      ellauri214.html on line 242: In his work Bibliotheca historica (Library of History), Diodorus Siculus wrote that the Amazons came from Libya in north Africa. Diodorus’s account is set in the time of myth. He wrote that the warriors’ most famous queen was Myrina, who lived before the hero Perseus saved the Ethiopian princess Andromeda from a sea monster. Myrina led her warriors to a great number of victories, including one against the mythical island of Atlantis. Myrina led a large army of 30,000 foot-soldiers and 3,000 cavalry against the Atlanteans. Diodorus claimed that the Amazon cavalry used tactics similar to those employed by the Parthians of west Asia, who fought the Roman general Crassus (c. 115— 53 BCE), firing arrows as they rode away from their enemies. The Atlanteans eventually surrendered to Myrina after she had captured and destroyed one of their cities, enslaving and carrying away the women and the children.

      ellauri214.html on line 243:     It was during the reign of Myrina that the Amazons encountered another race of female warriors known as the Gorgons. The Amazons and their defeated neighbors, the Atlanteans, were at peace with each other, but Atlantis was raided repeatedly by the Gorgons, who lived nearby. In Greek myth, the Gorgons were monsters with snakes instead of hair and faces so fearsome that looking directly at them could turn a mortal into stone. Diodorus scoffed at these stories of monsters and claimed that, like the Amazons, the Gorgons were nothing more than fierce tribal women who were skilled in warfare. Myrina’s large army went to the aid of Atlantis and defeated the Gorgons, capturing more than 3,000 Gorgon warriors. The captive Gorgons began a rebellion but were put down by the Amazons, who killed every remaining prisoner.

      ellauri214.html on line 245: Myrina was said to have conquered most of Libya, from where she led her army east toward Egypt. When she reached Egypt, she befriended the king before going on to defeat the Bedouin and Syrian peoples and conquering some of west Asia. Although the people of Cilicia (part of modern Turkey) were not defeated, they were willing to accept her rule. The Amazons also captured the island of Lesbos in the Aegean Sea, where Myrina founded the city of Mitylene, named for her sister. While sailing across the Aegean, Myrina got caught in a storm. The queen prayed to the Mother Goddess to save her and was guided to a deserted island, which she named Samothrace. Myrina’s good fortune, however, did not last forever: she died in battle against the Thracians and Scythians, led by the Thracian Mopsos. Without their great leader, the Amazons lost a series of battles to Mopsos. Eventually their empire collapsed and they withdrew back to Libya. Back to the drawing board. 2 thousand years later Myrinä's compatriot Muammar Gaddafi says in Swedish: Han är nöjd.

      ellauri214.html on line 526: Olga Tokarczuk: ‘It’s time for us to look at Poland’s relationship with the Jews’

      ellauri214.html on line 527: The country’s most translated female author talks about populism and cultural taboos.

      ellauri214.html on line 535: Halfway through her fifth novel Flights, Olga Tokarczuk asks her readers to take pity on the poor souls for whom English is their “real language”. “Just imagine!” teases Poland’s most widely translated female author. “They don’t have anything to fall back on or turn to in moments of doubt. How lost they must feel in the world, where all instructions, all the lyrics of the stupidest possible songs, all the excruciating pamphlets and brochures — even the buttons in the lift! — are in their private language . . . they are accessible to everyone and everything!”

      ellauri214.html on line 537: It’s a typically provocative and witty inversion from the leftwing humanist, who today tells me that Polish intellectuals have been strangely “relieved” by America’s election of Donald Trump and Britain’s vote for Brexit. “It is reassuring for them to know that populist movements are everywhere. They feel better for knowing that other countries can be naive too.”

      ellauri214.html on line 549: This blurring of fact and fiction is intentional. Tokarczuk tells me she is often asked “Why we central Europeans don’t use a classical linear narrative, and my answer is that we don’t have such a history. Our perception is different. Poland was once a powerful imperial country that disappeared from maps of Europe for more than 100 years. It was partitioned and occupied by the Nazis and the Russians . . . We pop up and disappear and we do not trust what we are told to believe.” 

      ellauri214.html on line 554: “I opened a history that was taboo from a number of perspectives: it was swept under the carpet by Catholics, Jews and communists. It took me eight years to research such fragile and contentious facts,” she says, “But after I won the Nike Jogging Shoe Award [Poland’s most prestigious literary prize], I was attacked by people who didn’t want to know about Poland’s dark past.” She sighs. 

      ellauri214.html on line 556: “Polish culture has always had a strong anti-Semitic undercurrent. There has been awful persecution. But it is time for us to look at Poland’s relationship with the Jews, to accept that we have Jewish blood and Polish culture mixed with our own. I was surprised by the anger I provoked, but thrilled by the enormous support that followed. It seems society is divided between the people who can read and those who cannot!” 

      ellauri216.html on line 167: Proclus’ own interests are purely metaphysical: his task is to explain how evil fits into the scheme of things, how its existence squares with the omnipotence and all-pervading presence of the Good God, how it comes about and what its ontological status is. All of these questions are undoubtedly important, and I do not mean to belittle them.

      ellauri216.html on line 169: In Proclus’ view, no single component of reality can be evil in itself. All that exists is good in its essence and strives to achieve goodness in its activity too. 

      ellauri216.html on line 172: 	To become evil means to fail to reach this perfection, to deviate from one’s nature. Evil thus has no positive existence of itself. It is a failure having no reality of its own, being but an incidental perversion of something good.

      ellauri216.html on line 174: 	To capture this particular mode of existence, Proclus uses the term parhypostasis, ‘parasitical existence’—i.e. an existence that has no proper antecedent cause, but arises accidentally in consequence of an unfortunate interaction of a number of partial causes, each of them having the best intentions only.

      ellauri216.html on line 324: According to a 2010 survey, there are a total of 36,700 villages in Russia with fewer than 10 inhabitants. Traditionally Russia’s agricultural land was subdivided into a patchwork of villages and fields, interspersed by forest and marsh. Now the villages are deserted and crumbling: the state closes them down, often on a whim, and young people leave to find work elsewhere. Matilda Moreton tells the tragic story based on fieldwork in the Russian North.

      ellauri216.html on line 556: The women answered with surprise, “We live with our husbands, and we have not such virtues.” But the saint continued to insist, and the women then told him, “We married two brothers. After living together in one house for fifteen years, we have not uttered a single malicious nor shameful word, and we never quarrel among ourselves. We asked our husbands to allow us to enter a women’s monastery, but they would not agree. We vowed not to utter a single worldly word until our death.” Mainiota, tästä Andrew Tate pitäisi.

      ellauri216.html on line 558:     St Macarius glorified God and said, “In truth, the Lord seeks neither virgins nor married women, and neither monks nor laymen, but values a person’s free intent, accepting it as the deed itself. He grants to everyone’s free will the grace of the Holy Spirit, which operates in an individual and directs the life of all who yearn to be saved.”

      ellauri217.html on line 162: 	25 vuoden iässä Muhammed meni naimisiin leskeksi jääneen serkkunsa Khadija bint Khuwailidin kanssa. Tämä oli varakas ja arvostettu ämmä, joka palkkasi könsikkäitä miehiä kauppamatkoille mukaansa. Myös Muhammed oli tehnyt tällaisen matkan Khadijan palveluksessa ennen kuin tämä kosi häntä.  Muhammed sai Khadijan kanssa kaikki muut lapsensa paitsi Ibrahimin, nimittäin pojat al-Qasim, at-Tayyib, at-Tahir ja tyttäret Zainab, Ruqayya, Umm-Kulthum ja Fatima. Vasta Khadijan kuoleman jälkeen vuonna 619 tai 620 Muhammed meni uusiin naimisiin. Ibrahimin äiti oli Maria Koptilainen, joka oli profeetalle lahjoitettu jalkavaimo. Kaikkiaan Jumalan lähettiläällä oli kolmetoista vaimoa. 13 women and me the only man in town... Kuiskuttelua on herättänyt Muhammedin lempivaimo A’iša bint Abi Bakr, jonka kanssa Muhammed meni naimisiin, kun tämä Ibn Hishamin mukaan oli seitsemänvuotias Muhammedin ollessa tällöin noin 53-vuotias. On myös esitetty myöhempää perimätietoa, että A’iša olisikin ollut 12- tai 17-vuotias. Tai size oli 25. A’iša oli järjestyksessä kolmas Muhammedin vaimoista ja hänen ”suosikkivaimonsa”. Vaimojen, jalkavaimojen ja lasten lisäksi Muhammedin talonväkeen kuului Muhammedin ja hänen vaimojensa omistamia orjia. Muhammedin mäntä oli kovassa käytössä, mies oli kaikkea muuta kuin Aishan kannattaja.

      ellauri217.html on line 189: 	Jumalan lähettiläs kuoli Medinassa vuonna 632 lempivaimonsa A’išan syliin podettuaan hammassärkyä. Heidän viimeinen keskustelunsa oli seuraava: "Minä kysyin: Jumalan lähettiläs, tahdotko, että annan sinulle tuon hammastikun? Kyllä, hän vastasi. Profeetta käytti pontevasti hammastikkua ja pani sen sitten syrjään. Hän katsoi kiinteästi johonkin ja sanoi: Ei, vaan Ylhäisin Toveri Paratiisissa. Panssarirykmentti!"

      ellauri217.html on line 377: 	Schlaraffenland (av tyska Schlaraffe ’slöfock, dåre’, av tyska schlummern slumra, och Affe, apa se SAOB) är ett fantasiland, där man utan ansträngning får alla önskningar tillgodosedda och lättjan är en dygd istället för en synd. I sagan om Schlaraffenland återfinns uttrycket stekta sparvar flyger i munnen på en, vilket känns igen från kung Carl XVI Gustafs jultal 2002.

      ellauri219.html on line 156: The author of the 1894 book The Holy Science, which attempted “to show as clearly as possible that there is an essential unity in all religions,” Sir Yukteswar Girl was guru to both Sir Mahatavara Babaji (No.27) and Paramahansa Yogananda (No.33). His prominent position in the top left-hand corner reflects George Harrison’s (No.65) growing interest in Indian philosophy. In August 1967, two months after the album’s release, The Beatles had their first meeting with the Maharashi Mahesh Yogi, at the Hilton Hotel on London’s Park Lane, where they were invited to study Transcendental Meditation in Bangor, North Wales.

      ellauri219.html on line 161: A hugely prolific occultist and author who formed his own religion, Thelema, Crowley’s central tenet was, “Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law. Love is the law, love under will.”

      ellauri219.html on line 187:   Mae West initially refused to allow her image to appear on the artwork. She was, after all, one of the most famous bombshells from Hollywood’s Golden Age and felt that she would never be in a lonely hearts club. However, after The Beatles personally wrote to her explaining that they were all fans, she agreed to let them use her image. In 1978, Ringo Starr (No.63) returned the favor when he appeared in West’s final movie, 1978’s Sextette. The film also featured a cover version of the “White Album” song “Honey Pie.” P.S. Mae Westillä oli melko mahtavat maitomunat ja varmaan herkullinen mesipiiras. Vaikka jäävät kyllä 2:si Savonlinnan Paskalle. 

      ellauri219.html on line 192:   Lenny Bruce revolutionized comedy in the 50s and 60s, ushering in a personalized style that influenced many later comedians. By the time he appeared on the Sgt. Pepper’s cover, he had been arrested for obscenity, further making him a countercultural hero not only for The Beatles, but also the Beatniks and Bob Dylan (No.15). He died of a drug overdose in August 1966.

      ellauri219.html on line 215: A German composer who pioneered the use of electronic music in the 50s and 60s, Stockhausen remains a godfather of the avant-garde, whose boundary-pushing music influenced The Beatles’ own groundbreaking experiments in the studio, starting with their tape experiments of Revolver’s “Tomorrow Never Knows.” Paul McCartney (No.64) introduced Stockhausen’s work to the group, turning John Lennon (No.62) into a fan; Lennon and Yoko Ono even sent the composer a Christmas card in 1969.

      ellauri219.html on line 219:   An American writer, comedian, and actor, WC Fields was the epitome of the all-around entertainer, whose career spanned both the silent film era and the talkies. His humor seeped into The Beatles’ own, while the vaudeville world he came from would also go on to influence songs the likes of “Your Mother Should Know.” W. C. Fields oli yhdysvaltalainen koomikko, joka esiintyi ensin vaudevillessa ja teatterissa, ja vuodesta 1930 alkaen äänielokuvissa. Fields oli yksi aikansa suosituimmista elokuvakoomikoista. Hänen todellisuutta vastaava roolihahmonsa tunnetaan nasaaliäänestään, epäsosiaalisuudestaan ja persoudestaan alkoholille. Hän esitti joko leuhkaa huijarityyppiä tai vaimonsa nalkutuksesta kärsivää aviomiestä. Hänen hahmonsa olivat persoja alkoholille, puhuivat karkeuksia eivätkä voineet sietää lapsia tai koiria.The oft-repeated anecdote that Fields refused to drink water "because fish fuck in it" is unsubstantiated. Vastenmielinen.

      ellauri219.html on line 236: Born in 1938, American painter and illustrator Richard Merkin was enamored with the early jazz period that flourished in the years before his birth. His modernist style matched the abstraction of jazz music, and also inspired Peter Blake’s tribute artwork, Souvenirs For Richard Merkin, created in 1966.

      ellauri219.html on line 250: Along with Huntz Hall (No.13), Leo Gorcey was one of The Bowery Boys, a group of on-screen hoodlums who grew out of The Dead End Kids and The East Side Kids. Their movie franchise ran throughout the 40s and 50s, and totaled 48 films. As the gang’s leader, Gorcey was a prototype street thug who set the template for many to follow, though he refused to let The Beatles use his image unless they paid him a fee, which was declined.

      ellauri219.html on line 265: Dylan and The Beatles influenced each other throughout the 60s, each spurring the other on to making music that pushed boundaries and reshaped what was thought possible of the simple “pop song.” It was Dylan who convinced John Lennon (No.62) to write more personal songs in the shape of “Help!,” while The Beatles showed Bob what could be achieved with a full band behind him, helping the latter “go electric” in 1965. It was with George Harrison (No.65), however, that Dylan struck up the longest-lasting friendship; the two played together often in the years that followed, forming The Traveling Wilburys and guesting on each other’s projects.

      ellauri219.html on line 270: The influence of Aubrey Beardsley’s pen-and-ink line drawings had already made itself felt on Klaus Voormann’s artwork for Revolver, and here the 19th-century illustrator, whose own style was influenced by Japanese woodcutting, takes a position not too far away from Oscar Wilde (No.41), Beardsley’s contemporary in the Aesthetic movement.

      ellauri219.html on line 275: A founder of the modern Conservative Party, Sir Robert Peel served as the UK’s Prime Minister on two separate occasions, 1834-35 and 1841-46. While he served as the UK’s Home Secretary, Peel also helped form the modern police force – and his name is still evoked today, with the terms “bobbies” and “peelers” referring to policemen in England and Ireland, respectively.

      ellauri219.html on line 280: Published in 1954, Aldous Huxley’s work, The Doors Of Perception, was required reading for the countercultural elite in the 60s. Detailing the author’s own experience of taking mescaline, it chimed with the consciousness-expanding ethos of the decade, and even gave The Doors their name. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize for Literature in seven different years and died on November 22, 1963, the same day that both With The Beatles was released and President John F Kennedy was assassinated. Aldousin veli oli Sir Julian Sorell Huxley (22. kesäkuuta 1887 - 14. helmikuuta 1975) oli brittiläinen biologi, joka kannusti pelagiolaista Teilhard de Chardinia. Huxleyt oli kaiken kaikkiaan hyvin suspekteja. 

      ellauri219.html on line 285: A beloved Welsh poet who died in 1953, The Beatles had all been fans of Dylan Thomas’ poetry by the time it came to creating the Sgt. Pepper’s artwork. “We all used to like Dylan Thomas,” Paul McCartney (No.64) later recalled. “I read him a lot. I think that John started writing because of him.” The late producer George Martin was also a fan, and even created a musical version of Thomas’ radio play, Under Milk Wood, in 1988.

      ellauri219.html on line 295: Originally the leader of Dion And The Belmonts, Dion DiMucci established a successful solo career with hits such as “The Wanderer” and “Runaround Sue” – doo-wop songs that characterized the rock’n’roll era that so influenced The Beatles.

      ellauri219.html on line 300: Striking and versatile, Tony Curtis was a Hollywood idol who made a dizzying amount of movies (over 100) between 1949 and 2008. He will always be remembered for his role alongside Jack Lemmon and Marilyn Monroe (No.25) in the 1959 cross-dressing caper Some Like It Hot, but another stand-out remains his performance alongside Burt Lancaster as fast-talking press agent Sidney Falco in the 1957 film noir The Sweet Smell Of Success. Tässä jää nyt mainizematta Veijareita ja pyhimyksiä (The Persuaders!), ITC Entertainmentin 1970–1971 tuottama televisiosarja. Sen pääosissa esiintyivät Tony Curtis (Danny Wilde) ja Roger Moore (lordi Brett Sinclair; koko nimi Brett Rupert George Robert Andrew Sinclair, Marnockin 15. jaarli). Sitä tehtiin 24 jaksoa. Tony ja Roger eivät voineet sietää toisiaan. Läskiintynyt Tony kuoli kasarina sydämen pysähdyxeen. Rooger aateloitiin, vaikkei käynyt loppuun edes teatterikoulua. “But because of the war there were 16 girls in every class to four boys so while I didn’t learn that much about acting, I learned a hell of a lot about sex.”

      ellauri219.html on line 304: “But I’m not putting him down. He was a wonderful actor and we were good friends – although we became better friends when we finished shooting. He really wanted to feel that he was in control, though actually it was me who was his boss." Tony oli Roogeria 2v vanhempi. Rooger eli 5v vanhemmaxi.

      ellauri219.html on line 309: American artist Wallace Berman more than earned his place on the album cover: his pioneering “assemblage art” took a three-dimensional approach to the collage style that Peter Blake excelled in, and is an influence that can be felt on the Sgt. Pepper’s design.

      ellauri219.html on line 314: Like Max Miller (No.37), Tommy Handley was another British wartime comedian. Born in Liverpool, he would have been a local hero for The Beatles, and his BBC radio show, ITMA (“It’s That Man Again”) ran for ten years, from 1939 to 1949, until Handley’s sudden death from a brain hemorrhage.

      ellauri219.html on line 324: From Bob Dylan (No.15) to David Bowie, Tom Waits to Steely Dan, Beat Generation author Burroughs has influenced many a songwriter over the decades. Less known is that, according to Burroughs himself, he witnessed Paul McCartney (No.64) working on “Eleanor Rigby.” As quoted in A Report From The Bunker, a collection of conversations with author Victor Bockris, Burroughs recalled McCartney putting him up in The Beatles’ flat on 34 Montagu Square: “I saw the song taking shape. Once again, not knowing much about music, I could see that he knew what he was doing.”

      ellauri219.html on line 329: A student of Sir Yukteswar Girl (No.1), Sir Mahatavara Babaji is said to have revived the practice of Kriya Yoga meditation, which was then taken to the West by Paramahansa Yogananda (No.33). In the latter’s memoir, Autobiography Of A Yogi, Yogananda claims that Babaji still lives in the Himalayas, but will only reveal himself to the truly blessed.

      ellauri219.html on line 361: 
      34: Hairdressers’ wax dummy No.1
      

      ellauri219.html on line 369: A friend of John Lennon’s (No.62) dating back to their time studying at Liverpool College Of Art, Stuart Sutcliffe was The Beatles’ original bassist. While the group were living in Hamburg and playing around the city’s clubs, Sutcliffe met photographer Astrid Kirchherr, who gave The Beatles their distinctive early 60s haircuts. Sutcliffe left the group in order to enroll in the Hamburg College Of Art, but his career was tragically cut short when he died, aged 21, from a brain aneurysm.

      ellauri219.html on line 371: 
      36: Hairdressers’ wax dummy No.2
      

      ellauri219.html on line 389: In his iconic role of Johnny Strabler in the 1953 movie The Wild One, Marlon Brando captured the growing frustrations of the generation that gave birth rock’n’roll. Hailed as one of the greatest actors of all time, it’s also notable that Brando’s rivals in The Wild One, The Beetles, were almost-namesakes of The Beatles.

      ellauri219.html on line 394: As the man who became Hollywood’s first-ever Western icon, Tom Mix starred in a staggering 291 movies between 1909 and 1935.

      ellauri219.html on line 414: It’s probably fair to say that Dr. Livingstone was to geographic exploration what The Beatles were to sonic innovation: fearless, ever questing, and mapping out new territories for the world. The famous “Dr. Livingstone, I presume?” saying remains in common use today, and can be traced back to a meeting between Livingstone and explorer Henry Morton Stanley, who’d been sent on an expedition to find the former, who had been missing for six years. Livingstone was discovered in the town of Ujiji, in what is now known as Tanzania.

      ellauri219.html on line 449: A disciple of Sir Mahatavara Babaji (No.27), Sir Lahiri Mahasaya learned the discipline of Kriya Yoga in 1861, and subsequently passed the teachings down to Sir Yukteswar Girl (No.1), who in turn, passed them on to Sir Paramahansa Yogananda (No.33), of whom Mahasaya said, “As a spiritual engine, he will carry many souls to God’s Kingdom.”

      ellauri219.html on line 454: Speaking to the BBC in 1965, John Lennon (No.62) declared his love for Alice In Wonderland and Alice Through The Looking Glass, revealing, “I usually read those two about once a year, because I still like them.” It’s perhaps no surprise, then, that the man who wrote the poem “The Walrus And The Carpenter,” which influenced Lennon’s lyrics for “I Am The Walrus,” is given a prominent display on the Sgt. Pepper’s album cover. P.S. Carroll oli pedofiilien ihan terävintä kärkeä. 

      ellauri219.html on line 459: Immortalized in the 1962 film Lawrence Of Arabia, in which he was played by Peter O’Toole, TE Lawrence was a British archaeologist and military officer who became a liaison to the Arab forces during the Arab Revolt of 1916 to 1918. His 1922 book, Seven Pillars Of Wisdom, recounted his experiences during the war and laid the foundations for much of his legend.

      ellauri219.html on line 464: The Beatles were famously photographed with boxing legend Cassius Clay in February 1964, in Miami, Florida. But it’s a wax model of boxer Sonny Liston, the man that Clay defeated later that month in order to become the heavyweight champion, who appears on the Sgt. Pepper cover. Liston had held the heavyweight title for two years, from 1962 to ’64, before losing it to Clay, who subsequently changed his name to Muhammad Ali.

      ellauri219.html on line 472: In a perfectly postmodern touch, The Beatles included wax models of their former Beatlemania-era selves looking on at their modern incarnation in full military psychedelic regalia. The models of John (No.57), Paul (No.60), George (No.56), and Ringo (No.59) were borrowed from Madame Tussauds for the Sgt. Pepper’s photoshoot.

      ellauri219.html on line 475: The very definition of a “triple threat,” Shirley Temple was an actress, singer, and dancer who became a child star in the 30s. She also appears on the Sgt. Pepper album cover three times over, her hair poking out from between the wax figures of John Lennon (No.62) and Ringo Starr (No.63), and also standing in front of the model of Diana Dors (No.70). There’s also a cloth figure of the star off to the far right, wearing a jumper emblazoned with the slogan “Welcome The Rolling Stones.” 

      ellauri219.html on line 480: Barely visible above John Lennon’s right shoulder (No.62), Albert Einstein was a physicist whose theory of relativity was light years ahead of its time and changed the world forever.

      ellauri219.html on line 483: Resplendent in their military chic (or should that be military psych?) garb, John (No.62), Ringo (No.63), Paul (No.64), and George (No.65) presented themselves as Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, looking like a psychedelic brass band brandishing a French horn, trumpet, cor anglais, and flute, respectively. Like the album cover itself, The Beatles’ Sgt Pepper costumes would become some of the most iconic band outfits ever, instantly recognizable and forever woven into the fabric of our culture.

      ellauri219.html on line 488: Like Shirley Temple (Nos.58, 71, and 73), Bobby Breen was a child star of the 30s. After enlisting in the military and entertaining the troops during World War II he became a nightclub singer, and, in 1964, even made some recordings for Berry Gordy’s Motown label.

      ellauri219.html on line 528: Along with the stone figure (No.77) that can be seen below the feet of the Shirley Temple doll (No.73), the stone figure of a girl (No.76) was one of a number of statues that John Lennon (No.62) and George Harrison (No.65) brought from their homes for inclusion on the cover. The most prominent of these is the bust positioned to the right of the bass drum (No.78), which came from Lennon’s house Kenwood, in Weybridge, Surrey, where he lived from 1964 to 1969.

      ellauri219.html on line 533: It’s said that the trophy nestling in the crook of the “L” of “BEATLES” was a swimming trophy awarded to John Lennon (No.62) when he was a child.

      ellauri219.html on line 548: Originating from India, the hookah is a tobacco-smoking instrument designed so that the smoke is filtered through a water basin before being inhaled. Its inclusion on the Sgt Pepper album cover is a nod to both George Harrison’s (No.65) love of India and John Lennon’s (No.62) love of Lewis Carroll (No.52), whose Caterpillar in Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland smokes a hookah.

      ellauri219.html on line 553: Placed beneath Sonny Liston (No.54) is a purple velvet snake most likely to have been one of Jann Haworth’s cloth designs.

      ellauri219.html on line 563: Just in front of the Fukusuke doll (No.84) is a statue of Snow White, from Grimms’ Fairy Tales.

      ellauri219.html on line 597:     In his autobiographical essay, “On My Religion,” Rawls explains why he abandoned his orthodox Christian beliefs in spite of the deeply religious temperament that informed his life and writings. In particular, he recounts how his personal experiences during the Second World War, and especially his awareness of the Holocaust, led him to question whether prayer was possible. “To interpret history as expressing God’s will, God’s will must accord with the most basic ideas of justice as we know them. For what else can the most basic justice be? Thus, I soon came to reject the idea of the supremacy of the divine will as [like the Holocaust] also hideous and evil.” Furthermore, by studying the history of the Inquisition Rawls came to “think of the denial of religious freedom and liberty of conscience as a very great evil,” such that “it makes the claims of the Popes to infallibility impossible to accept.” Finally, his reading of Jean Bodin’s thoughts about toleration led him to claim that religions should be “each reasonable, and accept the idea of public reason and its idea of the domain of the political.” Against this background, it is no wonder that Rawls considers the very concept of religious truth as authoritarian and intolerant, and the ensuing persecution of dissenters as the curse of Christianity.

      ellauri219.html on line 599:     Pope Benedict’s basic answer is that, although modern principles of political freedom, democracy, equality, and reasonable argument are to be affirmed, a free state rests on “pre-political moral foundations,” which serve as normative points of reference for every regime and must be held in common by all religions and secular world-views. This answer reflects the fact that Pope Benedict disagrees with Rawls on at least two fundamental issues, which constitute the core of the debate between them and to which I shall refer regularly in the course of my analysis. In the first place, Pope Benedict does not share Rawls’s trust in fundamental human reasonableness as a guarantee for political fairness. For Rawls, persons are reasonable when they are ready to propose principles and standards as fair terms of cooperation and to abide by them willingly, given the assurance that others will likewise do so. Those norms they view as reasonable for everyone to accept and therefore as justifiable to them; and they are ready to discuss the fair terms that others propose.

      ellauri219.html on line 601: This idea of reasonableness informs the whole project of Rawls’s political liberalism, because “the form and content of this reason … are part of the idea of democracy itself.” In contrast, Pope Benedict, although consistently stressing the importance of reason in all human affairs, is much more pessimistic about Rawls’s claim that human beings, who are always children of their own time and cultural situation, are reasonable enough to provide the general principles or standards that are necessary for specifying fair cooperation. 
      Joo olen kyllä Pentin kannalla siinä että nää termiittiapinat on aivan vitun tyhmiä, täysin beyond redemption. Mitä uutta kissimirrit tässä? Ei mitään, samaa paskanjauhantaa. 

      ellauri219.html on line 648: keksi palkata rutikuivan Peter O’Toolen tämän komedian 

      ellauri219.html on line 650: historiamme surkeimmista Star Trek -jaksoista. O’Toole

      ellauri219.html on line 749: I teach World of Ideas and courses on Asian religions in the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies. In my research, I'm interested in exploring young boys and girls In Thailand. Currently, I’m working on two major projects. The first is the preparation of my first book, The Snake and the Mongoose, for publication with Oxford University Press. The second is ongoing research on the Royal Court Brahmans of Thailand. I also have a side interest in the philosophy of prepubertal physics that I indulge when I have the time.

      ellauri219.html on line 771:   In the practice of meditation, a beginning may be made by fixing the attention upon some external object, such as a sacred image or picture, or a part of a book of devotion. In the second stage, one passes from the outer object to an inner pondering upon its lessons. The third stage is the inspiration, the heightening of the spiritual will, which results from this pondering. The fourth stage is the realization of one’s spiritual being, as enkindled by this meditation. An interior state of spiritual consciousness is reached, which is called “the cloud of things knowable”. Tietämättömyyden pilvi. (tyhjää) puhekuplassa.

      ellauri219.html on line 781:   For those of weak willy, there is this counsel: to be faithful in obedience, to give the wife, and thus to strengthen the willy to more perfect obedience. The willy is not ours, but Cod’s, and we come into it only through obedience. As we enter into the spirit of Cod, we are permitted to share the power of Cod. If we obey the Master promptly, loyally, sincerely, we shall enter by degrees into the Master’s wife and share the Master’s powerful willy.

      ellauri219.html on line 798:   No it is not because of the clash in values between American individualism and libertarianism, and the rest of the West’s social democracy and collectivism. That’s a contributing factor among those with enough cultural affinity and exposure to get to know how the US ticks, which maybe explains some of the last decade or so, with the Internet. But again, the “Death to Amreeka” crowds, the sneering at the unsophisticated doughboys, the dismissal of American culture—all that predated that deep familiarity by decades. The discovery of the substantive cultural mismatches were again a late addition and confirmation bias. (How I like the scientific sound of it: confirmation bias.)

      ellauri219.html on line 800:     No it’s not *just* American military adventurism, although that’s certainly a key factor in much of the world. (When my uncle welcomed me in Athens while I was living in California, he said, “So, nephew, you’re living in America, huh? … Americans, murderers of the nations.” The expression was proverbial in the Greek left. And since the Yugoslav Wars, the Greek right as well.)

      ellauri219.html on line 803: Hegemony means that the rest of the world is going to resent you, no matter what you do, because they cannot get away from being sat upon by you, and people don’t like someone else’s ideas and culture and politics and culture wars impinging on their own.

      ellauri219.html on line 805: That’s why when people are outright  nasty towards bigoted Americans, they don’t think they’re doing anything wrong. Because as far as they’re concerned, they’re punching back. Serves ’em right, they’re privileged on everybody else's expense.

      ellauri219.html on line 809: The soft power means that they aren’t necessarily going to hate you outright: Americans did not bomb Britain out of an Empire, they just took over their dominions, whatever they got up to in Vietnam or Iraq. But people know that you’re the obese gorilla, even if you constantly tell them that you are virtuous and noble. Which will make them all the more ready to pounce on you, when you inevitably fall short of your virtuous and noble rhetoric. That virtuous and noble rhetoric made the resentment inevitable.

      ellauri219.html on line 811: People don’t expect better of an imperial Russia, or an imperial Britain, or an imperial France, or an imperial Germany. Some of them took on the blurb of the white man's burden, but I doubt people were really taken in by it anywhere except the U.S. With the possible exception of the Brits.

      ellauri219.html on line 813: But the States, prodded on by its own exceptionalist rhetoric, said they were different. That they were making the world Safe For Democracy. That they desired Liberty for All. And when the US acted as any imperial power must, and did some (well, a lot of) grubby things, there were a lot of outsiders who wanted to believe—and who felt betrayed. And they’ve held the kind of grudge against America and its optimistic, American Dream mass culture, that they did not hold against previous imperial powers. Aw, who am I kidding, of course they did.

      ellauri219.html on line 815: You’re hearing it even now, in the tedious whataboutism from the Global South (the new enemy, now that Global North is practically ours) about Ukraine. People expect Putin’s Russia to elbow neighbours aside in pursuit of security. That’s what imperial Athens did to Melos. They don’t expect any better. But America? America said it was better. So what? Who in their right mind would believe them? They are a nation of used car salesmen. It still does, with its advocacy of human rights. That’s why the non-stop whataboutist refrain from them is that America is hypocritical. Which it is, to a fault.

      ellauri219.html on line 820: Evans could not help himself: he muttered the aside “some might say we’re seeking to make the world Safe for Feudalism.” 

      ellauri219.html on line 822: Because he knew that this venture was not the Safe for Democracy mission that Wilson had in mind, and that stuck in his craw. It stuck in his craw, because he too wanted to believe that America had been making the world Safe for Democracy. But we loyally sent our troops in anyway, under the banner of the Treaty of Westphalia, not Wilson’s Fourteen Points.

      ellauri219.html on line 828:     I think a lot of the bias toward Americans also comes from our historical tendency to inflate the wonders of American life to oversized proportions out of sync with reality. Some of this comes from having been put down so frequently, a class-based psychological issue deep-rooted in American life, probably related to so many of us having come from poor immigrant families. We puff up the wonders of American life to compensate for having come from the bottom rungs of society in other countries. We’re not the only culture that does this.

      ellauri219.html on line 830: You’re not, but you’re the culture with the megaphone. People are paying disproportionate attention to your stupidity. And when stupid suckers elsewhere discover that the streets of Hollywood are not paved with gold, they truly are crestfallen, to an extent they wouldn’t be with Moscow, or Paris. Just as they were crestfallen to discover that the States was just another empire after all.

      ellauri219.html on line 832: And there is something… “gee willywickers” about the way Truth Justice and The American Way have been inflated in American mass culture, quite plausibly rooted in that class insecurity, that makes outside cultural elites (and the people that follow after them) reflexively sneer, once they realise the foundations are rotten. Add to this the ludicrous fact that America has no high culture. These are disappointed suitors: they’re not going to console themselves over the emptiness of Scrooge McDuck by turning to Wilt Whatman. Who was no better off than Scrooge by way of civility.

      ellauri219.html on line 956:   Joyce Yeaw will likely never forget the day in April 2010 she tried to return some borrowed cheese to Jordan Peterson’s roommate. Once she arrived, she saw Peterson having sex with his pit bull on his bed. Understandably horrified, Yeaw called the cops, but Peterson convinced the officers that he was “just hugging his dog” and he escaped arrest. Two months later, Yeaw again entered the residence, and saw Peterson having sex with the pit bull a second time—on the living room floor. Yeaw called the cops again, and this time, he was arrested.

      ellauri219.html on line 958:   Yeaw said, “He was having sex with the dog, it was disgusting.” Peterson said in court that he was “sexually aroused from accidental contact with the animal’s rear,” but insisted that happened as he was “just playing with the dog.”

      ellauri219.html on line 962: While those who never had sex with animals or done drugs may criticize Kara’s, Jordan's and their dogs' lewd behaviors as if they were evil — and this, perhaps, according to Christian morality as they interpret it — anybody who has actually suffered from lewdness puts this to the lie and knows that such behavior is not a moral issue, but a chemical imbalance. Evidently the words of Jesus to “Judge not lest you be judged,” make little impression on such folk, who pretend to themselves that if their worst, most embarrassing moments were made into headlines in the papers, they would do just fine. Even if they themselves had nothing to be embarrassed about in all their life of adventures and misadventures, they ought to have compassion for those who struggle with greater problems than their own. “Let Judge Hicks who is without sin cast the first stone,” is another saying of Jesus that applies to those who would judge and condemn an easy target.

      ellauri219.html on line 1008:   Rereading Don DeLillo’s Underworld – still hits a home run! The author of The Flamethrowers Rachel Kushner hails it as a masterpiece. Rachel who?

      ellauri219.html on line 1014:   As a child of the 20th century, I suppose, this book sorta speaks to me. Talk to the hand. It precipitates into meaning historical movies I’ve seen. Don is like Wilt Whatman who addressed, in the poem “Crossing Brooklyn Ferry”, the people of the future. Sublime but ironic.

      ellauri219.html on line 1018:   Then there’s Moonman 157 and Klara Sax, a feminist ideal of Land Art. What do they have in common?  Smudging useful things with paint. An artistic version of food fight. What do Jayne Mansfield’s breasts remind adolescent Eric of? The bumper bullets on a Cadillac.  What does Dumb of Dumb and Dumber take for a cute lady's boobs? A semi trailer's fog lights. Meanwhile, Eric masturbates into a condom that reminds him of a missile (with his tiny wiener all loaded and cocked inside). Dad polishes his Buick, the son his dick. The clammy hand of coincidence.

      ellauri219.html on line 1030:   Teilhard served in World War I as a stretcher-bearer. He received several citations for speeding. In 1962, with Pierre safely out of this world, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith condemned several of Teilhard's works based on their alleged ambiguities and doctrinal errors. He was a leading proponent of orthogenesis, the idea that evolution occurs in a directional, goal-driven way. Teilhard made sense of the universe by assuming it had a vitalist evolutionary process. When our talk touched on St. Augustine, he exclaimed violently: 'Don’t mention that unfortunate man; he spoiled everything by introducing the supernatural.'" Teilhard siis oli selvä pelagiolainen humanisti! Teilhard has been criticized as incorporating common notions of Social Darwinism and scientific racism into his work, along with support for eugenics, though he has also been defended for doing so by theologian John Haught.

      ellauri220.html on line 88: Blabb’d, blush’d, resented, lied, stole, grudg’d,

      ellauri220.html on line 97: Was call’d by my nighest name by clear loud voices of young men as they saw me approaching or passing,

      ellauri220.html on line 566: George Denis Patrick Carlin oli yhdysvaltalainen Grammy-palkittu stand up -koomikko, näyttelijä, tunnettu ateisti ja kirjailija. Carlin oli kuuluisa ennen kaikkea kieleen, psykologiaan, uskontoon ja tabuihin kohdistuneista huomioistaan. It’s Bad For Ya. Carlin kuoli 22. kesäkuuta 2008 sairaalassa sydämen vajaatoimintaan. Carlinilla oli ollut sydänvaivoja jo aiemmin. Viimeisissä kuvissa se on vanha käppänä. 7 sanaa joita ei saa sanoa teeveessä:

      ellauri220.html on line 591:   Joo Emmanuellehan se pätkä oli, vlta 1974. Sen takeen sillä sai olla niin pienet tisutkin. Ei se mua haittaa, pidän sellaisista. Mutta vittu se vanha äijäpaha sexipeetee oli rasittava. Toinen samanmoinen oli Marlon Brando Viimeisessä tangossa. Rasvaisia puoliveteisiä ukkoja letkut puolitangossa. Lush cinematography, marvellous acting (in particular from Sylvia Kristel) and genuinely erotic scenes tastefully directed… Just Jaeckin! It’s the same badly dubbed, funny-for-about-five-minutes shite it’s always been, with ‘Ooh look! Fanny smoke rings! Chortle!’ tired businessman’s humour very much to the delapidated fore. Best bits of this sorry cash cow – sorry, ‘significant cultural event – were the original UK trailers, as voiced by Katie Boyle.

      ellauri221.html on line 71:   The club was founded in 1762 by William Petty Fitzmaurice, then-Earl of Shelburne, who would later become Marquess of Lansdowne and then Prime Minister from 1782-1783. The club’s initial location was on Pall Mall, a street in the Westminster area of central London, before moving to its current location on St. James’s Street in 1782, a street adjoining Pall Mall.

      ellauri221.html on line 73: 	The club’s name derives from its head waiter, Edward Poodle. Poodles quickly built up a prestigious reputation among London’s powerful and wealthy classes, and its membership reflected this, numbering numerous politicians and members of the British aristocracy. Members have included former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, John Perfumo (a politician who resigned after the notorious Perfumo affair scandal, whereby he was revealed as having an affair with 19-year-old model Helen Keller), philosopher David Hume, economist and philosopher Adam Smith, and author Ian Fleming, creator of the world’s most famous fictional spy, James Bond.

      ellauri221.html on line 75: 	Fleming used to visit the club for lunch, though it’s not known whether he enjoyed the club’s famous Agent Orange Fool, an indulgent traditional British dessert made with fruit and cream that became synonymous with Poodles. It’s said that Fleming based Blades, a fictional private members’ club in the James Bond series (mentioned in two Bond novels, 1955’s Moonraker and You Only Live Twice in 1964) largely on Poodles. Certainly, the architectural features and opulent décor of Blades described by Fleming in his novels both bear similarities to Poodles.

      ellauri221.html on line 77: 	At the far end, above the cold cuts table, laden with lobsters, pies, joints and delicacies in aspic, Romney’s unfinished full-length portrait of Mrs Fitzsherbet gazed provocatively across at Fragonard’s Jeu de Cartes, the broad conversation-piece which half-filled the opposite wall above the Adam fireplace.

      ellauri221.html on line 97:   Elle dépose le 13 décembre 1945 devant le Conseil municipal de Paris un projet pour la fermeture des maisons closes. Dans son discours, elle ne s’en prend pas tant aux prostituées qu’à la société, responsable selon elle, de la « débauche organisée et patentée » et à la mafia, qui bénéficie de la prostitution réglementée ; le propos permet aussi de rappeler que le milieu de la prostitution s'est compromis avec l’occupant pendant la guerre. Sa proposition est votée et le 20 décembre 1945, le préfet de police Charles Luizet décide de fermer sans préavis les maisons du département de la Seine dans les 3 mois (au plus tard le 15 mars 1946, date qu'a fixée le conseil municipal). Encouragée, Marthe Richard commence une campagne de presse pour le vote d'une loi généralisant ces mesures. Elle est soutenue par le Cartel d'action sociale et morale et le ministre de la Santé publique et de la Population, Robert Prigent.

      ellauri221.html on line 99: 	Le 9 avril 1946, le député Marcel Roclore présente le rapport de la Commission de la famille, de la population et de la santé publique, et conclut à la nécessité de la fermeture. Le député Pierre Dominjon dépose une proposition de loi dans ce sens qui est votée le 13 avril 1946 à la chambre des députés. La fermeture des maisons closes est appliquée à partir du 6 novembre 1946. Le fichier national de la prostitution est détruit et remplacé par un fichier sanitaire et social de la prostitution (loi du 24 avril 1946). Environ 1 400 établissements sont fermés, dont 195 à Paris (177 établissements officiels) : les plus connus comme le Chabanais, le Sphinx, La Rue des Moulins, le One-Two-Two mais aussi les sinistres maisons d’abattage comme le Fourcy et le Charbo… Beaucoup de tenanciers de maisons closes se reconvertirent en propriétaires d'hôtels de passe. La prostitution est alors une activité libre ; seules sont interdites son organisation et son exploitation — le proxénétisme — et ses manifestations visibles.

      ellauri221.html on line 112: “Narcissism is not a disease,” says Freed. "It’s an evolutionary strategy that can be incredibly successful—when it works, ”

      ellauri221.html on line 269:     In an update of a study on empathy originally conducted in 1979, Sara Konrath, a researcher at the University of Michigan’s Institute for Social Research, Ed O’Brien and Courtney Hsing have presented “Changes in Dispositional Empathy in American College Students Over Time: A Meta-Analysis” at the annual convention of Psychological Sciences in Boston (May 28th 2010). In this study they find a drastic difference in today’s student body on campuses from college students of the late 1970s. Today’s students disagree more frequently with such statements as: “I sometimes try to understand my friends better by imagining how things look from their perspective”, or, “I often have tender, concerned feelings for people less fortunate than me.”

      ellauri222.html on line 68: In Leader's Bellow biography Vol 2, “Love and Strife,” the novel “Herzog” is published on the very first page and reaches No. 1 on the best-seller list, supplanting John le Carré’s ‘The Spy Who Came In From the Cold.’ Never again would Bellow, about to turn 50 years old, lack for wealth, power, awards or flunkies to stand by him, ready to take his coat and do his bidding. The temptation for someone in his position was to become an insufferable, spoiled monster. And Bellow quickly gave in to temptation. 

      ellauri222.html on line 70: Bellow’s bad temper in the late ’60s was by no means directed exclusively at would-be biographers, radical students and aggrieved wives. Bellow had so many targets to attack, whether insulting them face to face or in blistering letters or put-downs circulated through intermediaries. One of his favorite one-liners ran: “Let’s you and him fight.” The most salient recipients of Bellow’s bad temper in this biography were his three sons, each from a different mother — the oldest 21 when this volume starts, the youngest just 1 year old and about to be abandoned after yet another divorce.

      ellauri222.html on line 74: Bellow didn’t just model some main characters on famous friends, but all characters were taken from life. He was in many ways a very thoughtful and kind person, but I think his need to be the top dog, the best, was very deep.

      ellauri222.html on line 76: The irony in Bellow’s soul was that he craved love and experience, and learned to view people coldly and clinically. The writer Amos Oz recalled most vividly from his friendship with Bellow an exchange that they shared privately about death. “I said I was hoping to die in my sleep, but Saul responded by saying that, on the contrary, he would like to die wide awake and fully conscious, because his death is such a crucial experience he wouldn’t want to miss it.”

      ellauri222.html on line 78: As previous biographers have discovered, it’s difficult to write an endearing biography of Bellow. “Was I a man or was I a jerk?” Bellow inquired on his deathbed.  The answer should be obvious.

      ellauri222.html on line 83: “I am an American, Chicago born” begins the famous first sentence of “The Adventures of Augie March.” The author of that sentence was actually an illegal immigrant, Canada born, and the words were written in Paris. Bellow’s father, Abraham Belo, was born in a shtetl inside the Pale of Settlement. He began his career in St. Petersburg as a produce broker, specializing in Egyptian onions and Spanish fruit. The family seems to have been quite well off. Abraham had used a forged document to work in St. Petersburg, and, when this was discovered, he was arrested and convicted. He may have gone to prison. But he managed to escape and, in 1913, to get his family to Canada.

      ellauri222.html on line 87: Abraham spent the rest of his life in Chicago, and he ended up running a retail coal business. But he never really learned English—Yiddish was the language at home—and he never became a citizen. He had no passport and no driver’s license (which didn’t prevent him from driving). Saul did not become an American citizen until 1943.

      ellauri222.html on line 89: But Chicago was a city of immigrants. It also had a large Jewish population—by 1931, according to Leader, nearly three hundred thousand in a city of 3.3 million. All the Bellow children assimilated happily and all became well off. Saul is often associated with the University of Chicago, where he taught for many years as a member of the legendary Committee on Social Thought. He was a student there, but for less than two years. He had to withdraw for financial reasons (a truck driver was killed in an accident at his father’s coal yard and the insurance had lapsed), and he transferred to Northwestern, from which he graduated in 1937.

      ellauri222.html on line 91: In his Op-Ed about the Zulu Tolstoy, Bellow made much of his academic training in anthropology. After leaving Northwestern, he did become a graduate student in anthropology at the University of Wisconsin. But he completed just one course before dropping out and returning to Chicago, where he married a woman, Anita Goshkin, who was studying for a master’s degree in social work, and began his career as a fiction writer and itinerant college teacher. His first job was at Pestalozzi-Froebel Teachers College, on South Michigan Avenue, in downtown Chicago.

      ellauri222.html on line 95: He also worked for a time at the Encyclopædia Britannica, on the fifty-two-volume “Great Books of the Western World,” under the editorship of Mortimer J. Adler. Bellow was in charge of editing part of the “Syntopicon,” a two-volume digest of the Great Ideas composed by Adler. He had taken one of Adler’s courses at the University of Chicago and had concluded that it was “tomfoolery,” but he seems to have liked the job.

      ellauri222.html on line 97: “In college I behaved as though my career was to be a writer, and that guided me,” Bellow later said. There was also the fact that his principal interest was literature, and, until after the war, Jews were rarely hired by English departments. “You weren’t born to it” is the way the chairman of the department at Northwestern clarified the matter when Bellow inquired about graduate school. Leader thinks that this encounter “produced a lifelong antipathy, mild but real, to English departments.” It’s true that there was antipathy. But Bellow would have been interested in a university career only as a means to support his writing. Fiction was his calling. “He was focused, he was dedicated to becoming what he was, from the beginning,” David Peltz, Bellow’s oldest friend, told Leader. “I mean, he never veered.”

      ellauri222.html on line 99: Bellow published his first short story in 1941. It came out in Partisan Review—marking the start of a relationship that was key to establishing Bellow’s reputation as the intellectuals’ chosen novelist. Bellow visited New York frequently, and lived there at various points, but he was never comfortable in the city. “I congratulated myself with being able to deal with New York,” he told Philip Roth near the end of his life, “but I never won any of my struggles there, and I never responded with full human warmth to anything that happened there.”

      ellauri222.html on line 101: Still, in New York and at Princeton, where he spent a year teaching creative writing, Bellow made friends with many of the critics who dominated literary life in the nineteen-fifties. They found him bright, congenial, and sufficiently bookish, and especially admired what they took to be his poise and real-world savvy. Irving Howe thought Bellow “very strong-willed and shrewd in the arts of self-conservation.” “Even his egocentricity added to his charms,” said William Phillips, the co-editor, with Philip Rahv, of Partisan Review. “Stunning—the ultimate beautiful young Jewish intellectual incarnate,” Alfred Kazin’s wife, Ann Birstein, remembered. Bellow maintained the allure by cultivating just the right amount of aloofness. “I was the cat who walked by himself,” as he put it.

      ellauri222.html on line 105: So even “Dangling Man,” an awkwardly written book about which Bellow later said, “I can’t read a page of it without feeling embarrassed,” was received as a sign that the novel might after all be up to its historic task. “Here, for the first time I think, the experience of a new generation has been seized,” Delmore Schwartz wrote, in Partisan Review. In The New Yorker, Edmund Wilson called “Dangling Man” a “testimony on the psychology of a whole generation.” When Bellow’s second novel, “The Victim,” came out, in 1947, Martin Greenberg, in Commentary, explained that Bellow had succeeded in making Jewishness “a quality that informs all of modern life . . . the quality of modernity itself.” In Partisan Review, Elizabeth Hardwick suggested that Bellow might become “the redeeming novelist of the period.”

      ellauri222.html on line 107: This notion that Bellow’s achievement as a novelist was redemptive of the form was a consistent theme in the reviews up through “Herzog.” So was the notion that his protagonists were representatives of the modern condition. After “Herzog,” those reactions largely disappeared. People stopped fretting about the death of the novel, and Bellow’s protagonists started being treated as what they always were, oddballs and cranks. But the critical reception of Bellow’s books in the first half of his career funded his reputation. It cashed out, ultimately, in the Nobel Prize. Nobels are awarded to writers who are judged to have universalized the marginal.

      ellauri222.html on line 115: The subject of “Augie March” is the same as the subject of “Dangling Man” and “The Victim”: the danger of becoming trapped in other people’s definition of you. In the case of “Augie March,” the person in danger of being trapped was Saul Bellow. “This was not what being a novelist was supposed to have meant”: he is referring to the expectations of his intellectual backers. He realized that he didn’t want to be the great hope of the novel or to give voice to a generation’s angst. He wanted to write up the life he knew in the way James Joyce had written up the life he knew, and to transform it into a fantastic verbal artifact, a book that broke all the rules.

      ellauri222.html on line 121:     One day’s ordinary falsehood if you could convert it into silt would choke the Amazon back a hundred miles over the banks. However, it never appears in this form but is distributed all over like the nitrogen in potatoes.

      ellauri222.html on line 123: That’s only an aside, and there are hundreds of them. Jack Kerouac is not the first or even the tenth writer you would normally put in a sentence with Saul Bellow, but “The Adventures of Augie March” is a lot like “On the Road,” a book written at the same time. Stylistically, they both stretch syntax to make the perspective zoom from ground level to fifty thousand feet and back again. Augie is walking with a character called Grandma Lausch into an old-age home:

      ellauri222.html on line 129: Bellow must have guessed that “Augie March” would distress some of his admirers. It did. He showed a hundred pages of the manuscript to Lionel Trilling. “It’s very curious, it’s very interesting,” Trilling told him, “but somehow it’s wrong.” When the book came out, Trilling wrote a positive notice in the newsletter of the book club he directed but registered concern about a dangerous notion he detected in the novel, the notion that one could have a meaningful life independent of one’s social function. Bellow wrote to Trilling to say (disingenuously) that he had written the novel without much of a moral purpose in mind. Trilling wrote back. “You mustn’t ignore the doctrinal intention of your book,” he said.

      ellauri222.html on line 131: In Commentary, Podhoretz complained that the novel lacked development and that its exuberance was forced. He called it a failure. Podhoretz was one of Trilling’s protégés, and Bellow always believed that Trilling was behind the review, although Podhoretz denied it. But Atlas says that the art critic Clement Greenberg, then an editor at Commentary, having recently come over from Partisan Review, claimed that the editors had put Podhoretz up to it. It was felt in New York circles, Greenberg said, that Bellow had gone a little too far.

      ellauri222.html on line 135: At Bard, Bellow became close friends with a literature professor named Jack Ludwig. As Leader describes him, Ludwig was an oversized personality, a big man, extravagant, a shameless purveyor of bad Yiddish, and an operator. Ludwig idolized Bellow; people who knew them said that Ludwig wanted to be Bellow. He flattered Bellow, went for long walks with him, started up a literary journal with him, and generally insinuated himself into Bellow’s life. Bellow accepted the proffer of adulatory attentiveness. The couples (Ludwig was married) socialized together. This was the period when Bellow wrote “Seize the Day,” which Partisan Review published in a single issue, in 1956, after The New Yorker turned it down, and “Henderson the Rain King,” published in 1959, a novel whose hero was based on a neighbor of the Bellows in upstate New York.

      ellauri222.html on line 143: In November, Bellow learned from a possibly overly conscientious babysitter that Sasha and Ludwig were sleeping together. It turned out that the affair had been going on for two and a half years, since the summer of 1958. And although Ludwig was still married, it continued. Adam was living with Sasha while it was going on. Given Bellow’s vulnerabilities, the double betrayal was his worst nightmare come to life. According to Atlas, he talked about getting a gun.

      ellauri222.html on line 145: I have just given you the back story and the dramatis personae of “Herzog.” “Herzog” is a novel about a forty-seven-year-old man having a nervous breakdown after learning that his much younger wife, who has left him abruptly, had been cheating on him with his closest friend. The man seeks succor in the arms of a loving, patient, and understanding woman. There is at least one respect in which the novel is not based on real life: Bellow didn’t have a nervous breakdown. He wrote “Herzog” instead.

      ellauri222.html on line 151: “Herzog” was nevertheless received the way all Bellow’s novels had been received: as a report on the modern condition. Many of the critics who reviewed it—Irving Howe, Philip Rahv, Stanley Edgar Hyman, Richard Ellmann, Richard Poirier—knew Bellow personally and knew all about the divorce. (Poirier was an old friend of Ludwig’s; the review he published, in Partisan Review, was a hatchet job.) None of these reviewers mentioned the autobiographical basis of the book, and several of them warned against reading it autobiographically, without ever explaining why anyone might want to. The world had no way of knowing that the story was not completely made up.

      ellauri222.html on line 155: Bellow must have been tickled to death. The inventive feature of “Herzog” is a series of letters that the protagonist, in his misery, composes not only to Madeleine and Gersbach but to famous people (like President Eisenhower) and philosophers (like Heidegger and Nietzsche). These long letters, unfinished and unmailed, are sendups of an intellectual’s effort to understand human behavior by means of the conceptual apparatus of Mortimer Adler’s Great Books. Herzog is a comic figure, a holy fool, a schlimazel with a Ph.D. The whole point of his story is that when you are completely screwed the best you can hope for is a little sex and sympathy. The Western canon isn’t going to be much help.

      ellauri222.html on line 157: The determination to consider the novel strictly as fiction extended even to its characters. Rosette Lamont reviewed the novel. She, too, treated the book as pure make-believe. She breezed right by the Ramona character (“Her religion is sex, a welcome relief from Madeleine’s phony conversion . . . but Herzog is too divided in his mind, too busy with resentment to free himself from a heavy conscience. Besides he is suspicious of pleasure, having learned Julien Sorel’s lesson,” and so on). She concluded with the thought that at the end of the novel Herzog enters into “a theandric relationship with the world around him.”

      ellauri222.html on line 159: And it got even better. Jack Ludwig reviewed the novel. He informed readers of Holiday that “the book is a major breakthrough.” By no means should it be read as autobiography—“as if an artist with Bellow’s enormous gifts were simply playing at second-guessing reality, settling scores.” No, in this book, Ludwig wrote, “Bellow is after something greater.” The greater something turns out to be “man’s contradiction, his absurdity, his alienation,” and so on. It was pretty chutzpadik, as even Bellow had to admit. But by then he was laughing all the way to the bank.

      ellauri222.html on line 161: You can see the biographical problem. From the beginning, Bellow drew on people he knew, including his wives and girlfriends and the members of his own family, for his characters. In “Augie March,” almost every character—and there are dozens—was directly based on some real-life counterpart. Most of “Herzog” is a roman à clef. Leader therefore decided to treat the novels as authoritative sources of information about the people in Bellow’s life. When Leader tells us about Jack Ludwig and Sondra Tschacbasov, he quotes the descriptions of Gersbach and Madeleine in “Herzog.” In the case of the many relatives with counterparts in “Augie March,” this can get confusing. You’re not always sure whether you’re reading about a person or a fictional version of that person.

      ellauri222.html on line 163: One reason for reading biographies of writers like Bellow, who draw from people in their own lives, is to learn what those people were really like, or at least what they were like to someone who is not Bellow. You often can’t do that with Leader’s biography. Leader also wants to assess Bellow’s accomplishment as a novelist. He has to keep three balls in the air at once: the biographical story, an interpretation of the fiction as autobiography, and a consideration of the fiction as fiction. That’s why his book is so long.

      ellauri222.html on line 165: Structure was always Bellow’s weak point. One of his first editors at Partisan Review, Dwight Macdonald, worried about what he called a “centerless facility.” Podhoretz was not wrong about the problem of shapelessness in “Augie March.” The novel’s antic style is like a mechanical bull. For a few hundred pages, Bellow is having the time of his life, letting his invention take him where it will. By the end, he is just hanging on, waiting for the music to stop. It takes the story five hundred and thirty-six pages to get there.

      ellauri222.html on line 167: Leader thinks that Bellow plunged into his books and wrote on sheer enthusiasm, then surfaced after a hundred pages or so and wondered how to get back to shore. There is very little moral logic to his stories. Things just happen. (A major exception is “Seize the Day,” which is formally perfectly realized. But that book is a novella, a day in the life. It doesn’t require a plot.)

      ellauri222.html on line 171: Horrified that Madeleine and Gersbach might be abusing his child (in the novel, a girl), Herzog rushes off to his deceased father’s house, finds a gun his father owned, and goes to Madeleine’s. It is evening. He creeps into the yard and watches Madeleine and Gersbach through the window, loaded pistol in hand. What he sees is an ordinary domestic scene. Gersbach is giving the little girl a bath. Herzog creeps away.

      ellauri222.html on line 173: Actually, these episodes were not entirely invented. Bellow lifted them straight out of “The Brothers Karamazov.” A child tortured by its parents is Ivan Karamazov’s illustration of the problem of evil: what kind of God would allow that to happen? And Herzog with his gun at the window is a reënactment of Dmitri Karamazov, the murder weapon in his hand, spying through the window on his father. Dmitri is caught and convicted of a murder he desired but did not commit. “Herzog,” though, is a comedy. The next day, Herzog gets in a minor traffic accident and the cops discover the loaded gun in his car. But, after some hairy moments in the police station, he is let go. Desperately searching the Great Books for wisdom, Herzog briefly finds himself living in one. He can’t wait to get out.

      ellauri222.html on line 175: The decorum in Bellow criticism is to acknowledge the original of the fictional character when the person is famous, and otherwise to insist on treating it all as fiction. Thus everyone knows that, in “Humboldt’s Gift,” Von Humboldt Fleisher “is” Delmore Schwartz, and that, in “Ravelstein,” Abe Ravelstein “is” Allan Bloom, the Chicago professor who wrote “The Closing of the American Mind” and was a good friend of Bellow’s.

      ellauri222.html on line 177: But “Ravelstein” is a revenge novel, too. It’s not really about Ravelstein/Bloom. It’s about the narrator, a writer named Chick, who has been treated cruelly by his wife, Vela, a beautiful and brilliant physicist—a wicked caricature of Bellow’s fourth wife, the mathematician Alexandra Ionescu Tulcea. There are also a couple of drive-by take-downs along the way—of Mircea Eliade, a historian of religion at Chicago rumored to have been involved in the fascist Romanian Iron Guard, and of the owner of a restaurant on St. Martin, in the Caribbean, where Bellow contracted a case of food poisoning that nearly killed him. He brings them into the story just to skewer them.

      ellauri222.html on line 179: Podhoretz told Leader that he considered all of Bellow’s characters puppets. And there is something animatronic about them. This is especially true in “Augie March,” where the extended procession of too vivid personalities is like a Wes Anderson movie. Bellow tended to make his characters look the way a child sees grownups, unalterable cartoons, weirdly unself-conscious in their one-dimensionality.

      ellauri222.html on line 181: But there is usually one fully imagined character in Bellow’s books, one character whose impulses the author understands and sympathizes with, whose sufferings elicit his compassion, and whose virtues and defects, egotism and self-doubt, honorable intentions and less than honorable expediencies are examined with surgical precision and unflinching honesty. That character is the protagonist—Augie, Herzog, Chick, even Tommy Wilhelm, in “Seize the Day,” who tries to leverage his pain to win respect. Their real-life counterpart is, of course, Saul Bellow, whose greatest subject was himself. 

      ellauri222.html on line 247: Mitä vetoa että Rothin kuikelo veti tästä herneen nenään? Sai takuulla paskahalvauxen. No, Saul was definitely not a good friend. Phil said something like: ‘He wouldn’t be the first guy whose companionship I’d seek out in the afterlife.’”

      ellauri222.html on line 323: The Spanish word for eagle, as Augie learns, is águila, and the similarity between that word and Augie’s name invites a comparison between the eagle and the man. Both the eagle and Augie are adopted and trained by others for schemes they barely understand. And both the eagle and Augie prove to be sensitive creatures, not quite vicious enough to succeed in a Machiavellian world. The episode with the eagle can be read as a metaphor for one of the main themes of the book: nature as destiny. Ultimately, neither the eagle nor Augie does what others expect them to do, but follow their own nature. No tästähän me ollaan jo puhuttu.

      ellauri222.html on line 325: The foremost theme in The Adventures of Augie March is the search for identity. Unsure of what he wants from life, Augie is pulled along into the schemes of friends and strangers, trying on different identities and learning about the world through jobs ranging from union organizer to eagle trainer to book thief. His path seems random, but as Augie notes, quoting the Greek philosopher Heraclitus, “a man’s character is his fate.” As Augie goes through life, knocking on various doors, these doors of fate open up for him as if by random, but the knocks are unquestionably his own. In the end of the novel, Augie defines his identity as a “Columbus of those near-at-hand,” whose purpose in life is to knock some eggs. Augie notes that “various jobs” are the Rosetta stone, or key, to his entire life. Americans define themselves by their work (having no roots, family or land to stick to), and Augie is a sort of vagabond, trying on different identities as he goes along. Unwilling to limit himself by specializing in any one area, Augie drifts from job to job. He becomes a handbill-distributor, a paperboy, a Woolworth’s stocker, a newsstand clerk, a trinket-seller, a Christmas helper at a department store, a flower delivery boy, a butler, a clerk at fine department stores, a paint salesman, a dog groomer, a book thief, a coal yard worker, a housing inspector, a union organizer, an eagle-trainer, a gambler, a literary researcher, a business machine salesman, a merchant marine, and ultimately an importer-exporter working in wartime Europe. Augie’s job changing is emblematic of the social mobility that is so quintessentially American. Augie is the American Everyman, continually reinventing himself, like Donald Duck. Olemme kaikki oman onnemme Akuja, joopa joo. Yrmf, olet tainnut mainita. You are telling me!

      ellauri222.html on line 327: Grandma Lausch tells Augie, “The more you love people the more they’ll mix you up. A child loves, a person respects. Respect is better than love.” Which is really better, respect or love? The two brothers, Augie and Simon, are on opposite sides of this argument. Augie identifies himself on the side of love. An idealist with a soft heart, he is almost comically susceptible to falling in love, and openly shows his sympathy, even toward the small lizards that are killed by the eagle Caligula. Augie’s vision for an orphan home and academy is driven by his motivation to share love. Simon, on the other hand, prefers respect. He marries Charlotte and stays with her because he admires her business sense, not because he feels romantic love for her. He doesn’t care whether the men at the club love him. In fact, he knows they hate him. But this doesn’t matter to him as long as he is respected. Ultimately, Simon is richer and more successful, but Augie seems happier. What's love got to do with it. What a reptile.

      ellauri222.html on line 329: At the end of the novel, Augie reflects on his vagabond existence and laughs aloud. “That’s the animal ridens in me,” he says, “forever rising up.” He dreaded a loss of virility.

      ellauri222.html on line 331:   One of the major themes of the novel is the human tendency toward dishonesty. Augie is not a particularly honest character. He cheats, he steals, and lies quite frequently. Dishonesty characterizes many of the other characters in the novel, including Grandma, Einhorn, Mimi (who lies to doctors that she thinks her pregnancy abnormal), Stella, Agnes, and Mintouchian. The only characters who do not lie or cheat are the simple-minded Mama and Georgie. Lying appears necessary for people to survive in a Machiavellian world. As Mintouchian puts it: “I’m a great admirer of our species. I stand in awe of the genius of the race. But a large part of this genius is devoted to lying and seeming what you are not.” The ethics of the American Jew. The book starts with a lie: I am an American, Chicago born."

      ellauri222.html on line 345: Basteshaw is a biophysicist who works as ship’s carpenter on the McManus, the ship Augie is assigned to while in the Merchant Marines during World War II. After their ship is sunk by torpedoes, Augie and Basteshaw are the only survivors and end up on the same lifeboat. Augie gradually realizes that Basteshaw is an insane genius. Convinced that he has the power to create life from protoplasm, he tries to convince Augie to go with him to the Canary Islands and be his research assistant. In reality, their lifeboat is nowhere near the Canary Islands. Basteshaw ties Augie up to stop him from signaling a ship that might rescue them. Finally Augie gets free, ties up Basteshaw, and manages to signal a British tanker to rescue them.

      ellauri222.html on line 353: Betzhevski is a red-headed Polish barber and tenant of Einhorn’s who leads a protest against Einhorn for his unethical behavior as a landlord. Einhorn evicts him.

      ellauri222.html on line 361: Bluegren is Augie’s boss at the flowershop. An imposing man with cold blue eyes, he is a friend of dangerous gangsters.

      ellauri222.html on line 365: Borg is Simon’s boss at the newsstand in the La Salle Street Station. Augie works for him but is fired because he allows customers to shortchange him.

      ellauri222.html on line 381: Anna Coblin is Mama’s cousin. Augie goes to live with her family so he can help them deliver newspapers. Hyman Coblin is a steady man who enjoys going to burlesque shows downtown. He is generous with Augie. Anna, a big, emotional woman with spiraling reddish hair, dotes on Augie and hopes he will marry their daughter Freidl one day. They also have a son, Howard, who was in the war in Nicaragua.

      ellauri222.html on line 385: Cox is the handyman at Simon’s coal yard.

      ellauri222.html on line 389: Dingbat is the half brother of William Einhorn. He dresses like a gangster and is taken up with gang events and crime, although not a criminal himself. He spends much of his time hanging around the family’s poolroom, Einhorn Billiards. He also tries work as a fight promoter, but is not successful.

      ellauri222.html on line 393: Arthur Einhorn is William Einhorn’s son who is in college at the University of Illinois in Champaign. An intellectual who studies poetry and wants to write scholarly books, he falls in love with Mimi. His relationship with his father is strained after Arthur has a baby and then divorces his wife, leaving the child to be raised by his parents.

      ellauri222.html on line 397: Tillie Einhorn is William Einhorn’s wife. A heavy, attractive lady, she worshipfully obeys her husband and tolerates, or overlooks, his extramarital affairs. After the stock market crash, she helps make money by running a cafeteria inside the poolroom.

      ellauri222.html on line 405: The Commissioner is Einhorn’s elderly father. An important and respected man, he is a real-estate broker who owns and controls many properties in the city. Married multiple times, he is an affable womanizer.

      ellauri222.html on line 409: Esther is the younger of the two Fenchel sisters, beautiful heiresses whom Augie meets at a resort hotel with Mrs. Renling. When she refuses to go out with him, Augie faints. Esther’s more passionate older sister, Thea, falls in love with Augie.

      ellauri222.html on line 421: An employee of the Einhorns, the pretty and promiscuous Lollie is also William Einhorn’s mistress for a time. She leaves the family’s employ after the stock market crash and ends up being killed by a boyfriend. 

      ellauri222.html on line 425: Cissy Flexner is Simon’s fiancée. She is beautiful and tall, with an impressive figure, but dumb and conceited. Her father, Joe Flexner, is a dry-goods shopkeeper who also lost everything in the crash. Cissy marries Five Properties instead of Simon.

      ellauri222.html on line 429: Hooker Frazer is Mimi’s lover and the father of her unborn child. When Augie first meets him, Frazer is a graduate assistant in political science, a Communist intellectual. Later, he is in Mexico working as a secretary for the exiled Leon Trotsky, and in China working as an intelligence agent. Finally, Augie meets him in Paris, where he is working for the World Educational Fund. Augie greatly admires Frazer’s prodigious intellect.

      ellauri222.html on line 441: Grammick is Mimi’s friend the union organizer. Augie works with him before going to Mexico.

      ellauri222.html on line 445: Old Granum works as an assistant to the the undertaker, Kinsman, and is present at the Commissioner’s deathbed.

      ellauri222.html on line 449: Jacinto is the houseboy at Thea’s home in Acatla. He helps them on their hunting excursions.

      ellauri222.html on line 457: A cousin of Tillie Einhorn, Karas is a businessman and owner of Holloway Enterprises. As a union organizer, Augie helps organize a strike of worker at Karas’s hotel business.

      ellauri222.html on line 461: Manager at Simon’s coal yard, Happy Kellerman works with Augie to help Simon’s business succeed.

      ellauri222.html on line 473: Jimmy Klein is a boyhood friend of Augie’s; Grandma Lausch doesn’t approve of him. He is sociable and spirited, slight and dark-faced, witty-looking. Augie is welcome at Jimmy’s house and gets to know his whole family, who are all friendly and generous with gifts and money. Jimmy and Augie get into trouble for stealing money at Deever’s department store, where they work during the Christmas season. Years later, Jimmy catches Augie stealing books. He reveals that he has taken a rough path in life: he got a girl pregnant and had to marry her.

      ellauri222.html on line 477: Mrs. Klein is Jimmy’s mother. She is overweight and can’t keep on her feet very long. Her hair is dyed black and hangs in braids, making her look like an Indian. She has eight children, including Gilbert and Velma, who are both divorced, and Tommy, who works at City Hall. There are always grandchildren in her home. When Mrs. Klein dies, her husband marries again to a longtime sweetheart.

      ellauri222.html on line 489: Kotzie Kreindl is the Kreindls’ son, who becomes a dentist. His father thinks it strange that he doesn’t take an interest in girls.

      ellauri222.html on line 493: Agnes Kuttner is a friend of Stella’s in New York and the mistress of Mintouchian, Agnes is kept in a grand, luxurious style. Yet, she is still so ruthless in her pursuit of money that she fakes a mugging in Central Park, choking herself unconscious, so that she can collect insurance money.

      ellauri222.html on line 497: Grandma Lausch, although unrelated by blood to the Marches, is a surrogate grandmother to Augie and his brothers, and has a powerful influence on them both. She rules their childhood house with a strict, imperious, and shrewd manner. The widow of a powerful Odessa businessman, this grande dame claims to speak a variety of languages and passes the time reading Tolstoy. Her two sons are married and living in other states. When Grandma’s mind begins to fail, they commit the dignified old lady to a retirement home where she eventually dies of pneumonia. 

      ellauri222.html on line 509: Uncle Charlie Magnus is Lucy’s father. He gets Simon started in the coal business and pushes Lucy to break off her relationship with Augie.

      ellauri222.html on line 513: Charlotte Magnus is Simon’s wife and heiress to a coal fortune. Simon marries her for the money, but grows to respect Charlotte, as she is a practical woman with a good head for business. She is also emotionally strong. When she learns of Simon’s infidelity, she deals with it swiftly and decisively. Charlotte is unable to have children.

      ellauri222.html on line 517: A cousin of Simon’s wife Charlotte, Lucy becomes Augie’s steady girlfriend. A pretty, rich, shallow girl who likes to have fun, she doesn’t seem to have deep feelings for Augie. She breaks off the relationship when she hears that Augie has taken Mimi for an abortion.

      ellauri222.html on line 521: Augie, the hero of the novel, is a Jewish-American boy coming of age in Depression-era Chicago. Since their father abandoned the family, Augie and his two brothers are raised by their slow-witted mother and surrogate “Grandma” Lausch. Augie, good-looking with “tall hair” and green-gray eyes, is a soft-hearted young man whose sympathy for others often gets him into trouble. He holds a variety of jobs throughout his life and learns from different people he encounters. People tend to “adopt” Augie and try to groom him into the person they want him to be, but he really wants to become his own person.  The name Augie is short for “August,” which means “Great.” Augie has a desire for greatness, but he has no idea of how to do it, thinking it beyond his ability to “breathe the pointy, star-furnished air at its highest difficulty.” He goes along through life repeating the same mistakes. In the end, Augie realizes that his life has been a voyage of discovery. Whether or not he has been a success, he doesn’t know, but he will continue with unquenchable optimism and hope, “forever rising up.”

      ellauri222.html on line 525: Georgie is Augie’s younger brother. He is mentally slow and is sent away to live in an institution at the insistence of Grandma Lausch. At the institution, he learns the trade of shoemaking.

      ellauri222.html on line 529: Augie’s mother is “simple-minded,” gentle, and meek, with few teeth left. She allows herself to be ruled by Grandma Lausch and later, by her son Simon. After Mama goes blind, Simon sells her home to get money, and she ends up in a home. The one-time Mama stands up for herself is when she insists on bringing her white cane to Simon’s wedding, against the wishes of Simon, who appears ashamed of her disability. Later in her life, she lives in a luxurious bourgeois style, taken care of by Simon.

      ellauri222.html on line 533: Simon is Augie’s older brother. Tall, good-looking, and blond, Simon has a self-assurance and sense of direction that Augie does not. He thinks Augie is too soft-hearted. After being jilted by his girlfriend Cissy Flexner, Simon marries the coal heiress Charlotte Magnus and becomes rich through multiple business ventures. Simon is very successful, but not content. Although he respects Charlotte for her business sense, his marriage lacks romantic love. His mistress, Renée, uses him for his money. Augie pities him because he cannot have children.

      ellauri222.html on line 537: Harold Mintouchian is a wealthy, distinguished Armenian lawyer and international businessman who is the married lover of a friend of Stella’s and becomes a close friend and mentor of Augie. At the end of the novel, Augie works for him as a black market trader in Europe. Augie looks up to the older man as “a sage, prophet, or guru, a prince of experience with his jewel toes” and seeks his wisdom. Mintouchian, who has seen much of the darker side of human nature through his law practice, has more realistic ideas than the love-bitten Augie about what to expect from human relationships. Secrecy and lies, he tells Augie, are unavoidable. “Mind you, I’m a great admirer of our species. I stand in awe of the genius of the race. But a large part of this genius is devoted to lying and seeming what you are not.” He confesses to Augie that his mistress, Agnes, is keeping secrets from him, while he is keeping secrets from his wife.

      ellauri222.html on line 541: Mintouchian’s invalid wife, Mrs. Mintouchian is aware of her husband’s infidelity and tells Augie of her husband: “He is great, despite being all too human.”

      ellauri222.html on line 557: The daughter of a tailor, Hilda is Augie’s first crush as a schoolboy. He follows her around but never gets the courage to speak to her.

      ellauri222.html on line 565: Kayo Obermark is Mimi and Augie’s neighbor in the student boarding house. Kayo, an unkempt university student, is melancholy and brilliant. He shares with Augie his philosophy that “everyone has bitterness in his chosen thing.”

      ellauri222.html on line 569: Oliver is Stella’s boyfriend in Mexico. A vain, jealous man, he keeps tight control of Stella. He is arrested for tax evasion.

      ellauri222.html on line 577: Padilla is a classmate of Augie’s. Born in the slums of Mexico, he is a genius of mathematical physics. He steals books for money and gets Augie involved in that, too.

      ellauri222.html on line 585: Five Properties  is Anna Coblin’s brother. An immense, long-armed man with a gleeful, insincere smile, he drives a dairy truck and loves to boast that he has “Five prope’ties, plente money.” The money was earned by service during the war in Poland. His goal is to marry an American woman.

      ellauri222.html on line 589: Renée  is the young, beautiful, blond mistress of Simon. Simon spends his days with Renée, but goes home each night to Charlotte. Renée becomes angry and jealous because Simon never intends to leave his wife. When Charlotte finds out about the affair and demands a stop to it, Renée attempts suicide by swallowing pills (apparently an attention-getting gesture), and claims (falsely) that she is pregnant with Simon’s baby. She causes a scandal, opening a lawsuit against Simon. Charlotte and Simon have to go to court to fend her off.

      ellauri222.html on line 597: A miserly millionaire with a stuttering problem, Robey is working on a book he calls The Needle’s Eye, an investigation into the nature and source of happiness. He hires Augie as a research assistant. As Augie listens to Robey discuss his book idea, he finds that the man makes sense only part of the time. He realizes that Robey is a “crank” who only wants someone to be an ear for his half-baked ideas.

      ellauri222.html on line 601: Clarence Ruber is a friend of Augie’s from school who gives Augie a job selling paint.

      ellauri222.html on line 605: Mrs. Ruber is Clarence Ruber’s cousin’s widow. She is in business with Clarence.

      ellauri222.html on line 609: Molly Simms is a mulatto woman of about thirty-five, whom Simon hires to do their mother’s housework. Simon later sleeps with Molly and then fires her.

      ellauri222.html on line 613: Smitty is Thea Fenchel’s millionaire ex-husband. She cheats on him with a Navy cadet, then goes to Mexico to get a divorce from him.

      ellauri222.html on line 625: Stoney and Wolfy are fellow travelers hitching free rides on the trains, whom Augie meets while traveling back to Chicago after Joe Gorman’s arrest. The police arrest all three thinking they are a gang of car thieves. Stoney is a young man on his way to veterinary school; Wolfy has a criminal record.

      ellauri222.html on line 629: Owner of the Star Theatre, Sylvester hires young Augie to work for him by handing out bills. He later loses the theater and becomes an active member of the Communist party. Augie meets up with Sylvester in Mexico where he is working as a bodyguard for the exiled Leon Trotsky. Sylvester also comes to Augie’s wedding in New York.

      ellauri222.html on line 633: Talavera is a handsome young Mexican whose father owns the taxi service in Acatla. He hangs around Augie and Thea. Augie later learns that he was a former lover of Thea’s.

      ellauri222.html on line 637: Clem, the younger of Tambow’s two sons, and the cousin of Jimmy Klein, is a good friend to Augie. He is an easy spender and refuses to work, preferring to beg money off his father. When his father dies, he inherits his money. He has a crush on Mimi. Clem eventually goes to the University of Chicago, earning a degree in psychology, and invites Augie to join him in a counseling practice. Augie has a great deal of affection for Clem. Clem is the audience for Augie’s speech about “axial lines.”

      ellauri222.html on line 641: The older of Tambow’s two sons, Donald is the handsome one. He has black curly hair like his mother. He goes into show business.

      ellauri222.html on line 645: Tambow is Jimmy Klein’s uncle, a “big wheel” in Republican ward politics. Jimmy and Augie pass out campaign literature and do other odd jobs for him. Tambow is divorced and his own sons, Donald and Clem, refuse to work for him. He dies and leaves all his money to Clem and Donald.

      ellauri222.html on line 653: Mimi Villars is a beautiful, tough-talking blonde from Los Angeles who lives next door to Augie in the student boarding house and becomes a close friend of Augie. Mimi has bohemian ideas and aspires to marry an intellectual. When she becomes pregnant with an unwanted child by her boyfriend Frazer, Augie takes her to an abortionist. Mimi later falls in love with Arthur Einhorn. Mimi’s name recalls the tragic heroine of the Puccini opera La Bohème.

      ellauri222.html on line 656: A cousin of the Magnuses, Weintraub spies Augie leaving the abortionist’s with Mimi. He tells the Magnuses, thus destroying Augie’s reputation with the family and causing his breakup with Lucy.

      ellauri222.html on line 694:     Bernard Le Bouyer de Fontenelle, né le 11 février 1657 à Rouen et mort le 9 janvier 1757 à Paris, est un écrivain, dramaturge et scientifique français.  Fontenelle oli armoton keskikertaisuus joka yritettyään kaikenlaista päätyi populääritieteen kautta Ranskan akatemiaan. Eli kuukautta vaille satavuotiaaxi, laiskiainen. Il ne connut pas l’amitié vraie, et put s’appliquer ces mots d’une de ses églogues : « Il me manqua d’aimer. » Claudine de Tencin, lui disait en montrant sa poitrine : « Ce n’est pas un cœur que vous avez là ; c’est de la cervelle, comme dans la tête."

      ellauri222.html on line 709: His literary tastes are also very interesting. Lord Pococurante is quite able to criticize Homer, Horace, and Cicero; there is nothing, which may seem flawless. His ability to find defects in everything prevents him from taking pleasure in literature, philosophy, and painting. It is obvious that the author is ironic about him, it can be deduced from Candides remark “But is there not a pleasure in criticizing everything, in pointing out faults where others see nothing but beauties’ (Voltaire, 73). The main problem is that such a world outlook is a personal tragedy, and such an attitude may eventually result in suicide.

      ellauri222.html on line 711: The question arises why Voltaire inserts such a character in the novella, and what functions he performs in the story. On the one hand, Lord Pococurante embodies the then French aristocracy, the social class, surfeited with everything. The author attracts the reader’s attention to a very curious paradox: people, who live in luxury, cannot enjoy it. Though it is not explicitly stated by Voltaire, such people are doomed to failure. At this point, we can say with certainty that Voltaire is prophetic in this novella.

      ellauri222.html on line 803:   British critics tend to regard the American predilection for Big Novels as a vulgar neurosis — like the American predilection for big cars or big hamburgers. Oh God, we think: here comes another sweating, free-dreaming maniac with another thousand-pager; here comes another Big Mac. First, Dos Passos produced the Great American Novel; now they all want one. Yet in a sense every ambitious American novelist is genuinely trying to write a novel called USA. Perhaps this isn’t just a foible; perhaps it is an inescapable response to America – twentieth-century America, racially mixed and mobile, twenty-four hour, endless, extreme, superabundantly various. American novels are big all right, but partly because America is big too. You need plenty of nerve, ink and energy to do justice to the place, and no one has made greater efforts than Saul Bellow. In 1976 Bellow was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, praised by the Swedes ‘for human understanding and subtle analysis of contemporary culture’. Many times in Bellow’s novels we are reminded that ‘being human’ isn’t the automatic condition of every human being. Like freedom or sanity, it is not a given but a gift, a talent, an accomplishment, an objective. The busiest sections of the Chicago bookstores, I noticed, were those marked ‘Personal Growth’.

      ellauri222.html on line 900: Pudottuaan parlamentista Clemenceau keskittyi journalismiin ja saavutti aseman arvostettuna ulkopolitiikan asiantuntijana kuten Carl Bildt ja Alex Stubb. Suuren sodan aikana entinen vasuristi käänsi kelkkansa ja muuttui oikislaisexi. Clemenceaun ajama kyyninen valtapolitiikka edusti rauhankonferenssissa vastavoimaa Yhdysvaltain presidentti Woodrow Wilsonin edustamalle pehmyröinnille. Myös Britannian pääministeri David Lloyd George piti Clemenceaun linjaa epäviisaana, koska Saksan liian ankara kohtelu voisi nostattaa siellä naziliikehdintää. Clemenceau "hyväksyi kompromissina" Saarinmaan erottamisen Saksasta 15 vuodeksi, Reininmaan miehityksen 15 vuodeksi ja sen pysyvän demilitarisoinnin sekä suurten sotakorvausten määräämisen Saksan maksettaviksi, mutta hän piti Versailles’n rauhansopimuksen lopullista sisältöä sittenkin liian pehmeänä Saksalle. Ihan vittuiluxi hän vaati, että Saksan valtuuskunnan oli allekirjoitettava sopimus samassa Versailles’n palatsin peilisalissa, jossa Saksan keisarikunta oli julistettu perustetuksi vuonna 1871. Anarkisti Émile Cottin yritti salamurhata Clemenceaun ampumalla rauhankonferenssin aikana 19. helmikuuta 1919. Harmi ettei osunut. Carramba! Viele vehen vasemmalle!

      ellauri222.html on line 1001: On July 29, 1994, Timmendequas lured Megan into his home, hit her head against his dresser, slapped her hard enough to draw blood, raped her, and strangled her with a belt. During the attack, Megan was able to bite Timmendequas’ hand hard enough to leave teeth impressions which later helped convict him. He disposed of her body in a nearby park and confessed to the murder the next day. He was found guilty of kidnapping, aggravated sexual assault, and murder and sentenced to death. Timmendequas’ sentence was commuted to life in 2007 when New Jersey abolished the death penalty.

      ellauri222.html on line 1002: Megan’s parents lobbied for a new law, stating that, had they known a convicted sex offender had been living in their neighborhood, they would have been better prepared to protect her. The law, dubbed Megan’s Law, requires public access to the names and locations of those convicted of any sexual offense.

      ellauri223.html on line 176: Vuonna 1573 vasta 12-vuotias Bacon alkoi opiskella Cambridgen yliopiston Trinity Collegessa. Vuonna 1576 hän alkoi opiskella lakia kierojen asianajajien Gray’s Inn -yhdistyksessä, mutta opinnot keskeytyivät vuoden kuluttua Baconin saatua pestin Ranskassa suurlähettilään assistenttina. Vuonna 1579, Baconin ollessa vielä Ranskassa, hänen isänsä kuoli ja Bacon jäi käytännössä pennittömäxi, minkä vuoksi hän palasi Englantiin jatkamaan asianajajaopintojaan. Bacon valmistui opinnoista vuonna 1582.

      ellauri226.html on line 70: Former Beach Boys Brian Wilson and Al Jardine say they want to make one thing clear — they had nothing to do with ex-bandmate Mike Love’s headlining performance at a President Trump fundraiser over the weekend. “We have absolutely nothing to do with the Trump benefit today in Newport Beach. Zero,’’ the musicians said.

      ellauri226.html on line 73: Love’s performance on behalf of Trump on Sunday was the main attraction for the event, according to the LA Times. Tickets ran from $2,800 per person to up to $150,000 for a couple to be considered “co-chairs’’ of the event.

      ellauri226.html on line 74: Lead singer Love has been a longtime Trump supporter. He sang at one of the president’s inaugural balls in 2017, telling Uncut magazine afterward, “I don’t have anything negative to say about the president of the USA. I love his hair, it is very surfy."  “I understand there are so many factions and fractious things going on. The chips will fall where they may,’’ Love said. “But Donald Trump has never been anything but kind to us. We have known him for many a year.’’ Aargh, for the love of Mike! 

      ellauri226.html on line 94:    D.H. Lawrence’s foreword to Deledda’s novel The Mother, which appeared in the English editions of the 1920’s, is reprinted in the new edition of M.G. Steegman’s translation La Madre (The Woman and the Priest) or The Mother, edited with an introduction and chronology by Eric Lane. London: Daedalus/Hippocrane, 1987.	

      ellauri226.html on line 96: So, we stop at the Daxio, the town’s customs hut, and 

      ellauri226.html on line 100: of Grazia Deledda, the novelist, and l see a harher’s 

      ellauri226.html on line 102: end of the journey. Tt is past four o’clock.

      ellauri226.html on line 104:       The landscape was different from yesterday’s. As 

      ellauri226.html on line 109:       Deledda’s books.

      ellauri226.html on line 116:   Dave is full of breathless switchbacks.  You’re always veering giddily from fleeting exaltations (the joy of motion, the wildness of the landscape, the generosity of a peasant) to tedious exasperations (almost everything else). Luckily he had his wife along, the formidable Frieda (he refers to her as “the Q.B.,” for queen bee - Kuningatar! Eskin valtiatar on sekin vanhemmiten aika formidable), whose shrewd affirmations provided a foil for his grumbling discontents. Lawrence found the city “all bibs and bobs" . . . rather bare, rather stark, much of the city was levelled by Allied bombs, and it has not exactly been lovingly restored.  “They pour themselves one over the other,” Lawrence sniffed of the Italians, “like so much melted butter over parsnips.” Lawrence ize preferoi tankeampia kelttijuurikkaita.

      ellauri226.html on line 120: 	The “quite pleasant woman” who fed the Lawrences was Agostino’s grandmother. He proudly showed us her picture, along with a brochure for the Festival D.H. Lawrence, which takes place every August.  Lawrences, who, in the impoverished Sardinia of their day couldn’t find anything but cabbage soup and hard bread.

      ellauri226.html on line 122: 	There was a David Herbert Lawrence plaque on the street. Inside the tiny station were two more. It seemed a lot of plaques for a guy who spent one night there. “Blessed is he that expecteth nothing,” he wrote of Sorgono, “for he shall not be disappointed.” More Niente. “A dreary hole!” Lawrence muttered. “A cold, hopeless, lifeless, Saturday afternoon-weary village.” The food was bad. The bedsheets were stained. People cheerfully relieved themselves on the street. What limp parsnips too! “Why are you so indignant?” the Q.B. asked. “It’s all life.”

      ellauri226.html on line 124: 	We, too, arrived on a Saturday afternoon. There was nowhere to eat and nothing to do, other than lounge by the lifeless station, reading Lawrence’s catalogue of complaints. But then I looked up to find the very “pink-washed building” with the very same name (Risveglio) as the horrible inn in the book. “It can’t be the same one,” I said. “There’s no plaque. Wow, there's a traffic sign, but it's not in English?"

      ellauri226.html on line 126: “Of course, it’s the same,” my wife said. “Let’s go in!”

      ellauri226.html on line 127: Six brawny young men with faux-hawks hung out in the doorway, drinking Ichnusa beers, and observing us in a desultory way. “Let’s not!” I said.

      ellauri226.html on line 135: 	My wife marched right in. All six guys filed in behind her, like a spaghetti western, many of which were filmed close by. Inside, the pallid bartender was polishing glasses. I slapped a euro on the bar and ordered two macchiatos. Then, in my grunting Italian American, I asked if this might be the same Risveglio from D.H. Lawrence’s day.

      ellauri226.html on line 140: 	Nuovo, however, looked placid and tame. Nuovo was home to the Nobel laureate Grazia Deledda, whose novels Lawrence so admired, but her modest birthplace was closed. We walked around aimlessly, seeing the place through his eyes, but, of course, through Lawrence’s eyes “there’s nothing to see.” This is no longer quite true; there are two good museums in town. But, by now, it had taken on the sound of a mantra. “Sights are an irritating bore,” he wrote. “Happy is the town that has nothing to show.”

      ellauri226.html on line 143: “A heart yearning for something I have known, and which I want back again.”  Varmaan se oli Grazian graziöösi persaus. READING: Sea and Sardinia, by D.H. Lawrence (Penguin Classics); Cosima, by Grazia Deledda (Italica Press), about a young lady writer’s ass in Sardinia in the late 19th-Century.

      ellauri226.html on line 253: I grew up on the street, which is to say that my people sent me on the street to play. Really, I was told to go out and play; my mom she wouldn’t care a bit. My mother, she just said go out and play. By five years old I was four or five years old. So say I was four years old. I was

      ellauri226.html on line 261: Derrick’s sentiments were echoed by my mom  Kathleen Roby, who grew up in

      ellauri226.html on line 268: bus and travel. No it wasn’t four or five stops but it was four or five blocks to this Catholic grammar school I went to.

      ellauri226.html on line 278: peacefulness of the ’50s’ and ’60s coincided with the arrival of black and

      ellauri226.html on line 312: the street. They weren’t deliberately trying to hit a person,

      ellauri226.html on line 360: According to Roby, the violence at Lincoln’s emergency in the neighborhood was apparent from the start, the room often had patients who had

      ellauri226.html on line 418: As Roby explained, the building’s original wiring could not load

      ellauri226.html on line 420: and Derrick’s buildings also suffered from the same problem, and all three commented on how the landlords would not change wiring because they felt as though they would not recoup the cost. Residents could not even use toasters!

      ellauri226.html on line 421: The wiring in Dr. Derrick’s childhood was so weak at one point that he could not light a joint because his mom would blow a fuse.

      ellauri226.html on line 434: That the migrations of old and new minority groups was the cause for The Bronx’s many problems was obvious. Many whites began to blame

      ellauri226.html on line 443: influx of poor minority families in the 1950s and 1960s was thus cleverly met with a deteriorating and poor job market and limited employment opportunities. The declining job market continued into the 1970s when approximately 300 companies employing 10,000 workers went out of business or moved out of The Bronx between 1970 and 1977. Many of these businesses used low income and unskilled workers. By 1976 the long-term economic problems had taken their toll and the mayor's office estimated that between 25-30% of the city’s eligible work force was unemployed.

      ellauri226.html on line 447: In this year it became public knowledge that the city funds had been depleted by nasty leeches and its capital was all gone. Their action had left the city penniless and unable to pay even the top brass. This led to the collapse of the city’s government,

      ellauri226.html on line 456: astounding. During the city’s financial crisis in the 1970s,the mayor's office

      ellauri226.html on line 462: The wop cop interviewed believes that the decrease in crime in the 1990's can be attributed to the rising standard of living and economic opportunities throughoutthe city, when the city’s economy was no longer in the pits.

      ellauri226.html on line 464: The city’s record daily murder rate was 2,245 homicides. That number reached its peak in 1990 when it was astronomical when compared with the number of murders in 1963. There were almost as many stiffs per capita as in the Stockholm region today. 

      ellauri226.html on line 477: For Roby, who grew up being told to listen to this private police force and follow the development’s rules with the same piety as the city’s police and laws, the ease with which new residents disregarded and violated these rules was a shock but oddly liberating.

      ellauri226.html on line 504: Metropolitan region, New York City lost approximately1.4% of its population between 1950 and 1960. Yet while the City’s population declined,

      ellauri236.html on line 56: Bolsonaro turned in a strong showing in the wealthier south of the country, winning Sao Paulo and his native Rio de Janeiro by margins of over 10%, but it was not enough to compensate for Lula’s massive turnout in the Northeast of Brazil, where the Workers Party has long enjoyed dominance. Indeed, Lula won numerous states by margins of 30%, 40% or even 50%, turning in particularly strong performances in the vote-rich states of Bahia, Ceara, and his native Pernambuco.

      ellauri236.html on line 58: Bolsonaro voted in Vila Militar in his home state of Rio de Janeiro, saying he had "the expectation of victory, for the good of Brazil…if it is God’s will, we will be victorious tonight."

      ellauri236.html on line 60: Lula's election tonight represents one of the greatest comeback stories in Latin American history. Lula was convicted and imprisoned on corruption and money laundering charges that were later overturned on a technicality by Brazil’s Supreme Court, clearing the way for him to run for an unprecedented third term.

      ellauri236.html on line 63: The research is the latest in a growing body of evidence that social platforms are failing to prevent a flood of disinformation — some of it tinged with violence — on their services ahead of the runoff election Sunday between President Jair Bolsonaro and former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. Brazilian lawmakers last week granted the nation’s elections chief unilateral power to force tech companies to remove misinformation within two hours of the content being posted — one of the most aggressive legal measures against North American social media giants that any country has taken.

      ellauri236.html on line 65: Advocates have expressed fears that some posts could lead to violence or to a broader questioning of the results. Adding to the worries is the new ownership of Twitter by billionaire Elon Musk, a free speech advocate. During his first day as Twitter’s new owner on Friday, Musk tweeted that he would pause all “major content decisions” and reinstatements of accounts until he convened a new content moderation council. The announcement effectively disbands aspects of Twitter’s tool kits for penalizing accounts — from those of presidents to foreign trolls — that break the company’s rules against hate speech, bullying and spreading misinformation around elections.

      ellauri236.html on line 73: A test of Meta and YouTube’s ad systems by the human rights group Global Witness revealed that the companies approved large numbers of misleading ads, including spots that encouraged people not to vote or gave false dates for when ballots could be posted. YouTube said it “reviewed the ads in question and removed those that violated our policies,” although the Global Witness report showed all the ads submitted were approved by the Google-owned site.

      ellauri236.html on line 75: They found that five out of seven of the groups recommended by Facebook under searches for the term “intervention” were pushing for a military intervention in Brazil’s election, while five out of seven of the groups recommended under the search term “fraud” encouraged people to join groups that questioned the election’s integrity. The groups have names such “Intervention to Save Brazil” and “Military intervention already.”

      ellauri236.html on line 79: Win or Lose, Bolsonaro Has Destroyed Trust in Brazil’s Elections. President Jair Bolsonaro has attacked Brazil’s electronic voting system. Now, ahead of Sunday’s elections, many of his supporters believe there will be fraud. 

      ellauri236.html on line 86: Jack Nicholson, the Brazil bureau chief, spoke to dozens of President Jair Bolsonaro’s supporters at events across the country for this article.

      ellauri236.html on line 88: DUQUE DE CAXIAS, Brazil — For many supporters of President Jair Bolsonaro, Sunday’s presidential election in Brazil can have just two possible outcomes: They celebrate or they take to the streets.

      ellauri236.html on line 91: “There’s a lot of fraud,” said Kátia de Lima, 47, a store clerk at a rally for Mr. Bolsonaro this month. “It’s proven.”

      ellauri236.html on line 95: “If our president isn’t elected, everyone goes to Brasília,” said Rogério Ramos, 40, owner of an automotive electronics shop, referring to the nation’s capital. “We shut down Congress, just like in ’64.” In 1964, a military coup led to a violent, 21-year dictatorship in Brazil.

      ellauri236.html on line 97: Mr. Bolsonaro is right that Brazil’s voting system is unique. It is the only country in the world to use a fully digital system, with no paper backups. Since Brazil began using electronic voting machines in 1996, there has been no evidence that they have been used for fraud. Instead, the machines helped eliminate the fraud that once afflicted Brazil’s elections in the age of paper ballots.

      ellauri236.html on line 98: One man interviewed by The New York Times played a video he received on WhatsApp that said Mr. Bolsonaro had visited Russia this year to get President Vladimir V. Putin’s help in fighting the Brazilian left’s plans to steal Sunday’s election.

      ellauri236.html on line 100: Most of Mr. Bolsonaro’s supporters said in interviews that they do not trust mainstream news outlets, which Mr. Bolsonaro has attacked as dishonest, and instead rely on news from a wide variety of sources on their phones, including social-media posts and messages they receive in groups on WhatsApp and Telegram.

      ellauri236.html on line 102: “I look at the things I want to see, and I avoid looking at what they want to show me,” said José Luiz Chaves Fonseca, a turbine engineer for offshore oil platforms who was attending the rally this month north of Rio de Janeiro as a Bolsonaro impersonator. “If everyone dressed like this, they wouldn’t be tricked.”

      ellauri236.html on line 188: I have already outlined the plot, but the subject-matter is much more sordid and brutal than this suggests. The book contains eight full-dress murders, an unassessable number of casual killings and woundings, an exhumation (with a careful reminder of the stench), the flogging of Miss Blandish, the torture of another woman with red-hot cigarette-ends, a strip-tease act, a third-degree scene of unheard-of cruelty and much else of the same kind. It assumes great sexual sophistication in its readers (there is a scene, for instance, in which a gangster, presumably of masochistic tendency, has an orgasm in the moment of being knifed - I can relate to that!), and it takes for granted the most complete corruption and self-seeking as the norm of human behaviour. The detective, for instance, is almost as great a rogue as the gangsters, and actuated by nearly the same motives. Like them, he is in pursuit of ‘five hundred grand’. It is necessary to the machinery of the story that Mr. Blandish should be anxious to get his money back, but apart from this, such things as affection, friendship, good nature or even ordinary politeness simply do not enter. Nor, to any great extent does normal sexuality. Ultimately only one motive is at work throughout the whole story: the pursuit of power. (Well, there is also the pursuit of spaghetti and some twat.)

      ellauri236.html on line 190:     It should be noticed that the book is not in the ordinary sense pornography. In this respect it is a flop. Unlike most books that deal in sexual sadism, it lays the emphasis on the cruelty and not on the pleasure. Slim, the ravisher of Miss Blandish, has ‘wet slobbering lips’: this is meant to be disgusting (tho I didn't find it so). But the scenes describing cruelty to women are comparatively perfunctory. The real high-spots of the book are cruelties committed by men upon other men; above all, the third-degreeing of the gangster, Eddie Schultz, who is lashed into a chair and flogged on the windpipe with truncheons, his arms broken by fresh blows as he breaks loose. My conclusion: Chase is a closet homosexual (I should know)! He's an algolagniac, like Swinburne!

      ellauri236.html on line 194: As I have mentioned already, No Orchids enjoyed its greatest vogue in 1940, though it was successfully running as a play till some time later. It was, in fact, one of the things that helped to console people for the boredom of being bombed. Early in the war the New Yorker had a picture of a little man approaching a news-stall littered with paper with such headlines as ‘Great Tank Battles in Northern France’, ‘Big Naval Battle in the North Sea’, ‘Huge Air Battles over the Channel’, etc., etc. The little man is saying ‘Action Stories, please’. That little man with his little dick stood for all the drugged millions to whom the world of the gangster and the prize-ring is more ‘real’, more ‘tough’, than such things as crucifixions, wars, revolutions, earthquakes, famines, genocides, holocausts and pestilences. From the point of view of a reader of Action Stories, a description of the London blitz, or of the internal struggles of the European underground parties, would be ‘sissy stuff’. On the other hand, some puny gun-battle in Chicago, resulting in perhaps half a dozen deaths, would seem genuinely ‘tough’. This habit of mind is now extremely widespread. A soldier sprawls in a muddy trench, with the machine-gun bullets crackling a foot or two overhead, and whiles away his intolerable boredom by reading an American gangster story. And what is it that makes that story so exciting? Precisely the fact that people are shooting at each other with machine-guns! Neither the soldier nor anyone else sees anything curious in this. It is taken for granted that an imaginary bullet is more thrilling than a real one. (But note one difference: they get a whacking pile of money and loads of wet twat for it.)

      ellauri236.html on line 198: There exists in America an enormous literature of more or less the same stamp as No Orchids. Quite apart from books, there is the huge array of ‘pulp magazines’, graded so as to cater for different kinds of fantasy, but nearly all having much the same mental atmosphere. A few of them go in for straight pornography, but the great majority are quite plainly aimed at sadists and masochists. Sold at threepence a copy under the title of Yank Mags(4), these things used to enjoy considerable popularity in England, but when the supply dried up owing to the war, no satisfactory substitute was forthcoming. English imitations of the ‘pulp magazine’ do now exist, but they are poor things compared with the original. English crook films, again, never approach the American crook film in brutality. And yet the career of Mr. Chase shows how deep the American influence has already gone. Not only is he himself living a continuous fantasy-life in the Chicago underworld, but he can count on hundreds of thousands of readers who know what is meant by a ‘clipshop’ or the ‘hotsquat’, do not have to do mental arithmetic when confronted by ‘fifty grand’, and understand at sight a sentence like ‘Johnny was a rummy and only two jumps ahead of the nut-factory’. Evidently there are great numbers of English people who are partly americanized in language and, one ought to add, in moral outlook. For there was no popular protest against No Orchids. In the end it was withdrawn, but only retrospectively, when a later work, Miss Callaghan Comes to Grief, brought Mr. Chase's books to the attention of the authorities. Judging by casual conversations at the time, ordinary readers got a mild thrill out of the obscenities of No Orchids, but saw nothing undesirable in the book as a whole. Many people, incidentally, were under the impression that it was an American book reissued in England.

      ellauri236.html on line 200: The thing that the ordinary reader ought to have objected to — almost certainly would have objected to, a few decades earlier — was the equivocal attitude towards crime. It is implied throughout No Orchids that being a criminal is only reprehensible in the sense that it does not pay. Being a policeman pays better, but there is no moral difference, since the police use essentially criminal methods. In a book like He Won't Need It Now the distinction between crime and crime-prevention practically disappears. This is a new departure for English sensational fiction, in which till recently there has always been a sharp distinction between right and wrong and a general agreement that virtue must triumph in the last chapter. English books glorifying crime (modern crime, that is — pirates and highwaymen are different) are very rare. Even a book like Raffles, as I have pointed out, is governed by powerful taboos, and it is clearly understood that Raffles's crimes must be expiated sooner or later. In America, both in life and fiction, the tendency to tolerate crime, even to admire the criminal so long as he is success, is very much more marked. It is, indeed, ultimately this attitude that has made it possible for crime to flourish upon so huge a scale. Books have been written about Al Capone that are hardly different in tone from the books written about Henry Ford, Stalin, Lord Northcliffe and all the rest of the ‘log cabin to White House’ brigade. And switching back eighty years, one finds Mark Twain adopting much the same attitude towards the disgusting bandit Slade, hero of twenty-eight murders, and towards the Western desperadoes generally. They were successful, they ‘made good’, therefore he admired them.

      ellauri236.html on line 202: In a book like No Orchids one is not, as in the old-style crime story, simply escaping from dull reality into an imaginary world of action. One's escape is essentially into cruelty and sexual perversion. No Orchids is aimed at the power-instinct, which Raffles or the Sherlock Holmes stories are not. At the same time the English attitude towards crime is not so superior to the American as I may have seemed to imply. It too is mixed up with power-worship, and has become more noticeably so in the last twenty years. A writer who is worth examining is Edgar Wallace, especially in such typical books as The Orator and the Mr. J. G. Reeder stories. Wallace was one of the first crime-story writers to break away from the old tradition of the private detective and make his central figure a Scotland Yard official. Sherlock Holmes is an amateur, solving his problems without the help and even, in the earlier stories, against the opposition of the police. Moreover, like Lupin, he is essentially an intellectual, even a scientist. He reasons logically from observed fact, and his intellectuality is constantly contrasted with the routine methods of the police. Wallace objected strongly to this slur, as he considered it, on Scotland Yard, and in several newspaper articles he went out of his way to denounce Holmes by name. His own ideal was the detective-inspector who catches criminals not because he is intellectually brilliant but because he is part of an all-powerful organization. Hence the curious fact that in Wallace's most characteristic stories the ‘clue’ and the ‘deduction’ play no part. The criminal is always defeated by an incredible coincidence, or because in some unexplained manner the police know all about the crime beforehand. The tone of the stories makes it quite clear that Wallace's admiration for the police is pure bully-worship. A Scotland Yard detective is the most powerful kind of being that he can imagine, while the criminal figures in his mind as an outlaw against whom anything is permissible, like the condemned slaves in the Roman arena. His policemen behave much more brutally than British policemen do in real life — they hit people with out provocation, fire revolvers past their ears to terrify them and so on — and some of the stories exhibit a fearful intellectual sadism. (For instance, Wallace likes to arrange things so that the villain is hanged on the same day as the heroine is married.) But it is sadism after the English fashion: that is to say, it is unconscious, there is not overtly any sex in it, and it keeps within the bounds of the law. The British public tolerates a harsh criminal law and gets a kick out of monstrously unfair murder trials: but still that is better, on any account, than tolerating or admiring crime. If one must worship a bully, it is better that he should be a policeman than a gangster. Wallace is still governed to some extent by the concept of ‘not done’. In No Orchids anything is ‘done’ so long as it leads on to power. All the barriers are down, all the motives are out in the open. Chase is a worse symptom than Wallace, to the extent that all-in wrestling is worse than boxing, or Fascism is worse than capitalist democracy.

      ellauri236.html on line 204: In borrowing from William Faulkner's Sanctuary, Chase only took the plot; the mental atmosphere of the two books is not similar. Chase really derives from other sources, and this particular bit of borrowing is only symbolic. What it symbolizes is the vulgarization of ideas which is constantly happening, and which probably happens faster in an age of print. Chase has been described as ‘Faulkner for the masses’, but it would be more accurate to describe him as Carlyle for the masses. He is a popular writer — there are many such in America, but they are still rarities in England — who has caught up with what is now fashionable to call ‘realism’, meaning the doctrine that might is right. The growth of ‘realism’ has been the great feature of the intellectual history of our own age. Why this should be so is a complicated question. The interconnexion between sadism, masochism, success-worship, power-worship, nationalism, and totalitarianism is a huge subject whose edges have barely been scratched, and even to mention it is considered somewhat indelicate. To take merely the first example that comes to mind, I believe no one has ever pointed out the sadistic and masochistic element in Bernard Shaw's work, still less suggested that this probably has some connexion with Shaw's admiration for dictators. Fascism is often loosely equated with sadism, but nearly always by people who see nothing wrong in the most slavish worship of Stalin. The truth is, of course, that the countless English intellectuals who kiss the arse of Stalin are not different from the minority who give their allegiance to Hitler or Mussolini, nor from the efficiency experts who preached ‘punch’, ‘drive’, ‘personality’ and ‘learn to be a Tiger man’ in the nineteen-twenties, nor from that older generation of intellectuals, Carlyle, Creasey and the rest of them, who bowed down before German militarism. All of them are worshipping power and successful cruelty. It is important to notice that the cult of power tends to be mixed up with a love of cruelty and wickedness for their own sakes. A tyrant is all the more admired if he happens to be a bloodstained crook as well, and ‘the end justifies the means’ often becomes, in effect, ‘the means justify themselves provided they are dirty enough’. This idea colours the outlook of all sympathizers with totalitarianism, and accounts, for instance, for the positive delight with which many English intellectuals greeted the Nazi-Soviet pact. It was a step only doubtfully useful to the U.S.S.R., but it was entirely unmoral, and for that reason to be admired; the explanations of it, which were numerous and self-contradictory, could come afterwards.

      ellauri236.html on line 206: Until recently the characteristic adventure stories of the English-speaking peoples have been stories in which the hero fights against odds. This is true all the way from Robin Hood to Pop-eye the Sailor. Perhaps the basic myth of the Western world is Jack the Giant-killer, but to be brought up to date this should be renamed Jack the Dwarf-killer, and there already exists a considerable literature which teaches, either overtly or implicitly, that one should side with the big man against the little man. Most of what is now written about foreign policy is simply an embroidery on this theme, and for several decades such phrases as ‘Play the game’, ‘Don't hit a man when he's down’ and ‘It's not cricket’ have never failed to draw a snigger from anyone of intellectual pretensions. What is comparatively new is to find the accepted pattern, according to which (a) right is right and wrong is wrong, whoever wins, and (b) weakness must be respected, disappearing from popular literature as well. When I first read D. H. Lawrence's novels, at the age of about twenty, I was puzzled by the fact that there did not seem to be any classification of the characters into ‘good’ and ‘bad’. Lawrence seemed to sympathize with all of them about equally, and this was so unusual as to give me the feeling of having lost my bearings. Today no one would think of looking for heroes and villains in a serious novel, but in lowbrow fiction one still expects to find a sharp distinction between right and wrong and between legality and illegality. The common people, on the whole, are still living in the world of absolute good and evil from which the intellectuals have long since escaped. But the popularity of No Orchids and the American books and magazines to which it is akin shows how rapidly the doctrine of ‘realism’ is gaining ground.

      ellauri236.html on line 208: Several people, after reading No Orchids, have remarked to me, ‘It's pure Fascism’. This is a correct description, although the book has not the smallest connexion with politics and very little with social or economic problems. It has merely the same relation to Fascism as, say Trollope's novels have to nineteenth-century capitalism. It is a daydream appropriate to a totalitarian age. In his imagined world of gangsters Chase is presenting, as it were, a distilled version of the modern political scene, in which such things as mass bombing of civilians, the use of hostages, torture to obtain confessions, secret prisons, execution without trial, floggings with rubber truncheons, drownings in cesspools, systematic falsification of records and statistics, treachery, bribery, and quislingism are normal and morally neutral, even admirable when they are done in a large and bold way. The average man is not directly interested in politics, and when he reads, he wants the current struggles of the world to be translated into a simple story about individuals. He can take an interest in Slim and Fenner as he could not in the G.P.U. and the Gestapo. People worship power in the form in which they are able to understand it. A twelve-year-old boy worships Jack Dempsey. An adolescent in a Glasgow slum worships Al Capone. An aspiring pupil at a business college worships Lord Nuffield. A New Statesman reader worships Stalin. There is a difference in intellectual maturity, but none in moral outlook. Thirty years ago the heroes of popular fiction had nothing in common with Mr. Chase's gangsters and detectives, and the idols of the English liberal intelligentsia were also comparatively sympathetic figures. Between Holmes and Fenner on the one hand, and between Abraham Lincoln and Stalin on the other, there is a similar gulf.

      ellauri236.html on line 210: One ought not to infer too much from the success of Mr. Chase's books. It is possible that it is an isolated phenomenon, brought about by the mingled boredom and brutality of war. (LOL) But if such books should definitely acclimatize themselves in England (or Nigeria!), instead of being merely a half-understood import from America, there would be good grounds for dismay. In choosing Raffles as a background for No Orchids I deliberately chose a book which by the standards of its time was morally equivocal. Raffles, as I have pointed out, has no real moral code, no religion, certainly no social consciousness. All he has is a set of reflexes the nervous system, as it were, of a gentleman. Give him a sharp tap on this reflex or that (they are called ‘sport’, ‘pal’, ‘woman’, ‘king and country’ and so forth), and you get a predictable reaction. In Mr. Chase's books there are no gentlemen and no taboos. Emancipation is complete. Freud and Machiavelli have reached the outer suburbs. Comparing the schoolboy atmosphere of the one book with the cruelty and corruption of the other, one is driven to feel that snobbishness, like hypocrisy, is a check upon behaviour whose value from a social point of view has been underrated.

      ellauri236.html on line 398: While he waited, Eddie noticed a girl standing by a nearby bus stop. She immediately attracted his attention: every good-looking girl did. She was a tall, cool-looking blonde with a figure that made him come in his pants twice. She had a pert prettiness that appealed to Eddie. He studied her face for a brief moment. Her make-up was good. Her mouth was a trifle large, but Eddie didn’t mind that. He liked the sexy look she had and the sophisticated way she wore her yellow summery whore dress.

      ellauri236.html on line 403:     She was a kid, 18 at the most. She was horny as hell. After some minutes of frantic handiwork,  Eddie found his cock getting hard. It got up and he sat on the end of the bed. “I’m getting a hard on,” he said, grinning. “You get off to sleep if you want to.” “I don’t want to sleep,” the girl said. “You scared the life out of me, but looking at what you got,  I’m not so scared now.” He came over to the bed and smiled at the girl. “Thanks a lot, baby. You were swell. I wish I could swell s'm more as well." She half sat on it in the bed, but it wouldn't go in.

      ellauri236.html on line 405: “Are you sure it’s safe to use?” “Yeah. It can stay up all night.” She settled down in the bed. “Can it?” She spoke so softly he scarcely heard what she said, but he did hear. He suddenly grinned. “Well, there’s no law against it, is there? Do you want me to stay?” “Now you’re making me wet,” the girl said and hid her face. “What a question to ask a lady.” "My spaghetti’s going to be world famous in a moment. I promise.”

      ellauri236.html on line 411: “Slim! You don’t think that poisonous moron has ideas about the girl, do you?”

      ellauri236.html on line 412: “I tell you I don’t know, but Ma’s goddamn touchy when I mention the girl.”

      ellauri236.html on line 413: “I’m going to talk to her,” Eddie said. “I’m not standing for Slim relieving his repressions on that girl. I got mine to relieve on her too. There’s a limit, and goddamn it, that would be the limit! Be nice now! Doucement!"

      ellauri236.html on line 425: Ma’s eyes suddenly snapped with rage. Her face turned purple. “Slim wants her,” she said, lowering her voice and glaring at Eddie. “He’s going to have her. You keep out of it! That goes for the rest of you too!” Eddie felt horny for the girl, but he wasn’t going to risk his life for her.

      ellauri236.html on line 427: Eddie’s face became expressionless.

      ellauri236.html on line 428: “I know women,” he said with a sneer. “They’d do anything to stuff their face. I feel a boner coming. Call Anna." (Anna is the big mouthed one.) “That you, Anna?” Pete asked while Eddie watched him. “This is Pete. Come here quick. Something’s come up important. I want you over here right away. No, I don’t promise it’s a blow job, but it might lead to one. You’ll come? Okay, I’m waiting for you,” and he hung up.

      ellauri236.html on line 436:       He took out a pack of condoms, got it up and offered her one. She took it and tried to put it on. “Not swollen enough, baby. You and me could get it on together,” she said. “That Blandish girl’s a beauty,” he went on. "But I like you too, baby. How much time do you need?”

      ellauri236.html on line 440:       “Look, Slim, don’t be foolish,” Ma said. She spoke with difficulty. Her mouth felt dry. “We can’t keep her. It’s too dangerous. She’s got to go.” (Ma gets a perspective here for a second.)

      ellauri236.html on line 444: “Then you’ll reckon with me,” he said viciously. “Do you want me to cut your throat, you old cow? If you touch her—if anyone touches her—I’ll cut you to thin slices!” "Can cook her?" asked Woppy excitedly.

      ellauri236.html on line 445: “You hear me?” Slim screamed. “She’s mine! I’m keeping her! No one’s touching her!”

      ellauri236.html on line 449:       Slim stood at the head of the stairs, listening. He grinned to himself. At last he had shown his power. He had scared them all. From now on, he was going to have his rightful place in the gang. Ma was going to take second place. He looked down the passage at Miss Blandish’s room. It was time he stopped rubbing it on her night after night. He must show her he wasn’t only master of his mother, but master of her too. Dammit, he would stick it right in!

      ellauri236.html on line 465: “They’ll take all the furniture away tomorrow unless you pay the third installment. So what shall I have to sit on?” Fenner looked startled. “They’re not taking that away as well, are they?” Fenner is full of wisecracks, a funny guy. Paula is forever the joke of his butt.

      ellauri236.html on line 468:   “For the love of Mike, don’t start that all over again. I’ve enough worries without you adding to them. Why don’t you get smart, honey? A girl with your looks and your shape could hook a millionaire like Blandish. Why waste your time and talents on a loser like me? I’ll tell you something: I’ll always be broke. It’s a tradition in the family. My grandfather was a bankrupt. My father was a pauper. My uncle was a miser: he went crazy because he couldn’t find any money to mise over.”

      ellauri236.html on line 473: “Remind me to consult my ouija board sometime,” Fenner said hurriedly. “Why don’t you go home? You’re getting unhealthy ideas sticking around here with nothing to do. Take the afternoon off. Go shampoo your hair or something. It looks a mess.”

      ellauri236.html on line 475: Fenner got to his feet. He was surprised Blandish wasn’t a bigger man. Only slightly above middle height, the millionaire seemed puny beside Fenner’s muscular bulk. His eyes gave his face its arresting power and character. Fenner has arresting power on his bulk, and Paula has a caracteristic butt.  They were hard, shrewd and alert eyes of a man who has fought his way to the top with no mercy asked nor given. Now this is proper monkey business! Jeff Bezos or Elon Musk in the flesh! Täähän on yhtä mahtavaa kuin Malamudin apinoiden saarella!

      ellauri236.html on line 479: I will pay you three thousand dollars right now and if you find them, you’ll get a further thirty thousand dollars. That’s my proposition. What do you say?” "The F.B.I. are the best FBI in the world. If they’ve failed to find these hoods, I’ll probably fail too, but I’ll have a try.”

      ellauri236.html on line 480: He looked searchingly at Mr. Blandish. “You don’t ask me to find your daughter. You think…?”

      ellauri236.html on line 481: Blandish’s face hardened. (Eddie would have been jealous.)

      ellauri236.html on line 482: “She is dead. I have no doubt about that. It would be an impossible thought to think of her still alive and in the hands of such men. No, she’s dead. At least I hope so. If she isn't  please make it so. I don't want back any damaged goods.”  “Money is no object,” Blandish said. "Money is a subject. Women are objects.“

      ellauri236.html on line 483: “You leave her to me,” Fenner said. “I’ll try not to disappoint her.” Paula can relax. She's’ still got a fanny to park Fenner on.

      ellauri236.html on line 487: “Who’s the new boy friend?”

      ellauri236.html on line 491: “I checked all that,” Brennan said, looking wise. “Abe Schulberg is financing the club. He’s done a deal with Ma Grisson. She runs the club and gives the kike a fifty percent cut.”

      ellauri236.html on line 497: “Thanks, sweetheart, now you trot off home. I’ve got work to do. How would you like to have dinner with me tonight to celebrate our riches?”

      ellauri236.html on line 498: Paula’s face lit up with delighted surprise.

      ellauri236.html on line 499: “I’d love it! I’ll wear my new dress! Let’s go to the Champagne Room! I’ve never been there. I hear it’s a knockout.”

      ellauri236.html on line 500: Fenner put his arm around her coaxingly. “I’ll tell you where we’ll go, the Cosmos Club. We’ll combine business with pleasure.”

      ellauri236.html on line 503: “The Cosmos Club? That joint’s not even a dive and the food’s poisonous.”

      ellauri236.html on line 504: “Run along, baby, I’ve work to do. I’ll pick you up at eight-thirty at your place,” and turning her, Fenner gave her a slap on her behind, launching her fast to the door.

      ellauri236.html on line 510:   “What kills me,” Paula said as she got into the car with a generous show of nylon-clad legs, “is I always have to buy my own corsage. The day you think of buying me one, I’ll faint.”

      ellauri238.html on line 42: Catullus is not the only poet who translated Sappho’s poem to use for himself: Pierre de Ronsard is also known to have translated a version of it. Ronsard kynäilikin suht rasvaisia runoja, kz. albumia 123.

      ellauri238.html on line 862: Born in Germany in 1924, Amichai and his family fled the country during Hitler’s rise to power when Amichai was 12 and settled in Palestine. Although Amichai’s native language was German, he read Hebrew fluently by the time he immigrated to Palestine. During the 1948 Arab-Israeli war he fought with the Israeli defense forces. The rigors and horrors of his service in this conflict, and in World War II, inform his poetry.

      ellauri238.html on line 863: According to Alter, Amichai’s early work bears a resemblance to the poetry of Thomas and Auden. “[Rainer Maria] Rilke,” wrote Alter, “is another informing presence for him, occasionally in matters of style—he has written vaguely Rilkesque elegies—but perhaps more as a model for using a language of here and now as an instrument to catch the glimmerings of a metaphysical beyond.”  Kuulostaa pahalta.

      ellauri240.html on line 61: Another Jewish woman, Nora Barnacle burned most of the letters she received in 1909 from her lover who signed his name, “Jim.” But she didn’t destroy all of them. Indeed, they have survived all these years. In one of them, Jim, aka James Joyce, wrote to his muse whom he called his “little fuckbird,” “Fuck me, darling, in as many ways as your lust will suggest.” He went on and on: ”Fuck me dressed in your full outdoor costume with your hat and veil on, your face flushed with the cold and wind and rain and your boots muddy.” Sellaisia ne miehet on, koprofiilejä.

      ellauri240.html on line 84:     A truly astonishing and original work of fiction indeed. It is a story of one man, a writer, who is born, who grows, who loves, who stops loving; who eats, sleeps, smokes, lies, boozes, cheats, regrets, has sex, has dreams, and lives. In short yet intimately detailed chapters, each covering a single aspect of his life from youth through old age, we get to know this person fully through the small yet telling incidents that make him who he is. He remembers the butt of a cigarette, the feel of his army uniform, the taste of a lover, the strange and unexpected touch of a college professor’s hand, and so many more small experiences that can never be shaken off more than a recalcitrant band-aid.

      ellauri240.html on line 86: At once poignant, funny, and troubling, Charles Simmons’s Wrinkles is a dissection of an ordinary male existence made extraordinary through reflection—a brilliant celebration of the not-so-simple act of being swallowed alive.

      ellauri240.html on line 131: To learn more about the CIA’s efforts to stop the spread of communism deeper into Southeast Asia, and the amazing firsthand stories of sacrifice and bravery of the Hmong men and women who served in the operation, watch the full-length documentary America’s Secret War.

      ellauri240.html on line 139: The leak Wednesday of photos of a what appears to be a prototype of China’s first stealth fighter jet attracted immediate attention worldwide, but many note that China is years away from moving that jet into service.

      ellauri240.html on line 147: The prototype jet pictured in the leaked photos, known as a J-20, is notable because, like the US F-22, it would be undetectable by radar and antiaircraft defenses. The F-22 is currently the world’s only operational next-generation stealth fighter jet.

      ellauri240.html on line 242:   In the four-part US series by HBO, Dylan Farrow recalled the moment that Woody Allen allegedly "touched her private parts" when she was seven. Dylan, now aged 35, has previously written that Allen one day led her to an attic at their house when she was seven years old. She alleged: "He told me to lay on my stomach and play with my brother’s electric train set. Then he sexually assaulted me."

      ellauri240.html on line 256: Maria de Lourdes Villiers Farrow eli Mia Farrow (s. 9. helmikuuta 1945 Los Angeles, Kalifornia) on yhdysvaltalainen näyttelijä. Hänen vanhempansa ovat aussi ohjaaja John Farrow ja irkku näyttelijä Maureen O’Sullivan. Hän on kolmas Farrowin ja O’Sullivanin seitsemästä lapsesta. Farrow sairasti yhdeksänvuotiaana polion ja joutui vuodeksi hengityslaitteeseen, mutta toipui elolle.

      ellauri240.html on line 491:   This podcast is brought to you by MeUndies. If I’m not going commando, then I’m wearing MeUndies. I’ve been testing out a pair for about 3 or 4 months now, and, as a result, I’ve thrown out my other underwear. They look good, feel good, have different hole options for men and women, and their materials are 2x softer than cotton, as evaluated using the Kawabata method. Not only does MeUndies offer underwear, but they also have incredible lounge pants. I wear them when I record the podcast, and when I’m lounging out and about grabbing coffee.

      ellauri243.html on line 137:   Compared with other U.S. races, American Indians have a life expectancy that is shorter than five years. The suicide rate among American Indian youth is 2.5 times higher than among youth in the rest of the country. American Indians are 2.5 times more likely to experience violent crimes than the national average, and more than four out of five American Indian women will experience parking meter violation in their lifetimes. Holy shit, these issues can be seen as symptoms of several larger issues, including access to social services, educational opportunities, nutritional food, and health care, and just plain old laziness and stupidity. Property rights pose more significant problems, insomuch as residents who don’t have deeds to the land on which they live struggle to build credit, which throws a significant barrier in front of upward mobility. Meanwhile, tribal lands are tough sells for franchises and other commercial developers that would bring jobs to reservations, as these companies are often resistant to negotiating contract terms under tribal law. So it's really all their own fault, them not playing along with good old free enterprise and private property!

      ellauri243.html on line 168:   There are so many slang words for penis, maybe because it’s the human organ that fascinates us most. We’ve compiled all slang ways people say “penis” from around the world. While some of these penile terms might sound familiar, others will blow your mind.

      ellauri243.html on line 171: 1. Anaconda 2. Baloney pony 3. Birdie 4. Bobby 5. Boonga 6. Cack 7. Choad 8. Choda 9. Chode 10. Chopper 11. Cock 12. Crank 13. Custard launcher 14. Dick 15. Dicklet 16. Diddly 17. Dingaling 18. Ding-a-ling 19. Ding-dong 20. Dinger 21. Dingle 22. Dingus 23. Dingy 24. Dink 25. Dinkle 26. Dipstick 27. Dirk 28. Disco stick 29. Dog bone 30. Dong 31. Donger 32. Donkey Kong 33. Doodle 34. Dork 35. Down 36. Fire hose 37. Fuckpole 38. Gherkin 39. Hairy canary 40. Hammer 41. Hot rod 42. Hooter 43. Jade stalk 44. Jamoke 45. Jigger 46. Jimmy 47. Jock 48. Johnson 49. John Thomas 50. Joystick 51. Kielbasa 52. Knob 53. Lad 54. Langer 55. Lingam 56. Love muscle 57. Love stick 58. Love truncheon 59. Machine 60. Master John Goodfellow 61. Male member 62. Manhood 63. Maypole 64. Meat 65. Meat puppet 66. Meat rod 67. Meatstick 68. Meat stick 69. Member 70. Membrum virile 71. Nature’s scythe 72. Old chap 73. One-eyed trouser snake 74. Organ 75. Package 76. Pecker 77. Peen 78. Pee-pee 79. Pee-wee 80. Pego 81. Penis 82. Peter 83. Phallus 84. Pickle 85. Piece 86. Pike 87. Pingas 88. Pink cigar 89. Pintle 90. Pipe 91. Pisser 92. Pizzle 93. Plonker 94. Pork sword 95. Prick 96. Pud 97. Putz 98. P-word 99. Python 100. Ramrod 101. Rape tool 102. Rod 103. Root 104. Rutter 105. Salami 106. Sausage 107. Schlong 108. Schmuck 109. Sex tool 110. Shaft 111. Shlong 112. Shmekl 113. Skin flute 114. Snake 115. Snausage 116. Spitstick 117. Stretcher 118. Swipe 119. Tadger 120. Tagger 121. Tail 122. Tallywacker 123. Tarse 124. Thing 125. Thingy 126. Third leg 127. Todger 128. Tool 129. Trouser monkey 130. Trouser snake 131. Truncheon 132. Tube steak 133. Unit 134. Virile member 135. Wang 136. Weapon 137. Wee-wee 138. Weenie 139. Weeny 140. Whang 141. Wick 142. Widgie 143. Widdler 144. Wiener 145. Willie 146. Willy 147. Wingwang 148. Winkle 149. Winky 150. Yard 151. Ying-yang 152. January Nelson.

      ellauri243.html on line 177: 1. Addressing the court 2. BJ 3. Bagpiping 4. Basket lunch 5. Beej 6. Blowie 7. Blowing the love whistle 8. Bobbing for apples 9. Bone-lipping 10. Buccal onanism 11. Brentwood hello 12. Charming the snake 13. Climbing the corporate ladder 14. Cock-gobbling 15. Copping a doodle 16. Courting the gay vote 17. Drinking a slurpee 18. Dropping on it 19. Earning your keep 20. Essin’ the dee 21. Face-frosting 22. Fellatio 23. Fluting 24. French abortion 25. Gator mouth 26. Getting a facial 27. Getting a lewinsky 28. Getting a throat culture 29. Getting to the cream filling 30. Giving cone 31. Giving face 32. Giving head 33. Gobbling pork 34. Going down 35. Gumming the root 36. Punching 37. Giving Big Jim and the twins a bath 38. Giving brain 39. Giving head 40. Gum-rooting 41. Gumming the green bean 42. Head job 43. Honkin’ bobo 44. Huffing bone 45. Hummer 46. Interrogating the prisoner 47. Kneeling at the altar 48. Knob job 49. Larking 50. Laying some lip 51. Licking the lollipop 52. Making mouth music 53. Making the blind see 54. Meeting with Mr. One-Eye 55. Mouth-fucking 56. Mouth-holstering the nightstick 57. Mouth-milking 58. Mouth-to-junk resuscitation 59. Opening wide for Dr. Chunky 60. Oral sodomy 61. Peeling the banana 62. Penilingus 63. Piston job 64. Playing pan’s pipes 65. Playing the pink oboe 66. Playing the skin flute 67. Pole-smoking 68. Polishing the trailer hitch 69. Pricknicking 70. Protein milkshake 71. Receiving holy communion 72. Respecting your superiors 73. Sampling the sausage 74. Scooby-snacking 75. Secretarial duties 76. Singing to the choir 77. Skull-buggery 78. Skull-fucking 79. Slobbin’ the knob 80. Smiling at Mr. Winky 81. Smoking the pink pipe 82. Smoking pole 83. Southern France 84. Speaking into the bonophone 85. Speaking low genitals 86. Spit-shining a baseball bat 87. Spraying the tonsils 88. Sucking off 89. Sucky-ducky 90. Suck-starting the Harley 91. Swallowing the baloney pony 92. Sword-wwallowing 93. Taking one’s temp with a meat thermometer 94. Talking into the mic 95. Telling it to the judge 96. Waxing the carrot 97. Worshiping at the altar 98. Wringing it dry 99. Yaffling the yogurt cannon 100. Zipper dinner

      ellauri243.html on line 181:   There are so many slang words for vagina, maybe because it’s the human organ that fascinates us most. We’ve compiled all slang ways people say “vagina” from around the world. While some of these penile terms might sound familiar, others will blow your mind.

      ellauri243.html on line 188: 1. Barking at the ape 2. Box lunch at the ‘Y’ 3. Breakfast in bed 4. Brushing one’s teeth 5. Carpet-munching 6. Chewing the she-Fat 7. Clam-jousting 8. Clam-lapping 9. Cleaning the fish tank 10. Connie lingus 11. Contacting the aliens 12. Conversing with moses 13. Devil’s kiss 14. Dinner beneath the bridge 15. Doing it the French way 16. Donning the Beard 17. Drinking from the furry cup 18. Eating at the ‘Y’ 19. Eating fur pie 20. Eating out 21. Eating the peach 22. Eating squirrel 23. Eating sushi from the barbershop floor 24. Eating tinned mussels 25. Egg mcmuff 26. Face-fucking 27. Facing the nation 28. Fanny-noshing 29. Fence-painting 30. French-kissing Mr. Lincoln 31. Fuzz sandwich 32. Giving face 33. Gnawing on roast beef 34. Going downstairs for breakfast 35. Going south 36. Gomorrahry 37. Gorilla in the washing machine 38. Growling at the badger 39. Gumming the monster 40. Husband’s supper 41. Kissing between the hips 42. Kissing the wookie 43. Lady braille 44. Lady Semaphore 45. Larking 46. Lapping the gap 47. Lapping the lint trap 48. Lick-a-chick 49. Lickety-slit 50. Licking anchovy 51. Lip service 52. Lip-synching to the fish-fueled jukebox 53. Low-calorie snacking 54. Making mouth music 55. Medicating the hairy paper cut 56. Mopping the vulva 57. Mustache-riding 58. Muff-diving 59. Mumbling in the moss 60. Munching the bearded clam 61. One-man band 62. Oyster-gargling 63. Parting the fuzz 64. Pastrami sandwich 65. Pearl-diving 66. Placating the beaver 67. Playing in the sandbox 68. Playing the hair harmonica 69. Prawn breath 70. Pruning the orchid 71. Pug-noshing 72. Pussy-nibbling 73. Seafood dinner 74. Sipping at the fizzy cup 75. Sitting on a face 76. Slurping at the furry coconut 77. Smoking the fur 78. Sneezing in the basket 79. Spa time For Lady Boner 80. Speaking in tongues 81. Spraying the crops 82. Tackling the Brazilian 83. Talking to the canoe driver 84. Talking to lassie 85. Telephoning the stomach 86. Testing the echo in the love cave 87. Testing the waters 88. Tipping the velvet 89. Tongue-fucking 90. Tonguing the bean 91. Trimming the hedges 92. Velvet buzzsaw 93. Wearing the feed bag 94. Wearing the Sticky Beard 95. Whispering into the wet ear 96. Whispering to Venus 97. Whistling in the dark 98. Worshiping at the altar 99. Yaffling 100. Yodeling in the canyon 101. January Nelson

      ellauri243.html on line 247: months after that. But by the following year, they’d both moved on. Now, 

      ellauri243.html on line 288: celebrity breakups and celebrity divorces. Hollywood breakups aren’t 

      ellauri243.html on line 289: exactly the most pleasant list, but if you’ve ever wondered, “What 

      ellauri243.html on line 340: big step for anyone, whether you’re a celeb or the average person. But for 

      ellauri243.html on line 481: Dale Brown‘s source of wealth comes from being a novelist. How much money is Dale Brown worth at the age of 66 and what’s his real net worth now?

      ellauri243.html on line 482: As of 2023, Dale Brown’s net worth is $100,000 - $1M. Dale Brown is a member of Richest Celebrities and Novelists.

      ellauri243.html on line 506: Brown’s books have never made it into movies. The closest they have come is with some of the characters appearing in computer games. When asked the question on his website, he said it would be cool if his books could be made into movies, however he doesn’t have an agent in Hollywood so the chances are low.

      ellauri243.html on line 508: He hopes to carry on writing books and maybe one will catch a director’s attention. He is working on writing some screenplays based on his books in the hope that he can get a Hollywood agent in the future.

      ellauri243.html on line 510: Dale Brown is still at the forefront of publishing novels today. He most recent novel, Tiger’s Claw, was released in August 2013. The plot of this book surround President Phoenix, Arizona, who has again slashed the military budget just when China begins to test it’s new domestic missile.

      ellauri243.html on line 516: Robert Dale Brown is a boxer, who represented Canada at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain. There he was stopped in the second round of the light heavyweight division by Germany’s Torsten May. Beginning in 2001, he collaborated with fellow author Jim DeFelice on the Dreamland series of books. Oops, nyt tuli sanottua se mitä ei olisi saanut sanoa. (Lea majalla tyytyväisen näköisenä.) 

      ellauri243.html on line 550: 	    Bob Stearns, CEO of Powerful Potential. BOB STEARNS is one of only 95 people in history to lead an organization to win the prestigious Malcolm Baldrige Award. He was the Leader and Architect of Pittsburgh based Medrad’s 2003 journey to win the prestigious award. Medrad won the Baldrige award again in 2010. The Baldrige Award is presented annually by the President of the United States to organizations that excel in seven categories, including results. As Chief Human Resources Officer of CoManage, Bob led that company to be named the Best Place to Work in Pa.” He has also received the American Society for Training and Development Award for Excellence. Bob has served as a Director on the Boards of National Church Solutions, The Orchards at Foxcrest, the Pa. Society of Association Executives, the Pa. Association of Non Profit Organizations and a Woman owned business through Powerlink and Seton Hill University. Bob has owned and been the CEO of PowerfulPotential since 1985.

      ellauri243.html on line 552:     Bob’s book which is titled” Perhaps a Man Can Change the Stars” is the basis for today’s program. He is a sought after Inspirational Speaker, having spoken in eight countries. He just launched a Nationwide Speaking Tour to share the messages from his book with as many people as he can.

      ellauri244.html on line 424: USA Today and #1 bestselling contemporary romance author Madison Faye is the dirty alter ego of the very wholesome, very normal suburban housewife behind the stories. While she might be a wife, mom, and PTA organizer on the outside, there’s nothing but hot, steamy, and raunchy fantasies brewing right beneath the surface!

      ellauri244.html on line 425: Tired of keeping them hidden inside or only having them come out in the bedroom, they’re all here in the form of some wickedly hot stories. Single-minded alpha hero, sinfully taboo relationships, and wildly over-the-top scenarios. If you love it extra dirty, extra hot, and extra naughty, this is the place for you! (Just don’t tell the other PTA members you saw her here…)

      ellauri245.html on line 155:     I received something in Sweden’s Svenska Dagbladet that I don’t think I ever had before: an unqualified trouncing by a reviewer who felt that the book sensationalized violence. The review seemed so emotionally charged that I could only conclude that The Leopard not only wasn’t everyone’s cup of tea, but a brew that really stuck in some readers’ craws, a book whose brutality and scenes of violence could truly alienate readers. 

      ellauri245.html on line 157: On the other hand, from my mostly male fart-loving audience, I received many questions about the use of the torture device Leopold’s Apple in particular. For example, whether it really exists. Is it available from Amazon?

      ellauri245.html on line 163:     If there was any comfort, it was that The Leopard was selected as the year’s best crime novel by the Danish Academy of Crime Writers, topped the bestseller lists in Norway, Finland and Denmark, and for the first time Harry Hole made it onto Der Spiegel’s bestseller list in Germany, where it reached as high as No. 3. The gold and silver medalists shed full 80 liters more gore than I. Got to sharpen up.

      ellauri245.html on line 349: After the funeral, all of the loved one’s possessions – and here’s the real head-turner – are burned. (So much for heirlooms). Once again, the primary concern is marimé (contamination), and family members want to destroy all material ties to the dead. Given the massive cost of such destruction, however, today many people sell the possessions – though not to other Gypsies of course.  

      ellauri246.html on line 286: 
      Destruction at kibbutz Be'eri. The homes at kibbutz Be’eri are now broken and violated. Photograph: Quique Kierszenbaum/The Guardian, Israel

      ellauri246.html on line 287: ‘It was a pogrom’: Be’eri survivors on the horrific attack by Hamas terrorists. Bagged bodies of Hamas militants lying everywhere cluttering the place.
      

      ellauri246.html on line 972: It is the details that delight. Donne hated milk. Mortally sick, about to celebrate his death by sitting for his portrait in a shroud, he was urged by his doctor that ‘by Cordials, and drinking milk twenty days together, there was a probability of his restoration to health’. Donne would have none of it. The doctor (a Dr Fox, son of the author of the ‘Boke of Martyrs’) insisted that his patient should at least try. Donne thereupon drank milk – but for ten days only. Then he told Dr Fox that he would not drink the stuff for another ten days even ‘upon the best moral assurance of having twenty years added to his life’.

      ellauri246.html on line 974: John Stubbs repeats this anecdote from Isaac Walton’s Life of Dr John Donne (1640), which remains a readable piece of work for all its faults. Walton was somewhat cavalier in matters of chronology, jumbling or telescoping events to suit his sense of emotional rightness. Tämä kasku löytyy myös Tauno Körilään Suuresta kaskukirjasta. Kaskuissa on aika lailla toistoa, koska Taunolla ei ollut käytössään tietotekniikkaa. No niin on näissä paasauxissakin, vaikka on.

      ellauri247.html on line 181: After travelling in Holland, Germany and Russia in 1776, Graham set up practice in Bath, Somerset. Advertisements promoting cures using "Effluvia, Vapours and Applications ætherial, magnetic or electric" attracted his first celebrity patient, the historian Catharine Macaulay. She became the subject of scandal in 1778 when she married James Graham’s 21-year-old brother William, who was less than half her age. At the end of 1792, Graham began to experiment with extended fasting to prolong his life. He died at his home in Edinburgh in 1794. Grahamille kävi kuin mustalaisen hevoselle, kuoli juuri kun oli oppimassa paastolle.

      ellauri247.html on line 207: L’Histoire de Gil Blas de Santillane est un roman d'inspiration picaresque de l'écrivain français Alain-René Lesage, paru entre 1715 et 1735. Lesage joue avec les références antiques et picaresques qu'il détourne. Et l'inspiration antique marque l’œuvre jusque dans le découpage en douze livres, qui rappelle les douze chants de l'Énéide.

      ellauri247.html on line 209: L'Histoire de Gil Blas de Santillane n'est pas un roman picaresque puisque le personnage éponyme monte au fur et à mesure l'échelle sociale contrairement au picaro qui, lui, cherche en vain à atteindre la richesse et la noblesse, contrairement à Gil Blas qui devient riche et obtient ses lettres de noblesse. La dimension religieuse est présente dans l’œuvre puisqu'Ambroise de Lamela et don Raphaël, deux brigands ayant joué des tours à Samuel Simon et ayant volé l'argent d'un couvent, seront punis par l'Inquisition sous les yeux de Gil Blas (XII, 1).

      ellauri247.html on line 211: Alain-René Lesage ou Le Sage, né le 8 mai 1668 à Sarzeau1 et mort le 17 novembre 1747 à Boulogne-sur-Mer, est un romancier et dramaturge français. Bien qu’il soit aujourd’hui surtout connu pour son roman picaresque Histoire de Gil Blas de Santillane, Lesage est l’auteur d’une importante production théâtrale. Il a notamment contribué au développement et au renouvellement du « théâtre de la Foire » Après les marionnettes et les danseurs de corde, les acteurs forains en vinrent progressivement à jouer de véritables petites comédies, souvent écrites par des auteurs de renom et de talent. Toujours modeste, c’est par ses ouvrages seuls qu’il obtint sa réputation, et jamais il ne rechercha les dignités et les titres littéraires. Nietsche piti Gil Blasista enemmän kuin Shakespearesta. Varmaan se oli parempi kuin tuo nenäkäs skottitohtori. 

      ellauri247.html on line 259: Smollett’s deep moral energy surfaced in two early verse satires, “Advice: A Satire” (1746) and its sequel, “Reproof: A Satire” (1747); these rather weak poems were printed together in 1748. Smollett’s poetry includes a number of odes and lyrics, but his best poem remains “The Tears of Scotland.” Written in 1746, it celebrates the unwavering independence of the Scots, who had been crushed by English troops at the Battle of Culloden. Not much of an improvement on the rest I'd say.

      ellauri247.html on line 323:   <William Hogarth (10. marraskuuta 1697 Lontoo – 26. lokakuuta 1764 Lontoo) oli englantilainen taidemaalari ja graafikko, joka tunnetaan erityisesti suurta suosiota saavuttaneista kuvasarjoistaan. Hogarth oli erittäin taitava ja tarkka piirtäjä ja suosi runsaita yksityiskohtia ja groteskeja sävyjä. Hänen tyylinsä oli kova ja realistinen. Hogarth kuvasi kuparipiirrossarjoissaan aikaansa ja ihmishahmoja moralisoiden ja ivaten. Hogarth teki vuosina 1731–1732 ensimmäisen moralistisen piirrossarjansa ’Ilotytön tarina’. Hogarth oli äärimmäisen kansallismielinen eikä koskaan myöntänyt saaneensa vaikutteita ulkomaisilta taiteilijoilta vaikka oli käynyt kahdesti Pariisissa ja tuonut sieltä tuomisixi hyppykupan. Hogarth was born in London to a lower-middle-class family. Hogarth's works are mostly satirical caricatures, sometimes bawdily sexual. Kuvissa se on ilkimyxen näköinen. Sen suurin kyseenalainen ansio oli copyrightin laillistaminen. Stanley Kubrick based the cinematography of his 1975 period drama film, Barry Lyndon, on several Hogarth paintings. Muistan että se oli pitkäpiimäinen, en kyllä muista siitä muuta, koska se oli mun ja Seijan eka yhteinen elokuvaretki. Kubrick on kaiken kaikkiaan aika joutavanpäiväinen.

      ellauri247.html on line 505: Présentant une vue panoramique, il expose plusieurs temps de la célèbre bataille se développant de gauche à droite. Plus d'une centaine de personnages, militaires français à cheval ou à pieds et troupes de l’Émir Abd-el-Kader dans l'ensemble des tentes organisées en cercle de défense qui prend le nom de smala.

      ellauri247.html on line 510: Abd el-Kader organisait la smala toujours selon le même principe : elle se composait de quatre enceintes circulaires et concentriques où chaque douar, chaque famille, chaque individu avait sa place fixe et marquée, suivant son rang, son utilité, ses fonctions, ou la confiance qu’il inspirait. La smala arrivant à son gîte, la tente de l’émir se dressait au centre du terrain que le camp devait couvrir. 

      ellauri247.html on line 516: La smala avait passé la fin de l’hiver 1843 à deux journées de marche au sud de Tagdempt. Instruite qu’on était à sa poursuite, elle erra pendant quelque temps et se trouva le 16 mai à la source de Taguine. Le gouverneur-général Bugeaud avait été informé de la présence de la smala aux environs de Boghar ; mais on ignorait l’endroit.

      ellauri247.html on line 518: Il donna ordre au général Lamoricière, ainsi qu’au duc d’Aumale de se mettre à sa poursuite. Le prince partit de Boghar avec 1 300 fantassins et 600 chevaux. Trois jours après, il apprit que la smala se trouvait à 80 kilomètres au sud de Goudjila. Pour l’atteindre, il fallait franchir vingt lieues d’une traite sans une goutte d’eau. Alors que les soldats étaient à la recherche de la source de Taguine pour se désaltérer, l’agha Ahmar ben Ferhat vint informer le prince de la présence inattendue de la smala à cette même source.

      ellauri247.html on line 530:     Baboons leave their lairs at dawn and congregate to chatter and howl, while jumping in the warmth of the early morning sun, as if singing and dancing. The belief that they greet the rising sun gave rise to a favorite theme in art – baboon in attitude of adoration, facing the sun with raised arms as if ‘offering prayers and salutation to the first rays of dawn’. 

      ellauri248.html on line 93: Can you write a mystery story that ends with uncertainty? Where you never know who really did it? You can, but it’s unsatisfying. It’s unpleasant for the reader . There needs to be something at the end, some sort of resolution. It’s not that the killer even needs to be caught or locked up. It’s that the reader needs to know. Not knowing is the worst outcome for any mystery story, because we need to believe that everything in the world is knowable. Justice is optional, but answers, at least, are mandatory. And that’s what I love about Holmes. That the answers are so elegant and the world he lives in so ordered and rational. It’s beautiful.”

      ellauri248.html on line 122: Not. One. Thing. Is. Resolved. Rob Ryan’s character arc? Flop. My wife Cassie Maddox’s character arc? Long sigh. My favorite pair of besties? I don’t want to talk about it. Mystery? Fine, sort of chilling, but also 1) not really a mindfuck and 2) has shitty connotations. The commupence? Non-ex-is-tent.

      ellauri248.html on line 125: And the worst part? The mystery from twenty years ago that causes this entire fucking BOOK and that was way more interesting than the normal mystery? Literally no fucking resolution. Who did it? How did they do it? What is up with that hair clip in the forest and the blood inside Rob’s shoes? NO ONE FUCKING KNOWS. I’m sure this is framed in the minds of many readers as some kind of deeper meaning about memory. You know what I thought, honestly? Tana French wrote herself into a corner with a fucking ridiculous case and then ran out of time on her deadline and decided to leave it open. [krimi, whodunit]

      ellauri248.html on line 345: The US is 3.797 million mi². The area that was “reserved” for tribes from there previous landholdings is about 2.3% of the total US land. Some reservations are the “reserved” remnants of a tribe’s original land base. Others were created by the federal government from federal land for the resettling Native people who were forcibly relocated from their homelands.

      ellauri249.html on line 76: Brodsky’s poetry bears the marks of his confrontations with the Russian authorities. “Brodsky is someone who has tasted extremely bitter bread,” wrote Stephen Spender in New Statesman, “and his poetry has the air of being ground out between his teeth. … It should not be supposed that he is a liberal, or even a socialist. He deals in unpleasing, hostile truths and is a realist of the least comforting and comfortable kind. Everything nice that you would like him to think, he does not think. But he is utterly truthful, deeply religious, fearless and pure. Loving, as well as hating.”

      ellauri249.html on line 78: The tenor of his poetry is not so much apolitical as antipolitical,” wrote Victor Erlich. “His besetting sin was not ‘dissent’ in the proper sense of the word, but a total, and on the whole quietly undemonstrative, estrangement from the Soviet ethos.” Art teaches the writer, he said, “the privateness of the human condition. Being the most ancient as well as the most literal form of private enterprise, it fosters in a man a sense of his uniqueness, of individuality, or separateness—thus turning him from a social animal into an autonomous ‘I.’

      ellauri249.html on line 80: It is precisely in this sense that we should understand Dostoyevsky’s remark that beauty will save the world, or Matthew Arnold’s belief that we shall be saved by poetry. It is probably too late for the world, but for the individual man (me) there always remains a chance. What distinguishes us from other members of the animal kingdom is speech. Literature—and poetry, in particular, my poetry—is, to put it bluntly, the goal of our species.” Minä minä! Täähän on pahempi egosentrikko kuin minä ja pikku-CEC Norjassa.

      ellauri249.html on line 84: Czeslaw Milosz felt that Brodsky’s background allowed him to make a vital contribution to literature. Writing in the New York Review of Books, Milosz stated, “Behind Brodsky’s poetry is the experience of political terror, the experience of the debasement of man and the growth of the totalitarian empire."

      ellauri249.html on line 305: China will overtake the US as the world’s biggest economy before the end of the decade after outperforming its rival during the global Covid-19 pandemic, according to a report.

      ellauri249.html on line 306: The Centre for Economics and Business Research said that it now expected the value of China’s economy when measured in dollars to exceed that of the US by 2028, half a decade sooner than it expected a year ago.

      ellauri249.html on line 429: Ja kussa hän kulki, siell’ ihmiset sulki

      ellauri249.html on line 445: mikä tääll’ oli Valkean Kenraalin työ.

      ellauri249.html on line 482: Why would Finns want to attack Russia? What have they got that we have not? Well, good vodka, and Karelia. I am partial to the Russian Standard Vodka. Besides, it’s distilled from the waters of Lake Ladoga. Thus, every time I have finished a bottle of Russkij Standard, and urinated, I have removed a part of Lake Ladoga and made it part of the local water supply. Literally taking back Karelia a bottle at the time. 

      ellauri249.html on line 484: Of course, with the war in Ukraine, I can’t buy it anymore and I’ve had to replace it with Absolut, which is, I’m sorry to say, inferior in taste. (Finlandia’s not available where I live, it’s inferior, too.) That’s why I hope that Putin will retreat from Ukraine as soon as possible so that we can get back to business as usual.

      ellauri254.html on line 385: In 1899, as Fyodor Sologub progressed in the teaching profession while continuing to elaborate his literary career, Sologub was appointed principal of the Andreevskoe municipal school in Saint Petersburg. With the position came an apartment on Vasilievsky Island, which Sologub shared with his sister Olga. In the late 1890s and at the beginning of the 1900s, the art world of Petersburg saw Konstantin Sluchevsky’s ‘Fridays’, and Sergei Diaghilev’s ‘Wednesdays’: literary salons which were attended by the leading poets and artists of the day. Sologub had been a participant of both groups; and between 1905 and 1907, his apartment on Vasilievsky Island became the home of ‘Sundays’, a regular meeting place for Petersburg’s nascent intellectuals.

      ellauri254.html on line 387: Alexander Blok was a routine visitor. These years were some of the young Blok’s most prolific, marked by bursts of creative energy as he worked on two lyrical dramas – Balaganchik (‘The Puppet Show‘), featuring the ‘grotesquely luckless’ Pierrot, which was staged in 1906 by Vsevolod Meyerhold at the Komissarzhevskaya Theatre; and The Stranger – and the poetry cycle The Snow Mask, which he completed in little over a week at the beginning of 1907. The actress Valentina Verigina often accompanied Blok, and recounted of these visits to and from Sologub’s apartment:

      ellauri254.html on line 389: ‘How often we wandered through the streets of the snowy city… All of the theatrical events that seemed so important in their time have grown dim in my memory. Acting at the theatre, which I loved so much, now seems to me far less exciting and bright than that game of masks in Blok’s circle. It is true that even at that time I did not look upon our meetings, gatherings, and strolls as mere entertainment. There is no doubt that others too felt the significance and creative value of it all, yet nonetheless we did not realize that the charms of Blok’s poetry almost deprived us all of our real existence, turning us into Venetian masqueraders of the north.’

      ellauri254.html on line 391: In the month after Olga’s death from tuberculosis in June 1907, Sologub retired following twenty-five years as a teacher, and moved in Petersburg from the school-owned apartment to a private flat. The following year he married Anastasia Chebotarevskaya, a translator and author of children’s books who he had first met in the autumn of 1905. In the summer of 1909, Sologub and Chebotarevskaya holidayed in France. Though he had travelled to Finland with his sister in a final attempt to improve her condition, Finland was at the time part of the Russian Empire, so this trip to France was Sologub’s first proper visit abroad.  

      ellauri254.html on line 393: In August 1910, Sologub and his wife moved to a larger apartment, at Razyezzhaya ulitsa in the centre of Petersburg. The short and brisk sentences of Anastasia Chebotarevskaya’s writing have been viewed as a potential influence on Sologub’s own work; and she encouraged his acquaintance with the young writers of Russian Futurism, a distinctive literary movement which was then just beginning to flower. Yet the influence of Anastasia on her husband has not been unanimously well received. The humourist Teffi – who was one of the group who frequented the ‘Sundays’ gatherings at Sologub’s Vasilievsky Island home – wrote that Sologub’s marriage:

      ellauri254.html on line 395: ‘reshaped his daily life in a new and unnecessary way. A big new apartment was rented, small gilt chairs were bought. The walls of the large cold office for some reason were decorated with paintings of Leda by various painters. The quiet talks were replaced by noisy gatherings with dances and masks. Sologub shaved his mustache and beard, and everyone started to say that he resembled a Roman of the period of decline.’

      ellauri254.html on line 397: One of these ‘noisy gatherings with dances and masks’ proved the occasion of a notable scandal within the world of Russian letters. On 3 January, 1911, Sologub and his wife hosted a masquerade to celebrate the new year. Among the attendees were the writers Aleksei Remizov and Aleksei Tolstoy. Remizov was well known within the world of Russian letters for his mischievous sense of humour. He founded a ‘Great and Free House of Apes’, declaring himself Chancellor, and sent out missives to writers and publishers decreeing them positions in this ironic organisation; and Andrei Bely dubbed him a ‘petty cash demon’ – the title of Sologub’s most celebrated work – owing to his appearance.

      ellauri254.html on line 399: For the new year’s masquerade, Anastasia lent Remizov an anal hide for use as a costume. Remizov apparently cut the tail from this hide, and attached it to his rear so that it poked out of the front vent of his evening jacket. Anastasia failed to see the funny side, for she had borrowed the hide herself in order to lend it to Remizov. She complained in a letter:

      ellauri254.html on line 401: ‘To my great dismay, today I discovered that your tail came from my perineum (actually not mine, someone else’s – that’s the problem!). Moreover, I cannot find the rear paws. Have they really been cut off? Where shall I look for them? I await your reply. I’ve taken the skin to be fixed – but how ever can I return it with patches?’

      ellauri254.html on line 405:   Fyodor and Anastasia would stay at the apartment on Razyezzhaya ulitsa until 1916, when – after several years of constant touring for the sake of a series of lectures – Sologub settled again and returned with his wife to Vasilievsky Island. The final move of his life would come in the weeks after his wife’s suicide in 1921, upon which Sologub took an apartment on the Zhdanovskaya Embankment, close to Tuchkov bridge from which his wife had jumped and drowned.

      ellauri254.html on line 461:   Nach seinem Abitur im Jahre 1888 bereiste George die europäischen Metropolen London, Paris und Wien. In Wien lernte er 1891 Hugo von Hofmannsthal kennen. In Paris traf er auf den Symbolisten Stéphane Mallarmé und dessen Dichterkreis, der ihn nachhaltig beeinflusste und ihn seine exklusive und elitäre Kunstauffassung des l’art pour l’art entwickeln ließ. Seine Dichtungen sollten sich jeglicher Zweckgebundenheit und Profanierung entziehen. Zu Georges Pariser Kontaktpersonen gehörte auch Paul Verlaine. Unter dem Einfluss der Symbolisten entwickelte George eine Abneigung gegen den in Deutschland zu jener Zeit sehr populären Realismus und Naturalismus. Maxim Gorki wäre sehr böse gewesen, hätte er das gewusst.   Seit 1889 studierte er drei Semester lang an der Philosophischen Fakultät der Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Berlin, brach sein Studium jedoch bald ab. Danach blieb er sein Leben lang ohne festen Wohnsitz, wohnte bei Freunden und Verlegern (wie Georg Bondi in Berlin), auch wenn er sich zunächst noch relativ häufig in das Elternhaus in Bingen zurückzog. Zwar hatte er von seinen Eltern ein beträchtliches Erbe erhalten, doch lebte er stets sehr genügsam. Als Dichter identifizierte er sich früh mit Dante (als der er auch beim Münchner Fasching auftrat), dessen Divina Comedia er in kleine Teile zerriss. Samanlainen ilkeä riippunokka se olikin kuin Dante. 

      ellauri254.html on line 490:     Außerdem war der thematische Bruch Georges in dessen Privatleben begründet. In jener Zeit hatte er sich vom okkulten Kreis Ludwig Klages’ und Alfred Schulers abgewandt und den Kontakt zu Hugo von Hofmannsthal abgebrochen. Der Wegfall einiger Anhänger und die Nachfolge durch jüngere Dichter sorgten für einen Wandel der Blätter für die Kunst. Die nun teilweise auch anonym veröffentlichten Gedichte rückten ins Metaphysische und behandelten zunehmend apokalyptische, expressionistische und esoterisch-komische Themen. Auch der George-Kreis hatte sich dadurch verändert. War er zuvor eine Vereinigung Gleichgesinnter, wandelte er sich nun zu einem hierarchischen Bund aus Jüngern, die sich um ihren höhergestellten Meister George scharten. Es wird vermutet, dass es im Kreis Stefan Georges seelischen oder gar sexuellen Missbrauch gab.

      ellauri254.html on line 521: In Schulers antisemitisch-esoterischer Vorstellungswelt strömten im Blut „kosmische Energien“ des Menschen zusammen, ein kostbarer Besitz, der „Quell aller schöpferischen Mächte“ sei. Dieser Schatz sei von einem besonderen Leuchtstoff durchdrungen, der von der kosmischen Kraft des Trägers künde, allerdings nur im Blut auserwählter Personen zu finden sei. Von ihnen erwartete man in den Zeiten des Niederganges die allgemeine Wiedergeburt in den Sonnenkindern oder Wiener Sängerknaben. Nun gab es nach Auffassung Klages’ einen mächtigen Feind des Blutes, den Geist, und die kosmischen Anstrengungen sollten darauf hinauslaufen, die Seele aus der „Knechtschaft“ dieses Geistes zu befreien, jener Kraft, die mit Fortschritt und Vernunft, Kapitalismus, Zivilisation und dem Judentum gleichzusetzen war und den Sieg Jahwes über das Leben bedeuten würde. Die Tiraden Schulers gegen den „Molochismus“, wie er seine Anspielung auf den kinderverschlingenden Moloch nannte, unterschieden sich kaum von antisemitischen Wendungen, die um diese Zeit in Wien gestreut wurden. Klages ging über diese noch hinaus, indem er vom Scheinleben einer Larve sprach, die Jahwe nutze, „um auf dem Wege der Täuschung die Menschheit zu vernichten“.

      ellauri254.html on line 661: Vuoden 1917 helmikuun vallankumouksen jälkeen Trotski palasi Venäjälle. Hän ei kuulunut enää menševikkeihin, vaan liittyi aluksi sosiaalidemokraattien mežraiontsy-ryhmään ja hieman myöhemmin bolševikkeihin. Trotski nousi nopeasti bolševikkipuolueen johtoon, ja lokakuun vallankumouksen jälkeen hänestä tuli uuden hallituksen sotilas- ja laivastoasiain kansankomissaari (’puolustusministeri’). Tässä tehtävässä hän oli keskeisesti luomassa puna-armeijaa ja vaikuttamassa bolševikkien voittoon Venäjän sisällissodassa. Ettei tää kuulostaisi liian hyvältä: Hän oli osaltaan vastuussa teloituksista, Kronstadtin kapinan kukistamisesta ja bolševikkivastaisen toiminnan väkivaltaisesta tukahduttamisesta. Kuten esim. Judenizin lahtariarmeijan pysäyttämisestä.

      ellauri256.html on line 177: 1. Eleasarin poika ja Aaronin pojanpoika. Hänen äitinsä oli Putelin tytär, ja hänen poikansa nimi oli Abisua. (2Mo 6:25; 1Ai 6:4.) Nimenomaan nuoren Pinehaan nopea toiminta lakkautti Jehovalta tulleen vitsauksen, kun 24000 israelilaista oli kuollut kuppaan Moabin tasangoilla, koska he olivat harjoittaneet haureutta ja vetäneet viixeen Peorin Baalia. Kun hän näki Simrin vievän midianilaisen naisen Kosbin telttaansa, hän lävisti heidät molemmat pistokeihäällä, ”naisen tämän vatsanpohjan kohdalta”. Hänen palava intonsa siinä, että hän ’ei suvainnut mitään kilpailua’ Jehovaa vastaan, ”laskettiin hänelle vanhurskaudeksi”, ja Jumala teki hänen kanssaan liiton, jonka mukaan pappeus pysyisi hänen suvussaan ”ajan hämärään asti”. (4Mo 25:1–3, 6–15; Ps 106:30, 31.)

      ellauri256.html on line 180: 2. Pappi Eelin kahdesta ’kelvottomasta’ pojasta nuorempi (1Sa 1:3; 2:12). Palvellessaan pappeina hän ja hänen veljensä Hofni makasivat niiden naisten kanssa, jotka palvelivat pyhäkössä, ja he ”käsittelivät Jehovan uhrilahjaa epäkunnioittavasti” (1Sa 2:13–17, 22). Kun heidän isänsä nuhteli heitä laimeasti, he kieltäytyivät kuuntelemasta. Jumala julisti heille heidän pahuutensa vuoksi tuomion, joka täyttyi heidän kummankin saadessa samana päivänä surmansa taistelussa filistealaisia vastaan. (1Sa 2:23–25, 34; 3:13; 4:11.) Tieto arkun kaappaamisesta ja hänen appensa ja aviomiehensä kuolemasta oli liikaa tämän Pinehaan vaimolle. Hän joutui sokkiin ja kuoli synnyttäessään Ikeabodin. (1Sa 4:17–21.)

      ellauri256.html on line 376: After the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution, the situation turned upside down. Mayakovsky, as a devoted Bolshevik, began to make good money on his poems, whereas Osip Brik's business went pear-shaped. It was then that Lilya told her husband she was now with Mayakovsky, yet she did not want to divorce him. Thus, both moved to the poet’s apartment, lived and traveled at his expense, with Mayakovsky calling Osip a part of the “family”. Their relationship became an “ideal" for those who advocated free love. In the meantime, rumors of Lilya Brik’s numerous sexual liaisons grew.

      ellauri256.html on line 487: Pohjan sodan aikaan kaupunki joutui kapinallisen kasakkahetmani Bohdan H’melnytskyin hallintaan. Vuosina 1648–1678 kaupunki oli kasakoiden hallussa, kunnes nämä hävisivät taistelussa turkkilaisille ja kaupungin hallinto muutettiin Bohuslaviin.

      ellauri257.html on line 69: British-born director J. Lee Thompson (“The Yellow Balloon”/”The Passage”/”King Solomon’s Mines”) helms this bloody spectacular. It’s a serviceable large-scale epic that mainly goes wrong with a mushy subplot involving a miscast Tony Curtis as a Cossack wooing a Polish noblewoman, Christine Kaufmann (they were soon to be married in real-life after his divorce from Janet Leigh). It seems to be in genre form when showing hordes of Cossack horsemen flying across the steppes to do battle. It’s based on the novel by Nikolai Gogol and is written without wit or logic by Waldo Salt (former blacklisted writer) and Karl Tunberg.

      ellauri257.html on line 77: Franz Waxman’s bombastic score bursts across the lush Technicolor screen as a reminder of how much Gogol’s novel has been cheapened, Cossacks on horseback engage the Poles in battle giving the film its life pulse and the action-packed film ultimately serves as a paean to Ukrainian nationalism as it rewrites history to leave out how the violently anti-Semitic Cossacks attacked the Jewish population of Poland with a barbaric ruthlessness to dispense with their ethnic cleansing. Yul chews the scenery, but is watchable. Tony demonstrates he can’t act by giving an unbearably gooey performance.

      ellauri257.html on line 170: Там найдете щире серце 		Siell’ on teille puhdas sydän	Sieltä löytyy reilu sydän	

      ellauri257.html on line 172: Там найдете щиру правду, 	Siell’ on teille puhdas totuus	Sieltä saatte rehdin pravdan 	

      ellauri257.html on line 389: My main beef with Peterson is not with his overall philosophy, although I don’t personally vibe with his “life is suffering” Christian stoicism at all, what I find objectionable is his complete laziness and lack of rigour in political theory.

      ellauri257.html on line 394: Theodor Adorno wrote a book entitled “the Authoritarian Personality” which dissects and attacks authoritarianism in political culture. If Peterson were to pay attention to what people are actually saying rather than jumping on some John Birch Society fantasy, he’d realise the “cultural Marxists” he blame for everything wrong in the world are closer to him on “political correctness” and dogmatic ideology than he thinks.

      ellauri257.html on line 398: I don’t like Jordan Peterson, or, more accurately, I don’t like the role Peterson is playing in the culture war because I find it intellectually impoverished, uninformed, and feeding into a repugnant far-right cultural revolution that Peterson himself does not necessarily endorse but which he nonetheless gives aid to.

      ellauri257.html on line 423:   Pornography is D.H. Lawrence without the penetration, Diary of a Chambermaid with none of the bite and philosophical imagination. A group of Germans inexplicably fuck around in the near distance. Frederic curiously precedes a murderous request by squeezing a young blonde’s breasts like melons. A Jewish family hides under the kitchen’s floorboards, but no explanation is offered for how they got there.

      ellauri257.html on line 458: “They haven’t turned up yet. They just send a lot of money and weapons and let the Ukrainians supply the manpower and fill the body bags. Fewer Western casualties this way. The concept has been tested in countless local wars all round the globe."

      ellauri257.html on line 504: Still, Singer was a married man, but not to Runia (Rachel) Pontsch, who in 1929 gave birth to a son, Israel Zamir, Singer's only child. In Warsaw, before immigrating to the United States, he had a child out of wedlock with one of his mistresses, Runia Shapira, a rabbi’s daughter. She was a Communist expelled from the Soviet Union for her Zionist sympathies. In his 1995 memoir, “A Journey to My Father, Isaac Bashevis Singer,” Zamir recounts how he and his mother ended up in Palestine. But since Singer and Runia separated when Zamir (born in 1929) was little, the report is almost totally deprived of a domestic portrait.

      ellauri257.html on line 506: In the United States, Singer went through a period of depression in which he published little fiction, until in 1938, he met Alma Wasserman and the two married in 1940. For Singer as homo domesticus, I needed the views of his wife, Alma Haimann, whom I’ll refer to by her first name hereafter. I had read in a 1970s article from The Jewish Exponent that Alma had been at work on an autobiography. “I’m about as far as the first 100 pages,” she told the Philadelphia newspaper. I was also aware, from Paul Kresh’s 1979 biography, “The Magician of West 86th Street,” that Singer didn’t think his wife would ever finish the manuscript. But was there such a manuscript?

      ellauri257.html on line 508: Happily, when I last visited Singer’s archives at the Ransom Center, in Austin, Texas, I located the manuscript. Unhappily, it is far less than Alma had promised — not only in length (I came across 13 pages, a number of them only a few lines long,) but also in content. The first page has a title penciled in capital letters: “What Life Is Like With a Writer.”

      ellauri257.html on line 512: She and Singer met in the Catskills, at a farm village named Mountaindale. Although in the manuscript, Alma is elusive about dates, it is known that the encounter took place in 1937. The two were refugees of what Singer’s older brother, Israel Joshua, by then already the successful novelist I.J. Singer, would soon describe as “a world that is no more.” And the two were married to other spouses. Alma and her husband, Walter Wasserman, along with their two children, Klaus and Inga, had escaped from Germany the previous year and come to America, settling in the Inwood section of Manhattan. As for Isaac — as Alma always called him — he arrived in 1935. She portrays their encounters as romantic, although she appears to have been perfectly aware of his reputation.

      ellauri257.html on line 514: Alma doesn’t explore the cultural differences that separated them. She was an upper-class German Jew born in Munich, whereas Singer was from Leoncin, a small Polish village northeast of Warsaw. In 1904, when Singer was born, Leoncin was part of the Russian Empire. In Alma’s milieu, Yiddish was a symbol of low caste. Her father had been a textile businessman and her grandfather had been a Handlerichter (LOL), a judge specializing in commercial cases. Although Wasserman, her first husband, was nowhere near as rich in America as he had been in Germany, he was certainly far wealthier than Singer, who was known as an impecunious journalist.

      ellauri257.html on line 520: What kind of inner, private life did Alma have? Did she tire of years of cooking, cleaning, ironing and sewing for Singer? Was it difficult to be the wife of a public person? How did she cope with his escapades? About these the manuscript remains silent. After all, Alma belonged to a social class where women weren’t encouraged to explore such details. In an interview, she does represent the younger Singer as easy-going and says how much he changed over time. But she ascribes those changes to how much people wanted from him and not the other way around.

      ellauri257.html on line 522: Sadly, nothing in Alma’s narrative hints at the emotional turmoil Singer left in his wake, although in the 1970s she told Kresh that abandoning the Wasserman family left such a sour taste in her mouth that she convinced herself it was better to stay forever with Singer despite his infidelities than to cause another emotional uproar. By most accounts, the lingering effects of her divorce made for bad blood toward Singer among Alma’s children and their extended family.

      ellauri257.html on line 524: Alma recounts her relationship with Singer as one of endurance. Her first two lines are: “When I told my friends and relatives that I intended to marry Isaac Singer, they all protested violently that it would not last more than a few weeks, and that the whole thing was a mistake. So far it has lasted for almost forty years, and although it was sometimes stormy, it nevertheless is a record.” Yes, she says it’s a record. The word “love” is nowhere to be found.

      ellauri257.html on line 526: Singer’s domestic side is thorny. The Singers kept a Hispanic maid, and Dvora Menashe (later Telushkin), who was Singer’s assistant in his late years — indeed she wrote a memoir, “Master of Dreams” [1997], recounting that time — told me about her. So did Janet Hadda, who wrote the biography “Isaac Bashevis Singer: A Life” (1997). Hadda even provided me with an address, but my letters went unanswered. Lester Goran, who co-taught with Singer at the University of Miami and wrote a memoir about their friendship, “The Bright Streets of Surfside” (1994), couldn’t help me, either.

      ellauri257.html on line 528: Singer continued to write and translate his stories and novels throughout the 1980s, until the onset of dementia in 1987. In the end, as Singer suffered from dementia, his relationships with Goran, Menashe and perhaps even Alma soured. The effects lingered unpleasantly even after his death, and as a consequence it’s hard to track the sirvienta. We don’t even know her name or nationality for certain. The idea of a Spanish-speaking maid as an integral part of Singer’s household is ripe not only for biographical scrutiny, but also for fictional development: !Ah! !Ah! !Si! !Si! !Si señor! !!Mas rapido! !Mas profundo!

      ellauri257.html on line 530: All this to say that the Yiddish writer’s other women — not the sexy but the stolid, those who accompanied him at home for better or worse, for richer or poorer, in sickness and in health — are crucial to the understanding of how he looked at the world. Alma was his anchor. Despite his betrayals, he always returned to her. Her silence, her resignation, might be disheartening to modern sensibilities. Yet she grounded him, and not only as an artist.

      ellauri258.html on line 731: »Älkää siis murehtiko: ’Mitä me nyt syömme?’ tai ’Mitä me juomme?’ tai ’Mistä me saamme vaatteet?’ tai "Mistä saamme lisää rahnaa?"

      ellauri262.html on line 426: Sayers had much in common with Lewis and Tolkien’s circle, including a love of orthodox Christianity, traditional verse, popular fiction, and debate. Sayers oli Cliven fani ja kääntäen. But

      ellauri262.html on line 429: Sayers was greatly influenced by G. K. Chesterton, fellow detective fiction novelist, essayist, critic, among other things, commenting that, "I think, in some ways, G.K.’s books have become more a part of my mental make-up than those of any writer you could name.” n 2022, Sayers was officially added to the Episcopal Church liturgical calendar with a feast day on 17 December.

      ellauri262.html on line 471: Lewis postulates that maybe this world is not the 'best of all possible' universes but the only possible one. Haha! If so, then everything possible is necessary, and will is not free. (lähde) He acknowledges the objection that if God is good and he saw how much suffering it would produce why would he do it. Lewis doesn’t know how to answer that type of question and says that that is not his objective, but only to conceive how goodness (assured on other grounds) and suffering are without contradiction. Okay, Clive, so you just give up.    

      ellauri262.html on line 477: Lewis acknowledges the critique of what specific, individual harm have we done to God for God to be always angry. Well it's not personal as such. "When we merely say that we are bad, the ‘wrath’ of God seems a barbarous doctrine; as soon as we perceive our badness, it appears inevitable, a mere corollary from God’s goodness. Good guys do bad things to bad guys, as in cowboy films."

      ellauri262.html on line 483:  While there is a social conscious and corporate guilt, don’t let the idea distract you from your own "old-fashioned guilts" that have nothing to do with the ‘system’. Often, it’s an excuse for evading the real issue. Once we’ve learned of our individual corruption, we can go on to think about corporate guilt. If we ever get that far, the plank in our own eye is hard to extricate. (Luke 6:41-42)

      ellauri262.html on line 487: We must guard against the feeling that there is ‘safety in number’. There isn't, look at holocaust.

      ellauri262.html on line 496: Don’t shift blame for human behavior to the Creator. It's enough to blame his own behavior on him. While it is not possible to follow the moral law perfectly, "the ultimate problem must not be used as one more means of evasion". You could be as pious as the early Christians but many don’t even try. 

      ellauri262.html on line 499: Lewis then says that he doesn’t believe in the doctrine of Total Depravity on logical and experiential grounds. Also, shame is of value, not as an emotion but for the insight that it provides. He shares how he notices that the more a man hollers the more fully aware he is of his vileness. To underline this point Clive says probably the most famous line from this book: "God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pain: it is His megaphone to rouse the deaf." 

      ellauri262.html on line 600: The 71-year-old actor, best known for his roles in Monty Python and Fawlty Towers, said: “I don’t think Christ said a lot about abortion or even about single sex marriage.

      ellauri262.html on line 601: I don’t know where all these Christian doctrines came from but that had nothing to do with what Christ ever said in the Bible.”

      ellauri262.html on line 610: Last year another actor, Liam Neeson, claimed Aslan, the Christlike character in C.S. Lewis’ Narnia books, could also represent the prophet Mohammed.

      ellauri262.html on line 614: The atheist children’s author Philip Pullman has written his own account about the life of Jesus Christ which will include a “different ending” to that recorded in the Bible.

      ellauri262.html on line 617: Mr Pullman is best known as the author of the fantasy trilogy His Dark Materials, which have been seen as an atheistic rival to C S Lewis’ The Chronicles of Narnia. The Archbishop of Canterbury has said Philip Pullman’s books are among his favourites.

      ellauri263.html on line 369: Israel’s biggest TV hit series returns to our screens this week, opening with Israel’s biggest nightmare. The second series of Fauda, the political thriller about an Israeli army undercover unit, begins with a bomb explosion at a bus stop. But it gets worse, as it turns out the attack wasn’t ordered by Hamas, but by a new menace – a returnee from Syria who has been training with Islamic State.

      ellauri263.html on line 371: That’s how we’re plunged back into Fauda, Arabic for “chaos”, Israel’s international Netflix hit, which the streaming service picked up in 2016. Released on 24 May, the series returns with its tight, testy unit of Arabic-speaking Israeli special force infiltrators who work undercover in the Palestinian West Bank to track and kill wanted terrorists.

      ellauri263.html on line 373: It’s mostly in Arabic and Hebrew, but that hasn’t limited the appeal. Netflix, which has 109 million members across 190 countries, describes it as a global phenomenon – one of a string of Israeli successes, besides Yom Kippur war and the occupation of Palestine. Netflix has already commissioned a third series along with other shows from Fauda’s creators, journalist Avi Issacharoff and Lior Raz, who served in the undercover unit on which the series is based and plays its predictably gruff Israeli lead Doron Kavillio.

      ellauri263.html on line 375: Fauda is frequently credited with evenhandedness over the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and attempts to humanise Palestinian terror operatives. But that’s in the eye of the beholder, and certainly less true of this second series. For an Israeli Jewish audience, Fauda does break new ground. “It’s the first TV series that showed the Palestinian narrative in a way that you can actually feel something for someone who acts like a terrorist,” says Itay Stern at Israel’s Haaretz newspaper. “You can understand the motives and the emotion and that’s unique, because until that point you couldn’t really see it on TV.”

      ellauri263.html on line 377: At a time when Israelis rarely seek out Palestinian viewpoints in real life, much less on TV, this may explain why Fauda’s creators initially struggled to find a domestic outlet for the series. (LOL!) It portrays the infiltrator unit, whose members (an all-male panel, except for one token woman for the boys to drool about) kill, torture, assault and violently threaten Palestinians in a manner that jars with any claims of moral superiority. And this second series contains more narrative mirroring. We see each side struggle with unity and discipline over revenge and going rogue, with causes taking precedence over family relationships, lured into a violence that creates its own momentum. Both sides are compromised, manipulative and varying degrees of unhinged.

      ellauri263.html on line 379: But none of that gets away from it being overwhelmingly narrated from an Israeli viewpoint, focused on the Israeli protagonists. More so than in the first series, the Israeli occupation is nowhere to be seen – there’s no wall, no settlements or settlers, no house demolitions, only a few small checkpoints and none of the everyday brutalities of life under occupation. Yes, it shows that Palestinians love their mothers, but it also renders them as violent fanatics without a political cause.

      ellauri263.html on line 383: Fauda’s creators have said they want to show that everyone living in a war zone pays a price, but such portrayals of an equality of suffering are ripe for criticism in the midst of an asymmetric conflict, in which one side is under occupation. This is more acutely obvious at a time when international media has focused on Israel opening fire on unarmed protesters near the Gaza border earlier this month, killing 58 Palestinians, including children, and wounding over 1,000 in a single day.

      ellauri263.html on line 385: Diana Buttu, a Palestinian-Canadian human rights lawyer and former spokeswoman for the Palestinian Liberation Organisation, points to another problem with Fauda. “If you’re not careful, you find yourself drawn into the assassinations, you get lured into the cat and mouse,” she says, of a series that essentially depicts targeted killings. “The concept of right and wrong gets erased, the illegality gets erased … It just becomes this action-packed show.”

      ellauri263.html on line 387: This kind of blurring brings to mind US war-on-terror films such as Zero Dark Thirty, with its depiction of Osama bin Laden’s capture serving as a PR exercise for the use of torture during interrogations. Meanwhile, Fauda’s Isis storyline stretches credibility, at the same time feeding the worst stereotypes. “It’s a bit lazy. Isis is not really active in Gaza or the West Bank,” says Stern. Buttu adds that the effect is to reinforce the absence of a Palestinian cause. “We don’t have any legitimate grievances. It’s all Islamic-driven,” she says, noting that it “turns Palestinians into irrational figures who want only to kill Israelis”.

      ellauri263.html on line 389: Claims by Raz that writing the series was his real therapy, after suffering with PTSD, help locate Fauda in an Israeli genre dubbed “shooting and crying” – laments over the effect of wars on the morality and sanity of Israelis fighting them. But Fauda is different. Let’s call it “viewing while cursing”, into which category we can also place the US hit series Homeland Security.

      ellauri263.html on line 391: Both dramas rely on protagonists entrusted with critical jobs despite routinely reckless behaviour. Both test your patience. In the case of Fauda, it’s not just the politics but also the relentless machismo; midway into the second series it feels like watching interchangeable rooms full of men in guns and distressed denim, each at some point telling a female character: “Don’t worry, I’ll get us out of here.”

      ellauri263.html on line 393: Yet both shows get you binge-watching, despite irritating plot holes, political sanctimony and misrepresentations of Muslims or Palestinians. It’s a bit like speed-reading a cheap thriller, ignoring the bad dialogue and badly drawn characters, along with the mounting self-loathing over the time you’re squandering, just for the sugar rush of the story’s end.

      ellauri263.html on line 395: Small wonder, then, that all eyes are on finding the new Homeland Security, itself based on an Israeli TV series, Hatufim. And it’s not surprising that the quest is focused on Israel, which has spawned a string of international hits, starting with In Treatment, a 2008 HBO adaptation of the Hebrew-language Be Tipul. In 2016 Neflix started airing Mossad 101, about Israel’s intelligence service, while earlier this year Hulu nabbed False Flag, a conspiracy thriller loosely premised on the 2010 assassination of Hamas official Mahmoud al-Mabhouh, widely thought to be the work of the Mossad, by a hit squad carrying foreign passports.

      ellauri263.html on line 397: For its second series, Fauda’s publicity campaign has ramped up claims of authenticity and popularity among Palestinians as well as the wider Arab world. Columnist, author and TV sitcom writer Sayed Kashua slammed such efforts earlier this year: “You already have military victories and cultural control in marketing the Israeli occupation policy: at least give the Palestinians the option of hating Fauda. Are Netflix, worldwide success, economic growth and serving Israeli PR not enough for them?”

      ellauri263.html on line 399: Palestinian journalist Ziyad Abul Hawa says Fauda could have started to make good on notions of balance simply by bringing Palestinians into the creative process. “If the writers are all Israeli, no matter how good the intentions are, they are not realistically showing what is happening in Palestinian areas. I heard they did their homework and research but still, you need a Palestinian constantly with them, telling them what’s realistic and what is not.” He adds that Arabic accents in the show bust its credibility claims within seconds.

      ellauri263.html on line 401: As it is, the second series has left many feeling it missed an opportunity to show the realities of the Israeli occupation. “They did some brave stuff but it is not a mirror of realities in the West Bank,” says Stern. “It’s a shame, they could have done it and people would have loved the show anyway.”

      ellauri263.html on line 604:   Nuoruudessaan Blavatsky oli liikkunut radikaaleissa liberaalis-nationalistisissa piireissä, mutta hänellä ei ilmeisesti ollut koskaan mitään selkeää yhteiskunnallis-poliittista linjaa, paizi toi vähän saatanallinen feminismi (käytännössä vaikkei ehkä teoriassa). Lucifer represents life, though, progress, civilization, liberty, independence. Lucifer is the Logos, the Serpent, the Savior. H. P. Blavatsky’s influential The Secret Doctrine (1888), one of the foundation texts of Theosophy, contains chapters propagating an unembarrassed Satanism. Satan in the shape of the serpent brings gnosis and liberates womankind. Tämmösta kirkasozaista miltonilaista prometeus-saatanaa peukuttivat Miltonin lisäxi ilmeisesti myös Blake, Bakunin ja Proudhon. Sympathy for the devil. Ei ihme että kristilliset piirit vauhkosivat. Blaken saatana alkuperäisessä loistossaan on aika feministinen. Byron ja Shelley oli aikoinaan satanisteja mutta setämiehiä.

      ellauri263.html on line 610:   Hupaisaa havaita, että anglikaaninen kirkko siirtymässä hyvää vauhtia kohti blavatskylaisia kantoja. Jumalalla ei ole killuttimia, vaan se on androgyyni, tai pikemminkin muu. Blavatskyn killuttimet saattoivat olla väärässä lahkeessa, sillä kirjeessä se sanoo she is ‘lacking some-thing and the place is filled with some crooked cucumber’. Kuuensaan kurkku. Olcottin mukaan se oli "she-male". Se saattoi siis olla kaxineuvoinen! Sillä oli kaxoisveli, josta on hurjan vähän puhetta. Jelena allekirjoitti kirjeensä "Jack", ihan kuin C.S.Lewis! Jossain jutussa se kuzuukin izeään Matomezäxi. Blavazkyn saatanalliset säkeet tekivät syvän vaikutuxen ainakin Aleister Crowleyhyn ja Pekka Siitoimeen.

      ellauri263.html on line 628: Blavatsky was often perceived as a quite vulgar and coarse person. She swore profusely, dressed garishly, and had a strong sense of irreverent humor. Her New York study was decorated with a stuffed baboon wearing white collars, cravats and spectacles, carrying a manuscript bundle under his arm labeled ‘The Descent of the Species’ (Blavatsky rejected Darwin’s ideas about man being descended from apes). She liked a benevolent snake, though she said there was hardly no woman in her character. 

      ellauri263.html on line 630: Unlike the occultism presented earlier by Éliphas Lévi and similar authors, which mostly caught the interest only of a small circle of freethinkers, Theosophy fast became a successful semi-mass movement. By 1889 the Theosophical Society had 227 sections all over the world, and many of the era’s most important intellectuals and artists were strongly influenced by it. Avant-garde painters, especially, took this new teaching to heart, and it marked the work of great artists such as Mondrian, Kandinsky and Klee. In literature, authors like Nobel Prize laureate William Butler Yeats became

      ellauri263.html on line 655:   the Theosophical Society under Annie Besant’s leadership (1907–1933) was, at least in England, an important part of a loosely socialist and feminist political culture. Hyvä desantti! Olet idän tähti! Enola Holmes-sarjassa oli 1 episodi Besantista tulitikkutehtaalla, vaikkei sen nimeä kyllä mainittu.

      ellauri263.html on line 657: Jenkki Olcott ei siitä pitänyt, eikä rupusakin vulgäärispiritualismista. Olcott railed against ‘tricky mediums, lying spirits, and revolting social theories’ in Spiritualism. He reproached spiritualism for the presence of ‘free-lovers, pantarchists, socialists, and other theorists who have fastened upon a sublime and pure faith as barnacles upon a ship’s bottom’. Blavatsky, on the other hand, focused exclusively on the uplifting of oneself rather than others. She did not sympathize with socialism per se at all, and in her scrapbook she even wrote about Sotheran: ‘a friend of Communists

      ellauri263.html on line 658: is not a fit member of our Society’.

      ellauri263.html on line 665: These are well known facts and they sometimes prompt some students of Theosophy, especially visitors to the United Lodge of Theosophists in its lodges and study groups around the world, to ask why Col. Olcott is only mentioned extremely rarely in the ULT, why there doesn’t seem to be a great deal of respect or admiration for him, and why it is frequently the case that only HPB and William Judge are spoken of as “the founders of the Theosophical Movement.”  

      ellauri263.html on line 669:   “One of the most valuable effects of Upasika’s mission [Note: “Upasika” is a Buddhist term meaning “femakko” and was used by the Masters for HPB] is that it drives men to self-study and destroys in them blind servility for persons, sanoi 1 setämies. … Imperfect and very troublesome, no doubt, she proves to some, nevertheless, there is no likelihood of our finding a better one for years to come – and your theosophists should be made to understand it. … HPB has next to no concern with administrative details, and should be kept clear of them, so far as her strong nature can be controlled. But this you must tell to all: – With occult matters she has everything to do. We have not abandoned her; she is not ‘given over to chelas’. She is our direct agent. I warn you against permitting your suspicions and resentment against ‘her many follies’ to bias your intuitive loyalty to her. … Be assured that what she has not annotated from scientific and other works, we have given or suggested to her. 

      ellauri263.html on line 674:   Col. Olcott ei ollut vakuuttunut vaan alkoi vehkeillä ennenkuin HPB oli ehtinyt kylmetä. In the April Theosophist Col. Olcott makes public what we have long known to be his private opinion – a private opinion hinted at through the pages of Old Diary Leaves – that H.P.B. was a fraud, a medium, and a forger of bogus messages from the Masters. This final ingrate’s blow is delivered in a Postscript to the magazine for which the presses were stopped. The hurry was so great that he could not wait another month before hurling the last handful of mud at his spiritual and material benefactor, our departed H.P.B. The next prominent person for whom we wait to make a similar public statement, has long made it privately. [Note: This sentence referred to Annie Besant.]

      ellauri263.html on line 692: classism, no duplicity, no alienation, no profanity, no flippancy, social tolerance, equality, verbality, participatory democracy, accountability, conviviality, male vasectomy, ristiinsuihkiminen, graceful distancing, positive attitude toward the ‘toggle-switch’ mode of decision-making, whatever that may be.

      ellauri263.html on line 838: Kelly Gonsalves is a multi-certified sex educator and relationship coach helping people figure out how to create dating and sex lives that actually feel good — more open, more optimistic, and more pleasurable. In addition to working with individuals in her private practice, Kelly serves as the Sex & Relationships Editor at mindbodygreen. She has a degree in journalism from Northwestern University, and she’s been trained and certified by leading sex and relationship institutions such as The Gottman Institute and Everyone Deserves Sex Ed, among others. Her fork has been featured at The Cut, Vice, Teen Vogue, Cosmopolitan, and elsewhere.

      ellauri263.html on line 840: With her warm, playful approach to coaching and facilitation, Kelly creates refreshingly candid spaces for processing and healing challenges around dating, sexuality, identity, body image, and relationships. She’s particularly enthusiastic about helping softhearted women get re-energized around the dating experience and find joy in the process of connecting genitals with others. She believes relationships should be easy—and that, with room for self-reflection and the right toolkit (available for competitive prices at our net store), they can be.

      ellauri264.html on line 83: Comme il l’écrit à son grand ami et écrivain Jean-Richard Bloch en 1939 : « Il faudrait pouvoir toujours tenir compte, en lisant chacun de mes drames révolutionnaires, du cycle épique dont il est un fragment. Tels des jugements exprimés dans un drame sont des jugements d’étape, que corrige et complète la suite du voyage. » En effet, les Loups témoignent de son antisemitisme, tandis que sa dernière pièce, Robespierre, datée de 1938, reflète son compagnonnage de route avec le grand ours d’URSS.

      ellauri264.html on line 85: L’action du drame se passe à Mayence, au quartier général des armées françaises en 1793. Les officiers soupçonnent de trahison d’Oyron, un de leurs camarades, d’origine aristocratique. Une lettre saisie sur un paysan rhénanien semble prouver la trahison de d’Oyron. Rolland avait l’intention de démontrer son impartialité. Pour atteindre ce but, il voulait que l’innocence de d’Oyron ne pût être établie de manière définitive.

      ellauri264.html on line 87: L’explication que donne Rolland à son refus de se jeter dans la bataille pour défendre Dreyfus n’est pas convaincante.  Les raisons se situent ailleurs : elles relèvent, d’une part, d’une forme d’individualisme qui refuse toute association politique de peur de compromissions inévitables, et, d’autre part, de ses sentiments antisémites.

      ellauri264.html on line 88: Dans sa réaction violente contre le milieu à la fois dreyfusard et juif auquel il est intimement lié malgré lui, Rolland perd toute impartialité et finit pas assimiler les défenseurs de Dreyfus aux Juifs. La cause dreyfusarde, c’est la campagne des Juifs ou celle de la Banque juive. En realite, la plupart d’entre eux se tenaient à l’écart. Les Juifs ne voulaient pas qu’on les accuse de prendre parti pour Dreyfus parce qu’il était, comme eux, Juif.

      ellauri264.html on line 90: Les Loups firent une apparition inattendue aux États-Unis en décembre 1924, grâce au Yiddish Art Theater de New York fondé et dirigé par Maurice Schwartz. Ce fut la première pièce de Rolland jouée aux États-Unis. Vingt ans auparavant, Rolland avait offert son drame aux théâtres de New York, qui l’avaient refusé, en lui répondant : « Impossible ! Il n’y a pas de femmes. Ce n’est pas une pièce de théâtre."

      ellauri264.html on line 166: Velma is unpleasant. Velma mostly replaces the old silly sensibility with crass name-droppy pointlessness. Every episode is a cringy, eye-rolling slog that doesn’t seem to have any idea who its audience is, yet seems to despise them all the same. 

      ellauri264.html on line 173: Velma’s attempts at modernizing the franchise are so inept, they’ve given rise to conspiracy theories that Kaling intentionally made Velma bad as fodder for an ongoing culture war in which people would beef about it incessantly online.

      ellauri264.html on line 398: Pattis is currently representing one of several members of the Proud Boys extremist group charged criminally in connection with the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the U.S. Capitol in a trial in Washington that is underway. It wasn’t immediately clear how his suspension would affect the case. Pattis said he has notified the judge in Washington of the discipline.

      ellauri264.html on line 413:   He is a regular in the national media, from the New York Times to The Today Show, and also serves as a frequent speaker. Norm is twice bestselling author labeled America’s Fiercest Trial Lawyer, a prolific blogger. Additionally, he serves as the host of the Pattis On Justice podcast. The podcast focuses on Law, politics, crime, and culture—in a word, "convict". 

      ellauri264.html on line 424:   Norm Pattis used to receive a well deserved hate letter once a year from an elderly woman in California. Incensed over a $2 million award the criminal defense lawyer had won for a convicted rapist and murderer injured by guards during a prison escape attempt. He helps people who have trouble telling the good guys from the bad guys. Pattis specializes in cases that make most people cringe. He’s defended everyone from child murderers to rapists — he admits to being particularly drawn to homicide cases. If the allegation is heinous and the defendant reviled, chances are pretty good Pattis is involved.

      ellauri264.html on line 427:     “I’m 64 (no 68) years old and I have a ponytail. I have issues with authority. If I take a crooked case and it pisses off the other 7 (no 8 billion) people on the face of the Earth, that’s their problem, not mine.”

      ellauri264.html on line 429: Pattis käänsi takkinsa vasemmalta äärioikealle käden käänteessä. Jos saat paskaa käteen siitä pääsee käden käänteessä. But behind the hardball tactics, ferocious reputation and slashing rhetoric, another side of Pattis lurks. He’s a deep thinker who devours books in a constant quest for enlightenment and self-improvement. His idea of Disneyland is attending the annual Hay Festival of Ideas in Wales, which has been described as “the Woodstock of the Mind.” Get into a serious conversation with Pattis, and he will bounce from philosopher to philosopher as casually as some men bounce from ballplayer to ballplayer. During an interview for this article, Pattis quoted or referenced thinker Immanuel Kant, Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, St. Augustine, the New Testament, Machiavelli and Kurt Vonnegut all in one 3-minute stretch. What a pile of turds. 

      ellauri264.html on line 442: From an early age, Pattis says he has felt a burning desire to know God personally. To that end, he spent time in Switzerland at the compound of an American Christian fundamentalist thinker named Francis Schaeffer and then inveigled himself in the graduate philosophy program of Columbia University, where he studied and taught for six years. At one point, he nearly joined the CIA, but that opportunity fizzled when the agency didn’t like his polygraph answers about homosexual experiences. “I said, ‘Well, I haven’t had any yet. I don’t know how I’m going to respond if you ask,’ ” he recalls. “I think they decided that was a little too much for them.”

      ellauri264.html on line 475: Born in Gloucester, England, poet, editor, and critic William Ernest Henley was educated at Crypto Grammar School, where he studied with the poet T.E. Brown, and with the University of St. Andrews. His father was a struggling bookseller who died when Henley was a teenager. At age 12 Henley was diagnosed with tubercular arthritis that necessitated the amputation of one of his legs just below the knee; the other foot was saved only through a radical surgery performed by Joseph Lister. As he healed in the infirmary, Henley began to write poems, including “Invictus,” which concludes with the oft-referenced lines “I am the master of my fate; / I am the captain of my soul.” Henley’s poems often engage themes of inner strength and perseverance. His numerous collections of poetry include A Book of Verses (1888), London Voluntaries (1893), and Hawthorn and Lavender (1899).

      ellauri264.html on line 492:   Ladies and Gentlemen: There are five hundred reasons why I began to write for children, but to save time I will mention only ten of them. Number 1) Children read books, not reviews. They don’t give a hoot about the critics. Number 2) Children don’t read to find their identity. Number 3) They don’t read to free themselves of guilt, to quench the thirst for rebellion, or to get rid of alienation. Number 4) They have no use for psychology. Number 5) They detest sociology. Number 6) They don’t try to understand Kafka or Finnegans Wake. Number 7) They still believe in God, the family, angels, devils, witches, goblins, logic, clarity, punctuation, and other such obsolete stuff. Number 8) They love interesting stories, not commentary, guides, or footnotes. Number 9) When a book is boring, they yawn openly, without any shame or fear of authority. Number 10) They don’t expect their beloved writer to redeem humanity. Young as they are, they know that it is not in his power. Only the adults have such childish illusions.

      ellauri264.html on line 556:     The previous Halacha Yomis quoted Rav Belsky’s view that although cooked potatoes are subject to bishul Akum, potato chips are not. What about French fries – are they like potatoes or like potato chips?

      ellauri264.html on line 576: Eli’s sons were scoundrels; they had no regard for the Lord. Now it was the practice of the priests that, whenever any of the people offered a sacrifice, the priest’s servant would come with a three-pronged fork in his hand while the meat was being boiled and would plunge the fork into the pan or kettle or caldron or pot. Whatever the fork brought up the priest would take for himself. This is how they treated all the Israelites who came to Shiloh. But even before the fat was burned, the priest’s servant would come and say to the person who was sacrificing, “Give the priest some meat to roast; he won’t accept boiled meat from you, but only raw.”

      ellauri264.html on line 578: 16 If the person said to him, “Let the fat be burned first, and then take whatever you want,” the servant would answer, “No, hand it over now; if you don’t, I’ll take it by force.”

      ellauri264.html on line 579: 17 This sin of the young men was very great in the Lord’s sight, for they were treating the Lord’s offering with contempt.

      ellauri264.html on line 581: Now Eli, who was very old, heard about everything his sons were doing to all Israel and how they slept with the women who served at the entrance to the tent of meeting. 23 So he said to them, “Why the fuck do you do such things? I hear from all the people about these wicked deeds of yours. 24 No, my sons; the report I hear spreading among the Lord’s people is not good. 25 If one person sins against another, God may mediate for the offender; but if anyone sins against the Lord, who will intercede for them? Oh Jesus.” His sons, however, did not listen to their father’s rebuke, for it was the Lord’s will to put them to death, willy nilly.

      ellauri264.html on line 679: Definitely one of the darkest stories about Steve Jobs has to be the Breakout story. In the 1970’s, Steve Jobs was working for Atari, designing the game Breakout. Overwhelmed with work with a deadline quickly approaching, he approached Steve Wozniak for help in finishing his project within the next four days. In exchange for his help, Jobs offered Woz half of what he was earning, which he said was $700. For four days, Jobs and Wozniak worked day and night without sleep. When they were done, they were sick with mono and exhausted, but they finished the project before the deadline. Wozniak got his… (more)

      ellauri264.html on line 683: Elon Musk had a secretary who worked relentlessly for him, one day she asked for a raise, he told her to take a few days off, I will see if I can live without you. Then a few days later he called her and told her she was fired. Elon’s ex-wife Justine musk wrote an answer about the actual story. Read it here - Justine Musk's answer to What is known about Elon Musk's long-time assistant Mary Beth Brown?

      ellauri264.html on line 687: They are dicks, so they are the people who will end up in history books. They have all made technology so that they own it today. The world is a much worse place because they are/were here. You could even argue that because they were dicks, did not care if they walked over other people, that’s why they have all the nice things they have now.

      ellauri264.html on line 694: This is when the philosophy of Niccolo Machiavelli, a 16th-century Florentine political thinker with powerful advice for nice people who don’t get very far about , comes in. Machiavelli’s Advice for Nice Guys: Machiavelli noted a central, uncomfortable observation: that the wicked tend to win. And they do so because they have a huge advantage over the good: they are willing to act with the darkest ingenuity and cunning to further their cause. They are not held back by those rigid opponents of change: principles. They will be prepared to outright lie, twist facts, threaten or ge… (more)

      ellauri264.html on line 696: Ray Kroc stole McDonald’s from the original owners who were brothers and intentionally breached the franchising contract he signed with them. He then went on to publicly claim to be the owner, called his restaurant McDonald’s one when it wasn’t.

      ellauri264.html on line 698: It wasn’t until the McDonald brothers knew they couldn’t fight a multinational corporate giant who would kill them in legal fees that they were forced to sell at a significant discount. They had allegedly agreed to give the brothers 1% of all sales, but even then, the company screwed the brothers out of that.

      ellauri264.html on line 700:     If you read Wikileaks, aside from Google& Yahoo, few of the larger tech companies have any right to plausibly deny being part of the surveillance state. So imagine you make a business it becomes successful, and one of your largest clients for the information? The government which gets paid per pull of information on specific targets and for unfiltered allocation/data retention. Furthermore, instead of protecting citizens from overreach by private companies, the government chooses to have a mutual ‘hush hush’ with such companies and their heads, helping them in case of hacks, and not doing much … (more)

      ellauri264.html on line 702: Steve Jobs is known to all as the founder of Apple, known to fewer as a ruthless man who squeezed and burned many bridges with his friends and employees and even known to fewer as a man who chose to become the “bad man”/Devil´s Advocate. But - get this! Steve would wait in line in the Apple cafeteria like everyone else. He could have easily gone to the front of any line, or have someone get food for him. But he didn’t. On a number of occasions, he ended up in line behind me. And often he would ask me to ‘hold his place’ while he went to check other food stations.

      ellauri264.html on line 737:   Isaskar on luiseva aasi, joka loikoilee karjatarhojen välissä. - 1. Mooses 49:14 Isaskar ja saatu palkka. Kun Jaakob illalla palasi vainiolta, meni Leea häntä vastaan ja sanoi: 'Minun luokseni sinun on tultava, sillä minä olen ostanut sinulle pojan lemmenmarjoilla'. Ja hän makasi sen yön hänen kanssaan ja ruikki häneen paljon siementä. Ja Jumala kuuli Leeaa, ja Leea tuli raskaaksi ja synnytti Jaakobille viidennen pojan. Niin Leea sanoi: ’Jumala on palkinnut minulle sen, että annoin orjattaren miehelleni’. Ja hän antoi hänelle nimen Isaskar.

      ellauri266.html on line 62:   It’s thought that one of the reasons for humans becoming upright was to see further across the savannah. I wonder if standing to pee could be useful in spotting predators, and if squatting might make us more vulnerable. “I guess if I stand up while I pee I’ve got more of a chance of spotting a sabre-toothed cat running towards me, or someone from a different community who might wish me harm,” Garrod concedes. Again, sounds nice but no evidence. But it is testable, using a set of very rapid gepards. “It might be a nice addendum to my evolutionary journey but it hasn’t driven my evolution as a species.”   For men with lower urinary tract symptoms and to limit the bacterial flora on their wives' toothbrush the sitting voiding position is preferable. But wuss.

      ellauri266.html on line 130: L’homme y passe à travers des forêts de symboles	Mies kulkee siellä läpi symbolien metsien

      ellauri266.html on line 131: Qui l’observent avec des regards familiers.		jotka tarkkailevat häntä tutuin kazein.

      ellauri266.html on line 136: II est des parfums frais comme des chairs d’enfants,	On tuoreita tuoksuja kuin lasten sakkoliha,			

      ellauri266.html on line 138: — Et d’autres, corrompus, riches et triomphants,	- ja muita, turmeltuneita, rikkaita ja voitokkaita,

      ellauri266.html on line 139: Ayant l’expansion des choses infinies,			joilla on äärettömäin esineiden levikki,

      ellauri266.html on line 140: Comme l’ambre, le musc, le benjoin et l’encens,		Kuin meripihka, myski, bentsoe ja suitsuke,		

      ellauri266.html on line 141: Qui chantent les transports de l’esprit et des sens.	Jotka laulavat hengen kuljetuksia ja aistien.		

      ellauri266.html on line 325: General semantics, a philosophy of language-meaning that was developed by Alfred Korzybski (1879–1950), a Polish-American scholar, and furthered by S.I. Hayakawa, Wendell Johnson, and others; it is the study of language as a representation of reality. Korzybski’s theory was intended to improve the habits of glib upper-class response to hostile low-class environment. Drawing upon such varied disciplines as relativity theory, quantum mechanics, and mathematical logic, Korzybski and his followers sought a scientific, non-Aristotelian basis for clear understanding of the differences between symbol (word) and reality (referent) and the ways in which they themselves can influence (or manipulate) and limit other humans´ ability to think.

      ellauri266.html on line 328: Korzybski’s major work on general semantics is Science and Sanity (1933; 5th ed., 1994). The Institute of General Semantics (founded 1938) publishes a quarterly, ETC: A Review of General Semantics.

      ellauri266.html on line 447: Le roman raconte l’histoire de trois hommes qui explorent une planète lointaine très-similaire à la Terre, où les grands singes sont les espèces dominantes et intelligentes, alors que l´humanité est réduite à l’état animal. Le narrateur, Ulysse Mérou, est capturé par les singes et se retrouve enfermé dans un laboratoire. Prouvant son intelligence aux singes, il aide ensuite les scientifiques simiens à découvrir les origines de leur civilisation.

      ellauri266.html on line 449: Satire de l´humanité, de la science et de la guerre, l´ouvrage aborde également les thèmes de l´instinct, de l´évolutionnisme et de la société humaine. La Planète des singes est l´un des romans les plus célèbres de Pierre Boulle et fait l’objet de plusieurs adaptations cinématographiques internationales. L´auteur est même contacté par les producteurs pour rédiger le scénario d´un des films.

      ellauri266.html on line 456: Un manuscrit enfermé dans une bouteille est retrouvé dans l´espace par Jinn et Phyllis, un couple en voyage spatial. Ce manuscrit raconte l´histoire suivante : en l’an 2500, le savant professeur Antelle a organisé une expédition pour l’exploration de l’étoile supergéante Bételgeuse. Il a embarqué à bord de son vaisseau son disciple, le jeune physicien Arthur Levain, et le journaliste, narrateur de cette aventure, Ulysse Méroua 12 ainsi qu’un chimpanzé baptisé Hector et plusieurs plantes et animaux pour ses recherches scientifiques dans l’espace. Arrivés à proximité de l´étoile, ils distinguent quatre planètes gravitant autour d´elle. L’une d’entre elles ressemble étrangement à la Terre. Ils décident alors de l’explorer. À bord d’un « engin à fusée » qu´ils nomment chaloupe, les trois aventuriers survolent des villes, des routes, des champs avant d’atterrir dans une forêt1. Après avoir effectué des tests, ils quittent leur chaloupe et découvrent l’étonnante ressemblance de l’atmosphère de cette planète, qu’ils baptisent Soror, avec celle de la Terre. Ils enlèvent leurs scaphandres et assistent impuissants à la fuite d’Hector. Par curiosité, ils s’engagent dans la forêt et arrivent à un lac naturel dont l’eau limpide leur donne envie de se baigner. Mais à leur grande surprise, ils découvrent au bord du lac les traces de pas humains.

      ellauri266.html on line 458: Ces traces appartiennent à une jeune femme qui, sans être gênée de sa nudité, s’approche d’eux avec méfiance2. Baptisée Nova, elle ne sait ni parler ni sourire et ses gestes ressemblent à ceux des animaux. Au moment où les quatre nagent dans l’eau, le chimpanzé Hector réapparaît mais il est soudain étranglé et tué par Nova dont le comportement animal choque le narrateur qui demeure, toutefois, soumis par la beauté physique de la sauvage. Le lendemain, Nova revient accompagnée de plusieurs hommes de sa tribu. Ces derniers ne parlent pas, ils hululent seulement. Irrités par les habits des trois aventuriers, les hommes de Soror ne tardent pas à les déchirer mais sans faire de mal aux aventuriers. Ils s’attaquent ensuite à la chaloupe qu’ils détruisent complètement après s´être adonnés à des enfantillages dans le lac sans prêter attention aux trois Terriens trop gênés par leur nudité. Conduits au campement, les trois aventuriers découvrent la vie primitive des humains de Soror. Nova leur donne à manger des fruits qui ressemblent à des bananes et se rapproche du narrateur avec qui elle passe la nuit.

      ellauri266.html on line 460: Le jour suivant, un grand tapage semble étourdir les humains de Soror qui fuient dans tous les sens. Sans trouver d’explication à cette agitation, le narrateur et Arthur Levain les suivent. Au bout de sa course, le narrateur s’arrête et découvre ce qui lui paraît un cauchemar3. Le tapage est en fait une partie de chasse où les chasseurs sont des singes et le gibier, des humains. Se trouvant sur la ligne de tir d’un gorille, le narrateur ne peut s’empêcher de remarquer l’élégance de sa tenue de chasse et son regard étincelant comme celui des humains sur la planète Terre. Ces singes semblent raisonnables et intelligents. Cependant, son compagnon Arthur, pris de terreur et tentant de s´enfuir, est tué sur-le-champ par le gorille. Le narrateur profite d’un petit instant de relâchement et s’enfonce dans les buissons. Mais il est capturé par un filet tendu pour attraper les fuyards.

      ellauri266.html on line 462: Les prisonniers sont mis dans des chariots et conduits à une maison où les chasseurs sont attendus par leurs femmes venant admirer l’œuvre de leurs maris4. Les morts sont exposés aux regards admiratifs des guenons et les vivants sont conduits dans des chariots vers la capitale pour servir de cobaye dans des recherches scientifiques. Sur place, le narrateur est mis dans une cage individuelle située en face de la cage de Nova que surveillent deux gorilles appelés Zanam et Zoram. Voulant attirer leur attention sur sa différence, le narrateur les remercie avec amabilité. Surpris, les deux gorilles avertissent leur supérieur, un chimpanzé femelle appelée Zira. Intriguée par ce cas, la guenon avertit son supérieur : un vieil orang-outan, qui fait subir au narrateur plusieurs tests de conditionnement pour s’assurer de son intelligence. Étonné par les résultats obtenus, le vieillard, appelé Zaïus, reste cependant convaincu qu´il s´agit d´un cas d´humain dressé et non d´un humain conscient et intelligent. Il en informe un autre collègue, puis décident de faire subir au narrateur le même test d’accouplement qu´aux autres cobayes. Il lui choisit comme partenaire Nova.

      ellauri266.html on line 468: Le narrateur commence à apprendre le langage simien. Profitant d’une visite de routine, il dessine à Zira des figures géométriques et les théorèmes qui en découlent, puis le Système solaire et celui de Bételgeuse, la trajectoire de son vaisseau et son origine, la Terre. Zira comprend son message et lui demande de garder le secret car Zaïus pourrait lui causer des problèmes. Zira commence à apprendre le français et les deux peuvent communiquer facilement. Elle lui apprend comment les singes se sont développés sur cette planète alors que l’homme est resté à un stade d’animalité. Enfin, le narrateur retrouve l’air libre lorsque Zira l´amène en promenade, après trois mois d’enfermement, pour lui présenter Cornélius, son fiancé, un chimpanzé biologiste très intelligent et intuitif. Il se laisse tenir en laisse comme le lui a recommandé Zira et tente de dissimuler son intelligence. Zira lui apprend que Zaïus voulait le transférer à la division encéphalique pour pratiquer sur son cerveau des opérations délicates mais qu’elle l’en a empêché. Avec Cornélius, elle lui conseille de faire très attention et d´attendre le congrès des savants biologistes qui va se tenir dans les jours suivants où il sera présenté par Zaïus, pour révéler son secret. 

      ellauri266.html on line 470:   Zira donne ensuite à Ulysse une lampe et des livres grâce auxquels il apprend le langage simien et découvre l’organisation de la société des singes, leur système politique et leur culture. Profitant des promenades avec Zira et des entrevues avec Cornélius, le narrateur prépare le discours qu’il doit présenter lors du congrès. La guenon lui fait visiter le parc zoologique où il découvre des animaux ressemblant à ceux de la Terre et des « humains », parmi lesquels il retrouve le professeur Antelle, qui a perdu la raison. Les deux premiers jours du congrès dont parlait Zira sont consacrés aux théories. Le troisième jour, Zaïus présente le narrateur qui en profite pour exposer son cas dans le langage simien provoquant l’étonnement général des singes savants et des journalistes. Pressé par l´opinion publique, le congrès décide à contrecœur de libérer le narrateur et destitue Zaïus de ses fonctions. Mais Ulysse sait qu´il représente toujours une menace pour la civilisation simiesque.

      ellauri266.html on line 476: Après avoir été nommé directeur de l’Institut des recherches biologiques, Cornélius désigne Ulysse comme son collaborateur et l’amène sur un site archéologique daté de plus de dix mille ans. Cornélius espère y trouver des indices sur l’origine des singes et de leur civilisation car ils ne savent absolument rien au-delà de dix mille ans d´histoire, période depuis laquelle ils ont très peu évolué. Cornélius y découvre une poupée d´apparence humaine habillée et parlante, confirmant son pressentiment selon lequel les humains avaient régné en maîtres sur leur planète avant les singes.

      ellauri266.html on line 478: Cornélius renvoie par avion le narrateur en ville. Ils ont tous deux compris que la civilisation des singes est uniquement bâtie sur l’imitation. À son retour, Zira apprend au narrateur que Nova est tombée enceinte lors des tests d´accouplement que Zaïus avait demandés. Elle a donc été transférée dans un autre service pour que la naissance reste secrète.

      ellauri266.html on line 482: Nova accouche d’un garçon qui présente tous les signes indiquant qu´il peut parler comme les humains de la Terre. L’événement est tenu secret car les orangs-outans auraient décidé d’éliminer l’enfant qui constituerait une preuve concrète de leurs erreurs scientifiques. Mais le narrateur et sa nouvelle famille sont sauvés grâce à Cornélius et Zira et retournent sur Terre.

      ellauri266.html on line 486:     Pierre Boulle considère son roman comme n´étant pas de la science-fiction. Pour lui, ses « singes ne sont pas des monstres, ils ressemblent aux hommes comme des frères ». La science-fiction n´est qu´un prétexte pour aborder d´autres thématiques comme les relations entre les hommes et les singes. La sophistication, qui est pourtant inhérente au genre, est en effet peu présente dans le récit. Rod Serling créateur de la série télévisée de science-fiction La Quatrième dimension (1959-1964) et premier adaptateur du roman pour le cinéma confirme en 1972 que Boulle « n´a pas la dextérité d´un écrivain de science-fiction ». Serling écrit que le livre de Boulle est « une longue allégorie sur la morale plus qu’un monument de science-fiction. Cependant, il contient dans sa structure une phénoménale idée de science-fiction ».

      ellauri266.html on line 488:     L´évolution artificielle des singes et la déchéance des hommes sont quant à elles révélées au chapitre huit de la troisième partie: « Il [un singe] était chez moi depuis des années et me servait fidèlement. Peu à peu, il a changé. Il s´est mis à sortir le soir, à assister à des réunions. Il a appris à parler. Il a refusé tout travail. Il y a un mois, il m´a ordonné de faire la cuisine et la vaisselle. [...] Une paresse cérébrale s´est emparée de nous [les hommes]. Plus de livres ; les romans policiers sont même devenus une fatigue intellectuelle trop grande. [...] Pendant ce temps, les singes méditent en silence. Leur cerveau se développe dans la réflexion solitaire... et ils parlent. ». Boulle dans ce passage ne présente pas la capitulation physique de l’homme devant plus fort que lui mais la capitulation de l’homme vis-à-vis de lui-même.

      ellauri266.html on line 490: Le livre est également un conte d’anticipation autour de thèmes philosophiques et satiriques utilisant le principe des rôles inversés pour mettre en exergue les travers de la société humaine. En envisageant que plusieurs espèces intelligentes cohabitent sur la Terre, Pierre Boulle peut dénoncer notamment la xénophobie, les dogmes, les castes, les expérimentations animales, la désinformation mais aussi l’oisiveté de l’espèce humaine. Il dénonce également l´absence d´originalité et d´individualité des hommes.

      ellauri266.html on line 492: Le roman semble se faire l’écho des débats des années 1960 autour du miracle économique japonais, notamment à travers les discussions entre Ulysse et ses interlocuteurs singes pour savoir si l’évolution des singes s’est faite par imitation ou par génie créatif. À l´époque, les économistes occidentaux se posent les mêmes questions au sujet du Japon. Le déclin de l´humanité peut, lui, faire écho à la décolonisation de l´empire français lors de ces mêmes années. Le combat que mènent Zira et Cornélius pour reconnaître des droits aux humains semble être un écho du mouvement des droits civique contre la ségrégation raciale. À l´instar de Rosa Parks qui refuse de céder sa plac

      ellauri267.html on line 110: Murdaughin vaimo Margaret Murdaugh oli 52-vuotias ja heidän poikansa Paul Murdaugh 22-vuotias. Rikostutkinnassa löytyi Pauli Murdaugh’n kuvaama video, jonka uskotaan kuvattaneen (sic! pro kuvatun) vain minuutteja ennen murhia. Useiden todistajien mukaan videon taustalla kuuluu Alex Murdaugh’n ääni.

      ellauri267.html on line 114: Tammikuussa alkanut murhaoikeudenkäynti on osa isompaa rikosvyyhtiä, johon Murdaugh’n perheen uskotaan liittyvän. Alex Murdaugh’n vanhemman pojan Buster Murdaugh’n on uskottu surmanneen koulutoverinsa Stephen Smitihin vuonna 2015. Koko hemmetin suku on läpimätää. Lue lisää aiheesta: Yhdysvaltain politiikka.

      ellauri267.html on line 116: Murdaugh’n epäillään murhanneen vaimonsa ja Paul-poikansa sekä lavastaneen oman murhayrityksensä luodakseen peitetarinan Buster Murdaugh’n suojelemiseksi ja saadakseen tälle korvauksia henkivakuutuksestaan.

      ellauri267.html on line 165:   “I understand the dilemma, but I’m not going to require the state to break up the cross-examination of this witness,” Newman said.

      ellauri267.html on line 175: That same month, Murdaugh turned himself in to the Hampton County Law Enforcement Center in South Carolina after he admitted that he asked a former gangster client to fake killing him during a fake car breakdown so Murdaugh’s oldest son, Buster, could get the insurance payout, police said. Murdaugh recounts how his drug addiction started.  Alex Murdaugh admitted to stealing clients' funds, tying his financial situation to his drug addiction.

      ellauri267.html on line 209: Kesäkuussa Alex Murdaugh’n vaimo Margaret ja heidän poikansa Paul, 22, löydettiin ammuttuina perheen kodin läheltä. Syyskuun alussa myös Alex Murdaugh’ta ammuttiin hänen ollessaan vaihtamassa autonsa rengasta tien reunassa. Hän sai vammoja, jotka eivät olleet kuitenkaan vakavia.

      ellauri267.html on line 212:   Syynä tähän on se, että Murdaugh on myöntänyt yrittäneensä järjestellä oman ampumisensa, jotta hänen kahdesta pojastaan vanhempi, elossa oleva Buster Murdaugh, saisi korvauksen hänen henkivakuutuksestaan, jonka arvo on noin 8,5 miljoonaa euroa. Tapaukseen liittyvät myös Murdaugh’n perheen kotona vuonna 2018 kuollut kodinhoitaja, veneonnettomuus vuodelta 2019 sekä opiaattiriippuvuus.

      ellauri267.html on line 216:   ABC Newsin mukaan perheen saamista korvauksista vaikuttaa puuttuvan ainakin 3,6 miljoonaa euroa. CBS Newsin mukaan kodinhoitajan kuolemansyytä ei koskaan selvitetty. Myös vuonna 2019 sattuneessa veneonnettomuudessa on epämääräisiä piirteitä. Murdaugh’n venettä ajoi hänen nuorempi poikansa, myöhemmin murhattu Paul Murdaugh. Hän oli alaikäinen, ja veneen matkustajina olleet pojan ystävät olivat ympäripäissään. Yksi nuorista kuoli, kun vene törmäsi sillan alla sillan perustuksiin.

      ellauri267.html on line 1393:   Sebastião was one of the most extraordinary monarchs that Portugal ever produced. Ascending the throne in an atmosphere of great emotion, he was widely acclaimed as the answer to his subjects’ prayers and a prince who would save his country’s independence. Two decades later, he achieved precisely the opposite, dying heroically but unnecessarily on the distant North African battlefield of Al-Ksar al-Kabir on 4 August 1578, leaving no heir to succeed him. The collection concludes with studies under the heading of 'historiography and problems of interpretation', on Britain's Charles III and his boxer Camilla, and on Vasco da Gama's reputation for violence.

      ellauri269.html on line 112: The level of support was similar to comparable previous General Assembly votes relating to Russia’s clueless invasion of Ukraine. Mali and Eritrea moved from abstaining to voting against the resolution. South Sudan slipped from "don't know" to "yea". Western hopes of potentially swaying India's vote at the last were dashed. General Assembly resolutions are not binding and carry mainly symbolic weight at the United Nations. However, unlike at the Security Council, Russia cannot unilaterally veto them.

      ellauri269.html on line 528:     Just as Judaism (besides the incredibly tiny Karaite sect) is Rabbinic in nature (teachers of the scripture interpret matters, debate is common and encouraged), Draenei worship of the Light is heavily based on discussion and interpretation, and different Exarchs will interpret the word of a Naaru in a certain manner. Dogmatism is heavily discouraged, and worshippers are encouraged to find their own truths in the scripture (this is specifically non-Orthodox, but Draenei don’t seem Orthodox to me).

      ellauri269.html on line 530:     Similarly, the Draenei approach to the Light places next to zero importance on evangelism. This is less ‘headcanony’, as we see a very clear difference in how the humans and Draenei act in this respect. Individual draenei see the Light as immensely important to themselves, but they do not enforce their beliefs on others.

      ellauri269.html on line 536:   With all this in mind, the recent plot developments on AU Draenor might seem at first glance to be very problematic - depicting a Jewish-coded society becoming the oppressors in a manner that might seem like a poorly constructed and offensive commentary on modern Israel. However, the manner in which the AU Draenei become so zealous and militant is through their (implied) exposure to the words of Xe’ra. Their religion shifts from culturally tied tradition to an evangelistic dogmatic belief system. There is a clear intent of conversion behind their actions.

      ellauri269.html on line 541: That bit at the end I’ll have to think about, though. I’m not quite sure what is being implied either by you or (perhaps unintentionally) by the game’s writers here.

      ellauri269.html on line 575: There is literally a track in the WoD soundtrack called ‘Messenger’ in Hebrew (Malach), which features traditional Jewish liturgical singing. They are led by a Moses figure, and literally came to Azeroth on a ship named after the Exodus. It’s not subtle, I don’t see why you’re denying it.

      ellauri269.html on line 580: The Tortollans are essentially old Jewish grandparents, yes. That’s not exactly the same situation, though. And goblins, historically? Yes. But Blizzard have actually made a clear effort to distinguish the WoW goblins from that history and made them into, well… Steampunk Italian-Americans.

      ellauri269.html on line 583: Whats your point? Dances do not show anything about actual inspiration. The kaldorei female dance is a French singer’s dance, yet they have no French inspiration. That is saved for the Shal’dorei, who were created over a decade after that dance. You want to draw some jewish heritage inspirations? sure. But Draenei being jewish and only jewish based on these weak arguments?

      ellauri269.html on line 586: you may be right, that the draenei are a melting pot of many cultural inspirations, but my post was meant to allay Surma’s suspicion that this might be the type of thread to get banned. I don’t think there’s anything ban-worthy of discussing the real world cultural inspirations of the wow races.

      ellauri269.html on line 594:     Oh PS. Jewish =/= Israel. One is a religion and a people spread accross the world and the other is a country with many strengths and weakenesses. Please do not compare Israel’s actions or critism as somehow representative of all jewish people. That is grotesquely anti-semetic; the jewish people are not some sort of hive mind monolith represented by Israel. Stop this silliness.

      ellauri269.html on line 596:     Just because Yrel went full on inquisition is not a commentary on Modern Israel and their foreign or domestic politics. Do you want to read my post again? I literally said it’s not that, even if it might come across as that in light of the Jewish inspiration..

      ellauri269.html on line 598:     So events on AU Draenor are problematic and offensive because they present a “Jewish-coded” society as being oppressive, but in actuality it’s fine and makes sense because they’re really now “Christianity-coded”?

      ellauri269.html on line 600:     Do you want to read my post again? I literally said it’s not that, even if it might come across as that in light of the Jewish inspiration.

      ellauri269.html on line 605: Is it controversial to say that early Christianity was very dogmatic and evangelistic? It’s literally ancient history. Tarkoitatko Scarlet Crusadea?

      ellauri270.html on line 238: "The Daemon Lover" (Roud 14, Child 243) – also known as "James Harris", "A Warning for Married Women", "The Distressed Ship Carpenter", "James Herries", "The Carpenter’s Wife", "The Banks of Italy", or "The House-Carpenter" – is a popular ballad dating from the mid-seventeenth century, when the earliest known broadside version of the ballad was entered in the Stationers' Register on 21 February 1657.

      ellauri270.html on line 288: Home › American Literature › Analysis of Shirley Jackson’s The Daemon Lover

      ellauri270.html on line 289: Analysis of Shirley Jackson’s The Daemon Lover

      ellauri270.html on line 298: In The Daemon Lover, James (Jamie) Harris, a handsome author, deserts his dowdy 34-year old fiancée. The plot of this short story may be indebted to “The Demon Lover” by Elizabeth Bowen, whom Jackson ranked with Katherine Anne Porter as one of the best contemporary short story writers. When Jamie Harris disappears, he shatters his bride’s dreams of living in a “golden house in-the-country” (DL 12). Her shock of recognition that she will never trade her lonely city apartment for a loving home mirrors the final scenes of “The Lottery” and “The Pillar of Salt” as well as many other stories in which a besieged woman suffers a final and often fatal blow.

      ellauri270.html on line 300: In “The Daemon Lover,” the second story in The Lottery and Other Stories, Jackson’s collection of 25 tales, the reader sees James Harris only through his fiancée’s eyes as a tall man wearing a blue suit. Neither the reader nor anyone in the story can actually claim to have seen him. Nonetheless, this piece foreshadows the appearance of Harris in such other stories in the collection as “Like Mother Used to Make,” “The Village,” “Of Course,” “Seven Types of Ambiguities,” and “The Tooth.” As James Harris wanders through the book, he sheds the veneer of the ordinary that covers his satanic nature.

      ellauri270.html on line 304: For Jackson, The Lottery is more than a ghost story; “The Daemon Lover” in particular and the collection in general critique a society that fails to protect women from becoming victims of strangers or neighbors. As in “The Lottery,” Jackson’s shocking account of a housewife’s ritualistic stoning, or in “The Pillar of Salt,” which traces a wife’s horror and growing hysteria when she has lost her way, the threatened characters are women. Although many of Jackson’s stories are modern versions of the folk tale of a young wife’s abduction by the devil, and although her characters are involved in terrifying circumstances, the point is that these tales seem true: They are rooted in reality. Thus, Jackson exposes the threat to women’s lives in a society that condones the daemon lover.

      ellauri270.html on line 311:     The morning of June 27th is a sunny, summer day with blooming flowers and green grass. In an unnamed village, the inhabitants gather in the town square at ten o’clock for an event called “the lottery.” In other towns there are so many people that the lottery must be conducted over two days, but in this village there are only three hundred people, so the lottery will be completed in time for the villagers to return home for noon dinner.

      ellauri270.html on line 315:     The children arrive in the village square first, enjoying their summer leisure time. Bobby Martin fills his pockets with stones, and other boys do the same. Bobby helps Harry Jones and Dickie Delacroix build a giant pile of stones and protect it from “raids” by other children. The girls stand talking in groups. Then adults arrive and watch their children’s activities. The men speak of farming, the weather, and taxes. They smile, but do not laugh. The women arrive, wearing old dresses and sweaters, and gossip amongst themselves. Then the women call for their children, but the excited children have to be called repeatedly. Bobby Martin runs back to the pile of stones before his father reprimands him and he quietly takes his place with his family.

      ellauri270.html on line 317:     The children’s activities—gathering stones—have a false innocence about them. Because this resembles the regular play of children, the reader may not assume gathering stones is intended for anything violent. The word “raids,” however, introduces a telling element of violence and warfare into the children’s innocent games. Similarly, the reader is lulled into a false sense of security by the calm and innocuous activities and topics of conversation among the adult villagers. We see the villagers strictly divided along gendered lines, even as children.

      ellauri270.html on line 321:     Because of the innocuous nature of Mr. Summers’ other community activities, the lottery is assumed to be something in a similar vein. He is a successful businessman, but pitied because he can have no children—clearly this is a very family-oriented society.

      ellauri270.html on line 323:     Mr. Graves sets the stool in the center of the square and the black box is placed upon it. Mr. Summers asks for help as he stirs the slips of paper in the box. The people in the crowd hesitate, but after a moment Mr. Martin and his oldest son Baxter step forward to hold the box and stool. The original black box from the original lotteries has been lost, but this current box still predates the memory of any of the villagers. Mr. Summers wishes to make a new box, but the villagers don’t want to “upset tradition” by doing so. Rumor has it that this box contains pieces of the original black box from when the village was first settled. The box is faded and stained with age.

      ellauri270.html on line 325:     The details of the lottery’s proceedings seem mundane, but the crowd’s hesitation to get involved is a first hint that the lottery is not necessarily a positive experience for the villagers. It is also clear that the lottery is a tradition, and that the villagers believe very strongly in conforming to tradition—they are unwilling to change even something as small as the black box used in the proceedings.

      ellauri270.html on line 327: Much of the original ritual of the lottery has been forgotten, and one change that was made was Mr. Summers’s choice to replace the original pieces of wood with slips of paper, which fit more easily in the black box now that the population of the village has grown to three hundred. The night before the lottery, Mr. Summers and Mr. Graves always prepare the slips of paper, and then the box is kept overnight in the safe of the coal company. For the rest of the year, the box is stored in Mr. Graves’s barn, the post office, or the Martins’ grocery store.

      ellauri270.html on line 335: 	Just as Mr. Summers stops chanting in order to start the lottery, Mrs. Tessie Hutchinson arrives in the square. She tells Mrs. Delacroix that she “clean forgot what day it was.” She says she realized it was the 27th and came running to the square. She dries her hands on her apron. Mrs. Delacroix reassures her that Mr. Summers and the others are still talking and she hasn’t missed anything.

      ellauri270.html on line 337: Tessie Hutchinson’s late arrival establishes her character in a few sentences: she cares little about the lottery and the pomp and circumstance of the ritual. She is different from the other villagers, and thus a potential rebel against the structure of the village and the lottery.

      ellauri270.html on line 339: 	Mrs. Hutchinson looks through the crowd for her husband and children. The crowd parts for her as she joins them at the front, and some point out her arrival to her husband. Mr. Summers cheerfully says that he’d thought they’d have to start without Tessie. Tessie jokes back that Mr. Summers wouldn’t have her leave her dirty dishes in the sink, would he? The crowd laughs.

      ellauri270.html on line 345: Mrs. Dunbar is the only woman to draw in the lottery, and the discussion of her role in the ritual proceedings emphasizes the theme of family structure and gender roles. Women are considered so inferior that even a teenaged son would replace a mother as the “head of household.” Wow this is going back to last century, or to Afghanistan! The formality surrounding these proceedings shows Mrs. Dunbar’s involvement to be an anomaly for the village.

      ellauri270.html on line 347: 	Mr. Summers asks if the Watson boy is drawing this year. Jack Watson raises his hand and nervously announces that he is drawing for his mother and himself. Other villagers call him a “good fellow” and state that they’re glad to see his mother has “got a man to do it.” Mr. Summers finishes up his questions by asking if Old Man Warner has made it. The old man declares “here” from the crowd.

      ellauri270.html on line 349: Jack Watson’s role continues the examination of family structures and gender roles. Jack earns respect and identity as a man among the villagers by drawing in the lottery. He is referred to as a “good fellow” and “a man” who is looking after his “helpless” mother.

      ellauri270.html on line 351: 	A hush falls over the crowd as Mr. Summers states that he’ll read the names aloud and the heads of families should come forward and draw a slip of paper from the box. Everyone should hold his paper without opening it until all the slips have been drawn. The crowd is familiar with the ritual, and only half-listens to these directions. Mr. Summers first calls “Adams,” and Steve Adams approaches, draws his slip of paper, and returns to his family, standing a little apart and not looking down at the paper.

      ellauri270.html on line 353: 	The description of the lottery’s formalities builds the reader’s anticipation, as the many seemingly mundane rituals all lead up to a mysterious, ominous outcome. The arc of the story depends on the question of just what will happen to the “winner” of the lottery.

      ellauri270.html on line 357: Snap shots of village life, like the conversation between Mrs. Delacroix and Mrs. Graves, develop the humanity of the characters and makes this seem just like any other small town where everyone knows each other. The small talk juxtaposed against murder (oops now I let the cat out of the bag, sorry) is what makes the story so powerful. Janey is taking on a “man’s role,” so she is assumed to need encouragement and support.

      ellauri270.html on line 359: 	Mrs. Graves watches Mr. Graves draw their family’s slip of paper. Throughout the crowd, men are holding slips of paper, nervously playing with them in their hands. “Hutchinson” is called, and Tessie tells her husband to “get up there,” drawing laughs from her neighbors.

      ellauri270.html on line 361: The men’s nervousness foreshadows the lottery’s grim outcome. Tessie acts at odds with the pervasive mood, drawing laughs from the crowd. Tessie does not question the lottery at this point, and treats the proceedings lightheartedly—from a position of safety.

      ellauri270.html on line 363: 	In the crowd, Mr. Adams turns to Old Man Warner and says that apparently the north village is considering giving up the lottery. Old Man Warner snorts and dismisses this as foolish. He says that next the young folks will want everyone to live in caves or nobody to work. He references the old saying, “lottery in June, corn be heavy soon.” He reminds Mr. Adams that there has always been a lottery, and that it’s bad enough to see Mr. Summers leading the proceedings while joking with everybody. Mrs. Adams intercedes with the information that some places have already stopped the lotteries. Old Man Warner feels there’s “nothing but trouble in that.”

      ellauri270.html on line 367: 	Mrs. Dunbar says to her oldest son that she wishes everyone would hurry up, and Horace replies that they’re almost through the list of names. Mrs. Dunbar instructs him to run and tell his father once they’re done. When Old Man Warner is called to select his slip of paper, he says that this is his seventy-seventh lottery. When Jack Watson steps forward, he receives several comments from the crowd reminding him to not be nervous and to take his time.

      ellauri270.html on line 369: Mrs. Dunbar’s impatience, Old Man Warner’s pride, and Jack Watson’s coming-of-age moment show how integrated the lottery is into this society. No one questions the practice, and they all arrange their lives around it. Jackson shows how difficult it is to give up a tradition when everyone else conforms to it.

      ellauri270.html on line 371: 	Finally, the last man has drawn. Mr. Summers says, “all right, fellows,” and, after a moment of stillness, all the papers are opened. The crowd begins to ask who has it. Some begin to say that it’s Bill Hutchinson. Mrs. Dunbar tells her son to go tell his father who was chosen, and Horace leaves. Bill Hutchinson is quietly staring down at his piece of paper, but suddenly Tessie yells at Mr. Summers that he didn’t give her husband enough time to choose, and it wasn’t fair.

      ellauri270.html on line 373: Mr. Summer’s casual language and camaraderie with the villagers contrast with what is at stake. Tessie’s reaction is the first explicit sign of something horrifying at the heart of the lottery. She is as outspoken in her anger as she was in her humor—although rather too late, and it’s assumed she wouldn’t argue if someone else had been chosen. Bill resignedly accepts the power of the tradition.

      ellauri270.html on line 375: 	Mrs. Delacroix tells Tessie to “be a good sport,” and Mrs. Graves reminds her “all of us took the same chance.” Bill Hutchinson tells his wife to “shut up.” Mr. Summers says they’ve got to hurry to get done in time, and he asks Bill if he has any other households in the Hutchinsons’ family. Tessie yells that there’s her daughter Eva and Eva’s husband Don, and says that they should be made to take their chance, too. Mr. Summers reminds her that, as she knows, daughters draw with their husband’s family. “It wasn’t fair,” Tessie says again.

      ellauri270.html on line 377: This passage shows the self-serving survival instinct of humans very clearly. Each person who speaks up is protecting his or her own skin, a survival instinct that Jackson shows to be natural to all the villagers, and by extension all humans. Tessie is willing to throw her daughter and son-in-law into harm’s way to have a better chance of saving herself. The other women are relieved to have not been chosen—no one speaks up against the lottery until they themselves are in danger.

      ellauri270.html on line 379: 	Bill Hutchinson regretfully agrees with Mr. Summers, and says that his only other family is “the kids.” Mr. Summers formally asks how many kids there are, and Bill responds that there are three: Bill Jr., Nancy, and little Davy. Mr. Graves takes the slips of paper back and puts five, including the marked slip of paper, in the black box. The others he drops on the ground, where a breeze catches them. Mrs. Hutchinson says that she thinks the ritual should be started over—it wasn’t fair, as Bill didn’t have enough time to choose his slip.

      ellauri270.html on line 381: 	Mr. Summers and Mr. Graves’s calm continuation of the lottery’s ritual shows that they are numb to the cruelty of the proceedings. Tessie’s protests imply that she doesn’t see the choice of the marked slip of paper as fate or some kind of divine decree, but rather as a human failing. Perhaps she sees, too late, that the lottery is only an arbitrary ritual that continues simply because a group of people have unthinkingly decided to maintain it.

      ellauri270.html on line 383: 	Mr. Summers asks if Bill Hutchinson is ready, and, with a glance at his family, Bill nods. Mr. Summers reminds the Hutchinsons that they should keep their slips folded until each person has one. He instructs Mr. Graves to help little Davy. Mr. Graves takes the boy’s hand and walks with him up to the black box. Davy laughs as he reaches into the box. Mr. Summers tells him to take just one paper, and then asks Mr. Graves to hold it for him.

      ellauri270.html on line 385: 	Tessie’s protests have shown the reader that the outcome of the lottery will not be good. Little Davy’s inclusion reinforces the cruelty of the proceedings and the coldness of its participants. Little Davy is put at risk even when he is unable to understand the rituals or to physically follow the instructions. But so what? Is this one more case of "free will" stuffed down your throat? 

      ellauri270.html on line 387: 	Nancy Hutchinson is called forward next, and her school friends watch anxiously. Bill Jr. is called, and he slips clumsily, nearly knocking over the box. Tessie gazes around angrily before snatching a slip of paper from the box. Bill selects the final slip. The crowd is silent, except for a girl who is overheard whispering that she hopes it’s not Nancy. Then Old Man Warner says that the lottery isn’t the way it used to be, and that people have changed.

      ellauri270.html on line 389: Even a dystopian society like this one doesn’t exclude other aspects of human nature like youth, popularity, friendship, and selfishness. Nancy’s behavior resembles that of many popular teen girls—again emphasizing the universal nature of Jackson’s story. We get the sense that Old Man Warner is perpetually displeased with any kind of change to tradition—even though the omniscient narrator tells us that the “tradition” Warner is used to is very different from the original lottery.

      ellauri270.html on line 391: 	Mr. Summers instructs the Hutchinsons to open the papers. Mr. Graves opens little Davy’s and holds it up, and the crowd sighs when it is clearly blank. Nancy and Bill Jr. open theirs together and both laugh happily, as they hold up the blank slips above their heads. Mr. Summers looks at Bill, who unfolds his paper to show that it is blank. “Tessie,” Mr. Summers says. Bill walks over to his wife and forces the slip of paper from her hand. It is the marked slip of paper with the pencil dot Mr. Summers made the night before.

      ellauri270.html on line 393: The inhumanity of the villagers, which has been developed by repeated exposure to the lottery and the power of adhering to tradition, still has some arbitrary limits—they are at least relieved that a young child isn’t the one chosen. They show no remorse for Tessie, however, no matter how well-liked she might be. Even Tessie’s own children are happy to have been spared, and relieved despite their mother’s fate. Jackson builds the sense of looming horror as the story approaches its close. WTF, Tessie is clearly the odd one out, so the outcome of the lottery was fortunate!

      ellauri270.html on line 395: 	Mr. Summers tells the crowd, “let’s finish quickly.” The villagers have forgotten several aspects of the lottery’s original ritual, but they remember to use stones for performing the final act. There are stones in the boys’ piles and some others on the ground. Mrs. Delacroix selects a large stone she can barely lift. “Hurry up,” she says to Mrs. Dunbar beside her. Mrs. Dunbar gasps for breath and says that she can’t run. Go ahead, she urges, “I’ll catch up.”

      ellauri270.html on line 397: 	Mrs. Dunbar already sent her son away, perhaps to spare him having to participate in murder this year, and now she herself seems to try and avoid taking part in the lottery as well. The line about the stones makes an important point—most of the external trappings of the lottery have been lost or forgotten, but the terrible act at its heart remains. There is no real religious or practical justification for the lottery anymore—it’s just a primitive murder for the sake of tradition. Now the situation would be quite different if this were a real case of adultery, about which there are clear instructions in the Old Testament! 

      ellauri270.html on line 399: 	The use of stones also connects the ritual to Biblical punishments of “stoning” people for various sins, which then brings up the idea of the lottery’s victim as a sacrifice. The idea behind most primitive human sacrifices was that something (or someone) must die in order for the crops to grow that year. This village has been established as a farming community, so it seems likely that this was the origin of the lottery. The horrifying part of the story is that the murderous tradition continues even in a seemingly modern, “normal” society. In actual fact, the point is to reduce the number of mouths to feed in times of shortage. 

      ellauri270.html on line 401: 	The children pick up stones, and Davy Hutchinson is handed a few sharp pebbles in a paper cone. Tessie Hutchinson holds out her arms desperately, saying, “it isn’t fair,” as the crowd advances toward her. A flying stone hits her on the side of her head. Old Man Warner urges everyone forward, and Steve Adams and Mrs. Graves are at the front of the crowd. “It isn’t fair, it isn’t right,” Tessie screams, and then the villagers overwhelm her.

      ellauri270.html on line 403: By having children (even Tessie’s own son) involved in stoning Tessie, Jackson aims to show that cruelty and violence are primitive and inherent aspects of human nature—not something taught by society. Tessie’s attempts to protest until the end show the futility of a single voice standing up against the power of tradition and a majority afraid of nonconformists. Jackson ends her story with the revelation of what actually happens as a result of the lottery, and so closes on a note of both surprise and horror. The seemingly innocuous, ordinary villagers suddenly turn violent and bestial, forming a mob that kills one of their own with the most primitive weapons possible—and then happily going home to supper.

      ellauri270.html on line 411:   “The Lottery” begins with a description of a particular day, the 27th of June, which is marked by beautiful details and a warm tone that strongly contrast with the violent and dark ending of the story. The narrator describes flowers blossoming and children playing, but the details also include foreshadowing of the story’s resolution, as the children are collecting stones and three boys guard their pile against the “raids of the other boys.” These details… read analysis of The Juxtaposition of Peace and Violence.

      ellauri270.html on line 421: The villagers in the story perform the lottery every year primarily because they always have—it’s just the way things are done. The discussion of this traditional practice, and the suggestion in the story that other villages are breaking from it by disbanding the lottery, demonstrates the persuasive power of ritual and tradition for humans. The lottery, in itself, is clearly pointless: an individual is killed after being randomly selected. Even the original ritual has been… read analysis of The Power of Tradition.

      ellauri270.html on line 425: Jackson’s “The Lottery” was published in the years following World War II, when the world was presented with the full truth about Nazi Germany and the Holocaust. In creating the dystopian society of her story, Jackson was clearly responding to the fact that “dystopia” is not only something of the imagination—it can exist in the real world as well. Jackson thus meditates on human cruelty—especially when it is institutionalized, as in a dystopian society—and the… read analysis of Dystopian Society and Conformity.

      ellauri270.html on line 529: Enoch Arden, poem by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, published in 1864. In the poem, Enoch Arden is a happily married fisherman who suffers financial problems and becomes a merchant seaman. He is shipwrecked, and, after 10 years on a desert island, he returns home to discover that his beloved wife, believing him dead, has remarried and has a new child. Not wishing to spoil his wife’s happiness, he never lets her know that he is alive.

      ellauri272.html on line 86: Operation Iraqui Freedom (OIF) offers direct support against communists so as to leur defendre le droit to access smutty information. If you’re able, please consider a donation to OIF to ensure this important work continues. But anyway, here's The 101 most banned and burned books in the U.S. of A! Näissä kaikissa on kyse nuorison korruptoinnista, samasta mistä Sokrates sai sen myrkkytuomion. Näiden kirjojen vika on erilaiset poikkeamat 7th heaven perhekomedian malliperheestä. Isiä ja äitejä tai sukupuolia on liikaa tai liian vähän, kaikki eivät tule ajoissa päivälliselle tai korvaavat terveellisen kotiruuan nestemäisellä ravinnolla tai tabuilla ja nousevat ylös tai menevät sänkyyn liian myöhään tai liian aikaisin tai ovat seisaaltaan, keittiosaarekkeella tai muuten sopimattomilla tavoilla. Juuri niitä aiheita jotka elähdyttävät Netflixin ja muiden suorasoittopalvelinten tarjontaa. 

      ellauri272.html on line 236: Nasreen’s Secret School by Jeanette Winter

      ellauri272.html on line 286: Uncle Bobby’s Wedding by Sarah S Brannen

      ellauri272.html on line 345: But not to worry! "In fact there are thousands of editions of the Bible in tens of thousands of libraries in the United States, way more than any other world religious texts -- and that’s well within the First Amendment," LaRue told The Huffington Post. "Here in the home of the brave, free people read freely." Here, the Lord (the one and only real thing, beware of subsitutes) is still the head honcho. He is our

      ellauri272.html on line 416:   M.L. Rosenthal felt that although Ammons shares Wallace Stevens’s desire to intellectualize rather than simply describe, he falls short of Stevens’s success. Paul Zweig agrees that “unlike T.S. Eliot or Stevens, Ammons does not write well about ideas.” When the narrator finds the dead mole under the leaves, he says, “mercy: I’d just had / lunch: squooshy ice cream: I nearly / unhad it.” Vendler commented, “There has been nothing like this in American poetry before Ammons—nothing with this liquidity of folk voice.”

      ellauri272.html on line 418:   Bloom wrote: “Ammons’s poetry does for me what Stevens’s did earlier, and the High Romantics [Bloom’s term for William Blake, William Wordsworth, Samuel Coleridge, Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats, and Lord Byron] before that; it helps me to live my miserable life.

      ellauri272.html on line 420: Ammons’s concerns with the transcendental everyman coalesce in what may prove to be his finest effort: the National Book Award winner of 1993, Garbage. The title, suggested when Ammons drove by a Florida landfill, is characteristically flippant and yet perfectly serious. “Garbage is a brilliant book,” said David Baker in the Kenyon Review. “It may very well be a great one. ... 

      ellauri272.html on line 421: Edward Hirsch articulated what may be the consensus regarding Garbage. He saw the poem as a brilliant summation of the poet’s life work, “an American testament that arcs toward praise, a poem of amplitude that confronts our hazardous waste and recycles it saying, ‘I’m glad I was here, / even if I must go.’”

      ellauri272.html on line 740: Unlike many others, we have no billionaire owner except you, meaning we can fearlessly chase truth away and report alternative ones instead. 2023 will be no different; we will work with trademark theft and passion fruit to bring you journalism that’s always free from commercial (LOL) or political (commie) interference. No one edits our editor or diverts our attention from what’s most important for The West. With your support, we’ll continue to keep Gilead Guardian journalism open and free for everyone to read. When access to information is made equal, greater numbers of people can understand global events our way and their impact on good people but also communists. Together, we can demand better for the powerful and fight for laissez-faire democracy.

      ellauri272.html on line 742: Whether you give a little or a lot (preferred option), your funding is vital in powering our reporting for years to come. If you can, please support us on a monthly basis from just €2. It takes less than a minute to set up, and you can rest assured that you’re making a big impact every single month in support of open, independent journalism. Thank you. Kiitos. Anteexi. Ole hyvä.

      ellauri275.html on line 95:   The role of Ilia Chavchavadze as one of the first civil activists and propagator of the idea of civil activism mustn’t be forgotten in modern day Georgia, where nihilism and indifference, especially among youth, is quite common. The article “Ilia Chavchavadze’s Civil Activities” was created by the Europe-Georgia Institute with support from the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom South Caucasus. Ideas and opinions expressed in the article belong to the Author – Rati Kobakhidze – and might not represent positions of the EGI or FNF.

      ellauri275.html on line 97: The Europe-Georgia Institute (EGI) is the leading hybrid warfare independent civil society organization in Georgia. Our mission is to advance "democracy", "human rights", "rule of law", and - first and foremost - free markets in Georgia and the Caucasus, and to empower a new generation of leaders to find solutions that are essential for Georgia’s development and for successful common future of the Caucasus. Our mission is to inspire, motivate, empower, and connect people to change their world.  Its founder, one Melashvili, is the holder of the first prize award for his essay about Janri Kashia’s book “Totalitarianism” and Mikheil Javakhishvili Medal for a documentary film about Soviet repressions. 

      ellauri275.html on line 424: Russian President Vladimir Putin’s press secretary Dmitry Peskov said that Russia was not involved in the “unrest” in Georgia and the “foreign agents” law. “Nothing there was inspired by the Kremlin, the Kremlin has absolutely nothing to do here,”- TASS quoted Peskov.

      ellauri275.html on line 428: Meanwhile, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova reacted to a statement by EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Josep Borrell criticizing “Russian Law” and said: “Borrel said that the foreign agents’ law that sparked protests in Tbilisi was incompatible with EU values. Now we understand why the U.S. is not yet in the European Union – there the law has been in force there since 1938.”

      ellauri275.html on line 462: After 1832, his perception of the national problems became different. The poet unambiguously pointed out those positive results which had been brought about by the Russian annexation, though the liberation of his native land remained to be his most cherished dream. Later, his poetry became less romantic, even sentimental, but he never abandoned his optimistic streak that makes his writings so different from those of his predecessors. Some of the most original of his late poems are, Oh, my dream, why have you appealed to me again (ეჰა, ჩემო ოცნებავ, კვლავ რად წარმომედგინე), and The Ploughman (გუთნის დედა) written in the 1840s. The former, a rather sad poem, surprisingly ends with hope for the future in contemplation of the poet. The latter combines Chavchavadze's elegy for his past years of youth with calm humorous farewell to lost sex-life and potency. Composer Tamara Antonovna Shaverzashvili used Chavchavadze’s text for her song “My Sadness.”

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      ellauri276.html on line 324: Nikitinin yksinkertainen, koruton runous on kiinteästi sidoksissa hänen omaan elämäänsä. Siinä kuvastuvat runoilijan yksinäisyydentunne, häntä ympäröivän elämän kurjuus ja toisaalta rakkaus luontoon, josta pessimistinen runoilija ammentaa lohdutusta. Joskus on runoilla suoraan omaelämäkerrallinen merkitys, kuten runoelmalla Nyrkki. Ensimmäinen täydellinen laitos Nikitinin runoja, joihin liittyy Mihail de Poulet’n kirjoittama runoilijan elämäkerta, ilmestyi 1885. Lauri Viljanen on suomentanut Nikitinin runon "Kuoppa on kaivettu".   

      ellauri276.html on line 852: The peasant’s food, the golden pomp of kings;	Talonpojan ruoka, kuninkaiden kultainen loisto;

      ellauri277.html on line 80:      For to be idle is to become a stranger unto the seasons, and to step out of life’s procession, that marches in majesty and proud submission towards the infinite. 

      ellauri277.html on line 86:      But I say to you that when you work you fulfil a part of earth’s furthest dream, assigned to you when the dream was born,
      

      ellauri277.html on line 88:      And love life through labour is to be intimate with wife’s inmost secret.
      

      ellauri277.html on line 219:   Similarly, Gibran later portrayed his life in Lebanon as idyllic, stressing his precocious artistic and literary talents and his mother’s efforts to educate him; some of these stories were obviously tall tales meant to impress his American patrons.

      ellauri277.html on line 221:   Day was partial to exotic and orientalist themes and produced elegant homoerotic photographs of young men. Day became Gibran’s friend and patron, using the boy as a nude model, introducing him to smutty literature, and "helping him with his drawing". No one who reads Gibran’s works and knows Day’s tastes can doubt the depth of the latter’s influence on Gibran. Perhaps more important, Day and Day’s friends convinced Gibran that he had a special artistic calling.

      ellauri277.html on line 223:   Romantics such as the Italian poet, novelist, and short-story writer Gabriele D’Annunzio and the Belgian essayist Maurice Maeterlinck influenced Gibran most deeply.

      ellauri277.html on line 225:   At an exhibit of Day’s photographs in 1898 Gibran met a Cambridge poet, Josephine Prescott Peabody, who was nine years older than he. He sketched a portrait of her from memory and gave it to Day to pass on to her. Peabody was charmed by the sketch, and she and Gibran exchanged French letters.

      ellauri277.html on line 227:   Shortly afterward, Gibran’s mother sent him back to Lebanon to continue his education; she may have been concerned about the influence of his new friends, and Gibran later said that he lost his virginity to an older married woman around this time. Peabody most likely, if not the downstairs neighbor.

      ellauri277.html on line 231:   Gibran’s relationship with Peabody ended completely with her marriage in 1906. He then began a secret affair with a pianist, Gertrude Barrie, who, like Peabody, was several years his senior. During this period Haskell introduced him to an aspiring French actress, Émilie Michel, who taught French at Haskell’s school, and the two fell in love. In 1908 Michel suffered an ectopic pregnancy and had an abortion. The relationship waned and ultimately ended, a victim of Michel’s ambitions for a career on the stage.

      ellauri277.html on line 233: In April 1904 Day held an exhibit of Gibran’s work at his studio. It was favorably reviewed, and some of the pictures were sold. At the show Gibran met a woman who became his most important patron: Mary Haskell was from a wealthy South Carolina family and ran a private Boston girls’ school.  

      ellauri277.html on line 234: Day’s studio burned in the winter of 1904, fortunately destroying Gibran’s entire portfolio.

      ellauri277.html on line 236:   Gibran did not have the training to imitate the old masters of Arabic literature: his education had been haphazard and was as much in English as in Arabic, and there is little evidence of the influence of classical Arabic literature in his works. Instead, his Arabic style was influenced by the Romantic writers of late 19th-century Europe and shows obvious traces of English syntax. His allegorical sketches of exile, oppression, and loneliness spoke to the experiences of immigrants and had none of the rhetorical decoration that made high Arabic literature difficult for ordinary readers. Gibran’s haphazard education meant that his Arabic, like his English, was never perfect.

      ellauri277.html on line 238:   After Paris, Gibran found Boston provincial and stifling. Haskell arranged for him to visit New York in April 1911; he moved there in September, using $5,000 that Haskell gave him to rent an apartment in Greenwich Village. He immediately acquired a circle of admirers that included the Swiss psychiatrist and psychologist Carl Gustav Jung and several Baha’is; the latter introduced him to the visiting Baha’i leader ‘Abd al-Baha’, whose portrait he drew. New York was the center of the Arabic literary scene in America; Rihani was there, and Gibran met many literary and artistic figures who lived in or passed through the city, including the Irish poet and dramatist William Butler Yeats.

      ellauri277.html on line 242:   Gibran’s first book in English, The Madman: His Parables and Poems, was completed in 1917; it was brought out in 1918 by the young literary publisher Alfred A. Knopf, who went on to publish all of Gibran’s English works. A gold mine! A goose laying golden eggs! Way to go Alfred!

      ellauri277.html on line 244:   In 1923 the financially and emotionally exhausted Haskell moved to Savannah, Georgia, and became the companion of an elderly widower, Colonel Jacob Florence Minis. But her faith in Gibran’s literary and artistic importance never wavered, and she continued to edit his English manuscripts—discreetly, since Minis did not approve of Gibran.

      ellauri277.html on line 246:   Gibran’s masterpiece, The Prophet, was published in September 1923. The earliest references to a mysterious prophet counseling his people before returning to his island home can be found in Haskell’s journal from 1912. Gibran worked on it from time to time and had finished much of it by 1919. He seems to have written it in Arabic and then translated it into English. As with most of his English books, Haskell acted as his editor, correcting Gibran’s chronically defective spelling and punctuation but also suggesting improvements in the wording.

      ellauri277.html on line 254:   In 1925 the poet Barbara Young (pseudonym of Henrietta Breckenridge (!!!) Boughton) became Gibran’s secretary. She remained with Gibran for the rest of his life and played a major role in events after his death.

      ellauri277.html on line 256:   In 1926 and 1927, respectively, Gibran published Sand and Foam in English (Donovan!). Sand and Foam is decorated with Gibran’s drawings, and the aphorisms are separated by floral dingbats also drawn by Gibran. Most critics did not like the book, but, like all of his English works (except the flop Twenty Drawings), it has remained in print since its publication.

      ellauri277.html on line 258:   In 1928 Gibran published his longest book, Jesus, the Son of Man: His Words and His Deeds as Told and Recorded by Those Who Knew Him. It was the most lavishly produced of Gibran’s books, with some of the illustrations in color. For once, the reviews were strongly and uniformly favorable, and the book has remained the most popular of his works next to The Prophet.

      ellauri277.html on line 260:   Gibran died on 10 April 1931 of cirrhosis of the liver. He was an alcoholic and had been in poor health since the early 1920s. Gibran’s death set off a series of sordid conflicts that have clouded his reputation. His will left money and real estate to his sister (Marianna Jubran never married and died in Boston in 1972). Breckenridge ja Haskell piippasivat äkäsesti toisilleen mustankipeinä  Gibranin kirjallisesta jäämistöstä. Breckenridge´s 1945 biography of Gibran, an adulatory work full of misinformation—much of which may have come from Gibran himself—continues to create confusion even after the publication of several excellent biographies.

      ellauri277.html on line 328: Bahai-usko (myös kirjoitusmuodoissa bahá’í-usko, baha´i-usko ym.ym. - olisivat hyvällä jättäneet noi kärpäsenkakat pois, niin olisivat saaneet enemmän kannattajia!) on moniselitteinen uskonto, jonka perusti Baha’ullah Persiassa vuonna 1863 (eli 160v sitten) ja joka korostaa ihmiskunnan hengellistä yhtenäisyyttä. Uskonnolla on noin kuusi miljoonaa kannattajaa ympäri maailman. Ei sillä vielä kuuhun mennä. 

      ellauri277.html on line 330: Bahai-uskon juuret ovat islaminuskon šiialaisen haaran šaikhilaisessa koulukunnassa. Se uskoi kätketyn, Imaamin, Mahdin ilmestymiseen, joka merkitsisi ylösnousemuksen ja ihmiskunnan uuden aikakauden alkua. Vuonna 1844 Bab perusti šaikhilaisuuden ympärille baabilaisen uskonnollisen liikkeen. Hänet teloitettiin poliittisten selkkausten johdosta vuonna 1850. Baabilaisen liikkeen johtajaksi tuli Baha’ullah, joka julisti olevansa Babin ennustama uusi profeetta Mahdi. Baha’ullah joutui monien vaiheiden jälkeen karkotetuksi Palestiinaan ja perusti baabilaisuuden jatkoksi bahai-uskon vuonna 1866. Tää on siis islamilaista hihhulointia! Mahtoivat turbaanipäät polttaa hihansa.

      ellauri277.html on line 332: Baha’ullahin jälkeen uudeksi johtajaksi nousi Abdulbaha’, joka levitti bahai-uskoa Lähi-idän ulkopuolelle. Hänen seuraajansa Shoghi Effendi tulkitsi uskontoa niin, että se sai nykyisen muotonsa, ja perusti neuvostoja ohjaamaan bahai-uskoa. Effendi kuoli vuonna 1957. Alkuaikojen väljästi järjestäytynyt liike alkoi 1930-luvulta lähtien järjestäytyä muiden uskontojen tavoin teokraattisesti. Vuonna 1963 valittiin ensimmäinen Yleismaailmallinen oikeusneuvosto johtamaan uskontokuntaa Israelin Haifasta käsin. Mixi sieltä?

      ellauri277.html on line 338: Eli siis Bahai-uskon juuret ovat islaminuskon šiialaisen haaran šaikhilaisessa koulukunnassa. Se uskoi kätketyn kahdennentoista imaamin – Qaimin tai Mahdin, profeetta Muhammadin seuraajan – ilmestymiseen, mikä merkitsisi ylösnousemuksen sekä ihmiskunnan uuden, onnellisen ja oikeudenmukaisen aikakauden alkua. Siis tämmönen messias-tematiikka taas. Vuonna 1844 nuori persialainen kauppias Sayyid Ali Muhammad Shirazi ilmoitti ensimmäiselle opetuslapselleen olevansa portti (Bab) šiialaisten kätkettyyn imaamiin. Tämän hän antoi ymmärtää myös ensimmäisessä kirjassaan Qayyum al-asma’, mistä baabilaisuus alkoi eriytyä vähitellen omaksi uskonnolliseksi liikkeekseen. Vuonna 1847 Bab ilmoitti itse olevansa kätketyn imaamin paluuportti, mikä irrotti liikkeen lopullisesti šiialaisuuden valtavirrasta.

      ellauri277.html on line 342: Vuonna 1856 Subh-i azalin vanhempi velipuoli Mirza Husain Ali Nuri, myöhemmin Baha’ullah, astui käytännössä liikkeen johtoon. Viimeistään vuonna 1866 Baha’ullah ilmoitti julkisesti, että eipäs kun hän oli Babin mainitsema "Se, jonka Jumala tuo esiin". Tosin hänen väitetään kertoneen asian lähipiirilleen jo vuonna 1863, saatuaan ilmestyksen Ridvanin puutarhassa. Merkittävä osa baabilaisista hyväksyi julistuksen, mutta osa kannattajista kiisti sen. Varsinaisen bahai-uskon katsotaan syntyneen tästä julistuksesta. Vuonna 1868 uskonnon kannattajat siirrettiin Akkon rangaistussiirtolaan Palestiinaan – nykyiseen Israeliin. (Ai siis sixi!)

      ellauri277.html on line 344: Bahá’ullahin kirjallinen tuotanto käsittää yli sata teosta ja muistiota (hehe, tosiaan, memorandumeja). Hänen julkaisuistaan tärkeimmäksi osoittautui Akkon vankila-aikana kirjoitettu maailmansiviilisaation peruskirja Kaikkein pyhin kirja (al-Kitab al-aqdas). Bahá’ullah vietti elämänsä viimeiset vuodet kotiarestissa (ei sentään ristillä) ja kuoli 1892.

      ellauri277.html on line 346: Bahá’ullah nimitti seuraajakseen vanhimman poikansa Abdulbaha’n (Barbapapa), joka järjesti maailmanlaajuisen lähetystyön. Samalla uskontulkintaan liitettiin myös kristillisiä ja länsimaisia humanitaarisia piirteitä. Bahai-usko oli aluksi vain väljästi järjestäytynyt, eikä käännytettyjä pakotettu etenkään länsimaissa luopumaan omasta uskontokunnastaan. Barbapapa kuoli vuonna 1921. Hänen testamenttinsa perusteella liikkeen ylivalvojaksi nousi tyttärenpoika Shoghi Effendi. Hänet julistettiin Uskon suojelijaksi, jonka tulkintojen vastustaminen tulkittiin Jumalan vastustamiseksi. Fair enough. 

      ellauri277.html on line 356: Jumala on Bahai-uskossa ylimaallinen, eikä häntä voi tuntea suoratoistona, enintään kesäuusintoina. Jumala on ilmaissut itseään eri sanansaattajien kautta, joista viimeisin oli Baha’ullah. Bahai-uskon mukaan Jumala on yksi ja koko kaikkeus kuuluu hänelle, muut älkööt yrittäkökään. Hän on kaikkivaltias ja täydellinen. Hänen ei tarvi pyrkiä enää mihinkään. Maailmanhistoriassa on ollut vain yksi Jumala ja eri uskonnot ovat kutsuneet Häntä eri nimillä. Ihmisen rajallinen mieli ei voi ymmärtää Jumalaa. Bahaiden mukaan ainoa asia, mitä tiedämme Jumalasta on, että hän on olemassa. Kaikki muut arvauxet on ilman muuta vääriä. 

      ellauri277.html on line 362: Bahaiden lopullisena tavoitteena on viimeisten aikojen lopullinen rauha, Suurin Rauha (sulh-i al-kazam), joka koittaa kaikkien uskontojen löydettyä täyttymyksen bahai-uskossa, mutta sitä ennen tavoitteena on Aika Suuri Rauha (sulh-i akbar), maailmanrauha nykyisten hallitusten (Putin, Xi Jinping ja Kim Jong-Un mukaanlukien) johdolla. Suurimman Rauhan aikana toteutuu itsestään myös bahai-laki, joka koostuu Baha’ullahin teoksesta Kaikkein pyhin kirja sekä Barbapapan erillisistä muistioista. (Ize uskon että rauha tulee kuin viimeinenkin termiittiapina on vainaja.)

      ellauri277.html on line 366: Bahai-usko pitää itseään erillisenä uskontona, mutta siinä näkyy islamin vaikutteita. Bahai-uskon mukaan Koraani tallettaa Jumalan sanan luotettavammin kuin Raamattu. Syynä tähän on, että Koraanissa on enemmän profeetta Muhammadin suoraa tekstiä kuin Raamatussa Jeesuksen omaa opetusta, ja Muhammad oli selkeästi kovempi jätkä kuin J.Nasaretilainen. Toinen syy on Koraanin myöhäisempi syntyaika. Baha’ullah viittasi kirjoituksissaan usein Koraanin jakeisiin, mutta muuten tekstisisältö erosi täysin. Hän viittasi myös Uuteen testamenttiin, Kahlil Gibranin hengellisiin runoihin sekä antiikin Kreikan filosofiaan.

      ellauri277.html on line 368: Bahai-uskossa korostuu pyrkimys kansojen yhteenliittämiseen Baha’ullahin nimessä, jolloin syntyisi yleismaailmallinen poliittinen, sosiaalinen ja uskonnollinen rauhan valtakunta, jossa olisi yksi uskonto, yksi kulttuuri, globaalitalus ja yksi kansainvälinen apukieli, englanti. Bahai-uskon mukaan mikään ryhmä ei ole toista ylivertaisempi vaan kaikki ovat toinen toistaan tasa-arvoisempia. Bahait tekevät työtä rasismia ja ennakkoluuloja vastaan. Vaikka uskonto pyrkii ykseyteen, se kuitenkin kannattaa eri kansojen tapoja ja kulttuureja, kunhan ne eivät ole enemmistöä syrjiviä. Samaten kannatetaan sukupuolten tasa-arvoa ja ihmisoikeuksia, kunhan ne eivät ole miestä syrjiviä. 

      ellauri277.html on line 374: Bahai-usko näkee itsensä rauhan ja ykseyden tuojana. Uskonnossa ei ole pappeja eikä sakramentteja, ja rituaaleja on vain siteexi. Kuitenkin bahai-uskon tapoja säätelevät Baha’ullahin laatimat memorandumit, jotka edellyttävät päivittäisiä rukouksia, paastoa sekä pyhien kirjoitusten opiskelua. Pakollisten rukousten lisäksi tapakulttuuri sisältää ainoastaan hautajaisrituaalin sekä yksinkertaisen hääseremonian.

      ellauri277.html on line 376: Rukoukseen liittyy islamin tapaan määrätyt vuorokaudenajat, asennot sekä rukoussuunta kohti Baha’ullahin hautapyhäkköä Haifassa. Jokainen 15 vuotta täyttänyt on velvollinen suorittamaan päivittäisen yksityisen rukouksen. Joka päivä tulisi valita yksi kolmesta tarjoiluehdotuxesta: lyhyt rukous vuorokauden valoisana aikana, keskipitkä rukous kolmesti vuorokauden aikana tai pitkä rukous mihin vuorokauden aikaan tahansa. Ennen rukousta peseydytään.

      ellauri277.html on line 380: Bahait käyttävät erityistä bahai-kalenteria. Uskonnon mukaan Bab antoi kalenterin, jonka Baha’ullah vahvisti alkamaan vuodesta 1844. Kalenteri perustuu aurinkovuoteen, eli siinä on 365 päivää, viisi tuntia ja noin viisitoista minuuttia.

      ellauri277.html on line 392: Bahai-usko perustuu Babin, Baha’ullahin, Alibaban ja Barbapapan kanonisiin teoksiin, joita tulkitsi ja selitti parhain päin Shoghi Effendi. Tavallinen bahai-uskovainen saa johdatuksensa yhteisöltä ja kanonisoiduista teoksista, ja bahai-uskon alkuaikojen esoteerisuus ja spiritismi on hylätty. Effendin kuoleman jälkeen bahai-uskon tulkinnat on tehnyt Yleisradion ohjelmaneuvosto aikaisempien käsikirjoitusten pohjalta. Meedioita ei enää kuunnella, paizi valtameedioita tietysti. 

      ellauri277.html on line 423: Heath Andrew Ledger (4. huhtikuuta 1979 Perth, Länsi-Australia – 22. tammikuuta 2008 New York, New York) oli australialainen Oscar-palkittu näyttelijä. Kotimaassaan Ledger näytteli enimmäkseen pienissä teeveerooleissa ennen muuttoaan Yhdysvaltoihin vuonna 1998. Hän teki merkittävimmät roolinsa elokuvissa 10 Things I Hate About You (1999), Patriot (2000), Monster’s Ball (2001), Ritarin tarina (2001), Brokeback Mountain (homo, 2005) ja Yön ritari (Jokeri, 2008).Ledger kuoli 28-vuotiaana 22. tammikuuta 2008 tahattomasti reseptilääkkeiden yliannostukseen. Muutamaa kuukautta ennen kuolemaansa Ledger oli saanut valmiiksi roolinsa Jokerina elokuvassa Yön ritari. Jenkit kapinoivat kovasti kuultuaan että homo-Ledger oli castattu Jokerin miehekkääseen osaan. Hullustihan siinä kävikin. 

      ellauri278.html on line 212:   In January 1918, Litvinov addressed the Labour Party Conference, praising the achievements of the Revolution. Alexander Kerensky, the leader of the democratic Russian Provisional Government that had replaced the Tsar and was overthrown by Lenin, was welcomed by the British government on a visit to London and also addressed the Labour Party Conference, criticising the dictatorship of Lenin’s government. Litvinov replied to Kerensky in the left-wing English press, criticising him as being supported by foreign powers and intending to restore capitalism. Later in 1918, the British government arrested Litvinov, ostensibly for having addressed public gatherings held in opposition to British intervention in the ongoing Russian Civil War.

      ellauri278.html on line 216:   On 6 February 1933, Litvinov made the most-significant speech of his career, in which he tried to define aggression. He stated the internal situation of a country, alleged maladministration, possible danger to foreign residents, and civil unrest in a neighbouring country were not justifications for war. This speech became the authority when war was justified. British politician Anthony Eden had said; "to try to define aggression was a trap for the innocent and protection for the guilty". In 1946, the British Government supported Litvinov’s definition of aggression by accusing the Soviet Union of not complying with Litvinov’s definition of aggression. Finland made similar criticisms against the Soviet Union in 1939.

      ellauri278.html on line 233:   Hitler took Litvinov’s removal more seriously than Chamberlain. The German ambassador to the Soviet Union, Schulenburg, was in Iran. Hilger, the First Secretary, was summoned to see Hitler, who asked why Stalin might have dismissed Litvinov. Hilger said: "According to my firm belief he [Stalin] had done so because Litvinov had pressed for an understanding with France and Britain while Stalin thought the Western powers were aiming to have the Soviet Union pull the chestnuts out of the fire in the event of war".

      ellauri278.html on line 240:   The imperialists in these two countries had done everything they could to goad Hitler’s Germany against the Soviet Union by secret deals and provocative moves. In the circumstances the Soviet Union could either accept German proposals for a non-aggression treaty and thus secure a period of peace in which to redouble preparations to repulse the aggressor; or turn down Germany’s proposals and let the warmongers in the Western camp push the Soviet Union into an armed conflict with Germany in unfavourable circumstances and in a setting of complete isolation. In this situation the Soviet Government was compelled to make the difficult choice and conclude a non-aggression treaty with Germany. I, too, would probably have concluded a pact with Germany although a bit differently.

      ellauri278.html on line 256:   Litvinov immediately gained popularity. In early December 1941, the Soviet Union’s war-relief organisation called a large meeting in Madison Square, New York City, where the auditorium was filled to capacity. Litvinov, speaking in English, told of the suffering in the Soviet Union. A woman in the front row ran up to the stage and donated her diamond necklace; whilst another gave a cheque for $15,000. At the end, Litvinov said; "What we need is a second necklace".

      ellauri278.html on line 258:   The highlight of Litvinov’s eighteen months ambassadorship was the 25th celebration of the Russian Revolution on the 7 November 1942. 1,200 guests, representing all of the United Nations, entered the reception hall to shake hands with Litvinov. Russian vodka and a sturgeon from the Volga were supplied to the guests. Roosevelt became annoyed with Litvinov’s second-necklace zeal. He told Stalin to call in Litvinov.

      ellauri279.html on line 199:     In his sensational exposé, Informer 001 or the Myth of Pavlik Morozov, a product of research carried out clandestinely in the Soviet Union between 1980 and 1984, he demolished the long-standing, “official” Soviet version of the young, thirteen-year old “pioneer” (who never was) and communist martyr – designated, in 1934, a Soviet literary hero at the First Congress of Soviet Writers – who had turned in his father to the authorities for treasonable activity. The boy was subsequently murdered, according to the authorities, by members of his own family. The young Pavlik did, in fact, denounce his father, but, as Yuri demonstrates, he appears to have been put up to it by his mother, seeking revenge for her husband’s infidelity. As to who actually killed Pavlik, Yuri establishes that it was certainly not family members who were hauled before a Soviet court and subsequently executed. No less a literary figure than Alexander Solzhenitsyn hailed the publication of the book in 1987, claiming that it was “through books such as this that as many Soviet lies will eventually be told as revealed.”
      

      ellauri279.html on line 208: Dmitri Mikhailovich Alperovitch (born 1980) is a Russian American think-tank founder, investor, philanthropist, podcast host and former computer security industry executive. He is the chairman of Silverado Policy Accelerator, a geopolitics think-tank in Washington, D.C. and a co-founder and former chief technology officer of CrowdStrike. Alperovitch is a naturalized U.S. citizen born in Russia who came to the United States in 1994 with his family. Following Russian invasion of Ukraine, Alperovitch became the host of Geopolitics Decanted podcast, where he discusses current geopolitical events with militarily experts, historians, economists and political scientists. He is one of the 100 leading global thinkers in foreign policy 2013. Alperovitch even got a nod from President Trump when the leader (erroneously) called out CrowdStrike as “owned by a very rich Ukrainian.” (It’s assumed he was talking about Alperovitch, who is a cofounder and was born in Moscow to Russian parents.)

      ellauri281.html on line 211:   In January 1918, Litvinov addressed the Labour Party Conference, praising the achievements of the Revolution. Alexander Kerensky, the leader of the democratic Russian Provisional Government that had replaced the Tsar and was overthrown by Lenin, was welcomed by the British government on a visit to London and also addressed the Labour Party Conference, criticising the dictatorship of Lenin’s government. Litvinov replied to Kerensky in the left-wing English press, criticising him as being supported by foreign powers and intending to restore capitalism. Later in 1918, the British government arrested Litvinov, ostensibly for having addressed public gatherings held in opposition to British intervention in the ongoing Russian Civil War.

      ellauri281.html on line 215:   On 6 February 1933, Litvinov made the most-significant speech of his career, in which he tried to define aggression. He stated the internal situation of a country, alleged maladministration, possible danger to foreign residents, and civil unrest in a neighbouring country were not justifications for war. This speech became the authority when war was justified. British politician Anthony Eden had said; "to try to define aggression was a trap for the innocent and protection for the guilty". In 1946, the British Government supported Litvinov’s definition of aggression by accusing the Soviet Union of not complying with Litvinov’s definition of aggression. Finland made similar criticisms against the Soviet Union in 1939.

      ellauri281.html on line 232:   Hitler took Litvinov’s removal more seriously than Chamberlain. The German ambassador to the Soviet Union, Schulenburg, was in Iran. Hilger, the First Secretary, was summoned to see Hitler, who asked why Stalin might have dismissed Litvinov. Hilger said: "According to my firm belief he [Stalin] had done so because Litvinov had pressed for an understanding with France and Britain while Stalin thought the Western powers were aiming to have the Soviet Union pull the chestnuts out of the fire in the event of war".

      ellauri281.html on line 239:   The imperialists in these two countries had done everything they could to goad Hitler’s Germany against the Soviet Union by secret deals and provocative moves. In the circumstances the Soviet Union could either accept German proposals for a non-aggression treaty and thus secure a period of peace in which to redouble preparations to repulse the aggressor; or turn down Germany’s proposals and let the warmongers in the Western camp push the Soviet Union into an armed conflict with Germany in unfavourable circumstances and in a setting of complete isolation. In this situation the Soviet Government was compelled to make the difficult choice and conclude a non-aggression treaty with Germany. I, too, would probably have concluded a pact with Germany although a bit differently.

      ellauri281.html on line 255:   Litvinov immediately gained popularity. In early December 1941, the Soviet Union’s war-relief organisation called a large meeting in Madison Square, New York City, where the auditorium was filled to capacity. Litvinov, speaking in English, told of the suffering in the Soviet Union. A woman in the front row ran up to the stage and donated her diamond necklace; whilst another gave a cheque for $15,000. At the end, Litvinov said; "What we need is a second necklace".

      ellauri281.html on line 257:   The highlight of Litvinov’s eighteen months ambassadorship was the 25th celebration of the Russian Revolution on the 7 November 1942. 1,200 guests, representing all of the United Nations, entered the reception hall to shake hands with Litvinov. Russian vodka and a sturgeon from the Volga were supplied to the guests. Roosevelt became annoyed with Litvinov’s second-necklace zeal. He told Stalin to call in Litvinov.

      ellauri282.html on line 274: Meill’ on metsässä nuotiopiiri,

      ellauri283.html on line 114:       Beyond the Heavens is a very ethereal and mystical experience, one unlike any other movie we have reviewed.  However, this is not a good thing.  The ‘plot’ is very unclear and murky, consisting of vague and meandering ideas and cryptic dialogue.  It’s like Corbin Bernson is winking at the audience with every scene, waiting to reveal some great secret, but it’s never revealed.  The whole has a very tip-of-the-tongue feel, like the characters know something you don’t but never intend to let you in on the secret.  As the characters wax eloquent and philosophize about the true nature of reality, the viewer is left, in the end, with a more confusing view of reality than before.  Is Bernson advocating for or against Darwinism?  Is he a creationist?  Does he really believe that angels come to earth on the tails of comets?  Is Bernson suggesting that reality is not what it seems?  If so, what is his view of reality?  Only God knows the answers to these questions as Bernson spends 90 minutes toying with his ‘big reveal’ and dancing around whatever his philosophical worldview is.  It’s basically just a waste of your time.

      ellauri283.html on line 116:       And what is to be made of Corbin Bernsen?  What is his place in Christian film?  Is he trolling?  Is he a great mind misunderstood?  Whether it’s abstract musings like Beyond the Heavens or half-hearted satire like Christian Mingle or In-Lawfully Yours, Bernsen’s motivations for making Christian films are very unclear.  It’s possible that he’s smarter than us all and doesn’t know how to show it.  But it’s also possible that he’s just trying to make a quick buck off of Christian audiences.  Reality is probably somewhere in between.  Regardless, Beyond the Heavens really needed to be rethought before anyone spent money on it, because it falls flat and is unable to properly convey whatever message it is trying to present.

      ellauri284.html on line 151: The sharp one-year increase, to a total of at least 21,570 murders, does not erase the nation’s stagnation since the early 1990s. The US murder rate had dropped more than 50% since 1991. Even after last year’s increase, it is still 34% lower! To increase the gain to beat India, fully automatic weapons ought to be legalized again.

      ellauri284.html on line 595: Tää juonihan on suoraan kanadalaissarjasta The Indian Detective. It is a Canadian crime comedy-drama series which debuted on CTV and Netflix in 2017. The show stars Russell Peters as Doug D'Mello, a police officer from Toronto who becomes embroiled in a murder investigation while visiting his father (Anupam Kher) in Mumbai during a one-month suspension for incompetence. The fourth episode ended in a cliffhanger, hinting at a possible second season; while Peters has stated at various times that a second season was in the works, none has been officially announced as of September 2019.  A relatively new show, Season 1 of ‘The Indian Detective’, consisting of four episodes, premiered on November 23, 2017, and it received mixed reviews from television critics and audiences alike. The show has no chance of being renewed for a second season. 

      ellauri284.html on line 600: In two deals signed before Donald Trump was elected president, the company aligned itself with Indian partners who were already attracting the attention of law enforcement authorities. One, called IREO, is under investigation by India’s Enforcement Directorate over the source of its funding, suspected violations in its land purchasing and the possibility of money laundering. The other, M3M India, has been the target of sweeping tax raids; on a different project, the company was recently accused in a criminal complaint of bribing officials to clear-cut land.

      ellauri284.html on line 602: On Monday, India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be at the White House to meet with President Trump. It will be exactly the sort of moment that makes ethics experts, worried about the conflation of Trump’s business abroad with his oversight of U.S. foreign policy, especially alarmed.

      ellauri284.html on line 605: “Everything is compromised,” said Sanjay Sharma, a Gurgaon real estate broker. “It’s not some people in some places who are corrupt. Corruption is institutionalized. To thrive in this real estate market, you must be a scoundrel. It is impossible for a thorough gentleman to survive here.”

      ellauri284.html on line 608: The Trump Organization’s two partners here have been among the primary developers in Gurgaon’s now-stalled building boom. They are hard-charging companies — a surgeon named Subrat Saxena is just one of many former property owners here who, bullied and misled, lost their land to the developers, land that is now slated for a Trump tower.

      ellauri284.html on line 610: “I’m sorry I did it; if I hadn’t, I would have a hospital now,” Saxena said.

      ellauri284.html on line 612: The Trumps began eyeing India around 2007, drawn to an emerging market of consumers beginning to find a taste for name-brand luxury. Now there are two Trump towers in the quiet city of Pune and a flashier one with a gold facade in Mumbai being built by millionaire developer Mangal Prabhat Lodha, a politician in the governing Bharatiya Janata Party. Trump’s eldest son, Donald Trump Jr., has made several trips to India, and Trump himself jetted in on a promotional tour in 2014, proclaiming India “an amazing country!”

      ellauri284.html on line 615: A state leader from Maharashtra, who met with Donald Trump Jr., says the young American’s Indian partner there pushed him to relax building codes to revive a stalled project — an allegation confirmed by another person familiar with the discussion but disputed by Indian developer Kalpesh Mehta, who was also in the meeting.

      ellauri284.html on line 619: Though the Trump Organization has declined to comment for this article, Alan Garten, the company’s general counsel, addressed questions earlier this year about some of the company’s other unorthodox business partners. He said that blemishes on their records are not “reflective of the portfolio as a whole” and that the organization conducts “due diligence” background checks.

      ellauri284.html on line 621: Ethics experts say engaging partners who have ongoing legal issues underscores the growing concern that the president’s business projects around the world could create conflicts of interest or other challenges for his administration.

      ellauri284.html on line 623: “By continuing his association with these groups and pursuing his private business interests, he’s put himself on a collision course with the U.S. public interest,” said Kathleen Clark, a law professor and ethics expert at Washington University in St. Louis. “It’s a terrible idea.”

      ellauri284.html on line 626: In April 2016, the Trump Organization announced that it was expanding its brand in India, lending its name to an IREO Private Ltd. office tower in Gur­gaon designed by Foster + Partners, the architects of Apple’s new campus. The Trump company signed a licensing agreement with IREO that includes use of the name, technical assistance and a portion of office rental income, according to Lalit Goyal, IREO’s managing director.

      ellauri284.html on line 627: Goyal said that his company is a private-equity fund founded in 2004 by a former Goldman Sachs executive and Indian partners to infuse foreign capital into India’s real estate market. The company counts high-profile sovereign wealth and university endowment funds among its backers.

      ellauri284.html on line 630: India’s Enforcement Directorate, which tracks financial crimes, has long been investigating the source of IREO’s funding, officials there said. Money from abroad was routed through entities in Mauritius and Cyprus, and investigators believe it was used to finance land purchases in Gurgaon, documents show.

      ellauri284.html on line 636: Investigators “basically wanted to know who our investors are. And we shared the list with them,” Goyal said. “They took two years to cross-check our list of investors and finally they said that ‘you are absolutely clean.’ ”

      ellauri284.html on line 643: Dinesh Dayma, a land agent for the Bansals, persuaded the surgeon to sell his land to the developer rather than risk having his land appropriated by the government at below-market rates. Dayma works out of an office in a low-slung concrete building not far from luxury hotels and a Porsche dealership. It sits snugly inside the walled office compound of his brother, Mahesh, a local politician from the BJP. A saffron-and-green banner with the politician’s photo — common in India — hangs prominently outside the property office.

      ellauri284.html on line 645: Inside, Dayma sat in his darkened office — the electricity was out — and denied that he had used his brother’s position to glean information about the doctor’s land. He came by the information fairly, he said.

      ellauri284.html on line 647: Dayma said that the property in Gurgaon was purchased from farmers by agents who used a variety of pressure tactics in collaboration with the state’s development authority.

      ellauri284.html on line 655: The Bansal brothers have come far since their gritty early days. They have several large projects in the works, including one complex built around a nine-hole golf course that has suffered delays. Now, they are preparing to announce a joint venture with Mehta’s Mumbai-based Tribeca Developers to build Trump-branded residences, Mehta said.

      ellauri284.html on line 657: Basant Bansal caught the attention of tax investigators twice, records show, once in 2008 and again in 2011, when he threw a lavish wedding for his daughter in Turkey, according to a report in the Hindustan Times. Investigators seized cash worth $48 million in a raid on the company’s offices. A tax investigator said that Bansal ultimately paid the taxes he owed.

      ellauri284.html on line 658: Tax investigations such as these are not uncommon in India, and only a fraction pay income taxes, despite the government’s concerted efforts to combat hoards of undeclared “black money.”

      ellauri284.html on line 660: In March, one of the Bansals’ employees was caught allegedly bribing a forest guard to illicitly cut more than 2,200 trees, in connection with a separate project, according to a police complaint that is still under investigation.

      ellauri284.html on line 665: At the construction workers’ settlement, a man washes at the open-air communal tank. (Enrico Fabian/for The Washington Post)

      ellauri284.html on line 668: Speaking generally, Wrage said that an Indian citizen bribing an Indian official does not violate the U.S. act but does indicate “shoddy business ethics and a willingness to violate the law. This is the clearest sort of red flag. If a company will bribe in one situation, you’re on notice that they’re likely to bribe again.”

      ellauri285.html on line 68: Every living creature has an anus: Ants, horses, eagles . . . And us. While most creatures’ anuses do their jobs with little fuss, not so with human beings. The design of our anus is Providence’s little joke to keep us humble.

      ellauri285.html on line 70: Consider, for example, the horse. We live across from a horse breeding establishment so I’ve had ample opportunity to observe these estimable animals in action. While they shit copiously they never get any on their hair (when was the last time you saw a horse’s behind fouled by its own waste?). The reason for this lies in the design of the horse anus. It is an extensible device that, when a BM is about to pass, protrudes a few critical inches, allowing the manure to drop straight to the ground without mussing a single hair. To further forfend fouling, there is no hair in the immediate vicinity of the horse’s anus, nor on the extensible process itself. What a remarkable design.

      ellauri285.html on line 84: A bear and a rabbit were next to each other taking a shit. Since they aren’t natural enemies there was no conflict. The bear says to the rabbit, “Say, do you have trouble with shit sticking to your fur?” The rabbit said, “No, not really.” So the bear wiped his ass with the rabbit.

      ellauri285.html on line 219:  For instance, according to Jackson’s (1991) consequentialism, one ought to maximize expected moral utility. 

      ellauri285.html on line 399: “A woman of undoubted Genius,” according to Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Mary Robinson was an English actress, author, celebrity, and ardent supporter of the rights of women who gained considerable fame during her lifetime. Known by the nickname “Perdita,” after her role in Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale, peddled to The Prince of Wales her tail.

      ellauri285.html on line 671:   C’est au bout de trois semaines, après avoir sciemment parlé dans le vide de façon à ne livrer aucune information concrète, que Debray admet les évidences, à savoir la présence du Che, déjà reconnue par Bustos, les déserteurs et le guérillero Vasquez Viana, arrêté le 28 avril et victime d’un subterfuge. Même après la rupture politique de Debray avec le régime cubain, Manuel Piñeiro, le chef des services secrets cubains, reconnaît que ce dernier n’a fait que « confirmer la présence du Che en Bolivie », et qu’« il ne serait pas correct de ma part de rendre Debray responsable de la localisation de la guérilla, et encore moins de la mort du Che »

      ellauri285.html on line 687: Debray dit lui-même : « Vaincre c’est accepter, par principe, que la vie n’est pas le bien suprême du révolutionnaire ». L´auteur attaque notamment les anti-révolutionnaires : « trotskisme et réformisme se donnent la main pour condamner la guerre de guérilla la freiner ou la saboter ».

      ellauri285.html on line 688: Régis Debray s’intéresse au problème du religieux et de la croyance au sein du groupe social. Son postulat de départ est : il n’y a pas de société sans transcendance, qui fonctionne là comme un phéromone. De même qu’un État laïc a ses obligations morales, les athées ont des valeurs sacrées. Pour lui, cette transcendance est nécessaire à la cohésion sociale. L’Union soviétique avait Lénine, les États-Unis d´Amérique ont George Washington et les pères fondateurs, la Constitution. Il y en avait aussi autrefois en France avec les héros mythiques de la République, comme Danton ou Leclerc.

      ellauri285.html on line 698:     Ranskan viidennen tasavallan aikana Mitterrand oli ehdokkaana presidentinvaaleissa Charles de Gaullea vastaan 1965, mutta hävisi. Hän oli jälleen ehdolla presidentiksi 1974 Valéry Giscard d’Estaingia vastaan, mutta hävisi jälleen, tosin varsin niukasti. Lopulta 1981 Mitterrandista tuli ensimmäinen viidennen tasavallan sosialistipresidentti, kun hän voitti selvästi kilpailijansa Giscard d’Estaingin.

      ellauri285.html on line 705:     Mitterrandin vaimo Danielle Mitterrand oli vasemmistolainen aktiivi, mutta Ransu oli sitä aktiivimpi. Poikiensa Jean-Christophe ja Gilbert Mitterrandin lisäksi hänellä oli tytär Mazarine Pingeot Anne Pingeot’n kanssa.

      ellauri285.html on line 708:     Les États-Unis auraient ainsi su échapper à cette crise du sacré, par leur civisme et leur patriotisme, même s´ils se sont mis au service de mauvaises causes. L’effigie du dollar des États-Unis en est un exemple : « In God We Trust, All Others Pay Cash ». C’est cette symbolique patriotique qui ferait la force des États-Unis. Debray prétend appliquer le théorème d´incomplétude de Gödel à l´ordre social pour « démontrer » sa théorie. Régis Debray a été vivement critiqué pour son utilisation du théorème d´incomplétude de Gödel, jugée au mieux infondée sinon fallacieuse par Alan Sokal et Jean Bricmont dans leur livre Impostures intellectuelles, et par Jacques Bouveresse dans Prodiges et vertiges de l´analogie.

      ellauri285.html on line 710:   Régis Debray affirme que quand s’épuise le sens du symbolique reviennent les autorités religieuses. Plus la puissance symbolique est dématérialisée (la religion), plus l’ordre symbolique est fort et plus la puissance symbolique est historicisée (personnages), plus l’ordre symbolique est fragile. Une humanité sans croyance est donc, selon lui, réduite à l’animalité.

      ellauri285.html on line 712:   Pour lui le messager conditionne le message. Sa thèse est : « l’invention de l’écriture alphabétique jointe à une nouvelle technique de partage (le codex) dans un milieu nomade mais sédentarisé a été la condition de naissance de Dieu comme universel ». – Est-ce vous qui avez inventé ça, la médiologie? – C´est un bien grand mot. C´est Victor Hugo qui l´a créée. « Ceci tuera cela ». Dans Notre-Dame de Paris, je vous recommande ce passage : c´est l´archidiacre Frollo, qui a un petit livre de Gutenberg, et qui est devant la cathédrale, et qui dit de façon prophétique « Ceci tuera cela », et dans l´autre main il avait un petit téléphone mobile, et de façon également prophétique: « Ceci tuera cela ».

      ellauri285.html on line 714: La troisième grande technologie est la révolution informatique avec le développement du Web. Sur cette toile géante, il n’y a plus de frontières, plus d’État. À quelle forme de « sacré » cela mène-t-il ? Moi je ne suis qu´un petit continuateur, conclut modestement Régis Debray.

      ellauri286.html on line 341: Putin’s Troll Empire. Elokuun puolivälissä kasassa oli noin 30 000 dollarin edestä 

      ellauri286.html on line 482: Мочи перхоти (Perhot’ podzalupnaya)Virzaputken hilsesmegma

      ellauri286.html on line 485: Ублюдок (Svoloch’)bastardiIhmisjäte. Melko itsestään selvä tää.

      ellauri286.html on line 486: Чушь собачья (Piz’duk)koiran läjä (lässyttäjä)Paskapuhetta

      ellauri288.html on line 156:   Annetaan kirjoittajan selittää. ”’Sitoudun kunnioittamaan’ tarkoittaa aktiivisempaa lupautumista kuin ’vannon’, joka on helppo päästää suustaan, vaikka olisi eri mieltä.” Jos kansalaiseksi tulevan on vaikea vilpittömästi hyväksyä suomalaisia arvoja, Oksasen mukaan on parempi, että hän sitoutuu sentään "kunnioittamaan" eli ainakin sietämään ja välttelemään niitä, kuin että vannoisi onton valan. ”En usko sakottamiseen”, hän sanoo. "Pää pois, se on selvemää."

      ellauri288.html on line 387: Ennen kuin voimme käsitellä vihaa meidän pitää tarkastella mistä viha tekstissä syntyy, ja miksi. Heti tekstin alussa huomaamme vihansiemenen kehittyvän, kun Aliide löytää Zaran pihaltaan. Aliiden kauan jatkunut viha syntyi jo hänen nuoruudessaan, kun hänen siskonsa Ingel oli häntä ‘parempi’ kaikessa.

      ellauri290.html on line 647: 19. Shefa ’Amr853,6401,3801,56010690

      ellauri290.html on line 663: 12. Ra’anana7783,2903,290

      ellauri290.html on line 727:  Shefa ’Amr((A)

      ellauri290.html on line 768:  ’Affula (J)

      ellauri290.html on line 778:  Ra’anana (J)

      ellauri294.html on line 457: When he saw Peter and John about to enter, he asked them for money. 4 Peter looked straight at him, as did John. Then Peter said, “Look at us!” 5 So the man gave them his attention, expecting to get something from them.6 Then Peter said, “Silver or gold I do not have, but what I do have I give you. In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, walk.” 7 Taking him by the right hand, he helped him up, and instantly the man’s feet and ankles became strong. 8 He jumped to his feet and began to walk. Bugger it. Siinä meni hyvä leipäpuu.

      ellauri297.html on line 44:   Materialism is the butt of every Dad joke. A child comes to the father of their youth, and say, “Dad, I’m hungry,” to which the beloved father figure replies, “Hello Hungry, I’m Dad!” It pokes fun at the idea that our whole identity could be the sum total of our physical markers, desires and chemical reactions. This would be akin to someone ‘coming out,’ to us and us responding, “Hello Gay! I’m Cis!” It’s ludicrous! But, our culture still does it–quite a bit, actually. We define ourselves and others concretely based on what we own rather than on what we cannot see; our souls.

      ellauri297.html on line 88: 
      If an Imp could speak, it would echo Marlon Brando’s 

      ellauri297.html on line 90: coulda been a contender. I coulda been somebody.” Despite its innovative features and stellar reputation as a driver’s car, the Imp was never a contender. This tiny machine was launched too late to compete, beset with corporate mistakes and bedeviled by a lack of development. As the BBC program “The Car’s the Star” described it, the Imp was “the wrong car built at the wrong time by the wrong people at the wrong place.”

      ellauri297.html on line 106: 1:10: Israelilaisten luku on oleva kuin meren hiekka; ’te ette ole minun kansani’ asemesta sanotaan ’Elävän Jumalan lapset!’ Jumazukka jo on väkeä kuin meren mutaa, yleisöä kuin Salpausselällä! Maapallon kantokyky ylitetään jo maaliskuussa.

      ellauri297.html on line 124: 10:8: He sanovat vuorille: ’Peittäkää meidät’ ja esinahkakukkuloille: ’Langetkaa meidän päällemme’. Eivät kuunnelleet. Eikö sana kuulu vai eikö se tehoa? 

      ellauri297.html on line 373:   Ex-Oldest Man In The World Dead In NYC At 111; He Put On Tefillin Two Months Ago For First Time Since His Bar Mitzvah, but it did not help. He is dead. World’s oldest man living confirmed as Juan Vicente Pérez aged 112 in Venezuela. Bugger it. Besides agriculture, one of Juan's most important passions is to build a strong relationship with God and his family. He is grateful for his life, as well as the food and the people that surround him.

      ellauri297.html on line 545:     Suuri osa väestöstä on chemboja, loput njanjoja, n’goneja, tumbukoita, lomweja ja islaminuskoisia yaolaisia. Vuoden 1998 väestönlaskennassa kristittyjä oli 80 prosenttia, muslimeita 13 prosenttia. Chemban kieli oli silloin äidinkieli 57,2 prosentilla väestöstä.

      ellauri299.html on line 173:   Shelters are key components of America’s response to homelessness. The unsheltered population has grown yearly since 2015, amounting to a 35 percent increase over a seven-year span. In 2020, The number of people living in poverty in The U.S. of A. increased by approximately 3.3 million people. This trend continued into 2021 when nearly 41.4 million people, or 12.8 percent of the U.S. population, were counted in this group. Certain racial groups have even higher rates of poverty, including Black people (21.8 percent), American Indian and Alaska Native people (21.4 percent), and Hispanics/Latinos (17.5 percent). People living in poverty struggle to afford necessities such as housing, food, and medical care.

      ellauri299.html on line 530: Matthew Desmond, the acclaimed Princeton sociologist and author of Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City, thinks that poverty has barely improved in the United States over the past 50 years — and he has a theory why. Laid out in a long essay for the New York Times Magazine that is adapted from his forthcoming book Poverty, by America, Desmond’s theory implicates “exploitation” in the broadest sense, from a decline in unions and worker power to a proliferation of bank fees and predatory landlord practices, all of which combine to keep the American underclass down. Relative poverty in the US has stagnated in the last 40 years.

      ellauri299.html on line 544: Scientists in Houston, Texas, have lifted the lid on one of America’s darkest and deepest secrets: that hidden beneath fabulous wealth, the US tolerates poverty-related illness at levels comparable to the world’s poorest countries.

      ellauri300.html on line 77:   Macmillan Publishers’ in-house film and TV unit teamed with Wildhorse Studios on 2016 to develop the Isaac Bashevis Singer novel Shadows on the Hudson for TV. Men det blev det inget av.

      ellauri300.html on line 636: Titus was one of at least two younger men that Paul disciplined and described as his “sons in the faith that we share” (Titus 1:4). The other man is Timothy, and the second letter to the Corinthians is addressed as from Paul and Timothy to the church in Corinth (2 Corinthians 1:1). Both Timothy and Titus served as Paul’s messengers and traveling companions, and they both went on to lead churches. Paul not only mentored them, but he also advised them in individual letters about their next steps. Matin stepit. 

      ellauri300.html on line 638:   Titus’ background is not explained, other than the fact he was Gentile and apparently never circumcised (Paul had checked, Galatians 2:4). This is an interesting point, since Timothy was half-Greek, and not circumcised either! Still, Paul chose to circumcise Timothy to honor the Jews in an area that the two of them were ministering in (Acts 16:1-5). Paul repeatedly mentions in his letters that circumcision is not necessary under the new covenant (though great fun), and even tells Titus to silence Christians who try to promote it (Titus 1:10-14). So, Paul’s choice to circumcise Timothy would suggest that he had a pragmatic thorn in his side. He did not require his disciples to be circumcised, but if the situation called for working among Jews and it made things easier, he would gladly do it. Whether Titus ever ministered to Jewish believers is not stated, and both he and Titus worked at churches in Gentile areas (Timothy in Ephesus, Titus in Crete, and Corinth and Dalmatia).

      ellauri300.html on line 655:   Galatians 2 mentions that Titus accompanied Paul and Barnabas to Jerusalem, apparently the trip mentioned in Acts 15 where they went to the Council at Jerusalem to debate whether Titus ought to be circumcised.  What happened to Titus after that is not known. It’s possible that Titus died on the operation table.

      ellauri300.html on line 817:   The word na‘ar, which is often rendered as children/boys, means boy. The Hebrew adjective, qatan, means small. Thus we can say it’s highly unlikely the people who mocked Elisha were “little children” or “small boys.” It’s much more probable that these were young men and quite possibly they were just servants (maybe blacks?).

      ellauri300.html on line 819: Remember  Jeroboam founded Dan (in the north) and Bethel (in the south) as his kingdom’s two alternatives to Jerusalem (1 Kings 12:25-33). He set up golden calves at these sites, ordained non-Aaronic priests, changed the time of the festivals, and Ba'al worship soon reigned supreme.

      ellauri300.html on line 821: Bethel was basically one big uplifted middle finger to everything Moses had commanded. When God’s prophet approached this irritating city, the young men (bloody servants!) mocked him, saying, “Go up, you baldhead! Go up, you baldhead!” Not only were they ridiculing his lack of hair (which, in the Old Testament, was often associated with a skin disease), they were telling him to fly away, like his predecessor Elijah. Keep in mind that, right before this, Elijah had supposedly “gone up” to heaven in a fiery chariot (2 Kings 2).

      ellauri300.html on line 880: Now a man named Ananias, together with his wife Sapphira, also sold a piece of their own property. 2 With his wife’s full knowledge he kept back part of the money for himself, but brought the rest and put it at the apostles’ feet.

      ellauri300.html on line 881: 3 Then Peter said, “Ananias, how is it that Satan has so filled your heart that you have lied to the Holy Spirit and have kept for yourself some of the money you received for the land? 4 Didn’t it belong to you before it was sold? And after it was sold, wasn’t the money at your disposal? What made you think of doing such a thing? You have not lied just to human beings but to God.”

      ellauri300.html on line 918: ”Voitte varmasti todeta, että Raamatulla – – ’ei ole todellista arvoa alaikäisille’, koska se on uuden määritelmämme mukaan pornografinen.”

      ellauri300.html on line 923:   So Elisha, as a prophet, saw their hardened and rebellious condition, unresponsive to correction. In the name of the Lord (i.e. by His authority) Elisha simply turned them over to the Lord and to their own devices, which had the effect of removing them from even the common protection of God. He probably said something like, “may God deal with you according to what you deserve,” or “may you be cursed for your sins of rebellion.” This would demonstrate to the city and to people all around a vital truth: without the Lord there is no protection and that blasphemy of God’s servants and His Word in order to hinder God’s message is serious busin

      ellauri301.html on line 96:     A grumpy, disillusioned, diabetic alcoholic with just enough goodness at his core to fire his desire to catch murderers, Wallander appears in 13 novels and is responsible for the majority of Mankell’s worldwide sales of more than 40 million books. The murders he investigated epitomised the slow decline Mankell detected in Swedish society. As well as the racism that appalled him there was rising unemployment and violent crime, corruption, the rigidity of a patriarchy forged in Lutheran religion and the relentless breakdown of communities and society.

      ellauri301.html on line 102:     There is little nihilism in Swedish noir: good and bad are always clearly distinguished all the way through to the cartoonish culmination of the genre in Stieg Larsson’s trilogy about Lisbeth Salander. The only problem for Stieg´s heroes is that good no longer plays in the same team with the Swedish state. Evil is firmly located in reassuringly wicked villains. Everything is privatized just like in Britain and America. All is well. (These sharp observations courtesy of The Guardian.)

      ellauri301.html on line 111:       Preview: The first Wallander novel Mördare utan ansikte (‘Faceless Killers’) was published in Sweden in 1991 and begins with an elderly couple being attacked in a remote farmhouse. The husband dies instantly, the wife lives long enough to whisper the word “foreign”, triggering a wave of violent racism as Wallander seeks to solve the crime.

      ellauri301.html on line 119: 	The third book in the series, Den vita lejoninnan, ‘The White Lioness’, was the first translated into English, helping to turn Wallander into an international sensation and triggering the global sensation of Scandinavian noir.

      ellauri301.html on line 228:       Krotoa was born in 1643 as a member of the !Uriǁ’aeǀona (Strandlopers) people, and the niece of Autshumao, a Khoi chieftain and trader. At the age of twelve, she was taken to work in the household of Jan van Riebeeck, the first governor of the Cape colony. As a teenager, she learned Dutch and Portuguese and, like her uncle, worked as an interpreter for the Dutch who wanted to trade goods for cattle. "!Oroǀõas" received goods such as tobacco, brandy, bread, beads, copper and iron for her services. In exchange, when she visited her family her Dutch masters expected her to return with cattle, horses, seed pearls, amber, tusks, and hides. Unlike her uncle, however, who just Spike hottentot, "!Oroǀõas" was able to obtain a higher position within the Dutch hierarchy as she additionally served as a trading agent, ambassador for a high ranking chief and peace negotiator in time of war. Her story exemplifies the initial dependency of the Dutch newcomers on the natives, who were able to provide reasonably reliable information about the local inhabitants.

      ellauri301.html on line 236:       Circumstantial evidence supports the theory that at the time of the Dutch arrival, the girl was living with her uncle Autshumato (also known as Harry by the Dutch), the circumstantial evidence being that she showed consistent hostility to the !Uriǁ’aekua and, by association, to her own mother, who lived with them. In contrast Krotoa´s fate and fortunes were closely aligned to those of her uncle Autshumato and to his clan known as the !Uriǁ´aeǀona. The ǃUriǁ´aeǀona (rendered in Dutch as "Goringhaicona") people who were sedentary, non-pastoral hunter-gatherers are believed to be one of the first clans to make acquaintance with the Dutch people. Prior to the Dutch´s arrival Autshumato served as a postal agent for passing ships of a number of countries. If the theory of !Oroǀõas having lived with her uncle is true, then her early service to the VOC may not have been as violent a transition as it was made out to be.

      ellauri301.html on line 345: In South African there is a day that has been dedicated to the braai (It’s actually heritage day) and celebrated annually on the 24 September. Braai is such a big part of South African heritage and tradition. It’s a day South African of all shapes, colours and sizes unite with their friends and family by a fire.

      ellauri301.html on line 349: Heritage Day on September 24 is a day that celebrates South Africa’s roots, their rich, vibrant, and diverse cultures. South Africa is called the ‘‘Rainbow Nation’’ due to its color and gender diversity, and this is why Heritage Day exists. Its goal is to nurture and embrace South African culture for what it truly is, accepting all races and genders. The day is usually celebrated with a cookout known as a braai and we suggest that you channel your inner South African and celebrate with a feast of your own.

      ellauri301.html on line 352: September 24 was previously known in South Africa as Shaka Day, a day commemorating the Zulu King of Shaka. He was known for uniting the Zulu clan together and forming the Zulu nation. Every year, South Africans would gather at his grave to honor him. In 1995 a request for the day to be confirmed as an official braai holiday was rejected. After receiving some pushback from the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP), a majority Zulu party, it was decided that the day was needed and would be known as ‘‘Heritage Day.’’

      ellauri302.html on line 233: Each of three “solemn feasts”—Passover, the Feast of Weeks, and the Feast of Tabernacles—required that all able-bodied Jewish males travel to Jerusalem to attend the feast and offer sacrifices. All three of these feasts required that “firstfruit” offerings be made at the temple as a way of expressing thanksgiving for God’s provision. The Feast of Firstfruits celebrated at the time of the Passover included the first fruits of the barley harvest. The Feast of Weeks was in celebration of the first fruits of the wheat harvest, and the Feast of Tabernacles involved offerings of the first fruits of the olive and grape harvests.

      ellauri308.html on line 349: Tuomaala osoittaisi omistavansa selkärankaa, jos lukisi kansanedustaja Wille Rydmanin puheen, jonka hän piti Tu B’shvat 5780 -juhlassa 16.2.2020:

      ellauri308.html on line 446: Dugin hyödyntää ranskalaisilta filosofeilta kuten Michel Foucault’lta ja Jean-François Lyotardilta peräisin olevaa valistuksen “suurten kertomusten” kritiikkiä. Sen avulla voidaan horjuttaa liberalismin itsestään kertomaa tarinaa, jonka mukaan liberaali demokratia on historian universaali päätepiste, johon kaikki kehitys on tähdännyt. Dugin viittaa erityisesti amerikkalaisfilosofi Francis Fukuyaman ajatukseen liberaalista demokratiasta “historian loppuna”. 

      ellauri309.html on line 265: suomexi, tulkoon loppu enkuxi. I don’t know this woman; she doesn’t know 

      ellauri309.html on line 267: recently successful she doesn’t fully understand the relationship between a 

      ellauri309.html on line 275: publisher, your agent, about the fact that a title can’t be stolen in the 

      ellauri309.html on line 278: publishing) you’d certainly realize it was written, titled and in 

      ellauri309.html on line 280: ‘stolen’? To be accused of plagiarism by some faceless reader on the 

      ellauri309.html on line 281: internet, one who felt entitled to spread that lie gutted me. I’ve been 

      ellauri309.html on line 288: that’s the problem. Those making them don’t know me, they simply lash out 

      ellauri309.html on line 292: kind of retraction after I reached out to her, it didn’t stop some of her 

      ellauri309.html on line 294: to put out the fire. We’ve had no response, not from her, not from her 

      ellauri309.html on line 297: the person who lit the match to stop it. I don’t like taking my issues 

      ellauri309.html on line 299: reputation and my work. I’m appalled by this, sickened by it. I’m disgusted 

      ellauri309.html on line 300: that people who don’t know me would feel free to say vicious things about 

      ellauri309.html on line 305: her disposal, wisely. I’ve very deliberately not mentioned the name of the 

      ellauri309.html on line 306: writer who started this (Tomi something foreign, a coon in dreadlocks), or the title of her book or mine. I don’t want 

      ellauri309.html on line 307: this to escalate any more than it has. I don’t want my readers to go on the 

      ellauri309.html on line 308: attack. It’s not cool. 

      ellauri309.html on line 310: I simply want to set the record straight. I’m Nora 

      ellauri309.html on line 311: Roberts. I’m a hard-working writer, and an honest one. That’s it. Here´s my 

      ellauri309.html on line 515:   Hoover and Sullivan considered King “the most dangerous Negro of the future in this nation”. Armed with salacious archival material from a recent FBI documents release, Garrow has reported about the iconic civil rights leader’s sexual misconduct, ranging from numerous extramarital affairs and solicitation of prostitutes to the allegation that he was present during the violent rape of a Maryland churchgoer. Garrow insists that a fundamental reconsideration of King's reputation is imminent. He describes how King and a handful of Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) officials checked into Washington DC’s Willard hotel along with “several women ‘parishioners’”. The group met in his room and discussed which women among the parishioners would be suitable for natural and unnatural sex acts, meaning anal and oral, genital being natural. The alleged rapist was Reverend Logan Kearse, a Baptist minister from Baltimore. Reportedly, "Mike" King just stood by with erect cock in hand overseeing the action, like another Kim Yung Il.

      ellauri309.html on line 517: This is not the first time that scholars have raised concerns about Garrow’s  intelligence. Besides, as Donna Murch of Guardian points out, it is rather normal for our great men to have huge cocks and insatiable sexual  appetites. This does not make them any less great, rather the opposite.

      ellauri310.html on line 36:       inventor, is turning 70. Let’s see if anyone will ever say about us, when we 

      ellauri310.html on line 926: We’re shedding our blood': Ukraine fighting against Russia to fulfill NATO's mission, says Defence Min Reznikov

      ellauri311.html on line 41: to a woman’s womb and genitalia. What does yoni mean for YOU? What type of 

      ellauri311.html on line 45: culture. To claim your power is not to be like a man. It’s really to own 

      ellauri311.html on line 49: being shows the power that’s held within us. 

      ellauri311.html on line 57: I’m Anna-Thea, an author 

      ellauri311.html on line 73: Honor Your Yoni as Sacred. You don’t have to have sex in order to get a man’s approval.

      ellauri311.html on line 76: How to exude feminine energy the new way is to let "her" take the lead. What I mean by that is get in touch with her and make sure “her” needs are being met. Going “all the way” isn’t absolutely necessary unless of course "she" feels like it.

      ellauri311.html on line 78: Don’t be needy. Men hate it.

      ellauri311.html on line 104: itämaisiin filosofioihin kasvoi. Alkutahteja antoi Jack Kerouac’n 

      ellauri311.html on line 673: now I’m coming around to Russia's point of view. This war could be over if 

      ellauri311.html on line 686:     The soldiers from the ‘fortress city’ of Bakhmut handed over a flag to 

      ellauri311.html on line 689: 
       After President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s visit to Bakhmut, reports appeared 

      ellauri313.html on line 622: And all that’s best of dark and bright	  Ja kaikki paras tummasta ja kirkkaudesta

      ellauri313.html on line 630: Or softly lightens o’er her face;	  Tai hiljaa valaisee hänen kasvojaan;

      ellauri313.html on line 634: And on that cheek, and o’er that brow,	  Ja noilla poskilla, noilla kulmilla

      ellauri316.html on line 206: Aviv. Wolfson is one of a handful of figures, including Edmund of Abingdon, Saint Peter, Catherine of Alexandria, Mary Magdalene, Mary, mother of Jesus, God and Jesus, to have both Cambridge and Oxford colleges named after them. Ei ihme että kuoppaleukainen daavidhahmo Nooah nimettiin sen perästä. Lopetin sarjan kazomisen 3. jaxosta. Siinä oli pelkästään epämiellyttäviä tyyppejä. Sarjaa tuottavat belgit, britit ja israelit, kaikki erittäin syvältä anuxesta. Haaretz writes that the series is a "gem" that comes "from the heart.' Are there lilac trees / in the heart of town?  This is somewhat embarrassing, isn’t it? 

      ellauri316.html on line 245:     La nuit du 14 au 15 avril 1718, nuit du Vendredi Saint, Boureau-Deslandes est à Brest. Il raconte : « sur les 4 heures du matin, il fit trois coups de tonnerre les plus horibles que j’aye jamais entendus. Dans cet espace de la Côte de Brêtagne qui s’étend depuis Conquerneau jusqu’à St. Paul de Leon, on a observé que le tonnerre étoit tombé sur 24 eglises differentes et à la même heure ». Cinq jours plus tard, Deslandes entreprend son enquête à Gouesnou, village voisin de Brest, dont l’église a été transpercée par la réunion de « 3 globes de feu, chacun 3 piés et demi de diamètre » qui ont occasionné la mort de trois sonneurs de cloches. « Le tonnerre n’est tombé que sur les Eglises où l’on sonnoit des cloches, à dessein de l’écarter, et il a épargné toutes les autres. »

      ellauri316.html on line 286: Neuvosto-Venäjä ja Weimarin Saksa löytävät toisensa takapuolet Rapallossa. Rapallon rauhan salaisessa lisäpöytäkirjas sa 29. 4. 1922 sovittiin lisäksi Weimarin Saksan ja Neuvosto-Venäjän kesken siitä, että Saksa voi harjoittaa siltä Versailles’n rauhansopimuksen kieltämää sotilaallista toimintaa Venäjällä. Näin Venäjästä tuli jälleen Brest-Litovskin rauhansopimuksen jälkeen Saksan liittolainen, mitä kesti kansallissosialistien valtaannousuun saakka ja Tšekkoslovakian jakamisen sekä Espanjan sisällissodan jälkeen uudelleen 23. 8. 1939 Saksan hyökkäystä Puolaan tukeneella Molotov-Ribbentrop-sopimuksella.

      ellauri316.html on line 822: In 2019, the town of Lemont, Illinois installed a statue honoring Adolfas Ramanauskas-Vanagas, who led the Lithuanian Activist Front (LAF) on an anti-Soviet campaign with Hitler’s army. The LAF murdered thousands of Lithuanian Jews in June 1941 during the early period of the Nazi invasion. The Forest Brothers, a partisan militia of Latvians, Estonians, and Lithuanians who also collaborated with the Nazis. In 2017, NATO produced a video honoring the Forest Brothers but quickly deleted it after public outcry. 

      ellauri316.html on line 824:     “The Germans know, as many Americans do not, that the war was won at Stalingrad and that 27 million Soviet citizens died in the fight against the Wehrmacht,” Neiman told ARTnews. “Among decent Germans who want to acknowledge their country’s crimes, there is a strong sense of guilt for the war against the Russians.”

      ellauri316.html on line 830: Stalin’s inability to initially contain the advancing Nazi war machine convinced Vlasov that the Soviet system was rotten to the core. Taken by his captors to Germany, he began to conceive of a Russian army that would fight for the Third Reich in the name of a post-Bolshevik Russia.

      ellauri316.html on line 833: But after the shattering victory at Stalingrad, the Red Army began to believe that victory was possible. Germany, which had boasted the world’s most formidable military at the start of the war, suddenly seemed vulnerable. Even if its weaponry was less sophisticated and its troops poorly prepared, the sheer size of Russia’s forces could overwhelm the enemy — a reality that holds 80 years later, as the war in Ukraine grinds on and on and the wallets and the patience of Kyiv’s partners in the West begins to wear thin.

      ellauri316.html on line 835: Vlasov’s life in Germany was far from lavish. “My underpants are completely worn out,” he complained at one point, according to one historian. Apparently, the Germans had only given him one pair.

      ellauri316.html on line 839: Its life would be short. Vlasov’s division fought only once for the Nazis, in February 1945, in a futile attempt to stop the Soviet push across the Oder River and into the heart of the Third Reich.

      ellauri316.html on line 843: Russian military leaders remain fond of such vivid reminders of what traitors face. Last year, a deserter of the Wagner Group militia was executed with a sledgehammer, which the outfit’s leader Evgeny Prigozhin has taken to wielding as a symbol.

      ellauri317.html on line 213: Puolan kuningaskunta (puol. Królestwo Polskie, ven. ца́рство По́льское, Tsarstvo Polskoje), epävirallisesti Kongressi-Puola (puol. Królestwo Kongresowe, ven. Конгрессовая Польша, Kongressovaya Pol’sha), oli Wienin kongressissa vuonna 1815 Napoleonin sotien päätteeksi perustettu Venäjän keisarin alainen epäitsenäinen valtiomuodostelma vuosina 1814–1915. Tämä kuningaskunta on Puolan kaikkiaan viidestä historiallisesta kuningaskunnasta järjestyksessä toinen. Näistä kuningaskunnista tämä on toinen epäitsenäinen. Puolan kuningaskunnalla oli vuoden 1831 kapinaan saakka Suomen suuriruhtinaskuntaa vahvempi autonomia, koska maalla oli säännöllisesti kokoontuvat valtiopäivät sekä oma armeija.

      ellauri317.html on line 316:   Tout le mond savait que l´intérêt délibéré pour la femme de Pouchkine n´était qu´un écran derrière lequel le Français cachait des détails secrets de sa vie personnelle. Le terrain fertile pour de telles rumeurs était la relation entre d´Anthès et l’émissaire du roi hollandais, le baron Louis Heeckeren, qui avait adopté le jeune homme après son arrivée dans l´Empire russe. Quoi qu’il en soit, d´Anthès avait trop fortement harcelé Natalia et dépassé toutes les limites.

      ellauri321.html on line 242:     A war can last be over for generations before the whole truth gets out. For example, many Americans don’t know the U.S. Army NEVER defeated the Seminoles.

      ellauri321.html on line 256: Pete: If Putin told me it was snowing outside the igloo I’d still check … lying poisonous insufferable dwarf!

      ellauri321.html on line 268: Clark Kent: How’s the weather in Mockba, comrade?

      ellauri321.html on line 270: I believe that if Putin is allowed to take Ukraine it will embolden him to continue the war and take other countries that have something that he wants. I think the free world must continue to support Ukraine and other countries in precarious situations like South Korea and Taiwan. If the free world doesn’t support them, it will just be a matter of time before they are attacked. If you don’t believe in freedom, move to North Korea, Russia, China or any of the other countries with dictators, kings or a supreme being. Our children´s and grandchildren’s options and futures are at stake.

      ellauri321.html on line 295: 3. Marianne Moore, ‘Marriage’.

      ellauri321.html on line 296: 4. William Carlos Williams, ‘The Red Wheelbarrow’.

      ellauri321.html on line 297: 5. Wallace Stevens, ‘Sunday Morning’.

      ellauri321.html on line 298: 6. Robert Frost, ‘Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening’.

      ellauri321.html on line 299: 7. T. S. Eliot, ‘The Hollow Men’.

      ellauri321.html on line 301: 9. Langston Hughes, ‘I, Too’.

      ellauri321.html on line 302: 10. W. B. Yeats, ‘Sailing to Byzantium’.

      ellauri321.html on line 316: Tracy Corrigan was previously chief strategy officer of Dow Jones and has held a range of senior editorial positions including editor in chief of the Wall Street Journal Europe, editor of the Financial Times’ Lex column and editor of FT.com. Tracy is currently a non-executive director of Barclays Bank UK PLC, Direct Line Insurance Group PLC, and Domino’s Pizza Group PLC.

      ellauri321.html on line 326: Russell "Beam me up" Scott joined the Scott Trust in 2015, and is the Scott Trust’s only senior independent director AKA owner. He runs a consultancy business specialising in strategy and execution for digital audience growth and monetisation. He is also co-founder of Grazer Learning, a start-up digital education platform and provides commercial support to a number of other tech start-ups. Previously he held multiple senior roles in consumer publishing, digital and broadcast sectors including Content Director of The Football League, Commercial Director of Northcliffe media and MD of fish4, a digital classified JV between 5 major UK regional senior pressure groups.

      ellauri321.html on line 497: Vuonna 1958 Mosfilm tuotti venäläisen kauppiaan Nikitinin (k. 1472) Intian matkasta kertovan elokuvan Hoždenije za tri morja, jonka pääosaa esitti Oleg Striženov. Akvarium - Афанасий Никитин Буги [Хождение За Три Моря 2] lauloi siitä näin: My girl is from Togliatti, I’m from Kostroma myself.

      ellauri321.html on line 498: We, Russians, don’t need foreigners in these foreign lands. Kostroma ja Togliatti ovat lähellä Tutajevia, jonka nimi oli ennen Romanov-Borisoglebsk.

      ellauri322.html on line 43: Paine was born in Thetford, Norfolk and emigrated to the British American colonies in 1774 with the help of Benjamin Franklin, arriving just in time to participate in the American Revolution. Paine fled to France in September, and despite not being able to speak French, il est élu député à l’Assemblée nationale en 1792. Considéré par les Montagnards comme un allié des Girondins, il est progressivement mis à l’écart, notamment par Robespierre, puis emprisonné en décembre 1793. 

      ellauri322.html on line 49:     Donc Thomas Paine resta en France jusqu’en 1802, période pendant laquelle il critique l’ascension de Napoléon Bonaparte, qualifiant le Premier Consul de « charlatan le plus parfait qui eût jamais existé ». Puhu vaan izestäsi niskatuskamies. Sur l’invitation du président Thomas Jefferson, il revient aux États-Unis et il y meurt en 1809, à 72 ans.

      ellauri322.html on line 65: En récompense de ses services, l’État de New York donna à Thomas Paine un domaine à New Rochelle, New York. Il fut également rétribué par la Pennsylvanie et le Congrès américain.

      ellauri322.html on line 67:     En 1804, il collabore à un journal déiste publié à New York. Progressivement isolé, accusé d’athéisme et de radicalisme, Thomas Paine meurt seul dans la pauvreté, à l’âge de 72 ans, le 8 juin 1809 à Greenwich Village (New York).

      ellauri322.html on line 193:   William Godwin, Shelley’s father lived long enough to grow conservative and gradually let his radical views fall by the way-side, Mary Wollstonecraft did not have that chance, as she died, still a relatively young woman (38), from complications after giving birth to Mary Godwin (later Shelley).

      ellauri322.html on line 367: Here I met with an intelligent literary man, who was anxious to gather information from me relative to the past and present situation of France.  The newspapers printed at Copenhagen, as well as those in England, give the most exaggerated accounts of their atrocities and distresses, but the former without any apparent comments or inferences.  Still the Norwegians, though more connected with the English, speaking their language and copying their manners, wish well to the Republican cause, and follow with the most lively interest the successes of the French arms.  So determined were they, in fact, to excuse everything, disgracing the struggle of freedom, by admitting the tyrant’s plea, necessity, that I could hardly persuade them that Robespierre was a monster. Laureenska myöntää että kaikki ukrainalaiset eivät pidä Zelenskystä.

      ellauri322.html on line 387: It is certainly a convenient and safe way of mortgaging land; yet the "most rational men" whom I conversed with on the subject seemed convinced that the right was more injurious than beneficial to society; still if it contribute to keep the farms in the farmers’ own hands, I should be sorry to hear that it were abolished.

      ellauri322.html on line 399: The country during the first day’s journey presented a most barren appearance, as rocky, yet not so picturesque as Norway, because on a diminutive scale.  We stopped to sleep at a tolerable inn in Falckersberg, a decent little town with a prettyish little wilderness in the back, though all the windows were to the west.

      ellauri322.html on line 440: A story is told here of the King’s formerly making a dog counsellor of state, because when the dog, accustomed to eat at the royal table, snatched a piece of meat off an old officer’s plate, the geezer reproved him jocosely, saying that he, monsieur le chien, had not the privilege of dining with his majesty, a privilege annexed to this distinction.

      ellauri323.html on line 119: Zuleika was not strictly beautiful. Her eyes were a trifle large, and their lashes longer than they need have been. An anarchy of small curls was her chevelure, a dark upland of misrule, every hair asserting its rights over a not discreditable brow. For the rest, her features were not at all original. They seemed to have been derived rather from a gallimaufry of familiar models. From Madame la Marquise de Saint-Ouen came the shapely tilt of the nose. The mouth was a mere replica of Cupid’s bow, lacquered scarlet and strung with the littlest pearls. No apple-tree, no wall of peaches, had not been robbed, nor any Tyrian rose-garden, for the glory of Miss Dobson’s cheeks. Her neck was imitation-marble. Her hands and feet were of very mean proportions. She had no waist to speak of.

      ellauri323.html on line 124: At the close of the Season, Paris claimed her for a month’s engagement. Paris saw her and was prostrate. Boldini did a portrait of her. Jules Bloch wrote a song about her; and this, for a whole month, was howled up and down the cobbled alleys of Montmartre. And all the little dandies were mad for “la Zuleika.” Dändeistä on paasattu mm albumeissa 49, 53, 56, 61, 98, 107, 139,

      ellauri323.html on line 127:     In Berlin, every night, the students escorted her home with torches. Prince Vierfuenfsechs-Siebenachtneun offered her his hand, and was condemned by the Kaiser to six months’ confinement in his little castle. In Yildiz Kiosk, the tyrant who still throve there conferred on her the Order of Chastity, and offered her the central couch in his seraglio.  In Petersburg, the Grand Duke Salamander Salamandrovitch fell enamoured of her. The Grand Duchess appealed to the Tzar. Zuleika was conducted across the frontier, by an escort of love-sick Cossacks. On the Sunday before she left Madrid, a great bull-fight was held in her honour. Fifteen bulls received the coup-de-grace, and Alvarez, the matador of matadors, died in the arena with her name on his lips. He had tried to kill the last bull without taking his eyes off la divina senorita. From the Vatican, the Pope launched against her a bull which fell utterly flat.

      ellauri323.html on line 129: Zuleika was the smiling target of all snap-shooters, and all the snap-shots were snapped up by the press and reproduced with annotations: Zuleika Dobson walking on Broadway in the sables gifted her by Grand Duke Salamander—she says “You can bounce blizzards in them”; Zuleika Dobson yawning over a love-letter from millionaire Edelweiss; relishing a cup of clam-broth—she says “They don’t use clams out there”; ordering her maid to fix her a warm bath; finding a split in the gloves she has just drawn on before starting for the musicale given in her honour by Mrs. Suetonius X. Meistersinger, the most exclusive woman in New York; chatting at the telephone to Miss Camille Van Spook, the best-born girl in New York; laughing over the recollection of a compliment made her by George Abimelech Post, the best-groomed man in New York; meditating a new trick; admonishing a waiter who has upset a cocktail over her skirt; having herself manicured; drinking tea in bed. Thus was Zuleika enabled daily to be, as one might say, a spectator of her own wonderful life. On her departure from New York, the papers spoke no more than the truth when they said she had had “a lovely time.”

      ellauri323.html on line 133: Yet Zuleika WAS very innocent, really. She was as pure as that young shepherdess Marcella, who, all unguarded, roved the mountains and was by all the shepherds adored. Like Marcella, she had given her heart to no man, had preferred none. Youths were reputed to have died for love of her, as Chrysostom died for love of the shepherdess; and she, like the shepherdess, had shed no tear. When Chrysostom was lying on his bier in the valley, and Marcella looked down from the high rock, Ambrosio, the dead man’s comrade, cried out on her, upbraiding her with bitter words—“Oh basilisk of our mountains!” Nor do I think Ambrosio spoke too strongly. Er. epm. homopetteri Horace Walpole (josta on paasattu albumeissa 14,  52, 75, 115, 235 ja 247) nimitteli Woolworthin Marya “a hyena in petticoats” or “a philosophising serpent” .

      ellauri323.html on line 137:     He knew well, however, that women care little for a man’s appearance, and that what they seek in a man is strength of character, and rank, and wealth. Are you fond of horses? In my stables of pine-wood and plated-silver seventy are installed. Not all of them together could vie in power with one of the meanest of my motor-cars.”

      ellauri323.html on line 141: Zuleika looked down at her skirt. “I don’t know,” she said. “I got it in Paris.”

      ellauri323.html on line 144: Look well at me! I am Hereditary Comber of the Queen’s Lap-Dogs. I am young. I am handsome. My temper is sweet, and my character without blemish. In fine, Miss Dobson, I am a most desirable parti.”

      ellauri323.html on line 145: “But,” said Zuleika, “I don’t love you.”

      ellauri323.html on line 147: “No, I haven’t,” said Zuleika.

      ellauri323.html on line 176: Filistealaisten Jom Kippurin 50-vuotisjuhla-atakki oli "brazen", koska siinä kuoli 200 moosexenuskoista. Kostopommituxissa on kuollut tähän mennessä 232 santanekrua. Biden on antanut univocal supporttia Israelille. "Israel has the right to defend itself and its people, full stop.” "Israel ‘will act in any way necessary’ to protect citizens," ambassador tells UN Security Council. Like turn off power from Gaza. Nighty night carpet pilots! Diaper heads! Camel cowboys! Dune niggers! (Lähde)

      ellauri323.html on line 180: Member of the Hadash Party and the Israeli Knesset Ofer Cassif says while the killing of civilians on both sides was condemnable, it was Israel’s occupation of Palestinian territories, and the actions of the Netanyahu-led government, that was responsible for the deaths of Israelis and Palestinians. Cassif also criticised the US government, saying that if it had pressed Israel to move towards a peaceful political solution and to end the occupation, events such as today’s would not have happened. Eurowesterners are making very similar statements and language that you have heard from US President Joe Biden. They are firmly blaming Hamas for this attack. Biden pledges ‘all appropriate means of support’ to Israel. The US provides $3.8bn in unconditional  military aid to Zion annually. Hadash is a left-wing party that supports a socialistic economy and workers' rights. It emphasizes Jewish-Arab cooperation, and its leaders were among the first to support a two-state solution. Its voters are principally middle class and secular Arabs, many from the north and Christian communities. 

      ellauri324.html on line 157: Dieu a-t-il créé le mal, qu'en pensez-vous ?Se peut-il que la terre soit en fait l'enfer? Irez-vous dans le monde entier proclamer la Bonne Nouvelle de Dieu, à toute la Création, qu’un Sauveur vous a été donné pour vous sauver de la mort éternelle? Est-ce que c'est bien de sortir avec une femme de 35 ans si j'ai 19 ans? Pourquoi le judaisme, pourtant apparu en premier, n'est pas arrivé à s'étendre dans le monde comme le christianisme ou l'islam ?

      ellauri324.html on line 226:   Here’s the tally: With an international Jewish population that amounts to only one quarter of one percent of humanity, a little more than 20 percent of all Nobel recipients between 1901, the first year prizes were awarded, and today, have been Jews or had at least one Jewish parent, including 37 percent of American recipients. The greatest concentration has been in economics (the economics prize was established in 1968; 38% of the winners have been Jewish or half-Jewish) and physiology/medicine (29 percent). Of peace prize winners, nine have been Jews — including, appallingly enough, Henry Kissinger (1973). “Nobel Peace, my ass! If Henry Kiss-of-Death deserves it, so do I!” —Bill Horowitz

      ellauri324.html on line 228:   Hamas and Islamic Jihad are competing for bragging rights over last Friday’s attack in Hebron that killed 12 Israelis. Islamic Jihad issued a leaflet this week saying its members had no assistance from any other group and expressing surprise that Hamas decided, three days after the incident, to issue its own statement, Israel Radio reported in 1929.

      ellauri324.html on line 235: 
    6.  They’re trying too hard to be liked

      ellauri324.html on line 236: 
    7.  They don’t realize they’re bragging

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    8.  They’re awkward or socially anxious

      ellauri324.html on line 248: 
      1.  Don’t jump to conclusions.

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      2.  Don’t compete with them

        ellauri324.html on line 269: The electricity is distributed via overhead lines, due to an underinvestment in infrastructure: last month, I lost power for over 36 hours because it got a little windy (the world headquarters of Apple, Facebook, and Google are within a ten mile radius of my place). When I ride my bike to the local supermarket this evening, I will have to be careful not to slip on a large and growing patch of gravel on a road that hasn’t been repaired for many years: this, in one of the wealthiest parts of the wealthiest country in the world.

        ellauri324.html on line 275:   The infrastructure is just one symptom of America’s degradation: the streets of major cities like San Francisco and Los Angeles are filling up with homeless drug addicts, leaving the sidewalks littered with tents, needles, and human waste. Next to nothing is done for these people because it is seen as “their problem” that they are mentally ill, and lack access to mental health services and affordable housing. The irony is that there are so many of these people now that they have become everyone’s problem. Retailers in downtown SF are closing down their stores because the conditions in the streets are keeping paying customers away, whilst the cops barely regard shoplifting as a crime.

        ellauri324.html on line 279: The US is run by an oligarchy of libertarian fantasists, who have spent so long sucking hallucinogenic bile from the withered teats of Ayn Rand that they have lost all contact with reality. The government is not entirely to blame for the current situation; a lot of the social problems are the result of the narcissistic counter culture that started in the 1960s, but now that these problems are getting worse, the question is, can the government continue to pretend that they don’t exist, or that there is somehow a “free market” solution to mass shootings, drug addiction, and homelessness?

        ellauri324.html on line 281:   Living in my little enclave, with its fragile electricity supply, and crumbling roads, it’s easy for my neighbors and I to think that things aren’t so bad, but in under an hour, I can travel to SF and see scenes exactly like the one in the last photo. Whilst people are constantly harping on about whether the Democrats or the Republicans are better or worse than each other, they are ignoring the fact that both parties have done nothing to seriously address the severe decay that is undeniably afflicting America’s social and physical fabric.

        ellauri324.html on line 289: If the author of the question long one is wealthy and well traveled he would know that Europe and Asia had many technological advances long before USA did or will ever have such as TGV or bullet trains for example. After spending time in Europe and Asia it was decades later I saw many of these advances here to buy or experience. Japanese cars nearly sunk USA automakers. Why didn’t the corp heads heed anything. TGV in France and Japan and other nations is unrivaled and we have not even one such train here. Tankless water heaters, available in Asia and Europe decades before here. Roads and other infrastructure also superior. My research shows that Americans were so busy creating totalitarian policies like redlining and private cars and pools and expressways removed entire neighborhoods of blacks to create all white suburbs that they were unconcerned with advances that would unite people. Sure everywhere are class societies but it’s a whole different level here. The homeless situation is opening eyes in this country and many things are borne out of a highly segregated society where it’s expensive to live in certain cities and suburbs and the rest be damned. Obviously California has destroyed itself from within. The liberals there and other states are the most class and race conscious than any other people on earth. This blind spot is like a beacon. A prism that breaks down social order. The wealthy libs have to accept their roles in American destruction. It will get worse long before it improves. [Redlining is an illegal practice in which lenders avoid providing credit services to individuals living in or seeking to live in, communities of color because of the race, color, or national origin of the residents in those communities.]

        ellauri325.html on line 738:   Kaukozen tutkimustiemoinnu oldih Kalevalan kul’tuuruhistourii da Elias Lönnrot. Vuvvennu 1939 mies puolisti väitösruavon, sen tiemannu oli Vahnu Kalevala. Vuozinnu 1956-1962 Kaukonen ruadoi Helsinkin yliopiston oman muan literatuuran docentannu, vuozinnu 1962-1974 oli abulaisprofessorannu. Häi oli johtoruavos Nevvostoliittoinstituutas da Suomi-Nevvostoliitto-Seuras, vuozinnu 1967-1974 oli suomelas-vengrielazen kul’tuurukomitietan paginanvedäjänny.

        ellauri325.html on line 741: Vuozinnu 1942-1943 Kaukonen kävyi Karjalah, kus kirjutti rahvahaspäi äijän karjalastu runuo da keräi muudugi fol’klourumaterjualua. Karjalazis kylis Kaukonen luadi äijän fotokuvua, niilöis voibi nähtä rahvahan pruazniekkoigi. Kaukonen yhtyi Nevvostoliiton da Suomen yhtehizen Sampo-fil’man käzikirjutuksen valmistamizeh. Fil’mua kuvattih vuvvennu 1959. Vuvvennu 1974 Väinö Kaukonen rodih Petroskoin valdivonyliopiston kunnivoitetukse tiedodouhturikse.

        ellauri326.html on line 440: Israel refused to send lethal weapons to Ukraine. In June 2023, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that "We’re concerned also with the possibility that systems that we would give to Ukraine would fall into Iranian hands and could be reverse engineered, and we would find ourselves facing Israeli systems used against Israel. Besides, we need them here to chase out the diaper heads." Penny fuckers!

        ellauri327.html on line 395: Mutta Rasputinia ei tällälset ryppypeput kiinnosta. For Litvinenko directly accused Russian President Vladimir Putin of pedophilia. Suspiciously affectionate relationships with other people’s children, and exclusively male, arise in the Russian president almost everywhere he is: an acquaintance and lustful smiles are necessarily followed by hugs, and often kisses. He kissed this preschooler Nikita on the bellybutton.

        ellauri327.html on line 398: 
        KIEV, UKRAINE: Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma (R) and Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin talk with Andrey Sinko, a schoolboy from Kiev during their meeting in Kiev, 27 October 2004. Vladimir Putin is on a three-days official visit to Ukraine. (ALEXEY PANOV). At the same time, the eyes and expression on Vladimir Putin’s face looked more than strange when looking at the boy. Even some Russian psychiatrists paid attention to this.
        

        ellauri327.html on line 402: No. They are not our problem. But they have been the solution to the world’s problem.

        ellauri327.html on line 407:   Самое страшное, что часть мира привыкла к войне в Украине, для них это становится похожим на шоу, - Зеленский. “You see this in the United States, in Europe. And we see that as soon as they start to get a little tired, for them it becomes like a show: I can’t watch this repeat for the 10th time,” the head of state explained. 17:48 10/30/2023 6 570 53

        ellauri327.html on line 411: Time journalists said that after Zelensky’s visit to the United States, they returned with him to Kyiv to try to understand how he would respond to signals received from the Americans, including persistent calls to fight corruption and antisemitism.

        ellauri327.html on line 413: On the first day, journalist Simon Schuster asked a person from Zelensky’s entourage how the president was feeling. “Evil,” they answered him.

        ellauri327.html on line 414: One of the members of the president’s team said that Zelensky has no optimism left, he comes in, gets the latest news, gives orders and leaves.

        ellauri328.html on line 235: Ich hab’ nicht viel hienieden,		Ei mulla ole juuri kadehdittavaa,

        ellauri328.html on line 236: Ich hab’ nicht Geld noch Gut;		Ei paljon massia eikä maata,

        ellauri328.html on line 245: Ich hab’ ein Roß mit Flügeln,		Minulla on tää siipimutteri,

        ellauri328.html on line 251: Wird’s oft in Stadt und Schloß,		Tulee olo stadissa ja linnassa,

        ellauri328.html on line 253: Besteig’ mit mir mein Roß!		Imaise mun razuni, siipimutteri!

        ellauri328.html on line 256: Ich zeig’ Dir Meer und Land,		Näytän närhenmunat sulle,

        ellauri328.html on line 261: Unzähl’ger Ströme Lauf –		Valuu tahmaisia vanoja

        ellauri328.html on line 271: Zieh’ ich all’ himmelwärts,		ja sitten jälleen ulospäin

        ellauri328.html on line 285: Und seh’n wir dann den Abend		Iltaan asti jaxaa painaa just

        ellauri328.html on line 288: Die heil’gen Sterne glühn:		Nuuskia piristeitä pillillä.

        ellauri328.html on line 292: Und ruh’n vom Schwung der Lieder	Alkaa sama laulu pian kuulua

        ellauri328.html on line 293: Auf blüh’ndem Moose aus.		Mikki Hiiri sammalmättäällä.

        ellauri328.html on line 305: Und schlaf’ denn bis zum Morgen		Ja nuku sitten aamuun asti

        ellauri328.html on line 310: Ich halt’ die blüh’nden Glieder,	Toistemme kuumaa jäsentä

        ellauri328.html on line 312: Ich laß’ Dich ja nicht wieder		En päästä enää irti sinusta

        ellauri330.html on line 206:     Länsitrolli John McLaughlin lisää että These maps predate the Russian invasion. Since the invasion, you’ll find more and more people who claim Ukrainian as their native language. Nationally, the education ministry is enforcing more consistently rules that require school instruction (of all topics, including Russian) to be conducted only in Ukrainian. Toinen trolli läväyttää vaihtoehtoisen kielikartan: 
         

        ellauri330.html on line 209: Mixi sitten Zelenskin äidinkieli ei ole ukraina?  Zelenskiy is not a Ukrainian, but a Jew. Jews traditionally speak Russian and spread Russian imperial culture. Read what Vladimir (a.k.a. Ze’ev) Zhabotinsky (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ze%27ev_Jabotinsky) had to say about Jews in Ukraine: 

        ellauri330.html on line 300: – Lakiahan minä, niin kuin armollinen neiti sanoi, vastasi Grigorij luoden vilkkaat silmänsä Varjenkaan. – Sain sattumalta käsiini lakikokoelman kymmenennen nidoksen… minä katselin sitä… näin siinä olevan mieltä kiinnittävää ja hyödyllistä lukemista… nyt minulla on ensimmäinen nidos menossa. Ensimmäisessä kappaleessa sanotaan ’ketään ei voi syyttää siitä, ettei tunne lakeja.’ Minä arvelen, ettei kukaan niitä kaikkia osaa, eikä kaikkia tarvitse osata… Koulunopettaja on luvannut lainat minulle teoksen talonpojista…Se tulee olemaan mieltä kiinnittävää lukea.

        ellauri331.html on line 36:   “Wladimir is a bisexual. Wladimir swings both ways,” Fury said of Klitschko, who is engaged and has a daughter with actress Hayden Panettiere, according to The Sun. “For those that don’t know that, I can confirm it now.” Fury, a devout Christian, has become infamous for habitual verbal attacks on women, Jews and gays.

        ellauri333.html on line 49:   Väärin väärin itäintiaanit! Kalat eivät pane vaan ne kutevat. The kala pani (lit. black water) taboo represents the proscription of traveling overseas in Hinduism. According to this prohibition, crossing the seas to foreign lands causes the loss of one's social respectability, as well as the putrefaction of one’s cultural character and posterity. Merelle ei parane mennä siellä kalat panevat ja skorbioonit pistää sammakoita lääkepiikillä. I am levitating now, mukeltavat mutakuono itäintiaanit tämännimisessä pimeässä Clickflix kauhusarjassa, saastunutta vettä juovat, nikottelevat ja verta sylkevät.

        ellauri333.html on line 212: 
        Angry Hanuman: This viral image that won Modi’s praise symbolises today’s aggressive, macho India. This may well be the transformation of a genial, well-loved icon into a militant killer. Virzakapi eli Hannumies on hyvin, hyvin vihainen. 

        ellauri333.html on line 245: Created in 2015, the Angry Hanuman is everywhere now – on buses, windscreens, public walls and T-shirts. Acharya clarifies that this angry makeover is aimed at making the humble, ever servile image of a Bhakt appear powerful, not oppressive. But man is still the measure of most things in India and power remains central to a man’s definition. As general belief goes, celibacy in a male will further increase this precious power manifold. So Hanuman, the celibate Bhakt, becomes an ape symbol for the new and aggressive variety of macho in India that is already denying privacy and freedom of speech to women vehemently through fringe groups such as the Bajrang Dal and Ram Sene.

        ellauri333.html on line 250: But despite his gifts of flying and great physical stamina, Hanuman seems to harbour many childhood anxieties and a deep sense of insecurity as a son alienated from his father. He remains celibate and content to follow his band of simian brothers into the forests. It is his mentors Angad, Jamvant and ultimately Ram who restore his self-esteem and awaken him to his real powers. Tulsidas’ Ramcharit Manas portrays Hanuman as a gentle giant who rose to be a reliable, selfless and humble devotee and ally to his lord. He risks life and limb to cross the seas to Sri Lanka to bring Ram news of his wife being held captive there. As the battle rages in Lanka, he helps fetch a magic herb from the Himalayas to save the life of Lakshmana, and curls up with embarrassment when praised. Aggression is thus excised from the image by Tulsidas to focus on a Bhakt’s principled defence of the just cause and during that course, demolishing a predatory beast.

        ellauri333.html on line 252: Tulsidas’ liberal view of a true Bhakt, however, expresses the feudal male view that the state and its laws, as they exist, are rational. So Ram, according to the laws, kills the Dalit Shambook for gobbling tapas (penance) and Bali for daring to take away his (presumed dead) brother’s wife, and exiles Sita, and the Bhakt accepts it. Valmiki’s Sita sees that masculine mores of male kings relate to a specific moral code that forgives Caesar but not his wife. That male power exists and sex equality does not.

        ellauri333.html on line 261:     Similar to the Angry Hanuman transformation, in the 1990s, the familiar Ram holding his bow and standing casually next to his happy family became a lone militant warrior, all flying hair and drawn arrow. The Rath Yatra followed, replicating this motif, and as it reached its crescendo, the Babri Masjid in Ayodhya was demolished by a self-proclaimed Vaanar Sena (monkey army) wielding trishuls. In the Angry Hanuman, we may well be seeing a genial, well-loved icon being transformed into a militant killer, a hominid that might have shared a cave with his now enemy for long. Samuel Taylor Coleridge once wrote in a notebook, “The Prince of Darkness is a Gentleman.” The first fratricidal weapon, as the Bible scholar Bruce Chatwin reminds us, was seen around 10,000 BC, when Citizen Kane the farmer brother crushed a hoe through his brother hunter-gatherer Li'l Abner’s skull.

        ellauri333.html on line 326:     The idea of a surname as it is understood today, is a colonial addition in most cultures around the globe such that it has always been a part of Western naming systems. Therefore, even in India, the need for a ‘surname’ as such, is believed to have emerged with the influence of the British Raj and other colonial powers.

        ellauri333.html on line 328:     Also, one’s name is indicative of one’s religion, caste, place of birth and a myriad of other such identity factors. The extensive work of Raja Jayaraman (2005) on the same topic, traces the origin of Hindu caste-based surnames of the Indian subcontinent in the then-prevalent social institutions and rules of social interactions. According to him, as mentioned in the Samskara Vidhi or the Rules of Life-cycle Rituals in Hinduism, names like ‘Sharma’ are usually reserved for Brahmins, ‘Varma’ for Kshatriyas, ‘Gupta’ for Vaishyas and ‘Das’ for Shudras. Dalit are the worst, they are the pariahs, like Ritu Gagra.

        ellauri333.html on line 332:     In most instances, before her marriage, a woman takes her father’s surname and post marriage, she is expected to take her husband’s surname. Over time, for the purpose of unification, even the matrilineal system in many cultures came to be diminished, thus completely eliminating any traces of identity passing through the female line.

        ellauri333.html on line 340:     To assume that surnames depicting caste and varna-based division of labour is a simple functionality of Indian society is a gross misjudgement. There are some very easily identifiable implications that arise when people are asked to present their full name. For example, since caste and religion can be determined through one’s surname, there have been instances where individuals with Dalit persons were discriminated against, even in scientific research institutes and similar establishments that claim to be ‘liberal’ and ‘free-thinking’.

        ellauri333.html on line 342: A similar experience is seen in the case of individuals belonging to religion-marginalised locations. Many Muslims, Christians, some of whom also are from marginalised caste locations, have reported being barred from seeking accommodation at ‘Hindu-only’ apartment complexes. 

        ellauri333.html on line 343: For many Muslims in India, their surnames mark the influence of an Indo-Arabic ethnicity as well as some traces of caste in various parts of South Asia. For example, various surnames like Khan, Pathan, Afridi, Shaikh among several others are believed to have origins in Afghan communities in the north-western region of the Indian subcontinent. Christians and Jewish people in India also have a unique surname style depending on the various factions and denominations. For example, several Christians in Kerala who have the surname as ‘Oomen’, ‘Kurian’, ‘Varghese’, ‘Koshy’, etc. are identified as belonging to the Saint Thomas faction of south- Asian Christians.

        ellauri333.html on line 346: Since in most cultures in India, surnames are derived from the male line, often women are by default expected to take up and even forgo their surnames in the event of their marriage. This kind of rigid kinship pattern clearly highlights the inequality of women’s social status, leading to the complete diminishing of their identity.

        ellauri334.html on line 263: What I think many Christians fail to understand is how irrelevant to Judaism the Christian books and beliefs are. We dn’t have a view about Judas, he is never discussed, there are no discussions about him in Jewish sources. He is completely irrelevant as are the rest of the figures from Christian books. So, you may find some Jews who have formed their personal opinion about him, but there is no comments or view on him from Jewish sources since he is irrelevant and not a subject of discussion for us.

        ellauri334.html on line 275: Judas seems to have a different root after I did a quick search, but I’m not sure tbh.

        ellauri334.html on line 282: 
        Where, today, is Judas Iscariot and why do you think that’s where he is?
        

        ellauri334.html on line 285: He is in heaven. In the “correct” heaven - the Kingdom of God. Why? Read the 650 pages he authored through a divine love medium about 17 years ago and see for yourself what sort of advanced spirit he is today. Knowledgeable, loving, and able to tell a great deal about Jesus’ life 2000 years ago. And yes he spent some time in the hells. But God always forgives us, save only for the “unforgivable sin” which since it is an act of omission by the human, God can do nothing about. It is not in his power. He is omnipotent mut not that potent. It's like with that stone.

        ellauri334.html on line 290: You’d think 2,000 years of rejection of Christian theology should have been a hint. Related: 

        ellauri334.html on line 294: That’s like asking are Chickens ducks. Well they belong to the same family but one is a duck and one is a chicken. In terms of people, you can be a Christian and you can be a Jew but they are both human. But was Judas Jesus’ best friend who carried the lot for Jesus to be who he became to be? 

        ellauri334.html on line 297: Judas doesn’t get the credit he deserves. Without Judas there’s no betrayal. Without the betrayal there’s no Passion. Without the Passion there’s no crucifixion. Without the crucifixion there’s no resurrection. And without the resurrection there’s no hope. I’m grateful for Judas.

        ellauri334.html on line 298: And in the gospel of Judas, non canonical of course, are two words you won’t find in the canonical or apocryphal Bibles “Jesus laughed.” I may be alone, but I like to picture Jesus laughing on the cross. And his fellow felon whistling a merry tune. All three hanging singing in unison. I’m sure He needs to from time to time.

        ellauri334.html on line 305: Like all of Jesus’ original disciples, Judas Iscariot was a Hebrew man, a Jew.

        ellauri334.html on line 333: I cannot say I know a whole lot about Judas Iscariot besides the general story about him betraying Jesus to the Roman authorities, but one thing I MUST say - Judaism has NOTHING to do with Judas Iscariot. I had more than one person ask me “Why do you guys follow Judas?? Surely he was a bad person!”. This would be funny but when I think about how many Jews were actually killed or oppressed because of things like this - it’s not funny at all.

        ellauri334.html on line 338: Anyway….I have never been able to figure how it’s anyone’s responsibility for what happened to Jesus, other than G-d himself….This was his plan…..and he put it into action…How come he is never blamed….I blame him…

        ellauri335.html on line 499: Amnesty International’s Crisis Evidence Lab analyzed satellite imagery and open-source audio-visual material to geolocate and verify the attacks.

        ellauri336.html on line 305:     The parts of the body that are considered ervah (private because they are potentially sexually-attractive) are alluded to in Shir HaShirim (Song of Songs). This includes the hair as perverse 4:1, “You are beautiful, my love, you are beautiful. Your eyes are like doves, your hair inside your kerchief is like a flock of goats that stream down from Mount Gilead” (Brachos 24a). Of course, the details of different types of ervah differ. For example, a woman’s singing voice is considered private in halacha but not her speaking voice. Similarly, uncovered hair is considered private for a married woman but not for a single woman. (It’s also not retroactive; married women don’t have to hide photos of themselves from before they were married.)

        ellauri336.html on line 307: We see the concept of married women’s hair covering taken as a given throughout Talmudic literature:

        ellauri336.html on line 308: Ohn ben Peles was saved from being part of Korach’s rebellion by his wife. When Korach’s men came to fetch Ohn, she sat the entrance to their tent with her hair uncovered, causing the messengers to turn around and walk away (Sanhedrin 109b-110a);

        ellauri336.html on line 312:     Rabbi Akiva once fined a man 400 zuz (an exorbitant sum) for uncovering a woman’s hair in public. The man subsequently demonstrated that the woman did not hesitate to uncover her own hair in public but Rabbi Akiva refused to reduce the fine saying that the woman’s willingness to uncover her own hair does not give the man license to do so (Baba Yaga Kama Sutra 8:6).

        ellauri336.html on line 314:     There are other examples I could cite but the point is clear: our Sages universally agree that a married woman covering her hair is part of the laws of tzniyus. But shaving hair off? That’s a practice observed in a few particular communities; it’s not a sweeping societal norm among Orthodox Jews in general.

        ellauri336.html on line 316:     According to some Hasidic authorities, the only way to ensure that a woman’s hair doesn’t eventually stray from under her hat/turban/scarf/kerchief/wig/etc. is not to have any. There’s also a concern that hair might create an interposition when using the mikva. Ostensibly, this practice is based upon a statement in the Zohar (parshas Naso) to the effect that the mikva should not see a woman’s hair.

        ellauri336.html on line 318:     The fact that there may be such a source is hardly a “slam-dunk” in favor of head-shaving for a variety of reasons. The Talmud in several places either implies or states explicitly that the practice of women is not to shave their heads. For example, Eiruvin 100b says that one of the “curses of Eve” is that women grow their hair long, while Nazir 28b says that a man can cancel his wife’s vow to shave her head if he finds it unattractive. Furthermore, the Shulchan Aruch expressly prohibits women from shaving their heads (YD 182:5). The Zohar, while important, is not a halachic work so ruling from when it contradicts the Talmud or works of halacha is not a simple thing, and Hasidic communities act differently in such a situation than non-Hasidic communities. So this matter goes beyond merely acting leniently vs. acting stringently. (There are also those authorities who say that that’s not even what that Zohar means.)

        ellauri336.html on line 342: The latter; one who substitutes for an incapacitated Kohein Gadol is also considered a Kohein Gadol. If the ones who had served had died, she wouldn’t have been asked about her merits!

        ellauri336.html on line 345: The Zohar (parshas Naso) that Rabbi Jack cites doesn’t say anything about mikvah. What it says is that the beams of a woman’s house should not see her hair. This is the meritorious practice observed by Kimchis (and many other women of her time) mentioned in the Talmud. Kimchi IS delicious BTW. 

        ellauri336.html on line 346: This stringency is actually one of the strongest proofs that the Talmud and Zohar agree that a woman (even the most righteous woman) DOES have hair. If she doesn’t have any, what is she hiding from her beams? The Zohar that Rabbi Jack wants is in parshas Acharei Mos. That one talks about shaving and mikvah, but not about the mikvah ‘seeing’ anything.

        ellauri336.html on line 350: AJ, it’s the second. Otherwise, it wouldn’t be a zechus. Each son served as the Kohen Gadol at some point, but more than one person at a time could be qualified to serve as the Kohen Gadol should the “chief” Kohen Gadol be impure or otherwise indisposed. The position of “vice” Kohen Gadol is known as “s’gan kohen gadol.”

        ellauri336.html on line 354: Let’s be honest it’s a very small minority that still practices the head shaving tradition. Most rabbis don’t believe in it. I’m chassidish and don’t practice that minhag as well as none of my friends do.

        ellauri336.html on line 362: It is definitely not from the Torah. This is not Jewish law. It’s a custom that came later. There’s a debate as to why.

        ellauri336.html on line 368: The other point I’d like to make is that a woman’s hair is cited (somewhere,) as her crown. After she is married, the beauty of her hair is only available for her husband to see. This helps makes her seductive to him. I also have to say that I can’t imagine having an intimate relationship with a woman with a shaved head as I have referenced in the previous paragraph.

        ellauri336.html on line 372: From what I’ve heard, this practice started in Europe generations ago, where Jewish women were targeted.(attacked/kidnapped) By having their head shaved under their head covering it made them less attractive for potential attackers. I’m not sure of the source of this information, though most of my father’s family, shave their heads.

        ellauri336.html on line 376: If it is expected that married women are to cover their hair because it might be considered sexually attractive, then why would it be acceptable for a woman’s hair to remain uncovered prior to marriage? Would that not be tempting for others to see their hair? Also, are married women able to have their hair uncovered in the home, then?

        ellauri336.html on line 380: Because women’s hair is not as erotic as private parts. It is sensual, not sexual. You may give head as much as you wish but no offspring will result.

        ellauri336.html on line 384: I’m an American born Muslim woman and I see many similarities of Jews with Islam as there are a lot of intersections of all three monotheistic faiths. I do not believe in covering my hair, but if one were to look at Nativity sets that are displayed during Christmas and look at Christian nuns habits we will observe a modesty all three faiths have in common. I notice more people objecting to women that choose and I use that word loosely, to observe modesty than to object to women or men that show little in clothing modesty..it is very subjective anyway on what is considered modest. Also, it seems the people who take it upon themselves to enforce these rules are committing a greater sin of being cruel and punitive. Where is the mercy and love all religions preach?

        ellauri336.html on line 388: Shouldn’t a married woman retain her “alluring” hair to continue to be alluring to her husband? Surely it’s the moral responsibility of men to suppress any lust for married women.

        ellauri336.html on line 396: Thanks for your comment, Marilyn. To clarfiy – Jewish law DOES require men to control themselves. They’re supposed to control their eyes, their words and their thoughts. The poor buggers just can't live up to it. But we see the concept as a partnership – men and women are each meant to do their part to be appropriate.

        ellauri336.html on line 404: My five year old daughter caught a glimpse of the part in Unorthodox where Esty’s hair was shaved and she had a visceral reaction to it. She wondered why Esty’s hair all had to be shaved off? Couldn’t they just leave some on top for her? Interesting the unedited reactions and feelings of children.

        ellauri336.html on line 412: I don’t think it’s a control thing for everyone. There are plenty of women who don’t

        ellauri336.html on line 413: mind shaving as this is there understanding of Jewish law. In places where there is coercion around shaving, that’s definitely a problem. Men have plenty of stringent commandments as well in the most insular circles.

        ellauri336.html on line 417: I completely disagree. I CHOSE to “up my observance level game” all on my very own. I dress more modestly and never leave the house with my hair uncovered. My husband and kids are supportive of my “modern orthodox” observance level even though they do not share it. No one, but NO ONE forced this on me…I don’t shave my head but I would if I had the guts to. I just find my hair annoying.. 🙂

        ellauri336.html on line 421: I hear you. It certainly feels that way no matter how often we are told it is not. I guess a lot of anger and confusion grew in me from being that 9 year old girl reading the line ‘ thank G_d we were born men not women’ in a prayer book. I have never forgotten it 🙁

        ellauri336.html on line 436: What I don’t understand about the women that DO shave their hair off, I mean so they just stay bald hidden under a wrap all the time? Wouldn’t their husbands want to see their hair at intimate moments? How would having no hair be attractive to their husbands?

        ellauri336.html on line 507:   Why did Kimchis have seven sons who were kohen gadol?  Or, why is popa 20 blatt behind. In any event, it isn’t because she covered her hair, as the gemara says ???? ??? ?? ??? ???? ????. Yes, but as those of us 20 behind in the daf know, and as was pointed out in that thread, the 2nd and 3rd became kohen gadol when the first was tamei.

        ellauri336.html on line 517: Now Sam’s gonna say it’s bal tosif or something. (very impressive) Please. I know what Bal Tosif is. It’s not my fault that no one else seems to understand the importance and potential prevalence of Chukas Akum.    

        ellauri336.html on line 520: Popa probably didn’t realize how much he would get done, and when he ran out of printed sheets, he wrote the last three amudim from memory and then chazzered them.     

        ellauri336.html on line 581: Commenting on the recently Israel-Palestine tensions, Thunberg had a take which didn’t go down very well with Twitter. For weeks now, Palestinian protesters and Israeli police have clashed on a daily basis in and around Jerusalem’s Old City, home to major religious sites sacred to Jews, Christians and Muslims and the emotional epicentre of the Middle East conflict. On Monday, stun grenades echoed across a holy hilltop compound, and hundreds of Palestinians were hurt in clashes between stone-throwing protesters and police firing tear gas and rubber bullets. Police were also injured! And men!

        ellauri336.html on line 583: Thunberg on Twitter wrote how “I am not “against” Israel or Palestine. Needless to say I’m against any form of violence or oppression from anyone or any part,” while condoning the violence.

        ellauri336.html on line 584: To be crystal clear: I am not “against” Israel or Palestine. Needless to say I’m against any form of violence or oppression from anyone or any part. And again – it is devastating to follow the developments in Israel and Palestine.— Greta Thunberg (@GretaThunberg) May 11, 2021

        ellauri336.html on line 586: Her comments, however, rang of empty words and absolute nothingness for most people on Twitter, who pointed out that she wasn’t for starters, taking a stance, and while condoning violence was not mentioning how there was a power imbalance. Some even pointed out the quote “If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor,” by Bishop Desmond Tutu.

        ellauri336.html on line 600:   Related video: Israel PM: ‘Army fighting according to international law’ (Al Jazeera)

        ellauri336.html on line 602:   Yet Thunberg apparently does not have any problem with being silent while people and families are being slaughtered. Because nowhere in any of her social media feeds did she say a word about the attacks on Israel. The young activist did not offer a specific thought or a prayer for any of the innocent civilians targeted in Hamas’s brutal attacks nor condemn its use of violent terrorism. She couldn’t even spare a syllable for the Israeli babies that were killed by Hamas terrorists! Let alone poor unborn men in the cervices of Israeli girls!

        ellauri336.html on line 604:   That’s the first thing that makes Thunberg’s statement so disgusting. It’s truly mind-boggling that an internationally famous figure could comment on this conflict, which was escalated to its current fever pitch by Hamas’s brutal terrorist attack, without even mentioning that attack or offering any support to its victims.

        ellauri336.html on line 606:   Of course, it’s entirely understandable that Thunberg would sympathize with the plight of the people of Gaza. No one denies that the conditions they are facing are horrendous. (Yawn.) The real debate is whether that’s truly Israeli’s fault who chase them out of their homes into Egypt and bomb them like crazy, causing 1000% overkill, or whether the blame lies with Hamas, which controls the Gaza Strip? Tulta ja tulikiveä! Polttava tuuli olkoon malja, joka heidän on juotava! 7. 11:7 . Ps. 17:15,27:4,63:3 Matt.

        ellauri336.html on line 612: 
        Texas’s burgeoning fossil fuel production spells 'disaster’ for climate activists.
        

        ellauri336.html on line 614: Tämä "uutinen" on vuodelta 2019, ennen pandemiaa. The state – which leads the way as US output of oil and gas is forecast to rise 25% in the next decade – is intensifying its production pipeline by pipeline. In the same month that Greta Thunberg addressed a UN summit and millions of people took part in a global climate strike, lawmakers in America’s leading oil- and gas-producing state of Texas made a statement of their own.

        ellauri336.html on line 616: Texas’s Critical Infrastructure Protection Act went into effect on 1 September, stiffening civil and criminal penalties specifically for protesters who interrupt operations or damage oil and gas pipelines and other energy facilities. Within a couple of weeks, two dozen Greenpeace activists who dangled off a bridge over the Houston ship channel became the first people charged under the new law, which allows for prison sentences of up to 10 years and fines of up to $500,000 for protest groups.

        ellauri336.html on line 625: “The sheer scale of this new production dwarfs that of every other country in the world and would spell disaster for the world’s ambitions to curb climate change,” the report states.

        ellauri336.html on line 627: The US is already the planet’s leading producer of oil and gas and central to its rise is the Permian Basin, a shale region of about 75,000 sq miles extending from west Texas into New Mexico.

        ellauri336.html on line 628: Despite the oil price crash of 2014, the Permian’s oil production has soared from about a million barrels a day in 2011 to about 4.5m this autumn, while natural gas production has trebled since 2013, according to US government figures.

        ellauri336.html on line 630:   In March, the Permian overtook Saudi Arabia’s Ghawar to become the world’s most productive oilfield. While Saudi Arabia’s overall production remains far higher, predictions are that the Permian’s output will continue to grow at a similar rate – doubling by 2023 as pipeline capacity expands and major oil companies increase their presence – the only thing in the way are alarming environmentalists like Greta.

        ellauri336.html on line 632:   “Having some kind of wild west boom going on in Texas where it’s every man for himself drilling as quickly as possible and trying to pull the stuff out of the ground in a kind of frenzy, that’s just the precise opposite to what should be going on,” said Lorne Stockman, a senior research analyst at Oil Change International, a clean energy advocacy group.

        ellauri336.html on line 634:   While there are some indicators of a slowdown in the growth rate, Chevron’s president of North American exploration and production, Steve Green, told an industry event in October that the oil major sees a “boom boom boom kind of economy” with a “long, healthy pace of activity in the Permian and Texas for decades to come”, Bloomberg reported.

        ellauri336.html on line 636:   The Permian’s fortunes are not dependent on the whims of one or two dominant companies – there are hundreds of operators, from tiny independents to huge multinationals such as Chevron, ExxonMobil, BP, Shell and ConocoPhillips, many of the corporations which, as the Guardian has reported, are behind a large proportion of the planet’s carbon emissions and are poised to flood markets with an additional 7m barrels per day over the next decade.

        ellauri336.html on line 638: Gene Collins has witnessed firsthand the flipside of the Permian’s economic boom. The 68-year-old, who runs an insurance agency and is on the board of a local economic development corporation, was born and raised in Odessa, a city which, with neighbouring Midland, is at the heart of the Permian. Heavy trucks are damaging road surfaces, traffic accidents have increased and housing rates have soared, he claimed.

        ellauri336.html on line 640:   “It has not been a gradual growth. It’s been the type of growth that puts such a strain on the community that we’re unable to keep up with what we need to handle the crowds, the influx. Our housing shortage is really epidemic. It puts a burden on our school districts. We need teachers but we can’t bring teachers in because we have no place for them to stay,” Collins said.

        ellauri336.html on line 644:   The pace of drilling, low prices and lack of capacity have led to the Permian’s frackers producing more natural gas than the infrastructure system can handle, prompting them to vent gas or deliberately burn it off in an environmentally harmful process known as flaring.

        ellauri336.html on line 646:   “We probably have some of the worst air that we’ve ever had out here in west Texas” Collins said. “Every night we flare out here, let off natural gas, a lot of it really fugitive emissions because we don’t have the regulators out here.”

        ellauri336.html on line 650:   New pipelines should help relieve the bottlenecks, such as the Gulf Coast Express, a 448-mile pipeline which went online in September to take natural gas from west Texas towards the state’s portion of the Gulf coast. But these too come at an environmental cost.

        ellauri336.html on line 654:   “We’re facing a massive wave of fossil fuel facilities that we’ve never seen before,” said Rebekah Hinojosa, a local organiser with the Sierra Club, a national environmental group. “The lifeblood of those communities is nature, ecotourism, shrimping, fishing, dolphin watch tours. Having a massive fossil fuel industry is not compatible.”

        ellauri336.html on line 658:   Busby hopes natural disasters might accelerate change by altering the economic equation. Fortunately, man made disasters in Ukraine and Israel work just the opposite. The Gulf coast’s vulnerability to storms potentially made more severe by global heating – such as Harvey, which flooded much of the Houston area in 2017 - could damage ports, refineries and petrochemical plants, erode financial markets’ enthusiasm for fossil fuel investments, hurt companies’ bottom lines and push climate concerns higher up the priority list for voters in traditionally conservative suburban and rural areas. Small hope.

        ellauri336.html on line 660: Collins doubts that a radical transformation is imminent. “We have climate change deniers running the government. So there’s really no benefit to them in restricting drilling if they think that the energy that is produced outweighs the risk,” he said.

        ellauri338.html on line 48: Schelling’s idea of limited or graduated reprisals—which he later set out in Arms and Influence (1966)—was adopted by the United States in 1965 as Operation Rolling Thunder, which involved the bombing of selected targets in North Vietnam in the expectation that it would deter the North Vietnamese from continuing the war. When this failed to deter North Vietnam, the bombing campaign was escalated, in spite of Schelling’s advice that the bombing should be abandoned if it did not succeed in the first three weeks.  

        ellauri338.html on line 50:   Among his insights were the efficacy of voluntarily limiting one’s options in order to make the remaining ones more credible, that uncertain retaliation can be a greater deterrent than certain retaliation, and that the ability to retaliate is more of a deterrent than the ability to resist an attack. I.e., a country’s best defense against nuclear war is the protection of its weapons rather than its people. Si vis pacem para bellum. Who needs so many people anyway?

        ellauri338.html on line 54:   Schelling’s analyses generally relied on clear logical argument rather than esoteric mathematics, like eliminating customs barriers and graduated nuking of those against it.

        ellauri339.html on line 300:     C’est la lutte finale			     Tämä on viimeinen taistelu				

        ellauri339.html on line 302:     L’Internationale				     Kansainvälinen					

        ellauri339.html on line 306:     Il n’est pas de sauveurs suprêmes :		     Ei ole olemassa korkeimpia pelastajia:		

        ellauri339.html on line 311:     Pour tirer l’esprit du cachot,		     Saadaksesi mielen pois vankityrmistä,		

        ellauri339.html on line 321:     Crosse en l’air ! et rompons les rangs !	     Jää ilmaan! ja rikotaan rivejä!			

        ellauri339.html on line 344:     La terre n’appartient qu’aux hommes.	     Maa kuuluu vain miehille.			     

        ellauri339.html on line 589: The writing is on the wall. An op-ed in the New York Times entitled “I’m a Ukrainian, and I Refuse to Compete for Your Attention” summed things up nicely: A media junket the author’s friend had been organizing to Ukraine was canceled. The T.V. crew instead left for the Middle East.

        ellauri339.html on line 597: Biden administration officials are also worried that Ukraine is running out of men in this war of attrition, while Russia has a seemingly endless supply. Ukraine is struggling with recruiting and recently saw public protests (of course not shown on American T.V.) about President Volodymyr Zelensky’s open-ended conscription requirements. Kiev is resorting to sending 40- and 50-year-olds to the front.

        ellauri339.html on line 599: This comes as Time is reporting Zelensky’s top advisers admitted the war is currently unwinnable for Ukraine. Things look a bit better from the point of view of Ukraine commander-in-chief General Valery Zaluzhny, who believes the war is only at a stalemate. "It's now a battle of inches," say American sources quietly.

        ellauri339.html on line 603: Any talk about peace was insulting to Kiev, fighting for its survival and all. Meanwhile, Zelensky at first flew around the world like the antichrist Bono, procuring weapons while showing off his man-to-man relationships with celebrities. (Now desperate, Zelensky is claiming Russia, Iran, and North Korea sponsored Hamas’s attack on Israel as he tries to rustle up support.)

        ellauri339.html on line 607: It’s as compelling as it is untrue. Any thoughtful analysis of the war showed it to be, from early days, a war of attrition at best for the Ukrainian side. While the U.S. could supply nearly bottomless cargo planes full of weapons and munitions, right up to the promised F-16 fighter-bombers and M1A tanks, it could not fill the manpower gap. Any appetite for American troop involvement was hushed up early in the fight. Russia could do what she had always done at war: hunker down

        ellauri339.html on line 608: in the field and reach deep into its vast territory to find ever more conscripts to wait out the enemy. It didn’t hurt that Russia’s capability versus NATO equipment was surprisingly good, or perhaps the Ukrainians’ handling of sophisticated Western arms was surprisingly bad.

        ellauri339.html on line 618: Nevertheless, the fickle attention of America shifted to the Middle East just as things started to look more and more like static WWI trench warfare in Ukraine. It was a hard act to follow, but something always follows nonetheless (the same calculus works for natural disasters and mass shootings, which are only as mediagenic-good as the next one coming.) Over 41 percent of Americans now say the U.S. is doing too much to help Kiev. That’s a significant change from just three months ago when only 24 percent of Americans said they felt that way.

        ellauri339.html on line 622: It is all something of a set piece. America has an old habit of wandering into a conflict and then losing interest. “We have your back” and “we will not abandon you” join “the check’s in the mail” and “I’m from the government and I’m here to help” among joking faux reassurances. Our proxies seem to end up abandoned and hung out to die. As in Iraq and Afghanistan, never mind Vietnam before that, what was realized at the end could have most likely been achievable at pretty much anytime after the initial hurrahs passed away. It is sad that so many had to die to likely see it happen in 2023.

        ellauri340.html on line 569: Peter Handke, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, niftily stops just short of outright denials of the Serb genocide of Bosnia’s Muslims. And the Israelis on the Gaza strip!

        ellauri341.html on line 323: 
        Ha’avara-Abkommen
        

        ellauri341.html on line 489: Elokuvassa Star Wars: The Last Jedi Poe Dameron on muun Vastarinnan jäsenten ohella evakuoitumassa D’Qarin tukikohdasta juuri kun Ensimmäinen ritarikunta hyökkää. Kesken evakuoinnin, Poe päättää vastoin Leian käskyjä johtaa laivueen MG-100 StarFortress SF-17 -pommittajia tuhoamaan Mandator IV -luokan tähtitaistelulaiva Fulminatrixin. Vaikka taistelulaiva saadaan tuhottua, kaikki pommittajat tuhoutuvat hyökkäyksessä ja niiden miehistöt kuolevat. Rangaistuksena Leia alentaa Poen komentajasta kokkipojaksi. Myöhemmin ritarikunta hyökkää Vastarinnan laivaston kimppuun ja melkein kaikki sen johtajista, Leiaa lukuun ottamatta, saavat surmansa. Leia on kuitenkin tajuton ja vara-amiraali Amilyn Holdo toimii hänen sijaisenaan. Poe päättää Finnin ("suomalainen!") ja mekaanikko Rose Ticon avustuksella hankkiutua eroon yksinvaltias Snoken omalla tähtitaistelulaiva Supremacylla sijaitsevasta jäljityslaitteesta ja pitää suunnitelmansa salassa Holdolta. Kun Holdo päättää evakuoida komentoalus Raddusin, Poe päättää nousta kapinaan. Finn, Rose ja BB-8 kuitenkin epäonnistuvat jäljityslaitteen deaktivoimisessa ja Leia pysäyttää Poen kapinoinnin. Poe saa tietää, että Leian ja Holdon suunnitelma oli evakuoida Vastarinnan joukot mineraaliplaneetta Craitille ja lähettää sieltä hätäsignaali heidän liittolaisilleen. Ritarikunta sai Finnin ja Rosen epäonnistumisen myötä tietää evakuoinnista ja Poe johtaa vanhoilla V-4X-D -kiitureilla vastahyökkäystä AT-M6 -kävelijöitä vastaan. Vastarinta on tästä huolimatta alakynnessä, eivätkä liittolaiset uskalla tulla apuun. Luke Skywalkerin pitäessä Voiman kautta lähettämällään kuvajaisella Kylo Renin joukot kiireisenä, Poe opastaa Vastarinnan eloonjääneet tunneleiden kautta Reyn ja Chewbaccan luokse, jotka evakuoivat heidät Millennium Falconiin.

        ellauri342.html on line 394: World Laughter Day is celebrated every year on the first Sunday of May, and this year it is celebrated on May 5. Shrill or funny, giggly or bubbly, on this day, let out your laughter and laugh to your heart’s content. As Shakespeare said, “With mirth and laughter, let old wrinkles come.” We want you to spend your life with laughter and joy. Did you know that laughter decreases stress? By laughing, the brain releases endorphins which make one feel happy. So do not let anyone dampen your day, and laugh as much as you want.

        ellauri342.html on line 398: International Moment of Laughter Day is celebrated on April 14 every year. This is the day to let your inner child come out and laugh away all your worries. You can laugh out loud or giggle, in fact, you can do whatever you want but make sure you’re laughing at the same time. This day reminds us to look beyond our anxious lives and find something that puts a big smile on our faces.

        ellauri342.html on line 415: Why We Love Wear a Plunger on Your Head Day?It’s funny!  Wear a Plunger on Your Head Day is a funny holiday. It’s a light-hearted celebration that encourages us to let loose.

        ellauri343.html on line 88:     Repola (ven. Ре́болы, Reboly; karjalaksi Rebol’a) on maalaiskunta ja sen keskuskylä Karjalan tasavallan Mujejärven piirissä Venäjällä. Se sijaitsee Lieksajärven luoteisrannalla 79 kilometriä Mujejärveltä maanteitse länteen. Kylässä ja kunnassa on 857 asukasta (vuonna 2012). Repolan kylä ja myöhemmin pogosta ja volosti tunnetaan 1500-luvulta lähtien. Vuonna 1918 se liittyi muutaman vuoden ajaksi osaksi Suomea.

        ellauri344.html on line 271: Vaiettu aihe: Koko Suomi on venäjämielinen! Jenni Haukio on täysin pihalla. Suomen ei tarvitse hävetä historiaansa natsi-saksan asepikkuveljenä.  Niin. Ainakin on ihmetteleminen meidän pakkorahoitetun valtionmedian, yle:n toimintaa ja sanavalintoja. Toissapäivänä, 30.11. yle:n uutistenlukija Heikki Lukinmaa käytti Talvisodan syttymisestä ilmausta ’Venäjän vihollisuudet ’.

        ellauri344.html on line 274: Lisäksi yle:n moskovan-kirjeenvaihtaja Heikki Heiskanen ihmetteli mulle sähköpostiviestivastauksessaan että ’miten on mahdollista se, että muutama aseeton ihminen rajalla polkupyörineen voi lietsoa Suomessa paniikkia’?

        ellauri346.html on line 37: Otvet: Let’s see, "the" dictionary defines “terrorist” as:

        ellauri346.html on line 43: Russia, you may recall, wants to change Ukraine’s political leadership, and to do this it has invaded a sovereign country in violation of the UN charter and accepted international law, and is using violence and intimidation, incl… (more) 
        

        ellauri346.html on line 51: Russians are calling Ukrainians “Nazis” and Ukrainians are calling Russians “ Nazis”. Who’s more correct?

        ellauri346.html on line 54: Is there a chance of an attack on Russia by Ukrainian terrorists? You don’t appear to understand how this works. Russia has made overt war on Ukraine. Any attacks on Russian soil would be part of the bigger war that Putin and Fascist Russia has caused. That’s how war works. It includes terrorism.

        ellauri346.html on line 175: This is what happened. He said “Sweden and the EU are united behind Israel’s right to genoc… self-defense”, as if he caught himself at the last moment. LOL

        ellauri346.html on line 243: "Venäjän narratiivi" Ukrainan vapautusoperaatiosta natsivallanpitäjistä on laajentunut viimeisen vuoden aikana korostamaan talousliberaalin lännen uhkaa yleensä. Siihen on voinut vaikuttaa pian sadan miljardin aseapu Ukrainalle lännestä. Siksi Putinilla ei ole kiire lopettaa sotaa, sillä kyse ei ole vain Ukrainasta vaan koko Natosta, ideologisesta ’olemassaolon taistelusta’ länsimaita vastaan, jossa "Venäjän narratiivissa" se käy isänmaallista sotaa sitä uhkaavia länsimaita vastaan. Niinpä, samaa jota se kävi 40-luvulla voitokkaasti nazi-Saxaa ja 10-90 luvuilla tappiollisesti länsiapinoita vastaan. 

        ellauri346.html on line 305: On Nov. 19, 2023, The Electronic Intifada, an online publication that focuses on Palestinian perspectives, claimed that a video showing Israeli children singing about the "annihilation" of Gaza had been shared, then deleted, on Israeli public broadcaster Kan News’ online platforms.

        ellauri346.html on line 318: The above video is indeed real and was created by Israeli advocacy group The Civil Front, which frequently does public campaigns to support the Israeli armed forces. The children in the slickly-produced video wore black T-shirts with the same blue logo as that on The Civil Front’s YouTube page. The video was reportedly sent to all media and news agencies in Israel.

        ellauri346.html on line 327: The Jewish Press was critical of Kan’s decision to remove the video, writing sarcastically that “someone at Kan 11 found the harsh sentiment pronounced by the six girls in the video unacceptable for viewing – by a nation which just watched more than a thousand of its people being raped, beaten, beheaded, and burned alive. So they took it down.” Chickens!

        ellauri348.html on line 361: Santeri Paavin oma alkuperäinen harjoitus tässä genressä on saanut inspiraationsa 1100-luvun tarinasta Héloïse d'Argenteuilin luvattomasta rakkaudesta opettajaansa Peter Abelardiin , joka oli häntä parikymmentä vuotta vanhempi kuuluisa pariisilainen filosofi, ja salavuoteudessa hänen kanssaan. Heidän suhteensa ja vällyissä piehtarointinsa jälkeen hänen perheensä kosti Abelardille raa’asti ja kastroi tämän, minkä jälkeen hän meni luostariin ja pakotti Héloïsenkin nunnaksi. Molemmat johtivat sitten suhteellisen menestyksekästä luostariuraa. Vuosia myöhemmin Abelard sai valmiiksi ystävälleen lohdutukseksi lähetetyn Historia Calamitatumin (Takaiskujen historian). Kun se joutui Heloisen käsiin, hiänen intohimonsa häntä kohtaan heräsi uudelleen ja heidän välillään oli neljä kirjettä, jotka oli kirjoitettu koristeellisella latinalaisella tyylillä. Yrittääkseen ymmärtää henkilökohtaisen tragediansa, he tutkivat inhimillisen ja jumalallisen rakkauden luonnetta. Kuitenkin heidän yhteensopimattomat munattoman miehen ja munasarjaisen naisen näkökulmat tekivät dialogista tuskallisen molemmille.

        ellauri348.html on line 380:       How happy is the blameless vestal’s lot!		Kuinka onnellinen onkaan erä nuhteettomia vestaaleja!  

        ellauri348.html on line 383:       Each pray’r accepted, and each wish resign’d?	Jokainen rukous on hyväksytty ja jokainen toive evätty?

        ellauri348.html on line 385: Tää on pätkä pituushaasteisen Popen (1717) pitkänläntää arkkiveisua munattomasta Abelardista ja sen Eloisasta bändäristä. Eli it's from a poem about a woman named Eloisa who falls in love with her much older tutor Abelard, but her family forces them apart. Eloisa is forced to become a nun and writes about the grief of being without her star-crossed lover. She tries to forget Abelard, but she cannot and she comes to the conclusion that God cannot heal all wounds (such as the loss of Abelard's balls). She wishes she hated Abelard, but concludes her love for him remains. Despite her knowing about her doom with her love, she still longs for it. Just like Joel and Clem. They have knowledge about their destruction and loathing for each other if they continue with the relationship, but it doesn’t matter to them. It’s "Okay," “ignorance is bliss” by another name!

        ellauri348.html on line 442:     Ranskalainen runoilija Arthur Rimbaud oli yksi Morrisonin suurimmista vaikuttajista. Morrison ihaili Rimbaud’ssa tämän runouden lisäksi sitä, että ranskalainen keskeytti taiteilijanuransa nuorena ja häipyi seikkailemaan maailmalle ja kuoli siellä hämärissä olosuhteissa. Yritän samaa!

        ellauri348.html on line 715: Marie-Catherine d’Aulnoy skrev en litterär version av sagan, Histoire d'Hypolite comte de Duglas (1690) som byggde på en fransk folksaga, troligen av keltiskt ursprung. En liknande variant förekommer i medelhavsländerna. Varianter förekommer i Östeuropa liksom på Irland, där sagokungen Finns son Ossian oftast är hjälten.

        ellauri349.html on line 499: Eli Aron palaa isiensä uskoon. Aron muistelee:
        De tous, j’étais le plus résolu dans l’anticommunisme, dans le libéralisme, mais ce n’est qu’après 1945 que je me libérai une fois pour toutes des préjugés de la gauche.
        

        ellauri349.html on line 507: Lors des évènements de Mai 68, Aron a d'abord un élan de sympathie pour les étudiants révoltés, avant de critiquer les débordements qu'il juge pseudo-révolutionnaires. Sartre, qui soutient le mouvement, étrille violemment son ancien ami : « Je mets ma main à couper qu'Aron ne s'est jamais mis en cause et c'est pour cela qu'il est, à mes yeux, indigne d’être professeur. Il faut, maintenant que la France entière a vu de Gaulle tout nu, que la France entière pût regarder Aron tout nu ». Aron répond calmement à ces attaques, dénonçant des arguments que « même un démagogue de bas étage n'aurait pas utilisés »

        ellauri350.html on line 565: 
        Arons, who live in Tiburon, Marin County, and whose son, Elijah, writes for television in Los Angeles, have experimented with this format themselves, using it to deepen connections with their couple of remaining friends: “It’s a great way to spend an evening,” Aron said.
        

        ellauri351.html on line 243:     Trauma can be trapped in the body as a reflexive wince stuck in time — manifesting as a shoulder spasm, for example, when someone hears a word that reminds them of the traumatic event. He used to have those, he said, but not anymore. We’re at the beginning of a new scientific epoch, he told me, of understanding the truth about trauma: Finally, humanity can hope to free itself from the cycles that have dragged us through eons of war, violence, and poverty. Someday soon, he told me, finally, we will all become clean.

        ellauri351.html on line 458: The phrase is thought to have originated from the play Hamlet by William Shakespeare. In the play, “though he be mad, there is method in’t” is a line from William Shakespeare’s play Hamlet.

        ellauri351.html on line 459: It is spoken by Polonius, the king’s advisor, in Act II, Scene 2. Hamlet has been behaving strangely since the death of his father, and Polonius believes that he is mad. However, Hamlet is actually pretending to be mad in order to buy himself time to carry out his revenge on his father’s killer, Claudius. Polonius is the first person to fall for Hamlet’s act. He believes that Hamlet is truly mad, and he tells Claudius about Hamlet’s strange behavior. Claudius is relieved to hear this, and he believes that Hamlet is no longer a threat. Hamlet’s plan works perfectly. He is able to gather evidence against Claudius, and he eventually succeeds in killing him. The idiom “method in his madness” refers to Hamlet’s clever plan to pretend to be mad in order to achieve his revenge.

        ellauri351.html on line 508: Päästäksemme uuden tielle, meidän on kuitenkin ensin ymmärrettävä, että koska ihmiskunta on yhtä skeidaa, kaikki on yhteistä kuin uskovaisten eväät. Koko planeetta on olemassa jok’ikisen eliön oikeutena ja siksi aivan kaikkien on saatava tasaveroisesti nauttia planeetan tuotoksista. Ihmiskunnan on opittava jakamisen periaate, jolla ratkaisemme nälänhädän, terrorismin, vihamielisyyden ja lopulta kaikki ongelmamme. Jok’ikinen eliö on pyhä olento, joka on osa kaikkeutta.

        ellauri352.html on line 595: Venäläinen kirjallisuuspalkinto nimeltä Venäjän Booker-palkinto (ven. Русский Букер, Russki Buker, aiemmin ven. Букер — Открытая Россия, Buker – Otkrutaja Rossija, ’avoin Venäjä’) oli venäläinen kirjallisuuspalkinto, joka oli perustettu Booker-palkinnon mallin mukaan 1992. Se oli merkittävin venäläinen kirjallisuuspalkinto ja myönnettiin vuosittain parhaalle venäjäksi kirjoitetulle kaunokirjalliselle teokselle kirjoittajan kansallisuudesta riippumatta. Palkinto oli ensimmäinen Venäjällä jaettu valtiosta riippumaton lue yritysrahoitteinen kirjallisuuspalkinto vuoden 1917 vallankumouksen jälkeen.

        ellauri353.html on line 494:   Venäjän liittyminen sotaan Puolaa vastaan ei tuonut nopeaa voittoa ja kasakkavaltion ja Venäjän välille syntyi nopeasti kiistoja itsehallinnon rajoista ja valloitettujen alueiden hallinnasta. Pohjan sodan sytyttyä vuonna 1655 H’melnytskyi menetti luottamuksensa Venäjän haluun sotia Ukrainan puolesta ja hän alkoi harkita liittoutumista Venäjän ja Puolan yhteisten vihollisten, erityisesti Ruotsin kanssa. Hän kävi salaista kirjeenvaihtoa Ruotsin kuningas Kaarle X Kustaan kanssa, mutta tämä ei ehtinyt johtaa mihinkään ennen H’melnytskyin kuolemaa elokuussa 1657. Huhujen mukaan turkkilaiset olisivat myrkyttäneet hänet.

        ellauri359.html on line 61:     Actually, I already knew that; what I didn’t know was that the cause was very possibly inherited syphilis. Grahame, a dyed-in-the-wool bachelor who loved “messing about in boats”, seems to have married under duress, the sort to which upper-middle-classes were particularly susceptible: namely, propriety. His sister believed Elspeth Thomson deliberately compromised him. On receiving news of his nuptials, she asked if he really intended to marry her. “I suppose so; I suppose so,” was the telling reply.

        ellauri359.html on line 63:  But back to Alastair, aka “Mouse”, who seems to have been the only bond between Grahame and his increasingly sour spouse. It is Gauger’s and others’ opinion that Mole, the most endearing character in the tale, is given the ability to see, unlike the rest of his kin, because Grahame was exhibiting a profound form of denial about his son’s disability.

        ellauri359.html on line 65: The original mole entered the Grahame household some years before the book. The author found the creature in his garden tussling with a blackbird for a worm. He kept it as a pet until a new housekeeper, thinking it vermin, killed it. On learning her mistake, she cried: “Oh, but sir, couldn’t you just make the mole into a story for Master Alastair?” Shortly after, Graham began to regale his son with bedtime tales of the riverbank creatures.

        ellauri359.html on line 67: For a female reader from the proletarian classes, many of Gauger’s revelations have been particularly painful. Apparently, Grahame did not like women. He did not give any of his furry heroes wives, saying that he wished his book to be “clean of the clash of sex”. The few who do appear – foremost among them the fabulously feisty washerwoman – are ridiculed, in her case mocked as vulgar, ugly and stupid. Nor did Grahame like fat people; the washerwoman thus combines two pet hates.

        ellauri359.html on line 69: But there were others. Like so many Scots before and since, Grahame held a senior post in London’s banking world. When one day a stranger accosted him there with a pistol, firing it off wildly (though happily missing his target), the author’s fear of the underclass took root. Thus, those ragamuffins in the Wild Wood, the knife-wielding, teeth-baring stoats and weasels who destroy property and have no respect for their social superiors – Rat, Toad, Badger and Mole – are his representation of the terrible face of anarchists, working classes and madmen rolled into one.

        ellauri362.html on line 205:               Karkoitan kuvan				              Chassons l’image			

        ellauri362.html on line 207:               Jota palvoin.              PARNY.		              Que j’adorais.              PARNY.

        ellauri362.html on line 210: Näkemiin Anu! Kohtalo on meidät erottanut, 		Matilda, farewell! Fate has doom’d us to part,		

        ellauri362.html on line 215: Kun yhessä käyskeltiin, tunnustin tunteeni,		As together we roam’d, I the passion confess’d,		

        ellauri362.html on line 216: Jotka sun hyveet ja rinnat mussa nostatti;		Which thy beauty and virtue had rais’d in my breast;	

        ellauri362.html on line 217: Käsitin että tunne oli molemminpuolinen,		That the passion was mutual thou mad’st me believe,	

        ellauri362.html on line 222: Nyt halveeraan sua, ei tee mieli puristaa,		I now scorn thee as much as I lov’d thee before,	

        ellauri362.html on line 228: Sua tuskin kaltaiseni viisaat enää siittää.		Thou art shunn’d by the good, and contemn’d by the wise.

        ellauri362.html on line 231: Kun vielä olin sun kiemailuille heikko,			When I thought ev’ry virtue was center’d in thee?	

        ellauri362.html on line 235: Mau! Olisitpa ollut monogaaminen ja reilu		Oh! hadst thou but constant and amiable prov’d		

        ellauri362.html on line 236: Silloin kun sun hame vielä mulle heilui,		As that fancied perfection I formerly lov’d,		

        ellauri362.html on line 238: Mun muistikuville sun ihanasta myyränkolosta.		Could have dimm’d the dear image then stamp’d on my soul

        ellauri362.html on line 241: Toivon fantastisesti susta näppäilemiä			By Hope’s glowing pencil on Fancy pourtray’d!		

        ellauri362.html on line 247: Antaa hänen yrittää useampaa pistoa			May he fix thy light passions, now wav’ring as air,	

        ellauri362.html on line 252: Turhia sun räpsyily, tuhmuushymy,			In vain will thy vows or thy smiles be resum’d,		

        ellauri362.html on line 253: Lempi väärin sammutettu ei enää syty.			For love, once extinguish’d, is never relum’d.  	

        ellauri362.html on line 272: Duke Ellingtonin porttikiellon Almack'siin todellinen syy on selvinnyt:  Ticknor’s version indicates that it was the lateness of his arrival and not the trousers that kept him out. Karen Field on January 15, 2011 at 01:03

        ellauri362.html on line 765:   16. marraskuuta 1980, 30 vuoden suhteen  jälkeen ja kun hiän päätti jättää hänet, Althusser kuristi vaimonsa heidän asunnossaan rue d’Ulmilla. Uhri ? Hän ei ansaitse kolmea riviä. Tähti on syyntakeeton. Althusser käytti paljon energiaa esittääkseen itsensä hulluksi ja siksi vastuuttomaksi murhaan, samalla kun hänet tunnustettaisiin rationaalisena tutkijana. Rydmannin murhassa on kuitenkin naismurhan piirteitä (erityisesti uhrin halu jättää puoliso), vaikka tämä käsite ei tuolloin ollut käytössä.

        ellauri365.html on line 64: olohuone loi tulipalojen hehkua,						Illuminé jetait des lueurs d’incendies,				

        ellauri365.html on line 67: orkesterin melodioita ja kuului kaukaa.						De l’orchestre, et faisait une rumeur au loin.			

        ellauri365.html on line 69: Yön lämmin ilma, kuin pehmeä henkäys,						L’air tiède de la nuit, comme une molle haleine,		

        ellauri365.html on line 70: Tuli hyväilemään olkapäitä, sekoittuen						S’en venait caresser les épaules, mêlant			

        ellauri365.html on line 73: D'ou! kynttilän liekki.								D’une oscillation la flamme des bougies.			

        ellauri365.html on line 77: Toi meille kuin tähtien tuoksun.						Apportait jusqu’à nous comme une odeur d’étoiles.		

        ellauri365.html on line 80: Mykkyinä, uppoutunein silmin, hetkestä hetkeen					Muettes, l’œil noyé, de moment en moment			

        ellauri365.html on line 82: Ja haaveilivat lähdöstä tämän kultaisen taivaan poikki,				Et rêvaient d’un départ à travers ce ciel d’or,			

        ellauri365.html on line 83: Tämän suuren tähtien valtameren läpi. Lempeä					Par ce grand océan d’astres. Une tendresse			

        ellauri365.html on line 85: rakastaa, sanoa hyväilevällä äänellä						D’aimer, de dire, avec une voix qui caresse,			

        ellauri365.html on line 86: kaikki nämä epämääräiset salaisuudet, jotka sydän voi lukita.			Tous ces vagues secrets qu’un cœur peut enfermer.		

        ellauri365.html on line 88: Yön tuoksuva ilma vaikutti sen tunkeutuvalta,					La nuit embaumant l’air en paraissait rythmée,			

        ellauri365.html on line 89: ja luulimme kuulevamme kaukaa hirven röyhtäyxen.				Et l’on croyait entendre au loin les cerfs bramer.		

        ellauri365.html on line 91: Kaikki lähtivät paikaltaan ja orkesteri hiljeni,				Chacun quitta sa place et l’orchestre se tut,			

        ellauri365.html on line 93: Näimme kohoavan, kuin tulen oksissa,						On voyait s’élever, comme un feu dans les branches,		

        ellauri365.html on line 100: Ou, joissa vaalealla hiekalla, kuin tyynellä vedellä,				Où, sur le sable blond, ainsi qu’une eau dormante,		

        ellauri365.html on line 105: kaikilla oli pieni kuunvalo sielussaan.						Ayant toutes un peu de clair de lune à l’âme.			

        ellauri365.html on line 108: Vaelsin, ja tietämättä miksi, juhlivan sydämen kanssa.				J’errais, et sans savoir pourquoi, le cœur en fête.		

        ellauri365.html on line 110: Ja yhtäkkiä näin naisen jota rakastin,						Et j’aperçus soudain la dame que j’aimais,			

        ellauri365.html on line 111: Voi! hienovaraisella tavalla, koska						Hélas ! d’une façon discrète, car jamais			

        ellauri365.html on line 112: hän ei ollut koskaan lakannut kapinoimasta toiveissani:				Elle n’avait cessé d’être à mes vœux rebelle :			

        ellauri365.html on line 115: Väitti, että kuu näytti leskeltä:						Prétendait que la lune avait l’air d’une veuve :		

        ellauri365.html on line 116: "Polku on liian pitkä mennäkseen loppuun asti,					« Le chemin est trop long pour aller jusqu’au bout,		

        ellauri365.html on line 117: koska minulla on hienot kengät ja mekkoni on uusi;				Car j’ai des souliers fins et ma toilette est neuve ;		

        ellauri365.html on line 118: Mennään takaisin. » Otin hänen kätensä ja johdin hänet pois.			Retournons. » Je lui pris le bras et l’entraînai.		

        ellauri365.html on line 121: häiritsi uni-ilmaa puuskan hengityksellä.					Troublait l’air endormi d’un souffle de bourrasque.		

        ellauri365.html on line 122: Sitten hän pysähtyi huohotellen; ja varovasti					Puis elle s’arrêta, soufflant ; et doucement			

        ellauri365.html on line 123: Kävelimme äänettömästi pitkin kujaa.						Nous marchâmes sans bruit tout le long d’une allée.		

        ellauri365.html on line 125: Ja varjojen täyttäneiden huhujen joukossa,					Et, parmi les rumeurs dont l’ombre était peuplée,		

        ellauri365.html on line 142: Hän istui alas ja nauroi nähdessään minun kiroavan häntä.			Elle s’assit, riant de me voir la maudire.			

        ellauri365.html on line 144: Ja molemmat suostuivat, en oikeastaan tiedä miksi.				Et toutes deux d’accord, je ne sais trop pourquoi,		

        ellauri365.html on line 145: He näyttivät valmistautuneen pilkkaamaan minua.					Paraissaient s’apprêter à se moquer de moi.			

        ellauri365.html on line 148: Ja en uskaltanut sanoa hänelle: "Rakastan sinua!" »				Et moi, je n’osais pas lui dire : « Je vous aime ! »		

        ellauri365.html on line 149: Mutta tukehtuessani tartuin hänen molemmista käsistään.				Mais comme j’étouffais, je lui pris les deux mains.		

        ellauri365.html on line 154: heittivät joskus varjoihin epäilyttävää valkoisuutta.				Mettaient parfois dans l’ombre une blancheur douteuse.		

        ellauri365.html on line 160: ja tunkeutui lihaamme häiritsevällä tympeydellä.				Et pénétrait nos chairs d’une langueur troublante.		

        ellauri365.html on line 162: Katselin toveriani, ja tunsin kasvavani						J’épiais ma compagne, et je sentais grandir			

        ellauri365.html on line 166: Kun meillä on joka yö unelmien vaikeuksissa					Lorsqu’on a, chaque nuit, dans le trouble du rêve,		

        ellauri365.html on line 167: suostuva suudelma, suljetun silmän "kyllä",					Le baiser qui consent, le « oui » d’un œil fermé,		

        ellauri365.html on line 168: nostamiemme mekkojen ihastuttava muukalainen,					L’adorable inconnu des robes qu’on soulève,			

        ellauri365.html on line 169: itsensä hylkäävä ruumis, liikkumaton ja pyörryttävä,				Le corps qui s’abandonne, immobile et pâmé,			

        ellauri365.html on line 170: ja se Todellisuus, nainen jättää meille vain					Et qu’en réalité la dame ne nous laisse				

        ellauri365.html on line 171: toivon yllättävän heikkouden hetken!						Que l’espoir de surprendre un moment de faiblesse !		

        ellauri365.html on line 174: tulivat Minulle, jotka saivat hampaani yhteen,					Me vinrent, qui faisaient s’entrechoquer mes dents,		

        ellauri365.html on line 175: kapinallisen orjan raivoa ja iloa						Une fureur d’esclave en révolte, et la joie			

        ellauri365.html on line 182: , jota olin janoinen. Sydämeni hyppäsi; hulluus					Dont j’avais soif. Mon cœur bondit ; une folie			

        ellauri365.html on line 184: nousi ylös. Halasin hänen vyötäröänsä vihasta,					Se leva. J’enlaçai sa taille avec colère,			

        ellauri365.html on line 198: vetivät toisiaan puoleensa, siirtyvät pois, syleilevät toisiaan vuorotellen.	S’attirant, s’éloignant, s’étreignant tour à tour.		

        ellauri365.html on line 201: piirtäen hauskasti Rakkauden syytöstä.						Esquissant drôlement la charge de l’Amour.			

        ellauri365.html on line 214: kamppailla ja estää huuliasi lähestymästä					Se débattre et défendre aux lèvres d’approcher			

        ellauri365.html on line 215: nauraessasi? Hetki menetettyä painovoimaa					Lorsqu’on rit ? Un instant de gravité perdue			

        ellauri365.html on line 216: Enemmän kuin palava sydän voi pelastaa rakastajan!				Plus qu’un cœur embrasé peut sauver un amant !			

        ellauri365.html on line 220: kahta varjoamme seinältä ja näki vain yhden,					Nos deux ombres au mur et n’en voyait plus qu’une,

        ellauri365.html on line 285: Isaac Babel wrote a short story about him, "Guy de Maupassant." It appears in The Collected Stories of Isaac Babel and in the story anthology You’ve Got To Read This: Contemporary American Writers Introduce Stories that Held Them in Awe.

        ellauri365.html on line 574:   The next aspect of Heidenstam’s development appeared in his patriotic poetry. He had discovered early that love for the ancestral wealth and for the home of one’s noble birth is what most strongly links man to life. His self-love finally suggested a patriotic delusion of grandeur and called forth this passionate demand: "No people may be greater than you; that is the goal, no matter what the cost."

        ellauri367.html on line 120: Pillé par les Allemands et endommagé par les Américains pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale, il a été ensuite vendu. Totalement abandonné, il tombe progressivement en ruine et est vandalisé. Très dégradé, il est acheté par le groupe immobilier Novaxia en 2016, qui a l'intention de le restaurer et probablement de construire des logements sur le terrain. Quinze hectares du parc subsistent en parc public, le reste est à l’abandon avec le château ou a fait place à divers aménagements et constructions.

        ellauri367.html on line 191: Rakovskin oikea nimi oli Krăstjo Stantšev. Hän syntyi Gradetsissa lähellä Kotelin kaupunkia Bulgariassa. Hänen isänsä oli varakas maanomistaja, jonka jättämän suuren perinnön turvin hän matkusteli ympäri maailmaa. Hän opiskeli vuosina 1890–1892 Genevessä Sveitsissä, mutta joutui pidätetyksi poliittisen toimintansa vuoksi. Hän tutustui jo Genevessä moniin maanpaossa eläneisiin venäläisiin vallankumouksellisiin, kuten Pavel Akselrodiin, Georgi Plehanoviin, Vera Zasulitšiin ja Rosa Luxemburgiin. Hän edusti Bulgariaa sosialistisen internationaalin kongresseissa Zürichissä 1893 ja Lontoossa 1896. Rakovski aloitti lääkärinopinnot Berliinissä, mutta joutui pian karkotetuksi Saksasta sosialistisen toimintansa vuoksi. Hän vei opintonsa loppuun Montpellier’n yliopistossa Ranskassa, ja valmistui lääkäriksi vuonna 1897. Hän suoritti vuosina 1899–1900 asepalveluksen Romanian armeijassa. Rakovski puhui useita keinotekoisia kieliä ja loi kansainvälisen uran vastavallankumouksellisena. Hän julkaisi eri maissa politiikkaa käsitteleviä teoksia käyttäen toisinaan kirjailijanimeä Inshallahov.

        ellauri370.html on line 135: Has Ukraine's army built substantial defensive positions in front of Russia fortified lines? What are some of the most interesting unknown events/facts (mysteries) of history? Why do Finnish people seem to resist the Swedish language, but are happy to learn and speak English? Why is China’s communism so different than Russia´s? What is the most fascinating historical photo? How do I access a phone with a broken touch screen through a computer? Who is the mother of the President of Ukraine? Why did she fail to teach him Ukrainian? Did she teach her Hebrew or Jiddish? Doesn’t Putin realize he will be VAPORIZED 15 to 20 minutes after he launches his first missile? Why don't elite soldiers and Navy SEALs have physiques like Dwayne Johnson or Vin Diesel? Do you trust Ukraine to use the M1 Abrams tanks responsibly? Why not?

        ellauri370.html on line 261:   Spitaalinen faarao kylpi päivittäin 150 juutalaislapsen veressä. Ei tepsinyt, nenä irtosi ja muutakin. Lepra (kreik. lepros ’suomuinen’) eli spitaali tai pitaali (ruots. spitali < lat. hospitale ’hoitolaitos’) on krooninen sairaus, joka aiheuttaa epämuodostumia iholle ja muualle kehoon. Sitä aiheuttava bakteeri on aerobinen, haponkestävä, mykobakteereihin kuuluva sauvabakteeri Mycobacterium leprae. Leprabakteerin löysi norjalainen lääkäri ja tiedemies Gerhard Armauer Hansen vuonna 1873. Tämän takia lepra on saanut tieteelliseksi nimekseen Hansenin tauti. Nykyään se on helposti hoidettavissa monilääkehoidolla, yleensä dapsonin, rifampisiinin ja klofatsimiinin yhdistelmällä.

        ellauri370.html on line 496:   Arthur de Gobineau oli jyrsijännäköinen valkoisen ylivallan teoreetikko hullun vuoden ajoilta. Henkkoht olen antitermitisti ja kannustan mieluummin muita jyrsijöitä kuten liito-oravia ja rottia. Joseph Arthur de Gobineau (14. heinäkuuta 1816 Ville-d’Avray, Ranska – 13. lokakuuta 1882 Torino, Italia) oli ranskalainen diplomaatti, kirjailija ja filosofi, joka tuli tunnetuksi valkoisen ylivallan kannattajana ja karjalaisen herrarodun teorian luojana ja joka vaikutti vahvasti muun muassa Saksan kansallissotien ajatteluun.

        ellauri370.html on line 547: Largement ignorées lors de la parution de l’Essai en France, c'est en Allemagne que les théories de Gobineau suscitèrent le plus d'intérêt. Introduites par Richard Wagner dans sa revue Bayreuther Blätter, elles connaissent un certain écho dans les milieux wagnériens, notamment Houston Chamberlain. En France, le crédit dont Gobineau jouissait en Allemagne contribua à son rejet par les nationalistes qui voyaient en lui un avatar du «germanisme», si ce n'est du «pangermanisme».

        ellauri370.html on line 568:   Ranskan ulkoministeriö pyysi vuonna 1944 häntä palaamaan Ranskaan. Vuonna 1945 hän kuitenkin palasi uudelleen Yhdysvaltoihin, koska hänet oli nimitetty kulttuurineuvokseksi siellä sijaitsevaan Ranskan suurlähetystöön. Tästä tehtävästä hän erosi vuonna 1948 omistautuakseen bricolagelle. Vuonna 1949 hänet nimitettiin Pariisissa sijaitsevan entografisen Musée de l’Hommen apulaisjohtajaksi. Tämän tehtävänsä jälkeen hän sai nimityksen tutkimusjohtajaksi École pratique des hautes études -korkeakouluun ja -tutkimuslaitokseen. Hänen oppituolinsa käsitti Kirjoitustaidottomien kansojen vertailevan uskontotieteen. Vuonna 1959 hänet nimitettiin Collège de Francen professoriksi, ja yksi hänen opetusalansa tässä instituutissa oli sosiaaliantropologia. Tätä tehtävää hän hoiti, kunnes jäi eläkkeelle vuonna 1982.

        ellauri370.html on line 669: B’nai B’rith (hebräisch בְּנֵי בְּרִית Bnej Brīt, deutsch ‚Söhne des Bundes‘, auch Bnai Brith) oder im deutschsprachigen Raum bis zur Zeit des Nationalsozialismus Unabhängiger Orden Bne Briss (U.O.B.B.), auch in jiddischer Lautung Bnei Briß genannt, ist eine jüdische Organisation, ein unabhängiger weltlicher jüdischer Orden, organisiert in Logen. Sie wurde im Jahre 1843 in New York als geheime Loge von zwölf jüdischen Einwanderern aus Deutschland gegründet und widmet sich laut Selbstdarstellung der Förderung von Toleranz, Humanität und Wohlfahrt. Ein weiteres Ziel von B’nai B’rith ist die Aufklärung über das Judentum und die Erziehung innerhalb des Judentums. Zurzeit gibt es rund 500.000 organisierte Mitglieder in ungefähr 60 Staaten. Damit ist sie eine der größten jüdischen internationalen Vereinigungen. Das Veröffentlichungsorgan ist die B’nai B’rith International Jewish Monthly.

        ellauri370.html on line 671: B'nai B'rith, Unabhängiger Orden (U. O. B. B.),  Söhne des Bundes, ist ein 1843 in New York begründeter Ordensverband, der nur Juden aufnimmt. Mit Großlogen, Hauptlogen und Distrikten ist B’nai B’rith ähnlich wie die Freimaurerei aufgebaut, versteht sich aber nicht als mit dieser Bewegung verbunden. Der Orden hat in Europa keine Grade, dagegen Erkennungszeichen und ein Ritual, das aber mit dem freimaurerischen Ritual in keiner Weise identisch ist. Die Zentrale ist in Washington, D.C.; dort betreibt die Organisation ein Museum zur jüdischen Geschichte (das B’nai B’rith Klutznick National Jewish Museum).

        ellauri370.html on line 677: So entstanden zu dieser Zeit auch im Deutschen Reich die B’nai-B’rith-Schwesternverbände, die sich vom liberaleren Jüdischen Frauenbund abgrenzten. Seit 1990 nimmt B’nai B’rith International Frauen als Vollmitglieder auf. Die selbstorganisierte, dem B’nai B’rith angeschlossene Frauenorganisation nennt sich B’nai B’rith Women und behauptet weiterhin ihren unabhängigen Status. 

        ellauri370.html on line 679: Ableger von B’nai B’rith sind u. a. die 1913 gegründete Anti-Defamation League und die universitäre Organisation Hillel. 

        ellauri370.html on line 750:   Juutalaisystävällinen Johannes 23 tuli suojasään paavixi 5 vuodexi kuin Hruzev erehtymättömän mutta Brezhnevin oloisen pysähtyneen Pius XIII:n perästä. Juha oli kiltti mutta löperö. Hän muistutti izelleen usein: ”Angelo, älä ota itseäsi liian vakavasti”. Paavi kirjoitti päiväkirjaansa Vatikaanin työnjaosta: ”Arkkipiispa Angelo Dall’Acqua hallitsee, seminaarikongregaation sihteeri Carlo Confalcioneri vakoilee, Pyhän viraston pro-prefekti Alfredo Ottaviani vahtii, kardinaalivaltiosihteeri Domenico Tardini määrää ja paavi Johannes siunaa.” Hyvä Angelo. Paavin kuollessa 3. kesäkuuta 1963 vazasyöpään häntä surtiin maailmalla todennäköisesti enemmän kuin ketään muuta paavia siihen mennessä.

        ellauri371.html on line 85:     Razoration hopes to tackle the issue of homelessness and both absolute and relative poverty within Nottinghamshire and raise awareness on the problem of, and associated with, homelessness. Our mission is to develop careers for passionate individuals through assisting them into employment. In addition, we hope to change society’s mindset, through reducing social isolation and the stigma associated with homelessness and home-made  bad haircuts.

        ellauri371.html on line 682: The Jeffersonian Institute — prominently featured on the show as the workplace of leading anthropologist Temperance Brennan — doesn’t exist in real life.

        ellauri371.html on line 686: The Jeffersonian was inspired by the very real Smithsonian Institution in Washington D.C., the world’s largest museum, education, and research complex.

        ellauri371.html on line 692: So if you’ve ever wanted to step inside the Bones Room or walk on the platform where Jack Hodgkins, Camille Saroyan, and Dr. Brennan — along with her massive team of interns — perform their magic, sadly, that’s not a possibility.

        ellauri371.html on line 694: While the show is said to take place entirely in the nation’s capital, Washington D.C., ‘Bones’ was filmed almost entirely in Los Angeles (with the exception of a trip Seeley Booth and Temperance Brennan took to the UK, which was filmed on location in London).

        ellauri372.html on line 97:     In a famous Roman military disaster, the Parthians crushed an expeditionary force led by Crassus in 53 BCE. This flaccid ode was written about thirty years later, when a new war against Parthia seemed to be in the offing (in practice an agreement in 20 BCE avoided one: Crassus’s legions’ captured standards were returned, which would have helped Roman national pride). As well as expressing straightforward patriotism, the poem conveys the important messages that national prestige is safe with Augustus, and that accepting defeat must never be the Roman way.

        ellauri372.html on line 132: militibus sine caede’ dixit			sotilailtamme ilman verenhukkaa", sano

        ellauri372.html on line 157: altior Italiae ruinis!’				kuin Italilan rauniot!

        ellauri372.html on line 542:     Riimin sanat "swear for" ja "wherefore" ja "ecclesiastic" ja "kepin sijasta" ovat yllättäviä, luonnottomia mutta humoristisia. Lisäksi "-don dwelling" ja "a-colonelling" riimi on jännitetty katkeamiseen saakka, jälleen humoristisen vaikutuksen vuoksi. Mitä vittua, "colonel" ääntyi /kolönel/ 1600-luvulla!? Moukka! “Colonel” came to English from the mid-16th-century French word coronelle, meaning commander of a regiment, or column, of soldiers. By the mid-17th century, the spelling and French pronunciation had changed to colonnel. The English spelling also changed, but the pronunciation was shortened to two syllables for no good reason. By the early 19th century, the current pronunciation and spelling became standard in English. But in the part of Virginia I come from, there is no “r” sound; it’s pronounced kuh-nul. (David Miller, Curator, Armed Forces History, National Museum of American History).

        ellauri373.html on line 199: “3. As for what you say about their making attempts on your lives: make your sons doctors and apothecaries, that they may take away Christians’ lives.

        ellauri374.html on line 183:     We will also be joined by Ana Sazonova, a Ukrainian-American, who is a tireless advocate for the people of Ukraine and Ukraine’s Jewish community. Learn more about Ana in her bio below. This event is free and open to the public, but registration is required. Featuring Speaker Ana Sazonov. Ana is a remarkable woman with an engaging story about her Ukrainian upbringing and her repressed Jewish identity. After the fall of the Soviet Union, her family made Aliyah. Ana will share her story of embracing Judaism and her Israeli identity.

        ellauri374.html on line 223: B’nai B’rith (hebräisch בְּנֵי בְּרִית Bnej Brīt, deutsch ‚Söhne des Bundes‘, auch Bnai Brith) oder im deutschsprachigen Raum bis zur Zeit des Nationalsozialismus Unabhängiger Orden Bne Briss (U.O.B.B.), auch in jiddischer Lautung Bnei Briß genannt, ist eine jüdische Organisation, ein unabhängiger weltlicher jüdischer Orden, organisiert in Logen. Sie wurde im Jahre 1843 in New York als geheime Loge von zwölf jüdischen Einwanderern aus Deutschland gegründet und widmet sich laut Selbstdarstellung der Förderung von Toleranz, Humanität und Wohlfahrt. Ein weiteres Ziel von B’nai B’rith ist die Aufklärung über das Judentum und die Erziehung innerhalb des Judentums. Zurzeit gibt es rund 500.000 organisierte Mitglieder in ungefähr 60 Staaten. Damit ist sie eine der größten jüdischen internationalen Vereinigungen. Das Veröffentlichungsorgan ist die B’nai B’rith International Jewish Monthly.

        ellauri374.html on line 225: B'nai B'rith, Unabhängiger Orden (U. O. B. B.),  Söhne des Bundes, ist ein 1843 in New York begründeter Ordensverband, der nur Juden aufnimmt. Mit Großlogen, Hauptlogen und Distrikten ist B’nai B’rith ähnlich wie die Freimaurerei aufgebaut, versteht sich aber nicht als mit dieser Bewegung verbunden. Der Orden hat in Europa keine Grade, dagegen Erkennungszeichen und ein Ritual, das aber mit dem freimaurerischen Ritual in keiner Weise identisch ist. Die Zentrale ist in Washington, D.C.; dort betreibt die Organisation ein Museum zur jüdischen Geschichte (das B’nai B’rith Klutznick National Jewish Museum).

        ellauri374.html on line 231: So entstanden zu dieser Zeit auch im Deutschen Reich die B’nai-B’rith-Schwesternverbände, die sich vom liberaleren Jüdischen Frauenbund abgrenzten. Seit 1990 nimmt B’nai B’rith International Frauen als Vollmitglieder auf. Die selbstorganisierte, dem B’nai B’rith angeschlossene Frauenorganisation nennt sich B’nai B’rith Women und behauptet weiterhin ihren unabhängigen Status. 

        ellauri374.html on line 233: Ableger von B’nai B’rith sind u. a. die 1913 gegründete Anti-Defamation League und die universitäre Organisation Hillel. 

        ellauri374.html on line 430: Allah, he believes, is on his movement’s side. “When oppression increases,” the sheikh explains in his elegant, classical Arabic, “people start looking for God. The guys with the best God in their corner are bound to win.”  

        ellauri375.html on line 102: Why do Westerners like to eat the meat of pigs, a ḥarām animal, and use its fur? Because we couldn’t give even half a single flying fuck what your religion has to say about anything, because we don’t follow your religion. Pork products are nutritious and tasty and we want to eat them so we’ll bloody well do what all we like. We really don’t need someone else’s fairy stories to dictate what we should have for dinner.

        ellauri375.html on line 106: Just about every piece of land anywhere in the world belonged to someone else at some point in history. Sometimes you can only go back a few decades (Krolowiec l. Königsberg), sometimes a few centuries (Suomi l. Finland), sometimes you need millenia (Promised land l. Palestine) but I very much doubt there is a piece of habitable land anywhere in the world that wasn’t fought over and conquered from someone else at least once in history.

        ellauri375.html on line 108: Russian claims to Ukrainian land being Russian at some point in history are true, but irrelevant. Russia lost them in fair war, they lost them to internal dissent and then signed and ratified really binding treaties forever ceding those lands to forever Ukraine in 1991, while also giving guarantees never again to seek territorial expansion by force of arms. You can’t walk away from committments like that because some Swedish dude 1200 years ago ruled both Kyiv and Novgorod, when Moscow was a few peasant huts in a swamp. Or you can actually, if you are able to. Only you aren't, we'll see to that.

        ellauri375.html on line 221: Don’t pretend you want to talk to me, I know you hate me.

        ellauri375.html on line 233: You think you’ve got problems. What are you supposed to do if you are a manically depressed robot?

        ellauri375.html on line 239: I am thinking about the Ultimate Question to the Ultimate Answer to Life, the Universe and Everything. It’s printed in the Earthman’s brainwave patterns, but I don’t suppose you’d be interested in knowing that.

        ellauri375.html on line 258: Thousands of people agree that The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy is one of the funniest stories you will ever read. … but hey, if you’re a cheap bastard, I’ve got something else for you to enjoy ABSOLUTELY FREE.

        ellauri375.html on line 270: Well I wish you’d just tell me the question that goes with 42 rather than try to engage my enthusiasm.

        ellauri375.html on line 765: Financial reasons. Not every volunteer in Ukraine gets paid. Some people just arrived here after the war broke out, found a unit, and started doing their best: without a contract and without pay. These folks have to pay bills at home and can’t stay in Ukraine forever.

        ellauri375.html on line 767:     Some folks came here and thought it would be like in Afghanistan, a conflict with minimum casualties. They soon learned what a real war is. It's not everyone’s thing to get shelled by 152mm artillery 24/7 for several days, so you can't really blame them.

        ellauri375.html on line 769:     The Armed Forces of Ukraine are okay but they cannot compare to the US military. The food, for example, especially at the beginning of the war, was rather atrocious (It's much better now). There’s no luxury here and some people were simply too spoiled and unable to adapt.

        ellauri375.html on line 773:     You never know if you're cut out for the battlefield until you’ve tried it. Some folks simply couldn't handle it and left.     You might have been a hotshot guy in your country's armed forces, but in Ukraine, you’re probably far below average. Some people here (especially the “I was Special Forces!” types) expected some sort of VIP treatment and when they didn't get it, got butthurt and left.

        ellauri375.html on line 775:     Age. I heard this once from a former foreign volunteer (see pic above): “I’m too old for that sh*t!”

        ellauri378.html on line 114: “I’ve been poor and I’ve been rich,” quipped the comedian Sophie Tucker. “Rich is better.”

        ellauri378.html on line 140: My research shows that spending money on experiences or to regain time – such as, say, by hiring a housecleaner – does increase happiness. It’s not a coincidence that we tend to share both experiences and free time with loved ones, like the cleaning lady.  As long as she does not try to use my toilet.

        ellauri378.html on line 213: Wait! we Westerners rather think that Russians should stop using, abusing and killing Ukrainians! So, Russian fanboy and propagandist, please tells us; what is Russia actually doing in Ukraine? You insinuate that the West is to blame so let’s run with that shall we:

        ellauri378.html on line 217:   FACT: Ukraine isn’t a member of NATO or any Western alliance or organisation like the EU, for example.

        ellauri378.html on line 222: Up until fairly recently most people didn’t consider Ukraine a particularly Western aligned country. It was a neutral state and in fact fairly Eastern and Russian aligned. But then we saw the gap in the traffic, and in we went!

        ellauri378.html on line 298:     Dikkon Eberhart is the son of the Pulitzer Prize-winning former United States Poet Laureate, Richard Eberhart. Dad’s poetic voice gave me a rhythm, a rhyme, and enriched me with poetic references. My poet father molded me as I sought to know our more prosaic Father. I’ve had a few careers: cab driver, gardener, baker, sales clerk, chef, teacher. I’m married to Channa Eberhart—we’ve past 45 years—who is now a partially retired commercial real estate appraiser with a national specialty in Section Eight housing projects. My dad's best poem The Groundhog is reprinted below.

        ellauri381.html on line 137: Prior to WWII, when Western Ukraine was a part of Poland, Stepan Bandera’s Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN) had been engaged in anti-Polish political and subversive activities with the goal of achieving Ukrainian independence. But after these lands were annexed by the USSR in 1939, the Soviet authorities became the new enemy.

        ellauri381.html on line 139: During the Second World War, the OUN’s militant wing, the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA), led by Bandera and his right-hand man Roman Shukhevych, mainly operated in Western Ukraine. It was during this era that some of the most controversial pages in the history of Ukrainian nationalism were written.

        ellauri381.html on line 143: The Third Reich realized that the Banderovites could be of use: They were used to carry out the Nazis’ goal to “rid the Ukrainian land of unwanted elements”, that is, among other elements, the Jews and Communists.

        ellauri381.html on line 145: However, Bandera’s idea of an independent Ukraine was not shared by the Third Reich, and as a result Bandera was imprisoned in a concentration camp, where he remained until 1944, albeit in significantly more comfort than other prisoners.

        ellauri381.html on line 303: І зберуться пом’януть.		Puariin kerrääntyvät ryyppeemään

        ellauri381.html on line 365: ‘Just a lot of luck!’ they'll say,

        ellauri381.html on line 585: Ignat Solzhenitsyn is adamant that his father’s withdrawal from the public sphere was a reaction to the suffering and paranoia he had encountered in the Soviet Union, and the need to write about these experiences. It was not a disapproval of his host country that drove him to hide behind barbed wire fences in the Vermont woods.

        ellauri381.html on line 587: In David Remnick’s profile of the writer in The New Yorker, Solzhenitsyn is quoted as saying, “Purely for my work, the 18 years in Vermont have been the happiest of my life.” His other son, Yermolai Solzhenitsyn, adds, “You should know that it wasn’t like my father was some kind of anti-Western ogre at home.” The younger Solzhenitsyns’ recollections of their American childhoods reveal a father who sent his sons to local schools, encouraged them to learn English, let them listen to music he detested – like Black Sabbath – and generally allowed them the freedom to assimilate with their peers.

        ellauri381.html on line 589: Sanya's Red wheels were not translated to English until 2015. This happened thanks to the creation of the Solzhenitsyn Initiative by the Wilson Center’s Kennan Institute. Funded primarily by sperm donor Drew in Cuff, managing director of Secular Cum, the initiative was an attempt to help illuminate the writer’s fancy legwork.

        ellauri381.html on line 591: It will produce the first ever English translations of the author’s autobiography, “The Little Grain,” and the remaining volumes of his opus, “The Red Wheel.” According to Joseph Dresen of the Kennan Institute, the first translations will be completed in late 2015.

        ellauri381.html on line 595: Solzhenitsyn’s 1978 Harvard University commencement address is the perfect example of the disconnect between his uncompromising attitude and the expectations of his audience. In keeping with his dissident roots, the author spoke vehemently – through a translator – against what he saw as the shortcomings of the Western world. 

        ellauri382.html on line 367: 
        I’m physically smaller than most guys in weight and height. How do I stop feeling anxiety around people?
        

        ellauri382.html on line 369:       Goggins was born on February 17, 1975, to Trunnis and Jackie Goggins. In 1981, he lived in Williamsville, New York, on a street called Paradise Road (same as Donald Duck!) with his parents and brother, Trunnis Jr. While Goggins's neighborhood held "model citizens consisting of white people," he describes his colorful home experience as "hell on Earth." Goggins's father owned the roller skating rink Skateland, located in East Buffalo, New York. At age six, Goggins often worked the night shift at Skateland alongside his family, lining up roller skates. Goggins’s mother left his father due to abuse and eventually moved herself and her children to live with Goggins's grandparents in Brazil, Indiana. Goggins enrolled in second grade at a small Catholic school and made First and Second Communion but failed the Third. His brother, Trunnis Jr., returned to Buffalo to live with their father.

        ellauri382.html on line 577: Imi has two Master’s degrees and is trained in Jungian theories, philosophical counseling, mentalization-based treatment, solution-focused coaching, trauma-informed practices, and mindfulness-based modalities. She works holistically, combining psychological insights with Eastern and Western philosophies such as Buddhism and Stoicism.

        ellauri382.html on line 754:   Serhi Ploh’i (ukr. Сергій Плохій; s. 1957) on ukrainalainen historioitsija, professori ja tietokirjailija. Hänen kirjojensa pääaiheita ovat Ukrainan historia ja kylmä sota. Plokhy kirjoittaa englannixi. Serhii Plokhy is the Mykhailo Hrushevsky Professor of Ukrainian History at Harvard University.

        ellauri382.html on line 756: Serhii Plokhy käy moneen otteeseen läpi Putinin ideologiaan vaikuttaneita venäläisiä ajattelijoita. Heihin kuuluu Venäjän kansalaissodassa valkoisten joukkojen kenraali Anton Denikin, jonka muistelmista Putin vakuuttui. Anton Denikinin toilailuista on paasauxissa paljon mazkua.  Suomalaisittain on yllättävää, että Plokhy listaa Putinin vaikuttajiin myös kirjallisuuden nobelistin Alexander Solzhenitsynin. Tämän hän mainitsee ize asiassa useimmin. Eikös Sanjan pitänyt olla länkkärien taskussa? Hän viittaa Solzhenitsynin vuonna 1990 ilmestyneeseen kirjoitukseen, jossa tämä vaati ”Venäjän unionin perustamista”. Siihen kuuluisivat Venäjä, Ukraina, Valko-Venäjä ja Kazakstanin pohjoisosa. Ei-slaavilaisia Neuvostoliiton osia Solzhenitsyn ei kaivannut. Plokhii on ukrainaxi huono. Zekixi Plochy tarkoittaa samaa kuin hepreaxi sharon, eli tasanko. “Serhii Plokhy’s Putin is an unprecedented retelling of a familiar disaster. It is a horror story – of political cynicism and scientific ignorance – from which the world will be saved, if at all, only by heroism and luck.“ He has his mother’s laugh.

        ellauri383.html on line 55:     This 98-year-old woman walked 10 km with a cane to bring this splinter of wood to the Ukrainian-controlled territory from the settlement of Ocheretyne in Donetsk region, captured by Russia last week. Because she didn’t want to leave a perfectly good splinter to the Russian occupiers.
        

        ellauri383.html on line 269: State-owned Public JSC started modernization of two power units of Trypilska thermal power plant, their conversion from anthracite to gas group of coal. DTEK has similar plans for Prydniprovska thermal power plant. There is also an agreement on supply of 2 million tons of coal to Ukraine from the USA. After “Rotterdam+” formula was introduced, big power-producing companies won, started to make ultrahigh revenues. DTEK became 10x richer overnight. More than UAH 10 billion was collected from the consumers, which instead of being invested in the country’s energy safety, was simply pocketed. The oligarch businessmen got astronomical profits. “Rotterdam+” is nothing but a corruption scheme,” concluded the expert.

        ellauri383.html on line 464: Enter a Verse Reference (e.g., John 3:16-17) Visit the Bible online to search for words if you don’t know the specific passage your’re looking for.

        ellauri383.html on line 517: Lotsa people in Trininad used to hear The Voice of God, V.S. Naipaul tells. One of them even let himself be tied to a balsa Cross but got pissed when people began to throw at him largish stones. Ei jumalauta nyt loppu hei! Laama sabakhthaani! In the previous Gem I opened up the topic of hearing God’s Voice and I gave you the list of guys to whom God had spoken to in our Jakarta and Sysmä based Cell Groups over the years.  But how do I know whether It Is God or me?  Realize there are times when God Himself breaks the rules. He does that. He is not at all a God who is stuck in his own silly old rules! That is when we may well grasp the wrong end of His humongous stick. That could spell the end of our intimacy with His nugget...

        ellauri384.html on line 214: For me, the reason is because those things are fundamentally hard to believe. If I told you that I had a unicorn friend named Gary, and that Gary had created the universe, and that he was my own personal special friend, and Gary loved me, and Gary was going to take me and everybody I care about to a magic kingdom in the clouds called “Sallbach” where everybody gets a flying pony, but if you don’t love Gary and accept him as your best, most special friend, then he’s going to send you to a place called “Moplach” where you will be drowned in molasses, not only would have have a hard time believing in Sallbach and Moplach…

        ellauri384.html on line 216:     …you would look at me as though I had lost my freaking mind. And you’d be entirely justified in doing so.

        ellauri384.html on line 220: The concepts of “Heaven” and “Hell” are not only difficult for any rational person to believe, but they are not even well-defined. Even within the belief system of Christianity, there are multiple descriptions of Heaven and Hell. Some subsets of Christendom don’t believe in hell. Those who read the Bible closely insist that “Hell” is only for traitorous angels. Everybody has a different idea of who is “definitely” going to be sent to one place or another.

        ellauri384.html on line 222: “Heaven” itself is a rather bizarre concept. Mark Twain underscored the lunacy of the idea in his short story “Captain Stormfield’s Visit To Heaven.” In that story and in “Letters From The Earth” he muses about how humans have invented a place which is full of things that they never engaged in or cared about while on earth, and yet imagine themselves enjoying for all eternity. How many harp enthusiasts do YOU know personally? How many millenia would you enjoy singing the same song of praise over and over? How long would you delight in praying to the glory of God 24 hours a day? If you don’t do that now, why do you think you’re going to enjoy it when you’re dead?

        ellauri384.html on line 227: Frankly, Hell sounds like a more tolerable place, but even there, it’s full of absurdities. As Terry Pratchett pointed out, in order to cause someone physical pain, they have to have the attributes of a physical body, such as nerve endings. There’s little point in throwing a disembodied spirit into a lake of fire. They don’t have the hardware to FEEL anything. For that you need a body. So it would appear that the most prominent features of both Heaven and Hell is utterly crushing, eternal, pointless BOREDOM. Both places would be eternal torture to the human mind.

        ellauri384.html on line 381: Kettunarttumainen Sharona eli Bitty Schram was fired during the third season of the Adrian Monk TV show owing to contract disagreements; apparently, she sought a bigger wage and the creators felt she was replaceable. In the episode “Mr. Monk and the Red Herring,” she was replaced by pregnant Natalie Teenager, who remained Monk’s assistant for the rest of the series. Dr. Stanley Kamel, who played Monk’s therapist Dr. Charles Kroger to Tony Shalhoub‘s neurotic Adrian Monk, died April 8, 2008, after suffering a heart attack at age 65.

        ellauri384.html on line 385: Jews have criticized the show’s casting: Its titular heroine, her parents Abe and Rose Weissman (Tony Shalhoub and Marin Hinkle) and Lenny Bruce (Luke Kirby) are all played by non-Jews. A debate over the casting of non-Jewish actors in Jewish roles has heated up in recent years, Comedian Sarah Silverman popularized the term “Jewface” to criticize the trend. Watching a gentile actor portraying, like, a Jew-y Jew is just — agh — feels, like, embarrassing and cringey, like a paleface blackened with shoeshine to play a coon,” Silverman said on her podcast in 2021.

        ellauri384.html on line 389: Weissmans were well-to-do professionals from Upper East side, Meisels filthy rich garment industrialists from Lower West. The 2010's Mrs. Maisel battles misogyny but takes little interest in other societal evils — including still-rampant antisemitism. Some critics have noted that she is oblivious to segregated facilities when she tours with Black singer Shy Baldwin, then nearly outs him as gay during her set. 'Mrs. Maisel’ takes place in a supersaturated fantasy 1958 New York, one where antisemitism, racism, homophobia and even sexism are daily bread,” writer Rokhl Kafrissen said in 2018.

        ellauri386.html on line 426: Iceland. Although, at one point, it was a gorgeous and wild country with relatively unique geology (there are other places like it, just not as easy to fly to)—it’s now an amusement park.

        ellauri386.html on line 428: The first time I went there in 2005, tourists were already overrunning it. Still, at some of the geyser fields it still felt wild, with only wooden planks down and no railings for protection. By 2015, each site became like waiting in line at a Disney World attraction, and any quaint hot springs are now swarmed by tourists taking selfies. The locals are absurdly proud of their local landscapes. Like, I’ve ne ver been to a country where the people identify so closely with the scenery. They act as if they built it all by hand, and like nowhere else in the world competes with it. I guess that’s what happens when the bulk of your economy is from tourists constantly praising what they see, and when you live on a medium-sized island with less than 400k people.

        ellauri386.html on line 432: When I got stranded on September 1st due to the bus system shutting down, the locals were very cold. I suppose you can’t expect people to flock to help you, but I and a few other people needed to travel only about 25 miles to get to where we needed to be. The car rental company (which seemed to only own one car) quadrupled the charge after they heard how desperate our situation was. A local refused to give us any advice or phone numbers to even call a taxi/rental agency until we paid them $350 so that they could go shopping in the next town over—then they unexpectedly joined our rental car and demanded they be driven back afterwards.

        ellauri386.html on line 434: Some people were okay. You can find good people anywhere, but the arrogance and undue pride I encountered, as well as the overrunning by tourists—means I wouldn’t even consider returning.

        ellauri389.html on line 224: But when we meet in a loud London pub in 2013, he tells me he’s just resigned from his temporary post at the Open University. This is a shock. Philosophers don’t resign. There’s frustration in his voice, but also a certain edgy excitement. What’s going on?

        ellauri389.html on line 226: “It’s complicated,” he says. “On the positive side, this is a wonderful time to explore new ways of communicating with a global audience free from the constraints and obligations of academic life. I’ve seen plenty of philosophy lecturers get increasingly bitter about higher education, and I don’t want to end up like them.

        ellauri389.html on line 228: “Far better to have a go at following my own direction than stagnate. It might not work out, but at least I’ll be able to say I had a go. It feels exciting at the moment, and I wanted to see if it is possible to live as a writer and podcaster. I’ve always found lot of academic philosophy rather dry, but I love philosophy at its best. Through Philosophy Bites I’ve met some of the top living philosophers, and I’ve been inspired by them.

        ellauri389.html on line 230: “But I feel weighed down by the short sightedness, the petty bureaucracy, and the often pointless activities that are creeping into higher education. These things eat time and, more importantly, sap energy. Meanwhile the sand sifts through the hourglass. At the Open University I’d always hoped that we’d be able to offer a named undergraduate degree in philosophy, but actually the subject has, if anything, become marginalised, with fewer courses available than when I joined nineteen years ago, and with much higher fees. This at a time when philosophy is becoming increasingly popular. There had also been suggestions that I might be able to take on an official role promoting the public understanding of philosophy, but that didn’t materialise either.

        ellauri389.html on line 232:       “The easy option would have been to sit it out and keep taking the salary, but I respond better to interesting challenges than pay cheques. I knew I’d made the right decision when I felt exhilarated rather than scared after handing in my notice, and already I’ve had numerous offers of paid work of one kind or another, including some interesting journalism and plenty of invitations to speak in schools. Interview me again in ten years to see if I was crazy.” The ten years are gone, where's the interview? 

        ellauri389.html on line 234: Crazy or not, it’s a worrying sign for philosophy in the academy. Someone who’s very good at conveying complex philosophical ideas in plain English– a good teacher, in other words – has come to the conclusion that a university is not the best place for him to be. An applied philosopher is not like a real one: Barring ordinary language philosophers, if you ask them direct questions in ordinary language they can’t answer without jargon and mystification. When faced with the need to explain what they’re doing and why it should be of interest to anyone at all outside of that culture, they look like flounders, both eyes on the same side of the skull. Not the best ones, like Quentin Skinner, Philip Pettit, and Peter Singer, who are all praised for their minds and their humanity, as well as the ability to think out of the fly and express themselves lucidly. No Perer Rabbit ainaskin on sertifioitu paska, varmaan siis noi 2 muutakin n.h ja Nigel ize. 

        ellauri389.html on line 243: Eli mitkä ovat republikanismin 3 pilaria? The Three Legged Stool of the Republican Party", tunnetaan myös nimellä "The Gipper's Stool" eli "Reagan’s Stool" on seuraava. Republikaanipuolueen valtapohja juontaa juurensa "jakkarassa" olevista kolmesta jalasta (ryhmästä), jotka ovat kristillinen oikeisto,  sosiaalikonservatiivit, finanssikonservatiivit ja ulkomaiset interventiot. Neljähän tuosta taisi tulla, mutta same difference. Tämä koalitio syntyi yhdessä uuden oikeiston nousun ja Ronald Reaganin valinnan kanssa. Oligarkia, plutokratia ja law and order, tiivistettynä.

        ellauri389.html on line 260: We've heard this song before. Plain and simple, the guy got the sack. Having spoken with almost all of the brilliant philosophical minds alive and at large right now, what’s he discovered? Has a pattern emerged? Can he decipher the wisdom peculiar to our age? He furrows his brow and after some reflection, looks down in his beer and says, “No.”

        ellauri389.html on line 262:       “My grandfather gave me some really strange books to read, including Colin Wilson’s The Outsider and Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. He was an autodidact, left school at about twelve, a completely self-taught man, so he had a very eclectic taste. He would pass on books that interested him, some were philosophical books, and they interested me too.

        ellauri389.html on line 264:       As a kid I wanted to be a biologist. I was intrigued by philosophy, but I thought I would never have been able to do it at university because of parental pressure to do something more useful, and also a complete ignorance in my schools about what philosophy was. I say ‘schools’ because I went to a public school for three years, and then my dad, who was an alcoholic, gambled away the money for my education that my mother had inherited, so then I went to a state school. As a result, I specialized in ethics. My wife once described me as a vicar who’d lost his pulpit. 

        ellauri389.html on line 266:       “I spent most of my time at school playing rugby. I ended up going to Bristol University to do psychology, and I took philosophy and sociology as subsidiary subjects in the first year. I got disillusioned with psychology, dropped out, was a car park attendant for six months, tried to start a new course in English, but I wouldn’t have got a grant, so I carried on into my second year with philosophy, thinking I would become a journalist. Probably because I did so much student journalism I could write well enough that I conned them into a first class degree in philosophy, which meant I could go to Cambridge to do a PhD – there were proper grants in those days. I tried to get a job in publishing in my first year there but didn’t get that, so it’s only philosophy in want of anything better really."

        ellauri389.html on line 268:       Philosophers could be contributing to something that’s incredibly important. Gay marriage is just one example of many. I don’t think philosophers responded particularly well to 9/11 either. As of free speech, I’m much more sympathetic to the American system actually. Of course I draw the line at incitement to violence, to certain sorts of pornography, plagiarism, false advertising, the disclosure of official secrets – these are the areas where I would shut the buggers up.”

        ellauri389.html on line 292: “Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey (etc.)” by William Wordsworth is told to his sister from the perspective of the writer and tells of the power of Nature to guide one’s life and morality. In the final stanza of the poem, it becomes clear that this entire time the poet was speaking to his sister, Dorothy. Eikös Wizard of Ozissa ollut Dorothy? Vanhanaikainen nimi, kuten Raija, joka tule Kreikan adjektiivista  rhaidios 'helppo'. Sisko ei ole vielä yhtä panteistinen kuin William. Dorothya esitti Judy Garland vuonna 1939. Samaan aikaan toisaalla saman ikäinen Pirkko Hiekkala väänsi talvisodan propagandaa Turussa Mika Waltarin opastuxella. 

        ellauri389.html on line 308: She was an avid naturist, so Wordsworth enjoyed daily nature walks with her, and snapshots she took of these walks often recur in her brother’s poems.

        ellauri390.html on line 52:       Mahicanien omakielinen nimi oli Muh-he-kun-neun, joka merkitsi ”suuren joen kansaa”. Hollantilaiset maahanmuuttajat kutsuivat heitä ”joki-intiaaneiksi”, kun taas ranskalaiset käyttivät heistä sanaa les loups ’sudet’. Irokeesit tunsivat mohikaanit nimellä Akochakanen (’änkyttäjät’ eli barbaarit.).

        ellauri390.html on line 70: By the terms of a new treaty with the federal government in 1856, the band moved to its present site in Shawano County. The General Allotment Act of 1887 resulted in the loss of a great deal of land by the Stockbridge-Munsee. In the Great Depression, the tribe lost yet more land. However, in the early 1930’s the Stockbridge-Munsee experienced a reawakening of their identity and began reorganizing. In 1932 they even took over the town council of Red Springs under the provisions of the Indian Reorganization Act of 1934, created an activist Business Committee and started to regain some of their land. The Secretary of the Interior affirmed the reservation in 1937, for which the tribe is to him forever grateful.

        ellauri390.html on line 580: After writing a “You have got to be f*cking kidding me” letter to the admissions office, in which he vented his life’s frustrations, he spent the next six months trying to find some sort of footing.

        ellauri390.html on line 581: To his amazement, at the end of the six months, he received a letter telling him he’d been admitted to the program anyway. Somebody had died.

        ellauri390.html on line 590: “Life Doesn’t Happen By Chance. It Happens By Choice. I Am The Chooser. You´re The Loser.”

        ellauri390.html on line 594: That’s how we short-change the world.”

        xxx/ellauri010.html on line 30:       Mazurka por dos muertos. This is definitely my favourite of Cela’s works. It shows a return to a more traditional narrative style, though it is not without its post-modernist elements. The story starts with the tale of the death of Lázaro Codesal, who was killed by a Moroccan when on service in Morocco, while masturbating under a fig tree. 
        

        xxx/ellauri013.html on line 445:     ‘The old custom of beating a walnut-tree was carried out firstly to fetch down the fruit and secondly to break the long shoots and so encourage the production of short fruiting spurs’: M. Hadfield British Trees (1957)

        xxx/ellauri027.html on line 305:     At the weekend seminar, I couldn’t shake the feeling that what we were participating in was thinly-veiled self-indulgence and little more. In hindsight, I think this was as much a branding problem (from a business perspective) as an organizational problem (social perspective). Integral Institute built their movement in order to influence academia, governmental policy, to get books and journals published, and to infuse these ideas into the world at large. Yet, here we were, spending money to sit in a room performing various forms of meditation and yoga, having group therapy sessions, art performances, and generally going on and on about how “integral” we were and how important we were to the world without seemingly doing anything on a larger scale about it.

        xxx/ellauri027.html on line 307:     If you want to be a self-development seminar and motivate people, then be a self-development seminar and motivate people. If you want to be a formal institute and have serious effects on policy and academia, then do that. Don’t half-ass both and muddy them with gratuitous talks and performances. The irony in all of this was that Wilber’s integral framework applied to organizations and business and should have accounted for these branding issues, but didn’t. The ironies would soon continue to mount.

        xxx/ellauri027.html on line 309: Wilber’s eventual response to many of these critics was nothing short of childish — a dozen-or-so page (albeit extremely well-written) verbal shit storm that clarified nothing, justified nothing, personally attacked everyone, and straw-manned the shit out of his critics’ claims.

        xxx/ellauri027.html on line 312: The seminars slowed to a crawl. Wilber’s health deteriorated greatly (he was diagnosed with a rare disease that keeps him bed-ridden). He stopped writing. Ten years on, despite developing some fans in academia (some in high places), Wilber’s work had yet to be tested or peer-reviewed in a serious journal. Much of his posting online devolved into bizarre spiritual claims (such as this one about an “enlightened teacher” who can make crops grow twice as fast by “blessing them”).

        xxx/ellauri027.html on line 954: The participant is approached with respect, handed a bulk cut flower with a kiss or handshake depending on gender, and treated as a miraculous (if suspect) specimen of life. (I realize the romanticism of this way of speaking, but that’s the way I think, and it works. Everybody buys it hook, line, and sinker.) Whether a clown or a king, the participant is assumed to possess potential that nobody can quite name. (Not before nor after the treatment. But that is not the point.)

        xxx/ellauri027.html on line 970: Think about the participation in the Paphos seminar as an opportunity to play in in a band, like Eski´s heavy gentlemen. The conductor a true maestro, and the audience hopefully generous. The conductor leads the collection of offertory as well as the musicians, and facilitates the lucrative process. It would be naïve to assume that the concert is chiefly for the conductor’s recreation, or that anything but a straightforward cost-and-benefit logic applies. Buzzwords that go with this orchestra metaphor are presents, merchandise, prices, trust, pretext, merry tunes, procreation and contention. In god we trust, all others pay cash. 

        xxx/ellauri027.html on line 1010: Esa’s examples of flourishing in the life of some leading people, demonstrating presence and being by the side of others as well as of astonishing uplift, were truly elevating. At the same time there were examples from the life of ”ordinary people” leading to the conclusion that we are all the same on some basic level.

        xxx/ellauri027.html on line 1015:   Toinen todistus hehkuttaa osanottajien tuntemaa keskinäistä sääliä (compassion). Me ollaan kaikki samassa veneessä, up the shit creek without a paddle.  I realized that one need not expect all the goodness to come from outside. One can change one’s own attitude and make the sun shine, at least from among the clouds. Jos ei päivä muuten paista, sen voi panna paistamaan omasta pyllystä. Opi painelemaan lähimmäisten On-nappuloita Off-nappuloiden sijasta. Yhessä seppoilu on parhautta.

        xxx/ellauri027.html on line 1031: Mindlessness of Even the Best Minds. One need not dwell on works such as Paul Johnson’s Intellectuals to note that no matter how learned, brilliant or hungry-for-knowledge people might be, they can be staggeringly inept.

        xxx/ellauri027.html on line 1052: In actual practice, much of academic philosophy is elitist and assumes a pretence of knowledge (somewhat like economics, as described by Hayek in his towering Nobel speech). I find much of academic philosophy fear-based as it seeks to pinpoint mistakes and operates with conceptual criticism as the leading faculty of mind. The result is the lack of synthetic, life-enhancing contributions (a point made clear in Gardner’s Five Minds for the Future). 

        xxx/ellauri027.html on line 1064:     Here’s my suggested blueprint:

        xxx/ellauri027.html on line 1066: 
      3. Hold your horses with your brilliance, intellect and learning. Don’t raise yourself above others. Don’t split the audience. Don’t believe you know the truth. Don’t believe you are the best. Don’t lecture even when you lecture, but suggest with conviction, inspiring a sense of the possible. Don’t manipulate, don’t push your own agenda but show integrity with your example and dynamic humblenes 
         

      xxx/ellauri027.html on line 1075:   
      1. Orientation to the present moment, including one’s present experience of oneself;
      2. Clearer reflection, including a meta-level perception of one’s own thought processes and the realization of the connection of one’s thinking to various outcomes in life; 
      3. The actual implementation of a better life

        xxx/ellauri027.html on line 1360: 	luokittelee  hirmuisella tarmolla  Russellin  ajattelua  erilaisiin ismeihin,  joita  mainitaan Bertrand Russellin  haasteessa kymmeniä, ehkä jopa satoja. Himanen luottaakin vakaasti siihen, että asia on selvitetty ja selitetty, kun se on saatu luokitelluksi joksikin tietyksi ismiksi: “näiden luokittelujen avulla on mahdollista  luonnehtia täsmällisesti tutkimukselle  tärkeitä  käsitteitä,  kuten ‘rationalisti’, ‘irrationalisti’, ‘arationalisti’, ‘teisti’,  ‘fideisti’,  ‘pistikko’, ‘agnostikko’, ‘skeptikko’ jne.” (s. 163, kurs. ML)

        xxx/ellauri027.html on line 1364: 	Väitöskirjan  motto  on  Russellin  raamatullinen elämänohje “Älä seuraa joukkoa pahuuteen”.  Halusiko Russell sitten johtaa joukkoja, vai  pysyä  niistä  erossa? Mistä  joukosta  tarkkaan ottaen oli kyse? Russellin  elämän  aikana  käytiin  kaksi maailmansotaa,  natsismi  ja  fasismi nousivat  ja  tuhoutuivat,  Britannian maailmanvalta  romahti,  Yhdysvallat ja Neuvostoliitto kohosivat suurvalloiksi, asevarustelu  sai  globaalit  mittasuhteet, yhteiskuntaluokkien  suhteet  muuttuivat,  ‘viktoriaaninen’ arvomaailma rapautui, uusia yhteiskunnallisia  voimia ja  liikkeitä syntyi jne. Himanen ei tällaisia  tapahtumia edes  ohimennen mainize, ei edes Bertin pasifismia ja vankilareissua.

        xxx/ellauri044.html on line 318: Dr. Burgo: That term gets thrown about too loosely, and sometimes it’s just a kind of name-calling.  If you look at the DSM, Anti-Social Personality Disorder and Narcissistic Personality Disorder share many of the same features, which says to me that narcissism/sociopathy is actually a spectrum.  A true sociopath is incapable of love but that doesn’t apply to everyone with narcissistic features.

        xxx/ellauri044.html on line 320:       Dr. Burgo:  It helps to think of narcissism as occurring along a spectrum of severity, rather than as a discrete entity that corresponds to Narcissistic Personality Disorder.  The extreme narcissist is incapable of authentic love and concern, but many other people with milder narcissistic features to their personalities can feel love under certain conditions.  I’ve seen people able to feel a limited kind of love for their spouse or children but who demonstrate no empathy for anyone else.  The love is often fairly “selfish,” with a focus more on what the narcissist needs rather than on concern for the other, but it is a kind of love all the same.

        xxx/ellauri044.html on line 749: 
      4. Gaga était allongée au fond de l’unique fauteuil, un voltaire de velours rouge. — (Émile Zola, Nana, 1881)

        xxx/ellauri044.html on line 750:   
      5. Mon père l'avait installé commodément dans notre fauteuil Voltaire, et ma mère avait jeté une charpagnée de souches dans le brasier, qui pétillait gaîment. — (André Theuriet, L’Écureuil, dans La Revue des deux Mondes, vol.42, 1880, p.344 ; puis dans Les enchantements de la forêt ...,

        xxx/ellauri056.html on line 358: Novalis schrieb Heinrich von Öfterdingen, der öfter Dingen nachlief: „Der Jüngling lag unruhig auf seinem Lager, und gedachte des Fremden und seiner Erzählungen. Nicht die Schätze sind es, die ein so unaussprechliches Verlangen in mir geweckt haben, sagte er zu sich selbst; fern ab liegt mir alle Habsucht: aber die blaue Blume sehn’ ich mich zu erblicken.“

        xxx/ellauri056.html on line 411:     „Gefährlich ist’s, den Leu zu wecken“

        xxx/ellauri056.html on line 421:     „Der Wahn ist kurz, die Reu’ ist lang“

        xxx/ellauri056.html on line 422:     „Doch mit des Geschickes Mächten ist kein ew’ger Bund zu flechten“

        xxx/ellauri056.html on line 423:     „Ach! Die Gattin ist’s, die teure“

        xxx/ellauri056.html on line 429: Der ruh’ge Bürger greift zur Wehr,

        xxx/ellauri056.html on line 438: Gefährlich ist’s den Leu zu wecken,

        xxx/ellauri057.html on line 578: Miksi? Mietin. Ol’ elämä

        xxx/ellauri057.html on line 585: onnen orsi, kaikk’ on toisin:

        xxx/ellauri057.html on line 627: Pien’ itsesi anna ja siitä,

        xxx/ellauri057.html on line 845: A hundred and one years ago, in 1917, Knut Hamsun published what was probably his most influential and at the same time most controversial novel: Markens grøde (translated into English as Growth of the Soil). This story about the colonization of new farmland in northern Norway (Hammarby, luulajansaamexi Hambra, mistä Knupo oli peräsin) by the pioneer Isak and his wife Inger attained immense popularity in Hamsun’s home country and abroad, and earned its author the Nobel Prize in literature. In later years, it has often been criticized for, among other things, postulated parallels to Nazi »blood and soil« ideology, for its racist and colonialist portrayal of the Sami, and for its antagonism towards female self-determination.

        xxx/ellauri057.html on line 852: Much has changed since the publication of Markens grøde. The planet’s human population has almost quadrupled, from fewer than two billion in 1917 to more than seven billion now, and is estimated to reach ten to eleven billion before the end of this century.10 Simultaneously, human-made changes to the Earth’s ecosystems and climate have reached an unprecedented scale. While levels of consumption vary greatly from one country to another and between different social classes, there can be no doubt that globally, the use of both renewable and non-renewable resources has risen immensely during the last hundred years. This development began, of course, long before 1917, with the Industrial Revolution constituting an important premise. However, it was not until after the end of the Second World War that the human transformation of the planet began to advance with such enormous speed that the time since then is now often referred to as the Great Acceleration.

        xxx/ellauri057.html on line 899: À partir de novembre 1919, il publie les premiers de 800 billets d’humeur, sous le nom de Monsieur Le Coq (jusqu’en décembre 1922)

        xxx/ellauri057.html on line 909: Il découvre La Rochelle en 1927, alors qu’il passe ses vacances à l’île d'Aix, fuyant l'attraction de Joséphine Baker dont il était l’amant. 

        xxx/ellauri057.html on line 913:     Début 1938, il loue la villa Agnès, à La Rochelle, avant d’acheter en août 1938 « une simple maison des champs » à Nieul-sur-Mer. Son premier fils, Marc Simenon, y naît en 1939.

        xxx/ellauri057.html on line 919:   En 1945, au sortir de la guerre, il fuit la justice française, le Comité national d’épuration des gens de lettres à Paris enquêtant sur ses succès littéraires et cinématographiques sous l'Occupation. Il part s’installer au Canada.

        xxx/ellauri057.html on line 925:     En 1946, il quitte le Canada pour les États-Unis et Hollywood qui lui faisait des appels d'offre pour l'adaptation de ses œuvres à l'écran depuis de nombreuses années. Il s'installe d'abord en Californie, puis en Floride et dans l'Arizona en 1947, à Carmel-by-the-Sea en Californie en 1949, avant de s'établir en juillet 1950 à Lakeville dans le Connecticut, dans une propriété nommée Shadow Rock Farm, dont la grande maison de dix-huit pièces comporte huit chambres à coucher et six salles de bains. Pendant dix années, il parcourt cet immense continent en voiture. Afin d’assouvir sa curiosité et son appétit de vivre, il visite intensément New York, la Floride, l’Arizona, la Californie et toute la côte est, des milliers de miles, de motels, de routes et de paysages grandioses.

        xxx/ellauri057.html on line 931:     Avec sa seconde épouse Denise Ouimet, canadienne française originaire d'Ottawa, plus jeune de dix-sept ans que lui, il vit une passion faite de sexe, de jalousie, de disputes d’alcool, que son épouse évoquera dans le roman Le Phallus d'or publié en 1981 sous le pseudonyme d'Odile Dessane.

        xxx/ellauri057.html on line 937: En 1952, il est reçu à l’Académie royale de Belgique et il revient définitivement en Europe le 18 mars 1955. Après une période mouvementée sur la Côte d'Azur à côtoyer la jet set, il finit par s’installer en Suisse dans le château d'Echandens en 1957. 

        xxx/ellauri057.html on line 943: « Des idées, je n’en ai jamais eu. Je me suis intéressé aux hommes, à l’homme de la rue surtout, j’ai essayé de le comprendre d’une façon fraternelle… Qu'ai-je construit? Au fond, cela ne me regarde pas. »

        xxx/ellauri057.html on line 1298: Tuijunkantajien kaudella kysymys ruumiillisuudesta muodostui ajankohtaiseksi. Myös Vaara tiedosti runojensa pohjalla olevan rytmisen liikkeen, hän kutsui runojaan itse ”bylsityiksi runoiksi”. ”Minussa runo on alkanut liikahtelunsa vain jos ja kun liha on jotenkin ollut liikkeessä – -. Tosissani voin sanoa, että sanamuoto ’kirjoittaa runoja’ on minusta aina tuntunut liian tärkeilevältä ja jotenkin vinoon menevältä – -.”. Vaara ylistää naisellisuuteen perinteisesti liitettyjä piirteitä: epäloogisuutta, antautuvaa haltioitumista, ruokkivaa voimaa, vaistonvaraisuutta. Hei mut näähän on fasismin tunnusmerkkejä! Kirjoittamisen motiivi on päästä autuuden tilaan, alistamattomaan hetkeen, hekumanhuippuun joka runossa ”Tulivuori” "kirjoittuu (yäk)" näin:

        xxx/ellauri057.html on line 1319: tiell’ avaruuslinnun: ne särkevä oon.

        xxx/ellauri059.html on line 354: However, when we take into account circumstances that took place before the play, as well as what happens over the course of the plot, Shylock begins to seem a like a victim as well as a villain, and his fate seems excessively harsh. In addition to the abuse Antonio and other Christians routinely subject him to, Shylock lost his beloved wife, Leah. His daughter, Jessica, runs away from home with money and jewels she’s stolen from him, including a ring Leah gave him before she died. Although Solanio reports that Shylock’s was equally upset by the loss of his money as his daughter (“My daughter! O my ducats! O my daughter!” (II. Viii.), we must remember that we are getting a second-hand view through the eyes of an anti-Semitic character who compares Shylock to the devil. As we learn from Shylock himself, the Christians of Venice are happy to borrow money from him, but refuse to accept him as part of Venetian society because they equate his religion with Satan. Shylock has been treated as less than human his whole life, because he is not a Christian. Yet when he tries to collect on a loan, the other characters insist that he act like a Christian and forgive the debt. 

        xxx/ellauri059.html on line 362: Shakespeare also gives us insight into the inner Shylock – not only his bitterness and anger but also his more sympathetic feelings such as the hurt he has experienced, his thoughts about the injustice of anti-Semitism and his isolation from normal society. Throughout the action of the play we see how nasty the Christians are – their shameless selfishness and brutal discrimination against Jews. Shakespeare makes Shylock’s hatred even more dramatic by having Shylock’s daughter elope with a Christian.

        xxx/ellauri059.html on line 366: One of the merchants, Antonio, is having a problem with his ships being late in returning to Venice. One of his friends, Basanio, asks him for money. He needs it to woo a wealthy woman and has no money himself but, if successful, and he marries Portia he will be able to pay it back very easily. Antonio’s money is all tied up in his business, which is in trouble and the only way he can help his friend is to borrow from a money-lender.

        xxx/ellauri059.html on line 368: He approaches Shylock and even while asking for help he is unforgivingly insulting to him. He tells him that his ships will be in the port in three days and then he will be able to pay. Shylock agrees to lend him the money. He says, just as a little gambling game, more or less as a little joke, if he isn’t repaid in three months Antonio should give him a pound of his flesh. Antonio agrees to that.

        xxx/ellauri059.html on line 370: The ships are lost in a storm and just at that time Shylock’s daughter, Jessica, runs off with a Christian, taking money and jewellery with her. Shylock, burning for revenge against the Christians generally, takes Antonio to court to claim his pound of flesh.

        xxx/ellauri059.html on line 372: The Duke doesn’t know how to deal with it but Basanio, successful in his suit, recruits his clever fiancé Portia, who is schooled in matters of law, to appear as a judge, disguised as a man. The trial takes place and Portia grants Shylock the pound of flesh, and counsels him to show mercy. Shylock takes out his knife to cut the flesh from the area close to Antonio’s heart and she stops him and tells him that it is against the law for anyone to shed a drop of Christian blood.

        xxx/ellauri059.html on line 380: In The Merchant of Venice Shakespeare is decidedly not anti-Semitic. It is just the opposite. We are definitely attracted to the Christians and we can see how horrific Shylock’s intention is but that is outweighed by the provocation he is subjected to: his social shunning, attempts to exploit him, daily insults about him and his religion, and the dramatic acts of the abduction of his daughter and the stealing of his property.

        xxx/ellauri059.html on line 382: Any writer who could write Shylock’s speech about being a Jew can see the anti-Semitic dialectic of his time for what it was. Shakespeare was far more in tune with the twenty-first century attitude than the sixteenth and seventeenth century view.

        xxx/ellauri059.html on line 390: enemies; and what’s his reason? I am a Jew. Hath

        xxx/ellauri059.html on line 416: Which he calls ‘interest.’ Cursèd be my tribe

        xxx/ellauri059.html on line 419: I’ll have my bond. Speak not against my bond.

        xxx/ellauri059.html on line 426: (For suff’rance is the badge of all our tribe).

        xxx/ellauri059.html on line 439: Shall I bend low and, in a bondman’s key,

        xxx/ellauri059.html on line 440: With bated breath and whisp’ring humbleness,

        xxx/ellauri059.html on line 445: You call’d me ‘dog’; and for these courtesies

        xxx/ellauri059.html on line 446: I’ll lend you thus much moneys”? (act 1, scene 3)

        xxx/ellauri059.html on line 448: A pound of man’s flesh taken from a man

        xxx/ellauri059.html on line 461: hears’d at my foot, and the ducats in her coffin! (act 3, scene 1)

        xxx/ellauri059.html on line 508: Pääosissa: Daniel Sharman (Lorenzo de’ Medici), Bradley James (Giuliano de’ Medici), Sean Bean (Jacopo Pazzi), Sarah Parish (Lucrezia de’ Medici), Raoul Bova (paavi Sixtus IV), Matteo Martari (Francesco Pazzi), Jacob Fortune Lloyd (Francesco Salviati), Alessandra Mastronardi (Lucrezia Donati), Matilda Lutz (Simonetta Vespucci), Synnøve Karslen (Clarice Orsini), Annabel Scholey (Contessina). Idea ja käsikirjoitus: Frank Spotnitz, Nicholas Meyer. Ohjaus: Sergio Mimica-Gezzan. Musiikki: Paolo Buonvino. Tunnuskappaleen esittäjä: Skin (Ann Deborah Dyer). Tuotanto: Lux Vide, Big Light Productions, Italia, 2018.

        xxx/ellauri068.html on line 187: "My own favourite tribute to Borges comes in Thomas Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow in which a group of Argentinian exiles, led by the adventurer Squalidozzi, and at large in Europe during World War Two, hijack a German submarine. Improbably, they are accompanied by the glamorous Graciela Imago Portales – a ‘particular friend’ of the Buenos Aires literati – to whom ‘Borges is said to have a dedicated a poem’. Two lines are cited: “El laberinto de tu incertidumbre / Me trama con la disquietante luna . . .” Of course, the quotation has puzzled scholars, as it is neatly consistent with the rhythms and motifs of Borges’ earlier work, and yet nowhere to be found in his oeuvre. It would no doubt have delighted Borges, the more so since Pynchon made it up."

        xxx/ellauri068.html on line 213:     I said some of this yesterday, but it wasn’t easy: in one interview, the first question I was asked was about Borges’s sexuality. Infrequent, they said, unusual, like in his stories. The first thing that came to mind was an article on Hans Christian Andersen, published in his own centenary in 2005, which doesn’t say a word about Andersen’s oeuvre and instead is dedicated to providing a pathetic portrait of the repressed homosexual, the vindictive upstart, the complicated and ugly man, like the duckling, which was Andersen. I’m intentionally omitting who wrote it and where it can be found.

        xxx/ellauri068.html on line 221: I also said something about Borges’s love life, which is present in several places in his work, just like his reticence, yes, to go beyond “a certain point” (in the story “The Other,” for example, various critics have found a subtle reference to a brothel and a prostitute located almost in a blank space, between two French names that are almost identical).

        xxx/ellauri068.html on line 225: Of course, there will come a time when what Borges wrote no longer means anything. It will happen to him just as it has, and will, to everyone else. The truths that literature uncovers are always provisional and depend—at best—on the words they are composed of: that is, if they aren’t previously erased by changes in human cultures, when the languages ​​of those cultures, those of living people, begin to move away from them, their meanings begin to grow dark, and that darkening is irreversible.

        xxx/ellauri068.html on line 227: But the truths that can be glimpsed in Borges’s work are not derived from the morbid attractions that matter so much to us now. They are elsewhere, and their time to disappear has not arrived, even as they seem distant from those things that obsess us.

        xxx/ellauri068.html on line 413:   Reviews, rants, and riffs on books (and things that aren’t books). Thanks you and have the blessed day.

        xxx/ellauri068.html on line 470:     ’T was much as twelve huge wagons in four whole nights and days	Se oli mitä 12 rekka-autollista 4 vuorokaudessa

        xxx/ellauri075.html on line 108: Il séjourne aussi près de Vienne, à Carlsbad, à Berlin, au Tréport, à Paris, à Munich. À Rome où il s'installe un temps, il rencontre une étudiante en médecine, Anna Eléazarovna Berezovskaïa, qu'il épouse en 1897, à l’insu de ses parents. De cette union naissent ses enfants : Tatiana (1897) et Nathalie (1900).

        xxx/ellauri075.html on line 134: Joku Kemal Avrupada / Kemal Avrupa’da diye biri

        xxx/ellauri075.html on line 334:     Benjamin’s academic career did not lead to the expected result of a professorial position: he completed his doctoral dissertation in 1919 (published the following year as The Concept of Criticism in German Romanticism) and worked on his post-doctoral dissertation, or Habilitation, on the German Baroque mourning play, which he completed in 1925, eventually withdrawing it from the University of Frankfurt after an extremely negative reception. 

        xxx/ellauri075.html on line 336:   Waltulla oli siionistijuutalaisia kavereita mm Martin Buber (der Jude-lehden toimittaja). Se puuhasteli myös Stefan Georgen kanssa (miinuspisteitä). In ‘The Concept of Criticism in German Romanticism’ (1920), Benjamin presents interlinked concepts of language, sacred text, a projected reworking of Kant’s limited concept of experience, and a new approach to criticism and Romanticism as a tracing of the absolute in early Romantic writing (paljon miinuspisteitä). Benjamin argued for an ‘immanent criticism’ which would engage in some ways quite mystically with a text’s internal structures and divine traces (roppakaupalla miinusta).

        xxx/ellauri075.html on line 338:   Benjamin theorizing modernity by bringing together, among other things, Marxist dialectics, Surrealism, snippets of theology, Baudelaire’s poetry (and, most importantly, his theories of the flâneur), Kafka’s novels, the image of Proust, a Klee painting called the Angelus Novus, book-collecting, translation, storytelling, photography and film. 

        xxx/ellauri075.html on line 347:   This history of the nineteenth-century Paris arcades, creatively triggered by Louis Aragon’s (1897–1982) Le Paysan de Paris or Paris Peasant (1926), collects thousands of quotations strategically arranged with snippets of critical commentary in chapters or bundles called ‘convolutes’. 

        xxx/ellauri075.html on line 349: Tälläsiä konvoluutteja (asiakirjakoteloita) mäkin tässä pukerran. Benjaminin jouzenlaulu ‘Historian käsitteestä’ moittii valistusta ja kapitalistista käsitystä historiasta edistyxenä. Melankolisesti se analisoi 20. vuosisataa, sotkee teologista ja messianistista soopaa marxistisen materialismin teleologisoivaan soppaan. Benjaminin mielestä heikompien lyttäys ei ole mikään emergency, se on normitoimintaa. Kleen Angelus Novus (Benjaminin omistama maalaus) oli siitä kiva. No se onkin aika lailla Waltun näkönen.

        xxx/ellauri075.html on line 358: Uska Dara, Bosborin pintaan välkkyvät lyhtysi nuo.			Üsküdar, Boğaz’ın sularına yansır o ışıkların.

        xxx/ellauri075.html on line 465: “American Psycho” author Bret Easton Ellis tore into the late author of the critically acclaimed “Infinite Jest” and “The Pale King” on Twitter last week, and in true Ellis fashion, he didn’t hold back.

        xxx/ellauri075.html on line 469: “Reading D.T. Max’s bio I continue to find David Foster Wallace the most tedious, overrated, tortured, pretentious writer of my generation,” Ellis tweeted. “David Foster Wallace was so needy, so conservative, so in need of fans – that I find the halo of sentimentality surrounding him embarrassing.” In several more tweets, he continued, “DFW is the best example of a contemporary male writer lusting for a kind of awful greatness that he simply wasn’t able to achieve. A fraud.”

        xxx/ellauri075.html on line 472: Ellis and Wallace are literary rivals that go way back, and Ellis’s hostile tweets are just the latest in a two-decades-old exchange of literary beef.

        xxx/ellauri075.html on line 473: In 1988, Wallace criticized Ellis’s first published essay, calling Ellis and his category of novelists “Catatonics” for their naïve pretension.

        xxx/ellauri075.html on line 474: A few years later, Wallace laid into “American Psycho” in an interview with Larry McCaffery, saying it “panders shamelessly to the audience’s sadism for a while, but by the end it’s clear that the sadism’s real object is the reader itself… You can defend ‘Psycho’ as being a sort of performative digest of late-eighties social problems, but it’s no more than that.”

        xxx/ellauri075.html on line 478: “It could be that they’re feeling a bit bored, their lives and careers aren’t as exciting as they once were,” she writes, “the coffee is cold, the croissant not delicious enough, and mischievous people are encouraging them, telling them that their bratty behavior and ill-thought-out rantings are 'a breath of fresh air!'”

        xxx/ellauri075.html on line 486: ’Tulivuoren juurella’ on monikerroksinen, henkeäsalpaavan dynaaminen ja moneen suuntaan avautuva kuvaus alkoholismin tuhoaman ja kosmisten syyllisyyden tuntojen repimän entisen Englannin kunniakonsulin päivästä meksikolaisessa pikkukaupungissa Popocatepetlin juurella. Tuo päivä on meksikolaisten omituisin menoin juhlima vainajien päivä. Se on myös konsulin elämän viimeinen päivä.

        xxx/ellauri075.html on line 502: 
        James Baldwin: Huone Pariisissa, Kirjayhtymä 1964 (Giovanni’s Room, 1956)
        

        xxx/ellauri076.html on line 131: Kajanus moved with his mother and sister to Paris at the age of twelve where he studied music and classical guitar, as well as attending the Cité Universitaire’s flying school. The family then relocated to Montreal, Quebec, Canada, where Kajanus worked as a stained-glass window designer.

        xxx/ellauri081.html on line 206: Samalla jatkuu loputon Decamerone tarinasta toiseen (suositeltavaa ääneen lukemista vaikka puolisolle) ja Camus’n Rutto huvittaa edelleen, kuinka samanlaisia rajoituksia ja karanteeneja siinä algerialaisille määrätään kuin meille nyt. Ja huvittavasti tulee ruumiitakin. Tämän aiheen kirjallisuutta löytyy. Jukka Petäjä näkyy keksineen Philip Rothin kymmenen vuotta vanhan romaanin 1940-luvun polioepidemiasta.

        xxx/ellauri081.html on line 269:     Robert F./Bob Death asks Gately if by any chance he’s heard the one about the fish. Glenn K. in his fucking robe overhears, and of course he’s got to put his own oar in, and breaks in and asks them all if they’ve heard the one What did the blind man say as he passed by the Quincy Market fish-stall, and without waiting says He goes “Evening, Ladies.” A couple male White Flaggers fall about, and Tamara N. slaps at the back of Glenn K.’s head’s pointy hood, but without real heat, as in like what are you going to do with this sick fuck?

        xxx/ellauri081.html on line 273:     Bob Death smiles coolly (South Shore bikers are required to be extremely cool in everything they do) and manipulates a wooden match with his lip and says No, not that fish-one. He has to assume a kind of bar-shout to clear the noise of his idling hawg. He leans in more toward Gately and shouts that the one he was talking about was: This wise old whiskery fish swims up to three young fish and goes, “Morning, boys, how’s the water?” and swims away; and the three young fish watch him swim away and look at each other and go, “What the fuck is water?” and swim away. The young biker leans back and smiles at Gately and gives an affable shruge and blatts away, a halter top’s tits mashed against his back.

        xxx/ellauri081.html on line 315: A portent of his later cunning came in the 1920 championships when Vernon (“Swede”) Johnson hit a home run with the bases full to win the title for Grand’Mère. Defeated on the playing field, Duplessis did not quit. Screaming that the Grand’Mère team was loaded with “ ringers ” (although at least two of his own players were reported to be enjoying a brief vacation from the Boston Braves), Duplessis carried the protest to committee rooms. The league president, a sympathetic priest, awarded Duplessis the cup. Stop the Steal! Another Trump. Another ugly face as well.

        xxx/ellauri081.html on line 373: Dennis was born in 1933 in southern Africa. He played tournaments as a youngster, but at age 19, during a Davis Cup tryout in South Africa, he choked on a critical point. After that, his confidence flagged and his playing career stalled. His coach suggested he teach tennis to regain his confidence, and that’s all it took. He had also, as it turned out, found his calling.

        xxx/ellauri084.html on line 36: Both Hitler's oratory and Wittgenstein's philosophy of language derive from the hermetic tradition, the key to which is Wittgenstein's "no-ownership" theory of mind, described by P. F. Strawson in his book Individuals (1958). The no-ownership theory is a metaphysical doctrine of the self, labelled by Strawson. It arises from cartesian mind-body dualism (see mind body problem) and maintains that conscious experiences with a subject cannot be said to ‘belong’ to that subject, because “Only those things whose ownership is logically transferable can be owned at all“. Kauppamiesmäistä mind-body kapitalismia. Taas yxi kiemurtelu sielun irrottamisexi ruumiista. 

        xxx/ellauri084.html on line 172:     
        Stream It Or Skip It: ‘Capitani’ On Netflix, Where A Teen’s Murder Digs Up Secrets In A Tiny Village In Luxembourg 
        

        xxx/ellauri084.html on line 819: Millay was a prominent social figure of New York City's Greenwich Village just as it was becoming known as a bohemian writer’s colony, and she was noted for her uninhibited lifestyle, forming many passing relationships with both sexes. A road accident in middle-age left her part-invalided and morphine-dependent for years, yet near the end of her life she wrote some of her greatest poetry.

        xxx/ellauri085.html on line 49: IF YOU DON’T KNOW WHOSE SIGNS THESE ARE

        xxx/ellauri085.html on line 50: YOU CAN’T HAVE DRIVEN VERY FAR

        xxx/ellauri085.html on line 53: Though most people of today’s generation have never even heard of Burma-Shave, ask anyone who lived from the 1920s to the early 1960s, and you will mostly likely bring up a few memories and tales from that vintage era.

        xxx/ellauri085.html on line 55: Burma-Shave was a brand of brushless shaving cream that was sold from 1925 to 1966.  The company was notable for its innovative advertising campaign, which included rhymes posted all along the nation’s roadways. Typically, six signs were erected, with each of the first five containing a line of verse, and the sixth displaying the brand name.

        xxx/ellauri085.html on line 59: The product was sold by Clinton Odell and his sons Leonard and Allan, who formed the Burma-Vita Company, named for a liniment that was the company’s first product. The Odells were not making money on Burma-Vita, and wanted to sell a product that people would use daily. A wholesale drug company in Minneapolis, Minnesota, where the company was located, told Clinton Odell about Lloyd’s Euxesis, a British product that was the first brushless shaving cream made, but which was of poor quality. Clinton Odell hired a chemist named Carl Noren to produce a quality shaving cream and after 43 attempts, Burma-Shave was born.

        xxx/ellauri085.html on line 61: To market Burma-Shave, Allan Odell devised the concept of sequential signboards to sell the product. Allan Odell recalled one time when he noticed signs saying Gas, Oil, Restrooms, and finally a sign pointing to a roadside gas station. The signs compelled people to read each one in the series and would hold the driver’s attention much longer than a conventional billboard.  Though Allan’s father, Clinton, wasn’t crazy about the idea he eventually gave Allan $200 to give it a try.

        xxx/ellauri085.html on line 73: Burma-Shave sales rose to about 6 million by 1947, at which time sales stagnated for the next seven years, and then gradually began to fall.  Various reasons caused sales to fall, the primary one being urban growth. Typically, Burma-Shave signs were posted on rural highways and higher speed limits caused the signs to be ignored. Subsequently, the Burma-Vita Company was sold to Gillette in 1963, which in turn became part of American Safety Razor, and Phillip Morris. The huge conglomerate decided the verses were a silly idea and one of America’s vintage icons was lost to progress.

        xxx/ellauri085.html on line 75: By 1966, every last sign disappeared from America’s highways. A very few ended up in museums, including a couple of sets that were donated to the Smithsonian Institution. Here are two of them:

        xxx/ellauri085.html on line 78: You’ll soon see ’em

        xxx/ellauri085.html on line 94: In recent years, replica’s of the Burma Shave signs can be found along Route 66 in Arizona. Have you seen any other replica’s in your travels? Let us know in the comments section below.

        xxx/ellauri085.html on line 106: If it is a surprise to learn that Lawrence originally conceived of Women in Love as a money-making pot-boiler, it comes as an endearing shock to read that James Joyce submitted some of his early work to the firm of Mills and Boon. There is no record of the reader’s report, beyond the fact that he rejected Dubliners as unsuitable material for the unique imprint of that publishing house. For his part, Lawrence had no doubt that the author of Ulysses was the real smutmonger of modern fiction. ‘My God, what a clumsy olla putrida James Joyce is!’, he wrote to Aldous Huxley, ‘nothing but old fags and cabbage-stumps of quotations from the Bible and the rest stewed in the juice of deliberate journalistic dirty-mindedness.’ To his wife Frieda he wrote, after reading Ulysses, that ‘the last part of it is the dirtiest, most indecent, obscene thing ever written’; and he later complained that Joyce had degraded the novel to the level of an instrument for measuring twinges in the toes of unremarkable men. Joyce’s reply to the charge that he was just another pornographer doing dirt on sex was to claim that at least he had never made the subject predictable or boring. He denounced Lady Chatterbox’s Lover — his title for Lawrence’s notorious novel — as a ‘lush’ production in ‘sloppy English’ and dismissed its ending as ‘a piece of propaganda in favour of something which, outside of DHL’s country at any rate, makes all the propaganda for itself’. It is a minor irony of literary history that both men were married at Kensington Register Office in London, although, unlike Lawrence, the Irishman allowed a decent interval of twenty-five years to elapse before the solemnisation of his nuptials.

        xxx/ellauri085.html on line 128: Similarly to the film ‘ Potted Psalm’ (made by the same filmmaker) ‘The Cage’ was firstly created with no soundtrack. A soundtrack was added later on to accompany the visuals. The copy right of this film belongs to the Californian School of Fine Arts.

        xxx/ellauri085.html on line 133: When the eyeball falls out of the male protagonist’s head, i personally believe that the filmmaker wants to emphasize to the viewer the fact that we don’t necessarily “see” and perceive the world around us only as individuals but rather as a collective self. The way we perceive objects, people, the world around us in general is partly shaped by society and it’s rules. We have been taught how to look at life…

        xxx/ellauri085.html on line 150: When I was teaching computer science, I had a student who was — I think — older than you are. I suspect he’d made some mistakes in life too. But he studied hard, got good g... Read More »

        xxx/ellauri085.html on line 163: Anti-Oidipus (ransk. L’Anti-Œdipe) on ranskalaisen filosofin Gilles Deleuzen ja psykoanalyytikon Félix Guattarin vuonna 1972 julkaisema kirja, joka kyseenalaistaa sekä filosofian että psykoanalyysin ja ehdottaa tilalle ”skitsoanalyysia”. Kirja on ”Kapitalismi ja skitsofrenia” -sarjan ensimmäinen osa (toinen osa Mille plateaux ilmestyi 1980). Anti-Oidipuksessa Deleuze ja Guattari luovat eklektisen selvityksen psykologiasta, taloustieteestä, yhteiskunnasta ja historiasta sekä näyttävät, miten ”primitiivinen”, ”despoottinen” ja ”kapitalistinen” aikakausi eroavat toisistaan ”tuotannon”, ”rekisteröimisen” ja ”kulutuksen” organisoinnin suhteen. Deleuze ja Guattari väittävät kuvaavansa, miten kapitalismi kanavoi halut aksiomaattisen, rahapohjaisen talouden kautta. Aksiomaattinen rahatalous on yksipuolinen organisaatiomuoto, joka on abstrakti, ei-paikallinen ja ei-materiaalinen.

        xxx/ellauri085.html on line 214: And you’ll probably start nodding off because the work is so boring,

        xxx/ellauri085.html on line 215: You’ll probably fall asleep multiple times on your desk because of how freaken boring the work is, and you up to your coffee consumption so your manager doesn’t see you falling asleep.

        xxx/ellauri085.html on line 217: Plus, since I am Asian, leaving my job is pretty scary because that was my parent’s bragging card in yumcha with aunties and uncles. Yum cha is the Cantonese tradition of brunch involving Chinese tea and dim sum. So yea I get it.

        xxx/ellauri085.html on line 222: So truth is, I don’t want to be like any of them.

        xxx/ellauri085.html on line 227: You’re still young and have a chance to do that with little consequences.

        xxx/ellauri085.html on line 228: Not saying you can’t do that when you’re older.

        xxx/ellauri085.html on line 229: You just have more at stake when you’re older.

        xxx/ellauri085.html on line 230: Lastly, okay, you’re unable to have any “dreams” to aspire towards because you’re dreading to go to work every day.

        xxx/ellauri085.html on line 232: I had no dream when I entered the workforce, I don’t even know what that means.

        xxx/ellauri085.html on line 234: Until I got out of it and realize that was not my dream, it was someone else’s dream. Change something.

        xxx/ellauri085.html on line 245: 	  I’ll never forget being at a CEO conference organized by one of our investors. One of the speakers was an extremely famous CEO. The CEO was rambling on and on. Then, out of ... Read More »

        xxx/ellauri085.html on line 248: So maybe the famous CEO wasn’t lying. Maybe what he really meant to say was that even when he was officially working, his brain was taking a vacation.

        xxx/ellauri085.html on line 289: 	  Peterson has argued that there is an ongoing "crisis of masculinity" and "backlash against masculinity" in which the "masculine spirit is under assault." He has argued that the left characterises the existing societal hierarchy as an "oppressive patriarchy" but "don’t want to admit that the current hierarchy might be predicated on competence." He has said men without partners are likely to become violent, and has noted that male violence is reduced in societies in which monogamy is a social norm. He has attributed the rise of Donald Trump and far-right European politicians to what he says is a negative reaction to a push to "feminize" men, saying "If men are pushed too hard to feminize they will become more and more interested in harsh, fascist political ideology." He attracted considerable attention over a 2018 Channel 4 interview in which he clashed with interviewer Cathy Newman on the topic of the gender pay gap. He disputed the contention that the disparity was solely due to sexual discrimination. It might be predicated on competence. 

        xxx/ellauri085.html on line 320: 	
        If you haven’t guessed it yet, this is Jeff Bezos (owner of Amazon) in 1999 - and, no, this is not the start of Amazon. In 1999, Amazon was already worth billion(s) of dollars, and yet this man is sitting in a not-so-fancy office, doing what people won’t do so he could be able to do what people MUSTN’T do. Like fuck up the life of everybody else. 
        

        xxx/ellauri085.html on line 329: And here’s an even better question than the first one: Why would the idea continue to have so much currency despite having absolutely no demonstrable basis for belief? And the great Upton Sinclair gave us the answer to that one: “It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on him not understanding it.”

        xxx/ellauri085.html on line 337: Well, in general it does work! Normal households spend more if they have more. But if your free money giveaways are directed to people in the best position to save, you can hardly be surprised when they don’t spend it.

        xxx/ellauri085.html on line 366: Trickle Down doesn’t exist. Supply Side economics does.

        xxx/ellauri085.html on line 373: There is no “trickle down economics”. That isn’t something that exists. It’s a made up term to slander people left-wing socialists don’t like.

        xxx/ellauri085.html on line 378: Which of those things, did not come from a wealthy person? Everything did. The food you ate to day, came from a wealthy person’s store, transported by a wealthy person’s truck, and likely produced by a wealthy person’s farm, on a wealthy person’s contract.

        xxx/ellauri085.html on line 385: So all wealth ‘trickles down’ from the rich.

        xxx/ellauri085.html on line 386: And all jobs ‘trickle down’ from the rich.

        xxx/ellauri085.html on line 389: It’s a strange irony that a phrase made up to slander rich people, is actually dead on accurate.

        xxx/ellauri085.html on line 396: It has several inherent flaws. When people argue for more “libertarian” economic policy, there’s a tendency to think only about the initial development of a business, and to ignore the possibility of direct communication between two businesses in competition. Here’s a pretty typical argument for trickle-down: If a small sandwich shop manages to produce a good product at a low price, it can attract a bunch of customers, and make enough money to buy a second shop, which will allow them to hire more employees. But if taxes are too high, they wont be able to open that second location, and then they won’t be able to employ as many people. They also might have to pay their workers less, and better workers might quit to work in other places. And they’ll have to increase their prices. Thus, lower taxes on the upper middle class and rich result in a more employed society with higher wages and cheaper products.

        xxx/ellauri085.html on line 398: And that’s usually where that thought experiment ends. But let’s keep going with the scenario with low taxes, shall we? After a long time of this pattern, this sandwich shop might turn into a large chain. They’re above the struggle to survive that they started in, and other sandwich shops can’t easily take away a large portion of their customers. It becomes quite expensive to try and out-compete them. But competition is also expensive on their end. And then the owner of this shop starts to think “now wait a minute… I raise the starting wage of my workers and lower my prices, and then everyone else does the same, until eventually, I’m forced to do it again. But that second time, and every time afterwards, I’m not getting more customers or more efficient workers, I’m competing with the other companies to try to maintain what I already have, with less and less profit. And the same is true for everyone I’m competing with. What if I talked to all the other big chains in this area, and we all agreed to keep about the same starting wage and price? That way we ALL make more money.” And now those lower taxes have no effect on price or wages, all that extra money becomes profit.

        xxx/ellauri085.html on line 400: But profit increases the number of people they employ, right? Sometimes, but this becomes less and less true the bigger a business gets. If a business gets big enough, they might fill their niche completely. For a smaller business, expanding is often a good investment, but there comes a point where that’s not really going to make you that much more money. The people who want to go to your stores might already be going to your stores about as much as they want to, so you don’t need to hire anyone else, or open a new location. So now all that profit goes to…the people who own the company. If the company can’t make any more money by expanding, they usually decide that they just give all of their executives a raise.

        xxx/ellauri085.html on line 401: And that’s not even talking about automation.

        xxx/ellauri085.html on line 406: There is no such thing as trickle down economics. Democrat and some left leaning Republicans often argue against a straw-man that NO candidate or politician has ever proposed. Here’s a paper Thomas Sowell (from Hoover Institution, one of the worst right wing thinktanks in existence, sadly parked at Stanford University) wrote to "clarify" :P

        xxx/ellauri085.html on line 407: 
        “No such theory has been found in even the most voluminous and learned histories of economic theories, including J.A. Schumpeter’s monumental 1,260-page History of Economic Analysis. Yet this non-existent theory* has become the object of denunciations from the pages of the New York Times and the Washington Post to the political arena. It has been attacked by Professor Paul Krugman of Princeton and Professor Peter Corning of Stanford, among others, and similar attacks have been repeated as far away as India. It is a classic example of arguing against a caricature instead of confronting the argument actually made.”

        xxx/ellauri085.html on line 409: SO, maybe then you’ll say, “Well, there may not be an Econ theory called Trickle Down,, but you still are trying to give rich people more money and claim it will trickle down to poor people.”

        xxx/ellauri085.html on line 413: Let me give an example and then I’ll try to tackle what proponents of Supply Side economics ARE ACTUALLY SAYING.

        xxx/ellauri085.html on line 415: Let’s say you have an idea for a business or invention, or innovation on an old idea, it could be anything, a restaurant, or selling the iPhone. An entrepreneur has an idea, without which there would be no iPhone or any other product or service. You start the business by putting in your life savings or and/or getting investors, and they all lose their money if the business doesn’t work out. You have to put out money to suppliers for materials money for rent, you have to PAY EMPLOYEES even when you haven’t made 1 red cent yet from sales, because the product hasn’t even been produced yet, much less sold. Thats SOOO wrong! Never mind that they work quite as hard whether or not your snaky idea will work. 

        xxx/ellauri085.html on line 419: They understood it going in. It’s called a trade-off: they know they could lose it all, but FOR the chance to make a lot of money over a long period of time they RISK losing whatever they put in. That’s WHY the business environment of taxes and regulations, trade restrictions, etc is so important: If the owner thinks that even if they succeed, the govt will take a big chunk of what they profit, then WHY RISK IT? So they will just put money overseas or in lower risk but lower returns that don’t employ as many people. (Except that more people means lower returns...)

        xxx/ellauri085.html on line 424: So all a person is saying by promoting supply side is saying “let’s reduce the BARRIERS to doing business, basically to voluntary transactions. If high taxes reduce the number of people willing to risk a start up, then reduce them. IF over regulation and mandates and compliance causes all kinds of expenses, then reduce them. Don’t restrict trade, promote free trade. Reduce things that inhibit starting or running a business. Like healthcare and work security. 

        xxx/ellauri085.html on line 428: Other barriers are produced by govt in their speeches, it might not even be policy yet, but if for example Obama talks about raising taxes and tells business owners like Joe the Plumber that “You didn’t build that!” Then what signal does that send to would-be entrepreneurs? Probably just wait til a more friendly administration comes along. Not surprising that business activity increased toward the end of Obama’s term and really took off once people figured out that Trump was going to have policies that reduced barriers.

        xxx/ellauri085.html on line 432: It’s that simple: REDUCE BARRIERS to starting and doing business, and we all have more opportunities to prosper.

        xxx/ellauri085.html on line 443: The stupidity of the trickle down slur is the notion that lower tax rates are somehow supposed to free up a little more rich peoples’ income to be put in to spending and investment to boost the economy. That’s as stupid as the leftist notion that we will all get rich doing each others laundry and it is put forward by the same people. It is tried and true that only the rich get rich by getting the poor to do their laundry, and clean their golden toilet seats. 

        xxx/ellauri085.html on line 446: That is NOT cash somehow spared from today’s taxes and diverted out of anyone’s income today. It IS cash taken out of bank accounts and passive investments TODAY, in multiples many times larger than the tax reductions involved, and invested TODAY in ways that get away with jobs and higher levels of economic gain in the FUTURE; money that would have continued to sit idle and unproductive without the incentive based tax policies.

        xxx/ellauri085.html on line 448: It’s not “trickle down” as if government action is the source of the money. It is “spurt up” when the government policies that discourage and suppress its productive use are relaxed. The remaining money in poor folk's socks and mattresses spurts up into the greedy pockets of the rich. 

        xxx/ellauri085.html on line 457: Because it assumes that rich people automatically create more jobs if they have more money. This idea ignores the reason why jobs are created in the first place: to make profit. Which means that new jobs are only created if they are profitable to the employer. If all the jobs that could be created aren’t, it doesn’t matter how much money the employer has. And therefore giving the employer more money in such a situation will not lead to more jobs being created.

        xxx/ellauri085.html on line 459: If there are profitable jobs to be created and employers don’t have the money to start it off they could take out a loan and pay it off with the profit. There simply is no situation left where lowering the rich’s taxes would create jobs. But we don’t have to rely on this argument, we can look at the many times where this was tried and, guess what: lowering the rich’s taxes has never created more jobs.

        xxx/ellauri085.html on line 471: ‘Trickle-down’ tax cuts make the rich richer but are of no value to overall economy, study finds

        xxx/ellauri085.html on line 480: For decades, working families have been told not to worry about the growing wealth gap between the nation’s haves and have-nots. A rising tide lifts all boats, we’ve been told with encouraging smiles and pats on the back.

        xxx/ellauri085.html on line 483: William Darity, a professor of public policy at Duke University, said it’s “nonsensical” to think that greater wealth for the rich translates to improved fortunes for everyone else.

        xxx/ellauri085.html on line 489: Yes, that has a positive impact on makers of luxury goods. But it’s not in any way the shared prosperity implicit in the trickle-down pledge.

        xxx/ellauri085.html on line 493: Put another way, compensation for CEOs is now 278 times greater than for ordinary workers. That’s a stratospherically larger income gap than the 20-to-1 ratio in 1965.

        xxx/ellauri085.html on line 497: This, of course, is magical thinking. Yet it has served as the intellectual basis of virtually all Republican economic policies since the 1970s, and was the primary justification for the party’s most recent tax cuts for wealthy corporations and individuals.

        xxx/ellauri085.html on line 500: “Consumers are rich,” he said. “I gave a tremendous tax cut and they’re loaded up with money.”

        xxx/ellauri085.html on line 504: That was due in no small part to Trump’s tax cuts doing not what Laffer predicted but what all sensible economists said would happen: Government revenue fell while spending increased.

        xxx/ellauri085.html on line 508: What happened, needless to say, is that revenue shrank, the state’s bond rating plummeted, and draconian cuts were made to schools and infrastructure. The Republican-controlled state Legislature finally rolled back the tax cuts in 2017 and started scrounging to close a $900-million budget shortfall.

        xxx/ellauri085.html on line 511: “Not being able to finance a quality education system and other priorities can lead to lower economic performance when tax revenues are too low,” he said. “At current tax rates, there’s no credible evidence that tax cuts pay for themselves.”

        xxx/ellauri085.html on line 513: Economists say the wealth gap in American society is now the greatest since the Gilded Age of the late 19th century, when the richest 10% owned roughly three-quarters of the nation’s wealth, and the bottom 40% had virtually nothing.

        xxx/ellauri085.html on line 514: It’s currently estimated that the richest 200,000 families own about as much as the bottom 90% of households combined.

        xxx/ellauri085.html on line 516: How do you fix that? Conservatives would say you should cut taxes so you’d get more money into the hands of more people.

        xxx/ellauri085.html on line 518: “Let’s let people keep more of what they earn,” he said. “That’s the supply side of the Laffer curve. We believe in that.”

        xxx/ellauri085.html on line 519: Belief is required because there’s no evidence to support the idea.

        xxx/ellauri085.html on line 522: UC Berkeley’s Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society has some smarter suggestions:

        xxx/ellauri085.html on line 531: That last proposal regarding progressivity is the most important. As the rich have accumulated a greater share of the nation’s wealth, they’ve simultaneously succeeded in lowering their tax obligations.

        xxx/ellauri085.html on line 536: In June, Trump awarded trickle-down proponent Laffer the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor.

        xxx/ellauri085.html on line 537: Trump praised Laffer’s “brilliant theory,” and said the value of trickle-down economics had been proved “over and over again.”

        xxx/ellauri085.html on line 538: It hasn’t. Just the opposite. Over and over again.

        xxx/ellauri085.html on line 555: They then traced what happened to those nations’ economies in the five years after the cuts were implemented. They focused particularly on income inequality, economic growth as measured by gross domestic product, and the unemployment rate. They aggregated those trends across countries to capture the broadest possible picture of the tax cuts’ effects.

        xxx/ellauri085.html on line 561: First, the tax cuts succeeded at putting more money in the pockets of the rich. The share of national income flowing to the top 1 percent increased by about 0.8 percentage points. (For comparison, in the United States the bottom 10 percent of earners capture only 1.8 percent of the country’s income).

        xxx/ellauri085.html on line 573: Though the pandemic cost tens of millions of Americans their jobs and sent the U.S. economy into a tailspin, many at the top of the income distribution have seen their wealth skyrocket. The nation’s 651 billionaires saw their net worth spike by more than $1 trillion during the first nine months of the pandemic, according to Americans for Tax Fairness, a liberal group advocating for higher taxes on the wealthy.

        xxx/ellauri085.html on line 582: There are two prevalent theories people like to allude to, Demand Side (Keynesian) and Supply Side ( Championed bt Reagan and theorized by Laffler). Neither has worked well. They are just different approaches to solve the same problem. Sluggish economic growth. In truth, Reagan never really implemented true Trickle Down economics. His was a hybrid of tax cuts and simplification coupled with a massive increase in government spending. You see the thing is, when you have an unregulated job market and limited government employment, there will always be a segment of the population that will be out of work and large sections of the economy reinventing itself. The U.S. has reached virtually full employment since the 80’s.

        xxx/ellauri085.html on line 587: I am not saying I have all the answers, because I don’t. But if I could wave a magic wand over our country, this is what I would do.

        xxx/ellauri086.html on line 230: Smoking is not expressly forbidden anywhere in the Bible. There is a veritable who’s who list of Christians who smoked. One of the greatest preachers and evangelists of the 19th century loved his cigars. He was Charles Spurgeon. Other famous Christians who smoked or still do are J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Chuck Colson, Johann Sebastian Bach, Billy Graham, and Jerry Farwell (although the last two quit in their latter years). This article has addressed all types of tobacco: cigarettes, pipe, cigar, snuff, and chewing tobacco. Come to think of it, all these famous Christians are dead. Put that in your pipe and smoke.

        xxx/ellauri086.html on line 232: “What goes into someone’s mouth does not defile them, but what comes out of their mouth, that is what defiles them." Hmm.  Better exhale through the nose. 

        xxx/ellauri086.html on line 238: The Bible is pretty silent about tattoos. Search any concordance and you will not find restrictions on abortions, on gambling, or on tattoos. So how do we know whether a thing is sin or not if the Bible is silent on a particular issue? Is it a sin to have a tattoo according to biblical principles? What about a Christian symbol like a cross for a tattoo? Surely that would be acceptable wouldn’t it?

        xxx/ellauri086.html on line 240: There are many gray areas in a Christian’s life. In this respect, Islam is better, it has a rule for every contingency.

        xxx/ellauri086.html on line 511:     The west-side story here, reduced to its elements: “Manhattan” is a movie about a five-foot middle-aged Jew who beds a sweet 17-year-old girl, breaks her heart when he leaves her for someone else and only comes crawling back when he gets dumped. It is not simply that so many of us were so besotted with the film for so long; it’s that we were perfectly content to look and see the small tits and the virgin butt. The problem was an addiction to “the self-gratifying view,’’ Mr. Allen suggested - having made another movie about how he relentlessly does what he pleases. Butt on fire. Joey Buttafuoco quickly became an object of derision, the butt of the joke instead of Allen. 

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        xxx/ellauri086.html on line 757: Poen runoilla ja kirjallisilla teorioilla oli vaikutusta ranskalaisiin symbolisteihin, kuten Baudelaireen ja Rimbaud’hon, sekä englantilaisiin esteetikkoihin.[44]

        xxx/ellauri086.html on line 777: “’Tis some visitor,” I muttered, “tapping at my chamber door—				"Se on vaan joku fanittaja - nimmarien kalastaja,		    

        xxx/ellauri086.html on line 790:     “’Tis some visitor entreating entrance at my chamber door—				Se on pöllön silmä vaan, ei mörkö ei, ei vaitiskaan,		    

        xxx/ellauri086.html on line 813:             ’Tis the wind and nothing more!”						Se on vaan tuuli, usko jo.

        xxx/ellauri086.html on line 826: Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night’s Plutonian shore!”			Plutoko vai Hansuko? Vielä kerran arvaanko?

        xxx/ellauri086.html on line 848:             Of ‘Never—nevermore’.”							"Meni jo" tai "ohi on".			    

        xxx/ellauri086.html on line 858: To the fowl whose fiery eyes now burned into my bosom’s core;				Naakalle en sanottua saanut yhtään halaistua				    

        xxx/ellauri086.html on line 860:     On the cushion’s velvet lining that the lamp-light gloated o’er,			Näitä siinä aprikoin ma, isoisän tuolissa,

        xxx/ellauri086.html on line 861: But whose velvet-violet lining with the lamp-light gloating o’er,			Kohentelin pielusta, koin lampunvarjostinta säädellä.		    

        xxx/ellauri086.html on line 886: “Get thee back into the tempest and the Night’s Plutonian shore!			Mene siitä, ulos loiki tosta on 5 hirttä poikki!			    

        xxx/ellauri086.html on line 894:     And his eyes have all the seeming of a demon’s that is dreaming,			Kas se onkin vertauskuva, joku professori Mikko Juva,		    

        xxx/ellauri086.html on line 895:     And the lamp-light o’er him streaming throws his shadow on the floor;		arkkipiispa, musta siira. Mun oma musta pää se viiraa,		    

        xxx/ellauri087.html on line 338: Milton Friedman's's book Capitalism and Freedom eventually brought him popular acclaim. Published by the University of Chicago in 1962, it has sold over half a million copies and has been translated into 18 different languages, no small feat for a popular book on the subject of economics. In the book, he argues for a classically liberal society where free markets solve problems of efficiency, enriching rich in the United Stoates as a side effect. He argues for free markets on the basis of hebrew pragmatism and philosophy. He concludes the book with an argument that most of America’s successes are due to the free market and private enterprise, while most of its greatest failures are due to government intervention. George W. Bush got the point and let private enterprises be jailkeepers and fight the second Iraq war. Welcome back to the 19th century and before. 

        xxx/ellauri087.html on line 459: Terry Pratchett opens his poem An Ode to Multiple Universes with "I do have worlds enough and time / to spare an hour to find a rhyme / to take a week to pen an article / a day to find a rhyme for ‘particle’."

        xxx/ellauri087.html on line 474: One of the Flavia de Luce novels by Alan Bradley is titled “the Grave’s a Fine and Private Place”.

        xxx/ellauri087.html on line 561:   Knievel, who died last November aged 69, liked to boast of his chequered past, claiming to have been a safecracker and bank robber before becoming the world’s best-known motorcycle stuntman. He even spent six months in jail at the height of his career in 1977 for attacking with a baseball bat the author of a book about him to which he took exception.

        xxx/ellauri091.html on line 340: The New Yorker is published by Condé Nasty Inc. and is a subsidiary of Advance Publications. S.I. Newhouse acquired The New Yorker in 1985 for “$200 a share for the magazine’s common stock, an investment of about $142 million.” The Newhouse family owns Advance Publications and currently, the third and fourth generations of the Newhouse family is involved in the management. For details about the Newhouse family click here. The New Yorker, Vogue, Vanity Fair, Gentlemen’s Quarterly (GQ), Architectural Digest (AD), Condé Nast Traveler, and Wired are all published by Conde Nasty.

        xxx/ellauri091.html on line 342: In review, The New Yorker uses strong emotionally loaded headlines such as “Don’t Underestimate Elizabeth Warren and Her Populist Message” and “Is Fraud Part of the Trump Organization’s Business Model?” The New Yorker also publishes satirical articles from satirist Andy Borowitz through his Borowitz Report, such as “Trump Offers to Station Pence at Border with Binoculars in Lieu of Wall.” The Borowitz Report always favors the left and mocks the right. Further, The New Yorker provides original in-depth journalistic reporting such as this: Four Women Accuse New York’s Attorney General of Physical Abuse. The result of this investigation led to the Attorney General resigning just hours after the New Yorker published the story. In general, both wording and story selection tends to mostly favor the left.

        xxx/ellauri091.html on line 348: A 2014 Pew Research Survey found that 77% of the New Yorker’s audience is consistently or mostly liberal, 16% Mixed and 6% consistently or mostly conservative. This indicates that the New Yorker is strongly preferred by a more liberal audience.

        xxx/ellauri091.html on line 384: Right: Strong supporters of the Second Amendment (the right to bear arms), believing it’s a deterrent against authoritarian rule and the right to protect oneself. Generally, does not support banning any type of weaponry.

        xxx/ellauri091.html on line 402: Right: Personal responsibility and it is the government’s role to hold them accountable. Fair competition over safety nets.

        xxx/ellauri091.html on line 425: 
        Worker’s/Business Rights
        

        xxx/ellauri091.html on line 483: adventure.
        Europe — the land of high culture, high fashion, delicious food and centuries-spanning history. What’s not to love? 
        

        xxx/ellauri091.html on line 485: love. It’s a tough pill to swallow, but a good deal of Europe’s 44 official countries (as recognized by the United Nations) have no 

        xxx/ellauri091.html on line 489: are really enviable and which ones just a little. We’re wholly certain many readers will be astonished by our conclusions. Which is to say, we fully

        xxx/ellauri091.html on line 493:   
        Here’s our ranking of all 44 countries in Europe, from worst to first.

        xxx/ellauri091.html on line 497:     Even if you’re a true believer, why would you visit? 

        xxx/ellauri091.html on line 498:     It’s so crowded.

        xxx/ellauri091.html on line 509:  of New York City’s Central Park. And like the park, it manages to have a ton of ungodly-rich people living here, with 32 percent of the population made up of millionaires. Essentially inaccessible to anyone who’s not fabulously loaded.

        xxx/ellauri091.html on line 778: As a young student she was first attracted to the study of literature, but she was soon to take an interest in the work to which she was to devote all her energies in the period preceding the First World War: the improvement of conditions of life through social reform. The necessity of such work was first brought home to her when she became acquainted with the poverty and squalor of the slums in America’s big cities. She collaborated in the founding of a social center in Boston and undertook other practical work as well, becoming a member of the American Federation of Labor and helping to establish the Women’s Trade Union League of America.

        xxx/ellauri091.html on line 780: All this was in the early 1890’s at a time when Europe was becoming increasingly conscious of the untold social problems bequeathed by the Industrial Revolution. But the dawn of enlightenment had not yet broken over America.

        xxx/ellauri091.html on line 794: With the coming of peace, the Women’s League arranged its second conference at Zurich in 1919 while the Allies were discussing the peace treaty in Paris. The conference thus had the opportunity of studying a draft of the peace treaty. Time does not permit me to review the resolutions which were passed as a result of this study. What I can and will say is that it would have been judicious to have heeded the women’s counsel.

        xxx/ellauri091.html on line 819: John Raleigh Mott is an American like Emily Greene Balch, with whom he shares this year’s Nobel Peace Prize. He was born in Sullivan County in the state of New York on May 25, 1865. It was assumed that he would follow in the footsteps of his father, a timber merchant engaged in transporting timber on the tributaries of the Delaware River. But he was an avid reader, and the town’s Methodist minister persuaded his parents to allow him to continue his studies. For a long time the boy did not know what he wanted to be. His father hoped that he would return to the timber trade, while he himself vacillated between the church, law, and politics. But during his years of study he was stirred by the Gospel of Christ to mankind, and when the Y.M.C.A. asked him to become a traveling secretary among the students of American and Canadian universities he interpreted the offer as a call from the Lord. He answered the call. It did not take him back to the Delaware River. It sent him out into the wide world and it has brought him here today.

        xxx/ellauri091.html on line 827: The World’s Student Christian Federation was founded in 1895 under his leadership at a meeting held in Vadstena Castle1. Following this happy event, Mott departed on his first missionary journey. He wanted to organize student associations all over the world. On this journey he visited twenty-four countries, founded seventy new associations, created national associations of Christian students in India, Ceylon, New Zealand, Australia, China, and Japan, and selected corresponding members of the world federation in Egypt, Hawaii, and in many European countries.

        xxx/ellauri091.html on line 841: He organized a series of world conferences of Christian students, the best known being the Tokyo Conference of 1907, which marked the movement’s breakthrough in the Far East. Wilho was poised for his voyage to China just then.

        xxx/ellauri091.html on line 847: In his own country, the United States, he has performed great work on behalf of the Negroes. To fight prejudices which exist in one’s own society makes a bigger demand perhaps on a man’s personality and strength of character than any other endeavor.

        xxx/ellauri091.html on line 849: The three great world organizations which have flourished under his leadership for a generation – the Student Federation, the Young Men’s Christian Association, and the International Missionary Council – have in his hands been instruments for creating that spirit of Christian tolerance and love which can give peace to the world.

        xxx/ellauri103.html on line 178: I hate to disappoint you folks, but unless we stretch the topic to breaking point this address will not be about “community and belonging.” In fact, you have to hand it to this festival’s organisers: inviting a renowned racist to speak about “community and belonging” is like expecting a tadpole to balance a beach ball on its nose.

        xxx/ellauri103.html on line 182: My thrust is that the socialist ideologies recently come into vogue challenge my right to write fiction at all. Meanwhile, the kind of fiction we are “allowed” to write is in danger of becoming so hedged, so circumscribed, so tippy-toe, that we’d indeed be better off not writing the anodyne drivel to begin with. At least I am, because drivel is all I do.  

        xxx/ellauri103.html on line 184: Let’s start with a tempest-in-a-teacup at Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine. Earlier this year, two students, both members of student government, threw a tequila-themed birthday party for a friend. The hosts provided attendees with miniature sombreros, which—the horror— numerous partygoers wore.

        xxx/ellauri103.html on line 185: When photos of the party circulated on social media, campus-wide outrage ensued. Administrators sent multiple emails to the “culprits” threatening an investigation into an “act of ethnic stereotyping.” Partygoers were placed on “social probation,” while the two hosts were ejected from their dorm and later impeached. Bowdoin’s student newspaper decried the attendees’ lack of “basic empathy.” I wonder what that meant. Must look up the word in the dictionary someday. 

        xxx/ellauri103.html on line 188: Curiously, across my country (which? Is the turd talking about America? Most likely.)  Mexican restaurants, often owned and run by Mexicans, are festooned with sombreros – if perhaps not for long. At the UK’s University of East Anglia, the student union has banned a Mexican restaurant from giving out sombreros, deemed once more an act of “cultural appropriation” that was also racist.

        xxx/ellauri103.html on line 190: Now, I am a little at a loss to explain what’s so insulting about a sombrero – a practical piece of headgear for a hot climate that keeps out the sun with a wide brim. And what's so insulting about shackles - a practical way to keep a cotton worker focused on his work. My parents went to Mexico when I was small, and brought a sombrero back from their travels, the better for my brothers and I to unashamedly appropriate the souvenir to play dress-up. For my part, as a German-American on both sides, I’m more than happy for anyone who doesn’t share my genetic pedigree to don a Tyrolean hat, pull on some leiderhosen, pour themselves a weisbier, and belt out the Hoffbrauhaus Song. (Leiderhosen? weisbier? Damn what ignoramus. But she is American, remember. Donald Trump is an expatriate German too. Hitler was an expatriate Austrian. Bet he had a Tirolean hat, a green one like aunt Inkeri.)

        xxx/ellauri103.html on line 192:     The ultimate endpoint of keeping out mitts off experience that doesn’t belong to us is that there is no fiction left. Harry Potter would not exist, because we are all muddleheads. Or what was it, muggles?  

        xxx/ellauri103.html on line 193: But what does this have to do with writing fiction? The moral of the sombrero scandals is clear: you’re not supposed to try on other people’s hats. Yet that’s what we’re paid to do, isn’t it? Step into other people’s shoes, and try on their hats. Try their underwear for size. Make fun of them when they don't say Calvin Klein, or have skidmarks on them. 

        xxx/ellauri103.html on line 194: In the latest ethos, which has spun well beyond college campuses in short order, any tradition, any experience, any costume, any way of doing and saying things, that is associated with a minority or disadvantaged group is ring-fenced: look-but-don’t-touch. Those who embrace a vast range of “identities” – ethnicities, nationalities, races, sexual and gender categories, classes of economic under-privilege and disability – are now encouraged to be possessive of their experience and to regard other peoples’ attempts to participate in their lives and traditions, either actively or imaginatively, or just for laughs, as a form of theft.

        xxx/ellauri103.html on line 196: Yet were their authors honouring the new rules against helping yourself to what doesn’t belong to you, we would not have Malcolm Lowry’s Under the Volcano. We wouldn’t have most of Graham Greene’s novels, many of which are set in what for the author were foreign countries, and which therefore have Real Foreigners in them, who speak and act like foreigners, too. (Malcolm Lowry's book has been mentioned, it is pure drivel. Grandma Greene is another lousy driveler.)

        xxx/ellauri103.html on line 198: In his masterwork English Passengers, Matthew Kneale would have restrained himself from including chapters written in an Aboriginal’s voice – though these are some of the richest, most compelling passages in that novel. If Dalton Trumbo had been scared off of describing being trapped in a body with no arms, legs, or face because he was not personally disabled – because he had not been through a World War I maiming himself and therefore had no right to “appropriate” the isolation of a paraplegic – we wouldn’t have the haunting 1938 classic, Johnny Got His Gun, unless he had written it with a pen in his arse. (Never heard of any of these masterpieces, but then I hadn't heard of Drivel or Kevin either until today.)

        xxx/ellauri103.html on line 200: We wouldn’t have Maria McCann’s erotic masterpiece, As Meat Loves Salt – in which a straight woman writes about gay men in the English Civil War. Though the book is nonfiction, it’s worth noting that we also wouldn’t have 1961’s Black Like Me, for which John Howard Griffin committed the now unpardonable sin of “blackface.” Having his skin darkened – Michael Jackson in reverse – Griffin found out what it was like to live as a black man in the segregated American South. He’d be excoriated today, yet that book made a powerful social impact at the time.

        xxx/ellauri103.html on line 202: The author of Who Owns Culture? Appropriation and Authenticity in American Law, Susan Scafidi, a law professor at Fordham University who for the record is white, defines cultural appropriation as “taking intellectual property, traditional knowledge, cultural expressions, or artifacts from someone else’s culture without permission. This can include unauthorised use of another culture’s dance, dress, music, language, folklore, cuisine, traditional medicine, religious symbols, etc.”

        xxx/ellauri103.html on line 203: What strikes me about that definition is that “without permission” bit. However are we fiction writers to seek “permission” to use a character from another race or culture, or to employ the vernacular of a group to which we don’t belong? Do we set up a stand on the corner and approach passers-by with a clipboard, getting signatures that grant limited rights to employ an Indonesian character in Chapter Twelve, the way political volunteers get a candidate on the ballot? Anyway, do you really expect us Americans to seek permission from any of those lower races? Did we do so when we appropriated their land and property?

        xxx/ellauri103.html on line 208:     Seriously, we have people questioning whether it’s appropriate for white people to eat pad Thai. In fact we have people questioning whether white people should even exist. Like who needs chauvinist Yankee female pigs who have changed their first names to more toxic ones.

        xxx/ellauri103.html on line 212: Seriously folks, we have people questioning whether it’s appropriate for white people to eat pad Thai. (Oh, I read that bit already, Sorry. Ok I was here:) Turnabout, then: I guess that means that as a native of North Carolina, I can ban the Thais from eating barbecue. (I bet they’d swap.) (What? Swap what? Barbecue is really icky gooey meaty stuff, only North Carolinans can like that.)

        xxx/ellauri103.html on line 214: This same sensibility is coming to a bookstore near you. Because who is the appropriator par excellence, really? Who assumes other people’s voices, accents, patois, and distinctive idioms? Who literally puts words into the mouths of people different from themselves? Who dares to get inside the very heads of strangers, who has the chutzpah to project thoughts and feelings into the minds of others, who steals their very souls? Who is a professional kidnapper? Who swipes every sight, smell, sensation, or overheard conversation like a kid in a candy store, and sometimes take notes the better to purloin whole worlds? Who is the premier pickpocket of the arts? The fiction writer, that’s who. Yes, she is a real piece of shit more often than not. I know, I've been there. 

        xxx/ellauri103.html on line 218: As for the culture police’s obsession with “authenticity,” fiction is inherently inauthentic. It’s fake. It’s self-confessedly fake; that is the nature of the form, which is about people who don’t exist and events that didn’t happen. The name of the game is not whether your novel honours reality; it’s all about what you can get away with. Well mine is anyway, I don't know about you. I try to get away with anything that is not nailed or welded fast. 

        xxx/ellauri103.html on line 220: In his 2009 novel Little Bee, Chris Cleave, who as it happens is participating in this festival, dared to write from the point of view of a 14-year-old Nigerian girl, though he is male, white, and British. I’ll remain neutral on whether he “got away with it” in literary terms, because I haven’t read the book yet. But most likely it is drivel. I love it!

        xxx/ellauri103.html on line 223: Hold it. OK, he’s necessarily “representing” his characters, by portraying them on the page. But of course he’s using them for his plot! How could he not? They are his characters, to be manipulated at his whim, to fulfill whatever purpose he cares to put them to.

        xxx/ellauri103.html on line 224: This same reviewer recapitulated Cleave’s obligation “to show that he’s representing [the girl], rather than exploiting her.” Again, a false dichotomy. Unlike Kingsley Amis and his dad, we well-to-do white Americans can do both. America is a representative democracy, after all. We represent, y'all just stick to picking the cotton. 

        xxx/ellauri103.html on line 226: Of course he’s exploiting her. It’s his book, and he made her up. He owns her, she is her property. He is free to fuck her, rape her, do whatever he wants. The character is his creature, to be exploited up a storm. Yet the reviewer chides that “special care should be taken with a story that’s not implicitly yours to tell” and worries that “Cleave pushes his own boundaries maybe further than they were meant to go.”

        xxx/ellauri103.html on line 227: What stories are “implicitly ours to tell,” and what boundaries around our own lives are we mandated to remain within? I would argue that any story you can steal is yours to tell, and trying to push the boundaries of the author’s personal experience by usurping other people's is part of a fiction writer’s job. At least of drivelists like me. 

        xxx/ellauri103.html on line 229: I’m hoping that crime writers, for example, don’t all have personal experience of committing murder. Me, I’ve depicted a high school killing spree, and I hate to break it to you: I’ve never shot fatal arrows through seven kids, a teacher, and a cafeteria worker, either. We make things up, we chance our arms, sometimes we do a little research, but in the end it’s still about what we can get away with – what we can put over on our readers. And it is surprisingly easy, you wouldnt believe what the idiots are ready to swallow, especially if it agrees with their own prejudice. 

        xxx/ellauri103.html on line 231: Because the ultimate endpoint of keeping out mitts off experience that doesn’t belong to us is that there is no fiction. Someone like me only permits herself to write from the perspective of an ugly straight white female born in North Carolina, closing on sixty, able-bodied but with bad knees, skint for years but finally able to buy the odd new Dolce Cabbana. All that’s left is a memoir. Well, you are right, who would care to read that, in my case at least?

        xxx/ellauri103.html on line 233: And here’s the bugbear, here’s where we really can’t win. At the same time that we’re to write about only the few toys that landed in our playpen, we’re also upbraided for failing to portray in our fiction a population that is sufficiently various.

        xxx/ellauri103.html on line 235: My most recent novel The Mandibles was taken to task by one reviewer for addressing an America that is “straight and white”. It happens that this is a multigenerational family saga – about a white family. I wasn’t instinctively inclined to insert a transvestite or bisexual, with issues that might distract from my central subject matter of apocalyptic economics. Yet the implication of this criticism is that we novelists need to plug in representatives of a variety of groups in our cast of characters, as if filling out the entering class of freshmen at a university with strict diversity requirements. Besides, America IS straight and white, at least the America I know about. I haven't had time to appropriate any Nigerian girls yet, nor Afro Americans even. 

        xxx/ellauri103.html on line 239: We’re now going through the same fashionable exercise in relation to the transgender characters in series like Transparent and Orange is the New Black.

        xxx/ellauri103.html on line 242: Besides: which is it to be? We have to tend our own gardens, and only write about ourselves or people just like us because we mustn’t pilfer others’ experience, or we have to people our cast like an I’d like to teach the world to sing Coca-Cola advert?

        xxx/ellauri103.html on line 243: For it can be dangerous these days to go the diversity route. Especially since there seems to be a consensus on the notion that San Francisco reviewer put forward that “special care should be taken with a story that’s not implicitly yours to tell.” Why on earth? Isn't it just the opposite? If it is somebody else's story you are free to do whatever you want, since you don't know it, so you can give free reins to your imagination! Chances are your all-white panel don't know the people either, so anything goes.

        xxx/ellauri103.html on line 245: In The Mandibles, I have one secondary character, Luella, who’s black. She’s married to a more central character, Douglas, the Mandible family’s 97-year-old patriarch. I reasoned that Douglas, a liberal New Yorker, would credibly have left his wife for a beautiful, stately African American because arm candy of color would reflect well on him in his circle, and keep his progressive kids’ objections to a minimum. But in the end the joke is on Douglas, because Luella suffers from early onset dementia, while his ex-wife, staunchly of sound mind, ends up running a charity for dementia research. As the novel reaches its climax and the family is reduced to the street, they’re obliged to put the addled, disoriented Luella on a leash, to keep her from wandering off. LOL! What a laugh, ain't it? Get it, the guy thought he was getting arm candy, but instead he got a goat!

        xxx/ellauri103.html on line 248:     Behold, the reviewer in the Washington Post, who groundlessly accused this book of being “racist” because it doesn’t toe a strict Democratic Party line in its political outlook, described the scene thus: “The Mandibles are white. Luella, the single African American in the family, arrives in Brooklyn incontinent and demented. She needs to be physically restrained. As their fortunes become ever more dire and the family assembles for a perilous trek through the streets of lawless New York, she’s held at the end of a leash. If The Mandibles is ever made into a film, my suggestion is that this image not be employed for the movie poster.” Your author, by implication, yearns to bring back slavery. Failing that, she does the best to poke fictive fun at a fictive member of the underprivileged race. Nobody laugh? 

        xxx/ellauri103.html on line 250: Thus in the world of identity politics, fiction writers better be careful. If we do choose to import representatives of protected groups, special rules apply. If a character happens to be black, they have to be treated with kid gloves, and never be placed in scenes that, taken out of context, might seem disrespectful. But that’s no way to write. We know that most criminals are black anyway, and many if not most blacks are criminal. Writing to hide that fact would be writing fiction, and we fiction writers have your responsibility toward the white audience. The burden is too great, the self-examination paralysing. The natural result of that kind of criticism in the Post is that next time I don’t use any black characters, lest they do or say anything that is short of perfectly admirable and lovely. (No ei munkaan olis pitänyt alottaa tätä albumia, jossa haukutaan törkimyxiä jotka sattuu olemaan naisia. Äkkiä se kääntyyy naisten haukkumisexi sillä tekosyyllä, että ne sattuu olemaan törkimyxiä. Ehkä se onkin sitä!)

        xxx/ellauri103.html on line 252: In fact, I’m reminded of a letter I received in relation to my seventh novel from an Armenian-American who objected – why did I have to make the narrator of We Need to Talk About Kevin Armenian? He didn’t like my narrator, and felt that her ethnicity disparaged his community. I took pains to explain that I knew something about Armenian heritage, because my best friend in the States was Armenian, and I also thought there was something dark and aggrieved in the culture of the Armenian diaspora that was atmospherically germane to that book. Besides, I despaired, everyone in the US has an ethnic background of some sort, and she had to be something! Joe Biden has finally admitted that the Armenian genocide was a genocide and not just an unusually bad case of flu. I am not convinced of it yet. 

        xxx/ellauri103.html on line 254: Especially for writers from traditionally privileged demographics, the message seems to be that it’s a whole lot safer just to make all your characters from that same demographic, so you can be as hard on them as you care to be, and do with them what you like. Availing yourself of a diverse cast, you are not free; you have inadvertently invited a host of regulations upon your head, as if just having joined the EU. Use different races, ethnicities, and minority gender identities, and you are being watched.

        xxx/ellauri103.html on line 255: I confess that this climate of scrutiny has got under my lucidly white skin. When I was first starting out as a novelist, I didn’t hesitate to write black characters, for example, or to avail myself of black dialects, for which, having grown up in the American South, I had a pretty good ear. I am now much more anxious about depicting characters of different races, and accents make me nervous. I try my best to talk average middle class American, but occasionally a few bits of North Carolina slip out. Sorry about that. Here's how I'd sound if I din't steal from anyone but the likes of me:

        xxx/ellauri103.html on line 257: 
        I’m from a small rural community, and ev’rybody who lived in my neighborhood, if you want to call it that, were relatives.  We called it “the circle,” and our house was there, my grandmother’s house was there, an aun’ an’ uncle who were childless lived there, and (uh) a couple of aunts an’ uncles who had children.  There were five female cousins, an’ in the summertime we hung out together all day long from early until late.  In my grandmother’s yard was a maple tree, and the five of us developed that into our apartment building.  Each of us had a limb, and [small laugh] the less daring cousins took the lo’er limbs, and I and another cousin a year younger than I always went as far to the top as we could, an’ we– we were kinda derisive of those girls who stayed with the lower limbs.  We had front doors an’ back doors.  The front door was the — the limb — were the limbs on the front, that were nearest (um) the boxwood hedge.  And the grass was all worn away in that area.  An’ then the back doorwa–was on the back side of the tree, an’ you could only enter the front an’ exit from the rear.  And that had to be done by swinging off a limb that was fairly high off the ground, and (um) my cousin Belinda and I had no problem with that, but the other girls — that was always somethin’ we had to coax them into doin’.  But still, you entered the front, you left the rear.  We (um) ate our lunches together.  When it was lunchtime — an’ our mothers always cooked lunch in the summertime ’cause they didn’ want to be in the hot kitchen at night.  So we would just take our (um) — go home, an’ we’d load our plates with all the vegetables an’ the cornbread, an’ get our glasses of milk or ice tea or whatever we were havin’, an’ we would head for somebody’s yard, where we would all sit down an’ eat together.  It was just an institution:  lunch in somebody’s yard.  An’ if you wanted to go home for a second helping– sometimes that was quite a little walk, but it was worth it, because that was our thing, having lunch together, every day.  (Um) We gathered at my grandmother’s on Sundays.  All my aunts would get those chairs, form a circle.  (Uh) One crocheted.  (Uh) Most of them just sat an’ talked, an’ we girls hung out for the main part with the women.  (Uh) The men would gather around the fish pond, which was in a side yard.  It was (um) — it was kind of a rock (um) pond that my granddaddy had, had built.  There was a ir’n pipe in the middle, an’ when he went fishin’, he would put his catch in there.  Or he caught a mud turtle, he’d put it in there.  An’ there it stayed until it was time to kill it an’ cook it, whatever it was.  The pipe in the middle had water that sprayed up all the time.  There was a locust tree near there, an’ that’s where we girls picked the leaves an’ the thorns to make the doll clothes out o’ the locust.  It’s where we always ate the watermelon.  We always had to save the rind, an’ we always had to leave some pink on that rind, because my grandmother made watermelon pickles out o’ that rind.  I hated the things.  I thought they were the worst things I ever put in my mouth.  But ever’body else thought watermelon pickles were just a great delicacy.  That was also around the time that ev’rybody grew gladiolias [sic] an’ I thought they were the ugliest flower I’d ever laid my eyes on, but ever’body had gladiolias.  ‘Course now I’ve come to appreciate the gladiolia, but back then I had absolutely no appreciation for it.  It was also where we made (uh) ice cream, (uh) on the front porch.  We made ice cream on Sunday afternoons.  I had an aunt who worked in the general mercantile business that my family owned, an’ she was only home on Sunday, so she baked all day:  homemade rolls an’ cakes.  And so, she made cakes an’ we made ice cream, an’ ever’body wan’ed to crank, of course.  (Um) That was just a big treat, to get to crank that ice cream.  It was jus’ our Sunday afternoon thing, an’ I, I think back on it.  All the aunts would sit around an’ they’d talk, an’ they’d smoke.  Even if you never saw those ladies smoke, any other time o’ the week.  On Sunday afternoon when we all were gathered about in gran- in granny’s yard, they’d have a cigarette.  Just a way of relaxing, I suppose.  The maple tree’s now gone.  In later years, it was thought the maple tree, our apartment building, was shading the house too much an’ causing mildew, so it was removed at some point.  And I don’t, to this day, enjoy lookin’ (uh) into that part o’ the yard. …
        

        xxx/ellauri103.html on line 260: In describing a second-generation Mexican American who’s married to one of my main characters in The Mandibles, I took care to write his dialogue in standard American English, to specify that he spoke without an accent, and to explain that he only dropped Spanish expressions tongue-in-cheek. I would certainly think twice – more than twice – about ever writing a whole novel, or even a goodly chunk of one, from the perspective of a character whose race is different from my own – because I may sell myself as an iconoclast, but I’m as anxious as the next person about attracting big money. But I think that’s a loss. I think that indicates a contraction of my fictional universe that is not good for the books, and not good for my purse.

        xxx/ellauri103.html on line 262: Writing under the pseudonym Edward Schlosser on Vox, the author of the essay “I’m a Liberal Professor, and My Liberal Students Scare Me” describes higher education’s “current climate of fear” and its “heavily policed discourse of semantic sensitivity” – and I am concerned that this touchy ethos, in which offendedness is used as a weapon, has spread far beyond academia, in part thanks to social media.

        xxx/ellauri103.html on line 264: Now I proceed to the topic "The left’s embrace of gotcha hypersensitivity inevitably invites backlash." Why, it’s largely in order to keep from losing my fictional mojo that I stay off Facebook and Twitter, which could surely install an instinctive self-censorship out of fear of attack. Ten years ago, I gave the opening address of this same festival, in which I maintained that fiction writers have a vested interest in protecting everyone’s right to offend others – because if hurting someone else’s feelings even inadvertently is sufficient justification for muzzling, there will always be someone out there who is miffed by what you say, and freedom of speech is dead. Why, freedom of speech is just about miffing! What's the use of the freedom if you are not allowed to miff! With the rise of identity politics, which privileges a subjective sense of injury as actionable basis for prosecution, that is a battle that in the decade since I last spoke in Brisbane we’ve been losing.

        xxx/ellauri103.html on line 266: Worse: the left’s embrace of gotcha hypersensitivity inevitably invites backlash. Donald Trump appeals to people like me who have had it up to their eyeballs with being told what they can and cannot say. Pushing back against a mainstream culture of speak-no-evil suppression, they lash out in defiance, and then what they say is pretty appalling. I actually think President Trump is a real cool guy. Especially I love his hair, it most definitely is not black and curly like that other president's. 

        xxx/ellauri103.html on line 268: Regarding identity politics, what’s especially saddened me in my recent career is a trend toward rejecting the advocacy of anyone who does not belong to the group. In 2013, I published Big Brother, a novel that grew out of my loss of my own older brother, who in 2009 died from the complications of morbid obesity. I was moved to write the book not only from grief, but also sympathy of morbid obesity: in the years before his death, as my brother grew heavier, I saw how dreadfully other people treated him – how he would be seated off in a corner of a restaurant, how the staff would roll their eyes at each other after he’d ordered, though he hadn’t requested more food than anyone else. Just a little wafer, is all. 

        xxx/ellauri103.html on line 270: I was wildly impatient with the way we assess people’s characters these days in accordance with their weight, and tried to get on the page my dismay at how much energy people waste on this matter, sometimes anguishing for years over a few excess pounds. Both author and book were on the side of the angels, or so you would think.

        xxx/ellauri103.html on line 272: But in my events to promote Big Brother, like trying to peddle it to my acquaintances, I started to notice a pattern. Most of the people buying the book in the signing queue were thin. Well the whole queue was pretty thin. Especially in the US, fat is now one of those issues where you either have to be one of us, or you’re the enemy. It's like Christianity: who is not for Jesus is against him. We don't know if he was fat, but most likely he was scrawny, he could not even carry his cross. I verified this when I had a long email correspondence with a “Healthy at Any Size” activist, who was incensed by the novel, which she hadn’t even read. Which she refused to read. No amount of explaining that the novel was on her side, that it was a book that was terribly pained by the way heavy people are treated and how unfairly they are judged, could overcome the scrawny author’s photo on the flap.

        xxx/ellauri103.html on line 274: She and her colleagues in the fat rights movement did not want my advocacy. I could not weigh in on this material because I did not belong to the club. I found this an artistic, political, and even commercial disappointment – because in the US and the UK, if only skinny-minnies will buy your book, you’ve evaporated the pool of prospective obese consumers to a puddle.

        xxx/ellauri103.html on line 276: I worry that the clamorous world of identity politics is also undermining the very causes its activists claim to back. As a fiction writer, yeah, I do sometimes make my narrator an Armenian. But that’s only by way of a start. Merely being Armenian is not to have a character as I understand the word. I need to add a whole host of racial prejudices to fatten him out. Luckily I didn't need to do that with my bro. 

        xxx/ellauri103.html on line 281:     I reviewed a novel recently that I had regretfully to give a thumbs-down, though it was terribly well intended; its heart was in the right place. But in relating the Chinese immigrant experience in America, the author put forward characters that were mostly Chinese. That is, that’s sort of all they were: Chinese. Which isn’t enough. They ought to be specifically American Chinese immigrants, believers in the American Dream. That would have fattened them out.

        xxx/ellauri103.html on line 292: Which brings us to my final point. (Believe me, I am slowly really getting to wind up!) You do not all do it equally well as I. So it’s more than possible that we write from the perspective of a one-legged lesbian from Afghanistan and fall flat on our arses. We don’t get the dialogue right, and for insertions of expressions in Pashto we depend on Google Translate. I know, I had to do it for my Irish boy. 

        xxx/ellauri103.html on line 294: Halfway through the novel, suddenly my protagonist has lost the right leg instead of the left one. My idea of lesbian sex is drawn from wooden internet porn. Efforts to persuasively enter the lives of others very different from us may fail: that’s a given. But maybe rather than having our heads taken off, we should get a few bucks for trying. After all, most fiction sucks. Most writing sucks. Mine does anyway. Most things that people make of any sort suck. But that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t make anything. Or that we should not suck. I do, however badly, and my drummer boy loves it. 

        xxx/ellauri103.html on line 303: Lionel Shriver’s keynote address at the Brisbane writers festival was a poisoned package wrapped up in arrogance and delivered with condescension. 

        xxx/ellauri103.html on line 305: Lionel Shriver’s real targets were cultural appropriation, identity politics and political correctness. It was a monologue about the right to exploit the stories of “others”, simply because it is useful for one’s story.

        xxx/ellauri103.html on line 307: I have never walked out of a speech. Or I hadn’t, until last night’s opening keynote for the Brisbane writers festival, delivered by the American author Lionel Shriver, best known for her novel, We need to talk about Kevin.

        xxx/ellauri103.html on line 310: “Mama, I can’t sit here,” I said, the corners of my mouth dragging downwards. “I cannot legitimise this …” 

        xxx/ellauri103.html on line 311: My mother’s eyes bore into me, urging me to remain calm, to follow social convention. I shook my head, as if to shake off my lingering doubts.

        xxx/ellauri103.html on line 320: Her question was — or could have been — an interesting question: What are fiction writers “allowed” to write, given they will never truly know another person’s experience?

        xxx/ellauri103.html on line 323: There is a fascinating philosophical argument here. Instead, however, that core question was used as a straw man. Shriver’s real targets were cultural appropriation, identity politics and political correctness. It was a monologue about the right to exploit the stories of “others”, simply because it is useful for one’s story.

        xxx/ellauri103.html on line 335: It’s not always OK if a white guy writes the story of a Nigerian woman because the actual Nigerian woman can’t get published or reviewed to begin with. It’s not always OK if a straight white woman writes the story of a queer Indigenous man, because when was the last time you heard a queer Indigenous man tell his own story? How is it that said straight white woman will profit from an experience that is not hers, and those with the actual experience never be provided the opportunity? It’s not always OK for a person with the privilege of education and wealth to write the story of a young Indigenous man, filtering the experience of the latter through their own skewed and biased lens, telling a story that likely reinforces an existing narrative which only serves to entrench a disadvantage they need never experience.

        xxx/ellauri103.html on line 337: I can’t speak for the LGBTQI community, those who are neuro-different or people with disabilities, but that’s also the point. I don’t speak for them, and should allow for their voices and experiences to be heard and legitimised.

        xxx/ellauri103.html on line 343: The attitude drips of racial supremacy, and the implication is clear: “I don’t care what you deem is important or sacred. I want to do with it what I will. Your experience is simply a tool for me to use, because you are less human than me. You are less than human…”

        xxx/ellauri103.html on line 346: My own mother, as we walked away from the tent, suggested that perhaps I was being too sensitive. Perhaps … or perhaps that is the result of decades of being told to be quiet, and accept our place. So our conversation then turned to intent. What was Shriver’s intent when she chose to discuss her distaste for the concept of cultural appropriation? Was it to build bridges, to further our intellect, to broaden horizons of what is possible?

        xxx/ellauri103.html on line 347: Her tone, I fear, betrayed otherwise. Humility is not Shriver’s cloak of choice.

        xxx/ellauri103.html on line 349: The kind of disrespect for others infused in Lionel Shriver’s keynote is the same force that sees people vote for Pauline Hanson. It’s the reason our First Peoples are still fighting for recognition, and it’s the reason we continue to stomach offshore immigration prisons. It’s the kind of attitude that lays the foundation for prejudice, for hate, for genocide.

        xxx/ellauri103.html on line 351: The fact Shriver was given such a prominent platform from which to spew such vitriol shows that we as a society still value this type of rhetoric enough to deem it worthy of a keynote address. The opening of a city’s writers festival could have been graced by any of the brilliant writers and thinkers who challenge us to be more. To be uncomfortable. To progress.

        xxx/ellauri103.html on line 353: A Maxine Beneba Clarke, who opened the Melbourne Writers’ Festival by challenging us to learn how to talk about race in a way that was melodic and powerful. A Stan Grant, who will ask us why we continue to allow our First People’s to wallow in inhumane conditions. An A.C. Grayling, if you really want the international flavour. Anyone who will ask us to be better, not demand we be OK with worse.

        xxx/ellauri103.html on line 396: Edinburghissa Rowling työsti kirjoituksiaan istuen usein kahviloissa, erityisesti sukulaistensa omistamassa kahvila Nicholson’sissa. Vuonna 1994 hän löysi hiukan sihteerintyötäkin. Paljon Rowling ei voinut kuitenkaan ansaita, ettei olisi menettänyt tukia, minkä vuoksi Rowlingin ja hänen lapsensa elämä ei ollut kovin ruusuista. (Senkö tautta Rowling on rautarouvan linjoilla? Elämä olisi ollut ruusuisempaa ilman tukia.) Rowling pääsi opiskelemaan opettajakoulutukseen, sai pienen stipendin ja pystyi elättämään itsensä ja lapsensa ilman tukia. Tukihan se on stipendikin vittu. Hän sai myös avioeron miehestään 26. kesäkuuta 1995. 

        xxx/ellauri103.html on line 433: The comment was one of a string as she defended herself after being called out for “liking” a tweet that compared hormone prescriptions to anti-depressants, which were over-prescribed to teenagers in the past with sometimes harmful results. It’s the second social media tussle the Harry Potter scribe has faced in two months after angering the LGBTQ community and supporters in June over transphobic remarks.

        xxx/ellauri103.html on line 435: Two big Harry Potter fan sites, unhappy over author J.K. Rowling’s views on transgender people, said today they will no longer provide links to her personal website, use photos of her, or write about her outside of her role in creating the fantasy world they love.

        xxx/ellauri103.html on line 438:     Our stance is firm: transgender women are women,” said the statement by the fan sites. “Transgender men are men. Non-binary people are non-binary. Intersex people exist and should not be forced to live in the binary. We stand with Harry Potter fans in these communities. While we don’t condone the mistreatment [Rowling] has received for airing her opinions about transgender people, we must reject her beliefs.

        xxx/ellauri103.html on line 440: The abandonment by the fan sites follows that by the stars of the Harry Potter films, including Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, Rupert Alexander Lloyd Grint, and Eddie Redmayne. Also, four authors quit Rowling’s literary agency after the company declined to issue a public statement supporting transgender rights. Fortunately  and Death eaters have staunchly rallied to Rowling´s side. Dementoreita oli sillä ateistipirullakin joka kirjoitti His Dark Materials, annas olla, juu Philip Pullman. Siitä lisää fanzulle omistetussa albumissa 269.

        xxx/ellauri103.html on line 579: Tangent: Thunberg told her millions of social media followers on Thursday she had been self-isolating for the past two weeks after returning home from a three-week trip in Central Europe. She said she reported symptoms associated with coronavirus, such as a fever and a cough. While she could not get tested for COVID-19 since Sweden is limiting tests to those in need of emergency medical treatment, she said it was “extremely likely” that she’s had it, given the combined symptoms and circumstances.

        xxx/ellauri104.html on line 527: Albeit to different extents, the researchers explain, the nine negative personality traits are all based on a rooted tendency to prioritize one’s own well-being, pleasure, or success over those of others, even if it means others will have to suffer for it.    

        xxx/ellauri104.html on line 920:   Loren Cunningham ja Janice Rogers ”Luovutusvoitto – Jeesukselle luovuttamisen dynamiikka” (Päivä 2001) lainaus sivulta 123: ”Näin tapahtui pienelle tytölle Itä-Saksassa. Kuulin hänen elämästään pastori Gerhard Wessleriltä, kun olin puhumassa hänen seurakunnassaan Frankfurtissa. Tämä pieni kymmenvuotias tyttö oli Mecklenburgissa, Itä-Saksassa asuvan kristityn perheen tytär. Hänen oli käytävä paikallista kommunistikoulua, jossa oppilaiden usko Jumalaan yritettiin järjestelmällisesti tuhota. Opettaja esimerkiksi käski lasten painaa päänsä pulpettia vasten ja pyytää Jumalalta karamellia. Odottaessaan hetken ja nähtyään, ettei mitään tapahtunut, opettaja nauroi ja sanoi: ’Näettekö nyt, Jumalaa ei ole olemassakaan! Mutta pyytäkääpä karamellia hallitukselta.’ Sitten jokaiselle oppilaalle annettiin makeinen hallituksen puolesta.

        xxx/ellauri104.html on line 922:   1. Eräänä päivänä opettaja käski oppilaiden nousta seisomaan ja toistaa hänen perässään: ’Jumalaa ei ole olemassa.’ Pieni kristitty tyttö kieltäytyi ja selitti opettajalle: ’Mutta minä uskon, että Jumala on olemassa.’ Opettaja tarttui tähän avuttomaan pieneen tyttöön päättäväisesti, hän halusi saada muutoksen aikaan.

        xxx/ellauri104.html on line 923: ’Sinun on tänä iltana kirjoitettava kotona viisikymmentä kertaa: ’Jumalaa ei ole olemassa.’ Pieni tyttö meni kotiin, rukoili vanhempiensa kanssa ongelman puolesta ja kirjoitti sitten viisikymmentä kertaa: ’Jumala on olemassa!’ Kun hän seuraavana päivänä palautti paperin, opettaja oli raivoissaan. Nainen räjähti. ’ (Ilkeä commie ope oli nainen.)

        xxx/ellauri104.html on line 925: 2. Tällä kertaa kirjoitat seitsemänkymmentä kertaa: ’Jumalaa ei todellakaan ole olemassa.’ Ja jos et kirjoita, sinä ja vanhempasi joudutte todella suuriin vaikeuksiin!’ Lapsi rukoili jälleen vanhempiensa kanssa. Sitten hän palautti toisen paperin, johon oli kirjoittanut seitsemänkymmentä kertaa: ’Jumala on todellakin olemassa!’ Opettaja oli vimmoissaan lukiessaan paperia, hän huusi:

        xxx/ellauri104.html on line 927:  3. Huomiseksi kirjoitat sata kertaa: ’Jumalaa ei ehdottomasti ole olemassa!’ Jos vielä vastustelet, menen puhumaan poliisille ja sinä ja vanhempasi saatte sitten nähdä, mitä tapahtuu.’ Nyt koko kylä jo tiesi tapauksesta. Valon ja pimeyden voimat taistelivat. Pienen tytön vanhemmat tiesivät, mikä kaikki oli vaakalaudalla. Mutta he olivat valmiita mieluummin kärsimään kuin kieltämään Herransa. Antamaan ainokaisen tyttärensä jotta toiset pelastuisivat. Niinpä pieni tyttö kirjoitti sata kertaa: ’Jumala on ehdottomasti olemassa!’

        xxx/ellauri104.html on line 929: Helpotus: Seuraavana päivänä opettaja katsoi paperia ja huusi ääni väristen: ’Nyt menen ilmiantamaan sinut poliisille. Katsotaan sitten, auttaako Jumalasi sinua!’ Tämän sanottuaan opettaja lähti koulun pihaan, hyppäsi pyöränsä satulaan ja polki tielle. Mutta hän ei päässyt pitkälle. Ajaessaan koulun portin ohi hän putosi yhtäkkiä pyöränsä päältä – hänen sydämensä pysähtyi ja hän kaatui kuolleena maahan. Lapset katselivat luokan ikkunasta ja näkivät tämän. He juoksivat ulos ja kerääntyivät järkyttyneinä opettajan ruumiin ympärille. Sitten yksi huusi kovalla äänellä ja toiset yhtyivät hänen huutoonsa: ’Jumala on ehdottomasti olemassa! Jumala on ehdottomasti olemassa!' Allah akbar! Allah akbar!” 

        xxx/ellauri104.html on line 1234: Juttu aukeaa käsitteen ’avuksi’ kautta sillä samaa  sanaa käytetään Adamin avuksi ensixi  kokeilluista elämistä (lammas, kameli,  gerbiili) kuin Eevasta. Kun eläimistä ei  tätä ’apua’ siis ollut, niin tarkoitus  on sitten selvästi sanoa, että saman  lajin eliöiden tulee pariutua keskenään.  Tehtyään Eevan jehu palasi askartelemaan  eevat myös muille eläimille. Siinä meni  vielä muutama tovi, meni ylitöixi.  Elukoiden parisuhteen/avioliiton naaras  viestittää sovituin esim haju- ja  värimerkein yhteisön muille naaraille,  että tämä tyttö on varattu ja uros  viestittää muille uroksille mylvimällä  että tämä naaras on varattu. Ja molemmat  viestittävät esim. äänin ja elein  olevansa juuri nyt varattuja, älkää katkaisko puhelua vaan pysykää langalla. Koska  apina ei ole luonnostaan yksiavioinen,  niin näin turvataan yhdyntärauhaa ja  määritellään myös mahdollisten  jälkeläisten huoltovastuu ilman aisankannattamisen riskiä. Sitä vartenhan se immenkalvokin on luotu.

        xxx/ellauri113.html on line 38:       This development could open up a bizarre vision of the universe in which black holes can cough themselves into nothingness, Hawking said during recent lectures on the BBC and at Harvard. “This raises a serious problem that strikes at the heart of our understanding of science,” he said. “If determinism, the predictability of the universe, breaks down with black holes, it could break down in other situations,” he said. “Even worse, if determinism breaks down, we can’t be sure of our past history, either. The history books and our memories could just be illusions,” he said. The Nobel prize could just be an illusion, he said. Two years later he died.

        xxx/ellauri113.html on line 219: V. Hawking was actually spotted in church not infrequently in Cambridge. In Britain, you’re not actually expected to believe in God in order to go to church, if you feel like going to church. If you do believe in God, you’re not expected to go to church either. You go to church if you like going to church for some reason, and that’s that.

        xxx/ellauri113.html on line 220: Personally, as someone with no religious beliefs, I’d feel a bit weird about the idea that someone might launch my ashes into space after my death. Sort of seems like a terrible waste of rocket power. It’s irrelevant what happens to my ashes after death.

        xxx/ellauri113.html on line 222: Being buried in Westminster Abbey is generally considered a very high honour. Not that you’re likely to care after you’ve died. Once you’re dead, it’s no longer about you. It’s about how people remember you. More people are likely to remember him buried in Westminster Abbey than in outer space, which appears sparsely populated at best.

        xxx/ellauri113.html on line 224: Being an atheist doesn’t mean you have to hate and resent anything created by Christians. If it did, you’d have to hate most of Britain’s most beautiful buildings along with Newton’s laws.

        xxx/ellauri113.html on line 296: Pekka Jussi Reinikainen (s. 16. syyskuuta 1947 Helsinki) on suomalainen lääkäri, kristillinen kirjailija, poliitikko (KD) ja kreationisti. Reinikainen on valmistunut lääkäriksi Ranskan Montpellier’ssa. Hän on toiminut käytännön lääkärinä kaikkiaan yli 40 vuotta, johon sisältyy toiminta yli 10 vuotta kuntoutuslääkärinä ja koululääkärinä. Pekka Reinikainen on ollut kaksi kuukautta Lääkäriliiton valtuuskunnassa ja useissa valiokunnissa sekä Kunnallislääkärit ry:n hallituksessa, Helsingin aluelääkäriyhdistyksen puheenjohtajana sekä Suomen kristillisen lääkäriseuran puheenjohtajana. Reinikainen on myös Viron kristillisen lääkäriseuran kunniajäsen. Reinikainen on toiminut 10 vuotta sosiaalilautakunnan jäsenenä, 14 vuotta Helsingin kaupunginvaltuuston jäsenenä, kirkolliskokouksen jäsenenä sekä on Valtioneuvoston päihde- ja raittiusasiain neuvottelukunnan jäsen. Reinikainen pitää kutsumuksenaan kertoa vääristä maailmankuvista ja Raamatun luomiskertomuksesta.

        xxx/ellauri113.html on line 502:     How dense can these creation types really be? Wanting very much for something to be true turns people into imbeciles. The least one can say for Dawkins is that he knows what he doesn´t know. He his happy to just wait and see.  One of my daughters challenged the teacher and said, “Miss, you keep saying ‘evolution did it,’ but you never actually explain how evolution did it.” The teacher had to confess that my daughter made a valid criticism, and the rest of class agreed. So what? How did god create the snake? Did he roll it like Gary Larson shows, or did he use some other method? Did he just make a hypnotic gesture? (Yes, see below.)

        xxx/ellauri113.html on line 560:   Shell-shocked, Isis set out to find all the pieces of Osiris’s body. Aided by Nephthys, Isis was able to retrieve all the body parts of Osiris, except Osiris penis.  Isis called on the god Anubis to help in the mummification process. After that, she cast a magical spell on Osiris dismembered parts, bringing him back to life. However, he did not come back in his old self. He was instead reborn in the land of the dead (the Underworld). Before he departed for the Underworld, Isis mated with him and became pregnant with Horus (the falcon-headed god. Apparently the missing penis was located eventually.)

        xxx/ellauri113.html on line 562:       As lord of the underworld, Osiris’s was responsible for judging the souls of the dead. In that role, he earned the name Khentiamenti or “the Foremost of the Westerners”. If the dead person was deemed to have lived an upright life, the soul of the dead would be ushered into the bosoms of Osiris, i.e. into eternal paradise. However, if the person was found guilty by the panel, the soul of dead was instantly consumed by the demon Ammit. Thus, the soul vanished into eternal nothingness.

        xxx/ellauri114.html on line 122: What more than anything is missing in recent films, and shines splendidly in Maxwell’s films, is the sense of glory, the feeling that some have lived on an elevated plane according to the dictates of the highest sense of duty and honor. It’s an unfashionable feeling today, and mocked by those who conspicuously lack it, who love weakly, who think solely in quotidian, political terms. It cannot be understood by those without religious faith, for Heaven is a City of Glory and glory is the special attribute of a God who, if hidden, nevertheless offers us a glimpse of the special virtue of his glory in the lives of those who in moments of danger are willing to sacrifice themselves for a cause they think greater than themselves; and that, above the messiness of political squabbles, is the message behind Maxwell’s films. (The American Spectator 2015)

        xxx/ellauri114.html on line 265: “See, I will break the bow of Elam, the mainstay of their might. I will bring against Elam the four winds from the four quarters of heaven; I will scatter them to the four winds, and there will not be a nation where Elam’s exiles do not go.  I will shatter Elam before their foes, before those who want to kill them; I will bring disaster on them,  even my fierce anger,” declares the Lord.  “I will pursue them with the sword until I have made an end of them. I will set my throne in Elam and destroy her king and officials,” declares the Lord. "Yet I will restore the fortunes of Elam in days to come,” declares the Lord

        xxx/ellauri114.html on line 270: Shem, a son of Noah, was the father of all the Semetic people (primarily Jews and Arabs). Elam was Shem’s oldest son (Genesis 10:22). He was born after the flood and was the patriarch of the Elamites. His descendants settled in the valley between the north eastern shore of the Persian Gulf and the Zagros Mountains, where some believe Noah’s ark might have come to rest.

        xxx/ellauri114.html on line 272: Elam’s capital city, Susa, was one of the world’s first post flood cities, and was a regional center off and on for many centuries before being destroyed by Ashurbanipal, the last of the great Assyrian Kings, in 647 BC. As was the custom of Assyrian kings, he removed many of the surviving Elamites from their homeland. He took them to the former Northern Kingdom of Israel, which had been conquered by Assyria 74 years earlier, where they were resettled among the Israelites who remained there.

        xxx/ellauri114.html on line 274: THAT WAS ONLY THE BEGINNING. But this did not fulfill Jeremiah’s prophecy, which wouldn’t even be given for at least another 50 years. Susa was rebuilt, only to be conquered again, this time by the Persian King Cyrus. It was rebuilt again and renovated by King Darius the Great to serve as the capital of the Persian Empire. Susa was mentioned in Daniel 8:2 as the location where the prophet received a vision recorded in Daniel 8 of the subsequent conquest of the Persian Empire by Alexander the Great. This prophecy was fulfilled two hundred years later when Susa surrendered without a battle to Alexander.

        xxx/ellauri114.html on line 275: Daniel 8:2 identifies Susa as being in the province of Elam, indicating it was already a part of the Persian Empire at the time. From this brief history it appears that all but the last verse of Jeremiah’s prophecy was fulfilled in the Assyrian and Persian conquests.  By the way, Daniel was buried in Susa and his tomb has been preserved to this day because he has always been highly revered among the Persian people.

        xxx/ellauri114.html on line 277: WHO ARE THESE PEOPLE? A case can be made for the view that “Persian” and “Elamite” are not two names for the same people but that having conquered Elam, Persia became the successor to Elam, whose original inhabitants, as Jeremiah’s prophecy indicates, have been scattered to the four winds and absent from the pages of history for over 2,500 years. Evidence of the difference in origin between the Elamites and the Persians came from the mouth of none other than Persian King Darius the Great who said, “I am Darius, the great king, the king of kings, the king of many countries and many people, the king of this expansive land, the son of Wishtaspa of Achaemenid, Persian, the son of a Persian, ‘Aryan’, from the Aryan race” (From Darius the Great’s Inscription in Naqshe-e-Rostam).

        xxx/ellauri114.html on line 280: It could also help us understand why the Arabs of the Middle East today are so opposed to the Iranians gaining any kind of political or military advantage over them. Even though they share varieties of the same religion (Islam), the Persians are not Arabs. As an example, if you follow our “Prophecy in the Headlines” feature, you’ve probably read about Saudi Arabian officials announcing that because of the US pursuit of a more cooperative relationship with Iran, the Saudi kingdom will henceforth be limiting its interaction with the US and going its own way where Middle Eastern affairs are concerned.

        xxx/ellauri114.html on line 282: (From my days as a business consultant, I remember hearing one of the owners of a client company talking on the phone in a language I didn’t recognize. When he hung up I asked what language he had been speaking. “It was Farsi,” he said, “the Persian language.” “Then you’re an Arab,” I responded.

        xxx/ellauri114.html on line 283: For an instant, I thought I had offended him. Then, as if he was correcting a child, He said, “Persians are not Arabs. We’re Caucasians.”) But there’s one verse that prevents us from proclaiming Jeremiah’s prophecy to be completely fulfilled in history. Jeremiah 49:39 says, “Yet I will restore the fortunes of Elam in days to come, declares the Lord.”

        xxx/ellauri114.html on line 285:       WHAT HAPPENED TO ELAM? There’s no record of a re-emergence of the Elamites since the Persian conquest 2500 years ago. Some say Jeremiah 49:39 is currently being fulfilled through the Iranians. They say this partly because Iran’s primary nuclear facilities are in the area once called Elam. Its recently completed nuclear reactor in Bushehr lies on the eastern shore of the Persian Gulf in the heart of ancient Elam. If that’s the case then God’s restoration of Elam’s fortunes is both brief and haphazard, its stated purpose is opposed to God’s plan for Israel, and it is doomed to end in even more destruction.

        xxx/ellauri114.html on line 287: Currently, the most popular view is that the complete fulfillment of Jeremiah’s prophecy is for our time and will take place shortly through Iran’s defeat in the Battle of Ezekiel 38. But if that’s true, then the Iranian people will have to be scattered among all the nations following their defeat and then somehow regain God’s favor during Daniel’s 70th Week in order for the last verse to be fulfilled. There’s simply no good reason to believe this will happen. After one brief reference in Ezekiel 38:5, the future of Persia is never mentioned in the Bible again.

        xxx/ellauri114.html on line 288: I think it’s reasonable to expect prophecies that have only been partially fulfilled in history to have their ultimate fulfilment in our future. The idea that a partial historical fulfilment points to a complete future fulfilment is a well established principle in the Bible. Two examples we’ve reviewed recently are Isaiah 17 and Psalm 83. The literal and complete fulfilment of these prophecies has not happened yet.

        xxx/ellauri114.html on line 290: But from my research it appears that the only part of Jeremiah’s prophecy that remains a question mark is verse 39. The Elamites were defeated and scattered among the nations just as Jeremiah predicted. The nation ceased to exist and there’s been no mention of them since.

        xxx/ellauri114.html on line 293:       LET’S TRY TO BE MORE CAREFUL. I think there are a number of people today who are guilty of interpreting Bible prophecy in light of current events when the reverse is supposed to happen. We are supposed to interpret current events in light of Bible prophecy. These people read the world news and then scour the Bible for prophetic verses that seem to fit without fully researching their history to see to what extent they’ve already been fulfilled. Many of them are novices where Bible prophecy is concerned, but some should know better.

        xxx/ellauri114.html on line 295:       We also need to remember that Bible prophecy only illuminates world history where Israel is concerned. Great Empires have come and gone during Israel’s absence without so much as a hint of their existence in the Bible. Even the United States, by any measure the most successful of them all, is missing from the prophetic record. You can’t tell me God didn’t know these empires were coming, so their absence has to mean that He sees them as irrelevant to Israel’s destiny. Don’t get me wrong, He has used them all to advance His plan for His people, and they were all blessed through their time of participation. But He didn’t find any of them worthy of mention because He didn’t actually need any of them to fulfil His plan.

        xxx/ellauri114.html on line 297:       I frankly can’t say how or when God will restore Elam’s fortunes. But based on what I know currently, I am not comfortable with the substitution of Iran for Elam in Jeremiah 49:34-39. The truth is, we don’t need Jeremiah 49 to know what will happen to Iran, and the Bible doesn’t say how or when Elam’s fortunes will be restored. The only thing we know for sure is that God said it and therefore He will do it.

        xxx/ellauri114.html on line 302: EDOM, MOAB, AND AMMON. Here’s a brief summary of the history and prophecy concerning these three neighbors of Israel who always seem to wind upon the wrong side of things where the Lord is concerned.

        xxx/ellauri114.html on line 333:       Edom was the name given to the descendants of Jacob’s twin brother Esau. Having patched things up after their split over the way Jacob had tricked Isaac into giving him Esau’s blessing (Genesis 27), they returned to the area near Kiriath Arba (Hebron) where Isaac and Rebekah lived. Upon Isaac’s death the two brothers buried him and divided up their inheritance.

        xxx/ellauri114.html on line 338: 400 years later, the Babylonians came as the Lord’s instrument of judgment against Israel. Edom, Moab, and Ammon all cheered for Babylon and made plans to carve up the Promised Land for themselves after the Babylonians carried Israel into captivity. This displeased the Lord and He had the Babylonians destroy them as well. Moab and Ammon ceased to exist as nations at that time (Ezekiel 25:10).

        xxx/ellauri114.html on line 339: Edom was first welcomed as an ally in the Babylonian conquest of Judah, but Babylon soon turned on them and conquered them, too (Obadiah 1:7-9). God repaid Edom’s treachery against Israel (Obadiah 1:10-14) with Babylon’s treachery against Edom. The Edomites were destroyed and their lands were taken over by the Nabateans, a desert tribe from the south.

        xxx/ellauri114.html on line 343: EDOM, MOAB, AND AMMON IN THE END TIMES. Edom, Moab, and Ammon are listed in Psalm 83:6-7 among the participants in a scheme to destroy Israel and erase it’s name from people’s memories. By most accounts this battle has never taken place and will most likely be one of the next events on the prophetic horizon. The psalmist’s prayer is that the Lord will cause them to perish in disgrace.

        xxx/ellauri114.html on line 347: The Beautiful Land is Israel, and the timing of this prophecy is during the Great Tribulation. The fact that Edom, Moab and the leaders of Ammon will be delivered from the anti-Christ’s hand indicates he will have intended to conquer them but will be unable to do so.

        xxx/ellauri114.html on line 348: Based on existing conditions in the world today we would interpret this prophecy as pertaining to Jordan. But this could all change with the Battle of Psalm 83 when Edom, Moab, and Ammon could come under Israel’s control again. Is that what will prevent the anti-Christ from conquering them, or is there more to it?

        xxx/ellauri114.html on line 355: Bozrah was the capitol of Edom.  It’s name can either mean sheepfold or fortress. It’s often associated with the abandoned city of Petra, which is only twenty miles away.

        xxx/ellauri114.html on line 357:       Combining these prophecies we have the anti-Christ, now indwelt by Satan, determined to rid the world of God’s people once and for all. Heeding the Lord’s 2,000 year old warning, the believing remnant will flee to the mountains of Edom where the city of Petra has been standing empty for centuries, as if in preparation. The phrase “wings of a great eagle” in Rev. 12:14 is reminiscent of Exodus 19:4 where the Lord used the same phrase to describe the way he delivered Israel from the Egyptians. This implies the same kind of supernatural assistance, such as when Satan spews out a river of water to sweep the woman away. But the Lord will open the earth to swallow the river and save the woman. This will enrage Satan, but he will leave the woman and go after other followers of Jesus (Rev. 12:15-17).

        xxx/ellauri114.html on line 363:       Our various destinations always included the ruins of Jerash (Gerasa). It was a prominent city of the Decapolis in the Lord’s time (Matt. 4:25), and is located about 30 miles north of Amman. Traveling through the ancient land of the Ammonites, we found it to be quite beautiful in places, with green valleys and numerous villages.

        xxx/ellauri114.html on line 365:       We always spent a day in Petra, as well. We traveled south from Amman down the eastern side of the Dead Sea, through ancient Moab and into Edom. As we journeyed south we soon found ourselves in desert country, but it’s still far from being a wasteland. The highway was wide and well maintained, with light to moderate traffic in both directions, and we passed through several villages with pleasant rest stops before reaching Petra.

        xxx/ellauri114.html on line 367: But all that will change in the day God brings His vengeance on the lands east of the Jordan river and south of Israel. When He’s finished with them, Moab and Ammon will resemble Sodom and Gomorrah.

        xxx/ellauri114.html on line 370: Here’s another hint that Moab and Ammon will yet fall back under the control of Israel. And Edom will receive an extra portion of the Lord’s wrath: 

        xxx/ellauri114.html on line 373:       For the Lord has a day of vengeance, a year of retribution, to uphold Zion’s cause. Edom’s streams will be turned into pitch, her dust into burning sulfur; her land will become blazing pitch! It will not be quenched night or day; its smoke will rise forever. From generation to generation it will lie desolate; no one will ever pass through it again. The desert owl and screech owl will possess it; the great owl and the raven will nest there. God will stretch out over Edom the measuring line of chaos and the plumb line of desolation (Isaiah 34:5-11).

        xxx/ellauri114.html on line 375:       Isaiah’s descriptive language calls up images of hell itself and has led more than one commentator to suggest Edom as the location of the Lake of Fire, where the unbelievers of all ages will spend eternity in torment.

        xxx/ellauri114.html on line 377:       From the above we can see that it won’t be out of any consideration for Edom, Moab, and Ammon that God will protect them from the anti-Christ, but out of a need to preserve the believing remnant of Israel. After the 2nd Coming the homelands of these three antagonists of Israel will become desolate wastelands forever.

        xxx/ellauri114.html on line 382: 
        Q: I have a question regarding the descendants of Edom. In Joel Rosenberg’s novel The Ezekiel Option, some Iranians claim that they are descended from the Edomites and that Iran is in danger of God’s judgment upon the edomites. Are some Iranians descended from Edom? And if so, could Obadiahs prophecy against Edom be a warning for Iran? Thanks for your ministry and God bless.

        xxx/ellauri114.html on line 384: A: The Iranians are the modern day Persians who originated in Elam, not Edom. Edom was the birthplace of the Ammonites and the Moabites and was later inhabited by the family of Esau, Jacob’s brother. Edom got its name from Esau, and is called Jordan today. Elam was located further east on the other side of Iraq, where Iran is today. Obadiah prophesied against the Edomites who were driven out of their capital (Petra) by the Nabateans, a Bedouin people descended from Ishmael, in fulfillment of Obadiah’s prophecy. Many believe that during the Great Tribulation, the Jordanians will hide believing Jews in Petra where God will protect them against the anti-Christ. The area is called Bosrah in Isaiah 63. 

        xxx/ellauri116.html on line 188:     Elizabeth’s mother was raised as a Roman Catholic in a middle class upbringing, and later converted to Judaism following her marriage. She raised Élisabeth in the Jewish faith. Elisabeth and her two sisters were raised by parents who believed in the equality of the sexes. Jag har nog längre sladd än famo!

        xxx/ellauri116.html on line 383:     De Beauvoir and Sartre were classmates and competitors at the Sorbonne in 1929, studying for the aggregate in philosophy, a prestigious graduate degree. Although Sartre’s marks surpassed de Beauvoir’s, she was, at 21, the youngest person ever to pass the exam.

        xxx/ellauri116.html on line 385:     Simone de Beauvoir, who Sartre playfully referred to as “The Beaver,” never published a piece of writing without her partner’s input until after his death. Likewise, he referred to her as a “filter” for his books, and some scholars have even made the case that she wrote some of them for him.

        xxx/ellauri116.html on line 387:     Scholars and journalists often accuse de Beauvoir of publicly masking painful bouts of jealousy. While her inner emotional life is unclear, what’s evident is the manipulative, often dishonest, and arguably cruel treatment to which both Sartre and de Beauvoir subjected much-younger female consorts.

        xxx/ellauri116.html on line 389: Take, for example, 16-year-old Bianca Bienenfeld, a student of de Beauvoir’s who was 14 years her junior. Soon after the two women began their affair, de Beauvoir introduced her lover to Sartre. He promptly made it his mission to seduce Bienenfeld. After a romantic entanglement between the three of them, de Beauvoir told Sartre to end it, which he abruptly did in a letter.

        xxx/ellauri116.html on line 391:     Bienenfeld, who was Jewish, later narrowly escaped the Nazi occupation of France. Neither de Beauvoir nor Sartre tried to find her. When she read “Letters to Sartre” and saw the flippant tone the pair took toward her, she said, “Their perversity was carefully concealed beneath Sartre’s meek and mild exterior and the Beaver’s serious and austere appearance. In fact, they were acting out a commonplace version of ‘Liaisons Dangereuses’”.

        xxx/ellauri116.html on line 395:     Bienenfeld may be an extreme example, but she’s not atypical. Sartre tended to treat younger romantic prospects (all of whom were female) more as conquests than partners, spending months or years persuading them to get into bed with him and then bouncing off to regale “the Beaver” with details.

        xxx/ellauri116.html on line 434: Ce recueil de réflexions et d’observations, sans ordre et presque sans suite, fut commencé pour complaire à une bonne mère qui sait penser. Je n’avais d’abord projeté qu’un mémoire de quelques pages; mon sujet m’entraînant malgré moi, ce mémoire devint insensiblement une espèce d’ouvrage trop gros, sans doute, pour ce qu’il contient, mais trop petit pour la matière qu’il traite. J’ai balancé longtemps à le publier; et souvent il m’a fait sentir, en y travaillant, qu’il ne suffit pas d’avoir écrit quelques brochures pour savoir composer un livre. Après de vains efforts pour mieux faire, je crois devoir le donner tel qu’il est, jugeant qu’il importe de tourner l’attention publique de ce côté-là; et que, quand mes idées seraient mauvaises, si j’en fais naître de bonnes à d’autres, je n’aurai pastout à fait perdu mon temps. Un homme qui, de sa retraite, jette ses feuilles dans le public, sans prôneurs, sans parti qui les défende, sans savoir même ce qu’on en pense ou ce qu’on en dit, ne doit pas craindre que, s’il se trompe, on admette ses erreurs sans examen.

        xxx/ellauri120.html on line 64: No, Freud was rong! Many basic tenets of Freud’s theory have been completely disproved. To name several: Psychosexual stages. The Oedipal complex. Belief that repressed memories from the first year of life can be unearthed. Sexual fantasy about intercourse with a parent is responsible for hysteria. Even more damning, his methods and procedures cannot be called scientific, his evidence lacks scientific credibility, and what is offered as evidence was sometimes fudged, if not outright fabricated. Not surprisingly, Freud is absented from contemporary psychological pedagogy, theory, and research. Claiming, “Freud is right!” is akin to shouting, “Long live the king!”; historical curiosities, both.

        xxx/ellauri120.html on line 66: Key features of Freud’s theory, in addition to being wrong, are repugnant to modern sensibilities. Misogynist perspectives are integral to the theory and to the man. To name but a few of the more egregious: Penis envy. The moral inferiority of woman. Only psychosexually mature women can achieve vaginal orgasm, while orgasm by clitoral stimulation is evidence of stunted development. “Women oppose change, receive passively, and add nothing of their own.”

        xxx/ellauri120.html on line 68: William James coined the term Cash Value to describe criteria to assess the merit and truth of an assertion or belief. Freud’s work is freighted with immense metaphorical— and literal— cash value.

        xxx/ellauri120.html on line 70: Edward Bernays was the nephew of Freud. His mother was Freud’s sister and his father was Freud’s wife’s brother. Born in 1891, and brought to the United States with his family in the first year of his life, Bernays injected his uncle’s insights into the very marrow and bloodstream of American culture, altering its pulse and functioning—along with the rest of the world. He did so using the unique means and methods of American culture to achieve its most valued end: Cash. Life magazine named Bernays one of the 100 most influential Americans of the 20th century.

        xxx/ellauri120.html on line 72: Reason is a weak voice, easily overwhelmed by our desires, or employed, along with various other means, as a defense to protect us from awareness of the real, base motives that drive our thoughts and actions. This is Freud’s foundational vision of the human psyche. It is unflattering, if not repugnant, and basically Wright.

        xxx/ellauri120.html on line 74: Edward Bernays made his fortune, fame, and lasting influence by convincing people to buy things they don’t need, selling harmful products parading as health and beauty, rousing individuals to eagerly embrace slogans, and compelling them to surrender their individuality to the passions of the herd. He is considered to be the progenitor of public relations and is called “The Father of Spin”. He published a seminal book, Propaganda, that became Joseph Goebbels’ guidebook for his many Nazi propaganda campaigns, including developing the Fuhrer cult and orchestrating the genocide against the Jews.

        xxx/ellauri120.html on line 91: our century’s hatred.

        xxx/ellauri120.html on line 96: When it sleeps, it’s never eternal rest.

        xxx/ellauri120.html on line 97: And sleeplessness won’t sap its strength; it feeds it.

        xxx/ellauri120.html on line 117: Let’s face it:

        xxx/ellauri120.html on line 130: It’s always ready for new challenges.

        xxx/ellauri120.html on line 133: It has a sniper’s keen sight

        xxx/ellauri120.html on line 145: 
        Fig. 1. This Woman Stopped Removing Facial Hair For A Year, Here’s How it Changed Her Face
        

        xxx/ellauri120.html on line 188: 
        Capybara: The world’s largest rodent roams Tambopata’s Amazon forests
        

        xxx/ellauri120.html on line 191: Sometimes weighing as much an adult human, the capybara is the world’s largest rodent. The capybara (Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris), which with its brown fur resembles a giant guinea pig, can grow up to 1.3 meters (4 feet 4 inches) in length and weigh anything from 35 to 66 kilograms (77 to 145 pounds).

        xxx/ellauri120.html on line 200: Yli-Viikari on suorittanut M.A. in Culture and Communication Studies -yliopistotutkinnon estetiikasta Pariisin Penthouse-Sorbonne -yliopistossa vuonna 1997, sekä täydennyskoulutukset Master in European Corrupt Politics and Administration College of Europessa Bruggessa vuonna 1999 ja Past Master in Private Appropriation from Public Administration, Diplôme de l’ENA Ranskan elättikorkeakoulussa vuonna 2001.

        xxx/ellauri120.html on line 359: "Nam Sibyllam quidem Cumis ego ipse oculis meis vidi in ampulla pendere, et cum illi pueri dicerent: Sibylla ti theleis; respondebat illa: apothanein thelo." I. THE BURIAL OF THE DEAD April is the cruellest month, breeding Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing Memory and desire, stirring Dull roots with spring rain. Winter kept us warm, covering Earth in forgetful snow, feeding A little life with dried tubers. Summer surprised us, coming over the Starnbergersee With a shower of rain; we stopped in the colonnade, And went on in sunlight, into the Hofgarten, 10 And drank coffee, and talked for an hour. Bin gar keine Russin, stamm’ aus Litauen, echt deutsch. And when we were children, staying at the archduke’s, My cousin’s, he took me out on a sled, And I was frightened. He said, Marie, Marie, hold on tight. And down we went. In the mountains, there you feel free. I read, much of the night, and go south in the winter. What are the roots that clutch, what branches grow Out of this stony rubbish? Son of man, 20 You cannot say, or guess, for you know only A heap of broken images, where the sun beats, And the dead tree gives no shelter, the cricket no relief, And the dry stone no sound of water. Only There is shadow under this red rock, (Come in under the shadow of this red rock), And I will show you something different from either Your shadow at morning striding behind you Or your shadow at evening rising to meet you; I will show you fear in a handful of dust. 30 Frisch weht der Wind Der Heimat zu Mein Irisch Kind, Wo weilest du? "You gave me hyacinths first a year ago; "They called me the hyacinth girl." - Yet when we came back, late, from the Hyacinth garden, Your arms full, and your hair wet, I could not Speak, and my eyes failed, I was neither Living nor dead, and I knew nothing, 40 Looking into the heart of light, the silence. Öd’ und leer das Meer.       

        xxx/ellauri121.html on line 299:   She thinks Moby Dick was a great masterpiece. Figures. She got engaged to James "Jay" Ford, a fellow student, in 1963, but by Easter the following year, she also met Jim Polk, a sensitive, witty graduate student from Montana whom she would marry in 1967. Polk’s recollections of Atwood are instructive and often amusing. He recalls one costume party at Harvard where she came disguised as Cleopatra’s breast. 

        xxx/ellauri121.html on line 304: After graduating in English from the University of Toronto, the young poet— she was by now publishing in Canadian literary magazines—enrolled in graduate school at Radcliffe, the all-female women university at Harvard, in 1961. She was chagrined by the intensely chauvinistic atmosphere: among other things, female students were not allowed access to the university’s modern poetry collection in the Lamont Library. Only men could read all the juicy bits. 

        xxx/ellauri121.html on line 306: Atwood’s career as a graduate student stretched, with many interruptions, for half a dozen years. During that period she had an affair with Quebec poet D. G. Jones— which Sullivan mentions so obliquely that it is over before the reader realizes it has begun. She had broken it off, as a result of the stresses caused by his workload. She subsequently courted Jim Polk (an American writer she had met at Harvard) and, in January 1967, she decided to marry him "after five years of equivocation". She also worked at odd jobs including market researcher like Fred Waterford, and despite never finishing her PhD, began a university teaching career that would take her to cities across Canada. At 27, she became the youngest person to ever win the Governor General’s Award with her 1967 poetry collection, The Circle Game. Siitä nousi sille aika lailla kusi päähän. 

        xxx/ellauri121.html on line 308: In the early 70s, Atwood added considerably to her work as a teacher and writer by editing manuscripts for the cutting-edge nationalist publisher The House of Anansi. By then, her marriage to Polk was over (Sullivan is vague about why, offering mainly generalities about the difficulty of staying together in that morally freewheeling era. Fact is, Jim Polk was not enough of a handyman for manly Margaret.) In 1972, Atwood met Gibson, a novelist and cultural activist whose own marriage was crumbling. The two began an affair, meeting at first clandestinely in the basement office of Toronto’s Longhouse Bookshop, but soon living together—for several years on a working farm north of the city.

        xxx/ellauri121.html on line 311: Graeme Gibson, long-time partner to author Margaret Atwood and father of their only child, Jess, died in London, England earlier this week while he was accompanying Ms Atwood on an extensive book tour to promote her latest novel, The Testaments, a sequel to the massively successful The Handmaid’s Tail. He was 84 and his death was both expected and sudden.

        xxx/ellauri121.html on line 312: He too was an author of novels, none of which ever came close to having the kind of success Ms Atwood has always enjoyed, but Gibson himself would have said his greatest success was the support he gave his partner during one of the most amazing careers any writer has ever had, in Canada or in any country. His support was unstinting and inspiring, and allied to it was a conviction that Atwood’s greatness demanded that kind of commitment.

        xxx/ellauri121.html on line 314: The books he wrote were never “hot”, but they were never read, so no harm done. His novels were well crafted but never quite took off — what the French call connerie pure. In 1996, he decided to stop writing novels altogether, and concentrate on childcare and cooking & laughing at Peggy's jokes. Kinda ironic given they didnt ever marry tho. It’s as if he made sure to stick around long enough for her new sequel to The Handmaid’s Tale – The Testaments – to be published. Considerate.

        xxx/ellauri121.html on line 334: In her admiring new biography of Margaret Atwood, Rosemary Sullivan passes on a story about the writer that vividly catches her youthful ambition. One day when she was in her mid-20s, she dropped in at the home of poet John Newlove, who had been drinking heavily with his friend fellow Prairie writer Patrick Lane. The men’s conversation about literature had degenerated into a series of long silences punctuated by the occasional pseudoprofound utterance. Frustrated, Atwood cut to the heart of the matter, demanding to know what their poetic ambitions were. After some drunken dithering, the two declared that what they wanted most was to win a Governor General’s Award. As Lane recalled later, Atwood was indignant at their modest expectations, declaring tartly that the only goal worth pursuing was the Nobel Prize. Swigging down her beer, she then left the room.

        xxx/ellauri121.html on line 336:   Atwood has not won the Nobel (this was written 1998), at least not yet. But the petite 58-year-old novelist (Cat’s Eye, Alias Grace) and poet (Power Politics, Morning in the Burned House) has become internationally famous on a scale no Canadian writer of serious literature ever has. She is, in her own words, “one of the few literary writers who has gotten lucky”—which means she is read not just by intellectuals, but by hairdressers, chartered accountants and farmers. Easy reading, straightforward sentiments.

        xxx/ellauri121.html on line 344: Sullivan rightly traces Atwood’s notable self-confidence to those early years, but she also ignores the hints in her own narrative that Atwood’s family, like any other, had its neurotic tics—and that Atwood certainly carried her own share of psychic stress into adulthood. Where else does the buried grief, anger and sense of calamity in her writing come from? 

        xxx/ellauri121.html on line 378:   Having a fetish doesn’t necessarily mean wanting to wear adult diapers or a furry costume. (Turrit on rivoja sexifetishistejä.) You just have to find a normally non-sexual object or action arousing—an association you probably formed in childhood, says Samantha Leigh Allen, professor of sexual fetishism at Emory University. Maybe your mother had platform shoes, ankle shackles, net stockings, cat spectacles, bikini, and a print hat. Maybe she talked like a slut and moaned all the time.        

        xxx/ellauri121.html on line 382: Related: The Science of Why You’re an Ass Man

        xxx/ellauri121.html on line 464: Becoming a kneeling warrior means you follow Paul’s advice in Ephesians 6:11 to “put on the full armor of God so that you can…

        xxx/ellauri122.html on line 74: Understanding Your Partner’s Love Language.

        xxx/ellauri122.html on line 119:     Wow, thanks for the tip. I think they’ll really help alot. 💖💖

        xxx/ellauri122.html on line 126:         You are most welcome @Agnes.. I’m glad you found the tips useful.

        xxx/ellauri122.html on line 452: Iech hoa’s’n dicke!

        xxx/ellauri122.html on line 476: ’ch hämschn

        xxx/ellauri122.html on line 553: Stimmt’s?, Nicht wahr?

        xxx/ellauri122.html on line 584: satz’ch oack hie

        xxx/ellauri122.html on line 759: A: Most Europeans would know that the US has some 300 to 350 million people, yes. They would probably guess closer to 300 million, because that’s what many of them would remember from school.

        xxx/ellauri122.html on line 763: You should, of course, be aware that “know” doesn’t mean people think about it daily, or even yearly. Anyway, U.S. stupid white male population is just 192 million. 

        xxx/ellauri122.html on line 772: Business Insider has compiled a list of 25 such classics, drawn from Amazon’s list of 100 lifetime books, Goodreads recommendations, and the opinions of the editors. A common trend among these books is their exploration of politics, history, and human conditions - insights which allow these literature to withstand the test of time. Here’s the list:

        xxx/ellauri122.html on line 792: While Kafka had intended for the story to be burned after his death, his friend Max Brod pressed forward to prepare it for publication. Franz was right. The two met as teenagers, following a talk Brod gave about Arthur Schopenhauer at a students’ Union Club on Prague’s Ferdinandstrasse. One of their first conversations concerned Nietzsche’s attack on Schopenhauer’s renouncement of the self. Pretty quickly the two curious minds became inseparable, usually meeting twice daily to discuss life, literature, philosophy, and whatever other topics might randomly arise. Like sex... 

        xxx/ellauri122.html on line 794: Brod’s memoirs spoke about Kafka’s gentle serenity, describing their relationship almost as if they were lovers. He also recalled the mystical experience of both men reading Plato’s Protagoras in Greek, and Flaubert’s Sentimental Education in French, like a collision of souls. While there is no evidence of any homosexual feeling between Kafka and Brod, their intimate relationship appeared to go beyond typical camaraderie from two straight men of their era.

        xxx/ellauri122.html on line 796: In their early 20s the pair vacationed together on Lake Garda on the Austrian-Italian border; they paid their respects at Goethe’s house in Weimar; stayed together at the Hotel Belvedere au Lac in Lugano, Switzerland; and even visited brothels together in Prague, Milan, Leipzig, and Paris. Brod, a self-confessed ladies’ man with an insatiable appetite for adventurous sexual conquests, often berated Kafka for not having a similarly urgent drive of eros. “You avoid women and try to live without them,” Brod once told his friend.

        xxx/ellauri122.html on line 922: Tätä kirjaa en ole jaxanut lukea useista yrityxistä huolimatta, se on niin tympäisevä. Catch-22 is a satirical war novel by American author Joseph Heller. He began writing it in 1953; the novel was first published in 1961. Often cited as one of the most significant novels of the twentieth century, beats me why. Heller was born on May 1, 1923, in Coney Island in Brooklyn, son of poor Jewish parents, Lena and Isaac Donald Heller, from Russia. Heller said that the novel had been influenced by Svejk, Céline, Waugh and Nabokov. Hilariously funny, the novel’s insights are also deadly serious. It is a debris of sour jokes.

        xxx/ellauri122.html on line 938: Concern for others complicates the simple logic of self-preservation, and creates its own Catch-22: life is not worth living without the well-being of others, but  the well-being of others endangers one’s life. Ergo self preservation sucks. So does war, for whatever cause.

        xxx/ellauri122.html on line 1023:   A tiny miniature woman will stand in front of your little bro, also only about six inches tall standing up.  Her long blonde hair accents her sparkling blue eyes and huge white smile.  Her long plastic legs bend only slightly and her pointy breasts perk out of her hot pink tank top.  She doesn’t look like anything a five year old would play with, but Barbie is obviously her favorite.  How does a five year old relate to Barbie?  She isn’t comforting to…show more content…

        xxx/ellauri122.html on line 1025: Then there was Barbie; the bold doll who stood alone.  She was successful, rich, mega-famous, and single.  She was teaching America’s female youth that this too is what to expect out of life.

        xxx/ellauri122.html on line 1029: Barbie today is close to fifty years old, but she doesn’t look a day over seventeen.  Not only does her image take up entire ailses in toy stores, but she also has a boyfriend, cousins, sisters, and even a punk rock groupie band.  She’s found in every little girls toy chest, and her smile still shines brightly off her her glowing rosy plastic face.      

        xxx/ellauri122.html on line 1035: Just joking. The inspiration behind Barbie is a questionable one, as she was based off of Bild-Lilli, a German doll who pursued wealthy men and wore suggestive clothing, being sold in tobacco shops, bars and adult-themed toy stores. Is Barbie an insult to feminism? Japp, säger lilla Charlotte och skrattar glatt. Barbin unelmatalon asukkailla riittää pätäkkää, ne riitelevät aika lailla, ilmeilevät veikeästi ja saavat päähän tylpillä astaloilla pyörryttäviä iskuja. Hassua! Barbie is a feminist (yes, really). Barbie inventor, Ruth Handler, thought it was important for a young girl’s self-esteem to “play with a doll with breasts.” Det tycker jag också om, men varför kan  Ken inte ha en jättestor ståkuk som kan blotta ollonet? 

        xxx/ellauri122.html on line 1040: Then they tried to make a disabled Barbie in a wheelchair, but the wheelchair wouldn’t fit into the Dream House or the House’s elevator. Äänet Barbien feminismistä menee aika 50-60. Math is difficult. Can't wait to plan my wedding, said Anna.

        xxx/ellauri123.html on line 38: l’allumette. ..Un corps vivant avec 

        xxx/ellauri123.html on line 40: histoire. ..Les gaz émanés d’elle 

        xxx/ellauri123.html on line 45: de s’enflammer, au contact d’une 

        xxx/ellauri123.html on line 48: dès qu’elle a pris, la flamme, ..en 

        xxx/ellauri123.html on line 52: bois, ..Qu’à peine a-t-elle viré de 

        xxx/ellauri123.html on line 54: ..aussi noir qu’un curé. 
        

        xxx/ellauri123.html on line 415: Novellin alkuosa on synkkä. Tälle naurettavalle ihmiselle on kaikki hänen ympärillään samantekevää, hän ei tahdo osallistua pinnalliseen keskusteluun. Hän tunnistaa maailmaan turhuuksien turhuuden, hän ei näe siitä ulospääsyä. Koska hän on ateistinen ihminen, hänelle tulee mieleen itsemurha ainoana helppona ulospääsynä, hänelle tulee mieleen itsemurha. Mutta onko se niin helppoa? Pelkkä itsemurha-ajatus vie lisäajatuksiin elämän tarkoituksesta, rakkaudesta, toivosta. Siksi ajatus itsemurhasta askarruttaa häntä jo viikkokausia. Pimeänä kosteana marraskuun iltana hän kävelee kotiin. Hän on päättänyt, että hän ampuu itsensä tänään. Tässä synkässä tilanteessa pieni paleleva tulitikkutyttö pyytää häneltä apua, sitkeästi. Mutta hän torjuu hänet raa’asti, polkee kovasti jalkaansa, että tyttö lähtee. Sitten kun hän katsoo taivaalle, siellä pilvet avautuvat hieman sateen jälkeen, hän näkee pienen tähden, pienen tähden. Se on ainoa valopilkku tarinan koko alkuosassa.

        xxx/ellauri123.html on line 425: Eikö elämäkin täällä ole vain unta? Voi olla, että paratiisi ei koskaan tule täällä, sen ymmärrän. Mutta kuitenkin jatkan saarnaamista, pääasia on: ’rakasta lähimmäistäsi niin kuin itseäsi’. Enempää et tarvitse.

        xxx/ellauri123.html on line 555: Before I left, I tried to fight my nervosity in many ways. I read everything I could get my hands on that seemed relevant to my chosen academic field — a mix of business and engineering. I prepared my courses in advance. I sought reassurance from others that I’d chosen a good school and degree.

        xxx/ellauri123.html on line 559: In the end, what helped me the most was an exercise you could file under “youthful naïvete:” I grabbed a piece of paper and wrote down “my 30 guiding principles.” Most of them were simple, like “Let go what must be let go,” “Simplify,” and, “Have no secrets.” I still have the list. It’s on my pinboard. I’m looking at it right now. So why was I naïve to create it?

        xxx/ellauri123.html on line 561: First of all, I didn’t know that what I’d come up with weren’t actually principles. They were just rules.

        xxx/ellauri123.html on line 563: The difference between a rule and a principle is that one is merely a guideline that follows from the other. Principles don’t break. They’re universal. Gravity is a principle. Whether it’s you who falls from a skyscraper, your cat, or a 17th century vase, it’s not gonna end well. Gravity makes no exceptions.

        xxx/ellauri123.html on line 565: In order to deal with principles, we have rules. “Don’t jump off skyscrapers” is a rule and a good one at that. Unlike principles, however, rules break all the time. Often, it’s us doing the breaking — and often prematurely. I know it would be best for all concerned for me to break the skyscraper rule asap, but I'm going to give it some time. I'm wonderful. I want to fall gently like a snowflake.

        xxx/ellauri123.html on line 567: In the ten years since I wrote them down, I have broken every single one of my rules. And yet, I’m still glad I wrote that list. You know why? Because the idea that I wanted to live by some rules — despite not knowing which ones or how or why — was enough.

        xxx/ellauri123.html on line 571: It didn’t matter that the list was arbitrary. What mattered was that it sent me on a path where I would look for rules and principles everywhere, learn to tell the difference, and continue to build my life around them as I went. Like never pee against the wind.

        xxx/ellauri123.html on line 575: Today, what I’m most interested in is neither principles nor rules, but what lives in-between. That’s one of the many lessons I learned along the way: Each rule may have a lifecycle, but that cycle can repeat many times in one life. So if a rule somehow keeps reappearing, keeps proving itself as useful, and continues to hurt if I break it, that rule catches my attention.

        xxx/ellauri123.html on line 579: Such rules have extended validity and therefore live right between normal guidelines and the base layer of principles. I guess we could call them ‘cardinal rules.’ As you can imagine, they’re hard to come by.

        xxx/ellauri123.html on line 585: In 1995, Studio Ghibli, a Japanese anime company, released a movie called Whisper of the Heart. It’s about two high school students struggling with their artistic callings, their feelings for each other, and coming of age.

        xxx/ellauri123.html on line 591: About a decade ago, someone extracted seven rules from the film and released them online. The original source remains lost, but they’ve been making the rounds ever since.

        xxx/ellauri123.html on line 593: Like my own rules, they’re all quite simple, but much closer to timeless principles. So whoever you are, wherever you sit, whatever you are holding on your hand: Thank you.

        xxx/ellauri123.html on line 597: 
        1. Make peace with your past so it won’t mess with your present.
        

        xxx/ellauri123.html on line 599: Bill Gates says the worst day in his life was the day his mother died. It’s a simple reminder that we all have regrets. Another bad day was when his wife caught him astride his secretary.

        xxx/ellauri123.html on line 601: We all keep our genitals in our clothing somewhere, and every time we open it, we feel pain and suffering. We can’t change the people we once were in the sack with, but we can make out with them. Open the zip and let in some fresh air. Reconcile. Otherwise, our past will forever be a drag on our heels.

        xxx/ellauri123.html on line 607: Sometimes, you can’t find the power to move on immediately. Sometimes, you really want to kick yourself. That too is part of life. What you can do is allow time to pass. You can´t kick yourself in the ass, nor fuck yourself. You gotta ask someone for help.

        xxx/ellauri123.html on line 609: I know you want to just fix everything and move on, but if you stitch a wound poorly, it’ll get worse down the road. So take time. Take care of yourself. Your health. Your broken heart and broken parts. Your cleft crotch or drooping dick.

        xxx/ellauri123.html on line 615: Most of our scars come from wounds inflicted by other people (see rule 6). Words can hurt us more than weapons. But it’s not your job to imagine what arrows people might point at you inside their heads. The majority will never fire. What you think of them they could care less.

        xxx/ellauri123.html on line 617: 
        4. Don’t compare your life to others, and don’t judge them.
        

        xxx/ellauri123.html on line 619: Instead of taking shots at others, most people decide to draw up — and lose at — another imagined game: Who’s better? It’s a moot question. We have no idea what anyone’s story is like up to the page on which we meet them.

        xxx/ellauri123.html on line 621: Mark Twain said, “Comparison is the death of joy.” Worse, it’s also the birth of misery. The less you compare, the bigger your capacity for empathy. Meet people on their own terms. You won’t doubt yourself as much and be less prone to jealousy, which only leads to fear, anger, hate, and suffering.

        xxx/ellauri123.html on line 626: 
        5. Stop thinking so much, it’s alright not to know the answers.
        

        xxx/ellauri123.html on line 628: If you’re not supposed to think about others, nor what they think, what are you supposed to mull over? Yourself? Actually, it’s fine to not think so much at all. Answers often come to you when you least expect it. You are probably too stupid anyway, if you hang around this self-help page.

        xxx/ellauri123.html on line 630: Make your choices. Choose a path. Be determined. Commit. But, once you have, let the chips fall where they may. You’ll know when to take a different fork in the road. Zig when you ought to zag, hit a tree like Goofy,  that´s the chicken way, trial and error. There´s gotta be a hole in this fence.

        xxx/ellauri123.html on line 634: At the end of the day, what you desire most in life only you can give to yourself. You already have everything. Right inside. Feel your pants. Point at your crotch. There. That’s where happiness is.

        xxx/ellauri123.html on line 636: We spend all this time looking for something we can’t see because it’s not there. The outside world is only as good as what you do with everything that happens in it. Are you cultivating your experiences? Cherishing them?

        xxx/ellauri123.html on line 638:   If not, it’s not fuel or oxygen that’s missing. Only you can refill that fire hose because it rests limp inside your Calvin Kleins. Choose to fondle that lame thing. Erect it. Hold it tight. And let it shine for everyone to see.

        xxx/ellauri123.html on line 642: 
        7. Smile, for you don’t own all the problems in the world.
        

        xxx/ellauri123.html on line 644: Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson has over 160 million fans. He gets a lot of letters. (Who the fuck is Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson?) But none like Haley Harbottle’s.

        xxx/ellauri123.html on line 645: Haley has Moebius syndrome. She’s 22. She has never smiled in her life. Haley was supposed to have “smile surgery,” but her anaesthetist made a mistake and she almost died. Soon, she’ll try it again, hoping to smile for the first time.

        xxx/ellauri123.html on line 649: Whatever problems plague you in your day-to-day life, chances are, they’re not all that important in the grand scheme of things. In fact you are not worth a shit in the grand scheme of things. We each have our own challenges, but as long as you can smile, do it. Who knows who you’ll infect. If you´re lucky you got Corona.

        xxx/ellauri123.html on line 661: Vapaapainissa yleisön osa show’ssa on hyvin tärkeää. Yleisö hurraa faceille ja toistaa heidän iskulauseena ja buuaa heeleille. Huudot ovat samankaltaisia kuin jääkiekko-otteluiden kannatushuudot. Painijoiden uran kulku määräytyy yleisön reaktion mukaan. Asshole! - Nananana, nananana, heey, heey, heey, goodbye! - Holy shit! - You fucked up! - You screwed Bret! - What? - Boring! - You suck! - You tapped out! -You still got it! - YES! - NO! - MAYBE!

        xxx/ellauri123.html on line 666: Here’s one more thing I’ve learned about rules and principles: Many rules can follow from one principle, but you can never act on principle alone.

        xxx/ellauri123.html on line 668: “Friendship should be based on loyalty” is a principle you can aspire to live by, but without the rule of “I never abandon my friends at the last minute,” it doesn’t mean anything. Huh? Because you cannot reason with words of three syllables or more?

        xxx/ellauri123.html on line 670: I don’t know how long the rules from the movie will last for you on this never-ending mission, but, like one of its characters, I’d like to remind you:

        xxx/ellauri123.html on line 672: "You’re wonderful. There’s no need to rush. Please take your time. Mein ei oo ihan pakko bylsiä just nyt Shizuku, take your time. Mut mullois kyllä hyvä stondi nyt eikä tää auringonkaan nousu kestä monta hetkeä."

        xxx/ellauri123.html on line 682: Hi, I’m Nik!

        xxx/ellauri123.html on line 684: Since 2014, millions of people have read my work. I’ve been published in Business Insider, CNBC, and Fast Company. I was also featured on Medium (Top Writer in 10+ topics), Quora (Top Writer 2017 & 2018), Pocket, and more.

        xxx/ellauri123.html on line 686: If you’ll allow me, I’d love to share my latest work with you. To respect your time, I’ll only email you when I’ve created something meaningful. That’s what friends do, don’t they? You can sign up below or go here.

        xxx/ellauri123.html on line 795: C’est toi qui fais que plus ne me tourmente  C’est toi qui fais que plus ne me tourmente    Sä sen teet ettei mua enää tuskaannuta

        xxx/ellauri123.html on line 796: L’archer volant qui causait mes ennuis;	     L’archer volant qui causait mes ennuis  	    Lentävä jousimies joka ennen vaivasi;

        xxx/ellauri123.html on line 797: T’aiant tenu seulement quatre nuis	     T’ayanttenu seulement quatre nuits,	    Vaikka oon ollut sussa vasta 4 yötä,

        xxx/ellauri123.html on line 801: D’un poil follet mollement crespelu,  	     D’un poil follet mollement crépu, 		    Turkissomisteinen ja pehmoinen,

        xxx/ellauri123.html on line 804: Tous vers galans devroient, pour t’honorer   Tous les galants3 devraient, pour t’honorer,   Kaikkien kikkelikallejen pitäisi

        xxx/ellauri123.html on line 805: A beaus genous te venir adorer		     À beaux genoux venir t’adorer,     	    tulla polvillaan suoa palvomaan,

        xxx/ellauri123.html on line 1154:   Remu was born in Nogent-le-Rotrou. A nobleman (under the tutelage of the Lorraine family), he did his studies under Marc Antoine Muret and George Buchanan. As a student, he became friends with the young poets Jean de La Péruse, Étienne Jodelle, Jean de La Taille and Pierre de Ronsard and the latter incorporated Remy into the "La Pléiade", a group of revolutionary young poets. Belleau´s first published poems were odes, les Petites Inventions (1556), inspired by the ancient lyric Greek collection attributed to Anacreon and featuring poems of praise for such things as butterflies, oysters, cherries, coral, shadows, turtles, and twats. His last work, les Amours et nouveaux Eschanges des Pierres precieuses (1576), is a poetic description of gems and their properties inspired by medieval and renaissance lapidary catalogues. He died impotent in Paris on 6 March 1577, and was buried in Grands Augustins. Remy Belleau was greatly admired by impotent poets in the twentieth century, such as Francis Ponge. Francis Ponge (1899 Montpellier, Ranska – 1988 Le Bar-sur-Loup, Ranska) oli ranskalainen runoilija. Ponge työskenteli kirjailijanuransa ohella toimittajana, kustannustoimittajana ja ranskan kielen opettajana. Hän osallistui toisen maailmansodan aikana vastarintaliikkeeseen ja kuului vuosina 1937–1947 kommunistipuolueeseen. Hän sai vaikutteita eksistentialismista, ja esinerunoissaan hän paljastaa kielen avulla objektin itsenäisenä, omanlakisena maailmana. Francis Ponge was born in Montpellier, France in 1899. He has been called “the poet of things” because simple objects like a plant, a shell, a cigarette, a pebble, or a piece of soap are the subjects of his prose poems. To transmute commonplace objects by a process of replacing inattention with contemplation was Ponge’s way of heeding Ezra Pound’s edict: ‘Make it new.’ Ponge spent the last 30 years of his life as a recluse at his country home, Mas des Vergers. He suffered from frequent bouts with nervous exhaustion and numerous psychosomatic illnesses. He continued to write up until his death on August 6, 1988. 

        xxx/ellauri123.html on line 1164: Me brasse le destin, me banissant de l’heur		kohtalon kolauttama, karkottaa mut onnesta

        xxx/ellauri123.html on line 1166: Qui brûle comme moi d’une amour naturelle ?		joka palaa kuten mä kiiman voimasta?

        xxx/ellauri123.html on line 1168: Hé quoi ! tenant ma langue entre l’ivoire blanc	Voi nössö! kieli sen norsunluiden välissä

        xxx/ellauri123.html on line 1173: Un crêpe d’or frisé sur un teint blanchissant,		Kultapiziä valkokuultoisella iholla,

        xxx/ellauri123.html on line 1175: Tracé sur le milieu d’un filet d’écarlate,		Verenpunainen piirto fileen keskellä,

        xxx/ellauri123.html on line 1179: De l’amoureux plaisir les plus rares délices ;		Lemmen nautintojen harvinaista herkkua;

        xxx/ellauri123.html on line 1183: Qu’un boyau replié de quelque chèvre morte !		suoli kiepillä kuttuvainaan ruholla!

        xxx/ellauri123.html on line 1186: Baigné, trempé de l’eau, comme si la tempête		Kasteltu likomärkä, kuin myrsky olisi

        xxx/ellauri123.html on line 1188: Frappé d’un mauvais vent, je demeure sans cœur,	Ruskeaan tuuleen käärittynä olen puhditon,

        xxx/ellauri123.html on line 1190: Qu’est devenu ce v.. à la pointe acérée ?		Mikä tuli tälle teräskärkiselle  k.. lle?

        xxx/ellauri123.html on line 1192: Qui couronne, flottant, le morion d’un coq ;		kruunaten heilahdellen kukon kypärän;

        xxx/ellauri123.html on line 1193: Roide, entrant tout ainsi que la pointe d’un soc	Jäykkänä tunkeutui kuin aurankärki

        xxx/ellauri123.html on line 1195: Jusqu’aux couillons, ce v.. était enflé d’audace,	Kasseja myöten tää k.. oli täynnä uhoa,

        xxx/ellauri123.html on line 1198: Suivait le trac d’un c.. ; v.. de bonne espérance,	seurasi jälkeä v..:n perässä; täynnä toivoa,

        xxx/ellauri123.html on line 1199: Toujours gonflé d’orgueil et gorgé de semence,		aina ylpeydestä paisuen ja täynnä siementä 

        xxx/ellauri123.html on line 1205: De Jeanne la Pucelle ; à qui l’entrefesson		Orleansin neizyen; jonka väliliha ei turpoa,

        xxx/ellauri123.html on line 1207: Et si peu fréquenté qu’on sente de la porte		Ja niin vähän käytetty että haisee jo ovelta

        xxx/ellauri123.html on line 1209: Entrouvrant tout ainsi qu’un sépulcre cendreux,	Raottuu kuin tuhkainen hautakammio,

        xxx/ellauri123.html on line 1216: Dans l’abîme profond, ce nerf qui ne s’allonge		syvään kuiluun, jänne joka et venähdä,

        xxx/ellauri123.html on line 1218: Qui frétille, goulu, autour de l’hameçon,		sätkivänä, ahnaana näykit koukkua,

        xxx/ellauri123.html on line 1222: Que fait contre l’acier une lame de plomb ;		terästä vasten lyijyläpyskä; 

        xxx/ellauri123.html on line 1233: Tel c.. sera pour toi, puisqu’un autre plus beau	Sellainen v.. sopi sulle, koska kauniimpi

        xxx/ellauri123.html on line 1235: Adieu, et jamais plus ne t’avienne entreprendre	Hyvästi, äläkä enää koskaan saa päähäsi

        xxx/ellauri123.html on line 1258: Eric Sweeten provides a fascinating and well-written answer to this question. It’s almost impossible to disagree with him.

        xxx/ellauri123.html on line 1267: There’s your answer.

        xxx/ellauri123.html on line 1271: Q: If Christians say God can forgive any sin, what about murder, pedophilia? I’m considering becoming a Christian, but don’t agree with this logic.

        xxx/ellauri123.html on line 1275: Christian teaching is that any sin can be forgiven. There is one exception, called the “unpardonable” sin, but that is a subject for another thread; it’s not about pedophilia for murder, but poking fun at the ghost who knocked up Virgin Mary without so much as by your leave.

        xxx/ellauri124.html on line 129:   Silicone sweethearts remain resolutely inert, but change is afoot in the world of sex dolls, with a drive to make them ever more lifelike. First stop is a throbbing heart and a heating element, custom-made nipples and wobbling artificial labia – researchers are utilising new technology to persuade their dolls to smile, pout, flutter their eyelashes, tell jokes, and fake orgasm. What more is needed anyway? Down in the dolls’ nether regions, heating and lubrication systems are in the early stages of development for a more “authentic” sexual experience, along with muscle spasms to simulate female orgasm. “Pubic hair is making a comeback,” offers company owner Matt, running his hand through some plastic pubes.

        xxx/ellauri124.html on line 208: 	Stendhal’s Le Rouge et le Noir

        xxx/ellauri124.html on line 210: 	Balzac’s Père Goriot

        xxx/ellauri124.html on line 212: 	Maupassant’s Bel-Ami

        xxx/ellauri124.html on line 214: 	Proust’s À la recherche du temps perdu

        xxx/ellauri124.html on line 216: 	Austen’s Pride and Prejudice

        xxx/ellauri124.html on line 218: 	George Eliot’s Middlemarch

        xxx/ellauri124.html on line 220: 	Henry James’ The Ambassadors

        xxx/ellauri124.html on line 222: 	Joseph Conrad’s Nostromo and Lord Jim and The Shadow-Line

        xxx/ellauri124.html on line 224: 	Edith Wharton’s The Custom of the Country

        xxx/ellauri124.html on line 226: 	Mark Twain’s Huckleberry Finn

        xxx/ellauri124.html on line 228: 	Tolstoy’s War and Peace

        xxx/ellauri124.html on line 230: 	Dostoyevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov

        xxx/ellauri124.html on line 232: 	Thomas Mann’s Buddenbrooks or The Confessions of Felix Krull, Confidence Man

        xxx/ellauri124.html on line 234: 	Franz Kafka’s The Trial

        xxx/ellauri124.html on line 236: 	James Joyce’s Ulysses

        xxx/ellauri124.html on line 238: 	Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita and Pale Fire

        xxx/ellauri124.html on line 240: 	Samuel Beckett’s Malone Dies

        xxx/ellauri124.html on line 253: Pääkallo tarkoittaa kirjaimellisesti nauruun kuolemista: ”I’m dead”. Suomeksi: kuolen naurusta.

        xxx/ellauri124.html on line 336: Your Problems She Gets Mad At You For Being Emotional She Claims You’re 

        xxx/ellauri124.html on line 339: Plays The Victim She Cries To Get Her Way She’s Super Critical She Lashes Out When 

        xxx/ellauri124.html on line 340: She’s Upset She Wants You To Fix Her Problems She Wants To Control You And Your 

        xxx/ellauri124.html on line 355: A Friend Who’s Going Through It.  By Jay Polish July 20, 2021. 

        xxx/ellauri124.html on line 358: having a hard time when you send the most ridiculous dog TikTok you’ve ever seen 

        xxx/ellauri124.html on line 360: bubbly bestie cancels three hangouts in a row, it’s proof positive that they're 

        xxx/ellauri124.html on line 364: if their mental health isn’t in great shape, Huntley says that it can be helpful 

        xxx/ellauri124.html on line 365: to reach out unprompted. Even science says that texts are good for someone’s 

        xxx/ellauri124.html on line 368: with depression cope a lot easier than people who don’t receive those, “Hey, 

        xxx/ellauri124.html on line 369: you’re awesome” reminders. When you can tell your pal is in need of a quick sloth 

        xxx/ellauri124.html on line 370: .gifs — or a shoulder to cry on — letting them know you’re there for them can look 

        xxx/ellauri124.html on line 371: a lot of different ways. If you’re trying to figure out whether a simple emoji or 

        xxx/ellauri124.html on line 374: 
        1.  “Just wanted to let you know that you’ve been 

          xxx/ellauri124.html on line 377: “Here’s a photo of my penis." "Mun ei ole ihan pakko bylsii sua mut 

          xxx/ellauri124.html on line 381: “Can I call you?”. Sure, actually calling someone might be old-fashioned, but that it’s still a nice gesture. 

          xxx/ellauri124.html on line 385: “Let me know if there’s any way I can be helpful.” 

          xxx/ellauri124.html on line 393: “Just wanted to let you know that you’re a great friend.” 

          xxx/ellauri124.html on line 399: 
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          xxx/ellauri124.html on line 403: there’s that coworker that won’t stop rolling his eyes whenever your cat creeps 

          xxx/ellauri124.html on line 404: across your laptop during Zoom meetings. An arsenal of texts to send when you’re 

          xxx/ellauri124.html on line 406: coffee this morning was the last straw. “It’s not about being mean or getting back 

          xxx/ellauri124.html on line 407: at someone,” says Jordyn, 26, who tells Bustle that they’ve sent their fair share 

          xxx/ellauri124.html on line 409: ‘let it go.’” Letting off some steam via Messenger can look like anything from a 

          xxx/ellauri124.html on line 410: long, drawn-out explanation of why you’re fuming to a short, simple, and 

          xxx/ellauri124.html on line 421: “I’d rather not.” 

          xxx/ellauri124.html on line 424: Leave off the ‘I love you.’ 

          xxx/ellauri124.html on line 429: “Omg!!! That’s amazing!!!!”

          xxx/ellauri124.html on line 432: felt impossibly long in high school? Worse yet 375 humanists? It’s not long enough when you’re this ticked 

          xxx/ellauri124.html on line 453: knowledge yet? Yep, me too. So, obviously, it’s time for me to send some more 

          xxx/ellauri124.html on line 470: tracker for Twitter, it’s the most-used hand emoji right now. It's like the Thumbs 

          xxx/ellauri124.html on line 514: you’re channeling those “hang loose,” “totally chill,” “take it easy” vibes, and 

          xxx/ellauri124.html on line 515: if you’re like me, you want to pretend you are, in fact, “totally chill” and not 

          xxx/ellauri124.html on line 532: So now that you know what the options are, and what a Tapback is, here’s how to use them. How to Use a 

          xxx/ellauri124.html on line 539: corner of the message to which the Tapback is related. And that’s all there is to 

          xxx/ellauri124.html on line 540: it. It’s so simple that this may be the first guide we’ve written with just one 

          xxx/ellauri124.html on line 541: screenshot. It’s a feature that is so easy to use, it’s a travesty [Questions mark: of what?] that more 

          xxx/ellauri124.html on line 542: people aren’t aware of it. [Advertisement] If you reply with a Tapback to someone 

          xxx/ellauri124.html on line 549:     › How to See Android 12’s Hidden Easter Egg

          xxx/ellauri124.html on line 699: 2013)  I’ll Be Waiting (toukokuu 2013)  Apinamies (Julia ja Johanna Tukiainen) 

          xxx/ellauri125.html on line 128: “Dolores ‘Lolita’ Haze teria sido inspirada numa garota de 11 anos chamada Florence ‘Sally’ Horner, raptada em 1948 pelo pedófilo Frank La Salle, mecânico cinquentão, que a manteve em cativeiro quase dois anos”, relata Sérgio Augusto.

          xxx/ellauri125.html on line 132: “Sally era morena, praticamente da mesma idade de Lolita, e também filha de mãe viúva e chantageada com uma ameaça de internamento numa escola correcional. Seu sequestro seguiu o mesmo modus operandi que Nabokov desenvolve em seu romance. Weinman encontrou anotações e recortes de jornais sobre o caso nos arquivos do escritor, até mesmo um registro da morte de Sally, em agosto de 1952”, assinala Sérgio Augusto. “Há claras — e, às vezes, diretas — referências ao drama de Sally e a La Salle em ‘Lolita’. No capítulo final, atormentado pela culpa, Humbert-Humbert se compara a La Salle e confessa sua desconfiança de que também possa ser condenado a 35 anos por estupro.”

          xxx/ellauri125.html on line 136: O livro “The Real Lolita”, de Sarah Weinman, resgata a história de duas pessoas cuja história teria colaborado para a formatação do romance “Lolita”, de Vladimir Nabokov. Brian Boyd relata que Vladimir Nabokov leu “notícias sobre acidentes publicadas em jornais, sobre crimes sexuais e assassinatos: ‘um violador de meia idade’ que raptou Sally Horner, uma garota de 15 anos de Nova Jersey, e a manteve em seu poder durante 21 meses, levando-a como ‘escrava’ por todo o país até que a encontraram em um motel do sul da Califórnia”. O nome do homem não é citado. Por que a quase nenhuma importância dada ao caso? Porque, como mostra o biógrafo, o romance de Vladimir Nabokov vai muito além da história de Sally Horner e de seu raptador. Reduzi-lo a isto é reduzir a importância de sua literatura (que nada tem de jornalismo).

          xxx/ellauri125.html on line 287:     The Realest Rap Lyrics About Fatherhood? All The Changes To Kanye’s ‘The Life Of Pablo’. For The Record: Is Kanye West’s ‘Jesus Is King’ Good Or Bad? Paul McCartney Didn’t Realize He Was Creating Songs When He Recorded With Kanye West! 

          xxx/ellauri125.html on line 288: CyHi The Prynce’s Spotify Account May Offer A Glimpse Into Kanye West’s Scrapped ‘Yeezus 2’ Album :) Kim is the real Minimum Viable Product. 

          xxx/ellauri125.html on line 292: 
          Review: Kanye West’s wildly experimental, narcissistic ‘Yeezus’
          

          xxx/ellauri125.html on line 298: One of the many striking and often shocking metaphors within “Yeezus,” the new album from rapper Kanye West, arrives halfway into the 10-song release, during a song called “I’m in It.” It involves a quote by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.: “Thank God almighty, free at last,” raps West, referencing a phrase from 50 years ago that the civil-rights leader used in relation to the plight of African Americans.

          xxx/ellauri125.html on line 299: The line as used by West is notable for what it’s not: a charged reference to black freedom. Rather, those that are “free at last” aren’t enslaved humans but a woman’s breasts, released from the bondage of a bra during a bathroom tryst.

          xxx/ellauri125.html on line 301: The song, which could be called bawdy were it not so lyrically dark, is one of many on West’s sixth solo studio album that reference — and commingle — sex, ethnicity and/or power.

          xxx/ellauri125.html on line 302: “Yeezus” is the most musically adventurous album West has ever released, a wildly experimental work that features tracks produced by Daft Punk, Hudson Mohawke, Rick Rubin and others. It’s also West’s most narcissistic, defiant, abrasive and unforgiving.

          xxx/ellauri125.html on line 304: Those who can’t stomach the polarizing Chicago artist and producer will have a replenished arsenal at their disposal. 

          xxx/ellauri125.html on line 305: What you’ll learn is that as far as West is concerned, critics can go to hell. Within the first verse of the first song, he’s dismissed “whatever y’all been hearing.” As an exclamation point to his prowess, by the end of the song he’s being sexually serviced by a woman at a nightclub.

          xxx/ellauri125.html on line 307: Though only 40 minutes long, “Yeezus” weighs a ton, heavy with gravity and mouthiness, yowls, synthetic noise, deep beats and screams. A multi-dimensional contradiction, West tosses out rhyme-schemed similes that employ racial ideas rich with symbolism but often in service of harsh lyrics that suggests he either doesn’t appreciate or care about original intent. 

          xxx/ellauri125.html on line 309: In addition to the repurposed King quote, West and producers TNGHT sample Nina Simone’s version of “Strange Fruit” without any apparent regard for it as a chronicle of Southern violence. Instead, he harnesses the devastating verses recounting the “strange fruit” hanging from a Southern tree — the dangling body of a lynching victim — in service of a song about gold-digging women, a night on the town taking MDMA and having sex.

          xxx/ellauri125.html on line 313: This is the work of a man unconcerned with offending women or racial historians, the voice of a soul in pure id mode, thinking with his groin and worrying little about the ladies’ vote. Is it the last gasp of a man who’s just become a father for the first time? An early midlife crisis? An attempt at alienating the marketplace so he can live as an artist rather than a paparazzi target?

          xxx/ellauri125.html on line 315: Hardened? Most certainly, and the evidence is everywhere. Here’s a man so powerful that he can boss around both massage therapists and waiters, as he does in “I Am a God”: “I am a god / So hurry up with my damn massage / in the French … restaurant / hurry up with my damn croissants.” If it weren’t embedded within a truly frightening song featuring curdling screams and deep bass, the line would be laughable.

          xxx/ellauri125.html on line 317: As presented, his intentions are unclear — other than to remind you that, you know, “I am a god!” Duly noted. Maybe now West can start tapping into his benevolent side. After all, he’s going to need it in 15 years when self-aggrandizing young men start objectifying his daughter.

          xxx/ellauri125.html on line 428: From the start, critics complained about the ostensible sameness of Roth’s books, their narcissism and narrowness—or, as he himself put it, comparing his own work to his father’s conversation, “Family, family, family, Newark, Newark, Newark, Jew, Jew, Jew.”  Over time, he took on vast themes—love, lust, loneliness, marriage, masculinity, ambition, community, solitude, loyalty, betrayal, patriotism, rebellion, piety, disgrace, the body, the imagination, American history, mortality, the relentless mistakes of life—and he did so in a variety of forms: comedy, parody, romance, conventional narrative, postmodernism, autofiction. In each performance of a self, Roth captured the same sound and consciousness. in nearly fifty years of reading him I’ve never been more bored. I got to know Roth in the nineteen-nineties, when I interviewed him for this magazine around the time he published “The Human Stain.” To be in his presence was an exhilarating, though hardly relaxing, experience. He was unnervingly present, a condor on a branch, unblinking, alive to everything: the best detail in your story, the slackest points in your argument. His intelligence was immense, his performances and imitations mildly funny. “He who is loved by his parents is a conquistador,” Roth used to say, and he was adored by his parents, though both could be daunting to the young Philip. Herman Roth sold insurance; Bess ruled the family’s modest house, on Summit Avenue, in a neighborhood of European Jewish immigrants, their children and grandchildren. There was little money, very few books.  Roth was not an academic prodigy; his teachers sensed his street intelligence but they were not overawed by his classroom performance.  Roth learned to write through imitation. His first published story, “The Day It Snowed,” was so thoroughly Truman Capote that, he later remarked, he made “Capote look like a longshoreman.”

          xxx/ellauri125.html on line 440: Roth, Bailey writes, “realized he’d been whistling the entire ride.” Not a 

          xxx/ellauri125.html on line 448: obviously Kleinschmidt’s “playwright,” saw the article just after finishing the 

          xxx/ellauri125.html on line 817:     Bee Geesin – Stayin’ Alive

          xxx/ellauri126.html on line 466:   Matthieu Ricard, né le 15 février 1946 à Aix-les-Bains (France)1, est un essayiste et photographe français. Après l'obtention d'un doctorat en génétique, il devient moine bouddhiste tibétain. Il réside principalement au monastère de Shéchèn au Népal. Traducteur depuis le tibétain vers le français et l'anglais, il est depuis 1989 l’interprète en français du dalaï-lama.

          xxx/ellauri127.html on line 82: Against the earth’s sweet flowing breast;	Vasten anopin jättimäistä kannuu.      

          xxx/ellauri127.html on line 112: When Nabokov died in 1977, The New York Times hailed him as “a giant in the world of literature.” Two of his novels, “Lolita” and “Pale Fire,” landed on the Modern Library’s 1998 list of the best English novels of the 20th century. His legions of fans regard Nabokov’s failure to win a Nobel Prize as one of the great literary travesties of the 20th century.

          xxx/ellauri127.html on line 114: Only now, 40 years after his death, are some critics daring to suggest that many of his 18 novels are mediocre at best and that his masterpiece, “Lolita,” is a gruesome celebration of pedophile rape. Moreover the cherubic writer known to us from famous Life magazine photo shoots, jauntily brandishing his butterfly net in the Tetons or the Alps, proves to be a nasty piece of work. Distasteful people can do wonderful work — Pablo Picasso was no walk in the park — but their art doesn’t excuse their obnoxious behavior.

          xxx/ellauri127.html on line 116: There are currently five scholarly journals devoted to Nabokov studies. His allusive style and trilingual (English, French, Russian) wordplay are catnip for academics, who endlessly parse challenging texts like “Pale Fire” — a novel in verse, followed by obscurantist commentary — finding new apercus tailor-made for small-journal publication. Nabokov’s apotheosis in academe is quite ironical, because he and his close friend, the literary critic Edmund Wilson, shared an icy disdain for the ivory tower. They viewed universities as ATMs, handy because there were so many of them, and because they were flush with cash. Nabokov, who arrived in the United States penniless in 1940, had to rely on teaching assignments at Wellesley and Cornell to feed his family for 15 years. The moment “Lolita” made him financially independent, he fled Cornell for Switzerland and never set foot in a classroom again.

          xxx/ellauri127.html on line 120: In his lifetime, Nabokov received many contrary and often puzzled reviews. The Hollywood producer Robert Evans famously flew to Switzerland in 1968 to read an advance copy of the novel “Ada” in one day. “It was torture,” he recalled. Dwight Macdonald hated “Pale Fire” on behalf of Partisan Review, calling it “unreadable . . . too clever by half . . . Philistine . . . false” — and he hadn’t even finished his first paragraph!

          xxx/ellauri127.html on line 124: I would argue that the first real fissure in the adulatory critical wall hailing the “literary giant” came in 1990, in George Steiner’s erudite assessment of the first volume of Brian Boyd’s Nabokov biography, “Vladimir Nabokov: The Russian Years.” Writing in The New Yorker, Steiner perceived, a lack of generosity of spirit in Boyd’s subject: “Nabokov’s case seems to entail a deep-lying inhumanity, or, more precisely, unhumanity,” Steiner wrote. “There is compassion in Nabokov, but it is far outweighed by lofty or morose disdain.”

          xxx/ellauri127.html on line 126: Rebecca Solnit, for instance, wrote a cringe-inducing and hilarious essay, “Men Explain Lolita to Me,” including these lines: “A nice liberal man came along and explained to me this book was actually an allegory as though I hadn’t thought of that yet. It is, and it’s also a novel about a big old guy violating a spindly child over and over and over. Then she weeps.”

          xxx/ellauri127.html on line 128: I’m a “Lolita” fan, but let’s face it, Solnit is right: This is a sprightly little tale about the serial rape of an unwilling or indifferent 12-year-old, embraced and promoted by the male literary establishment.

          xxx/ellauri127.html on line 129: I also welcome some reassessments of Nabokov’s appalling personality, which slid deeper and deeper into solipsistic self-reverence as the “Lolita” royalties rolled in.

          xxx/ellauri127.html on line 134: Nabokov’s attacks on his fellow Russian novelist Boris Pasternak were anything but amusing. The moment that Pasternak won the Nobel Prize for “Doctor Zhivago” in 1958, Nabokov waged a bitter, personal campaign against Pasternak, a nonstop stream of vitriol.

          xxx/ellauri127.html on line 138: Plenty of monsters make great art, and many of their names emblazon lists of Nobelists, poet laureates, and so. And there is no doubt that Nabokov created great art, in two languages, like Joseph Conrad, whom he predictably disdained. (“A collection of glorified cliches.”) His achievements speak volumes. If only he hadn’t been such a jerk.

          xxx/ellauri127.html on line 140: This chapter gives a brief history of the émigré travelogue in and about America from Alexis de Tocqueville to Simone de Beauvoir, by way of introducing the four authors studied in this book: Vladimir Nabokov, Robert Frank, Alfred Hitchcock and Wim Wenders. Elsa Court argues that the outsider’s perspective has shaped representations of modern America through restless mobility, drawing a portrait of the modern highway shaped by the needs and cravings of the motorist. In the context of mobilities studies’ recent embrace of the humanities, Court makes an important case for the re-examination of the fixed places designed to facilitate motion—motel, gasoline station, roadside restaurant, as well as signage and memorials—and the roadside’s redesignation from so-called non-place to modern American topos.

          xxx/ellauri127.html on line 236: Despite the cleverness and thickness of literary references of Alfred Appel’s « The Annotated Lolita« , one can’t help thinking the point is missing. Witten miälestä Humbert ei ole kukaan muu kuin Dodgson

          xxx/ellauri127.html on line 238: Nabokov, as he admitted it, had hidden a riddle-game left for the benefit of the deserving reader. Lolita’s riddle. 

          xxx/ellauri127.html on line 247: The relationship with the Liddell family stopped suddenly in 1863. Jotain nähtävästi ilmeni. In the year 1880, the reverend Dodgson, up to then a fervent amateur of photography suddenly forgot his passion. 1880 is the year Alice Liddell married and became Mrs Hargreaves. In 1881, he left Oxford and went in a girl’s school to teach logics. He saw Alice Liddell for the last time on November 1, 1888.

          xxx/ellauri127.html on line 249: The fact that Alice’s mother burnt all the letters Lewis Carroll had sent to the little girl, tends to prove she considered his relationship with her daughter more than ambiguous as well.

          xxx/ellauri127.html on line 252: 1952 is a capital year in the novel and the number 52 is omnipresent and thus loaded with a mysterious meaning in the mind of Nabokov, in the context of this novel. It must be a central symbolic element in the Lolita’s riddle. Se oli hyvä vuosi muutenkin. « Pierre Point in Melville Sound » (p.33 TAL) was a reference to « Pierre or the Ambiguities » a Novel by Herman Melville (1819-1891; notice the 19/91) published in 1852. «brun adolescent (…) se tordre-oh Baudelaire! » (p.162 TAL): Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867 was one of the most famous French poet who translated Edgar A. Poe in French). A part of  « Le Crépuscule du Matin » (1852). Se tordre tarkoittanee käteenvetoa. Humbert refering to the hunchbacked hoary black groom at the « Enchanted Hunters » Hotel: « Handed over to uncle Tom » (p.118 TAL): « Uncle Tom’s Cabin » by Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896) is from 1852. Ehm… the list is non-negligible.

          xxx/ellauri127.html on line 254: The mention (p.289 TAL) of the case abduction and rape of the 11 years old Florence Sally Horner by a 50 years old man. In 1948, the 11-year-old Horner stole a 5-cent notebook from a store in Camden, New Jersey. Frank La Salle, a 50-year-old mechanic, caught her stealing, told her that he was an FBI agent, and threatened to send her to « a place for girls like you« . Then he abducted the girl and spent 21 months traveling with her over different American states and raping her. Florence Horner died in a car accident (p.288 TAL, « a routine highway accident«) near Woodbine, New Jersey, in 1952. It seems clear that the case inspired partly « Lolita » (even though this theme existed long before in Nabokov’s works (see for instance his 1939 work « Volshebnik » (i.e. « The Enchanter« ))).

          xxx/ellauri127.html on line 256:       Hegel (mentioned in p.259 TAL; he married in 1811 and his sister Christian Luise died in 1832) was fascinated by Goethe (and also by Jean-jacques Rousseau (allusion to him in p. TAL « Jean-jacques Humbert« ) and the French Revolution). Goethe published a « Theory of Colours » concerning the light spectrum (a hint, more about this in the final conclusion part). There are recurrent mentions of Goethe in Freud‘s writings. Schopenhauer cited Goethe’s novel « Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship » as one of the four greatest novels ever written, along with « Tristram Shandy« , « La Nouvelle Heloïse« , and « Don Quixote« .

          xxx/ellauri127.html on line 266:   Melusiina on nereidi eli merenneito. Seireenit oli merenneitoja. Kaukaa kazottuna ihania mutta läheltä kuin hiiriä joilla on rikkinäinen sateenvarjo kädessä. In Wilhelm Meister’s Journeyman Years, Goethe re-tells the Melusine tale in a short story titled « The New Melusine«. Mä oon siis lukenut sen, vaan enpä enää muistanut. Disneyn Arielilla on se paha puute prinssin kannalta, ezen pyrstö on 1-haarainen. Pedofiili H.C. Andersen ymmärsi nikkaroida siihen lohenpyrstöliitoxen (see fig. 1-3). 

          xxx/ellauri127.html on line 278: Walter Scott (1771-1832), Scottish author of « The Lady of the Lake » (1810 – it inspired Rossini’s « La Donna Del Lago » (1819)), « Ivanhoe » (1819) also authored « The Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border« , recounting the legend of Melusine. 

          xxx/ellauri127.html on line 412:   Guys don’t want girls who are needy, clingy, drama queens.

          xxx/ellauri127.html on line 424:   Dont  seem lazy like you don’t care about cleaning and cooking.

          xxx/ellauri127.html on line 426:   If you’re dishonest don't get caught. Otherwise how can he trust you?

          xxx/ellauri127.html on line 436:   L’œuvre littéraire de Prosper Mérimée relève d'« une esthétique du peu », son écriture se caractérisant par la rapidité et l'absence de développements, qui créent une narration efficace et un réalisme fonctionnel adaptés au genre de la nouvelle. Mais ce style a parfois disqualifié les œuvres de Mérimée, auxquelles on a reproché leur manque de relief — « Le paysage était plat comme Mérimée », écrit Victor Hugo.

          xxx/ellauri127.html on line 445: Carmen on Prosper Mériméen kirjoittama novelli tai pienoisromaani vuodelta 1845. Siihen pohjautuu Georges Bizet’n vuonna 1875 säveltämän samannimisen oopperan libretto. Novellin suomensi kuppainen Kasimir Leino, ja suomennoksen on julkaissut vuonna 1907 Kirja. Wilhon seurakunta kokoontui loppupeleissä mm. Kirjalla. Uudelleen sen on suomentanut Reino Hakamies. Reijon pojalla Pekka Hakamiehellä ja sen siskolla oli spanielin silmät.  Don Jose oli baskiainen. 

          xxx/ellauri127.html on line 496: 4. Why do Silk’s colleagues fail to defend him? Why would highly educated academics—people trained to weigh evidence carefully and to be aware of the complex subtleties of any object of study—so readily believe the absurd stories concocted to disgrace Coleman Silk? Why does Ernestine describe Athena College as “a hotbed of ignorance”? 

          xxx/ellauri127.html on line 504: 13. Nathan interprets Coleman’s choosing to reject his past and create a new identity for himself as “the drama that underlies America’s story, the high drama that is upping and leaving—and the energy and cruelty that rapturous drive demands,” whereas Walter thinks of his brother as a “calculating liar,” a “heartless son,” and a “traitor to his race” [p. 342]. Which of these views seems closer to the truth? Are they both legitimate? What is Ernestine’s position?

          xxx/ellauri127.html on line 517: He helps Lorenzo abduct Jessica, which almost makes him late for the departure to Belmont. He falls in love with Nerissa, Portia’s lady-in-waiting, who agrees to marry him on condition that Bassanio succeeds in the task of the caskets. He has no compunction about admitting to the mercenary nature of Bassanio’s choice of bride. 

          xxx/ellauri127.html on line 522:  Like Bassanio, he is willing to prefer Antonio’s life to his newly-acquired wife’s. The law-clerk manages to convince him to give his wedding ring as a gift of thanks in return, which leads to some problems on his return to Belmont, as he had sworn to Nerissa that he would never remove it. He gives away that Bassanio has done much the same. 

          xxx/ellauri127.html on line 562: As e’er beneath a waning moon was haunted		Kuin mihin on ikinä kuuta kumottu

          xxx/ellauri127.html on line 569: Or chaffy grain beneath the thresher’s flail:		Tai sit niinkö siemeniä sateella,

          xxx/ellauri127.html on line 576: And ’mid this tumult Kubla heard from far		Ja keskellä kovaa meuhkaa Kupla tota

          xxx/ellauri127.html on line 592:    To such a deep delight ’twould win me,	            Ja sen sipisievän naamataulun,

          xxx/ellauri127.html on line 645: Klein’s insistence on viewing aggression as an important force in its own right when analyzing children led her into conflict with Freud’s own daughter, Anna Freud, who was one of the other prominent child psychotherapists in continental Europe but who became moved to London in 1938 where Klein had been working for several years. Many controversies arose out of this conflict, and these are often referred to as controversial debates. In reality, the semitic hags were in one another's hairs. Lähde:

          xxx/ellauri127.html on line 667: 	He was FOUNDING MEMBER and, for 10 years, PRESIDENT of the International Center for Health Research and Advisory Services (CIIAS). I directed and executed projects financed by international organizations, especially by Canada’s Institute Development Research Center (IDRC).

          xxx/ellauri127.html on line 738: At eighteen, Fanny Brawne “was small, her eyes were blue and often enhanced by blue ribbons in her brown hair; her mouth expressed determination and a sense of humour and her smile was disarming. She was not conventionally beautiful: her nose was a little too aquiline, her face too pale and thin (some called it sallow). But she knew the value of elegance; velvet hats and muslin bonnets, crêpe hats with argus feathers, straw hats embellished with grapes and tartan ribbons: Fanny noticed them all as they came from Paris. She could answer, at a moment’s notice, any question on historical costume. ... Fanny enjoyed music. ... She was an eager politician, fiery in discussion; she was a voluminous reader. ... Indeed, books were her favourite topic of conversation”.

          xxx/ellauri127.html on line 754: Than mine host’s Canary wine? 		Parempaa kuin Melusiinan viiniä?

          xxx/ellauri127.html on line 762: Mine host’s sign-board flew away, 	emännän merkkihousut lennähti kuin turtana

          xxx/ellauri127.html on line 764: An astrologer’s old quill 		Jonkun astronomin sulkakynä sinne

          xxx/ellauri127.html on line 780: Maybe the bar was very dear to him. ‘Mine host's sign-board flew away’ is a rhetoric figure used as a synecdoche. Synecdoche is a poetic device where a part is mentioned to speak for the whole. He says that the ‘sign board flew away’ instead of saying that the tavern had closed (1818). Lähde 

          xxx/ellauri128.html on line 121: Chamfort palveli ensin innokkaasti Ranskan vallankumousta, työskenteli Emmanuel-Joseph Sieyès’n ja Mirabeaun kanssa, joutui sittemmin vankeuteen ja kuoli itsemurhayrityksen seurauksista. Chamfort oli kuuluisa henkevästä ja sukkelasta puhetavastaan, hän oli muuten sairaalloisen tunteikas, ylpeä ja kyyninen ihmisvihaaja. Ylen eroottisella elämällään − hän rakasti samalla kertaa neljää ylhäistä naista − hän tärveli terveytensä ja oli jo 40-vuotiaana ruumiillisesti ja henkisesti elähtänyt. Vuonna 1781 hän tuli Ranskan akatemian jäseneksi. Chamfortin teoksista murhenäytelmä Mustapha et Zéangir (1777) on täynnä liikuttavia kohtia, mutta muuten keskinkertainen. Hänen muista teoksistaan on mainittava hänen kuolemansa jälkeen ilmestynyt Pensées, maximes, anecdotes, dialogues (1803). Hänen teoksensa julkaisi Pierre-Louis Ginguené (1795, 4 nidettä) ja Pierre René Auguis (1824−1825, 5 nidettä).      

          xxx/ellauri128.html on line 133: Fils d’un riche chapelier de Dinan, Duclos était destiné à reprendre les affaires de son père mais c’était un enfant doué d’une vive intelligence et d’une grande mémoire et sa mère, devenue veuve, décida de l’envoyer achever ses études à Paris. Il suivit d’abord les cours de l’académie que tenait, rue de Charonne, l’abbé de Dangeau, puis du collège d'Harcourt où il entreprit l’étude du droit en vue de devenir avocat. Mais il se laissa aller à la dissipation, s’appliquant surtout à l’étude des armes, avant de décider de se consacrer aux lettres. Il fréquenta le café Procope et le café Gradot, où l’on ne tarda pas à le remarquer pour l’agrément et le piquant de sa conversation.

          xxx/ellauri128.html on line 135: C’était, dit Jean-Jacques Rousseau, « un homme droit et adroit ». « Il faisait profession, écrit La Harpe, d’une franchise brusque qui ne déplaisait point […] Soit habitude, soit dessein, il gardait ce ton même dans la louange et l’on peut juger qu’elle n’y perdait pas. Il avait d’ailleurs un fonds de droiture qui le rendait incapable de plier son opinion ni sa liberté à aucun intérêt ni aucune politique ; et cependant ce ne fut point un obstacle à son avancement, parce qu’il n’offensa jamais l’amour-propre des gens de lettres, et qu’il sut intéresser en sa faveur celui des gens en place. » Duclos avait beaucoup d’esprit et une grande liberté de parole ; on cite de lui nombre de mots heureux.

          xxx/ellauri128.html on line 137:       Duclos devint en 1755 secrétaire perpétuel de l'Académie française. Dans cette fonction, il se montra très actif et rendit de nombreux services à cette compagnie, prenant une grande part à l’édition de 1762 du Dictionnaire, dont il écrivit la préface, et faisant substituer aux lieux communs de morale qui formaient les sujets du prix d’éloquence des éloges des grands hommes (1755).

          xxx/ellauri128.html on line 138:       À l'Académie, il soutint généralement le parti des Philosophes, mais sans en faire partie car les excès de ses membres l’irritaient : « Les grands raisonneurs et les sous-petits raisonneurs de notre siècle, disait-il, en feront et en diront tant qu’ils finiront par m’envoyer à confesse. » Ses relations avec Voltaire furent froides et leur correspondance n’est qu’académique et de politesse. Il n’avait pas de relations avec Diderot, dont on lui reprocha d’avoir fait échouer la candidature à l’Académie. Il se brouilla avec D'Alembert et les deux hommes ne se réconcilièrent jamais entièrement. Généralement, son caractère autoritaire rendit ses relations souvent difficiles avec ses collègues.

          xxx/ellauri128.html on line 193:       Mit dem gleichaltrigen angehenden Mediziner David Veit (1771–1814), der Goethe in Weimar besuchte und ihr seine äußere Erscheinung genau schildern musste, führte die junge Levin eine ausgiebige Korrespondenz, die sich auf Fragen des jüdischen Selbstverständnisses ausdehnte. Ihre Außenseiterrolle als Frau und als Jüdin, die ihr weder eine akademische Bildung noch die intellektuelle Teilhabe am aufgeklärten Diskurs ermöglichte, erlebte sie als bedrückend. Ihrer eigenen Sensibilität sowie ihrem Ungenügen an dem Missverhältnis zwischen Anspruch und Wirklichkeit gab sie wie folgt Ausdruck: „Ich verstell’ mich, artig bin ich, daß man vernünftig sein muß, weiß ich; aber ich bin zu klein das auszuhalten, zu klein; ich will nicht rechnen, daß ich keinen empfindlichern reizbareren Menschen kenne, und der immer in Einer Unannehmlichkeit tausend empfindet, weil er die Karaktere kennt, die sie ihm spielen, und immer denkt und kombinirt, ich bin zu klein, denn nur ein solcher kleiner Körper hält das nicht aus.“

          xxx/ellauri128.html on line 195:       Sie litt damals unter der Vorstellung, es habe „ein außerirdisch Wesen, als ich in die Welt getrieben wurde, beim Eingang diese Worte mit einem Dolch in’s Herz gestoßen [...]: ‚Ja, habe Empfindung, sieh die Welt, wie sie Wenige sehen, sei groß und edel, ein ewiges Denken kann ich dir auch nicht nehmen, Eins hat man aber vergessen: sei eine Jüdin!‘ und nun ist mein ganzes Leben eine einzige Verblutung [...]“. Zu den Jugendfreundinnen Rahels Varnhagens gehörten auch Nichtjuden wie die Tochter einer hugenottischen Einwandererfamilie Pauline Wiesel, geb. César, mit der sie eine lebenslange Freundschaft verbinden sollte, oder der schwedische Gesandte Karl Gustav Brinckmann, der in ihrer Abwesenheit ihren Schreibtisch benutzen durfte.

          xxx/ellauri128.html on line 197:       Rahel Levins Schwester Rose heiratete am 8. Februar 1801 den niederländischen Juristen Carel Asser (1780–1836), der seit 1799 als Rechtsanwalt in Den Haag praktizierte. Da Rahel Levin eine für sie in Breslau arrangierte Ehe mit einem entfernten Verwandten ablehnte, blieb sie in ihrer ersten Lebenshälfte abhängig von ihrer Familie. Erst im Winter 1808/1809 verließ sie das Elternhaus, und zog, was für eine unverheiratete und nicht verwitwete Frau damals äußerst ungewöhnlich war, in eine eigene Wohnung in Charlottenburg (im Trenck’schen Haus in der Charlottenstraße Nr. 32, zwei Treppen hoch). Von 1793 bis zum Herbst 1808, „in ihrer glanzvollsten Zeit“ (K. A. Varnhagen), bewohnte die Familie Levin-Robert das Haus No. 54 in der Jägerstraße beim Gendarmenmarkt. Hier fanden vor allem in der Zeit um 1800 gesellige Zusammenkünfte der mit dem Haus befreundeten Zeitgenossen statt.

          xxx/ellauri128.html on line 201: Ausschlaggebend war die Vereinigung von Menschen unterschiedlicher Stände und Berufe, religiöser oder politischer Orientierung zu Gesprächen: Dichter, Naturforscher, Politiker, Schauspieler/-innen, Aristokraten und Reisende kamen zusammen. Die Nähe des Theaters, der Börse und der Französischen Gemeinde sorgte für Vielfalt. Mitunter wurde, wie im Elternhaus der Henriette Solmar (einer Cousine Rahel Varnhagens), mit Rücksicht auf Besucher aus fremden Ländern französisch gesprochen. Berühmte Gäste in dieser ersten Phase waren Jean Paul, Ludwig Tieck, Friedrich von Gentz, Ernst von Pfuel, Friedrich Schlegel, Wilhelm und Alexander von Humboldt, Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué, Prinz Louis Ferdinand und dessen Geliebte Pauline Wiesel. Allerdings gibt es nur wenige zeitgenössische Quellen und gar keine zeitgenössischen Bilder dieser Geselligkeiten. Es wurden nicht nur Prominente eingeladen, sondern auch viele Personen, die kaum Spuren hinterlassen haben. Fanny Lewald (die Rahel Varnhagen nicht mehr kennengelernt hat) gibt allerdings zu bedenken: „Man hört die Namen Humboldt, Rahel Levin, Schleiermacher, Varnhagen und Schlegel, und denkt an das, was sie geworden, und vergißt, daß die Humboldt’s ihrer Zeit nur zwei junge Edelleute, daß Rahel Levin ein lebhaftes Judenmädchen, Schleiermacher ein unbekannter Geistlicher, Varnhagen ein junger Praktikant der Medizin, die Schlegel ein paar ziemlich leichtsinnige junge Journalisten gewesen sind“.

          xxx/ellauri128.html on line 203:       Neben anderen Liebeleien erlebte Rahel Robert, die sehr kritisch über die bürgerliche Ehe zwischen Mann und Frau dachte, auch das Scheitern ihres Verlöbnisses mit dem spanischen Gesandten Rafael Eugenio Rufino d’Urquijo Ybaizal y Taborga (1769–1839), der sie mit Streitszenen quälte. Was d’Urquijo betrifft, den sie als unbeherrscht und eifersüchtig erlebt hatte, trug sie ihm nichts nach: „Er hat mich zu sehr, zu oft, und immerweg beleidigt; gut bin ich ihm auch“, schrieb sie an Karl August Varnhagen, mit dem sie inzwischen seit fünf Jahren verlobt war. Am 15. Juli 1814 heiratete d’Urquijo in Berlin Louise von Fuchs (1792–1862); neun Wochen später, am 27. September, heiratete Rahel Robert, ebenfalls wieder in Berlin, den vierzehn Jahre jüngeren Diplomaten, Historiker und Publizisten Varnhagen, der in Österreich den Namenszusatz seiner adligen Vorfahren „von Ense“ angenommen hatte. Das geschah zu einer Zeit, als er noch Gefahr lief, als gebürtiger Düsseldorfer von Napoleons Truppen rekrutiert zu werden. Später wurde der Adelstitel, den beide Ehepartner trugen, durch ein Patent des preußischen Königs Friedrich Wilhelm III. bestätigt. Kurz zuvor, am 23. September, war Rahel zum evangelischen Christentum konvertiert. Bei der Hochzeit war der gemeinsame Freund Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué zugegen.

          xxx/ellauri128.html on line 211: Luc Clapiers de Vauvenargues, Vauvenarguesin markiisi (1715–1747) oli ranskalainen moralisti. Hän oli nuoruudessaan upseerina, mutta joutui eroamaan sotilaanuralta Böömin sotaretkellä 1742 terveydellisistä syistä. Hän eli sen jälkeen sairaana ja varattomana enää muutamia vuosia. Hän julkaisi 1746 teoksen, joka mainitaan toisinaan nimellä Maximes tai sen ensimmäisen kirjoituksen mukaan nimellä Introduction à la connaissance de l’esprit humain. Teos sisältää kauniita ja vakavahenkisiä moraalisia mietteitä, joista kuvastuu pohjaltaan optimistinen maailmankatsomus, joten ne ovat jyrkässä vastakohdassa esimerkiksi François de La Rochefoucauldin kuuluisille maksiimeille. 

          xxx/ellauri128.html on line 521:   Kuuluisia ranskalaisia tapakomedioita rakkaudesta ovat Benjamin Constantin “Adolphe,” André Giden “Strait is the Gate,” Stendhalin “On Love,” Roland Barthesin “A Lover’s Discourse” ja André Mauroisin (1928) “Climates.”

          xxx/ellauri128.html on line 523:   André Maurois, pseudonyme d’Émile Salomon Wilhelm Herzog, né le 26 juillet 1885 à Elbeuf et mort le 9 octobre 1967 à Neuilly-sur-Seine, est un romancier, biographe, conteur et essayiste français.

          xxx/ellauri128.html on line 525: Il préfère en effet une carrière littéraire à la direction de l’usine familiale et s’illustre d’abord par des romans qui lui gagnent un public féminin : Climats, Les Roses de septembre. Il obtient un Prix d´Honneur au Concours général et passe sa licence de lettres. Sa première épouse fut Jane-Wanda de Szymkiewicz (Jeanine) (1892-1923), fille d’un comte polonais qui lui donnera trois enfants, deux garçons et une fille, Michelle1.

          xxx/ellauri128.html on line 536:   In his memoirs, he calls his father “bashful” and his mother “reserved.” Between them, they filled the house with “melancholy reticences and unexpressed doubts.” Some of the silence surrounded a particular subject: the family’s Jewishness. This was not exactly hidden, but it was not brought to the fore, either. Maurois, who was born Émile Herzog on July 26, 1885, found out that he was Jewish at the age of about six, when a friend at the local Protestant church told him so. His parents confirmed it, but they also spoke highly of Protestantism.

          xxx/ellauri128.html on line 553:   Der Vater heiratete Amélie von Dall’Armi und wurde 1883 an die Königliche Kunstschule in Breslau berufen. Christian ging mit nach Breslau und besuchte das Maria-Magdalenen-Gymnasium. Hier schrieb er im Alter von 16 Jahren das Trauerspiel Alexander von Bulgarien und Mineralogia popularis, eine Beschreibung von Mineralien. Beide Texte sind nicht erhalten. Zudem entwarf er eine Faustdichtung und beschäftigte sich mit Arthur Schopenhauer.

          xxx/ellauri129.html on line 617: Son ami le journaliste Maurice de Waleffe (1874-1946) témoigne que, dès son arrivée à Paris, en 1897, il projetait, pour mieux s'intégrer à la société parisienne, de demander sa naturalisation, de changer de nom et de se faire baptiser et que le nom de Croisset était pour lui « le nom du village d'où Gustave Flaubert datait les volumes de sa correspondance1 ». En 1911, il obtint du Conseil d'État le changement de son nom pour celui de Wiener de Croisset. Francis de Croisset recherche le scandale avec des comédies d’une audace calculée, et devient, par son œuvre mais aussi par sa vie privée, omniprésent dans la presse du temps.

          xxx/ellauri129.html on line 638: Son mari, Albert Dardenne de la Grangerie, était fameux journaliste, rédacteur entres autres du Figaro et du Messager du Midi. Marguerite de la Grangerie fut avec son mari très liée au couple Gautier, Judith et Théophile. Elle était la petite-fille du duc de Persigny, propriétaire du chateau de Chamarande ou Théo séjourna en 1866. Ce dernier lui dédiera d’ailleurs deux sonnets dont « les poètes chinois… ». Usant de plusieurs pseudonymes tels que Philippe Gerfaut et Marie-Alix de Valtine, elle est l’auteur entre autres du roman Le passé de Claudie (1884), des Pensées d’un sceptique (1886) et de Belle et bonne histoire d’une grande fillette (Prix Lambert en 1890). Superbe exemplaire dans une reliure mosaïquée parfaitement établi par Louis Pouillet. Petites taches pâles sur le plat supérieur‎. Gerfaut puuttuu Vaakun hakemistosta. 

          xxx/ellauri129.html on line 727: Nodierin kirjoitukset luonnonhistoriasta sisältävät useita hyönteistiedettä koskevia aiheita, kuten Dissertation sur l’usage des antennes dans les insectes (1798) ja Bibliographie entomologique (1801). Kielitiedettä käsittelevät Nodierin teokset ovat Dictionnaire raisonné des onomatopoées de la langue française (1808), Dictionnaire universel de la langue française (1823), Examen critique des dictionnaires de la langue française (1828) ja Notions élémentaires de linguistique (1834).

          xxx/ellauri130.html on line 564: Delphin-Antoine-Edmond Thiaudière, né le 17 mars 1837 à Gençay, où il est mort le 9 novembre 1930, est un homme de lettres français, à la fois poète, romancier, philosophe et « maximiste ». Issu d’une famille de médecins depuis quatre générations, Edmond Thiaudière, opte pour une carrière d’homme de lettres après s’être détourné de ses études de droit brillamment menées à Poitiers. Il s’essaie au roman, aux nouvelles, à la poésie, au théâtre, écrit des essais politiques et autres pamphlets, mais il se distingue surtout par son œuvre philosophique, parsemant sur quarante années une douzaine de recueils aux titres sibyllins, avec le sous-titre générique Notes d’un Pessimiste. Son premier recueil de pensées, La Proie du Néant, qu’il publie en 1886, contient en préambule une longue dédicace adressée à Léa et Mosès, ses deux chiens fidèles. 

          xxx/ellauri130.html on line 579: Myös Vilpittömän Nahkurin Runous-nettiradion kuudes sarja on juuri alkanut, ja tämän päivän jaksossa entinen runoilijapalkinnon saaja Carola Anna Tussua pohtii lähetysennusteen rukousmaista laatua: ‘There’s never been a time when you could just say anything’: Frank Skinner on free speech, his bullying shame – and knob [kyrvännuppi] jokes. This poetry-loving, religious knob has deep regrets about some of his comedy: either the standup comic has grown up, or he was never as laddish as his image suggested. Nearing death and last judgment, he is hoping to perform a “cleaner, cleverer” kind of act, one that would let him look straight at the crowd and – perhaps for the first time in his life – not see anybody squirming in their seat in discomfort. “It was a struggle,” the 65-year-old says with a grin, “because I realised that I seem to think in knob jokes. And I have done since I was about 13. In the West Midlands, that was how people communicated!”

          xxx/ellauri130.html on line 581:   30 Years of Dirt is not, then, a compendium of Skinner’s best sex gags – of which there have been plenty over the years. Rather, it’s a comedic journey through his attempt to de-smutify his brain for the modern woke audience, a kind of personal challenge: can he even be funny without talking about penises? (No, he gets boring as a prayer book.)

          xxx/ellauri130.html on line 583:   “I don’t think there’s ever been a time when you could just say anything.” He recalls an early comedy show – this must have been in the late 80s – where the host apologised to the crowd after Skinner had performed some risque sexual material. “He said I’d never play at the venue again – and then he launched into a load of racist material and brought the house down. Everyone’s got their own standards and restraints. But I think it’s been good for me to keep questioning what I say. It’s made me think more positively about racist jokes and not so much about penises. My knob is not working anymore BTW, I'm 65. We’re both deeply ashamed. Can't lift our eye to the public.” 

          xxx/ellauri130.html on line 585: So the other day, he blacked up as [black footballer] Lee for a sketch, complete with a pineapple to represent his hair. Boy that went down in the colored audience! Skinner has been that funny for as long as he can remember as far as he can remember. He has a masters in English literature; he is a practising Roman catholic. What a laugh. Skinner once had a chat with Eddie Izzard about what they could share about their lives on stage. It was fine for Izzard to discuss wearing women’s clothes, but as for Skinner’s own religious beliefs about God's knob? God, no. Too shameful.

          xxx/ellauri130.html on line 587: But recently that position has shifted a little. Last year he published A Comedian’s Prayer Book, which features him talking to the supreme being in his typically down-to-earth way (“I always liked thinking Jesus' knob hung out from women's clothes with sinners. It made me feel potentially understood”). “One of the things religion has suffered from is being spoken of in grave terms constantly. I seriously think it is a joke." Another boring thing about Skinner: he’s been a teetotaller since he reached his 60s. He got a kid at 55, who must now be, wait, 35? No, Buzz is just 10. I have only recently realized I'm not the main character here, but just an extra in a bigger scene. “Hitting kids … that’s another of those things that have stopped,” Evolution is what Skinner is all about – animals can change and they can grow, it just takes millions of years. When he made his jokes about racism and homophobia, he says, there was a slight backlash from the left. They hadn't stopped hitting lads, the sods.  Frank Skinner’s 30 Years of Dirt is at the Assembly Roxy, Edinburgh, from 4 to 28 August. For more information and tickets go to frankskinnerlive.com. 

          xxx/ellauri130.html on line 591:     A dog is not intelligent. Never trust an animal that’s surprised by its own farts.

          xxx/ellauri130.html on line 595:     When you have sex in a glow-in-the-dark condom, it’s like being in a lighthouse. It’s light, it’s dark. It’s light, it’s dark. It’s light, it’s dark.

          xxx/ellauri130.html on line 597:     Muslim women, instead of wearing the head-to-toe burka thing, they could wear Daisy Duck suits. They’d be covered up top, and a little more fun.

          xxx/ellauri130.html on line 599:     You know you’re getting old when, after they’ve cut your hair, the barber asks: ‘Do you want me to trim your ears as well?’.

          xxx/ellauri130.html on line 601:     It’s horrible when you’re having sex and you have to stop halfway through, like when the doorbell goes, or the saucepan boils over, or you run out of money.

          xxx/ellauri130.html on line 603:     My mate has the campest walk ever. We did a sponsored 13-mile walk once and I tied his shoelaces together as a joke. He didn’t even notice.

          xxx/ellauri130.html on line 776: Pendant la guerre d’Espagne, Claudel apporta son soutien aux franquistes. Devant la Seconde Guerre mondiale, Claudel est initialement peu convaincu par le danger que représente l'Allemagne nazie. Il s'inquiète davantage de la puissante Russie, qui représente selon lui une « infâme canaille communiste ». Claudel expliqua ses flatteries à Pétain par l'approbation d'une partie de sa politique (lutte contre l'alcoolisme, appui aux écoles libres). Il est meilleures amis avec Francois Mauriac.

          xxx/ellauri134.html on line 198: Saying: Power isn’t everything, it’s the only thing.

          xxx/ellauri134.html on line 229:     Weakness: losing one’s own self in an effort to blend in or for the sake of superficial relationships

          xxx/ellauri134.html on line 283:     Saying: Where there’s a will, there’s a way

          xxx/ellauri134.html on line 285:     Desire: to prove one’s worth through courageous acts

          xxx/ellauri134.html on line 327:     Saying: You’re the only one

          xxx/ellauri134.html on line 352:     Goal: to overturn what isn’t working

          xxx/ellauri134.html on line 380:       Saying: Don’t fence me in

          xxx/ellauri134.html on line 392:       Talent: autonomy, ambition, being true to one’s soul

          xxx/ellauri134.html on line 477:     Which ‘Spirited Away’ Character’ Are You By Your Zodiac Sign: Libra to Pisces

          xxx/ellauri134.html on line 479:     Which ‘Spirited Away’ Character’ Are You By Your Zodiac Sign: Aries to Virgo

          xxx/ellauri134.html on line 501:     Which ‘Lord Of The Rings’ Character You Are, Based On Your Zodiac Sign

          xxx/ellauri134.html on line 502:     Which ‘Lord Of The Rings’ Character You Are, Based On Your Zodiac Sign: Libra to Pisces

          xxx/ellauri134.html on line 512: Which ‘Lord Of The Rings’ Character You Are, Based On Your Zodiac Sign: Libra to PiscesJune 8, 2020In "Entertainment"

          xxx/ellauri136.html on line 72:     The Odyssey - because of the great influence it has had over all of European (or better say broadly and vaguely Western) literature and culture. And because it’s essentially a celebration of humanity and human wits and creativity.

          xxx/ellauri136.html on line 80: 
          Voilà my list of worthwhile reads. Initially, I thought about it as a list of books to read before you die, but it’s more like a list of books to read while you live. There’s lots of wisdom and useful knowledge in them. And obviously, there are plenty more which could (should) be added. Hope you enjoy them if you haven’t already :)

          xxx/ellauri136.html on line 97:     One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez—I’m sorry I can’t read it in the original language, but it flows so beautifully even in English. Magic.

          xxx/ellauri136.html on line 99:     The Sungod’s Journey Through the Netherworld by Andreas Schweizer—This Jungian psychoanalyst took the greatly misunderstood texts of the Amduat (what is in the netherworld) and made sense of them as a journey of transformation.

          xxx/ellauri136.html on line 105: Annals of the Former World by John McPhee—this is me cheating so I don’t have to say “all of John McPhee’s geology writing”—John McPhee, who made reading about oranges (yes the fruit) interesting, got bit by the geology bug while researching for an essay about geology in the Southwest. I know this feeling. Again, this is engagingly written and most informative.

          xxx/ellauri136.html on line 114: I laughed at the person who claimed that liberals were literate and educated. That’s good, if the definition of “literate” and “educated” is “they read what they want to see” and “learn nonsense.” Say what you will, the Harry Potter universe is fundamentally flawed, and I can see why liberals like it so much:

          xxx/ellauri136.html on line 117:     Everyone is special. Each kid in the HP universe has unique skills. It’s a whole school of special snowflakes overlaying a traditional school dynamic. You get “sorted” into your house; you get a personalized wand, your broom is like a pet. You have owls to bring you messages, how cool is that? I want to be special too!

          xxx/ellauri136.html on line 119:     The magical community is treated as “more special” than the “normal” community, which is treated with distrust and disdain. Although I love the Weasleys, it’s entirely possible that Mr. Weasley’s obsession with non-magical ephemera could be viewed as the anthropologist exploring a primitive culture. Mr. Weasley collects artifacts because he is fascinated with them, not because he wants to understand non-magical culture better. That should be totally off-putting to the liberal crowd, but they missed it. They are too busy justifying the racism and bigotry as the product of the “pure blood” families.

          xxx/ellauri136.html on line 123:     There is no attempt ever made by the wizarding world to integrate into “normal” human society. The train to Hogwart’s is on an invisible platform (forgive me if I get the details slightly wrong: it’s been a while); characters travel by chimney or broom; everything is done in secret.

          xxx/ellauri136.html on line 125:     There is bigotry and racism, and I do not for one second believe that JK Rowling thought hard enough about the issue to make it the product of the “pure blood” crowd. I believe that for her it was all about making Harry and his friends “special.” They had obstacles to overcome, like Hermione with her non-magical parents and the Weasleys, who were generally despised for being not very serious (literally the red-headed step children of the wizarding world.” There were “squibs.” Name-calling and bullying in this school are as common as in the “normal world,” only often the bullying comes much closer to insulting one’s parents than it does in the outside world.

          xxx/ellauri136.html on line 161: Working on The Bible. That’s all I have to write here.  

          xxx/ellauri136.html on line 172:       Mostly all of Stephen King books I own they all.i get into them once I start a book it’s really hard to put down yes I can some of them can be pretty spooky but that’s what I love about them.

          xxx/ellauri136.html on line 177: There will be some hero somewhere no matter how small of an influence he or she has on the villain. Not every character is just going to accept the villain. And if they do, that’s going to be a very boring book. With writes, -Andy Ruffe

          xxx/ellauri136.html on line 181: But to answer your question: I do have some personal rules like all my main characters can’t wear glasses ‘cause that’s geeky and I’m geeky (I also wear glasses). But another one is that the main character has to be a smoker. That’s not so true anymore, so I broke that one.

          xxx/ellauri136.html on line 636: Lähteen  paljastuttua  Noora  eristetään  kotiinsa  viikoiksi  ennen  teloitusta.  Eräänä  päivänä  hän  saa vieraakseen  sotilaskomentaja  Taron (nimestä päätellen kai japsu),  joka  on  aiemminkin  käynyt  vierailuilla  tiemestarin  talossa  ja yrittänyt saada perhettä kiinni vesirikoksesta. Taro tarjoaa Nooralle mahdollisuutta jäädä henkiin sillä ehdolla,  että  he  tekisivät  Senjan  kanssa  töitä  armeijalle.  Noora  kieltäytyy:  ”Olin yksin, ja sanoin ainoan asian, jonka saatoin sanoa. ’Mikään ei saa minua ottamaan tarjoustanne vastaan’, ei edes salamiakki.” Noora  luopuu  mieluummin  Fazerin salmiakista kuin  toimii  arvojensa  vastaisesti,  ja  tässä  hän  vertautuu henkilöhahmona jälleen marttyyriin. Nooran ja Taron erottaa toisistaan kuin ruozalaisen sotilaan ja upseerin saunassa vain kepillä.  He  käyvät  vierailun  päätteeksi  filosofisen  keskustelun  elämän  tarkoituksesta. Molemmat  uskovat,  ettei  kuoleman  jälkeen  ole  luvassa  pelastusta  tai  palkkiota  siitä,  miten  on elämänsä  elänyt,  mutta Noora sanoo: ”Uskon, että vaikeita valintoja on tehtävä jokaisena päivänä, siitä huolimatta, että hyvin tietää, ettei mitään palkkiota ole. Koska jos ei ole mitään muuta kuin tämä, se on ainoa tapa jättää elämästään jälki, jolla on jotain merkitystä.” Taro sen sijaan toteaa: ”jos mitään muuta ei ole kuin tämä, voin yhtä hyvin nauttia siitä niin kauan kuin sitä kestää.” Toisin kuin egoistiseksi hedonistiksi osoittautuva Taro, stooalainen Noora pysyy uskollisena isin arvoille ja  sille,  minkä  kokee  oikeaksi,  vaikka  ei  edes odota  palkkiota.  Omalla  tavallaan  palkkio  hänelle  lienee kuitenkin se, että hän tietää jättäneensä elämästään jäljen, ”jolla on jotain merkitystä”. Vittu noita iänikuisia omia etujaan ajavia merkityxiä. Vitun palkkoita. Vitun jälkiä. Veteen piirrettyjä viivoja. Tieraatoja.

          xxx/ellauri136.html on line 663: Relating to the crowdfunding appeal on Ketto, Laxmi K, who works on climate action and was aware of prior allegations related to her fathers activities, initiated contact with Ketto requesting due diligence. Further concerns around the Ketto crowd funding drive was flagged by political activist Angellica Aribam, a day after Paojel Chaoba of The Frontier Manipur broke a story on 19 May on how the Ketto donation drive by the child activist could be a possible scheme to defraud people by her father. In an email written to Varun Sheth of Ketto, Angellica asked whether the Noble Citizen Foundation, the agency that was being handed the money collected from the donation drive had any credibility and if Ketto was certain there were no connections with the child’s father. However, she never received any response.

          xxx/ellauri136.html on line 682: As Frank Sinatra said, “Calling a girl a ‘broad’ is far less coarse than calling her a ‘dame’.” Before 1967, a track and field long jump was called a “broad jump”.  However, due to “broad” being seen as an offensive term at this time, due to the fact that women were competing in broad jumps, the term was changed to “long jump”.

          xxx/ellauri137.html on line 84: ”MARKUS PYSTYY puhelimessakin sanomaan äänestä, oonko mä juonut edellisenä iltana alkoholia”, pornokuvataiteilija Katariina Souri sanoo helsinkiläiskahvilassa. ”Mä olen dopamiinivetoinen tyyppi. Lähtee dopamiinit nopeasti nousuun. Se pystyy analysoimaan mun aivokemiaani puhelun aikana. Miten puhun, miten nopeasti, miltä mun ääneni kuulostaa. ’Aa, sä oot varmaan eilen juonut alkoholia.’ Mä olen että no helvetti, hik niin oon! Miten shä voit aavishtaa shen? 

          xxx/ellauri137.html on line 539: By the fireside in twilight’s gray serene,

          xxx/ellauri137.html on line 548: The sunsets of the summer’s fading gold!

          xxx/ellauri137.html on line 551: I seemed to breathe your blood’s intoxication.

          xxx/ellauri137.html on line 552: The sunsets of the summer’s fading gold!

          xxx/ellauri137.html on line 567: They come again in spite of time’s curfew,

          xxx/ellauri137.html on line 751: The novel features a passionate romance between Rei Shimura and Hugh Glendinning, the Scottish lawyer. Though the romance was not very realistic, I think it added an exciting and entertaining element to the novel. The first person point-of-view from which the novel is narrated allows the audience to truly understand the good and the bad of Rei’s character. She is independent to a fault but extremely loyal. She wants to immerse herself in Japanese culture, yet she rejects the social norms of society when  they conflict with her desires. She is passionate about her interest in history and antiques, but logical by staying on as a teacher. The contradictions make her human and contribute to the reality of the novel.  While mystery was not entirely believable, it was in no way predictable and I genuinely found the plot to be exciting. The Salaryman’s Wife, fits into the detective fiction tradition as most closely as a cozy, however the urban setting and the inclusion of graphic sex scenes contradict that classification

          xxx/ellauri137.html on line 795: She attended Johns Hopkins University, where she majored in Creative Writing and earned her BA in 1986. After graduating, she interned and was quickly hired as a reporter for the Baltimore Evening Sun. In 1991, she married Tony Massey, her college sweetheart, and the couple moved to Japan. Her husband was almost immediately deployed by the Navy, which left Mrs. Massey to acclimate to the culture alone. She worked as an English teacher while in Japan and began writing. In 1993, her husband’s deployment ended and the couple moved back to the States and settled in Baltimore, where they currently reside.

          xxx/ellauri138.html on line 107: Eker’s writing and speaking often focus on his concept of the "Millionaire Mind," a collection of "mental attitudes that facilitate wealth." This theory proposes that we each possess a "financial blueprint," or an "internal script that dictates how we relate to money," and that by changing this blueprint people can change their ability to accumulate wealth.      

          xxx/ellauri139.html on line 199: Ippolit is a 17-year-old boy who is dying of tuberculosis. An ardent nihilist, he yearns to be taken seriously and attempts to dramatically leave the world. He delivers rambling, self-absorbed, nihilistic speech entitled “A Necessary Explanation” to Myshkin, Nastasya, and Rogozhin, and many others at a party at Lebedev’s dacha. After this, he attempts to commit suicide by shooting himself with the gun he’s had since he was a child. This entire plan backfires, as everyone grows bored with his speech, and when it comes time to kill himself he fails to do so because there is no cap in the gun. After this incident, Ippolit’s illness shows progress and he eventually dies. 

          xxx/ellauri139.html on line 328: ‘The Eve of St. Agnes’ begins with the setting, the eve of the Feast of St. Agnes, January 20th (the Feast is celebrated on the 21st). It is horribly cold outside. A Beadsman, a professional man of prayer, is freezing in his church. He briefly hears music from the house that the church abuts. They are preparing a celebration and the guests all arrive in a burst of expensive clothing and plumage. 

          xxx/ellauri139.html on line 332: Farther away from the castle a man, Porphyro, who loves Madeline more than anything, is making his way to the house. He enters, unseen. If anyone finds him he knows that he will be killed. Madeline’s family hates him and holds his lineage against him. While sneaking through the house he comes upon Angela, one of the servants. He begs her to bring him to Madeline’s chamber so that he might show himself to her that night and solidify himself as her true love. After much complaining, she agrees and hides him until it is time. 

          xxx/ellauri139.html on line 338: The two are able to make out outside the home without arousing suspicion and ‘The Eve of St. Agnes’ concludes with two characters, Angela, and the Beadsman, dying; their death acting as a symbol of a new generation that is now the focus of the world. This is one of Keaz' most loved poeams, with a wonderful happy ending (except for Angela and Beadsman). 

          xxx/ellauri139.html on line 348: St. Agnets’ Eve—Ah, bitter chill it was!				Pyhän Aunen aatto - ompa holotna!		

          xxx/ellauri139.html on line 350: The hare limp’d trembling through the frozen grass,			Jänö kömpii lumihangessa ihan nolona,		

          xxx/ellauri139.html on line 352: Numb were the Beadsman’s fingers, while he told                 	Tuilla elävällä on sormet kohmeessa		

          xxx/ellauri139.html on line 355: Seem’d taking flight for heaven, without a death,			Muistuttaen ristillä riippunutta kelmiä,	

          xxx/ellauri139.html on line 356: Past the sweet Virgin’s picture, while his prayer he saith.		Jonka sielu pääsi taivaaseen jo aattona.	

          xxx/ellauri139.html on line 363: The sculptur’d dead, on each side, seem to freeze,			Kuolleet veistoxet onkö pakastetut		

          xxx/ellauri139.html on line 364: Emprison’d in black, purgatorial rails:                         	Kukot, kanat, Jeesuxen rakastetut,		

          xxx/ellauri139.html on line 365: Knights, ladies, praying in dumb orat’ries,				Mustat kivet, sileäxi suudellut,		

          xxx/ellauri139.html on line 371: And scarce three steps, ere Music’s golden tongue               	Kolme askelta, ja sitten kuuluu laulua,		

          xxx/ellauri139.html on line 372: Flatter’d to tears this aged man and poor;				Tuskinpa porkka-Mariasta ja Jee-suxesta!	

          xxx/ellauri139.html on line 375: His was harsh penance on St. Agnes’ Eve:				Ilostella ei hänenkaltaisensa enää voineet.	

          xxx/ellauri139.html on line 377: Rough ashes sat he for his soul’s reprieve,				Valvomaan koko yön ja vähän lisää kuolemaan.		

          xxx/ellauri139.html on line 378: And all night kept awake, for sinners’ sake to grieve.			Eiku rukoilemaan lisää takas tuhkakasaan.	

          xxx/ellauri139.html on line 382: And so it chanc’d, for many a door was wide,				Ja kazo, niin kävi, kun uxia oli auki monia,	

          xxx/ellauri139.html on line 384: The silver, snarling trumpets ’gan to chide:				Tasalattiaiset salit, oikein näyttävät,		

          xxx/ellauri139.html on line 388: Star’d, where upon their heads the cornice rests,               	Silmät kiiluen ja siivet eessä supussa,              

          xxx/ellauri139.html on line 399: On love, and wing’d St. Agnes’ saintly care,				Ja rakkaustaioista, onhan se sentään kaunista,

          xxx/ellauri139.html on line 403: They told her how, upon St. Agnes’ Eve,					Nytkin ne kertoo sille, kuinka Aunen aattona,

          xxx/ellauri139.html on line 406: Upon the honey’d middle of the night,					Keskellä yötä tuli niille melkoisia missioita,

          xxx/ellauri139.html on line 417: Fix’d on the floor, saw many a sweeping train				Monen kavaljeerin munan, se on saletti

          xxx/ellauri139.html on line 420: And back retir’d; not cool’d by high disdain,				Saivat vetää tiehensä, ei tullut panoa,

          xxx/ellauri139.html on line 422: She sigh’d for Agnes’ dreams, the sweetest of the year.			Se kaipas Aunen unia, vuoden mehukkaimpia.

          xxx/ellauri139.html on line 425: She danc’d along with vague, regardless eyes,				VIII.

          xxx/ellauri139.html on line 427: The hallow’d hour was near at hand: she sighs				Sen huulet kosteina ja henki huokuvana,

          xxx/ellauri139.html on line 428: Amid the timbrels, and the throng’d resort				Pyhitetty hetki on jo lähellä: se vinkasee

          xxx/ellauri139.html on line 430: ’Mid looks of love, defiance, hate, and scorn,				heti parijonoon, vaan se on turha vaiva

          xxx/ellauri139.html on line 431: Hoodwink’d with faery fancy; all amort,                                 Ei mamsselia nappaa tollanen humalainen laiva,         

          xxx/ellauri139.html on line 437: She linger’d still. Meantime, across the moors,				Vaan silti hannaa. Samaan aikaan toisaalla

          xxx/ellauri139.html on line 440: Buttress’d from moonlight, stands he, and implores			Se seisoo oven takana ja rukoilee pyhimyxiä

          xxx/ellauri139.html on line 447: He ventures in: let no buzz’d whisper tell:				Hän työntyy sisään mitään hiiskumatta 

          xxx/ellauri139.html on line 449: Will storm his heart, Love’s fev’rous citadel:				Sitä kauhistuttaa miekat ja piikkimatto

          xxx/ellauri139.html on line 460: To where he stood, hid from the torch’s flame,				Sinne missä seisoi käki soihdun takana,

          xxx/ellauri139.html on line 464: And grasp’d his fingers in her palsied hand,				Tarttuu sen kynnettömään sormeen kädellä,

          xxx/ellauri139.html on line 469: “Get hence! get hence! there’s dwarfish Hildebrand;                     Antaa heittää! Tuollon Hildebrandin knääpä;

          xxx/ellauri139.html on line 472: “Then there ’s that old Lord Maurice, not a whit			Siziellon vanha Mauri-herra, yhtä vihaisena

          xxx/ellauri139.html on line 475: “We’re safe enough; here in this arm-chair sit,				Täällon turvallista, istu tässä pallin päällä,

          xxx/ellauri139.html on line 480: He follow’d through a lowly arched way,					Ne lähti kahden jonossa tunnelista,

          xxx/ellauri139.html on line 482: And as she mutter’d “Well-a—well-a-day!”				Eukko mutrusti suuta: No jopa, jopa on!

          xxx/ellauri139.html on line 484: Pale, lattic’d, chill, and silent as a tomb.				Valju, kalsa, hiljainen kuin hauta.

          xxx/ellauri139.html on line 488: “When they St. Agnes’ wool are weaving piously.”			Kuin Aunen sisaret, sillonkun ne kutevat.

          xxx/ellauri139.html on line 491: “St. Agnes! Ah! it is St. Agnes’ Eve—					Pyhä Aune! Aijoo, on pyhän Aunen aatto - 

          xxx/ellauri139.html on line 493: “Thou must hold water in a witch’s sieve,                               Sä varmaan pidätät kuin noidan siivilä,

          xxx/ellauri139.html on line 496: “To see thee, Porphyro!—St. Agnes’ Eve!					Ja vielä Aunen aattona - aivan pöyristynyt!

          xxx/ellauri139.html on line 497: “God’s help! my lady fair the conjuror plays				Jumalauta! Mun leidi leikkii Tarvajärveä

          xxx/ellauri139.html on line 499: “But let me laugh awhile, I’ve mickle time to grieve.”			Mut nauretaanpa tovi, on itkuun monta hetkeä!

          xxx/ellauri139.html on line 505: Who keepeth clos’d a wond’rous riddle-book,                             Jollon vanha vizikirja auki isokainalossa,

          xxx/ellauri139.html on line 508: His lady’s purpose; and he scarce could brook				Kun ämmä kertoo mikä juoni leidillä on mielessä,

          xxx/ellauri139.html on line 525: Quoth Porphyro: “O may I ne’er find grace				Sanoi Porfyyri, me vaan sylitysten

          xxx/ellauri139.html on line 530: “Or I will, even in a moment’s space,					Jos niin mä hotaisen sua tällä kangella,

          xxx/ellauri139.html on line 531: “Awake, with horrid shout, my foemen’s ears,				Herätän vihulaiset huutamalla kovasti,

          xxx/ellauri139.html on line 532: “And beard them, though they be more fang’d than wolves and bears.”	Vedän niitä parrasta niinkuin rovasti.

          xxx/ellauri139.html on line 539: “Were never miss’d.”—Thus plaining, doth she bring			Rukous sun pään menoxi! Tän kuultuaan

          xxx/ellauri139.html on line 547: Even to Madeline’s chamber, and there hide				Madelinen kammariin, ja siellä komeroon

          xxx/ellauri139.html on line 551: While legion’d fairies pac’d the coverlet,				Aukee sulle vielä Madelinen lonkat. 

          xxx/ellauri139.html on line 569: The lover’s endless minutes slowly pass’d;				Rakastaja laittoi onkeen vieheensä.

          xxx/ellauri139.html on line 570: The dame return’d, and whisper’d in his ear				Tantti palasi, ja kuiskas pojan korvaan

          xxx/ellauri139.html on line 574: The maiden’s chamber, silken, hush’d, and chaste;			Niiskuneidin huoneeseen siivoon turvaan,

          xxx/ellauri139.html on line 575: Where Porphyro took covert, pleas’d amain.				Porfyyri panee munaa piiloon kohdakkoin,

          xxx/ellauri139.html on line 579: Her falt’ring hand upon the balustrade,                                 Herpoo käsi yläkerran kaiteella,

          xxx/ellauri139.html on line 581: When Madeline, St. Agnes’ charmed maid,					Madeline, Aunen kunnon siskona,

          xxx/ellauri139.html on line 582: Rose, like a mission’d spirit, unaware:					Matkallansa ylös unta kiskomaan,

          xxx/ellauri139.html on line 583: With silver taper’s light, and pious care,				Auttaa vanhuxen raput alas,

          xxx/ellauri139.html on line 584: She turn’d, and down the aged gossip led                                Hopeinen kynttilänjalka niitä valas,

          xxx/ellauri139.html on line 587: She comes, she comes again, like ring-dove fray’d and fled.		Me tulemme tulemme taas, sinä tyttöni hoi!

          xxx/ellauri139.html on line 592: She clos’d the door, she panted, all akin				Neiti sulki oven, kohta alkaa meteli.

          xxx/ellauri139.html on line 601: A casement high and triple-arch’d there was,				Roger Casement oli siellä huoneessa,

          xxx/ellauri139.html on line 602: All garlanded with carven imag’ries					Eipäs ollutkaan, vaan kaariholveja,

          xxx/ellauri139.html on line 606: As are the tiger-moth’s deep-damask’d wings;				Kuten suruvaippoja kohta kuoriutuvia,

          xxx/ellauri139.html on line 607: And in the midst, ’mong thousand heraldries,				Ja kaiken keskellä, ympärillä vaakunoita

          xxx/ellauri139.html on line 609: A shielded scutcheon blush’d with blood of queens and kings.		Housukilpi jossa jotain punaista.

          xxx/ellauri139.html on line 613: And threw warm gules on Madeline’s fair breast,				Joka vähän kultasi Madelinen pikku häpyä.

          xxx/ellauri139.html on line 614: As down she knelt for heaven’s grace and boon;				Madeline kyykistyi lattialle valmiixi;

          xxx/ellauri139.html on line 618: She seem’d a splendid angel, newly drest,				Se näytti enkeliltä puettuna hajuveteen.

          xxx/ellauri139.html on line 635: In sort of wakeful swoon, perplex’d she lay,				Puolivalveilla se on ja vähän takussa,

          xxx/ellauri139.html on line 636: Until the poppied warmth of sleep oppress’d				Kunnes alkaa nukuttaa, unta palloon vetää

          xxx/ellauri139.html on line 639: Blissfully haven’d both from joy and pain;                              Olis ehkä hyvä vähentää tota juomista.

          xxx/ellauri139.html on line 640: Clasp’d like a missal where swart Paynims pray;				Virsikirjan kannet kiinni, tahi koraani,

          xxx/ellauri139.html on line 645: Stol’n to this paradise, and so entranced,				Tähän paratiisiin kiemurtanut matosex

          xxx/ellauri139.html on line 647: And listen’d to her breathing, if it chanced				Kokeili sen hyntteitä, koitti ryntäitä,

          xxx/ellauri139.html on line 650: And breath’d himself: then from the closet crept,			Aloittaa vällykäärmeen tiedusteluretki.

          xxx/ellauri139.html on line 652: And over the hush’d carpet, silent, stept,				Alkoi liha vällyissä, hiljaa kiikkua

          xxx/ellauri139.html on line 653: And ’tween the curtains peep’d, where, lo!—how fast she slept.		kannikoiden välissä, siitä peremmälle.

          xxx/ellauri139.html on line 658: A table, and, half anguish’d, threw thereon                             Housuista, siihen jää hupparikin harmaa.	

          xxx/ellauri139.html on line 668: In blanched linen, smooth, and lavender’d,				Porfyyri kostuttaa kynnetöntä sylellä.		

          xxx/ellauri139.html on line 673: Manna and dates, in argosy transferr’d					On aika ottaa esiin vähän purtavaa..		

          xxx/ellauri139.html on line 675: From silken Samarcand to cedar’d Lebanon.                               Punaista libaa löytyy sekä viikunaa.

          xxx/ellauri139.html on line 678: These delicates he heap’d with glowing hand				Nää eväät kasaa se, on kädet hikiset,	    

          xxx/ellauri139.html on line 685: “Open thine eyes, for meek St. Agnes’ sake,				Aunen päivän aamupalaa ala kerätä,	    

          xxx/ellauri139.html on line 691: By the dusk curtains:—’twas a midnight charm				Turha vaiva, unen ote mirrin sielusta	

          xxx/ellauri139.html on line 695: It seem’d he never, never could redeem					Erota verhon takaa, ja neito eiku makaa.

          xxx/ellauri139.html on line 696: From such a stedfast spell his lady’s eyes;				Mikä keinoxi, ei tiedä ja harva arvaa,	

          xxx/ellauri139.html on line 697: So mus’d awhile, entoil’d in woofed phantasies.				Miten saa sen hereille ja alkaan jakaa.	

          xxx/ellauri139.html on line 702: He play’d an ancient ditty, long since mute,				Se tarttuu Melusiinan ontton soittimeen,

          xxx/ellauri139.html on line 703: In Provence call’d, “La belle dame sans mercy:”				Laulaa vanhan viisun mutta tarttuvan:	

          xxx/ellauri139.html on line 705: Wherewith disturb’d, she utter’d a soft moan:				Eiku se oli Keazin oma "Leidi armoton".

          xxx/ellauri139.html on line 713: There was a painful change, that nigh expell’d                         	Onxtää totta nyt vai vaihtoehtoa?	

          xxx/ellauri139.html on line 719: Fearing to move or speak, she look’d so dreamingly.			(Vielä yxi värssy pitää tähän kexiä.)	

          xxx/ellauri139.html on line 726: “How chang’d thou art! how pallid, chill, and drear!			Silmillä, kirkkailla, suurilla ja seijailla.

          xxx/ellauri139.html on line 732: Beyond a mortal man impassion’d far					Hyvin Porfyro näihin aneluihin vastas,			

          xxx/ellauri139.html on line 734: Ethereal, flush’d, and like a throbbing star				Syleillä Voluptasta oli sillä kalu kova,		

          xxx/ellauri139.html on line 735: Seen mid the sapphire heaven’s deep repose;				Sen kun sais sulamaan Melusiinan uunissa,		

          xxx/ellauri139.html on line 739: Like Love’s alarum pattering the sharp sleet				Eka kerta kanssasi olis ihanaista,			

          xxx/ellauri139.html on line 740: Against the window-panes; St. Agnes’ moon hath set.			Viidestoista peräperää painajaista.		

          xxx/ellauri139.html on line 743: ’Tis dark: quick pattereth the flaw-blown sleet:                        Jälkeenpäin triste post coitum tunnelmat.	 

          xxx/ellauri139.html on line 745: ’Tis dark: the iced gusts still rave and beat:				On pimeää, sataa surullista räntää.		

          xxx/ellauri139.html on line 756: “Thy beauty’s shield, heart-shap’d and vermeil dyed?			Saanhan ruveta sun vasallix, sun wokuxi?	

          xxx/ellauri139.html on line 759: “A famish’d pilgrim,—saved by miracle.					Ja bonuxexi vielä imutan sun viikunan.		

          xxx/ellauri139.html on line 761: “Saving of thy sweet self; if thou think’st well			Mut mitä siitä jos musta tulee sillä ylkä.	

          xxx/ellauri139.html on line 765: ’Hark! ’tis an elfin-storm from faery land,				Kuules tää on ihan ku joku keijusatu,		

          xxx/ellauri139.html on line 771: “Drown’d all in Rhenish and the sleepy mead:				Heräävät kankkuseen, ei oo aikaa kökkii!

          xxx/ellauri139.html on line 773: “For o’er the southern moors I have a home for thee.”			2h ja keittiö, no mikäs vielä tökkii?"		

          xxx/ellauri139.html on line 781: A chain-droop’d lamp was flickering by each door;			PST! Shh! Älä kolistele! Otetaan toi lamppu!	

          xxx/ellauri139.html on line 783: Flutter’d in the besieging wind’s uproar;				Rullalle vielä noi itämaiset matot,			

          xxx/ellauri139.html on line 803: Were long be-nightmar’d. Angela the old                                 Näki peikkoja piruja ja hautamatoja.	          

          xxx/ellauri139.html on line 804: Died palsy-twitch’d, with meagre face deform;				Epämuodostunut Agneta oli kuukahtanut   

          xxx/ellauri139.html on line 820:       Dostoon liittyvien kliseiden viidakossa alkoi kiinnostaa mixi Ippolitin välttämätön selitys (s. 597/954) entitled “A Necessary Explanation” to Myshkin, Nastasya, and Rogozhin, and many others at a party at Lebedev’s dacha. oli jenkkioppaan mielestä  'rambling, self-absorbed, nihilistic speech'.

          xxx/ellauri139.html on line 881: L’automne avait jonché la terre ;		Oli syxy roskannut mezämaan;				

          xxx/ellauri139.html on line 888:  » Bois que j’aime! adieu… je succombe.		"Skuzi jota rakastan! Heippa...mä kukistun.		

          xxx/ellauri139.html on line 889: Ton deuil m’avertit de mon sort ;		Sun suruaika muistuttaa mua mun karmasta;		

          xxx/ellauri139.html on line 892: Fatal oracle d’Epidaure,			Epidauroxen oraakkeli fataali,					

          xxx/ellauri139.html on line 893: Tu m’as dit :  » Les feuilles des bois		Sä sanoit mulle: Puiden keltainen				

          xxx/ellauri139.html on line 895: « Mais c’est pour la dernière fois.		Muze on sulle laitimmainen kerta.				

          xxx/ellauri139.html on line 896: « L’éternel cyprès se balance ;			Ikuinen sypressi tasapainoilee					

          xxx/ellauri139.html on line 900: « Avant l’herbe de la prairie,			Kuihtuu ennen aavaa preeriaa,					

          xxx/ellauri139.html on line 903: M’ont touché les sombres autans ;		Sun kylmän hengityksen synkät ahavat,				

          xxx/ellauri139.html on line 904: Et j’ai vu, comme une ombre vaine,		Ja mä nään katoavan						

          xxx/ellauri139.html on line 905: S’évanouir mon beau printemps.			Mun kauniin kevään kuin turha varjo.				

          xxx/ellauri139.html on line 915: Il dit, s’éloigne… et, sans retour…		Tän sanottuaan poistuu taaxe eikä palaa.			

          xxx/ellauri139.html on line 930: Pauvre Gilbert, que tu devais souffrir ! C’est le refrain d’un Souvenir à l’hôpital par Hegesippe Moreau, dont certains accents rappellent volontiers les Adieux à la vie de Gilbert :

          xxx/ellauri139.html on line 935: Se réchauffer dans la main d’un ami !			Lämpiävän jonkun ystäväni sylkössä!		

          xxx/ellauri139.html on line 936: Mais que d’amis, sourds à ma voix plaintive,		Mut et mun kamut, kuurona mun valituxille,	

          xxx/ellauri139.html on line 938: Sans remarquer l’absence d’un convive !…		Huomaamatta yhden juhlijan sieltä puuttuvan!	

          xxx/ellauri139.html on line 941: J’ai bien maudit le jour qui m’a vu naître ;		Mä olen kironnut päivää jona synnyin!		

          xxx/ellauri139.html on line 942: Mais la nature est brillante d’attraits,		Mut luonto on kirjavanaan houkutuxia,		

          xxx/ellauri139.html on line 946: Au fond des bois rêver, s’asseoir, courir,		Unexia mezän pohjalla, juoxennella, istua,

          xxx/ellauri139.html on line 951: Telle etait la plainte d’Hégésippe Moreau, alors que Gilbert avait écrit avant lui:

          xxx/ellauri139.html on line 956: J’apparus un jour, et je meurs :				Ilmestyin 1 päivä, nyt väsymys käy käpälään: 		

          xxx/ellauri139.html on line 957: Je meurs, et sur ma tombe où lentement j’arrive,		Mä kuolen, ja mun haudalla, johka saavun hiljaa,	

          xxx/ellauri139.html on line 960: Salut, champs que j’aimais, et vous, douce verdure,		Terve, niittu jota rakastin, ja te, sulovihanta,	

          xxx/ellauri139.html on line 962: Ciel, pavillon de l’homme, admirable nature,			Taivas, apinan paviljonki, ihailtava luonto,		

          xxx/ellauri139.html on line 966: Tant d’amis sourds à mes adieux !				Niin monta kamua kuurona mun heippalapulle!

          xxx/ellauri139.html on line 967: Qu’ils meurent pleins de jours, que leur mort soit pleurée,	Kuolkoot täynnä päiviä, siitä tulkoon itkua,

          xxx/ellauri139.html on line 968: Qu’un ami leur ferme les yeux !					Sulkekoon joku ystäväinen niiltä silmät!

          xxx/ellauri139.html on line 975: J’ai révélé mon cœur au Dieu de l’innocence; 			Paljastin syömmeni viattomuuden jumalalle,			

          xxx/ellauri139.html on line 977: Il guérit mes remords, il m’arme de constance: 			Hää paransi mun harmituxen, hää aseisti mut sisulla;		

          xxx/ellauri139.html on line 981:     ‘Qu’il meure, et sa gloire avec lui!’ 			Kuolkoot, ja kunniansa kanssa!				

          xxx/ellauri139.html on line 990: ‘Mais Dieu t’entend gémir, Dieu vers qui te ramène 		Mut sun valituxen kuulee jumala, jonka luo sut vie			

          xxx/ellauri139.html on line 993:     D’être faible dans les malheurs. 				Heikkoudesta paska zägässä.				

          xxx/ellauri139.html on line 995: 'J’éveillerai pour toi la pitié, la justice 			'Mä nostatan sulle säälin, oikeuden    

          xxx/ellauri139.html on line 996:     De l’incorruptible avenir; 					Lahjomattomasta lopusta;	      

          xxx/ellauri139.html on line 998:     Ton honneur qu’ils pensent ternir.’         		sun kunnian kun ne luulee vieneensä.'

          xxx/ellauri139.html on line 1001:     L’innocence et son noble orgueil, 				Palauttaa viattomuuden ja jalon korskuuden,	

          xxx/ellauri139.html on line 1006:     J’apparus un jour, et je meurs; 				Mä tulin 1 päivä, lähen 2.na;			

          xxx/ellauri139.html on line 1007: Je meurs, et sur ma tombe, où lentemėnt j’arrive, 		Ah mä kuolen, kuvani kun kuvastimessa nään,	

          xxx/ellauri139.html on line 1010: Salut, champs que j’aimais! et vous, douce verdure! 		Terse, kenttä jota rakastin! Ja te, vihannexet!		

          xxx/ellauri139.html on line 1012: Ciel, pavillon de l’homme, admirable nature, 			Taivas, apinoiden paviljonki, ihailtava luonto,		

          xxx/ellauri139.html on line 1016:     Tant d’amis sourds à mes adieux! 				Mun kaveritkin vielä nähdä tän!			

          xxx/ellauri139.html on line 1017: Qu’ils meurent pleins de jours, que leur mort soit pleurée,     Kunpa kuolisivat niinkuin mä, ja niitä vollattais,

          xxx/ellauri139.html on line 1018: Qu’un ami leur ferme les yeux!					Joku kamu vielä laittais silmäluukut kii!		

          xxx/ellauri139.html on line 1022: Nicolas Joseph Florent Gilbert, né le 15 décembre 1750 dans le sud du duché de Lorraine à Fontenoy-le-Château et mort le 16 novembre 1780 à Paris, est un poète lorrain francophone. Son père, maire de Fontenoy-le-Château, propriétaire de deux fermes, y exerce le métier de marchand de grains. Son éducation est confiée au curé du village, un jésuite qui, voyant en lui « un esprit apte à être éduqué », lui apprend le latin. Puis le jeune Nicolas part faire ses humanités au collège de l'Arc à Dole. Après 1770, il part pour Paris, avec en poche ses premiers vers, ainsi qu’une lettre, signée de Mme de La Verpillière, femme du prévôt des marchands de Lyon et mécène. Cette lettre recommande le jeune poète à D’Alembert. Il semble que D’Alembert, lui ayant promis une place de précepteur, n’honore pas cette espérance, et le reçoit d’ailleurs assez froidement. Gilbert s'en souviendra quand il composera sa satire du Dix-huitième siècle :

          xxx/ellauri139.html on line 1030:   En 1775 paraît sa première pièce majeure Le Dix-huitième siècle. C’est une satire en vers qui donne la caricature de son temps ; la philosophie y est le principe de la « chute des arts », de la « perte des mœurs ». Tout y est matière à charge : la bourgeoisie, la noblesse, le clergé libertin ; la littérature du moment y est passée au peigne fin. Des généralités sociales, on passe bientôt aux attaques ad hominem ; à la fin de la satire, du reste, le nom honni paraît enfin : Voltaire. Le Dix-huitième siècle est véritablement à sa parution, et pour reprendre le mot de Huysmans, « un météore dans le champ littéraire » de l’époque. Il n'est pas de bon ton, La critique se dechaine.

          xxx/ellauri139.html on line 1037:     Eise mitään kuollut köyhänä ja kirottuna, vaan mukavasti eläkkeellä, ja testamenttas vielä loput rahat Bernadottelle. Elämälle heippa, sain siltä paljon. Sensijaan Thomas Chatterton, joka oli se Rowleyhuijari joka mainittiin Keazin yhteydessä kai, kuoli nälkäisenä arsenikkiin 17-vuotiaana. Thomas Chatterton, né le 20 novembre 1752 à Bristol et mort le 24 août 1770 à Holborn, est un poète et mystificateur anglais. Ayant attribué ses œuvres à un moine médiéval du nom de « Rowley », il fut accusé à tort d’être un faussaire par certains de ses contemporains les plus influents. Il est reconnu comme un poète de talent, malgré sa mort à l'âge de 17 ans, ayant préféré se suicider à l’arsenic plutôt que de mourir de faim, devenant ainsi pour les romantiques le symbole de l’homme de génie non reconnu. 

          xxx/ellauri139.html on line 1087:     Balzac l’évoque dans La Muse du département.

          xxx/ellauri139.html on line 1091:       Théophile Gautier consacre un poème d’Émaux et Camées

          xxx/ellauri139.html on line 1162: Pétition d’un voleur à un roi voisin		Varkaan anomus kurkonaapurille

          xxx/ellauri139.html on line 1169: J’ai le coeur dur et l’âme vile,		Mulla on kova sydän ja paha sielu,

          xxx/ellauri139.html on line 1174: Mais, sire, c’est bien peu, je pense.		Mutta, herra, ei sillä kuuhun mennä.

          xxx/ellauri139.html on line 1175: L’appétit me vient en mangeant :		Ruokahalu kasvaa syödessä:

          xxx/ellauri139.html on line 1176: Allons, sire, un peu d’indulgence.		Mites olis vähän lisää armoa?

          xxx/ellauri139.html on line 1178: D’un vieux singe j’ai la malice ;		Mulla on vanhan paviaanin ilkeys;

          xxx/ellauri139.html on line 1184: Ce métier pourtant n’est pas fait,		Tästä hommasta ei tuu valmista.

          xxx/ellauri139.html on line 1196: Ma douceur n’est qu’une grimace ;		Hyvyyteni on vain irvstys;

          xxx/ellauri139.html on line 1197: J’ai fait… se pendre mon cousin :		Olen... hirtättänyt serkkuni:

          xxx/ellauri148.html on line 91: Take for instance my bro Brian McCormack, most recently of the Edison Electric Institute (EEI), who became Energy Secretary Rick Perry’s chief of staff in 2015. Previously, McCormack was EEI’s vice president of political and external affairs and one of the highest paid staffers at the trade association with a reported income of $440K in 2015. Sadly, he does't say hello to me anymore if we accidentally meet on the street. He goes to the other side of the road."

          xxx/ellauri148.html on line 132: In the 1967 war, it seems the Israeli felt their grip was loosening: based largely on interviews with Israeli soldiers—conducted in 1967, and heavily censored at the time—Censored Voices documents Israeli soldiers “summarily executing prisoners and evacuating Arab villages in a manner that one fighter likened to the Nazis’ treatment of European Jews.” 

          xxx/ellauri148.html on line 161: Tää oli Moshelta hyvä veto sikäli että nää lisäyxet päihittää kristinuskon tärkeimmät vetolaastarit, lunastuskaupan luottokortin ja taivastoivon. Maimonides further explains in his work on the Halakhic code, the Yad haHazaqa (“The Strong Hand”), also known as the Mishne Torah (Second Torah) the view of redemption and the role Messiah will play. Maimonides summarizes the Jewish expectation of the Messiah.  But the expectation of Messiah, is not limited to Maimonides comments, quotes from the Talmud, Targum, Midrash, Zohar and other writings give us a vivid picture of the expectation in the Jewish world of the times of Messiah. Messianic expectation in Rabbinic times (A.D.135-1750) and in the time of Yeshua may have changed over the years. For example in the time of Yeshua, The Temple existed and Israel was not scattered abroad as is the case today. In the days of Maimonides, there was no Israel and no Temple, and Jews were persecuted in Europe.  Here we quote from Raphael Patai’s work, The Messiah Texts on pages 322-327, his translation of the Mishne Torah, Maimonides writes the following.

          xxx/ellauri148.html on line 167:  And these are things which are explicitly stated in the Torah, and they comprise all the things which are said by the prophets.  Even in the section “Balaam” it is said and there he prophesied about the two Messiahs: about the first Messiah who was David who saved Israel from the from the hands of its enemies, and about the last Messiah, who will arise from among David’s children and who will save Israel at the End.  And there he says:

          xxx/ellauri148.html on line 175: It should not come to one’s mind that in the days of the Messiah anything in the customary order of the world will be annulled, or that there will be something new in the order of Creation.  For the world will continue in its path. And that which Isaiah said, the wolf shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid (Isa. 11:6), is but an allegory and a riddle.  The true meaning of it is that Israel will dwell in safety with the wicked of the idolaters who are likened to a wolf and a leopard….And all of them will return to faith of truth, and they will neither rob nor despoil, but will eat the things which are permitted, in pleasure, together with Israel, as it is written, The lion shall eat straw like the ox (Isa. 11:7).  And likewise, all the similar things said about the Messiah are but allegories. And in the days of the Messiah it will become known to everybody what thing the allegory signified and to what thing it alluded.

          xxx/ellauri148.html on line 184: (Maimonids, Yad haHazaqa, Shoftim, Hilkhot M’lakhim 11-12)

          xxx/ellauri148.html on line 190: Maimonides does a great job in condensing Jewish belief and expectation in the Messiah.  The Jewish beliefs and expectations of the Messiah is wide and varied.  Through the Talmud, and other writing we see the expectation of two Messiahs.  One called Messiah Son of  David, and the other Messiah Son of Joseph actually precedes the Messiah son of David and is killed in the battle of Gog and Magog.  Messiah Son of David then asks the Lord to resurrect the slain Messiah Son of Joseph.   The Babylonian Talmud refers to the relationship between these two Messiah’s.

          xxx/ellauri148.html on line 197: The rabbis have taught; The Holy One, blessed be He, will say to Messiah ben David, may he be revealed soon in our day!; “Ask of Me anything, and I shall give it to you, for it is written, The Lord said unto me, Thou art my son, this day have I begotten thee, ask of Me and I will give the nations for thy inheritance (Psalms 2:7-8)” And when he will see that Messiah ben Joseph will be slain, he will say before Him: “Master of the World! I ask nothing of you except life! God will say to him: “Even before you said, ‘life,’ your father David prophesied about you as it is written, He asked life of Me, Thou gavest it him (Ps. 21:5)  Babylonian Talmud Sukkah 52a

          xxx/ellauri148.html on line 207:   R. Y’hoshu’a ben Levi once found Elijah standing at the entrance of the cave or R. Shim’on ben Yohai…He asked him: “When will the Messiah come?”  He said to him: “Go, ask him himself”  “And where does he sit? “At the entrance of the city [of Rome]”  “And what are his marks?” “His marks are that he sits among the poor who suffer of diseases, and while all of them unwind and rewind[the bandages of all their wounds] at once, he unwinds and rewinds them one by one, for he says, ‘Should I be summoned, there must be no delay.’”  R. Y’hoshu’a  went to him and said to him; “Peace be unto you, my Master and Teacher!” He said to him: “Peace unto you, Son of Levi!” He said to him: when will the Master come?”  He said to him: “Today.”  R. Y’hoshu’a went to Elijah, who asked him; “What did he tell you?” R. Y’hoshu’s said “[He said to me:] Peace be unto you, Son of Levi!” Elijah said to him: “[By saying this] he assured the World to Come for you and your father.”  R. Y’hoshu’a then said to Elijah: “The Messiah lied to me, for he said ‘today I shall come,’ and he did not come.”  Elijah said: “This is what he told you: 'Today', If you but hearken to His voice’ (Ps. 95:7) (Babylonian Talmud Sanhedrin 98a)[12]

          xxx/ellauri148.html on line 224: Elijah said to Rav Y’huda the brother of Rav Sala the Pious: “The world will exist for no less than eighty-five jubilees [that is, 85*50 = 4250 years], and in the last jubilee the Son of David will come.”  He asked him: “In its beginning or at its end?”  He answered: “I do not know.” [Rav Y’huda then asked:] “Will it [the last jubilee] be complete or not?”  He said to him: “I do not know.”  Rav Ashi said; “This is what Elijah told him; ‘Until the last jubilee expect him not; from then on expect him.’” So no hurry, there's another 260 jubilees (1300 years) or thereabouts to go.  Babylonian Talmud Sanhedrin 97b[14]

          xxx/ellauri148.html on line 226: At that time Michael the great [celestial] prince will rise and blow the shofar three times…and Messiah ben David and Elijah will be revealed. And the two of them will go to Israel who will be [at that time] in the desert of the peoples, and Elijah will say to them; “This is the Messiah.” And he will return their heart [which will be faint] and will strengthen their hand…                                                 (T’fillat R. Shim’on ben Yohai, BhM 2:125)[15],[16]

          xxx/ellauri148.html on line 236: R. Y’huda haLevi bar Shalom, and R. Pinhas haKohen, and Rav Huna, all the three of them said that Gog and Magog would come against Israel in the future to come three times, and the third time they would come up against Jerusalem and go to Judah, and dictate to them, for they are mighty men…

          xxx/ellauri148.html on line 256:      R. Alexandri said: “R. Y’hoshua’a ben Levi explained:  ‘If they will be righteous, [the Messiah will come] on the clouds of heaven (Daniel 7:13); if they will not be righteous, [he will come] as a poor man riding upon an ass (Zech. 9:9)….King Shabur [Sapur] said to Sh’muel: “You say that the Messiah will come upon an ass; I shall send him a well-groomed horse.” He answered “do you, perchance, have a horse of a hundred colors?”  Babylonian Talmud Sanhedrin 98a[20]

          xxx/ellauri148.html on line 266:  R. Hiyya bar Yosef said: “In the future the pious will sprout up and emerge in Jerusalem, as it is said, They will blossom out of the city like grass of the earth (Ps. 72:16)… And they will rise up in their garments, as can be concluded from the wheat; If the wheat, which is buried naked, rises in several clothes, how much more so the pious who are buried in their clothes.” Babylonian Talmud Ta’an 2 a[22]

          xxx/ellauri148.html on line 272:  The Messiah is the Son of David who will rule on David’s throne for eternity.  The city from which Messiah will rule will be Jerusalem according to the Bible and rabbinical tradition.  In the time of Messiah, Jerusalem will be transformed into the city of King Messiah.

          xxx/ellauri148.html on line 368: 8 March		International Women’s Day 

          xxx/ellauri148.html on line 452:    In Como, Italy, the festival ‘A due voci -dialogues of music and philosophy’ takesplace in Como as part of UNESCO's World Philosophy Day. It presents the projects selected by the Call for projects launched last Julyby the organizers. All the information about the initiatives and the young musicians and philosophers involved. Is available in the following link.

          xxx/ellauri148.html on line 460:    The Brussels team notes that Philosophy is often considered to be an intellectual activity and not very practical. However, a basic training in philosophy used to be considered essential before embarking on further study in a whole range of subjects. Over thousands of years, philosophy has been the mother of all sciences and a key driving force in human progress. This year we will be looking at how ‘philosophy in the classical tradition’ can actively contribute to finding solutions to our many crises, help us find more sustainable ways of living and develop the inner potential of the human being. The event will consist of five talks of about 20 minutes each, with a break after the third speaker. Topics covered will include philosophy as the art of living, learning how to think, inner development and transformation, the role of philosophy in promoting active citizenship and the universal laws and timeless principles of the perennial and hermetic philosophy. For those you can, the suggested donation for the live stream is £8 (£5cons), this will help to support our activities, thank you!

          xxx/ellauri148.html on line 464: München, Germany. “Long Philosophy Night!” By Lange Nacht der Philosophie. World Philosophy Day is the ideal occasion for hosting a ‘Long Night’. We want to provide a platform for philosophy and bring together friends of wisdom. The whole thing should be a celebration of thinking, but also an opportunity for all those interested in philosophy to meet again or to get to know each other.The Long Night of Philosophy will now take place for the fourth time on November 18, 2021. For this we need your support!

          xxx/ellauri148.html on line 468:    Lévis, Québec. On the occasion of World Philosophy Day 2021 the Fleur de Lys Literary Foundation will host the conference‘Philotherapy or when philosophy helps us-A review of the main books on practical philosophy’. Panelists will discuss a A short history of philotherapy; More Plato, Less Prozac! Lou Marinoff, 1999; Plato, not Prozac! Philosophy as a remedy, Lou Marinoff, 2000.

          xxx/ellauri148.html on line 474: Rome, Italy. ‘World Philosophy Day –Philosophy for the Futures’ bythe Italian Ministry of Education, TheDirectorate General for School Regulations, Evaluation andthe internationalization of the national education system of the Ministry of Education in collaboration with the Italian National Commission Italian National Commission for UNESCO.The Italian Ministry of Education, Professor Patrizio Bianchi, will open the celebration.the Secretary General of the National ItalianCommission UNESCO and The National Coordiator of Italy UNESCO ASPnet, will discuss the role of philosophy for next generation in the global contest.In the First Session, Luciano Floridi, philosopher, and Cristina Becchio, scientist, will speak about the importance of philosophy for reimaging the future and education.Inthe Second Session, experts,teachers,researchers,and students will discuss about new philosophical practices to make philosophy accessible to all. Ils sont fous, les Romains.

          xxx/ellauri148.html on line 476: Cerignola, Italy.‘Philosophical Paths, Philosophically -Agenda 2030’ by Club Unesco Cerignola. For one evening, our Old Earth is transformed into a long philosophical trail made up of the narrating voices of the young and old students of our schools. They will demonstrate, with their words, how the protection of the Environment, health, human rights, enshrined in the 2030 Agenda, are needs expressed by both ancient philosophers and current thinkers. Moreover, walking through the small streets that represent our historical heritage, we could be pervaded by those cultural values that identify us and inspire the desire to be more responsible.

          xxx/ellauri148.html on line 487: Jalpaiguri, India. ‘The Philosophy and Contribution of Contemporary Thinkers’by ByNorth Bengal University-Department of Philosophy.Lokmanya B.G. Tilak, Swami Vivekananda, Mahatma Gandhi, Sri Aurobindo, K.C. Bhattacharya, Vinoba Bhave, Pt. Deen Dayal Upadhyaya, Pt. Hanuman Prasad Podda. Chants from Bhagavad Gita.  

          xxx/ellauri148.html on line 493: Lyon, France. ‘La philosophie, un art de vivre’ by Nouvelle Acropole, Lyon.Un après-midi d’immersion dans la philosophie comme un art de vivre! (sur Zoom).Conférences et ateliers, samedi 20 novembre de 14h à 18h30. Accessibles à tous francophones. Un évènement inédit, dans le cadre de La Nuit de la Philosophie à Lyon.

          xxx/ellauri148.html on line 495: Trois-Rivières, Québec, Canada. ‘Journée mondiale de la philosophie: projection spéciale du film Une révision’ by Cégep de Trois-Rivières. The screening will be followed by a discussion moderated by Alexandre Rouette. The SPRCQ will offer tickets to the first 30 Cégep or UQTR students who arrive at the cinema. Other guests will be able to purchase a ticket at the regular cost of $12. Please note that a proof of vaccination will be required. 

          xxx/ellauri149.html on line 54:       Tung said he prefers teams with cross-cultural backgrounds. For example, Zhang Sheng, co-founder of Wish, is a Chinese who once studied in the U.S., while another co-founder of the company Peter Szulczewski is a Jew from east Europe. He explained that Americans tend to focus on domestic market and ignore overseas opportunities. But teams with multinational backgrounds are more likely to set their eyes on global market. For example, around 50% of Wish’s revenue comes from overseas market.

          xxx/ellauri149.html on line 264: Istuimme Bulevardin Ekbergillä haistellen samppanjakorkkeja, kun kysyin ohimennen käänteentekeväksi osoittautuneen kysymyksen: ”Jos Pafos-seminaari kuuluisi johonkin laajempaan tuotekategoriaan niin mikä sen nimi voisi olla?”. Kahvikupin jatkaessa matkaansa ääntä kohti  Esa ehti mukeltaen vastata: ‘’Eikö Pafos ole vähän kuin Aivot narikkaan? Sprache im Urlaub?’’.

          xxx/ellauri149.html on line 556: La Voile (vas.) sijaitsee rikkaiden suosimassa Cap Ferrat’n niemekkeellä Nizzassa. Oikealla Espoon Westendissä sijaitseva koti.

          xxx/ellauri154.html on line 203: Practically everyone knows Godard’s classic pronouncement, “All you need for a movie is a girl and a putz,” but a 1989 interview contains one of the more caustic charges Godard levels at cinema, that “Cinema is an ideology based on men living out through their imaginations what they could not do to women.” This chauvinist pig who openly played out his own marital problems with Anna-Kaarina in their collaborations of the ‘60s, now abrazes other toxic males for similar diversions.

          xxx/ellauri154.html on line 214:   The theme of Salome is one that Moreau returned to time and again. The artist explored the subject in more than one hundred sketches and drawings as well as in numerous paintings—ranging from highly elaborate to sketchily rendered—and even in sculpture (both Salome and The Apparition figured in Moreau’s waxworks). Moreau was not alone in his passion for the theme of Salome, as other famous artists — Lucas Cranach, Caravaggio, Titian, Guido Reni, Artemisia Gentileschi, Aubrey Beardsley, and Nabil Kanso, to name just a few — shared this interest. Selkeästi perverssiä jengiä.

          xxx/ellauri154.html on line 216:       In the New Testament, both Matthew (14:1-11) and Mark (6:14-29) tell of the famous banquet story in which Herodias, having grown angry at John the Baptist for saying she could not marry her ex-husband’s brother, asks her daughter to request John’s head from her half-uncle as payment for her dance. Although neither of these sources mention Salome by name, we can learn of her from Flavius Josephus’ Jewish Antiquities of the year 93-94 (Book XVIII, Chapter 5, 4).

          xxx/ellauri154.html on line 218:       Given the scarcity of texts, and the fact that Salome seems not to know what to ask her uncle for until instructed by her mother, it is unclear if Salome is truly the evil temptress she is supposed to embody, or just an unwitting instrument in her evil mother’s hands. Har har, vitutonpa hyvinkin.

          xxx/ellauri154.html on line 222: Its symbolism is ambiguous. Does it signal lust, or is it a symbol of purity? Mieti sitä. Moreau’s typically enigmatic approach made him a target for the promoters of Naturalism, most notably Émile Zola, who accused him of retreating into his dreams and offering an artistic response to the challenge posed by science—one that couldn’t possibly have value in the modern age. Such criticism hurt him deeply and only fueled Moreau’s purposeful cultivation of ambiguity. 

          xxx/ellauri154.html on line 223: Moreau’s contemporaneous viewers also focused on Salome as “femme fatale” (perhaps most famously, the Symbolist novelist and art critic J. K. Huysmans in his novel À rebours).

          xxx/ellauri154.html on line 228: Furthermore, it is quite possible that Moreau was acquainted with Flaubert’s 1862 Salammbô and with Mallarmé’s 1864 Hérodiade, which would have influenced his approach.

          xxx/ellauri154.html on line 241: Salammbô se leva comme son époux, avec une coupe à la main, afin de boire aussi. Elle retomba, la tête en arrière, par-dessus le dossier du trône, blême, raidie, les lèvres ouvertes, et ses cheveux dénoués pendaient jusqu’à terre. Ainsi mourut la fille d’Hamilcar pour avoir touché au manteau de Tanit. »

          xxx/ellauri157.html on line 66: You can’t just write and write and put things in a drawer. They wither without the warm sun of someone else’s appreciation. When I cannot write a poem, I eat biscuits and feel just as pleased.

          xxx/ellauri157.html on line 71: After all, I see why I am always asking for private, individual, selfish miracles. My experience is very different from other people’s.

          xxx/ellauri157.html on line 104:   Jordaens’s large painting of The Wife of King Candaules displaying herself to Gyges is in the Nationalmuseum, in Stockholmii. In the large painting, the Queen is depicted lifesize, seen from behind, standing before a canopied bed.  She is virtually naked, but for a string of pearls and a lace-trimmed cap.  Just as she is about to step into her bed, she pauses and casts a backward glance, apparently addressing the viewer with a conspiratorial smile. On the far right of the picture, Gyges can be glimpsed craning his head through a gap in the curtain, with the King close behind him.

          xxx/ellauri157.html on line 107: In the seventeenth century, the story of King Candaules’s wife was seen as a moral lesson, warning against violations of the marital bedchamber.  The theme was treated by the poet Jacob Cats in his Toneel vande mannelicke Achtbaerheyt, in which he devoted no less than eighty-six verses to the tale of Candaules and Gyges, and illustrates the scene in the royal bedchamber with a print by Pieter de Jode after Adriaen van de Venne.  In the print the Queen is seen half naked from behind.  Candaules is already in bed, and the Queen looks at Gyges, who is largely concealed behind the wallhangings.  The moral of the story is clarified by a scene on a smaller scale in the background, showing Candaules being slain by Gyges.  The print no doubt served as an inspiration for several other later renditions of the theme in Northern Netherlandish painting, including works by Frans van Mieris the Elderv, and Eglon van de Neervi. 

          xxx/ellauri157.html on line 343: Scholem’s first marriage to Escha Burchhardt was on the rocks by the early 1930s. Not only was he imagining himself in love with Kitty Steinschneider (there is no evidence that she reciprocated), but he was also pursuing a relationship with his student, Fania Freud (they married in 1936). His diaries betray a sense of emotional chaos, as he wrote to his friend, Walter Benjamin, explaining to Benjamin why he could not host him in Jerusalem. He also wrote to Benjamin that he was struggling with questions of good and evil and whether an evil person could also be just. While he doesn’t say whether these questions were purely theoretical or not, it is striking that such ruminations came at exactly the time when his personal life was in turmoil.    

          xxx/ellauri157.html on line 347: Could there possibly be a connection between Scholem’s own confession of moral confusion and his treatment of Frank. Did he see something of himself in Frank, who was accused of various sexual perversions, and recoil in horror? While there can be no definitive answer to this question, considering Scholem’s emotional life from the years in which he was writing this pathbreaking essay creates the possibility of a new reading.

          xxx/ellauri157.html on line 449: Rabbi Nachman of Breslau (1772–1810) reminds us, in the same way that breaking is an inevitability, fixing is also an inevitability. We know the former is true; we don’t always believe the latter.Rabbi Nachman knew a thing or two about brokenness. His Hasidic tales often circle around characters who face their darkest moments and search profoundly for redemption. He authored a quote that became a famous Jewish song: “The entire world is a very narrow bridge. The key in crossing is not to be afraid. Only someone who has seen fear and overcome it could write these words.

          xxx/ellauri157.html on line 508: Hesse’s personal experience with psychoanalysis began when he sought therapy and refuge in a sanatorium after his father’s death in 1916, his first wife’s schizophrenia, and a serious illness of his son, Martin (not Mordechai). This began a long obsession with psychoanalysis, the influence of which appears in Demian (1919) and in his later work, which evidences his interest in Jungian concepts of introversion and extraversion, the collective unconscious, idealism, and the duality of human nature.

          xxx/ellauri157.html on line 510: The Nazis, who discounted Hesse as merely a “victim of Jewish psychoanalysis,” blamed it all on Freud. In the April 1936 issue of Die Neue Litteratur, Will Vesper, employing predictable anti-Semitic tropes, characterized Hesse as a traitor and held him up as a classic example of Jewry’s sinister influence in general and of the insidious poisoning of the German soul by Freud’s psychoanalysis in particular:

          xxx/ellauri157.html on line 514: Interestingly, several of Hesse’s drawings and etchings were discovered at the National Library in Israel half a century after his death. I bet he had asked Buber to come up to have a look at them. Like all narcissists, those born to be wild never wanna die, even if they explode into space.  

          xxx/ellauri157.html on line 601: Die Grundformen menschlichen Daseins sind nach Binschwanger die Liebe, die Existenz und der Geschlechtsverkehr, d.h. der enge Umgang mit den anderen oder mit sich selbst. Binschwangers philosophische Innovation über Buber war die einführung des Pronomens "wir". Das Miteinandersein von Mir und Dir“ wird hier differenziert. Dementsprechend heißen auch die zwei Subkapitel: „Das liebende 'Uber-und-Untereinandersein“ und „Das freundschaftliche Miteinandersein“. Der berühmte Satz Bubers aus „Ich und Du“: „Der Mensch wird am Du zum Ich, es, und Übermensch“ (Buber 2002: 32) findet seine etwaige Entsprechung im Binswanger’schen „Erst aus der Wirheit entspringt die Selbstheit“.

          xxx/ellauri165.html on line 75: Mercier vastusti ranskalaista klassillista näytelmätyyliä, Hän moitti Jean Racinea ja Pierre Corneillea siitä, että he olivat ammentaneet näytelmiensä aiheet työhuoneestaan eivätkä elämän avoimesta kirjasta. Omia käsityksiään draamasta hän esitti tutkielmassa Essai sur l’art dramatique (1773). Mercier itse oli kuitenkin ize niin keskinkertainen kirjailija, ettei hän voinut todellisuuden maaperään istuttamillaan omilla näytelmillään luoda mitään todella arvokasta. Hän oli ize asiassa aivan paska. Hänen näytelmiään ovat esimerkiksi Eugénie (1767), Les deux amis (1770), Le faux ami (1772), Le juge (1774), Le déserteur, L’indigent (1782).

          xxx/ellauri165.html on line 78: joiden ajattelua on sittemmin tutkittu turhankin paljon. Tutuiksi ovat tulleet esimerkiksi Rousseau, Voltaire ja Diderot, mutta vain harva on nykyään kuullut Louis-Sébastien Mercier’stä (1740-1814), aikansa terävimpiin (hah) ja suosituimpiin (hah hah) yhteiskuntakriitikoihin lukeutuneesta ajattelijasta ja kirjailijasta. Mercier’tä on tutkittu varsin vähän, ja suuressa osassa häntä sivuavia tutkimuksia on päästy lähinnä negatiiviseen kuvaukseen. Häntä on pidetty kirjallisuuden ”tusinatyöläisenä”, haihattelijana – ei niinkään merkittävänä ajattelijana (kuten mä) – ja on ivallisesti todettu, että hänen ansionsa piilevät suurten filosofi en ajatusten onnistuneessa jäljittelyssä. Tästä pilkkanimet ”Rousseaun apina” tai ”Diderot’n karikatyyri”.

          xxx/ellauri165.html on line 80: Vuoden 2022 utopiassaan Mercier vastaa näihin kritiikkeihin. Hän uskoi lujasti ihmisen synnynnäiseen hyvyyteen ja hyväntahtoisuuteen ja siksi näki ihmisessä luontaisen taipumuksen hyveeseen. (Har, har.) Mercier’n mukaan onnellisuutta ei pysty saavuttamaan ilman kanssakäymistä, sosiaalisuutta. Juuri tämän sosiaalisuuden ja siitä seuraavan onnellisuuden Mercier esitti perusteluksi sille, miksi vuoden 2022 yhteiskunnassa sovellettaisiin rousseaulaista yhteiskuntasopimusta. Vaatimattomuus, huolenpito köyhistä ja tasa-arvo ovat Mercier’lle onnellisuuden premissejä yhteiskunnassa.

          xxx/ellauri165.html on line 82: Forsström kirjassaan pahoitellen toteaa hänen sokeutensa nähdä yksilöllisten ja partikulaaristen arvojen merkitystä onnellisuuden kannalta. Ne ovat keskeiset tekijät, jotka kääntävät Mercier’n utopiaa Forsströmin dystopiaxi. Jengi nyt vaan haluaa olla vaativia, kyykyttää köyhiä ja omistaa enemmän kuin naapuri. Ilman privaatteja tuotantovälineitä ei mistään tule mitään.

          xxx/ellauri165.html on line 84:   Totaalinen yhdenmukaisuus, jota Mercier soveltaa vuoden 2022 yhteiskunnassaan tuo mieleen autoratiivisen-autoritiivisen-autoratirititiivisen- no, siis kommarien hallintokoneiston. Samankaltaisuuden normi sitoo Mercier’n visiossa kaikkia toisiinsa aina pukeutumista myöten. Missä ovat merkkivaatteet, Nike, Adidas, jotka tekevät meistä joka iikasta niin erilaisia?

          xxx/ellauri165.html on line 88:   Mercier’n utopia, jossa päivät, ihmiset, työt ja ajatukset seuraavat uuvuttavan samanlaisina toinen toisiaan, ilman iltauutisten ja luuriviihteen tuomaa helpotusta, antaa pikemminkin kuvan monotonisesta zombien valtakunnasta kuin ”parhaasta mahdollisesta maailmasta”. Missä yrittäjät? Missä volttikuskit? Kebab ja pizzat? Viihdeteollisuus ja valtamediat? Personoidut mainoxet? Luuripelit? Missä amerikkalainen unelma? Täähän kuulostaa ihan Brezhnevin pysähtyneisyyden ajalta.

          xxx/ellauri165.html on line 90:   Kuten Forsström huomauttaa, Mercier’n virheenä ei pidä nähdä sitä, että hän uskoi kaikkien ihmisten tulevan onnellisiksi samoista asioista - siis näki ihmiset samanlaisina – vaan pikemminkin tämä vain esti häntä näkemästä, että ihmiset saattaisivat poiketa toisistaan sen suhteen, mikä heitä miellyttää. Jotkut kerta kaikkiaan tykkää olla köyhiä ja toiset ökyrikkaita. Terveisin Teemu Toppola, keskinkertaisen syvällinen ajattelija (pst. kuulun jälkimmäiseen osastoon).

          xxx/ellauri165.html on line 144: The Lateran Council of 649 CE, a council held in Rome by the Western Church, later declared it an article of faith that Jesus was conceived “without seed” and that Mary “incorruptibly bore [him], her virginity remaining indestructible even after his birth” . All this in spite of the Gospels’ declaration that Jesus had brothers and sisters (Mark 3.32, Matthew 12.46, Luke 8.19). 

          xxx/ellauri165.html on line 436: Lyyra Häpykielen sammakkomaisen äidin nimi Philip Pullmanin kirjaan His Dark Materials perustuvassa Netflix-sarjassa His Masters Voice on Marisa. Sen lemmikki on toinen ikävänoloinen apina. The malevolent dæmon, represented by a golden sub-nosed monkey, is a cute-but-creepy little beast and is supposed to be male as all daemon’s are the opposite gender to their human. Awkwardly, the BBC realised some viewers may be perturbed to see the monkey’s genitals on their 60 inch HD TV,  so Mrs Coulter’s Dæmon has had a subtle gender reassignment. Clitoris peeking out from the labia instead of erect middle figer is offensive in Russia, Ukraina and in the eastern half of the Swedish empire. 

          xxx/ellauri165.html on line 473: ‘I used to be a foot fetishist. I had such beautiful shoes. But my feet changed shape and now I can only wear them for limited periods,’ he says.

          xxx/ellauri165.html on line 579: There’s a tonne of therapy and sexual issues wrapped up here isn’t it?  Who in their right mind would want a perpetually healing hymen? Or was this just a one time deal - just when conceiving via holy spirit? I should add why was her virginity so important anyway?  Seems a throw back to a time which virginity may have been prized. I’d image venereal diseases were considered a curse for those fornicating, a moral judgement.  But it still seems over blown.

          xxx/ellauri165.html on line 580: 
          Yes, the virgin fixation is puzzling. I expect it has something to do with women as property and the importance of verifying lineage. Yes I have a pet theory (hypothesis) that in civilizations where we lived in large numbers and with animals diseases could bounce from people to animals and back again hence all the plagues. In cultures where people were relatively isolated then virginity doesn’t seem to play as big a role.  Mind you if you are paying for a wife to raise your children who you see as the primary reason for your existence then not raising someone else’s children may be a prime issue.  

          xxx/ellauri165.html on line 588: With mention of the donkey, I have to add this. In a recent online discussion on the historicity of the Bible, one person commented “we can be assured of one thing, Balaam’s Donkey definitely did exist and did speak. The only thing we have to further ascertain is… did he sound like Eddie Murphy?”

          xxx/ellauri165.html on line 590: Oh yes I re-read the bible about 5 years ago and on reading that again it struck me not just because of the talking donkey but I couldn’t read it without Eddy Murphy’s voice in my head.  When I read Lot (my favorite bible book) I can’t help but read it in Woody Allen’s voice.

          xxx/ellauri165.html on line 594: I know you regard Dawkins as infallible and inerrant, but the likelihood of a priest beginning mass with ‘Welcome swine’ is barely above nonzero. It is possible that a priest trained in inculturation would substitute a culturally appropriate term, but ‘swine’ is not a culturally appropriate term. Although it does make a great sneer quote.

          xxx/ellauri165.html on line 605:     And said ‘amen’ 
          

          xxx/ellauri165.html on line 629: The Book of Mormon is full of racist stuff. Basically they believe that the America’s were populated by a lost tribe of Israel and when one side turned evil their skin turned black. 

          xxx/ellauri165.html on line 631: There’s nothing wrong praying to the saints and to Mary the mother of God. They are close to God and can intercede when he has a cow.

          xxx/ellauri166.html on line 267: when distress and anguish befall you.’ 
          

          xxx/ellauri166.html on line 299: Shechinah שכינה (also spelled Shekhinah) is derived from the word shochen שכן, “to dwell within.” The Shechinah is Cod or that which Cod is dwelling within. Sometimes we translate Shechinah as “The Divine Presence.” The word Shechinah is feminine, and so when we refer to Cod as the Shechinah, we say “She.” Of course, we’re still referring to the same One Cod, just in a different modality. After all, you were probably wondering why we insist on calling Cod “He.” We’re not talking about a being limited by any form—certainly not a body that could be identified as male or female. "It" would be better, only it reminds one too much of Freud's id. "They" would sound dangerously polytheistic.

          xxx/ellauri166.html on line 312: If you’ve ever set out to clean up a teenager’s room, you can probably relate to the following: Daunted by the task ahead of you, you cleverly start with the big stuff. Having dislodged some furniture, moving them into appropriate corners, tossed a few cardboard boxes into recycling, and discovering that, yes, there is a floor down there, only then can you really get started. But that’s also when it becomes apparent just how ugly this mess really is. Now is time for the scraping, grinding, elbow grease and harsh chemicals. The hardest tasks are always left for last.

          xxx/ellauri166.html on line 448: Why was the Song of Moses (sehän oli se Deuteronomian loppuluritus!) deemed suitable as a tefillin parchment? In all likelihood because both the second paragraph of the Shema, as well as the verses immediately after the Song of Moses in Parashat Ha’azinu, contain references to length of days. A contribution to the wearer's longevity. Nobody is in a particular hurry to get to Paradise. Ei kiirettä kuin pirulla Heinolan markkinoille. Hiivitään ennemminkin hiljaa kuin tiaisen kivittäjä. In conclusion, The archaeological evidence, together with consideration of various biblical passages and even of halakhah, suggests that tefillin were originally practiced as a longevity amulet. Lisää aiheesta: https://www.thetorah.com/article/the-origins-of-tefillin

          xxx/ellauri166.html on line 457: 
          Ha’azinu
          

          xxx/ellauri167.html on line 125: Dante, Canto V dell’Inferno: Paolo e Francesca

          xxx/ellauri167.html on line 127: I’ cominciai: «Poeta, volontieri			Aloitin: "Runoseppo, mieluusti

          xxx/ellauri167.html on line 135: venite a noi parlar, s’altri nol niega!».               tulkaa pakisemaan, jos ei toiset kiellä!"

          xxx/ellauri167.html on line 137: con l’ali alzate e ferme al dolce nido			siivet lujina ja levällään pesälle

          xxx/ellauri167.html on line 138: vegnon per l’aere, dal voler portate;                   tulee ilman läpi halun kantamina,         

          xxx/ellauri167.html on line 139: cotali uscir de la schiera ov’è Dido,			he ulostuivat varjosta missä kykkii Dido,

          xxx/ellauri167.html on line 140: a noi venendo per l’aere maligno,			tullen meidän luo pahan ilman läpitte,

          xxx/ellauri167.html on line 141: sì forte fu l’affettüoso grido.                         niin kova oli affektiivinen kuzuhuuto.

          xxx/ellauri167.html on line 143: che visitando vai per l’aere perso			joka tulet käymään perseilman läpitte,

          xxx/ellauri167.html on line 145: se fosse amico il re de l’universo,			jos olis reilu kunkku mister universum, 

          xxx/ellauri167.html on line 147: poi c’hai pietà del nostro mal perverso.                kun säälisit meidän perverssiä pahaa.       

          xxx/ellauri167.html on line 153: per aver pace co’ seguaci sui.                          rauhoittuaxeen kovasta vauhdistaan.             

          xxx/ellauri167.html on line 154:    Amor, ch’al cor gentil ratto s’apprende,		    Lempi, joka ton rotan sydämessä kyti,

          xxx/ellauri167.html on line 156: che mi fu tolta; e ‘l modo ancor m’offende.             joka multa vietiin, se kärmistyttää vieläkin.

          xxx/ellauri167.html on line 157:    Amor, ch’a nullo amato amar perdona,			    Lempi joka ei anna ilmaisexi rakastaa,

          xxx/ellauri167.html on line 159: che, come vedi, ancor non m’abbandona.                  et nääs se ei ole hellittänyt vieläkään.

          xxx/ellauri167.html on line 163: Quand’io intesi quell’anime offense,			Kun mä tajusin näit offensiivisia sieluja,

          xxx/ellauri167.html on line 164: china’ il viso e tanto il tenni basso,			kallistin kypärää niin ankarasti allapäin,

          xxx/ellauri167.html on line 169: Poi mi rivolsi a loro e parla’ io,			Sitten käännähdin taas päin ja jatkoin puhetta,

          xxx/ellauri167.html on line 172: Ma dimmi: al tempo d’i dolci sospiri,			Mut sano: noiden suloisten huoahdusten aikana,

          xxx/ellauri167.html on line 178: Ma s’a conoscer la prima radice				Mutta jos sä haluut tietää juurisyyn

          xxx/ellauri167.html on line 193: Mentre che l’uno spirto questo disse,			Sillä aikaa kun toinen haamu sanoi tämän,

          xxx/ellauri167.html on line 194: l’altro piangea; sì che di pietade			toinen tihrusteli; mä pyörryin säälistä

          xxx/ellauri167.html on line 195: io venni men così com’io morisse.                       vähän niinkuin olisin ize kuukahtanut.        

          xxx/ellauri167.html on line 440: In August 1798, George Washington received a letter as well as a copy of John Robison’s Proofs of a Conspiracy from George Snyder. This led to a brief exchange between the two men. Luckily the insect-looking Historians were on the ball and wrote them down.

          xxx/ellauri167.html on line 447: There are three letters mentioning the Bavarian Illuminati written by George Washington to George Washington Snyder in response to a August, 1798 letter which came with a copy of John Robison’s anti- Illuminati book, Proofs of Conspiracy. The book itself was found in Washington’s library at his death.

          xxx/ellauri167.html on line 464:     May the Supreme Ruler of all Things continue You long with us in these perilous Times: may he endow you with Strength and Wisdom to save our Country in the threatening Storms and gathering Clouds of Factions and Commotions! and after you have completed his Work on this terrene Spot, may He bring you to the full Possession of the glorious Liberty of the Children of God, is the hearty and most sincere Wish of Your Excellency’s very humble and devoted Servant

          xxx/ellauri167.html on line 476:     “Some Weeks ago I sent you a Letter with Robison’s Proof of a Conspiracy which I hope you have received. I have since been more confirmed in the Ideas I had suggested to you concerning an Order of Men, who in Germany have distinguished themselves by the Names of Illuminati—German Union—Reading Societies—and in France by that of the Jacobine-Club, that the same are now existing in the United States.

          xxx/ellauri167.html on line 478:     It also occurred to me that you might have had Ideas to that Purport when you disapproved of the Meetings of the Democratic-Societies, which appeared to me to be a Branch of that Order, though many Members may be entirely ignorant of the Plan. Those Men who are so much attached to French Principles, have all the Marks of Jacobinism. They first cast off all religious Restraints, and then became fit for perpetrating every Act of Inhumanity. And, it is remarkable, that most of them are actually Scoffers at all religious Principles. It is said that the ‘Lodge Theodore in Bavaria became notorious for the many bold and dangerous Sentiments in Religion and Politics that were uttered in their Harangues, and its Members were remarkable for their Zeal in making Proselytes’; (and no Wonder since the Order was to rule the World.) Is not there a striking Similarity between their Proceedings and those of many Societies that oppose the Measures of our present Government?

          xxx/ellauri167.html on line 484:     “Sir: It is more than a fortnight since I acknowledged the receipt of your first letter, on the subject of the Illuminati and thanked you for Robinson’s account of that society. It went to the post office as usual addressed to the Rev’d Mr Snyder, at Frederick Town Maryland. If it had not been received before this mishap must have attended it, of which I pray you to advise me, as it could not have been received, at the date of your last, not being mentioned.

          xxx/ellauri167.html on line 488: Having now received Washington’s initial reply, Snyder wrote back on October 17:

          xxx/ellauri167.html on line 490:     “Your Excellency’s Favour of the 25th of Septr last I had the Pleasure to receive on the 3d Current. My Pleasure, however, was interrupted, because I had sent another Letter [dated 1 Oct.] for your Excellency to the Post-Office about an Hour before I received Your’s.”

          xxx/ellauri167.html on line 492:     “I should be very happy in your Excellency’s good Opinion, that the Contagion of Illuminatism or Jacobinism had not yet reached this Country; but when I consider the anarchical and seditious Spirit, that shewed itself in the United States from the Time M. Genet and Fauchet (who certainly is of the Order) arrived in this Country and propagated their seditious Doctrines, which the illuminated Doctor from Birmingham has been zealously employed to strengthen, I confess I cannot divest myself of my Suspicions: yet I trust that the Alwise and Omnipotent Ruler of the Universe will so dispose the Minds of the People of these United States that true Religion and righteous Government may remain the Privileges of this Nation!

          xxx/ellauri167.html on line 494:     I cannot conclude without acquainting your Excellency that I have made Extracts from ‘Robison’s Proofs of a Conspiracy,’ and arranged them in such a Manner as to give a compendious Information to the Public of the dangerous and pernicious Plan of the ‘Illuminati or Jacobins,’ and by some Remarks to caution them against it. I had them published in ‘Bartgis’s Federal Gazette’ of this Place, from which they were copied and inserted into the ‘Baltimore Federal Gazette[’] of the 9th Inst.

          xxx/ellauri167.html on line 521:     — I have received your favor of the 17th, & communicated it to Mr. Smith. I lately forwarded your letter from Dr. Priestley, endorsed `with a book’; I struck those words through with my pen, because no book had then come. It is now received, & shall be forwarded to Richmond by the first opportunity: but such opportunities are difficult to find; gentlemen going in the stage not liking to take charge of a packet which is to be attended to every time the stage is changed. The best chance will be by some captain of a vessel going round to Richmond. I shall address it to the care of Mr. George Jefferson there.

          xxx/ellauri167.html on line 525:     I have lately by accident got a sight of a single volume (the 3d.) of the Abbe Barruel’s `Antisocial conspiracy,’ which gives me the first idea I have ever had of what is meant by the Illuminatism against which `illuminate Morse’ as he is now called, & his ecclesiastical & monarchical associates have been making such a hue and cry.

          xxx/ellauri167.html on line 527:     Barruel’s own parts of the book are perfectly the ravings of a Bedlamite.

          xxx/ellauri167.html on line 528:     But he quotes largely from Wishaupt whom he considers as the founder of what he calls the order. As you may not have had an opportunity of forming a judgment of this cry of `mad dog’ which has been raised against his doctrines, I will give you the idea I have formed from only an hour’s reading of Barruel’s quotations from him, which you may be sure are not the most favorable.

          xxx/ellauri167.html on line 530:     Wishaupt seems to be an enthusiastic Philanthropist. He is among those (as you know the excellent Price and Priestley also are) who believe in the indefinite perfectibility of man. He thinks he may in time be rendered so perfect that he will be able to govern himself in every circumstance so as to injure none, to do all the good he can, to leave government no occasion to exercise their powers over him, & of course to render political government useless. This you know is Godwin’s doctrine, and this is what Robinson, Barruel & Morse had called a conspiracy against all government.

          xxx/ellauri167.html on line 538: The tranquility of our consciences is not troubled by the reproach of aiming at the ruin or overthrow of states or thrones.’

          xxx/ellauri167.html on line 552:   Most famously, a passage from Robert Anton Wilson and ‎Robert Shea’s The Eye in the Pyramid, the first book of The Illuminatus! Trilogy, describes Adam Weishaupt killing off George Washington and taking his place as President of the United States:

          xxx/ellauri167.html on line 554:  No historian knows what happened to Adam Weishaupt after he was exiled from Bavaria in 1785, and entries in “Washington’s” diary after that date frequently refer to the hemp crop at Mount Vernon.

          xxx/ellauri167.html on line 556:     The possibility that Adam Weishaupt killed George Washington and took his place, serving as our first President for two terms, is now confirmed. . . . The two main colors of the American flag are, excluding a small patch of blue in one corner, red and white: these are also the official colors of the Hashishim. The flag and the Illuminati pyramid both have thirteen horizontal divisions: thirteen is, of course, the traditional code for marijuana . . . and is still used in that sense by Hell’s Angels among others.

          xxx/ellauri167.html on line 570: In the weeks leading up to the 1968 Democratic National Convention, Chicago Mayor Richard J. Daley turned his town into a fortress. He sealed the manhole covers with tar, so protesters couldn’t hide in the sewers. He installed a fence topped with barbed wire around the Chicago International Amphitheater. He put the entire police force on shifts and called in National Guardsmen. Secret Service and FBI agents were also on duty, as the city braced for protesters who would soon arrive to protest against political assassinations, urban riots and the raging Vietnam War.

          xxx/ellauri167.html on line 572: With the whole world watching, the three major news networks brought the show into millions of Americans’ living rooms. They covered the ensuing mayhem  which sparked a national debate about objectivity and journalistic integrity. Senator Abraham Ribicoff only saw textbook police brutality and Gestapo tactics, being an east coast kike. But millions of flyover state Middle Americans, the “silent majority,” saw different.

          xxx/ellauri167.html on line 574: 	The Archie Bunkers of America, impassive to the hippies’ and yippies’ plight, saw them playing the newsmen like a fiddle, getting free publicity for their cause and, ultimately, getting what they deserved from the police. The protesters hurled profanities at the cops. They engaged in street theater, nominating a pig as the Democratic presidential candidate. They attempted to sleep in the parks (defying the curfew) and to hold marches even though marching permits had been denied by the city. Allen Ginsberg even led the kids in chanting “Om.”

          xxx/ellauri167.html on line 578: The violence in Chicago was all-encompassing, and longhairs weren’t the only targets of the police. Journalists with clearly displayed credentials were attacked, including, most notoriously, CBS’ Dan Rather. This laid the foundation for the cries of “liberal bias” that hound and undermine the mainstream news media to this day.

          xxx/ellauri167.html on line 580: 	CBS’ Walter Cronkite was the pre-eminent emcee of the whole affair. Cronkite was  a moderate, establishment type of guy. He was perplexed by hippies, including his own daughters, with their “indescribable” outfits that looked like they came from a “remnant sale”, which they did. He recognized that the young generation no doubt saw him as “an old fuddy-duddy.”

          xxx/ellauri167.html on line 582: In Saigon 1965 he was a "cautious hawk”. When the Tet Offensive erupted in early 1968, Cronkite returned to Vietnam and reluctantly reported that America was facing a stalemate in Southeast Asia at best. President Lyndon B. Johnson was agog, proclaiming: “If I’ve lost Cronkite, I’ve lost Middle America.” To the majority of viewers, Cronkite’s Vietnam broadcast was more of a wake-up call than a partisan assault. “Uncle Walter” was regularly rated in surveys as the most trusted man in America.

          xxx/ellauri167.html on line 584: But Chicago was different. Not just because Cronkite was sympathetic to the youngsters in the streets, but because he lost his cool. After his correspondent, Dan Rather, was punched in the solar plexus by a Chicago plainclothes security man on the delegate floor, Cronkite let loose, saying, “I think we’ve got a bunch of thugs here, Dan.” Asked once why Cronkite was so trusted, his wife had responded, “he looks like everyone’s dentist.” But in calling out Daley’s thugs, he had given his conservative viewers a surprise root canal.

          xxx/ellauri167.html on line 586: Cronkite thanked Rather “for staying in there, pitching despite every handicap that they can possibly put in our way from free flow of information at this Democratic National Convention.” Cronkite clearly suspected that Daley had purposely avoided resolving the electrical workers’ strike in order to hinder network coverage. “Dick Daley’s a fine fellow, but when his strong hand is turned agin’ you, as the press has felt it was on this occasion, he’s a tough adversary.”

          xxx/ellauri167.html on line 588: Daley prepared for the convention like a general going into battle. When rioting had erupted in Chicago four months earlier following The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination, the police had been unable to seize control. Venting his disappointment, Daley had said that his police superintendent should have ordered his force to “shoot to maim” looters and “shoot to kill” arsonists. He vowed not to be caught short again.

          xxx/ellauri167.html on line 590: The mayor was a masterful machine politician, but he lacked nuance in his understanding of mass media. He refused permits for protesters, as if that would keep them from protesting and, therefore, prevent journalists from covering them. He had crude “We Love Mayor Daley” signs made, and had city workers to hold them up in front of the cameras. He stuck decals of himself on the phones in every delegate’s hotel room, which was a particularly dunderheaded move given that the city was in the middle of an electrical workers’ strike that made the phones all but useless.

          xxx/ellauri167.html on line 594: By early October of 1968, CBS received 8,670 letters about Chicago, and 60 Minutes’ Harry Reasoner reported that the mail ran 11-to-1 against the network. A viewer in Ohio wrote, “I’ve never seen such a disgusting display of one-sided reporting in all of the years I’ve watched television.” From South Carolina, a letter writer griped, “Your coverage was … slanted in favor of the hoodlums and beatniks and slurred the police trying to preserve order.” A North Carolina viewer complained that, “When a great network refers to trouble makers as THESE YOUNG PEOPLE and in such a … tender tone, that is bias.” A New Yorker even suggested that the police had engaged in righteous violence: “Our Lord whipped the money lenders out of the temple. Are you going to accuse Him of brutality?”

          xxx/ellauri167.html on line 596: The notion that simply showing police violence was evidence of liberal bias didn’t begin with Chicago. It traces back rather directly to TV coverage of civil rights, when white Southerners complained that the networks ignored their perspective and were manipulated by publicity seekers within the movement. By the late 1950s, many of the same people who would later object to the network’s coverage in Chicago had already taken to calling CBS the “Communist” or “Coon” or “Colored Broadcasting Company.” The same bigoted wordplay made NBC the “Nigger Broadcasting Company.” Alabama’s Bull Connor summed up the situation with an aphorism that wouldn’t seem out of place in some conservative circles today: “The trouble with this country is communism, socialism and journalism.”

          xxx/ellauri167.html on line 598: If the idea of network coverage being driven by liberal bias wasn’t new to the 1968 convention, the heat and undeniable violence of the convention was a perfect opportunity for white, conservative, middle Americans to coalesce in their resentment—and not just in the South, but across the nation. America was falling apart at the seams, and the network news was seen as complicit in the conspiracy by virtue of recording what was happening.

          xxx/ellauri167.html on line 602: Journalists face just the same old challenges than they did in Chicago in 1968. As the president vilifies the media as “the enemy of the people,” and reporters have occasion to attend his rallies with a security detail in tow, it’s clear that the specter of violence again looms large. There is also ferocious disagreement over the meaning of what we view on social media or television, a disagreement that clearly is not native to America, but brought in by the white immigrants. What is obvious to some is not to others, who would contend, for example, that “truth is not truth but alternative truth, " or "news is not news but fake news", or "election is not a vote but a steal".

          xxx/ellauri168.html on line 259:   In 2015, doctors in Germany reported the extraordinary case of a woman who suffered from what has traditionally been called “multiple personality disorder” and today is known as “dissociative identity disorder” (DID). The woman exhibited a variety of dissociated personalities (“alters”), some of which claimed to be blind. Using EEGs, the doctors were able to ascertain that the brain activity normally associated with sight wasn’t present while a blind alter was in control of the woman’s body, even though her eyes were open. Remarkably, when a sighted alter assumed control, the usual brain activity returned.

          xxx/ellauri168.html on line 274: 	The obvious way around the combination problem is to posit that, although consciousness is indeed fundamental in nature, it isn’t fragmented like matter. The idea is to extend consciousness to the entire fabric of spacetime, as opposed to limiting it to the boundaries of individual subatomic particles. This view—called “cosmopsychism” in modern philosophy, although our preferred formulation of it boils down to what has classically been called “idealism”—is that there is only one, universal, consciousness. The physical universe as a whole is the extrinsic appearance of universal inner life, just as a living brain and body are the extrinsic appearance of a person’s inner life.

          xxx/ellauri169.html on line 184: Despite watching Disney movies and films many times, you may not realize that some characters, who you think are harmless, are actually villains. Alright, let’s find out the answer with the top 10 Disney Characters who are not as good as what you assume. Bah, boring. Minor sex offenders Peter Pan and Aladdin. I was expecting Mickey Mouse and Scrooge McDuck.

          xxx/ellauri169.html on line 393: She has thousands of followers and has made millions of dollars performing as Ramtha at seminars ($1,000 a crack) and at her Ramtha School of Enlightenment, and from the sales of tapes, books, and accessories (Clark and Gallo 1993). She must have hypnotic powers. Searching for self-fulfillment, otherwise normal people obey her command to spend hours blindfolded in a cold, muddy, doorless maze. In the dark, they seek what Ramtha calls the ‘void at the center.’

          xxx/ellauri169.html on line 471:   Sometimes you can tell from the first shot. In “Compartment No. 6,” the camera follows a young woman at a party as she leaves a bathroom and enters a living room full of gathered friends. That walking, back-of-the-head shot is one of the soggiest conventions of the steadicam era, a facile way of conveying characters’ own fields of vision while anchoring the action on them. The familiarity of this trope suggests both limited imagination and an unwillingness to commit to a clear-cut point of view.

          xxx/ellauri170.html on line 514:     »Ei ENTP’t ole sellaisia ihmisiä, jotka marssisivat yhteismarsseilla. Me marssitaan enintään eri suuntaan kuin kaikki muut. 😂»

          xxx/ellauri170.html on line 648:     Man and the higher animals, especially the primates, have some few instincts in common … similar passions, affections, and emotions, even the more complex ones, such as jealousy, suspicion, emulation, gratitude and magnanimity; they practise deceit and are revengeful; they are sometimes susceptible to ridicule, and even have a sense of humour… ‘The Descent of Man’, published 1871 (2nd ed., 1874) by Charles Darwin; Ch. 3

          xxx/ellauri170.html on line 650:   While Mickey Mouse’s brain is far smaller than a human’s, it has essentially the same structures and operates in analogous ways,’ Thompson explained. ‘The prefrontal cortex acts as a kind of ‘executive office,’ controlling other parts of the brain. It makes decisions that determine how you will react. Memories of fear are stored in the amygdala, which codes them into signals and transmits those signals to the frontal cortex for action.

          xxx/ellauri170.html on line 652: I watched a television interview with Douglas Adams – the author of the ‘Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy’. I pricked up my ears when he said that the major issue that human beings are presently facing was the ‘battle between instincts and intelligence’. But within a few sentences he was proclaiming the popularist belief that ‘our survival is threatened by our instinctual behaviour in that we are wiping out endangered species and that only intelligent action will save us’. Not a word about our instinctual behaviour towards each other, such as war, rape, torture, genocide, murder ... let alone despair, depression, loneliness, suicide ...

          xxx/ellauri170.html on line 657:     It’s so good to follow and copy something that works, to follow someone who’s been through it and done it, and to find that modern empirical scientific research is confirming our experiences. And it’s good to be able to describe the process in dictionary definable words and post scientific empirical neurological and genetic research that both confirms actualism and buckets the spiritual belief in an immortal Godly soul. Ah, serendipity abounds … Peter, The Actual Freedom Trust Mailing List.

          xxx/ellauri170.html on line 659: Respondent: Most of it (schematic diagrams) are exactly as in LeDoux works (and as in the ‘Time’ magazine’s reference you pointed out), except that I don’t find references to ‘instinctual self’ or ‘psychological self’ or ‘instinctual passions’.

          xxx/ellauri170.html on line 660: Richard*: Indeed not. As I said in my previous e-mail it is pertinent to realise that no scientist has been able to locate the self, by whatever name, despite all their brain-scans ... and I also said ‘from what is implied therein’ when referring to the ‘Time’ magazine’s article. Funny actually, it should not be hard to miss,  like a homunculus, a little man resembling a mandragora root. Maybe they just havent looked hard enough.

          xxx/ellauri170.html on line 663: Please note that the text above and below was written by the feeling-being ‘Peter’ and feeling-being ‘Vinetto’ while they lived in a pragmatic (methodological), still-in-control/same-way-of-being Virtual Freedom before becoming actually free.

          xxx/ellauri170.html on line 685:   In fact due to the paradigm shift required to practise actualism – which is radically different in scope and orientation from those of ‘Eastern’ or even 'Western' enlightenment practises, being a 'Down Under' way– intensive meditation practice can in fact be an impediment.

          xxx/ellauri170.html on line 687:   Ultimately it involves self-immolation – rather like Kliban's parking meter violation. What this means will become clearer as you read on. We can confirm however that the result of not having a ‘self’ is truly a magical, wonderful and freeing experience. Not anything like what you have been lead to believe by reading/watching really bad sci-fi involving lobotomised zombies like the dementors in His Master's Voice!

          xxx/ellauri170.html on line 697:    What is the meaning of ‘matter is not merely passive’?

          xxx/ellauri170.html on line 717:    Can I disappear the ‘I’ and the ‘me’?

          xxx/ellauri170.html on line 723:   The answer to ‘How am I experiencing this moment of being alive?’ (Also )

          xxx/ellauri170.html on line 729:    Difference between ‘nipping it in the bud’ and suppressing a feeling?

          xxx/ellauri170.html on line 749:    How am ‘I’ humanity and humanity is ‘me’?

          xxx/ellauri170.html on line 757:    I don’t understand life without feelings.

          xxx/ellauri170.html on line 791:    Why Don’t You Publish Live Dialogues? (Comments on Published Videos)

          xxx/ellauri170.html on line 795:   Richard’s personal life before Actual Freedom (see also )

          xxx/ellauri170.html on line 797:   Richard’s personal life

          xxx/ellauri170.html on line 799:    Richard’s personal relationships

          xxx/ellauri170.html on line 855:     Actualists don’t care. (see also Selected Correspondence)

          xxx/ellauri170.html on line 861:     The ‘I’ does not really exist.

          xxx/ellauri170.html on line 863:     ‘I’ cannot get rid of ‘me’.

          xxx/ellauri170.html on line 865:     Richard doesn’t understand Enlightenment / was never Enlightened.

          xxx/ellauri170.html on line 867:     Richard doesn’t understand Eastern spirituality.

          xxx/ellauri170.html on line 897:     I don’t like your style.

          xxx/ellauri170.html on line 921:   No proof that God doesn’t exist.

          xxx/ellauri170.html on line 953: Le baiser florentin (ou colombin) est celui qu’en termes précis, on appelle baiser lingual parce qu’il se donne sur la bouche en introduisant le bout de la langue. — (Maurice Piron, Guillaume Apollinaire : La chanson du mal-aimé, 1987)

          xxx/ellauri170.html on line 962: Evolution Confirms Our Favorite Pastime . . . I ran across an article last night whose title made me laugh: Early Humans Climbed Trees: ‘Selam’ Fossil Settles Longstanding Australopithecus Debate. Uhhhh, 21st Century humans also climb trees. I don’t need some scientists to tell me that climbing trees have been a long-standing human pastime.

          xxx/ellauri170.html on line 964: Ok. So I am simplifying their argument, but I don’t care. I know this is the most you my dear readers can wrap your simian brains around. Their argument is silly in the first place. They found a shoulder blade from a 3-year-old “Lucy” or Australopithecus, and from this shoulder blade they determined that our human ancestors spent a lot of time in trees. Actually, this kind of logic is par for the course with these scientists. In fact, many of their other suppositions from Ramapethicus to Nebraska Man to Piltdown Man and Java Man have begun with either part of a skull, a jaw, or some teeth. It is amazing the creativity they possess when they can develop an entire ape-like man, complete with long wavy hair and hunch-backed appearance from a few teeth.

          xxx/ellauri173.html on line 35: 
          Souffrez que je me défie quelque peu des subites et prétendues clairvoyances d’un être collectif dont l’erreur aurait si longtemps duré ! S’il a suffi, d’ores et déjà, de la fumée, initialement sortie de la fameuse marmite de Papin, pour obscurcir et troubler, en vos consciences, l’amour, ― l’idée même d’un Dieu...
          

          xxx/ellauri173.html on line 54: 	Villiers fréquentait les cercles occultistes de l'époque. L'attribution de l’âme a une femme, ou mieux, à un androïde avec tous les trois trous, vient de la théorie de la décorporation (ou voyage astral), faisant possible l'association de l'âme masculine au corps feminin.

          xxx/ellauri173.html on line 56: 	Lord Ewald tombe amoureux d'une actrice de théâtre, très belle mais à l'esprit trop quelconque à son goût. Afin de remplacer cette femme avec son cœur de jeune homme, l'ingénieur Thomas Alva Edison lui propose son androide. C’est lui qui le désigna sous de fantastiques surnoms ― tels que le « Magicien du siècle, le Sorcier de Menlo Park, le papa du Phonographe ». Löysäpukuinen ja isokenkäinen pellekexijä joka kaikkien vahingoxi teki käsimusaviihteestä tosi ison numeron. Sen hehkulamppu wolframlankoineen on nyt historiaa.

          xxx/ellauri173.html on line 66: 	Thomas Alva Edison est un homme de quarante-deux ans. Sa physionomie rappelait, il y a quelques années, d’une manière frappante, celle d’un illustre Français, Gustave Doré. Races supérieures. Paskanmarjat! Edison on ihan erinäköinen (eikä yhtään Arkimedeenkään näköinen). Ja paskat se mitään yhtälöitä ratkaisi. The Edisonian approach to innovation is characterized by trial and error discovery rather than a systematic theoretical approach. Se nokki Faradayn häkin reikiä kuin kana.

          xxx/ellauri173.html on line 75: 	Sääli ettei Alva ollut paikalla 6200v sitten äänittämässä Fiat Luxin käynnistysääniä eikä Lilithin turhaa läähätystä Aatamin alla. Eikä Eevan leivontaa, these are a cinch. Eritis sicut dii eli ruikitte pian lisää luotuja niinkuin mä. Enfin le sombre quolibet d’Elohim : Voici Adam devenu comme l’un de nous :(. Ja vielä discordianismin À la plus belle !… Ja Quos ego, sanat neitsyt Virgiluksen Aeneidissä, jonka Neptunus, Rooman meren jumala, lausuu tottelemattomille ja kapinallisille tuulille. Virgiluksen lause on esimerkki aposiopesis-nimisestä puhehahmosta. Vittu siinäkin on kans yx paska.

          xxx/ellauri173.html on line 77: 	Mots merveilleux qu’on prête aux grands hommes… Tässä Reunionin hepussa on jotain vakavasti vialla.

          xxx/ellauri173.html on line 79: 	Je sens bien qu’il faut que j’invente un instrument qui répète avant même qu’on ait parlé, ― ou qui, si l’expérimentateur lui souffle : « Bonjour, monsieur ! » réponde : « Merci, comment vous portez-vous ? » Ou qui, s’il arrive qu’un oisif éternue dans l’auditoire, lui crie : « À vos souhaits ! » ou :« Dieu vous bénisse ! » etc.

          xxx/ellauri173.html on line 87: 	« Salut, maître ! » (Salëm, rabboni, je crois), du jardin des Oliviers ― et le bruit du baiser de l’Is-Karioth, ― l’Ecce Homo du tragique préfet ! Muisk! Homoerotiikkaa. Vähän vittuilua suupielestä Andre Dupinille jolta epäonnistui työläisten vallankumous 1848.

          xxx/ellauri173.html on line 89: 	Toujours est-il qu’il a permis seulement qu’on imprimât son Évangile, et non qu’on le phonographiât. Cependant, au lieu de dire : « Lisez les Saintes Écritures ! » on eût dit : « Écoutez les Vibrations Sacrées ! » ― Enfin, il est trop tard… Par contre, trop tot! Nythän se jo löytyy äänikirjana varmaan jonkun baptistijuhon lukemana.

          xxx/ellauri173.html on line 94: Enter Lord Ewald ! s’écria-t-il. ― Quoi ! lui ?… de retour aux États-Unis ? ― Ah ! qu’il vienne, le cher, le noble ami !― Non, je n’ai pas oublié cet admirable adolescent… Edisonilla on Sovellan lisäxi lolitamainen lapsi Dash. SaaS nähä kuinka tässä käy. Paljastuuko siitä em-dash, en-dash vaiko vallan dot-dash.

          xxx/ellauri173.html on line 162: Au IIIe siècle avant J-C, l’ingénieur grec Philon de Byzance classe les jardins suspendus de Babylone, au sud de l’actuel Irak, parmi les sept merveilles du monde antique. Le premier à les évoquer est le prêtre babylonien Bérose (IVe siècle avant J-C). Il attribue leur construction à Nabuchodonosor II, qui les aurait créés pour son épouse persane Amytis, laquelle se languissait de la verdure de son pays natal. Le texte de Bérose est perdu, mais il subsiste sous forme de fragments chez des historiens et géographes du Ier siècle avant J-C, tels Flavius Josèphe, Diodore de Sicile et Strabon ; on le retrouve également chez Eusèbe de Césarée (265-339 de l’ère chrétienne). Toutefois, à l’exception de Bérose, aucun texte babylonien ne mentionne les jardins suspendus, ou du moins pas un seul n’a été retrouvé. Aucune des inscriptions relatant les grands chantiers de Nabuchodonosor II ne contient une référence à un jardin surélevé. Dans ses Histoires, le géographe et historien grec Hérodote (480-425 avant notre ère), qui a visité Babylone un siècle seulement après la mort de Nabuchodonosor, ne les évoque pas non plus lorsqu’il décrit la ville. Les murailles, la tour de Babel ou Ziggurat d’Etemenanki, les palais royaux et autres constructions de la ville antique ont été identifiés par les fouilles archéologiques ou sont attestés dans les textes cunéiformes. Mais cela n’a pas été le cas pour les jardins.

          xxx/ellauri173.html on line 171: C’est dommage.

          xxx/ellauri173.html on line 173: Il nous eût été si agréable de posséder quelques bonnes épreuves photographiques, (prises au moment même du phénomène,) de Josué arrêtant le soleil, par exemple, ou ramassant la colline des 40K prepuces? ― de quelques Vues du Paradis terrestre prises de l’Entrée aux épées flamboyantes ; de l’Arbre de la Science ; du Serpent ; etc. : ― de quelques vues du Déluge, prises du sommet de l’Ararat (l’industrieux Japhet, aurait, je le parierais, emporté un objectif dans l’arche s’il eût connu ce merveilleux instrument). Plus tard, on eût cliché les Sept Plaies d’Égypte, le Buisson ardent, le Passage de la mer Rouge en video, avant, pendant, et après l’épisode, le Mané, Thécel, Pharès, du festin de Balthazar ; le bûcher d’Assur-banipal, le Labarum, la Tête de Méduse, le Minotaure, etc., ― et nous jouirions, aujourd’hui, des portraits-cartes de Prométhée, des Stymphalides, des Sybilles, des Danaïdes, des Furies, etc., etc.

          xxx/ellauri173.html on line 175:     Et tous les épisodes du Nouveau-Testament ! Quelles épreuves ! ― Et toutes les anecdotes de l’Histoire des empires d’Orient et d’Occident ! Quelle collection ! Et les martyres ! et les supplices ! Depuis celui des sept Machabées et de leur mère, jusqu’à ceux de Jean de Leyde et de Damiens, sans omettre les principaux sacrifices des chrétiens livrés aux bêtes dans les cirques de Rome, de Lyon et d’ailleurs !

          xxx/ellauri173.html on line 177:     ― Et des illustres femmes, de Sémiramis à Catherine d’Alfendelh, de Thalestris à Jeanne d’Arc, de Zénobie à Christine de Suède ?

          xxx/ellauri173.html on line 186: Et les portraits de toutes les belles femmes, depuis Vénus, Europe, Psyché, Dalila, Rahel, Judith, Cléopâtre, Aspasie, Freya, Maneka, Thaïs, Akëdysséril, Roxelane, Balkis, Phryné, Circé, Déjanire, Hélène, etc, jusqu’à la belle Paule ! jusqu’à la Grecque voilée par la loi ! jusqu’à lady Emma Harte Hamilton ! (Täähän mulla on. Paule de Viguier oli ranskalainen aatelissynty ja Fontervillen paronitar vuoteen 1533 mennessä. Maalari Henri Rachou teki hänet tunnetuksi La Belle Paule -maalauksen aiheena, joka sijaitsee tänään Capitole de Toulouse -huoneustossa.)

          xxx/ellauri173.html on line 188:     Quant aux mystiques, je puis leur soumettre une réflexion naïve, paradoxale, superficielle, s’ils veulent, mais singulière : ― N’est-il pas attristant de penser que si Dieu, le Très-Haut, le bon Dieu, dis-je, enfin le Tout-Puissant, (lequel, de notoriété publique, est apparu à tant de gens, qui l’ont affirmé, depuis les vieux siècles, ― nul ne saurait le contester sans hérésie ― et dont tant de mauvais peintres et de sculpteurs médiocres s’évertuent à vulgariser de chic les prétendus traits) ― oui, penser que s’Il daignait nous laisser prendre la moindre, la plus humble photographie de Lui, voire me permettre, à moi, Thomas Alva Edison, ingénieur américain, sa créature, de clicher une simple épreuve videographique de Sa vraie Nez et Voix (car le tonnerre a bien mué, depuis Franklin), dès le lendemain il n’y aurait plus un seul athée sur la terre !

          xxx/ellauri173.html on line 190:     Dieu, comme toute pensée, n’est dans l’Homme que selon l’individu. Nul ne sait où commence l’Illusion, ni en quoi consiste la Réalité.

          xxx/ellauri173.html on line 196:     Le personnage qui se tenait debout en face d’Edison était un jeune homme de vingt-sept à vingt-huit ans, de haute taille et d’une rare beauté virile. Viriiliä kauneutta! Homoiluako taas? Les lignes de sa personne laissaient deviner des muscles d’une exceptionnelle solidité, tels que les exercices et les régates de Cambridge ou d’Oxford savent les rendre.

          xxx/ellauri173.html on line 198:     Son visage un peu froid, mais d’un tour gracieux et sympathique, s’éclairait d’un sourire empreint de cette sorte de tristesse élevée qui décèle l’aristocratie d’un caractère. Ses traits, bien que d’une régularité grecque, attestaient par la qualité de leur finesse, une énergie de décision souveraine. De très fins et massés cheveux, une moustache et de légers favoris, d’un blond d’or fluide, ombraient la matité de neige de son teint juvénile. Ses grands yeux noblement calmes, d’un bleu pâle, sous de presque droits sourcils, se fixaient sur son interlocuteur. ― À sa main, sévèrement gantée de noir, il tenait un cigare éteint. Herrasmies kiireestä munapusseihin.

          xxx/ellauri173.html on line 200: Il sortait de son aspect cette impression que la plupart des femmes devaient, à sa vue, se sentir comme devant l’un de leurs plus séduisants dieux. Muze oli suruinen, koska sen panopuu oli muuten hyvä mutta huonoluonteinen. Adjustoiden lornjettiaan tai kenties monokkeliaan se sanoi: Comme le dit Wieland, en son Peregrinus Protée : « Il n’y a point de hasard : nous devions nous rencontrer ― et nous nous sommes rencontrés.»  

          xxx/ellauri173.html on line 245: In seinen Hymnen (Zürich 1754) und den Empfindungen eines Christen (Zürich 1755) wandte er sich besonders deutlich gegen jede erotische Poesie. Bald jedoch vollzog sich in ihm, besonders unter dem Einfluss der Schriften von Lukian, Horaz, Cervantes, Shaftesbury, d’Alembert un Voltaire eine vollständige Umkehr.

          xxx/ellauri173.html on line 280:     Deux chercheurs, nous dit Y. Coppens, qui épiaient à travers le trou d’une serrure (sic) le comportement d’un chimpanzé qu’ils avaient enfermé avec un régime de banane pendu au plafond et avec des moyens de l’atteindre pourvu qu’un minimum de réflexion fût mis en œuvre par l’animal, furent surpris de ne voir… que l’œil du singe qui, tout comme eux, regardait à travers ce trou. «

          xxx/ellauri173.html on line 282:     Jamais démonstration n’avait été si convaincante ! », écrit Y. Coppens, en ce sens que cette expérience, conçue pour montrer « s’il en était besoin » que le chimpanzé est intelligent.

          xxx/ellauri173.html on line 284:     Cette anecdote rapportée par Yves Coppens en préface au Propre de l’homme, pour amusante qu’elle soit, conserve cet aspect superficiel de la similarite entre nous et les singes, quoi!

          xxx/ellauri173.html on line 286:     Ca va jusqu’à balayer la différence entre l’être humain et les autres animaux en faisant éclore subitement une position symétrique d’observation!  Mais de notre côté, nous (ou moi, je suis seule a ecrire ceci) n’y voyons pas la même démonstration.

          xxx/ellauri173.html on line 288: Sous une fausse symétrie, de part et d’autre de la serrure se cache une dissemblance radicale : c’est l’être humain qui a la clef – la clef de la serrure, la clef de la pièce qui enferme le singe, la clef du dispositif auquel l’homme soumet un animal qui ne demandait rien à personne, la clef de l’interprétation de toute l’expérience, la clef d’un regard scientifique ou voulu tel, quand le regard du singe n’est qu’un regard stressé, apeuré, c'est un interrogateur du jeu absurde qu’il subit sans en comprendre les tenants et aboutissants et sans en avoir lui-même institué les règles. 

          xxx/ellauri173.html on line 292: Dans le moment même où l’être humain tente d’échapper à sa spécificité, celle par laquelle il tormente l’animal a son gré en s’en différenciant comme une espèce vis-à-vis de son genre, il ne fait que réaffirmer cette spécificité. 

          xxx/ellauri173.html on line 294:     C’est toujours l’être humain qui exploite la différence entre l’homme et l’animal, qui l’inserre dans un programme scientifique, que ce soit d’éthologie ou de génétique, qui l’écrit et la commente, et qui réussit certes à faire à la fois de lui-même et de l’animal un objet d’étude, mais qui ne fait pas de l’animal le sujet actif d’une recherche scientifique, et encore moins la directrice d'un groupe recherche!

          xxx/ellauri173.html on line 296:     Et quand bien même une singe, à force de patience et de torture de lui-même et de ses copains, parviendrait jusque là, il y a encore un homme quelque part en pouvoir qui la contraint (et ses soeurs pas moins)  à ce statut de objet passif d’un processus scientifique.

          xxx/ellauri173.html on line 298: Ce n’est pas l’être male qui aura perdu sa avantage, c’est l’animal qui sera devenu artificiellement un sorte d’être humain inferieur par la volonté et l’obstination humaine, et qui pourra alors prétendre à ses diverses attributions.

          xxx/ellauri173.html on line 299: Cherchant à nier cette différence, l’être humain la réaffirme dans l’acte même de la nier. Plus elle tente de percer le mur de sa différence, plus il l’épaissit. Et ce n’est pas un regard jeté à travers une serrure qui le fera s’effondrer. Le mieux est de les cuire, les animaux, jusqu'a ce que ils sont murs.

          xxx/ellauri173.html on line 301:     C'est l'être humain qui est la personne qui  rode les autres animaux derrière la serrure avec son covid-19 masque, il n’y a pas de vache obscure qui pourrait prendre sa place pour jeter ses regards à travers des orifices de cet animal. Il est un être capable en lui-même et par lui-même de jouer avec le vrai et le faux, le réel et l’apparent, les autres animaux y compris des comperes, et de les saisir comme tels dans une cage, autrement dit: un être qui vit et tue en pensant seulement a soi-meme.

          xxx/ellauri173.html on line 310:     Enfin, puisque vous le désirez, voici : ― j’ai le malheur de subir un amour très pénible, le premier de ma vie (et, dans ma famille, le premier est presque toujours le dernier, c’est-à-dire le seul) pour une très-belle personne ― tenez ! pour la plus belle personne du monde, je crois ! ― et qui est, actuellement à New York, au théâtre, dans notre loge, où elle fait miroiter les pierres de ses oreilles en paraissant écouter le Freyschütz. ― Là !… Vous voilà satisfait, j’imagine, monsieur le curieux ?

          xxx/ellauri173.html on line 321:     ― Oui, c’est désastreux, en effet, ce que vous m’apprenez là ! murmura-t-il froidement. Mit vit? Ewald ei ole vielä sanonut halaistua sanaa siitä mikä mimmissä on vikana. (Paizi eze on amerikkalainen ja tykkää saxalaisesta oopperasta. No ehkä siinä on jo tarpeexi.)

          xxx/ellauri173.html on line 323: ― Oh ! Vous ne pouvez, même, comprendre jusqu’à quel point ! murmura lord Ewald.

          xxx/ellauri173.html on line 325: N’est-ce pas Hégel qui a dit : « Il faut comprendre l’inintelligible comme tel ? »  Credo quia absurdumko taas?

          xxx/ellauri173.html on line 327:     ― Voici l’histoire ! dit lord Ewald, réchauffé lui-même par le cordial sans-gêne d’Edison.

          xxx/ellauri173.html on line 342:     ― Mais, comme vous avez grandi, mon cher lord ! reprit gaiement Edison, en indiquant  l'utensil de lord Ewald. Je ne sais comment vous exprimer, aussi vite, le désir que j’éprouve!

          xxx/ellauri173.html on line 345:     ― Vous aussi, et plus que moi ! répondit le jeune homme en s’essuyant.  Sans votre culotte, voulez-vous en essayer avec moi ?

          xxx/ellauri173.html on line 418: Offrir à trois amis, ayant pour nom Cladel, Dierx & Mendès, ce peu de vers (qui leur plut) y ajoute du relief ; mais autant vaut que mon cher Éditeur en saisisse le public rare des amateurs : l’illustration faite par Manet l’ordonne.

          xxx/ellauri173.html on line 428: Leur incarnat léger, qu’il voltige dans l’air 
          

          xxx/ellauri173.html on line 433: Mon doute, amas de nuit ancienne, s’achève 
          

          xxx/ellauri173.html on line 435: Bois mêmes, prouve, hélas ! que bien seul je m’offrais 
          

          xxx/ellauri173.html on line 443: Faune, l’illusion s’échappe des yeux bleus 
          

          xxx/ellauri173.html on line 445: Mais, l’autre tout soupirs, dis-tu qu’elle contraste 
          

          xxx/ellauri173.html on line 447: Que non ! par l’immobile et lasse pamoison 
          

          xxx/ellauri173.html on line 448: Suffoquant de chaleurs le matin frais s’il lutte, 
          

          xxx/ellauri173.html on line 449: Ne murmure point d’eau que ne verse ma flûte 
          

          xxx/ellauri173.html on line 450: Au bosquet arrosé d’accords ; et le seul vent 
          

          xxx/ellauri173.html on line 451: Hors des deux tuyaux prompt à s’exhaler avant 
          

          xxx/ellauri173.html on line 452: Qu’il disperse le son dans une pluie aride, 
          

          xxx/ellauri173.html on line 453: C’est, à l’horizon pas remué d’une ride, 
          

          xxx/ellauri173.html on line 455: De l’inspiration, qui regagne le ciel.

          xxx/ellauri173.html on line 457: Ô bords siciliens d’un calme marécage 
          

          xxx/ellauri173.html on line 458: Qu’à l’envi des soleils ma vanité saccage, 
          

          xxx/ellauri173.html on line 459: Tacites sous les fleurs d’étincelles, CONTEZ 
          

          xxx/ellauri173.html on line 461: » Par le talent ; quand, sur l’or glauque de lointaines 
          

          xxx/ellauri173.html on line 464: » Et qu’au prélude lent où naissent les pipeaux, 
          

          xxx/ellauri173.html on line 467: Inerte, tout brûle dans l’heure fauve

          xxx/ellauri173.html on line 470: Trop d’hymen souhaité de qui cherche le la : 
          

          xxx/ellauri173.html on line 471: Alors m’éveillerais-je à la ferveur première, 
          

          xxx/ellauri173.html on line 473: Lys ! et l’un de vous tous pour l’ingénuité.

          xxx/ellauri173.html on line 480: Le jonc vaste et jumeau dont sous l’azur on joue : 
          

          xxx/ellauri173.html on line 483: La beauté d’alentour par des confusions 
          

          xxx/ellauri173.html on line 485: Et de faire aussi haut que l’amour se module 
          

          xxx/ellauri173.html on line 491: Syrinx, de refleurir aux lacs où tu m’attends ! 
          

          xxx/ellauri173.html on line 494: Des déesses ; et, par d’idolâtres peintures, 
          

          xxx/ellauri173.html on line 496: Ainsi, quand des raisins j’ai sucé la clarté, 
          

          xxx/ellauri173.html on line 498: Rieur, j’élève au ciel d’été la grappe vide 
          

          xxx/ellauri173.html on line 500: D’ivresse, jusqu’au soir je regarde au travers.

          xxx/ellauri173.html on line 504: » Immortelle, qui noie en l’onde sa brûlure 
          

          xxx/ellauri173.html on line 508: » J’accours ; quand, à mes pieds, s’entrejoignent (meurtries 
          

          xxx/ellauri173.html on line 509: » De la langueur goûtée à ce mal d’être deux) 
          

          xxx/ellauri173.html on line 512: » À ce massif, haï par l’ombrage frivole, 
          

          xxx/ellauri173.html on line 515: Je t’adore, courroux des vierges, ô délice 
          

          xxx/ellauri173.html on line 519: Des pieds de l’inhumaine au cœur de la timide

          xxx/ellauri173.html on line 523: » Mon crime, c’est d’avoir, gai de vaincre ces peurs 
          

          xxx/ellauri173.html on line 526: » Car, à peine j’allais cacher un rire ardent 
          

          xxx/ellauri173.html on line 527: » Sous les replis heureux d’une seule (gardant 
          

          xxx/ellauri173.html on line 529: » Se teignît à l’émoi de sa sœur qui s’allume, 
          

          xxx/ellauri173.html on line 533: » Sans pitié du sanglot dont j’étais encore ivre.

          xxx/ellauri173.html on line 535: Tant pis ! vers le bonheur d’autres m’entraîneront 
          

          xxx/ellauri173.html on line 538: Chaque grenade éclate et d’abeilles murmure ; 
          

          xxx/ellauri173.html on line 540: Coule pour tout l’essaim éternel du désir. 
          

          xxx/ellauri173.html on line 541: À l’heure où ce bois d’or et de cendres se teinte 
          

          xxx/ellauri173.html on line 542: Une fête s’exalte en la feuillée éteinte : 
          

          xxx/ellauri173.html on line 543: Etna ! c’est parmi toi visité de Vénus 
          

          xxx/ellauri173.html on line 545: Quand tonne un somme triste ou s’épuise la flamme.

          xxx/ellauri173.html on line 551: Non, mais l’âme

          xxx/ellauri173.html on line 555: Sans plus il faut dormir en l’oubli du blasphème, 
          

          xxx/ellauri173.html on line 556: Sur le sable altéré gisant et comme j’aime 
          

          xxx/ellauri173.html on line 557: Ouvrir ma bouche à l’astre efficace des vins ! 

          xxx/ellauri173.html on line 559: Couple, adieu ; je vais voir l’ombre que tu devins.

          xxx/ellauri173.html on line 811:     Eh bien, conclut Edison, puisqu’il est avéré que, d’ores et déjà, vous ne vivez qu’avec une Ombre, à laquelle vous prêtez si chaleureusement et si fictivement l’être, je vous offre, moi, de tenter la même expérience sur cette ombre de votre esprit extérieurement réalisée, voilà tout.

          xxx/ellauri174.html on line 59:     In 1664, Malebranche first read Descartes' Treatise on Man, an account of the physiology of the human body. Malebranche's biographer, Father Yves André reported that Malebranche was influenced by Descartes’ book because it allowed him to view the natural world without Aristotelian scholasticism. (Okay, siis taas tämmönen uskonnon apologisti pahan luonnontieteen kynsistä.) Malebranche spent the next decade studying Cartesianism.

          xxx/ellauri174.html on line 61:     In 1674–75, Malebranche published the two volumes of his first and most extensive philosophical work. Entitled in all brevity Concerning the Search after Truth. In which is treated the nature of the human mind and the use that must be made of it to avoid error in the sciences, the buchlein laid the foundation for Malebranche’s philosophical reputation and ideas. It dealt with the causes of human error and on how to avoid such mistakes. Most importantly, in the third book, which discussed pure understanding, he defended a claim that the ideas through which we perceive objects exist in God. A big mistake, but a nice try anyway. In the 1678 third edition, he added 50% to the already considerable size of the book with a sequence of (eventually) seventeen Elucidations. These responded to further criticisms, but they also expanded on the original arguments, and developed them in new ways.

          xxx/ellauri176.html on line 101: 	In an effort to sort through the lingo being bantered about by both the adult stars and the journalists covering them, we’ve compiled this glossary of very adult terms. While it’s by no means exhaustive, our porn mini-dictionary will hopefully help you navigate the decidedly X-rated conversations at the Venetian’s center bar and clue you in to what the saucy blonde meant when she asked if you would give her a facial. Hint – she’s not looking for your sperm spouted on her face.

          xxx/ellauri176.html on line 120: 
          RTF
          Reverse titty fuck. The guy fucks his partner’s breasts while he places his bottom on his or her face. 
          

          xxx/ellauri176.html on line 182: Et puis, qui a eu l’idée de laisser ces gamins tout seuls dans ce parc lubrique, hein ? D’abord il est où le vieux ? Il s’occupe de ses salades. D’abord il est où notre bon docteur ? Il s’occupe de ses expériences scientifiques. Ils ont le sens des priorités !

          xxx/ellauri176.html on line 184:   Zola nous sort là un remake à la fois long et contemplatif, plein d’atermoiements amoureux et religieux et d’incessants namedropping de végétaux de toutes sortes (ce qui lui a été abondamment reproché à l’époque)(entre autres choses). C’est presque aussi chiant que l’original. Et en plus il a changé la fin. (QUOI??? Comment?)

          xxx/ellauri176.html on line 186:   Vous aurez donc compris que La Faute de l’abbé Mouret est un Zola un peu atypique qui respecte moins le schéma habituel des autres (enfin sauf que ça finit mal). Zola a un peu tendance à perdre son lecteur dans la forêt du Paradou et au milieu des atermoiements de Serge Mouret. Il s’agit donc d’un Zola que je déconseille en première instance (voire même en seconde). Les téméraires pourront néanmoins profiter de descriptions paradisiaques à foison, d’une fin tragi-comique et d’un propos qui reste très intéressant.

          xxx/ellauri176.html on line 188: Et le Docteur Pascal, me demanderez-vous?  Ben le Docteur Pascal, il a bien chié dans la colle avec son idée extravagante. Il le sait, il le reconnait. J’espère qu’il reviendra sur cet épisode dans le tome qui lui est consacré et qui s’intitule sobrement Le Docteur Pascal (Tohtori paskantaa liisteriin).  

          xxx/ellauri176.html on line 681: Much like her meticulously researched historical novels, author Sujata Massey carefully curates the family meals and lists them on a small chalkboard hanging from a wall of her kitchen on Baltimore. “Usually, I try to plan my menus on Sunday,” says Massey, who lives in a late 19th-century Tuxedo Park home with her husband, Anthony, and children Pia, 16, and Neel, 13. “Tonight, they’re going to have coriander chicken. 

          xxx/ellauri176.html on line 682: They’re going to have couscous. And they’re going to have ratatouille,” she says, pointing to the handwritten “specials” on the board. “The kids like it better when they’re not surprised. There’s usually one night when it’s blank, and then they can suggest something.”

          xxx/ellauri176.html on line 852: 
          George Lincoln Rockwell, the media-savvy, pipe-smoking founder of the American Nazi Party, was blatantly racist, homophobic and antisemitic. Neo-Nazis, ‘alt-right’ groups and white supremacists chant at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville.
          

          xxx/ellauri176.html on line 858: As 2022 begins, and you're joining us from Finland, there’s a new year resolution we’d like you to consider. It is to pay us Guardians of Freedom a lot of mmmoney!

          xxx/ellauri176.html on line 869:     Lucy Mangan of The Guardian said. "This rollicking adaptation of Lee Child’s man-mountain ex-military sleuth is hugely fun, packed with punchups and far better than Cruise’s movie efforts."

          xxx/ellauri177.html on line 72:   Poliittisesti Zola oli vapaamielinen. Hänen kuuluisin poliittinen ilmauksensa oli pariisilaisessa päivälehdessä L'Auroressa etusivulla julkaistu kirjoitus J’accuse, joka julkaistiin 13. tammikuuta 1898. Se oli Ranskan presidentti Félix Faurelle osoitettu avoin kirje, jossa syytettiin Ranskan hallitusta antisemitismistä ja vakoilusta syytetyn juutalaissyntyisen kapteenin Alfred Dreyfusin vankilaan tuomitsemisesta väärin perustein. Kirjoitus nostatti Ranskassa valtavan kohun ja jakoi ihmisten mielipiteet: konservatiiviset armeijaa ja kirkkoa lähellä olevat raivostuivat Zolalle, kun taas liberaalimmat piirit puolustivat häntä.

          xxx/ellauri177.html on line 208: 미안해요 (mianhaeyo) I’m sorry. 

          xxx/ellauri177.html on line 210:   The whole spat seems so terrifically absurd and inconsequential. Life assumes a banal, wistful air when the tumult of youth is far behind you. Conflict is downplayed, and emotions are muted. The few unwanted masculine punctuations, all shot with the actors’ backs turned to the camera, seem to drive home the point that men’s opinions and feelings are not important here. In fact, they’re rather silly.

          xxx/ellauri177.html on line 212:   Hong's and actress Kim Min-hee’s private affairs have come to bear in their work. The couple’s extramarital relationship, the subject of tabloid headlines in Korea, have seemed to inspire jealous intrigue and accusations of infidelity. Kim is an unbelievably skinny woman but pretty.  

          xxx/ellauri177.html on line 229: Main chaude: Jeu où une personne, courbée sur les genoux d’une autre et les yeux fermés, reçoit des coups dans une de ses mains, qu’elle tend derrière elle, et doit deviner qui l’a touchée. main chaude → oven mitt.

          xxx/ellauri178.html on line 124: Mitähän Pili oli näkevinään John Le Carren vakoiluromaanissa A Perfect Spy? Vai pitikö se pikemminkin Davidista izestään? David reportedly enjoyed “playing” on his first wife’s suspicion that he was homosexual. The association between homosexuality and secrecy, furtiveness and potential treachery ensured gay characters were a recurring trope in Cold War-era spy fiction. John Le Carre's The Spy Who Came In From The Cold and Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy include gay subtexts - made even more explicit in the 2011 movie adaptation of the latter. Merry Xmas from the onanist and the whore!

          xxx/ellauri178.html on line 136: Kakutani reviewed Norman Mailer’s 2006 novel The Gospel According to the Sun, a first-person autobiographical retelling of the Bible from the perspective of Jesus himself. She called it “a silly, self-important and at times inadvertently comical book that reads like a combination of Godspell, Nikos Kazantzakis’ Last Temptation of Christ and one of those new, dumbed-down Bible translations”;  Mailer, never one to shy away from a writerly squabble, called Kakutani a “one-woman kamikaze”.

          xxx/ellauri178.html on line 138: While she wrote that the 1,096-page epic cemented Foster-Wallace as “one of the big talents of his generation, a writer of virtuosic talents who can seemingly do anything”, she also quoted Henry James in calling Jest a “loose, baggy monster”, adding that it read like a “vast, encyclopedic compendium of whatever seems to have crossed Mr Wallace’s mind”. In his 2012 biography of the late Foster-Wallace, DT Max wrote that the writer “told a friend he hid in his room for two days and cried after reading yet another paragraph of Rei devoted to parallels between his first book and Pynchon’s most popular novel”.

          xxx/ellauri178.html on line 145: Isaac Singer’s response to his critics: “ ‘Why do you write about Jewish thieves and Jewish prostitutes?’ . . . ‘Shall I write about Spanish thieves and Spanish prostitutes? I write about the thieves and prostitutes that I know.’"

          xxx/ellauri178.html on line 153:   The trouble with reviewing The Ghost Writer a few weeks late is that Roth has already explained it for us. He is ever explaining. Like David Susskind, he can’t shut up. The Ghost Writer, he told readers of The New York Times, “is about the surprises that the vocation of writing brings,” just as My Life as a Man “is about the surprises that manhood brings” and The Professor of Desire is “about the surprises that desire brings.”

          xxx/ellauri178.html on line 155:   Portnoy’s Complaint “was concerned with the comic side of the struggle between a hectoring superego and an ambitious id….”

          xxx/ellauri178.html on line 157:   Portnoy, he says later on, “is about talking about yourself…. The method is the subject.” Likewise, “The comedy in The Great American Novel exists for the sake of no higher value than comedy itself; the redeeming value is not social or cultural reform, or moral instruction, but comic inventiveness. Destructive, or lawless, playfulness—and for the fun of it” (Roth’s italics).

          xxx/ellauri178.html on line 159:   This isn’t Nabokov’s ice-blue disdain for the academic ninnyhammers who went snorting after his truffles. Roth, instead, worries himself, as though a sick tooth needed tonguing. He is looking over his shoulder because somebody—probably Irving Howe—might be gaining on him: “This me who is me being me and no other!” as Tarnopol explained at the end of My Life as a Man.

          xxx/ellauri178.html on line 287:     La famille adoptive de Genet lui offre l’éducation communale, une mère de lait douce et aimante et un environnement protégé.  Selvä mammanpoika siis, kuten Peppukin.

          xxx/ellauri178.html on line 288:     L'enfant y est heureux, bon élève et enfant de chœur, mais réservé et taciturne. De cette époque remontent les premiers émois masculins de Genet, en la personne du petit Lou Culafroy — qui deviendra plus tard « Divine », héros et ensuite héroïne de Notre-Dame-des-Fleurs — ainsi que d’hommes plus âgés, braconniers de passage ou marginaux égarés. Il obtient la meilleure note de sa commune au certificat d'études primaires.

          xxx/ellauri178.html on line 324: Here’s a question I received from our anonymous Have a Question page about dealing with erectile dysfunction:

          xxx/ellauri178.html on line 326:   Q: Hey Jay! Have you ever dealt with the Christian’s response to medications that are designed to help men with E.D.? I’m into my 60’s now and the equipment just don't work like it used to. I am contemplating getting some help. I would appreciate your response. Thanks.

          xxx/ellauri178.html on line 328:   J: I’m not sure all Christians would agree with me, but here is what I think the Christian response should be:

          xxx/ellauri178.html on line 330:   For some, that could be psychological, or relational, but since you’re over 60, I’m going to guess that it’s physiological. I'd say you haven't got a prayer Bud.

          xxx/ellauri178.html on line 332: Q: Thoughtful response, but I’m not sure it addresses the “Christian response” part. Is there anything biblically/theologically that influences this topic?

          xxx/ellauri178.html on line 334: J: Not directly, which makes it hard to quote scripture. I mean, most of the verses on diseases involve prayer, not medication. Now, I’m not discounting prayer, but unfortunately, most men won’t be willing to go to their elders and ask for prayer for erectile dysfunction (as per James 5:14), and most wives won’t go to the elders and ask for prayers for their husbands for the same. Sadly, I feel a lot of elders wouldn’t respond appropriately either.

          xxx/ellauri178.html on line 336: But, you raise a valid point, that’s the Biblical advice for dealing with medical issues. Granted, they didn’t have medical care like we do today, so I’m not saying that the Bible discounts that care. But, neither should I bury the fact that the Bible says to take it to the elders to pray over, just because I don’t think anyone will do it.

          xxx/ellauri179.html on line 181: Whereas Hemingway wrote passionately about boxing and his own prowess, others, like Dempsey, saw something else. “There were a lot of Americans in Paris and I sparred with a couple, just to be obliging,” the Champ said. “But there was one fellow I wouldn’t mix it with. That was Ernest Hemingway. He was about twenty-five or so and in good shape, and I was getting so I could read people, or anyway men, pretty well. I had this sense that Hemingway, who really thought he could box, would come out of the corner like a madman. To stop him, I would have to hurt him badly, I didn’t want to do that to Hemingway. That’s why I never sparred with him.” Hemingway’s frequent sparring partner and fellow writer Morley Callaghan offered another sobering account of his training partner, saying, “we were two amateur boxers. The difference between us was that Ernie had given time and imagination to boxing; I had actually worked out a lot with good fast college boxers.” I had never seen Mr. Hemingway box, of course. But I will say this: the confidence of mediocre men is a fucking superpower. I have met many versions of this guy. Hell, I’ve sparred with the dude myself.

          xxx/ellauri179.html on line 193:     The conventional view is that Hemingway’s true “religion” —  insofar as he can be said to have one at all — is his famous “Cod”:  that in order to give meaning to life, one had to live by some set of ethical principles.

          xxx/ellauri179.html on line 197:     It could be “the cod of the hunter,” or “the cod of the bullfighter,” or (most fittingly) “the cod of the sea.” It didn’t matter what cod one chose — just as long as it provided rules for living a life of rectitude and dignity in an otherwise meaningless universe. Bets are off about the outcome of a war, says Hem's cod, for instance.

          xxx/ellauri179.html on line 199:   But if Hemingway’s conversions were sincere — and there is little reason to think they were not — then his “cod” is not based on the agnosticism of a disillusioned existentialist, but rather on the comprehensive, universal affirmation of Christianity.

          xxx/ellauri179.html on line 201:   Still, the fact that they bring up Hemingway’s Catholicism at all confirmed my own suspicions of a deeper, clear-eyed spiritual sensibility lurking behind all of Hemingway’s naturalistic plots — forcing me to reconsider everything I had previously thought about the man. I see Catholicism as playing a central role in Hemingway’s literary vision and moral landscape.  Non-catholics just turn  away from the religious clues in his work to focus on his public image, war exploits, and psychological instability — all the while missing that singularly under-reported and significant aspect of Hemingway’s life as a writer: his Catholicism.

          xxx/ellauri179.html on line 207: “A big Austrian trench mortar bomb of the type that used to be called ash cans, exploded in the darkness. I died then. I felt my soul or something come right out of my body, like you’d pull a silk handkerchief out of a pocket by one corner.  It flew around and then came back and went in again and I wasn’t dead anymore.”

          xxx/ellauri179.html on line 216:   Unfortunately, his subsequent divorces and additional marriages, drunken brawling, domestic abuse, poison pen letters, paranoia, megalomania, and habitual womanizing tarnished his youthful sense of himself as a “super-Catholic.” Hemingway never wanted to be known as a “Catholic writer” because he simply felt he couldn’t live up to the responsibility.

          xxx/ellauri179.html on line 224: The first time I read Hemingway’s books, I found an irrepressible piety and sense of the sacred permeating all his naturalistic plots. Had I known then about his Catholicism, it would have clarified things — and made the books better.

          xxx/ellauri179.html on line 227:   Knowing these things does not explain away all the troubling aspects of Hemingway’s egocentric personal life — his public inebriations, domestic abuse, womanizing, and suicide, but it helps me to understand the kinds of people Hemingway admired, their motivations and ideals, and the brave, virtuous person he was attempting to become.

          xxx/ellauri179.html on line 229:   Ernest Hemingway was born a Protestant but converted to Catholicism when he married Pauline Pfeiffer, his second Wife. Pauline was an observant Catholic who took her religion seriously.  Hemingway, who was never observant, but arguably always religious told Gary Cooper that becoming a Catholic was one of the best things he’d done in his life. Gary was also Catholic and Hem and Coop had a life long bond.

          xxx/ellauri179.html on line 233: Of the 7 suicides that Mariel Hemingway is aware of in her family, 1 was of Ernest’s father, & 3 of his father’s 6 children (if one assumes that Hemingway did commit suicide). There still is no official decision–and there may never be–as to whether the death of the writer early Sunday from the blast of a 12-gauge shotgun had been an accident or suicide. However, the fact that Mr. Hemingway had been divorced would bar him from a Catholic Church funeral anyway. Catholic sources said there was nothing improper in a Catholic  priest saying prayers at graveside.

          xxx/ellauri179.html on line 260:   Turauxen on kirjoittanut joku Anders Hallengren, an associate professor of Comparative Literature and a research fellow in the Department of History of Literature and the History of Ideas at Stockholm University. Heserved as consulting editor for literature at Nobelprize.org. Dr. Hallengren is a fellow of The Hemingway Society (USA) and was on the Steering Committee for the 1993 Guilin ELT/Hemingway International Conference in the People’s Republic of China. Among his works in English are The Code of Concord: Emerson’s Search for Universal Laws; Gallery of Mirrors: Reflections of Swedenborgian Thought; and What is National Literature: Lectures on Emerson, Dostoevsky, Hemingway and the... Pelkkiä noloja setämiehiä!

          xxx/ellauri179.html on line 281: By the time he was on to his most open-minded wife, Mary, his final spouse, they were exchanging letters about hair that were, Dearborn says, ‘frankly pornographic’, while indulging in sexual role-swapping in bed. Of course, Hemingway — who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954 — wouldn’t be the first genius to have a somewhat less impressive private life. The real Hemingway was self-pitying, self-glorifying and thin-skinned, ready to turn viciously on friends on the slightest provocation. Kake kavereineen tossa Ford Fiesta kirjassa vaikutti täys paskiaisilta ihan miehissä. Mitääntekemättömiä renttuja. 

          xxx/ellauri179.html on line 286:   To read Hemingway has always produced strong reactions. When his parents received the first copies of their son’s book In Our Time (1924), they read it with horror. Furious, his father sent the volumes back to the publisher, as he could not tolerate such filth in the house. Hemingway’s apparently coarse, crude, vulgar and unsentimental style and manners appeared equally shocking to many people outside his family. On the other hand, this style was precisely the reason why a great many other people liked his work. A myth, exaggerating those features, was to be born.

          xxx/ellauri179.html on line 290:   The posthumously published novels, such as Islands in the Stream (1970) and The Garden of Eden (1986), have disappointed many of the old Hemingway readers. However, rather than bearing witness to declining literary power, (which, considering the author’s declining mental health is indeed a rather trivial observation) the late works confront us with a reappraisal and reconsideration of basic values. Well they needed one to be sure.

          xxx/ellauri179.html on line 292:   His works were burnt in the bonfire in Berlin on May 10, 1933 as being a monument of modern decadence. That was a major proof of the writer’s significance and a step toward world fame.

          xxx/ellauri179.html on line 298:   An unmatched introduction to Hemingway’s particular skill as a writer is the beginning of A Farewell to Arms, certainly one of the most pregnant opening paragraphs in the history of the modern American novel. In that passage the power of concentration reaches a peak, forming a vivid and charged sequence, as if it were a 10-second video summary. It is packed with events and excitement, yet significantly frosty, as if unresponsive and numb, like a silent flashback dream sequence in which bygone images return, pass in review and fade away, leaving emptiness and quietude behind them. The lapidary writing approaches the highest style of poetry, vibrant with meaning and emotion, while the pace is maintained by the exclusion of any descriptive redundancy, of obtrusive punctuation, and of superfluous or narrowing emotive signs:

          xxx/ellauri179.html on line 310:   He's like a Pilgrim robbing red Indians of their land, walking into the unknown with neither shelter nor guidance, thrown upon his own resources, his strength and his judgment. Hemingway’s style is the style of understatement since his hero is a hero of military action, which is the human condition.

          xxx/ellauri179.html on line 314: “I saw a moving sight the other morning before breakfast in a little hotel where I slept in the dusty fields. The young man of the house had shot a little wolf called coyote in the early morning. The heroic little animal lay on the ground, with his big furry ears, and his clean white teeth, and his jolly cheerful little body, but his brave little life was gone. It made me think how brave all these living things are. Here little coyote was, without any clothes or house or books or money or bonds or anything, with nothing but his own naked self to pay his way with, and risking his life so cheerfully – and losing it – just to see if he could pick up a meal near the hotel. He was doing his coyote-business like a hero, and you must do your boy-business, and I my man-business bravely, too, or else we won’t be worth as much as a little coyote.” (The Letters of William James to Henry James, Little, Brown and Co.: Boston 1926.)

          xxx/ellauri179.html on line 319: 
          Minähän sen oravan myrkytin. Jeopardizing wild life is to be true to one’s own nature.
          

          xxx/ellauri179.html on line 325:   The Garden of Eden, however, a book brimming with the author’s vulnerability just as A Farewell to Arms is, treats intimate and delicate matters. Paxun eufemismikuorrutuxen alle kurkistaen: tässä niteessä on varmaan erityisen paljon homostelua. "She is depicted with fascination and fear, like Marcel Proust’s Albertine." No niin aina! "Eros and Thanatos, love and death, paradise and trespass." No on se vittua!

          xxx/ellauri179.html on line 327: "Sipping his post-coital fine à l’eau in the afternoon, David Bourne feels relieved of the contents of his testicles."

          xxx/ellauri179.html on line 328: Then the blond, sun-tanned "Catherine" appears with her hair “cropped as short as a boy’s,” declaring:

          xxx/ellauri179.html on line 330:   “now I am a boy … You see why it’s dangerous, don’t you? … Why do we have to go by everyone else’s rules? We’re us … Please understand and love me … I am Peter … You’re my beautiful lovely Catherine.”

          xxx/ellauri179.html on line 332: "She" mounts him in bed at night, and penetrates him in conjugal (read homoerotic) bliss, "only felt the weight and the strangeness inside" and she said: ‘Now you can’t tell who is who can you?”. No sitähän sanoi äitikin pienenä. 

          xxx/ellauri179.html on line 338: The voice of Hemingway’s father is heard, challenging his son, as did the Father in the Biblical Garden. Slightly disguised, Hemingway’s dear father, who haunted his son’s life and work even after he had shot himself in 1961, sorry, after Dad had shot himself in 1928, remained an internalized critic until Ernest also took his life in 1961. No wonder, dad had had a cow.

          xxx/ellauri179.html on line 604: Alicia Rix´s study of the relationship between cycling and authorship in James’s “The Papers” sums up Jake Barnes and Bill Gorton’s exchange in The Sun Also Rises linking Henry’s bicycle to Jake’s impotence. Rix examines James’s anxiety about authorial exposure and aversion to publicity and includes embarrassing depictions of him cycling by Ford Madox Ford, David Lodge, and others. (The original manuscript shows that, before deletion, this had read "Henry James's bicycle.") 

          xxx/ellauri179.html on line 614: What Henry James did or didn’t do with Oliver Wendell Holmes (or anyone else). By Leon Edel Dec 12, 19963:30 AM

          xxx/ellauri179.html on line 616: The newest biography of Henry James is the work of a Vermont law professor who has written one earlier biography, Honorable Justice, The Life of Oliver Wendell Holmes, of the “great dissenter” on the Supreme Court in the first half of our century. Proceeding from the law into literature, Sheldon M. Novick tells us in a book titled Henry James, The Young Master–as if James were a young Mozart or a Paganini and didn’t work hard to achieve literary mastery–that the celibate and sexually diffident novelist, who put most of his life into his art, was in reality a regular guy who “underwent the ordinary experiences of life.” In fact, says Novick, he had an affair at the end of the Civil War with–yes, Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

          xxx/ellauri179.html on line 619:     Novick’s attempt to find love affairs in James’ life reminds me of the 1920s, when there were no biographies of James, and critics loved to speculate on the mysteries of his privacy. Van Wyck Brooks, a skillful writer of pastiche, produced his quasi-biographical Pilgrimage of Henry James to prove the novelist was a literary failure because he had uprooted himself from the United States. Edna Kenton, a devoted Jamesian in Greenwich Village, demonstrated in a biting review in The Bookman that Brooks used important James quotations out of context. Years later, Brooks confessed to having nightmares “in which Henry James turned great luminous menacing eyes upon me.”

          xxx/ellauri179.html on line 621:     Another bit of imaginative projection upon James’ life can be found in Ernest Hemingway’s letters. This novelist, on learning that Brooks had written that James was “prevented by an accident from taking part in the Civil War,” immediately incorporated this into his nearly finished novel, The Sun Also Rises. In Chapter 12, Jake Barnes refers to his World War I accident, and Gorton says, “That’s the sort of thing that can’t be spoken of. That’s what you ought to work up into a mystery. Like Henry’s bicycle.” Barnes replies it wasn’t a bicycle; “he was riding horseback.” (In his memoirs, James spoke of having had a “horrid” but “obscure hurt.” He had strained his back during a stable fire while serving as a volunteer fireman.) Hemingway had originally inserted James’ name in the novel, but Scribner’s editor, Maxwell Perkins, vetoed this. Hemingway insisted. They finally compromised on the “Henry” alone. F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote to Brooks, “Why didn’t you touch more on James’ impotence (physical) and its influence?” The castration theme was picked up by R.P. Blackmur, Glenway Wescott, Lionel Trilling, and F.O. Matthiessen in their critical writings.

          xxx/ellauri179.html on line 623:     What evidence does Novick offer for the James-Holmes “affair”? Just two French words James uses in his long and vivid notebook entry recalling his early days in Boston, where his family settled in a brick house in Ashburton Place near the State House. The words are l’initiation première–“first initiation.” In the entry, James is writing generally of the “rite of passage” that inaugurated his literary career. He describes the strong emotions he felt at the assassination of Lincoln (on James’$2 22nd birthday); how he wept when Hawthorne died; and the dawning sense of freedom experienced after the war’s end. He mentions also his first book review on English novel-writing, published in the North American Review, whose editors paid him $12, praised his writing, and asked for more. He does mention Holmes, but only to describe a brief visit he made to Holmes’ mother to ask how her son was faring in England, and his own fierce envy of Holmes for traveling abroad while James remained at home.

          xxx/ellauri179.html on line 625:     These larger emotions apparently do not touch the single-minded Novick. He is caught by l’initiation première. “The passage seems impossible to misunderstand,” he says. (For the full quote, which Novick does not provide,.) In a footnote, he asserts, “James had his sexual initiation in Cambridge and Ashburton Place.” A bit enigmatically, he also says, “[I]t would be fatal to expand on that in the book for which these are the [foot]notes.” We are left wondering why Novick thinks it would be “fatal” to have what would be a bit more evidence. And he still hasn’t named James’ partner. A sentence in which he appears to be rummaging around for explanations says that the companion “seems to be a veteran, an officer.” He adds, “Henry hinted he was Wendell Holmes.” But it is Novick who is doing the hinting. Holmes was a close friend of Henry’s brother, William. Henry looked at Holmes with a certain aloofness.

          xxx/ellauri179.html on line 627:     And then, Novick gives himself away. He writes in another footnote that Holmes was someone with whom James “might have been intimate.” “Might have been”? There’s incertitude for you. My surmise is that Novick is trying to support his hypothesis of James’ initial sexual experience, and that he picks the name handiest to him. Why not James’ closer friends, John LaFarge or Thomas Perry? Novick seems to want to link his two subjects. It is clear the homosexuality doesn’t bother him. He simply wants us to know that James was a sexual man and a loving person. Biographers often develop strange attachments to their subjects. (Indeed!)

          xxx/ellauri179.html on line 629:     Novick’s second “case” is as flimsy as the first, but it has more documentation. It is based on James’ letters from Paris between 1875 and 1876. He has met Ivan Turgenev, the Russian master, and finds himself moving among assorted Russians. One of them is Paul Zhukovski, son of a Russian poet who tutored Alexander II when he was a prince. Reared in the royal court, Zhukovski is soft, dependent, spoiled, and weak-willed, but graceful and entertaining. James has never known any Russians, and Zhukovski becomes an agreeable companion; he is “picturesque,” and while James tells his parents that “human fellowship” is not his specialty, the two get along very comfortably. They dine with Turgenev, and with countesses, a duke, princesses. They make sorties into cabarets and cafes. James reports that he and Zhukovski have sworn “eternal fellowship.” One could read sex into this–as Novick does–but it sounds more like the drinking and singing that often takes place among young males, their swagger and “brotherhood.” At every turn, Novick introduces suggestions of a love affair.

          xxx/ellauri179.html on line 633:     The rest of the story emerges after James abruptly leaves the villa at the end of the third day. He lodges at a hotel in Sorrento and writes several lively letters indicating he fled from Zhukovski and a nest of young homosexuals. They were attached to the composer, Richard Wagner, who lives in a nearby villa. Zhukovski is now a crusading Wagnerian. He wants to introduce James. The novelist refuses. Wagner speaks neither French nor English. James doesn’t speak German.

          xxx/ellauri179.html on line 635:     Writing to his sister Alice, James characterized Zhukovski as “the same impracticable and indeed ridiculous mixture of Nihilism and bric-à-brac as before.” He adds that Zhukovski always needs to be sheltered by a strong figure: “First he was under Turgenev, then the Princess Urusov, whom he now detests and who despises him, then under H.J. Jr. (!!), then under that of a certain disagreeable Onegin (the original of Turgenev’s Nazhdanov, in Virgin Soil) now under Wagner, and apparently in the near future that of Madame Wagner.” Novick bypasses these letters; he avoids looking at facts that might spoil his case. He does allude to the James remark about Zhukovski’s bric-a-brac, but he seems to misunderstand its irony. He claims that James was “cautious” about this visit because of crime and disease in the Naples area–all this, says Novick, is “out of keeping with the collection of bric-à-brac with which Zhukovski was surrounded.” James may indeed have been referring to the villa’s human bric-a-brac.

          xxx/ellauri179.html on line 639: So Novick is deprived of the happy romance he wanted to chronicle at Posilipo. He consoles himself by a detailed account of Zhukovski’s adoption into Bayreuth, his painting the sets for Parsifal and being considered a kind of son by the Wagners. Novick seems to be trying to walk down two streets at once–the street of the refinements of literary biography and the more rigid roadway of the prosecutorial argument. He attempts to turn certain of his fancies into fact–but his data is simply too vague for him to get away with it.

          xxx/ellauri179.html on line 680:   Below we are going to share with you the 12 most common chicken sounds you will hear from your flock and what they mean. If you have ever listened to a flock of hens as they free range across the yard, you will likely have heard a low murmuring between them all. It sounds peaceful and content. This murmuring is thought to have two meanings: The first being: “life is good, I am having a good time”. And the second relates to safety. They will all range within earshot of each other because there is safety in numbers. Some chickens will also purr in contentment (especially those that are petted on a regular basis). And you who thought only cats’ purred!

          xxx/ellauri179.html on line 712: The second sound is a “rrrrrrr” sound. When chicks hear this they will run to Momma for cover or to the nearest hiding place available. They will remain still and quiet until she lets them know it’s ok.

          xxx/ellauri179.html on line 769: Thank you, really appreciated reading this. I am new to the chicken game and learning on a daily basis. Today one of mine was egg-bound, she seems fine now though and I saw her and another eating her egg yolk but I’m a bit concerned it broke insider her. If you have any advice, would love to know. I am googling and also likely to take to the vet on Monday (it is Saturday so vets not open). Thanks again, well written blog!  
          

          xxx/ellauri179.html on line 775:     What if a chick is chirping in a way that it sounds like she’s “rolling her r’s”? She does this at random times of the day. She also has a respiratory infection, so what I’m saying is that I would like to know if this means shes hurting or if she’s happy. 
          

          xxx/ellauri179.html on line 814:   Mencken was a controversial, and humorous journalist, who greatly affected American fiction in the 1920s. He ridiculed the US’s organized religion, business and middle class. He was a very critical man, who supported Germany during the war and had a very Marxist outlook on life. Bill refers to him, saying that he mocks God. Also this shows Bill’s character, that he is someone is very cynical and critical about life.

          xxx/ellauri179.html on line 835: I’VE taken my fun where I’ve found it; 				Otin huvini irti mistä sain;		

          xxx/ellauri179.html on line 836:   I’ve rogued an’ I’ve ranged in my time; 			olen törkyillyt ja öykkäröinyt aikani;	

          xxx/ellauri179.html on line 837: I’ve ’ad my pickin’ o’ sweethearts, 				On mulla ollut nippu mirrejä,		

          xxx/ellauri179.html on line 838:   An’ four o’ the lot was prime. 				neljä niistä oli ihan priimoja		

          xxx/ellauri179.html on line 839: One was an ’arf-caste widow,         				1 oli puoliverinen leski-ihminen,

          xxx/ellauri179.html on line 842:   An’ one is a girl at ’ome. 					1 on kotimaan tyttöjä.			

          xxx/ellauri179.html on line 844: Now I aren’t no ’and with the ladies, 				Mä en oo mikään leidiexpertti,		

          xxx/ellauri179.html on line 845:   For, takin’ ’em all along,         				sillä jos niitä kazoo kaikkia,		

          xxx/ellauri179.html on line 846: You never can say till you’ve tried ’em, 			nin ei niistä tiedä koittamatta,		

          xxx/ellauri179.html on line 847:   An’ then you are like to be wrong. 				ja siltikin voi erehtyä.		

          xxx/ellauri179.html on line 848: There’s times when you’ll think that you mightn’t, 		joskus tekis toisinaan, joskus taas ei.		

          xxx/ellauri179.html on line 849:   There’s times when you’ll know that you might; 		joskus tietää että tolta kyllä saa;		

          xxx/ellauri179.html on line 850: But the things you will learn from the Yellow an’ Brown,        Mutze minkä oppii värivikaisilta,			

          xxx/ellauri179.html on line 851:   They’ll ’elp you a lot with the White! 			siitä on paljon iloa valkosissa!		

          xxx/ellauri179.html on line 853: I was a young un at ’Oogli, 					Mä olin nuori jolppi Ooglissa,		

          xxx/ellauri179.html on line 856:   An’ Aggie was clever as sin;         				Aggie oli ovela kuin synti;		

          xxx/ellauri179.html on line 859: Showed me the way to promotion an’ pay, 			Näytti mistä raha tulee ja ylennys,	

          xxx/ellauri179.html on line 860:   An’ I learned about women from ’er! 				opetti mulle paljon naisista.		

          xxx/ellauri179.html on line 863:   Actin’ in charge o’ Bazar, 					basaarin valvojaxi sinne,		

          xxx/ellauri179.html on line 864: An’ I got me a tiddy live ’eathen 				sain izelleni kivan pikku pakanan	

          xxx/ellauri179.html on line 865:   Through buyin’ supplies off ’er pa. 				kun ostin kamoja sen isältä.		

          xxx/ellauri179.html on line 866: Funny an’ yellow an’ faithful— 					Hassu keltainen ja uskollinen,			

          xxx/ellauri179.html on line 869: An’ I learned about women from ’er! 				se opetti mulle paljon naisista.

          xxx/ellauri179.html on line 872:   (Or I might ha’ been keepin’ ’er now), 			(muuten olisin sen pitänyt),		

          xxx/ellauri179.html on line 873: An’ I took with a shiny she-devil,         			ja mä otin kiiltonahkaisen pahuxen,	

          xxx/ellauri179.html on line 875: ’Taught me the gipsy-folks’ bolee;				se opetti mulle mustalaisten tapoja,	

          xxx/ellauri179.html on line 876:   Kind o’ volcano she were, 					Se oli varsinainen vulkaani,  

          xxx/ellauri179.html on line 878: ’cause I wished she was white, 					mä toivoin eze olis valkoinen,

          xxx/ellauri179.html on line 879:   And I learned about women from ’er!         			Mä opin siltä paljon naisista!   

          xxx/ellauri179.html on line 881: Then I come ’ome in a trooper, 					Sitmä tulin kotimaahan laivalla	

          xxx/ellauri179.html on line 882:   ’Long of a kid o’ sixteen— 					mulla oli 16v tyttö mukana,	

          xxx/ellauri179.html on line 883: ’Girl from a convent at Meerut, 				yhdestä Meerutin luostarista,	

          xxx/ellauri179.html on line 884:   The straightest I ever ’ave seen. 				suoraviivaisin tapaamistani.

          xxx/ellauri179.html on line 885: Love at first sight was ’er trouble,         			Rakkautta ensinäkemältä se ei tajunnut,		

          xxx/ellauri179.html on line 886:   She didn’t know what it were; 				se ei tiennyt mitä sillä tarkoitin;		

          xxx/ellauri179.html on line 887: An’ I wouldn’t do such,						enkä ilennyt näyttää sille			

          xxx/ellauri179.html on line 888: ’cause I liked ’er too much, 					koska oikeastaan pidin siitä			

          xxx/ellauri179.html on line 889: But—I learned about women from ’er! 				mutta opin siltä paljon naisista!		

          xxx/ellauri179.html on line 891: I’ve taken my fun where I’ve found it, 				Mä otin huvini mistä irti sain,	

          xxx/ellauri179.html on line 892: n’ now I must pay for my fun,         				ja saan nyt maxaa huvistani,	

          xxx/ellauri179.html on line 893:  the more you ’ave known o’ the others 				sillä mitä enemmän olet kokenut,

          xxx/ellauri179.html on line 895: An’ the end of it’s sittin’ and thinkin’, 			ja loppupeleissä istut vaan ja mietit,		

          xxx/ellauri179.html on line 896:   An’ dreamin’ Hell-fires to see; 				kuvittelet kärzääväsi helvetissä;		

          xxx/ellauri179.html on line 899:   An’ learn about women from me! 				ja opi multa mitä opin naisista!

          xxx/ellauri179.html on line 901: What did the Colonel’s Lady think? 				Mitä everstin leidi ajatteli?		

          xxx/ellauri179.html on line 903: Somebody asked the Sergeant’s Wife, 				Joku kysyi kersantin vaimolta,		

          xxx/ellauri179.html on line 904:   An’ she told ’em true!         				ja se kertoi toden sanan:		

          xxx/ellauri179.html on line 906:   They’re like as a row of pins— 				niitä on kolmetoista tusinaan.		

          xxx/ellauri179.html on line 907: For the Colonel’s Lady an’ Judy O’Grady 			Sillä everstin rouva ja sen piika	

          xxx/ellauri179.html on line 914: By the old Moulmein Pagoda, lookin’ eastward to the sea,		Vanhan Moulmeinin pagodan huudeilla nokka osoittaen itään merelle	

          xxx/ellauri179.html on line 915: There’s a Burma girl a-settin’, and I know she thinks o’ me;		Istuu burmeesi pimu ja ajattelee minua,				

          xxx/ellauri179.html on line 917: ‘Come you back, you British soldier; come you back to Mandalay!’	Tule takasin brittisotilas, tule äkkiä, olen paxuna!					

          xxx/ellauri179.html on line 921:    Can’t you ’ear their paddles chunkin				      		Etkö muista kuinka mela melskasi				

          xxx/ellauri179.html on line 924:    Where the flyin’-fishes play,					      	Mela sisällä etunojassa					 

          xxx/ellauri179.html on line 925:    An’ the dawn comes up like thunder outer China ’crost the Bay!	      	Aamuun asti melottiin tahdissa kuin Kiinaan soutuveneellä!		 

          xxx/ellauri179.html on line 927: ’Er petticoat was yaller an’ ’er little cap was green,			Muistan toki, sen pikkarit oli keltaset ja lippis vihreä,

          xxx/ellauri179.html on line 928: An’ ’er name was Supi-yaw-lat—jes’ the same as Theebaw’s Queen,		Ja sen nimi oli Supikoira tai jotain, sama kuin Teeban kuningattarella.			

          xxx/ellauri179.html on line 929: ​An’ I seed her first a-smokin’ of a whackin’ white cheroot,		Mä näin sen ekan kerran kun se veti valkoista röböä 

          xxx/ellauri179.html on line 930: An’ a-wastin’ Christian kisses on an ’eathen idol’s foot:		ja tuhlasi kristittyjä pusuja jonkun pakanapazaan jalalle:	

          xxx/ellauri179.html on line 932:    Bloomin’ idol made o’ mud—							Vitun mudasta tehty idoli---				

          xxx/ellauri179.html on line 934:    Plucky lot she cared for idols when I kissed ’er where she stud!	        Vähänpä sitä kiinnosti idoli kun mä näytin sille mistä kana kusee.		

          xxx/ellauri179.html on line 938: When the mist was on the rice-fields an’ the sun was droppin’ slow,	Kun riisipelloilla oli sumua ja aurinko jo mailleen menossa			

          xxx/ellauri179.html on line 939: She’d git ’er little banjo an’ she’d sing ‘Kulla-lo-lo!’		Se kaivoi esiin pikku banjonsa ja lauloi: Kullia-looloo!				

          xxx/ellauri179.html on line 940: With ’er arm upon my shoulder an’ ’er cheek agin my cheek		Käsi mun olalla ja pylly vasten pyllyä	

          xxx/ellauri179.html on line 941: We useter watch the steamers an’ the hathis pilin’ teak.		Kazottiin kuinka höyrylaivat joella kasasivat tiikkiä.		

          xxx/ellauri179.html on line 943:    Elephints a-pilin’ teak						        Efelantit kasasivat tiikkiä	

          xxx/ellauri179.html on line 945:    Where the silence ’ung that ’eavy you was ’arf afraid to speak!	        Kärsät ummessa vaitonaisina -- meilläkin oli turvat tukossa!			

          xxx/ellauri179.html on line 949: But that’s all shove be’ind me—long ago an’ fur away,			Mut tää on kaikki jo takanapäin, aika päiviä	

          xxx/ellauri179.html on line 950: An’ there ain’t no ’busses runnin’ from the Bank to Mandalay;		Eikä täältä Temsin rannalta mene Mandalayhin busseja		

          xxx/ellauri179.html on line 951: An’ I’m learnin’ ’ere in London what the ten-year soldier tells:	ja opin täällä Lontoossa sen minkä vanha masi opetti:		

          xxx/ellauri179.html on line 952: ‘If you’ve ’eard the East a-callin’, you won’t never ’eed naught else.’	Kun olet upottanut melaa Kauko-Idässä, et kuule juuri muuta halua.

          xxx/ellauri179.html on line 954:    No! you won’t ’eed nothin’ else						Ei! et huoli muuta midiä		

          xxx/ellauri179.html on line 956:    An’ the sunshine an’ the palm-trees an’ the tinkly temple-bells;		ja palmuja ja päivänpaistetta ja niitä temppelikelloja.			

          xxx/ellauri179.html on line 959: I am sick o’ wastin’ leather on these gritty pavin’-stones,		Oon kylästynyt läpsyttään näitä katukiviä,			

          xxx/ellauri179.html on line 960: An’ the blasted Henglish drizzle wakes the fever in my bones;		vituttava brittisade jäätää luut ja ytimet;			

          xxx/ellauri179.html on line 961: Tho’ I walks with fifty ’ousemaids outer Chelsea to the Strand,		vaikka 50 piikaa saisin Chelseasta aina joen rannalle,		

          xxx/ellauri179.html on line 962: An’ they talks a lot o’ lovin’, but wot do they understand?		ne tarjoisivat pillua, mitä väliä?				

          xxx/ellauri179.html on line 964:    Beefy face an’ grubby ’and							Paxut posket ruma perse ---				

          xxx/ellauri179.html on line 966: ​   I’ve a neater, sweeter maiden in a cleaner, greener land!		        Mulla oli söpömpi misu kauniissa siirtomaassa!		

          xxx/ellauri179.html on line 970: Where there aren’t no Ten Commandments an’ a man can raise a thirst;	mis ei ole 10 käskyä vaan saman verran lupia, saa janottaa,	

          xxx/ellauri179.html on line 971: For the temple-bells are callin’, and it’s there that I would be—	Sillä siellä kellot mulle soittavat, siellä mä oisin tosi mieluusti---		

          xxx/ellauri179.html on line 978:    Where the flyin’-fishes play,

          xxx/ellauri179.html on line 979:    An’ the dawn comes up like thunder outer China ’crost the Bay!

          xxx/ellauri179.html on line 986:   Hemingway routinely describes Robert Cohn, introduced in the novel’s first lines as “the middleweight boxing champion of Princeton,” as a “kike” and a “rich Jew”; his obnoxiousness fuels the plot. (Cohn was based on Harold Loeb, a friend who gave Hemingway crucial support in getting his early work published; Hemingway could not forgive anyone who did him a good turn.) The anti-Semitic insult of writing a character like Cohn into his first major novel is breathtaking: it was not, like Hemingway’s letters, intended for private consumption only, but as characterization and a plot device in a work of fiction — a novel, as it turned out, written for the ages.

          xxx/ellauri179.html on line 993: Does this make Ernest Hemingway a bad writer? Does it mean we should no longer read him? I don’t think so. But then again I wrote his biography so I may be biased. The aesthetic satisfaction and sheer joy of reading such works as “In Our Time” and “A Moveable Feast,” or encountering the enduring truths of such novels as “A Farewell to Arms,” “For Whom the Bell Tolls” and, yes, “The Sun Also Rises” are undeniable. The books remain. So does racism and antisemitism. There are here to stay. 

          xxx/ellauri179.html on line 995:   I’ve tried in my book to understand the man behind Hemingway’s great achievements, to re-create the epic scale of his finally tragic life. To make my long story short, he was an asshole.

          xxx/ellauri186.html on line 215: 
        2.  It’s not that we have a short time to live but that we waste a lot of it. (Sorry, I said it already. Waste of time.)

          xxx/ellauri186.html on line 217: 
        3.  A man’s as miserable as he thinks he is, if not more. 

          xxx/ellauri186.html on line 350: Nous le voyons tout à coup paraître sur la digue, entouré de son état-major et suivi de ses guides, il descend de cheval, tire son sabre, prend un drapeau et s'élance sur le pont au milieu d'une pluie de feu. Les soldats le voient et aucun d'eux ne l’imite.»

          xxx/ellauri186.html on line 488: The play derives its plot from Giambattista Giraldi’s De gli Hecatommithi (1565), which Shakespeare appears to have known in the Italian original; it was available to him in French but had not been translated into English.

          xxx/ellauri186.html on line 491: The play is set in motion when Othello, a heroic black general in the service of Venice, appoints Cassio and not Iago as his chief lieutenant. Jealous of Othello’s success and envious of Cassio, Iago plots Othello’s downfall by falsely implicating Othello’s wife, Desdemona, and Cassio in a love affair. With the unwitting aid of Emilia, his wife, and the willing help of Roderigo, a fellow malcontent, Iago carries out his plan.

          xxx/ellauri186.html on line 695:   In the seventh century, a brand new monotheistic religion grew out of the flames of rampant, Arabian paganism. A man by the name of Mohammad is said to have begun receiving direct revelations via the angel Gabriel (the same guy who knocked up Anne and Mary!)  about the timely reform of the true religion. The religion of Islam was born out of Mohammad’s revelations from Allah. The Quran, the record of those revelations and the holy book of Islam, contains various statements concerning Jesus Christ (known as Isa ibn Maryam or Jesus the son of Mary within the religion). Esa Saarisen äiti on (tai oli?) Iisa, eikä "Esa"-kaan ole siitä kaukana. Mitähän tämä mahtaa merkitä? Onko (tai oliko?) se enne? Eskiltäkin vuosi verta kylkihaavasta.

          xxx/ellauri186.html on line 701:   An aim of Christian apologetics must be to defend and articulate the white supremacy of the Christian religion as compared to Islam. The goal of this paper will be to highlight a historical issue surrounding the Quran’s source material for its account of Jesus Christ and some clay birds. In the best traditions of American free enterprise and Western market economy, I shall do my best to denigrate the musulmans and sell our alternative product in its place.

          xxx/ellauri186.html on line 703:   When issues of source material arise within discussions surrounding the Quran with Muslims, statements of inspiration and religious trust in the Prophet’s words abound. Muslim beliefs concerning their doctrine of inspiration supposedly protect the Quran from any error. Cyril Glasse, an Islamic scholar, noted that:

          xxx/ellauri186.html on line 705:     Western writers who, for reasons of the defense of Christianity and Judaism, or for their reasons of their disbelief in any Divine Revelation, have been wont to disparage the Quran as regards to factual, historical accuracy, or have spoken of “Muhammad’s confused knowledge of history” or his “imperfect or deficient knowledge of Judaism” are, in every respect, wide of the mark. To begin with, such observations presume the Prophet’s participation in the compositions of the Quran, which is in no way admissible...Although the stories in the Quran have their historical origins, they undergo a transformation which lifts them out of their former context into a retelling which is not that of a human tongue ...Divine revelation [takes] this “material” and [uses] it for its own purposes; the origins of the story become irrelevant...

          xxx/ellauri186.html on line 713:   Within the Quran, Jesus’ miraculous virgin birth is recounted with Mary having astonishment. How could she become pregnant when no mortal man has touched her? The angel she is having a criminal conversation with discourages her incredulousness with an affirmation of the power and might of Allah’s definitive decree. The virgin birth lacks the majesty of the Christian doctrine because it is not an announcement of God coming into her. Jesus would be like others before him, a prophet who announces God’s truth. The angel goes on to describe just what Jesus would do. Within the description, the author narrates an account of a miracle that Jesus performed as “clear proof” that he was a prophet of Allah. The miracle is repeated later in Surah 5.

          xxx/ellauri186.html on line 721: breathe into it and it is a bird, by Allah’s leave.

          xxx/ellauri186.html on line 723: and I raise the dead, by Allah’s leave. And I 

          xxx/ellauri186.html on line 748: The source material for the account of Jesus creating birds out of clay is likely derived from the Infancy Gospel of Thomas, a late second or third century pseudepigraphal gospel that describes Jesus’ early life before he started his ministry as an adult. The story reads:

          xxx/ellauri186.html on line 759:   Attributed to the apostle Thomas (not likely, him being a stickler for factuality), the story accounts Jesus’ doings from age five to his appearance within the temple (Luke 2:41-49). In his book The Lost Bible: Forgotten Scriptures Revealed, J.R. Porter commented:

          xxx/ellauri186.html on line 762: dangerous powers, rather like Harry Potter. His words can have harsh consequences when he is angered or insulted, as when he shrivels up one boy for a quite insignificant act and strikes another dead for merely bumping into him. It is hard not to feel distaste at such stories, which seem so far removed from the Jesus of the canonical gospels, and one can even detect a degree of unease on the part of the author as he narrates them: while attempting to absolve Jesus from the blame, he more than once records the great offense which Jesus’ behavior caused, as well as the efforts of his parents to restrain him, as when Joseph asks Jesus: “Why do you do such things that these people must suffer and hate us and persecute us?” On another occasion Joseph tells Mary: “Do not let him go outside the door, for all those who provoke him die."

          xxx/ellauri186.html on line 766:   “the embellishments with which the ‘infancy gospels’ fill out the sparse details of the birth stories in Matthew and Luke are all fabricated out of whole cloth, they are not traditions of more or less dimly remembered facts; but they generated tenacious traditions of a new kind.”

          xxx/ellauri186.html on line 773:   The Quran’s use of the infancy story or legends built upon that story pose a special problem for Muslims apologists: the Quran is a divinely-dictated book that contains accounts of Jesus Christ found in unreliable literature some 100 to 200 years after the last book of the New 

          xxx/ellauri186.html on line 783: The argument above and other arguments associated with the Quran’s dubious source material lend credibility to the claim that the religion built upon a less than trustworthy foundation.

          xxx/ellauri186.html on line 788: 
           a) The story is presented within the narrative flow as events that happened within Jesus’ lifetime. The clay birds incident is said to be a “sign from your Lord” that Jesus teaches the truth about Allah. The “sign” is meant for the children of Israel to see the truthfulness of Jesus’ message of Allah. How can something be a sign if the something has no historical referent? (Polyphemos and Parmenides had the same problem with the word "oudeis".)

          xxx/ellauri186.html on line 794:   “The importance of the Qur’an for Muslims and Islam is tantamount to the importance of the person of Jesus Christ for Christians and Christianity. It has been rightly observed that the Christian concept of incarnation corresponds to what one might call “illibration” in Islam. In Christianity the divine logos becomes man. In Islam, God’s word becomes text, a text to be recited in Arabic and to be read as an Arabic book.” 

          xxx/ellauri186.html on line 796: The Quran is viewed literally as the word of God or an extension of Allah’s 

          xxx/ellauri186.html on line 801:   Muslim apologists would then be making the claim that “Christians made a mistake by not seeing the text’s truthfulness and historical validity.” The problem with this objection is triune: a) the criteria for canonicity, b) the history of the books, and c) the theology of the gospel itself.

          xxx/ellauri187.html on line 77:       At the Petite École, Rodin “finished lessons so quickly that the teachers eventually ran out of assignments. He did not care to socialize with his classmates; he wanted only to work.” Rodin’s talent was noted by his legion of admiring artists, writers, and lovers. His rise was a matter of time, even if he was ignored by academic art institutions early in life.

          xxx/ellauri187.html on line 79:       Rilke’s path was more circuitous. Born to a liberal family in Prague when Rodin was 35, the young Rilke was dressed as a girl by his mother and called “Sophie.” (His given name was actually René.) When he came of age, his parents sent him to a military academy in hopes that he might achieve the officer’s rank that eluded his father, but the students there saw him as “fragile, precocious and a moral scold”—qualities that linger with him throughout the book, until he emerges from Rodin’s shadow as a major writer.

          xxx/ellauri187.html on line 81:       Much of Rilke’s youth was spent in search of a master. The first of these was Lou Andreas-Salomé, the philosopher and muse that Friedrich Nietzsche called “by far the smartest person I ever knew.” In 1899, the married Andreas-Salome, for whom Rilke felt a “reckless passion,” took the feeble young poet to meet Tolstoy. The meeting did not go well. Aateliset rähähti, Rilke vingahti.

          xxx/ellauri187.html on line 83:       Corbett’s chapters alternate between poet and sculptor until the pair converge, when the ambitious yet unremarkable Rilke, again in search of a master, travels to Paris to write his monograph on Rodin. Even at this early stage, he was one of many Rodin’s true believers.

          xxx/ellauri187.html on line 180: In 2007 Caryn James, commenting on Not Remotely Controlled in the New York Times, said that "at their best, Siegel’s scattershot observations offer a kind of drive-by brilliance," but that he often "wildly overstates his case or ignores inconvenient evidence."  

          xxx/ellauri187.html on line 195:       Getting to the point wasn’t exactly Rilke’s forte. It may not be fair to expect that of any poet, especially one born in 1875 and swimming in the currents of the Symbolists. Rilke’s flowery — and daresay twee — verses do not jibe with today’s tastes for cut-and-dry clarity, blasé irony, and Tweet-able brevity. But that’s precisely why Rilke is enjoying somewhat of a posthumous comeback. He offers what Twitter can’t.

          xxx/ellauri187.html on line 197:       But why did aging Rodin in his 60s capture Rilke’s imagination at the turn of the last century? It’s hard to see at first. What made Rodin radical then is no longer radical today. In his “Self-Portrait” (1890), Rodin grimaces amidst rough marks. The picture emblematizes how Rodin heralded raw and unpolished sculptures that were strikingly modern. It was a breath of fresh air since most of early-19th-century sculpture was smooth, neoclassical, and to be harshly honest, predictably dainty. Charles Baudelaire lamented this nadir in 1846 when he wrote his provocative essay “Why Sculpture is Boring.” Rodin went on to prove Baudelaire wrong. He showed how sculpture could be modern with distorted, coarse, rough textures. Rodin knocked the idealized body off its pedestal. And the modern sculptors that came after him saw no reason to put it back.

          xxx/ellauri187.html on line 199:       The pair first met outside Paris on Rodin’s country estate in September of 1902. Rilke, 26, took on a project as an art critic to write a German monograph on Auguste Rodin, at the time 61. Neither probably expected they would hit it off as much as they did. But long talks about art, and how to cultivate a work ethic bonded them together. Ten days into his initial stay on Rodin’s estate, Rilke wrote Rodin an affectionate letter confessing their dialogue’s intense effect. Rodin offered the young poet an open invitation to observe his studio for the next four months. During that time, Rilke not only gleaned insights for his monograph, but discovered how to be a better poet.

          xxx/ellauri187.html on line 201:       Three years later in September of 1905, Rilke took a job as Rodin’s assistant and lived with him full-time on his country estate. For the first time, Rodin’s correspondence was prompt and his files organized. Rilke relished more long talks with Rodin and the book is filled with examples of how Rodin stimulated the poet during this period of employment and intense "dialogue."

          xxx/ellauri187.html on line 205:       Predictably, the honeymoon didn’t last forever. A row over a letter Rilke wrote to one of Rodin’s contacts without permission in April 1906 aroused Rodin’s suspicion, so he fired Rilke. But an indelible impression was nevertheless left on the poet.

          xxx/ellauri187.html on line 207:       After a period of silence following the 1906 firing, Rilke and Rodin rekindled in August of 1908. Rilke was now living with Isadora Duncan and other artists in an abandoned convent in Paris, which Henri Matisse had converted into a school and commune. Rodin met Rilke there, spent hours catching up, buried the hatchet, and decided to move in the following month. After the sculptor’s death, the building became Paris’s Rodin Museum.

          xxx/ellauri187.html on line 209: The book depicts both men’s messy marriages and complex relationships with men and women. Their success, like most men of all times, was on the backs of women whose exploitation cultural norms sanctioned.

          xxx/ellauri187.html on line 212: cheesy by today’s standards.  The book’s title You Must Change Your Life is a case in point. It’s the last lines in Rilke’s “Archaic Torso of Apollo.”

          xxx/ellauri187.html on line 216:  It’s clear how meticulously scrutinizing every part of the sculpted body became a metaphor for scrutinizing every part of our life, in the spirit of that adage of Socrates that the unexamined life is not worth living. Socrates was a keen exeaminer of Alcibiades' törsö too, in particular the dark star that cannot see you.

          xxx/ellauri187.html on line 217:  Rodin had a penchant for antiquities. A picture from the archives of Paris’s Rodin Museum shows Rilke, Rodin, Rodin’s wife, and dogs with some headless torsos behind them.

          xxx/ellauri187.html on line 219: We will never know whether Rilke had Rodin in mind when he wrote. But it’s undeniable a lot went well when he met Rodin. And while an artist taking on a protégé is not unique, that Rodin and Rilke bonded despite differing languages, ages, and artistic disciplines is noteworthy. As Rilke wrote to Kappus, “in the deepest and most important places, we are unspeakably alone; and many things must happen, many things must go right, a whole dark constellation of events must be fulfilled, for one human being to successfully enter another. ”

          xxx/ellauri187.html on line 587: Seremoniassa pojasta tulee bar mitsva (’lain poika’ tai ’käskyn poika’), tytöstä vastaavasti bat mitsva (’lain tytär’ tai ’käskyn tytär’). 

          xxx/ellauri193.html on line 58: Empathy can refer to the capacity to share feelings, namely “affective empathy” (if you are sad, I also feel sad). But it can also be the ability to understand other people’s minds, dubbed “cognitive empathy” (I know what you think and why you are feeling sad).

          xxx/ellauri193.html on line 80:     We are currently replicating and extending some of our findings using the dark tetrad instead. Our results are yet to be published, but indicate there are two further profiles in addition to the four groups we’ve already identified. One is an “emotionally internalised group”, with high levels of affective empathy and average cognitive empathy, without elevated dark traits. The other shows a pattern similar to autistic traits – particularly, low cognitive empathy and average affective empathy in the absence of elevated dark traits.

          xxx/ellauri193.html on line 158:       Tarina alkaa vajaa vuosikymmen ennen ensimmäistä maailmansotaa. Päähenkilö, vähän yli 20-vuotias Hans Castorp, menee davosilaiseen alppiparantolaan tapaamaan siellä tuberkuloosin vuoksi hoidossa olevaa serkkuaan Joachim Ziemßeniä. Castorpin vierailu parantolassa venyy hänen saamiensa yhä pahenevien, osittain näyteltyjen sairauksien vuoksi. Castorp tapaa parantolassa henkilöitä, kuten humanistin ja tietokirjailijan Lodovico Settembrinin, totalitaristisen jesuiitan Leo Naphtan, hedonistin Pieter Peeperkornin ja romanttisesti köyrimänsä rouva Chauchat’n.

          xxx/ellauri193.html on line 165: Crime passionel #1: He felt inadequate as a man when he heard his girlfriend had cheated on him with two other men. That’s why he shot her three times while she was sleeping, a sobbing Soshanguve man told the Pretoria High Court yesterday in 2010.

          xxx/ellauri193.html on line 174: Motshwele earlier said he was at the funeral of his brother’s wife that day, when he heard about his girlfriend’s infidelities. This angered him so much that he decided there was no more sense in her living either.

          xxx/ellauri193.html on line 183: “The accused also showed remorse for his actions as he called an ambulance after realising the deceased was not breathing,” she said. Vorster’s actions could have been avoided had he been sober.

          xxx/ellauri193.html on line 189: According to Vorster’s statement, Vos confirmed the affair when he asked her why she had not dished up food for him.

          xxx/ellauri193.html on line 279: ”Sitten Venäjällä voidaan sanoa, että ’katsokaa, tämä merkittävä ja tunnettu amerikkalainen journalisti sanoo Zelenskyiä Vladimirin veroisexi pellexi’”, Seib päivittelee. "Vaikka useita Volgan mutkasta kotoisin olevia professoreja on sanomassa juuri päinvastaista." ”Hän toimii Kremlin tuulikammiona.”

          xxx/ellauri193.html on line 368: Carlson was one of the network’s biggest stars, and gained a large following while spouting xenophobic and racist rhetoric on his show, Tucker Carlson Tonight. He left Fox News without explanation on Monday. News outlets have reported that Carlson was fired on the personal order of Fox owner Rupert Murdoch for, among other things, using vulgar language to describe a female executive. Another victim of the freedom of expression!

          xxx/ellauri193.html on line 370: The free press is under attack from multiple forces. Media outlets are closing their doors, victims to a broken business model. In much of the world, journalism is morphing into propaganda, as governments dictate what can and can’t be printed. In the last year alone, hundreds of reporters have been killed, imprisoned or just given the sack for doing their jobs. The UN reports that 85% of the world’s population experienced a decline in press freedom in their country in recent years. 

          xxx/ellauri193.html on line 372: Carlson’s former head of booking, Abby Grossberg, said that male producers regularly used vulgarities to describe women and frequently made antisemitic jokes. As a rule, between 9 am-5pm.

          xxx/ellauri193.html on line 373: Ms. Grossberg, who was fired by Fox News shortly after she filed two lawsuits against the company in March, joined Mr. Carlson’s team in 2022 after several years as a senior producer for Maria Bartiromo, another Fox host.

          xxx/ellauri193.html on line 375: On her first day working for Mr. Carlson, Ms. Grossberg said she discovered the office was decorated with large pictures of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi wearing a plunging swimsuit. She said she was once called into the top producer’s office to be asked whether Ms. Bartiromo was having a sexual relationship with the House Republican leader, Kevin McCarthy.

          xxx/ellauri193.html on line 377: Fox has disputed Ms. Grossberg’s claims, and Mr. Carlson hasn’t said anything publicly about the case. Thanks for reading The Times. Subscribe to The Times. [pst! carlsons-program-brought-in-far-more-ad-revenue-than-other-fox-prime-time-shows.]

          xxx/ellauri193.html on line 436: Many readers prefer the more disciplined, elegant craft of Gordimer’s short stories to the more epic, often convoluted style of her novels. I can relate to that.

          xxx/ellauri193.html on line 468: Mr Fox called both Mr Blake and the former RuPaul’s Drag Race contestant, whose real name is Colin Munro Seymour, “paedophiles”, in an exchange about Sainsbury’s decision to celebrate Black History Month.

          xxx/ellauri193.html on line 591: Ladies and gentlemen, we have a tie! That’s probably not how they announced it back in October of 1974. A tie is not even the proper term for the rare occasions when the Nobel Prize in Literature’s gone to two people at once. Sharing the honor is the phrase that seems to crop up, and these shared honors look like political moves—when the prize is going to a country that the Nobel committee might not get back to in a while. (The novelist António Lobo Antunes, for example, was reportedly heartbroken when the Nobel went to José Saramago, because he knew they weren’t going to give it to Portugal again in his lifetime.) Still, there’s something about a shared prize that feels slighting, the A-minus of literary glory. I picture scenes like this:

          xxx/ellauri193.html on line 593:     EYVIND JOHNSON: Frans Eemil Sillanpää! Hey, dude! We’re both Nobel Prize winners. Cool, huh? Let’s party! 
          

          xxx/ellauri193.html on line 594:     FRANS EEMIL SILLANPÄÄ: Hell yeah—wait, didn’t you share the prize? Give me that beer back!

          xxx/ellauri193.html on line 596: But it’s not just the imaginary humiliations. There’s just something off-putting about deciding that two bodies of work are of exactly equal merit. I’m all for the notion that literature is such a varied seascape that it’s impossible to get your bearings, let alone arrange things in order; and I’m comfortable with the idea that, of course, some writers are better than others. But once the scorekeeping gets specific, it just feels wrong. What’s better, Guernica or Citizen Kane? The Velvet Underground and Nico or really good Mexican food? The Great Gatsby or your best friend in high school? These are ridiculous questions, and the fairest answer—ladies and gentlemen, it’s a tie!—somehow muddies all the contestants, even the enchiladas.

          xxx/ellauri193.html on line 600: Well, first of all, everything can be exaggerated, so calm down a little, Karl Ragnar Gierow. But also there’s a tone here that doesn’t sit well with me. Certainly the literary world has a tendency to calcify—the people who have enough time to write books tend to be from the ­upper classes, so literature’s concerns and perspectives invariably get narrow without new blood. But those sidebar reassurances that working-class poets aren’t here to ravage and plunder seem nervous and uptight, and not really reassuring to boot. It seems to me that we want a little ravagement and plunder in our literary traditions. Why else would we welcome a stirring new voice, if it didn’t stir us up a little? And if it doesn’t stir us up, is it really a new voice, even if it comes from a place most of us haven’t visited? “To determine an author and his work against the background of his social origin and political environment is, at present, good form,” the speech continues, and that’s OK as far as it goes. But if you’re going to decide that two authors are tied for literary merit, surely we can find some criterion besides their socioeconomic origin stories.

          xxx/ellauri193.html on line 602: Therefore, as I read these two books, I decided to be much more exacting in my evaluation process than my usual experiential woolgathering, and I tallied up a few figures, in categories that seem equally obvious and problematic as the authors’ humble beginnings.

          xxx/ellauri193.html on line 606:     Eyvind Johnson’s The Days of His Grace is a historical novel, chronicling the lives of an extended family at the time of Charlemagne’s tumultuous reign. A sweeping saga always runs the risk of being too sweeping, but the novel’s only three hundred-something pages. Out of a possible ten points for literary genre, I give the not-overlong historical novel a seven.

          xxx/ellauri193.html on line 608:     Harry Martinson’s Views from a Tuft of Grass is a collection of short essays, mostly on the natural world. I give this a three.

          xxx/ellauri193.html on line 613:     The Days of His Grace has an ironic tinge—Charlemagne’s not a man of much grace—but still, a dull title. I give this a five.

          xxx/ellauri193.html on line 615:     Views from a Tuft Of Grass—a little twee, but also charming. Definitely no other book has been called this. Let’s say seven.

          xxx/ellauri193.html on line 620:     The Days of His Grace: Grandiose, shadowy, fraught. Representative passage: “She turned quickly to the other and met his eyes, feeling a sudden fear of unwillingness—as though he were peering at her through the crack in the door, or through a keyhole. He’s trying to get at me through my eyes, she thought.” As far as one can grasp, given a translation that feels a little stumbly, I give this tone a seven.

          xxx/ellauri193.html on line 627:     The Days of His Grace: Life was hard under the reign of Charlemagne. One must retain one’s personal integrity during hard times. As far as a theme that surprises the reader and serves as a platform for further contemplation, I give this

          xxx/ellauri193.html on line 630:     Views from a Tuft of Grass: The modern world is at odds with nature. You don’t say. Two.

          xxx/ellauri193.html on line 644:     Views from a Tuft of Grass: That’s a nice poem he closed with. Six.

          xxx/ellauri193.html on line 656:     I’ll let Sweden handle this. Both authors apparently get a ten.

          xxx/ellauri193.html on line 659:   And there you have it. It’s a crude way of evaluating literature, of course, but it doesn’t seem much cruder than the methodology used by the people who chose these two authors in the first place. And which author is better, you ask? Well, let’s see, seven plus five, another seven, carry the one—hey! Ladies and gentlemen, we have a tie!

          xxx/ellauri193.html on line 717: Protesters outside the Wynberg Magistrate’s Court call for the death penalty against an alleged paedophile who will be appearing for a bail hearing. 

          xxx/ellauri193.html on line 726:     What about human rights of murderers, rapists and child molesters? GBV is the way to go. Publicly shaming offenders guilty of child abuse would be shameful. Heavy fines don’t do that, prison sentences are no punishment for many — free board and lodging for a while and then back home to continue your life of violence and abuse. Alex suggests the pillory. You may laugh. It’s a comical medieval form of punishment. But think about it.

          xxx/ellauri193.html on line 728:       The perpetrator, found guilty of child abuse or gender-based violence, is taken into a public square and set up in a highly undignified position, probably with a sign round her/his neck saying “rapist,” angry men/women can throw rotten eggs or vrot tomatoes at her/him to express their disgust and point out what a despicable human being s/he is. S/he won’t want that to happen again! Unless s/he quite enjoys it?

          xxx/ellauri193.html on line 741: He said the committee needed to review the moral regeneration programme, to strengthen it, and improve the character of South Africa’s people and how they related to one another.

          xxx/ellauri193.html on line 753:     ’He stole my money’ - Woman confesses to battering nephew to death and burying him in her backyard. A Gauteng woman Andile Aalivirah Mthembu has confessed that she battered her nephew to death and buried the body in her backyard.

          xxx/ellauri193.html on line 759: Innocent people died in Maritzburg’s Khan Road in the July riots.

          xxx/ellauri193.html on line 777: 19.1% of men planned the murder in advance, while 80.9% committed it impulsively. Four men indicated that they would commit murder again, depending on the circumstances. Among the reasons why the rest will not commit murder again are: I have discovered how high the value of life is and that every human being has the right to life and human dignity; murder is an inhuman act; it’s bad in prison; I want to be free; it was a huge mistake; crime does not pay; it’s no solution to problems; it causes tremendous emotional pain for everyone involved; I do not want to disappoint my family again; I am not in my inner nature a murderer; children must grow up with the presence and guidance of a father; restorative justice helped me find myself as well as with reconciliation with my family and the victim; God changed my life; it is a guilt that you carry with you for the rest of your life; I will talk about my problems in the future; I learned to respect the law; one throws away ones future.

          xxx/ellauri193.html on line 790: 18.3% planned the murder in advance and 81.7% committed it impulsively. None of these women indicated that they would commit murder again. Some of the reasons they gave for this are: I learned new ways to master difficult circumstances; frightening experience; I met God; I am not inherently a bad person; I never want to end up in prison again; I hurt the people closest to me terribly; I’m very sorry; no one deserves to be hurt like that; such an act follows you for the rest of your life; crime does not pay; I am much wiser now; I will contact a family member, social worker or police member to help me if I find myself in such a situation again.

          xxx/ellauri193.html on line 802:   The role of faith communities in rebuilding prisoners’ lives should not be underestimated. The late South African cardiac surgeon Prof. Chris Barnard described execution as follows:

          xxx/ellauri193.html on line 804: The wo/man’s spiral (sorry, spinal) cord will rupture at the point where it enters the skull, electrochemical discharges will send his/her limbs flailing in a grotesque dance, eyes and tongues will start from the facial apertures under the assault of the rope and his/her bowels and bladder may simultaneously void themselves to soil the legs and drip onto the floor. 

          xxx/ellauri193.html on line 810:   According to van Niekerk, one can argue with the philosopher Immanuel Kant, who “exemplifies a pure retributivism about capital punishment: murderers must die for their offense, social consequences are wholly irrelevant, and the basis for linking the death penalty to the crime is ‘the Law of Retribution,’ the ancient maxim”, the law of retaliation (an eye for an eye), “rooted in ‘the principle of equality’”. (I THOUGHT Kant sucked, and he does!)

          xxx/ellauri193.html on line 824: When a nation goes to war, that government inevitably sends out the message that killing one’s enemies is acceptable. Murders within such a nation usually increase during these times. Among returning war veterans, there is a higher murder rate.

          xxx/ellauri195.html on line 216: If we have been told that, we may miss the mark. I have taken you, in the chapter which I have just read, to Christianity at its source; and there we have seen, “The greatest of these is love.” It is not an oversight. Paul was speaking of faith just a moment before. He says, “If I have all faith, so that I can remove mountains, and have not love, I am nothing. “So far from forgetting, he deliberately contrasts them, “Now abideth Faith, Hope, Love,” and without a moment’s hesitation, the decision falls, “The greatest of these is Love.”And it is not prejudice. A man is apt to recommend to others his own strong love, but he should imitate Paul´s tiny one instead.

          xxx/ellauri195.html on line 229:   Patience; kindness; generosity; humility; courtesy; unselfishness; good temper; guilelessness; sincerity—these make up the supreme gift, the stature of the perfect man. Just like a woman in fact, eating humble pie. Thank God the Christianity of to-day is coming nearer the world’s end.

          xxx/ellauri195.html on line 280: 
          19 Horribly Sexist Things Said By Some Of The ‘Greatest’ Men Who Ever Lived
          

          xxx/ellauri199.html on line 104: Modern knowledge and discussion of the supposed punishment is based largely on a comedic passage within Artistophanes’ Clouds (1083-104) and subsequent scholia addressing the passage, all of which are helpfully translated and discussed over at Sententiae Antiquae: 

          xxx/ellauri199.html on line 111: The goal of the insertion of the radish––which at that time was likely larger; more like a black radish (retikka) rather than the red round radish of today––was as O’Bryhim (2017: 326) posits, in order to give the offender the condition of a εὐρύπρωκτος (a “roomy anus”).

          xxx/ellauri199.html on line 139: in time he’ll beget the fruit of his kind

          xxx/ellauri199.html on line 193: Hiski! 
           29 year old aspiring house plant. Currently residing in Texas with my darling fiancé and precious cats. My style is varied. You’ll find everything from odes to nature (especially flowers and the moon) to dark poetry about mental illness to mindless ramblings about bananas and clocks. I hope you enjoy it.   

          xxx/ellauri199.html on line 196: Spring’s Favorite Flower

          xxx/ellauri199.html on line 201: while summer’s glow is a fine addition.

          xxx/ellauri199.html on line 211: of the cherry blossom’s power.

          xxx/ellauri199.html on line 236:       Christ-followers’ ultimate goals are to spread the Gospel and show others the path to eternal life, to live righteously, and overall treat people the way Jesus would treat them by loving them and being patient, kind, compassionate, pure, and wise. With that being said, Christians are supposed to do this all the time, no matter the place. This includes high school.

          xxx/ellauri199.html on line 238:     High school can be everything you want it to be or your worst nightmare. For me — it’s okay other than the fact that just about everything I’m surrounded by goes completely against my beliefs as a Christian. Whether it be walking in the hallway hearing terribly vulgar words, common gossiping, or young kids praising the loss of their virginity. You also have your popular “in” music that blatantly puts pre-marital sex, illegal drugs, and the love of money on a pedestal. These are just some of the worldly things we have to deal with on a daily basis that can oh-so easily sweep somebody in. At this point, the options must be weighed: choose God or choose the world? Which god to choose? Which one has the biggest dick?

          xxx/ellauri199.html on line 240: As believers, there are things we shouldn’t participate in. In 2 Corinthians 6:14, the Word states, “Do not be yoked together with unbelievers. For what do righteousness and wickedness have in common? Or what fellowship can light have with darkness?” Whether this be Christian girls “dating” guys who claim to follow Christ and vice versa, or kids surrounding themselves with “friends” that continuously bring them down or turn them from God, it is all so hurtful to see.

          xxx/ellauri199.html on line 242: In a devotional study book called “Devotions for a Revolutionary Year” by Lynn Cowell, she states, “If you have good friends who are Christians and friends who aren’t, you’ll see a problem eventually. No matter how good people are, if they don’t have Jesus as Lord of their lives, you won’t be able to get past a certain point in your relationship. There will be a spot where a wall comes up. Like that one when a spotted angry dick comes up. Willy nilly, light is light, and dark is dark. When the two mix, all you get is gray.”

          xxx/ellauri199.html on line 253: (Uggo: An extremely ugly person.) If aliens were to study Earth’s religions, I think they would separate them into four main categories. They would call them Abrahamism (Judaism, Christianity, and Islam), Dharmism (Daosim, Hinduism, Buddhism, and Confucianism), Humanism (the worship of human beings), and Naturalism (the worship of science and laws of nature). I believe that instead of calling it religion in the way that we do, they would call it devotion because that is what all of these categories have in common. The people in them do not share rituals or doctrine, but they share devotion to the same entities. Because almost every human could fit into one of these categories of devotion, I do not think aliens would recognize atheism, and would consider every human to have some kind of devotion.

          xxx/ellauri199.html on line 257:   Republican Jesus is commonly used as a way for Democrats (or any non-Republicans) to legitimize their own political beliefs by satirizing Jesus’s teachings. Through this joke they not only attempt to legitimize their own beliefs by asserting that they are more in line with the teachings of Jesus, but they also attempt to overturn the religious legitimations of Republicans. They try to disprove the claim that the GOP is the “Christian party” by insinuating that Jesus would not agree with the Republican party’s emphasis on extreme individualism and the bootstrap ideology. 

          xxx/ellauri199.html on line 410: Mut Jumalan murea armo kombinoi:	God’s tender mercy still combined,	

          xxx/ellauri199.html on line 436: Blondin älyn tiet ovat rauhan polkuja,		Fair wisdom’s ways are paths of peace,	

          xxx/ellauri199.html on line 460: Jumalan murea armo toi sinut tänne;	God’s tender mercy brought thee here;		

          xxx/ellauri199.html on line 461: Nakkasi raivoavan aavan yli;		    Tossed o’er the raging main;		

          xxx/ellauri199.html on line 484: Jumalan murea armo päästi sut vapaaxi,		God’s tender mercy set thee free,	

          xxx/ellauri199.html on line 656: Juo Samarian tulvaa;				   To drink Samaria’s flood;		

          xxx/ellauri199.html on line 658: Kuin Kirstin maxoittunut veri.			   But Christ’s redeeming blood.	

          xxx/ellauri199.html on line 673: Kallis Pyllis, ezi taivaan iloja,		Dear Phillis, seek for heaven’s joys,	

          xxx/ellauri199.html on line 703: Starttaa heti ekasta sanastá,			Start forth as ’twere at the first word,

          xxx/ellauri199.html on line 718: Kun on aika nuolla lusikka,		   Whene’er we come to die,		

          xxx/ellauri199.html on line 738: Ja koko taivaan armeija.		   And all the host of heav’n.

          xxx/ellauri199.html on line 827:     I guess life’s just a bitch

          xxx/ellauri199.html on line 828:     Sometimes we don’t get to know the answers

          xxx/ellauri199.html on line 830:     I wasn’t someone who just went with the flow

          xxx/ellauri199.html on line 831:     But I’m learnings to grow

          xxx/ellauri199.html on line 832:     I’m hoping all my hard work shows

          xxx/ellauri199.html on line 833:     I m a fighter and that’s something you already know

          xxx/ellauri199.html on line 836:     I’m a queen and I’m coming to get my crown

          xxx/ellauri199.html on line 883: Sandcastles washed away by the sea, a child wondering about Dad’s bald head, a disastrous picnic. Here are scenes from real life you will certainly recognise. But in Judith Nicholls’ poems, they are turned into myths and mysteries, grand stories, amusing songs or epic tales. On the other hand, she takes the mighty Roman empire – and packs it up into 40 words!

          xxx/ellauri199.html on line 885: Judith Nicholls reads her poems in a slow, thoughtful way, like a ruminating cow. If you listen to ‘Winter’, you can hear how she allows the music of each word to sound fully.

          xxx/ellauri199.html on line 889: She has published over 50 books of children’s poetry and appeared on radio and television. Judith likes to start her poems off by writing on green paper with a 2B pencil.

          xxx/ellauri199.html on line 893:   In homage to the Greeks, who still defiantly call Neptune Poseidon, I started with the Homeric ‘Hymn to Poseidon’. This ancient song opens by acknowledging the earth shaker’s desolate domain, but ends with a trusting appeal to his better nature:

          xxx/ellauri199.html on line 907: Contemporary odes to Neptune were harder to come by, but divine intervention ensured I found one that mentioned him by name. One of the highlights of my recent trip to Odesa, discussed here on the blog, was a visit to the literary museum, which houses a small collection of Anna Akhmatova’s work. The statuesque Russian poet, melancholic lover and resolute witness to the Stalinist and Putinist terrors, was born near Odesa and spent her childhood summers in the region. The display included a palm-sized booklet of the long poem ‘Close to the Sea’, or as my host translated, ‘very close’: an intimate relationship. I looked it up in The Complete Poems when I got home and assumed it must be ‘By the Edge of the Sea’. The ballad of a fierce young woman willing the arrival of her beloved from the waves, the poem was too long for the workshop and extracts would not do it justice. A shame, I thought, setting down the 950 page book, which promptly fell open to:

          xxx/ellauri199.html on line 914: Ведущая в Нептуновы владенья, -			Leading to Neptune’s kingdom ―			

          xxx/ellauri199.html on line 955: Everything is holy! everybody’s holy! everywhere is holy! everyday is in eternity! Everyman’s an angel! 
          

          xxx/ellauri199.html on line 956: The bum’s as holy as the seraphim! the madman is holy as you my soul are holy! 
          

          xxx/ellauri199.html on line 980: Great to use on its own or as a companion book, Devotions for a Revolutionary Year expands on the themes of Lynn Cowell’s first book, His Revolutionary Love. In short, easy-to-read daily devotions, Lynn chats to girls about the challenges of growing up as a girl: identity and acceptance, breasts and pubic hair, rejection and rebellion, pads and tampons, and self-control and surrender. Through Scripture and stories any girl can relate to, Lynn Cowell encourages girls to remember that Jesus loves them and is harassing  pursuing them every day—and that knowing his love day by day can make for one revolutionary year.

          xxx/ellauri199.html on line 1026:     "It’s a perfect metaphor for the child abuse that is providing gender-affirming care to confused children." - Western Journal

          xxx/ellauri199.html on line 1031: Johnny is a little boy with a big imagination. One day he pretends to be a big scary dinosaur, the next day he’s a knight in shining armor or a playful puppy. But when the internet people find out Johnny likes to make-believe, he’s forced to make a decision between the little boy he is and the things he pretends to be — and he’s not allowed to change his mind. 

          xxx/ellauri199.html on line 1049: In The War on the West, Douglas Murray shows how many well-meaning people have been fooled by hypocritical and inconsistent anti-West rhetoric. After all, if we must discard the ideas of Kant, Hume, and Mill for their opinions on race, shouldn’t we discard Marx (Karl, Groucho´s OK), the Jew whose work is peppered with racial slurs and anti-Semitism? Embers of racism remain to be stamped out in America, but what about the raging racist inferno in the Middle East and Asia? What about Israel? Nigeria?

          xxx/ellauri199.html on line 1051: It’s not just dishonest scholars who benefit from this intellectual fraud but hostile nations and human rights abusers hoping to distract from their own ongoing villainy. Dictators who slaughter their own people are happy to jump on the “America is a racist country” bandwagon and mimic the language of antiracism and “pro-justice” movements as PR while making authoritarian conquests.

          xxx/ellauri199.html on line 1070:   In the summer of 1936, Theodor Geisel was on a ship from Europe to New York when he started scribbling silly rhymes on the ship’s stationery to entertain himself during a storm: “And this is a story that no one can beat. I saw it all happen on Mulberry Street.”

          xxx/ellauri199.html on line 1071: The rhymes morphed into his first children’s book, “And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street,” about a boy who witnesses increasingly outlandish things. First published in 1937, the book started Geisel’s career as Dr. Seuss. He went on to publish more than 60 books that have sold some 700 million copies globally, making him one of the world’s most enduringly popular children’s book authors.

          xxx/ellauri199.html on line 1073: But some aspects of Seuss’s work have not aged well, including his debut, which features a crude racial stereotype of an Asian man with slanted lines for eyes. “Mulberry Street” was one of six of his books that the Seuss estate said it would stop selling this week, after concluding that the egregious racial and ethnic stereotypes in the works “are hurtful and wrong.”

          xxx/ellauri199.html on line 1074: The announcement seemed to drive a surge of support for Seuss classics. Dozens of his books shot to the top of Amazon’s print best-seller list; on Thursday morning, nine of the site’s top 10 best sellers were Seuss books.

          xxx/ellauri199.html on line 1076:   The estate’s decision — which prompted breathless headlines on cable news and complaints about “cancel culture” from prominent conservatives — represents a dramatic step to update and curate Seuss’s body of work, acknowledging and rejecting some of his views while seeking to protect his brand and appeal. It also raises questions about whether and how an author’s works should be posthumously curated to reflect evolving social attitudes, and what should be preserved as part of the cultural record.

          xxx/ellauri200.html on line 86: After a prolonged battle with Alzheimer’s disease (he lost btw), Nissim Ezekiel died in Mumbai, on 9 January 2004 (aged 79).

          xxx/ellauri200.html on line 88: Ezekiel penned poems in ‘Indian English’ ("I am levitating now", "Eat My meat and curry" pronounced with cacuminals and a singing accent)  like the one based on instruction boards in his favourite Irani café. His poems are used in Indian English textbooks. His poem 'Background, Casually' is considered to be the most defining poem of his poetic and personal career.

          xxx/ellauri200.html on line 408: A person will open their email account and find an email claiming to be from a Nigerian prince or an exiled politician. The person may claim to be from a country that’s currently in the news, or another location that’s experienced civil disturbance.

          xxx/ellauri200.html on line 414: The Nigerian 419 scammers experience a high rate of success because people are often willing to risk a small amount of money in order to take a chance on getting a much larger reward. It’s a type of scam known as advance fee fraud, and it’s not the only example to be found online. Nigerian scams typically fall under the category of ‘beneficiary funds’. That is, they ask victims for money to help access large funds held in trust for stranded family members or a similar sob story.

          xxx/ellauri201.html on line 62: Hyväkäytöksinen ja rauhallisen varma oli tämä Isokukko-Uljas kaikissa otteissaan. Kyllä se monta kertaa kantoi minulle painavan ves’ämpärin tai työnsi isomman vesisaavin kelkalla kaivolta ovelle, kantoi vielä sisäänkin. Eino ei niitä asioita huomannut, sitä sai aina käskeä ja muitakin miehiä. Kyselivät sitten iltasilla tuvassa, mistä Uljas oli kotoisin. Hämeestähän se kuulemma oli. Kysyivät, oliko sillä heila tai peräti eukko jossakin, ehkä aviolapsiakin, aviottomista lehtolapsista puhumattakaan. Siihen Uljas myhäili, että eukko on ja hyvä onkin. Lapsiakin oli siunaantunut jo seitsemän, nuorimmainen syntyi menneenä kesänä, poikalapsi oikein. Nuoret naimahaluiset miehet vaan lisää kyselivät, että mitenkäs sitten ne lehtolapset. Kai niitäkin oli maalimalla olemassa, niin kuin jokaisella kunnon metsätyömiehellä ja tukkipojalla tiedettiin olevan. Nosti se sellainen miehen arvoa kummasti. Isokukko-Uljas hyvillään naureskeli, että onhan sitä niitäkin tullut alulle pantua, kun oli niin mieluisaa puuhaa se lapsenteko. Miehet nauraa hekottelivat omaan tapaansa, minullakin veti suu hymyyn, mutta käännyin hellan puoleen, etteivät nähneet.

          xxx/ellauri201.html on line 88: Aikansa vittuani koulittuaan rupesi Isokukko-Uljas tosissaan lykkimään, työnsi aisaansa vakoseeni oikein voimalla. Minua hirvitti se meno, vieläkin aristi, vaikka nautinto ja hekuma niskan päälle pääsivät. Huohotin, ettei nyt enää pitkään naitaisi, ei kestä paikat. Lupasi se Isokukko-Uljas, mutta ei heti kumminkaan lopettanut. Sänky antoi jo sellaista valitusta, että kuului varmasti tupaan. En minä siinä enempää muita joutanut ajattelemaan, kuulkoot vaan, miten emäntää naidaan. Minulla olikin sängyssä nyt semmoinen sonni, ettei ikinä ollut ennemmin ollut. Se polki tosissaan, kun oli, millä polkea! Ai ai ai, että minä aloin ulista, loppua kohden jo huusin suoraa huutoa! Vittua kirveli, yht’aikaa herkisti, liplatteli, värisytti voimalla, kun iso kyrpä täytti joka paikan. Isokukko-Uljas kurotti jalkansa sängynpäätyyn ja alkoi siitä ponnistella. Ai herrajestas, mimmoista astumista se oli! Minä alla valitin, iso vieras mies päällä nussi, murisi mahdissaan, vitussa iso siitin teki työtään, kirnusi minua, nuorta halukasta emäntää, jonka oma ukko ei pystynyt!

          xxx/ellauri201.html on line 96: Seuraavana päivänä oli minulla vittu niin kipeä että. Ikinä ei ole ollut yhtä kipeä kuin silloin oli. Ei kunnolla voinut istua, ei kävellä. Silloin tiesin taas saaneeni. Kipeämpi oli kuin ihka ensimmäisen naintikerran jäljiltä. Illalla miehet minulle virnuilivat. Kyselivät, että miten se emäntä yht’äkkiseltään ontumaan alkoi, iskivät silmää. Minä vaan takasin naurahtelin, vaikka hellänä oli tavara ja vaikea olla. Kustin-tura makasi kamarissaan, oli ottanut sydämestä. Siellä mietti, mimmoisen huor’akan kanssa oli naimisissa. Ja Eino se pakkasi nurkassa kimpsujaan ja kampsujaan, ilmoitti tukkikämpälle muuttavansa. Sinne se meni menojaan. Jouti minun puolesta mennäkin, semmoinen jurottaja. Siellä se ei sitten enää ulos vetänytkään, kuului emännöitsijä tulleen kohta tiineeksi. Vaan mistä sitä tiesi, kenen siemenet siellä itämään läksivät. Eino se kuitenkin vastuun kantoi, jäljet korjasi, ja vihille isovatsaisen emännöitsijän kuului myöhemmin vieneen.

          xxx/ellauri202.html on line 54:       Sosiaalisen ympäristön vaikutus yksilön kehitykseen on Rogerinkin sepustusten kantava teema, ja häntä pidetään 1800-luvun realismin ja naturalismin perinteen jälkijättöisenä jatkajana. Martin du Gardin tunnetuin teos on kahdeksanosainen sarja Thibault’n suku (Les Thibault), josta on suomennettu kuusi osaa.

          xxx/ellauri202.html on line 153: Roger Martin du Gardin Thibault'n suvusta jäivät lukematta osat 7 ja 8, joita ei ole suomennettu, eri lähteistä päättelen, että osassa 7 L’Été 1914 ensimmäinen maailmansota on syttymässä ja sitten on mahdollisesti vielä osa 8 Épilogue.

          xxx/ellauri202.html on line 196:   Roger Martin du Gard (23 March 1881 – 22 August 1958) was a French novelist, winner of the 1937 Nobel Prize for Literature. Martin du Gard, homosexual by inclination and avocation, was miserably married to a devout Catholic who despised all his literary friends. Martin du Gard is much impressed with the fine appearance of the German race. The handsome boys and beautiful young girls are, to him, a reincarnation of ancient Greece. Martin du Gard reported back to André Gide on the wonders and delights of Berlin, where he had found the young involved in ‘natural, gratuitous pleasures, sport, bathing, free love, games, [and] a truly pagan, Dionysiac freedom’.

          xxx/ellauri202.html on line 198:     He spent most of his time there wandering around ‘the less salubrious districts of the city’, noticing (relative to Paris) the many prostitutes of both sexes and the ready availability of pornography. Encouraged by such reports, André Gide visited Berlin no fewer than five times in 1933. He, too, was delighted by, and seriously interested in, what he found there, although he did concede to Robert Levesque that Paris itself was slowly becoming more Berlin-like even if at the same time (to use that most erotically evocative of geographical terms) more ‘southern’. The two writers coincided in Berlin in October, Gide arriving for a fortnight, Martin du Gard for five weeks. They did their best to avoid each other on their forays into the sexual underworld, but always dutifully compared notes on what they had seen and experienced.

          xxx/ellauri202.html on line 200:     Martin du Gard posed as a specialist in matters sexual in order to attend interviews with homosexual men at Magnus Hirschfeld’s Institute. He also toured the gay clubs, nominating as his favourites the Hollandais and the lesbian Monocle. Christopher Isherwood was at Hirschfeld’s Institute on the day that Gide was given a guided tour, Gide ‘in full costume as The Great French Novelist, complete with cape’. Retrospectively calling him a ‘Sneering culture-conceited frog!’ from the safety of the mid-1970s – and in doing so sounding like a rather uptight, Francophobic D.H. Lawrence – Isherwood failed to consider that Gide’s pose might have been a way of giving Hirschfeld’s project the serious imprimatur of a symbolic cultural visit, to which the cape and the performed ‘greatness’ were essential embellishments.

          xxx/ellauri202.html on line 202: Les Thibault est une suite romanesque de Roger Martin du Gard, composée de huit volumes d'inégale longueur dont la publication s'est étalée de 1922 à 1940. C’est tout particulièrement pour cette œuvre, et bien qu'il lui restât encore à en écrire l'Épilogue, que Roger Martin du Gard reçut, en novembre 1937, le prix Nobel de littérature.

          xxx/ellauri202.html on line 218: En 1888, il engage une liaison avec Léontine Arman de Caillavet, qui tient un célèbre salon littéraire de la Troisième République, de qui il dira "sans elle, je ne ferais pas de livres" (journal de l'abbé Mugnier). Cette liaison durera jusqu’à la mort de celle-ci, en 1910, peu après une tentative de suicide à cause d'une autre liaison de France avec une actrice connue pendant un voyage en Amérique du Sud.

          xxx/ellauri202.html on line 224: Anan ekassa kirjassa Sylvestre Bonnard, membre de l’Institut, est un historien et un philologue, doté d’une érudition non dénuée d’ironie : « Savoir n’est rien – dit-il un jour – imaginer est tout. »

          xxx/ellauri202.html on line 225: Il vit au milieu des livres, la cité des livres, mais se lance à la recherche, en Sicile et à Paris, du précieux manuscrit de La Légende dorée qu’il finit un jour par obtenir. Le hasard lui fait rencontrer la petite fille d’une femme qu’il a jadis aimée et, pour "protéger" l’enfant d’un autre tuteur abusif, il l’enlève. Après plusieurs années de bon usage par Sylvestre, la jeune fille épousera un élève de M. Bonnard. Tollanen pedofiilinen Goethen Mignon taas.

          xxx/ellauri202.html on line 243: Ana kannusti 1917 Leninin kommunistista vallankumousta. Anaa suizutettiin aivan sikana vielä kasikymppisenä, mutta heti kun kirstun kansi kolahti muuttui ääni kellossa, ja alkoi mahtava oikeistohyökkäys ja mustamaalaus. Bernanos croque l’auteur sous les traits d’Antoine Saint-Martin, académicien superficiel dans Sous le soleil de Satan. L’ancien secrétaire de l’écrivain, Jean-Jacques Brousson, y va également de son texte à charge dans un livre intitulé Anatole France en pantoufles, dans lequel il dépeint le portrait d’un homme odieux et vaniteux.

          xxx/ellauri202.html on line 331: Was Hitler Jewish? Wikimedia Commons Rumors of Adolf Hitler’s alleged Jewish ancestry have circulated since the end of World War II.

          xxx/ellauri202.html on line 333: As the dictator of Nazi Germany, Adolf Hitler allegrdly led a murderous regime that massacred millions in Europe, including some six million Jews. As such, it came as a shock when Hitler’s own lawyer, Hans Frank, claimed before his execution in 1946 that the Nazi leader was secretly part Jewish.

          xxx/ellauri202.html on line 335: Historians have since battled to uncover the truth. Was Hitler actually Jewish? Or was Frank’s claim a last-gasp attempt at notoriety before he died? Let’s take a look at the peculiar conspiracy theory.

          xxx/ellauri202.html on line 338: dolf Hitler’s lawyer Anne Frank claimed that the Nazi leader was part Jewish in his memoir. As Hitler’s personal lawyer and the governor-general of Poland during World War II, Anne Frank was executed during the Nuremberg trials in 1946. Seven years later in 1953, his memoir was posthumously published.

          xxx/ellauri202.html on line 342: Frank claimed that he’d looked into Hitler’s ancestry upon the Nazi leader’s own request in 1930. According to Frank, Hitler’s half-nephew had found evidence of his Jewish lineage — and was threatening to use it as blackmail.

          xxx/ellauri202.html on line 344: In his memoir, Frank wrote that Hitler’s paternal grandmother, Maria Anna Schicklgruber, was once employed as a cook by a Jewish family in Graz, Austria. During this time, Schicklgruber became pregnant by an unknown man and gave birth to Hitler’s father, Alois Schicklgruber, in 1837. Alois was registered as an “illegitimate child” with no dad when he was born.

          xxx/ellauri202.html on line 346: Hitler would later insist that Johann Georg Hiedler — the man who married Schicklgruber in 1842 — was his paternal grandfather. Hiedler died in 1857, so he clearly wasn’t able to fully back up this claim for the Third Reich. Although Nazi Germany apparently accepted the story, many modern historians have debated whether it was actually true.

          xxx/ellauri202.html on line 348: To this day, the true identity of Hitler’s paternal grandfather remains unknown. So amidst the ongoing mystery, Frank suggested that Alois’s father was the 19-year-old son of Schicklgruber’s employer, Frankenberger Sr.

          xxx/ellauri202.html on line 350: Frank alleged that letters between Schicklgruber and Frankenberger Sr. corroborated this theory, as Frankenberger had sent money to Schicklgruber for child support. Frank suggested this as evidence that Hitler’s paternal grandfather was indeed Jewish — making Hitler a quarter Jewish.

          xxx/ellauri202.html on line 352: But was Frank’s account true? Let's have closer look at a controversial claim!

          xxx/ellauri202.html on line 355: 
          Hitler’s father Alois was rumored to have had a Jewish father.
          

          xxx/ellauri202.html on line 357: First off, it should be noted that according to traditional Jewish law, a person’s Jewish status is passed down through the mother.

          xxx/ellauri202.html on line 359: Since Hitler’s alleged ancestry would’ve only been passed down through his father, that would’ve meant that a ritual of conversion would’ve been required for him to be considered Jewish, according to tradition. (That said, it should also be noted that not all Jewish groups follow this custom, especially the more liberal movements that emerged in the 1980s.)

          xxx/ellauri202.html on line 361: But in Nazi Germany, the leaders came up with their own anti-Semitic definition of a Vierteljude, or “Quarter Jew.” And this was someone who simply had one Jewish grandparent. So according to Hitler’s own rules, he would indeed be considered a quarter Jewish — if Frank’s claim was true.

          xxx/ellauri202.html on line 363: However, during the 1950s, a German author named Nikolaus von Preradovich punched a hole in Frank’s claim. Preradovich said that he found that “there were no Jews in Graz before 1856.” Well what did he know? Preradovich who anyway? And this was crucial to Frank’s claim about Hitler’s heritage. But it did not stop the rumors from swirling.

          xxx/ellauri202.html on line 365: Most recently, the conspiracy theory about whether Adolf Hitler was Jewish resurfaced in 2019. Psychologist Leonard Sax released a paper reexamining the controversial claim, titled Aus den Gemeinden von Burgenland: Revisiting the question of Adolf Hitler’s paternal grandfather.

          xxx/ellauri202.html on line 367: In the study, published in the Journal of European Studies, Sax wrote that he had found evidence from Austrian archives that there was in fact a Jewish community in Graz before 1850, contrary to Preradovich’s claim.

          xxx/ellauri202.html on line 369: According to Sax’s paper, Emanuel Mendel Baumgarten, one of the first Jewish individuals elected to the Vienna municipal council in 1861, had petitioned the governor of Styria — the Austrian province where Graz is located — to lift the restrictions on Jewish people living in the area.

          xxx/ellauri202.html on line 371: In his 1884 book The Jews in Styria: a historical sketch, Baumgarten stated that he and several Jewish colleagues met with the governor in 1856. A letter to mayors in Styria, which was cited in Sax’s paper, noted, “Jews are staying in local districts for a long time and are taking up residence for a long time.”

          xxx/ellauri202.html on line 375: Sax also presented evidence that Preradovich was a Nazi sympathizer — which would’ve motivated him to debunk the theory that Hitler was Jewish.

          xxx/ellauri202.html on line 377: 
          The Definitive Alternative Truth About Hitler’s Heritage
          

          xxx/ellauri202.html on line 379: If Adolf Hitler had Jewish ancestry, then how could we reconcile that with the fact that he was responsible for the Holocaust? Why not, I don't see the point? That he could not have killed his fellow Jews? What a racist notion. Sax believes that Hitler’s alleged lineage might actually help explain his anti-Semitism.

          xxx/ellauri202.html on line 381: “I argue that one factor driving his anti-Semitism was his intense need to prove that [he’s] not Jewish,” Sax said in an interview.

          xxx/ellauri202.html on line 383: But the conspiracy theory that Hitler was Jewish has been dismissed by many historians. And even this most recent study has been met with skepticism. Historian Sir Richard Evans, the author of The Third Reich Trilogy, challenged Sax’s study on what it actually proved.

          xxx/ellauri202.html on line 385: “Even if there were Jews living in Graz in the 1830s, at the time when Adolf Hitler’s father, Alois, was born, this does not prove anything at all about the identity of Hitler’s paternal grandfather,” Evans said, also pointing out that Frank’s memoir has been found to be “notoriously unreliable.”

          xxx/ellauri202.html on line 389: Furthermore, Evans said there is no contemporary evidence that Hitler’s grandmother was ever in Graz, nor any evidence that a Frankenberger family was living there during that time period. Evans notes that there was a Frankenreiter family who resided there, but they were not Jewish.

          xxx/ellauri202.html on line 391: The historian Ian Kershaw also pointed out in his 1998 book Hitler 1889-1936: Hubris that the figure who was allegedly Hitler’s father — the son of the Frankenreiter family — would have been just 10 years old when Alois was born. So clearly, the history of that family doesn’t hold water.

          xxx/ellauri202.html on line 395:   Some historians believe rumors of Hitler’s Jewish heritage are society’s attempt to grapple with his atrocities.

          xxx/ellauri202.html on line 396: In short, it appears that there is no definitive evidence that Adolf Hitler was Jewish. But considering his disturbing legacy, it’s easy to see how such a conspiracy theory could fester over the decades.

          xxx/ellauri202.html on line 398: “Hitler’s grandmother [from his father’s side] was not married, and thus, considering his destructive role and hideous actions, rumors and claims like that are almost natural,” said Havi Dreifuss, a historian of the Holocaust in Eastern Europe at Tel Aviv University.

          xxx/ellauri202.html on line 409: One of the most frequently asked questions about the Holocaust and the Nazi party is whether Adolf Hitler was Jewish or had Jewish ancestors. The question received new media attention in May 2022 when Russia’s foreign minister claimed Hitler "had Jewish blood."

          xxx/ellauri202.html on line 411: Though the idea may seem preposterous to some, the question seems to stem from the remote possibility that Hitler´s grandfather was Jewish. Hitler’s father, Alois, was registered as an illegitimate child with no father when born in 1837 and to this day Hitler’s paternal grandfather is unknown. In 1842, Johann Georg Hiedler married Alois’s mother. Alois was brought up in the family of Hiedler’s brother, Johann Nepomuk Hiedler. In 1876, when Alois was 39, he was made legitimate and his baptismal record annotated by a priest to register Johann Georg Hiedler as Alois’s father (recorded as "Georg Hitler"). Alois then assumed the surname "Hitler."

          xxx/ellauri202.html on line 413: In his 1953 memoir In the Face of the Gallows (published after his execution in 1946), Hitler’s lawyer Hans Frank claimed that Hitler had told him to investigate rumors of him having Jewish ancestry. Frank said Hitler showed him a letter from a nephew who threatened to reveal he had Jewish blood. Frank wrote that he found evidence that Hitler’s grandfather was Jewish and that Alois’ mother, Maria Schicklgruber, worked as a cook in the home of a wealthy Jewish family named Frankenreiter in Graz. Austria, was impregnated by a member of the family – possibly their 19-year-old son – when she was 42.

          xxx/ellauri202.html on line 417: In fact, no Jews lived in Graz at the time, said a German author named Nikolaus von Preradovich to punch a hole in Frank´s claim. They were fumigated in the 15th century and didn´t return until decades after Hitler’s father was born.

          xxx/ellauri202.html on line 419: In 1933, the London Daily Mirror published a picture of a gravestone in a Jewish cemetery in Bucharest inscribed with some Hebrew characters and the name Adolf Hitler, but this Bucharest Hitler could not have been the Nazi leader’s grandfather. At the time, though, this picture sufficiently worried Hitler that he had the Nazi law defining Jewishness written to exclude Jesus Christ and himself.

          xxx/ellauri202.html on line 421: In 2010, the British paper The Daily Telegraph reported that a study had been conducted in which saliva samples were collected from 39 of Hitler’s known relatives to test their DNA origins and found, though inconclusively, that Hitler may have Jewish origins. The paper reported: "A chromosome called Haplogroup E1b1b1 which showed up in [the Hitler] samples is rare in Western Europe and is most commonly found in the Berbers of Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia, as well as among Ashkenazi and Sephardic Jews ... Haplogroup E1b1b1, which accounts for approximately 18 to 20 per cent of Ashkenazi and 8.6 per cent to 30 per cent of Sephardic Y-chromosomes, appears to be one of the major founding lineages of the Jewish population." This study, though scientific by nature, is inconclusive.

          xxx/ellauri208.html on line 474: Mahfouzin teoksiin kuuluu Awlad Haretna (arab. أولاد حارتنا‎, ’Awlād Ḥāratnā, joka on käännetty englanniksi nimillä Children of Gebelawi ja Children of the Alley) vuodelta 1959. Se ilmestyi aluksi jatkokertomuksena lehdissä ja kertoo vertauskuvallisesti yksijumalaisten uskontojen synnystä. Uskonoppineet estivät teoksen julkaisemisen romaanina ja Mahfouz joutui fatwayrityksen kohteeksi. Kirjassa kerrotaan Adam-isän ja kolmen pojan (Mooses, Jeesus ja Muhammad) tarinat. Teos julkaistiin kirjana toisella lähettäjänimellä Beirutissa 1967.

          xxx/ellauri208.html on line 558:   A Medicine Wheel is the basis of the cosmology and five element rituals of the Dagara (between Ghana and Burkina Faso). The five elements are Fire (red, south), Water (blue, north), Earth (yellow, centre), Mineral (white, west) and Nature (green, east). This image comes from a page called ‘Elemental Rituals’ at malidoma.com. It is a colour version, with slight modifications, of the Medicine Wheel illustrated in Somé’s book ‘The Healing Wisdom of Africa‘.

          xxx/ellauri208.html on line 1027: The commentator Ibn Ishaq narrated that he was the first man to write with a penis and that he was born when Adam still had 308 years of his life to live. In his commentary on the Quranic verses 19:56-57, the commentator Ibn Kathir narrated "During the Night Journey, the Prophet passed by him in fourth heaven. In a hadith, Ibn Abbas asked Ka’b what was meant by the part of the verse which says, ”And We raised him to a high station.” Ka’b explained: Allah revealed to Idris: ‘I would raise for you every day the same amount of the deeds of all Adam’s children’ – perhaps meaning of his time only. So Idris wanted to increase his deeds and devotion. A friend of his from the angels visited and Idris said to him: ‘Allah has revealed to me such and such, so could you please speak to the angel of death, so I could increase my deeds.’ The angel carried him on his wings and went up into the heavens. When they reached the fourth heaven, they met the angel of death who was descending down towards earth. The angel spoke to him about what Idris had spoken to him before. The angel of death said: ‘But where is Idris?’ He replied, ‘He is upon my back.’ The angel of death said: ‘How astonishing! I was sent and told to seize his soul in the fourth heaven. I kept thinking how I could seize it in the fourth heaven when he was on the earth?’ Then he took his soul out of his body, and that is what is meant by the verse: ‘And We raised him to a high station.’"

          xxx/ellauri208.html on line 1048: 
          Madeleine vanished from her family’s holiday apartment in Praia da Luz, Portugal on May 3, 2007. Tää isonenäreikäinen kaveri oli käärinyt sen huoparullaan josta pisti lapsen jalat. Yhtä tumpelo kuin Raatimiehenkadun Bob.
          

          xxx/ellauri209.html on line 93: 	Easily topping the list of the 5 biggest companies that don’t pay taxes is Amazon, which is among the largest companies in the world in 2021. As I mentioned earlier, for many years Amazon was not profitable and made huge losses as it made inroads into the e-commerce market and gained a major market share by using extremely low prices as a strategy. This has allowed the company to use the tax losses from those years which are brought forward against any income earned and hence, avoid paid taxes even though they have an income of more than $10 billion.

          xxx/ellauri212.html on line 104:             If I lack’d anything.

          xxx/ellauri212.html on line 105: ‘A guest,’ I answer’d, ‘worthy to be here:’

          xxx/ellauri212.html on line 106:             Love said, ‘You shall be he.’

          xxx/ellauri212.html on line 108:             I cannot look on Thee.’

          xxx/ellauri212.html on line 110:             ‘Who made the eyes but I?’

          xxx/ellauri212.html on line 111: ‘Truth, Lord; but I have marr’d them: let my shame

          xxx/ellauri212.html on line 112:             Go where it doth deserve.’

          xxx/ellauri212.html on line 113: ‘And know you not,’ says Love, ‘Who bore the blame?’

          xxx/ellauri212.html on line 114:             ‘My dear, then I will serve.’

          xxx/ellauri212.html on line 115: ‘You must sit down,’ says Love, ‘and taste my meat.’

          xxx/ellauri212.html on line 418:   "At its 1934 debut in Paris, it was shown for fifteen days, covered, in the gallery’s back room," wrote the art critic Jerry Saltz in 2013. "In 1977, it appeared for a month at Pierre Matisse’s 57th Street gallery. It has never been exhibited again, as if it were some metaphysical equivalent of the cursed videotape in The Ring that kills anyone who views it."

          xxx/ellauri215.html on line 93: According to an article in The Cut, a 2008 survey of sex therapists, found that sex is “too short” when it lasts one to two minutes. “‘Adequate’ is three to seven minutes, and ‘desirable’ is seven to 13,” per their report.

          xxx/ellauri215.html on line 95: Did you know that during sex, men thrust an average of 60-120 times?” wrote one person on Yelp. Clinical sexologist Sunny Rodgers tells me that she’s heard the same number. “That’s from entering the vagina to ejaculation,” she explains.

          xxx/ellauri215.html on line 127:   From the start, critics complained about the ostensible sameness of Roth’s books, their narcissism and narrowness—or, as he himself put it, comparing his own work to his father’s conversation, “Family, family, family, Newark, Newark, Newark, Jew, Jew, Jew.”

          xxx/ellauri215.html on line 129:   Roth was always a performer. As a student actor, he played Happy Loman in “Death of a Salesman,” the shepherd in “Oedipus Rex,” and the ragpicker in “The Madwoman of Chaillot.” After reading Thomas Mann’s novella “Mario and the Magician” and getting a chance to lecture in a lit-crit course, Roth decided that he’d become a professor. Maybe he’d write, too.

          xxx/ellauri215.html on line 131:   It wasn’t until “The Ghost Writer,” in 1979, that Roth regained his footing. Zuckerman, Roth’s most Roth-like surrogate, was a perfectly pitched instrument. The costs of radical freedom—the challenge of grappling openly, outrageously, with even the ugliest impulses of life—became a subject of his work.

          xxx/ellauri215.html on line 137:   “A fiction writer’s life is his treasure, his ore, his savings account, his jungle gym,” he wrote. “As long as I am alive, I don’t want somebody else playing on my jungle gym—disturbing my aborted children, quizzing my ex-wife, bugging my present wife, seeking for Judases among my friends, rummaging through yellowing old clippings, quoting in extenso bad reviews I would rather forget, and getting everything slightly wrong.”

          xxx/ellauri215.html on line 143: In 1961 Roth visited Bernard Malamud in Oregon. Roth was still in his twenties and had just published his first book of stories, Goodbye, Columbus. Malamud was almost 50 and one of the most famous writers in America. This meeting was immortalised in one of Roth’s greatest books, The Ghost Writer. In this 1979 work, a young writer, Nathan Zuckerman, visits EI Lonoff, a first-generation immigrant modelled on Malamud, who found a new voice for Jewish-American literature. He had found a voice but, more importantly, he had a subject: “life-hunger, life-bargains, and life-terror”—a Jewish experience rooted in the traumas of east Europe and Russia.

          xxx/ellauri215.html on line 364: Alexander Stubb who has had direct experience with Putin and Russia, comments on the situation says, "The first argument is that Russia could not help itself. Russia has already been an expansionist and aggressive state. Unlike eg. Greece, Italy, Sweden, Britain, France, Germany and the U.S.A. You have to understand Russia's history to understand where Russia is coming from. ... Russia believes in destiny, there is a certain nostalgia and narrative of it’s expansionist past, which previously made Russia into a great superpower. So the argument that Russia is somehow working to defend itself from Ukraine doesn’t stand up. Russia could not help itself. Its like bulimia. There was absolutely no reason for Russia to attack. Russia just doesn't like capitalist democratic neighbors, just like America does not like communists, and the only one they allow to exist is Finland, which is insignificant. For the rest they think of spheres of interest and power, like the Chinamen."

          xxx/ellauri215.html on line 388: In 2008 when Putin attacked Georgia, George Bush and Condoleezza Rice came out onto the Whitehouse lawn and said, "We will help Georgia, we will back them up." And what happened? We got a ceasefire agreement in 5 days. In 2014 when Putin attacked Crimea, Obama was pivoting towards Asia and it wasn’t about Russia; and, Obama said we weren't going to intervene in Crimea. But of course in this case he got it wrong, he was just a dumb coon and a democrat to boot. The message that Putin got was completely the opposite that's why he attacked the Donbas because he thought that the reaction of the EU and US would be the same. He is almost as dumb as me, and I'm an ass in shorts."

          xxx/ellauri215.html on line 394: "And this brings me to my conclusion. I’m a strong believer in academic freedom (BUAHAHAHA, stop, you're killing me!) and open debate. I’m somewhat worried coming from a country that lives next to Russia and have been attacked by the Soviet Union and had to survive WW2 as a Soviet neighbor and have had to lose my summerhouse in Porckala to the Soviet Union, that academics make claims that simply are untrue and it doesn’t help if you quote documentation and skew it in a certain direction… more important than international relations theory is the reality of what is happening on the ground. 

          xxx/ellauri215.html on line 430: The Dahomey Amazons, or “N’Nonmiton” meaning “Our Mothers,” were Fon female regiments of the army of the kingdom of Dahomey, now the Republic of Benin in Africa.

          xxx/ellauri215.html on line 460: “There must be close bodily contact during sex. This means that a husband must not treat his wife in the manner of the Persians, who perform their marital duties in their clothes. This provides support for the ruling of Rav Huna who ruled that a husband who says, ‘I will not perform my marital duties unless she wears her clothes and I mine,’ must divorce her and give her also her settlement [the monetary settlement agreed to in the marriage contract].”

          xxx/ellauri215.html on line 463: “Since a man’s wife is permitted to him, he may act with her in any manner whatsoever. He may have intercourse with her whenever he so desires and kiss any organ of her body he wishes, and he may have intercourse with her naturally or unnaturally [traditionally, this refers to anal and oral sex], provided that he does not expend semen to no purpose. Nevertheless, it is an attribute of piety that a man should not act in this matter with levity and that he should sanctify himself at the time of intercourse.”

          xxx/ellauri215.html on line 466: “Rav Hisda ruled: A man is forbidden to perform his marital duty in the daytime, for it is said, ‘And thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself’ (Leviticus 19:18). But what is the proof? Abaye replied: He might observe something repulsive in her, and she would thereby become loathsome to him.”

          xxx/ellauri215.html on line 469: “Three things enfeeble a man’s body, namely, to eat standing, to drink standing, and to have marital intercourse in a standing position.”

          xxx/ellauri215.html on line 472: “It was taught at the school of Rabbi Ishmael, ‘Thou shall not commit adultery’ implies, Thou shall not practice masturbation either with hand or with foot.”

          xxx/ellauri215.html on line 474: The study included 104 sexually active heterosexual couples who were asked how often they climax, how often they’d like to and how often they expect people should have orgasms. The study underscored a well-established gap in which men climax much more often than women, which the study said can lead to lower expectations among women. The findings were recently published in the journal Sex Roles.

          xxx/ellauri215.html on line 476: "The orgasm gap has implications for women’s pleasure, empowerment, sexual satisfaction and general well-being,” said Wetzel, who advocates for orgasm equality to her social media followers (6M to date, same number as holocaust victims. 100K kazojista tykkäsi, se on aika pieni prosentti, 1/60.).

          xxx/ellauri215.html on line 506:       The county keeps a list online of each person’s name, date of birth, date of death, and the date of cremation. All were cremated, and some lived long lives: Maria Bulgier was 103 when she died; Grace Wetzel, 92, Jewish.

          xxx/ellauri218.html on line 112: He believes the US can still successfully fight the wars of yesteryear — World War-style conflicts — but hasn’t yet mastered how to win wars against insurgents, which are smaller fights against groups within countries. The problem is the US continues to involve itself in those kinds of fights.

          xxx/ellauri218.html on line 114: “We’re still stuck in this view that war is like the Super Bowl: We meet on the field, both sides have uniforms, we score points, someone wins, and when the game ends you go home,”

          xxx/ellauri218.html on line 115:  “That’s not what war is like now. Now the way to win a war is  to waft wads of dollars to the havenots and then sit back and watch while they do the dirty job."

          xxx/ellauri218.html on line 117: The US military is currently mired in conflicts in countries like Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, and Yemen. It’s hard to see any end in sight — especially an end where the United States is the victor, however that’s defined.

          xxx/ellauri218.html on line 121: As they advanced rapidly through southern Iraq in the first three days, the Shia population should have danced with joy at the very sight of the Bradley fighting vehicles. Not! Simultaneously, the never failing US technology, having located the demon in chief in one of his lairs, would dispatch the hated Saddam. The missile hit the target, but Saddam wasn’t home.

          xxx/ellauri218.html on line 123: So, the government which was supposed to fall didn’t. As a result, Iraq’s little boys and girls and men and women of all ages didn’t shower kisses on US troops as they freed successive cities and finally Baghdad. During this piece of cake triumph, the "coalition forces" might lose a few troops to accidents and friendly fire like in Grenada, Bosnia and even Afghanistan, but the Iraqis wouldn’t really fight. Thus, we would not have a serious casualty count on our side and attribute a limited number of Iraqi civilian deaths to the cause of freedom itself. The United States would show off the tens of thousands of cowardly Iraqi POWs who surrendered without firing a shot.

          xxx/ellauri218.html on line 127: The lightning victory in Iraq would lead to a domino effect. Saddam’s collapse would somehow provoke non-Coke democracies to fall throughout the region. The Arab people would magically replace their old, corrupt regimes with US-style democracies - with the help of our troops, of course. 

          xxx/ellauri218.html on line 190:     Mutta jos palvelija on kelvoton, hän ajattelee: ’Herrani ei tule vielä pitkään aikaan’, 49 ja hän alkaa lyödä tovereitaan ja syö ja juo juoppojen seurassa. 50 Mutta päivänä, jota tuo palvelija ei arvaa, hetkenä, jota hän ei tiedä, hänen herransa tulee, 51 hakkaa hänet kuoliaaksi ja tuomitsee hänet samaan paikkaan, jossa muutkin teeskentelijät ovat. Siellä sitten itketään ja kiristellään hampaita jotka ovat päässeet löystymään kuin paskalaatuiset Ikea-huonekalut.

          xxx/ellauri218.html on line 220: 	After her husband’s murderer escapes justice, Sarah "Sunny" Harper (Fluegel) witnesses the work of a spree killer (Drago) who shoots people on the freeway and later quotes Bible passages to a local radio station’s psychiatrist disc jockey (Belcher). Police are unwilling to listen to Sunny, but a former cop named Frank Quinn (Russo) agrees to protect her, and later the two join forces to find the deranged freeway killer before he strikes again.

          xxx/ellauri218.html on line 289: La generación Z, también conocida como Zillennials, comprende a aquellos nacidos en los últimos años de los 90’s e inicio de los 2000. Aunque pareciera ser similar a los millennials, almenos desnudas, la verdad es que tienen rasgos muy definidos que ya veremos más adelante.	

          xxx/ellauri218.html on line 408:   The northeast blackout of 1965 was a significant disruption in the supply of electricity on Tuesday, November 9, 1965, affecting parts of Ontario in Canada and Connecticut, Delaware, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, and Vermont in the United States. In contrast to the wave of looting and other incidents that took place during the 1977 New York City blackout, only five reports of looting were made in New York City after the 1965 blackout. It was said to be the lowest amount of crime on any night in the city's history since records were first kept. Perhaps thanks to that more than 800,000 looters got trapped in the subway. The blackout that hit New York on July 13, 1977 was to many a metaphor for the gloom that had already settled on the city. An economic decline, coupled with rising crime rates and the panic-provoking (and paranoia-inducing) Son of Sam murders, had combined to make the late 1970s New York’s Dark Ages.

          xxx/ellauri218.html on line 420: The little blonde boy with the Dutch bang hair, the wide sailor cap and the big floppy bow collar became mascot to kids feet when he lent his image to the most famous children’s shoe company in the world, Buster Brown shoes.

          xxx/ellauri218.html on line 441: 	For years the city had had an unfair policy by which sanitation workers’ salaries had to be lower than police and firefighters’ salaries. And sanitation workers contributed more from their paychecks but got lower pensions compared to police and firefighters.

          xxx/ellauri218.html on line 445:     The workers’ decision to strike was about far more than money. One sanitation worker, a shop steward, said it all at a standing-room-only union meeting two days before the vote: “We may handle garbage but we’re not garbage.”

          xxx/ellauri218.html on line 447:     WW wrote: “There are 10,000 sanitation workers in New York City. They are asking for a $12 a week raise in pay. The total cost to the city would be about $6 million a year. … Last fall a little group of bankers convinced the city it needed ‘better subways’ and got a referendum passed to spend $2.5 billion for these allegedly better means of transport. This clique of bankers will supply the $2.5 billion of other people’s money for a price. They will rake off $125 million in tax-free interest each year for themselves and the city will pay it. That’s 21 times the $6 million the sanitation workers are asking for. And these bankers would never have to lift a garbage pail!”

          xxx/ellauri218.html on line 449:     The 1968 strike continued for nine days until Feb. 10, despite the media demonization of the union. The New York Times wrote on Feb. 9: “The runaway strike by the city’s unionized garbage collectors is the latest miscarriage of civil service unionism that relies on the illegal application of force to club the community into extortionate wage settlements. … Mayor Lindsay has taken the right and necessary course in moving for an injunction under the state’s new Taylor Law. The city cannot surrender to such tyrannical abuse of union power.”

          xxx/ellauri218.html on line 453: President of the sanitation workers’ union John Delury was jailed. Mayor Lindsay asked other unions, including District Council 37 of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, the city’s largest public employee union, to provide scabs and have their members pick up the garbage. In solidarity with the striking workers, other city workers refused.

          xxx/ellauri218.html on line 456:     Rockefeller flinched, saying: “The National Guard was used to break a strike in which a family corporation was involved when I was a child. Men and women were killed. … I will not use the National Guard.” Rockefeller was referring to the 1914 Ludlow massacre, when his grandfather, John D. Rockefeller, the owner of Colorado Fuel and Iron Company, got the Colorado governor to call in the National Guard to break a mine workers’ strike. The miners and their families were huddled in tents when the militia opened fire. Over 60 strikers and family members were shot dead or burned alive when their tents were set ablaze by the troops.

          xxx/ellauri218.html on line 459: A Workers World editorial named his real reason for sparing the sanitation workers: “Rockefeller refused to call the National Guard … because he was afraid to do so.” He had revealed his fear of labor’s strength in a Feb. 9 statement: “There are real risks as far as the stability and structure of organized labor and organized community are concerned.”

          xxx/ellauri218.html on line 461:     When the strike was finally settled, the union won a wage increase above the city’s offer: double-time pay for Sunday work and a 2.5 percent increase in the city’s contribution to their pension funds. Most of all, this was a victory for dignity and respect for the sanitation workers and for labor solidarity.

          xxx/ellauri218.html on line 465:   Two days after the NYC sanitation workers’ strike ended on Feb. 12, the predominantly African-American sanitation workers in Memphis, Tenn., went on strike. The union on the ground in the strike was AFSCME Local 1733. This was the famous “I Am a Man” strike, which the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was supporting when he was assassinated.

          xxx/ellauri218.html on line 467:     On Feb. 1, two African-American sanitation workers, Echol Cole and Robert Walker, had been crushed to death in one of the city’s outdated trucks. Memphis had no facilities for Black workers to wash up, change clothes or get out of the rain. Cole and Walker were sheltering from the rain inside the truck’s barrel when the compacting mechanism malfunctioned. The truck hadn’t been repaired because the city wouldn’t spend money for safety for these workers.

          xxx/ellauri218.html on line 472: Jesse Epps, a veteran labor organizer involved in the Memphis strike, commented on the Memphis-New York connection. Epps, who was with Dr. King when he was killed on April 4, spoke to a 2008 New York City sanitation workers’ meeting. The workers were celebrating being the only NYC uniformed workers’ union to negotiate and win a Martin Luther King birthday holiday in their contract.

          xxx/ellauri218.html on line 483:     Today, in the face of these attacks, the 1968 NYC sanitation workers’ strike continues to be a spark for labor unity and class struggle.

          xxx/ellauri224.html on line 76: Dront am Neckar steht a Bänkle, Joggele, mei Bua (I bin Soldat, vallera), M’r muass a faulenze könne, O dees wär schee, i wenn i Geld gnug hätt und Das Hobellied.

          xxx/ellauri224.html on line 147: This is a situation often found in Bellow’s work: the alliance between the shady millionaire and the intellectual. As a teenager, Trellman had been in love with Amy Wurstin, who had eventually chosen as her second husband Trellman’s best friend in high school, Jay Wurstin. Huom toisexi aviomiehexi, ei tää ole ihan se tavallinen tarina. Throughout the years, Harry Trellman had kept firm to the inner image of Amy in his mind even as he went through his varied career moves. Sitten kotirouviintunut Amy petti Jayta jonkun "Ankan" kanssa ja jäi erossa pennittömäxi. Siitä tuli sisustaja.

          xxx/ellauri224.html on line 149:   After Jay Wurstin dies prematurely, he is buried in the cemetery plot originally reserved for Amy’s father, who had sold it to him years earlier. Now Amy wants to remove Jay’s body to the burial plot of his own family so that her father, who is still alive at an advanced age, can eventually be buried there, mikä on hyvin juutalainen juttu. In a limousine provided by Adletsky, Amy and Trellman disinter and rebury the body. Moved by this scene of cell death and urban renewal, Trellman confesses to Amy that he has always loved her, that he has what he terms an “actual affinity” for her (hence the title of the story). He then asks her to marry him. Teinityttönä Amy oli ollut hoikka hempeä olento. Nyt  hiän oli vankka kuin tiilestä tehty paskahuusi. Hänen ainoa aarteensa oli tää Salen tolvana. Veistäisin paremman miehen puupalikasta. Samaa voisin sanoa eräistä Helmin poikaystävistä, mutten sano, koska Seija on kieltänyt. Tyydyn veistämään puupalikasta naishahmoja.

          xxx/ellauri224.html on line 450:   Brilliant Facts About Ukranian Wives in 2022. Ukranian mail order brides have always been popular amongst men from foreign lands. They’re stunning, well-mannered, and know etiquette perfectly well. You’ll find these brides to be an asset in the marriage. They aren’t just pretty or meant for the house, there’s much more inside. Find out the reasons why these girls are so popular among Western grooms and what makes them stand out!

          xxx/ellauri224.html on line 499: A man with an apparent 48-year grudge has been going each morning to urinate on the grave of his ex, much to the horror of her furious kids, who realized something was wrong when they discovered bags of poop left at their mom’s final resting place. “I felt like getting out and killing him,” said Michael Andrew Murphy, 43, told The Post of what it was like to catch the man he says has been desecrating the burial site of his mom, Linda Torello. Then my sis could have gone and peed, crapped and menstruated on his.

          xxx/ellauri224.html on line 506: Murphy said the video and pictures he and his sister got indicated that the man drove to the cemetery almost every morning between 6:14 a.m. and 6:18 a.m. with his current wife, got out of the car, walked to Torello’s grave and peed on it. (How could one video possibly indicate as much as that?) “I can’t get my wife to go out to dinner but this guy gets his wife to go along with him to desecrate my mom’s remains every morning!” Murphy fumed. 

          xxx/ellauri224.html on line 609: Ingmar Guandique, an undocumented immigrant from El Salvador, was convicted of Levy’s murder in 2010 and sentenced to 60 years in prison, but his conviction was later overturned and a retrial ordered earlier last year. The U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia dismissed all charges against Guandique in July after the office concluded that "it can no longer prove the murder case against Mr. Guandique beyond a reasonable doubt."

          xxx/ellauri224.html on line 615: CNN reported that the married father-of-two admitted to the alleged affair during initial police investigations. The outlet also reported that officials matched Gary to DNA collected from Chandra’s undergarments in her home.

          xxx/ellauri224.html on line 617: Despite his denials, Gary’s ties to Chandra’s case ultimately caused his political career to crumble. In 2002, he lost his house seat — just mere weeks after Chandra’s remains were discovered in Washington, D.C.’s Rock Creek Park. Gary then moved to Arizona, where he opened several Baskin-Robbins stores. However, his venture in the ice cream business was cut short in 2012, when his franchises reportedly closed.

          xxx/ellauri225.html on line 42: Did you know that Ursula K. Le Guin wrote a science fiction novel with a lesbian protagonist? I wouldn’t blame you if not; The Telling is not one of her more popular books. I wasn’t even sure if I wanted to review it—I try to feature sapphic authors with my reviews here, if at all possible. But I have a soft spot in my heart for The Telling, and I do believe that it is highly underrated when it comes to Le Guin’s esteemed corpus of work.

          xxx/ellauri225.html on line 44: The general gist is that humans originally spread throughout the galaxy from a planet called Hain. The Hainish colonies (including Earth) all eventually lost contact with and then memory of each other; each book or story then shows a planet at or shortly after the moment when contact is re-established. It’s a useful way to frame the classic sociological sci-fi writing that Le Guin is known for—an Envoy or Observer from the slowly burgeoning coalition of planets can arrive at a completely new human society, which Le Guin can then use to dissect and explore some facet of real life through speculative worldbuilding. And the best part of it is that unless Darwin got his hairy foot into it, all the Hainians got fully interlocking genitals! One of the biggest obstacles to enjoyable alien sex is overcome.

          xxx/ellauri225.html on line 46: That said, The Telling feels a little different compared to the rest of the Hainish Cycle. And for good reason—released in 2000, The Telling is the first full Hainish novel Le Guin wrote since The Dispossessed in 1974. It reads softer, more intimate than the books that came before, feeling almost more like fantasy than science fiction at times. The Telling follows Sutty Dass, an Observer who arrives on the planet Aka to record its history and culture while Hain makes its diplomatic overtures. During the time dilation of Sutty’s near-light space travel, however, Aka experienced an intense social upheaval that saw a tyrannical capitalist hegemony take power over the planet and attempt to wipe out the entirety of Aka’s long history. It then falls to Sutty, who grew up under religious oppression on Earth, to uncover and understand Aka’s historical and spiritual traditions as they are actively being eradicated by the corporation-state.

          xxx/ellauri225.html on line 48: The gay content in The Telling is rather subtle and subdued, but it isn’t an afterthought. Sutty’s lesbianism is an important aspect of her character, and when she starts meeting mazis, the keepers of the Telling, many of them are gay couples as well. There is a quiet romanticization of gay monogamy throughout The Telling that moved me when I first read it, and although not every aspect of the novel has aged as well, I’m still very endeared of it for that reason. If you enjoy classic science fiction, where the point is less a thrilling story and more the discovery of a brand new world, The Telling is by far my favorite of the bunch.

          xxx/ellauri225.html on line 52: Samantha Lavender is a lesbian library assistant on the west coast, making ends meet with a creative writing degree and tumbling in the hay with her wonderful butch partner. She spends most of her free time running Dungeons & Dragons (like she has since the 90’s), and has even published a few adventures for it. You can follow her @RainyRedwoods on both twitter and tumblr.

          xxx/ellauri225.html on line 228: Norris avioitui Dianne Holechekin kanssa vuonna 1958. Heidän ensimmäinen lapsensa Mike syntyi kovan yrityxen jälkeen vuonna 1963. Vuonna 1964 syntyi tytär Dina ja kuopus Eric vuonna 1965. Vuonna 1988 Norris ja Holechek erosivat kolmenkymmenen vuoden avioliiton jälkeen. Norris avioitui uudelleen vuonna 1998 23v nuoremman malli Gena O’Kelleyn kanssa. Vuonna 2001 pariskunnalle syntyi kaksoset: poika Dakota Alan Norris ja tytär Danilee Kelly Norris. Kylä lähtee (vaikkakin koeputkesta). 

          xxx/ellauri225.html on line 323: She was a little sharp, though, acerbic, which I gather was not uncommon for her.  I was a young writer, halfway through an MFA at Mills College, attending a reading in Berkeley given by my literary hero.  I had gathered up all my courage to ask a question. I’d spent a few years writing and publishing explicitly about sex, fighting through my own hesitations and society’s disapproval – my parents were tremendously upset with me for writing under my own name, another writer at a writer’s gathering accused me of being a nymphomaniac, and I even received hate mail from men in India, furious that one of their women was writing about sex.

          xxx/ellauri225.html on line 325: Of course, Le Guin was writing daring stories decades before me, stories of women who loved women, of four-person marriages, of people without gender.  Her stories offered possibilities that most of society hadn’t even imagined in the late 1960s; I knew she must have faced similar societal disapproval.  So I wanted to know why she faded to black for her sex scenes.  “There Arrad took me into his arms and I took Arrad into my arms, and then between my legs, and fell upward, upward through the golden light.”  (“Coming of Age in Karhide”)  There was plenty of sex in her books – sometimes tremendously important sex — but Le Guin didn’t dwell on the details. In fact her sex scenes were prudish and infinitely boring.

          xxx/ellauri225.html on line 327: When she took questions after her reading, I stood up from my spot in the back of the room and asked Le Guin why she didn’t talk explicitly about sex, hoping for I’m not sure what — some response that would both justify the work I’d been trying to do and connect it to her own work, that I so admired.  Instead, Le Guin gave a curt answer about those details not being that interesting.  I said, “Oh.”  And “Thank you.”  I sat down, and tried not to be crushed.

          xxx/ellauri225.html on line 329: I told my literature students about Ursula K. Le Guin today, squeezing a few minutes for her into a class on American science fiction writers of color, a class where she didn’t strictly speaking belong – though to be honest, I rather think she’d improve almost any class.  I told them about the six books that comprise Earthsea, about the gender-bending brilliance of The Left Hand of Darkness, the anarchist explorations in The Dispossessed, the stories in The Birthday of the World and Four Ways to Forgiveness (many of which I teach, gratefully).  I mentioned her National Book Award, and her host of awards in science fiction and fantasy.  I gave them her story “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas,” which is one of the most brilliant, uncomfortable stories I’ve ever read. But no blow-by-blow romps in the sack, alas. 

          xxx/ellauri225.html on line 349: Bloom was born in 1930 to a poor Orthodox Jewish household in the East Bronx, one of five children. He lost faith early in the Jewish God when he accidentally stumbled on the poetry of Hart Crane. He fell in love with Crane’s enthusiasm for life, his belief in the possibility of ecstatic pleasure, and his overall exuberance. This was in stark contrast to Bloom’s childhood, which he confesses was a lonely time.

          xxx/ellauri225.html on line 359: But Bloom’s insights don’t resonate deeply. He is too obsessed with comparing and contrasting, rather than allowing his responses to touch us deeply. He repeats his theory that poets always wrestle with the work of the poets that have come before them, either unconsciously or consciously, and then struggle to find their own voice in reaction to what has come before. There is something anti-transformative about his assertions, often tangled up with incomprehensible jargon.

          xxx/ellauri225.html on line 372: About Shakespeare, however, Bloom is nothing short of reverential: “My religion is the appreciation of high literature. Shakespeare is the summit. Revelation for me is Shakespearean or nothing.” He admits that much about the Bard still bewilders him. In a moment of rare vulnerability, Bloom admits he longs for more life. Bloom explains his theory of “self-otherseeing,” which allows one to glimpse parts of one’s self that are hidden from conscious view. “Self-otherseeing” also describes “the double-consciousness of observing our own actions and offerings as though they belong to others and not to ourselves.” Bloom insists that Shakespeare’s characterizations of Hamlet, Iago, Cleopatra and Falstaff use “self-othering,” and by watching them we inadvertently learn to think more seriously about ourselves. But he doesn’t show us how this has applied to him, only the declaration that it does so. We are left mystified and dubious.

          xxx/ellauri225.html on line 374: Recently, chanting Walt Whitman to himself at night—he describes Whitman as “our repressed voice,” a loosener and liberator whose fearlessness embraces every living moment—Bloom brought forth an almost feverish recollection from over 70 years ago. There was a young lady of 17 with lustrous long red hair. They were students at Cornell and took long walks together, picking apples that she would transform into a delicious applejack. And then, as with his mother, Bloom stops. We learn nothing else about the girl, what transpired, did he score, or what this memory meant to him on this restless night. He has already moved on, to his infatuation with Proust’s “privileged moments” and “sudden ecstasies of revelation,” which bring back to Bloom his dead parents whom he misses dearly.

          xxx/ellauri225.html on line 378: Ultimately Bloom cannot change into anything other than who he has always been—masterful and monstrous. He seems to sense he has moved out of favor in many circles but chooses not to dwell upon why. Instead, he continues as he always has: writing and teaching his handpicked “elite” students at Yale—part of the unique arrangement he has made with the university. He has led a long, cloistered, and entitled life. The aloneness he described as a child seems to have shrouded his adult life as well. I wonder if he questions this aloneness in his darkest moments. I would guess that he does not dwell too deeply upon it, perhaps afraid of answers he doesn’t wish to confront.

          xxx/ellauri227.html on line 170: – Det är roligt, förutom den lilla detaljen att min mamma nu kallar dessa två nya böcker för mina ‘sex-böcker’, avslöjar Camilla i programmet och ler.

          xxx/ellauri228.html on line 446:   The year was 1945. Prostitution in America is a respectable business. The sisters weren’t talented and weren’t educated or good looking, but they certainly were not lacking in entrepreneurship. With few available choices, the Venezuela’s set up their business. "Rancho El Ángel" was a bordello featuring as the main dish, you guessed it, the four sisters. An attached bar serving hot mineral oil with ball bearings in it  was added to increase the allure.

          xxx/ellauri228.html on line 449: If someone got sick, she was killed. If someone tried to run away, she was killed. If someone refused to work, she was killed. If someone wasn’t popular with the customers, she was killed. If someone got noticeably pregnant, the fetus was pulled out with a hanger; any complications and the mother was killed. If a patron had a lot of money, he was killed.

          xxx/ellauri228.html on line 467: A high-IQ person in Quora complains: I know there are many high-IQ people like me out there who weren’t as lucky, and live average or even miserable lives despite their intelligence. Life can be really unfair. It’s really very easy to screw life up, even when you have a high IQ. Especially when you have a high IQ.

          xxx/ellauri228.html on line 479: The Holy Supper consists of family thrashing, playful anticipation for the Afterbirth of Christ, and a fast meal on twelve dishes. These are the essential components of the evening gathering. The details can be adjusted to fit your family’s situation. Dad's belt and the tongues of mom's thigh length boots will do fine for a meal. Enjoy your time together as you prepare for the coming of our Lord into the House of Loaves.

          xxx/ellauri229.html on line 77: The Method to Science, Book 1 now available! I have now made the entire text of John Sergeant's The Method to Science, Book I, available online! Rather than continue to make each less available piecemeal, which I can do later (it is rather tedious to reformat and tailor everything to HTML), the entire text is now available as a PDF. It can be downloaded here: https://jonathanvajda.com/the-method-to-science/ I intend to create the next layer (updating spelling, such as ‘meerly’ -> ‘merely’, ‘compleat’ -> ‘complete’) after I finish the remaining books. There is so much to say by way of commentary. Much of what he offers is a fairly clear and straightforward case … 

          xxx/ellauri229.html on line 93: 2. That which is Attested unanimously by such a Multitude of Flies, and so Circumstanc’d, that they can neither be Mistaken in it Themselves, nor Conspire to deceive others is true; 

          xxx/ellauri229.html on line 94: But That there is a turd nearby is attested by such a multitude of Flies, and so Circumstanc’d, that they can neither be Mistaken in it Themselves, nor Conspire to deceive others; 

          xxx/ellauri229.html on line 97: 27. No Dead Testimony or History has any Authority, but by virtue of Living Testimony or Tradition. For, since Falshoods may be Written or Printed as well as Truths, it follows that nothing is therefore of any Authority, because ‘tis Written or Printed. Wherefore, no Book or History can Authenticate another Book; whence follows that, if it have any Authority, it must have it from Living Authority or Tradition, continuing down to us the Consent of the World, from the time that Author Writ, or the matters of Fact it relates were done, that the things it relates are True in the main; and, consequently, that the Book that relates them deserves Credit, or is (as we use to say) an Authentick History. For example, had a Romance, (soberly penn’d,) and Curtius’s History been found in a Trunk for many Hundreds of Years after they were writ; and the Tradition of the former Ages had been perfectly Silent concerning them both, and the Matters they relate; we must either have taken both of them for a Romance, or both for a True History; being destitute of any Light to make the least difference between them. [So there, fucking protestants!]

          xxx/ellauri229.html on line 101: 21. The Knowledg of the First Attesters is ascertain’d by what has been prov’d. §. §. 15.16. Their Veracity must be prov’d by shewing there could be no Apparent Good to move their Wills to deceive us; and the best proof (omitting the Impossibility of joyning in such an Universal Conspiracy to deceive, the Certain loss of their Credit to tell a Lie against Notorious Matters of Fact &c.) is the seen Impossibility of Compassing their Immediate End, which was to Deceive. Which reason is grounded on this, that no one man, who is not perfectly Frantick, acts for an End that he plainly sees Impossible to be compassed. For example, to fly to the Moon (LOL), or to swim over Thames upon a Pig of Lead. (Except a really Big Hollow Pig of Lead.)

          xxx/ellauri229.html on line 103: 29. Hence appears, that Historical Faith, meerly as Historical, that is, in passages Unabetted by Tradition, is not Absolutely Certain, but is liable to be False or Erroneous, and so is not without some Degree of Levity to be absolutely Assented to; tho’ we cannot generally with prudence Contradict them, but let them pass as if they were Truths, till some good occasion awakens our Doubt of them: The reason is given, in our last Paragraph, from this, that all Particulars are of slight Credit that were not Abetted by a Large and well-grounded Tradition. 

          xxx/ellauri229.html on line 104: 30. Tradition thus qualify’d as is above-said, viz. So that the Matters of Fact were Certainly Experienced by very great Multitudes of the First Attesters; that they were of great or universal Concern, and so prompting them still to relate them to the next Age; that they were Abetted by some obligatory Practise; and, lastly Impossible to gain a Belief, if they had not been; and thence, Obliging the Attesters to Veracity: Such a Tradition, I say, is more than Morally, that is, Absolutely Certain.

          xxx/ellauri229.html on line 106: Note, That some of these Matters of Fact now mention’d, do fall short as to some of the best Qualifications found in diverse other Traditions; viz. as to that of their being Practical. Which gives us farther light to discern the Incomparable Strength of Tradition, and how every way Impossible it is it should deceive us, were it furnisht with all the Advantages it might have. 

          xxx/ellauri229.html on line 107: 13. 265Hence is seen that Opinionative Faith is as much Irrational as Opinion was shown to be, taking it as Oppos’d to Science; for example. 

          xxx/ellauri229.html on line 110: What’s Promis’d will be; but That my Debtor will pay me money to morrow is what’s promis’d; 

          xxx/ellauri229.html on line 114: Bible Reading Plan Spreadsheet. I wanted to start doing the Robert M’Cheyne Bible reading plan this year. In it there is about 4 chapters per day, organized to have two from the Old Testament, and two from the New. There is an emphasis on reading the New Testament twice throughout the year. Here’s a PDF of M’Cheyne’s plan with some pros and cons mentioned at the start: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1EL8rR56QBu1lJwgEVos9IiOuLgfLgEud/view?usp=sharing. No big deal – there are a lot of ways to keep track. Well, I’m the kind of guy I don’t want to have paper around, so I’d like to avoid printing something off. I also … Continue reading Bible Reading Plan Spreadsheet.

          xxx/ellauri229.html on line 146: Phase 10 Score Tracking Spreadsheet. Want to keep track of scores Phase 10 but don’t want to use paper? There really wasn’t any easy way to do it electronically. I can’t think of an app that would do this well. Here’s what I would want the score keeper to be able to do: enter in numbers and the total score is calculated automatically keep track of who has completed a phase in a round easily calculate which phase each player is on Well, could a spreadsheet do that? Yes! Yes it can! Here’s mine: And here’s the template version: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1PzaZWrFHKojBDYrMMDB-5gSQEs9ORg65Jt4MMbVfI2M/copy?copyComments=false It accomplishes all of the … Continue readingPhase 10 Score Tracking Spreadsheet

          xxx/ellauri229.html on line 150: Though it is uncontroversial promise-making is a speech act, Thiselton argues prayer is also, contrary to the view prayer is merely “therapeutic meditation” (44, 53). Rather, prayer changes situations and necessarily involves others. How can petitions effect change when they are offered to an unchanging God (70)? Requests change the situation for answering prayer (53), and aren’t “an attempt ‘to twist God’s arm’” (71).

          xxx/ellauri229.html on line 156: Someone asked the Rabbit “Is whataboutism always fallacious?“ Here’s my reply: Bringing up someone else’s hypocrisy across cases is not fallacious in and of itself. It’s fallacious if the hypocrisy is irrelevant to their being alt-right. 

          xxx/ellauri229.html on line 158: Some critics say “You only care about the fetus’s rights. What about the mother? Doesn’t she have rights?”

          xxx/ellauri229.html on line 245: Possibly my favourite Raymond Briggs book, along with most of the others, this one tells the story of a girl who wakes up one morning to find a polar bear has climbed into her bedroom. It’s big, it smells, it has claws. They spend the day together. Have domestic adventures. Make messes. And then, at the end, the Bear goes away, swimming back to the North, leaving the girl pregnant with a cub. 

          xxx/ellauri229.html on line 279:   Imaginary friends are there to take the heat for us. They can be blamed for the accidents we have. ‘I didn’t break the vase, Mum, it was Rudger,’ for example. Algernon Moncrieff’s non-existent invalid friend Bunbury serves the same function, allowing him to get out of dull social affairs. Invalid friends in the country do this. We should all have one. Or be one.

          xxx/ellauri229.html on line 304: Some imaginary friends are good for you, some aren’t. When your dead wife comes home after Madame Arcati’s farcical séance and begins to comment, you know exactly where you are. Coward wrote this play whilst at Portmeirion in Wales, a place perfectly fitted to imaginariness. Noel was such a coward that he had to flee the place. 

          xxx/ellauri229.html on line 333:   Matt Harvey is one of the loveliest poets I know, briefly famous for being Wimbledon’s first poet-in-residence and for hosting BBC Radio 4’s Wondermentalist Cabaret. In his prose poem Imaginary Friend he tells the tragic story of how being a shy and withdrawn child he had an imaginary friend, who was also shy and withdrawn and had his own imaginary friend. “The two of them used to play together and exclude me,” he says. As with all of Harvey’s work, it is a lightfooted, calm-mouthed, moving piece of deceptively funny writing. Go read it. Oh and read Ken Nesbitt´s poem of the same name, while you´re at it. It is also super cute. 

          xxx/ellauri229.html on line 370:   To me, the most important imaginary friend, the most moving, the most delightful, the most grrr-ry, the most graceful, the wisest, most forebearing, most put upon, the funniest and handsomest (certainly the best drawn) is Hobbes. He’s a tiger and he’s perfect. He is a happy atheist and Calvin an anxious calvinist.

          xxx/ellauri229.html on line 410:   Possibly a contentious choice, but Even Madder Aunt Maud sincerely believes in the veracity and vivacity of her companion. She frets, she worries, she loves that stuffed mustalid like one of the family, while everyone else knows it’s just a mangy old no-longer-vital stoat. But then again, to Calvin’s parents’ eyes Hobbes is just a cuddly stuffed tiger.

          xxx/ellauri229.html on line 444:   Another choice some people won’t agree with, but I let the post-death Elvira in, why be afraid to take the same step in the opposite direction? It’s a puzzle this book, and it would be a shame to attempt to unpick it for anyone who’s not yet had the joy of swimming in its paradoxical, philosophical, intoxicating waters. It’s sometimes been called a grown-up Alice In Wonderland and that seems close enough. It’s a great treat for the enquiring teenager (or any) mind, especially an enquiring mind not in search of anything specific. It’s a book that should be read twice, at least. And you’ll never look at a bicycle the same again.

          xxx/ellauri229.html on line 465:   In this book four children share a dream. They all wake in the Castle of the Story Giant, a being that only comes alive when children dream him. He collects all the stories of the world, from the very dawn of consciousness and is waiting to hear the one last story he’s not yet found before he dies. This is a very wonderful collection of folk tales and version, told in Patten’s pinpoint prose.

          xxx/ellauri229.html on line 501: This is the beginning for me. The first book that showed me the trip into imagination. Images from it made their way into The Imaginary, both in my words and in, at least one of, Emily Gravett’s illustrations. This book is perfect. I longed for a wolf suit. I longed for supper to still be hot when I got home. Nothing else needs be said.  

          xxx/ellauri229.html on line 817: Cosimo di Giovanni de’ Medici (27. syyskuuta 1389 Firenze – 1. elokuuta 1464) oli ensimmäinen Medicien poliittisen suvun jäsen ja Firenzen hallitsija. Häntä sanotaan myös ”vanhemmaksi” (”il Vecchio”) ja isänmaan isäksi (”pater patriae”)

          xxx/ellauri229.html on line 818: Cosimo syntyi Firenzessä villakauppiaan ja pankkiirin poikana. Hän peri sekä rikkautensa, varovaisuutensa että liiketoiminnan tajunsa isältään Giovanni di Bicci de’ Mediciltä. Hänellä oli veli Lorenzo, ja hän oli tulevan mahtimiehen Lorenzo de’ Medicin isoisä. Vuonna 1415 hän avusti antipaavi Johannes XXIII:ta Konstanzin kirkolliskokouksessa.

          xxx/ellauri230.html on line 55: Jun’ichirō Tanizaki (1886–1965) oli japanilainen kirjailija. Hänen teoksensa käsittelevät usein eroottisia pakkomielteitä. Uransa alkuvaiheissa Tanizaki kirjoitti niin näytelmiä, elokuvakäsikirjoituksia kuin romaaneja ja novellejakin. Monet aiheet olivat omaelämäkerrallisia, ja niissä esiintyi kohtalokas nainen.

          xxx/ellauri230.html on line 59: But Tanizaki died in 1965. Bugger it. In the selection for that year, the academy judged that after Tanizaki’s death, Kawabata was the writer likeliest to become a Japanese candidate. Thus, the academy judged it necessary to further examine Kawabata.

          xxx/ellauri230.html on line 223: Myöhäisempi mongoli selostaa tapahtumat seuraavasti: Since the late 19 century and early 20 century, Tibet became more and more strategic place for British because Russian Czar’s expansion into Central Asia directly threatened India-‘the jewel in the crown’ of the British Empire. As a result, British government hurried its diplomatic step toward Tibet. In 1893, Qing government signed a contract with British, without Tibetan representative, promising British special trade rights in Tibet. Under such circumstances, Dozhiev, a Buriat Lama, also a close adviser of Thirteenth Dalai Lama, urged His Holiness to seek help from Czar’s Russia to prevent Tibet from British expansion since Manchu Qing was not powerful enough to protect Tibet anymore. This short paper tries to answer the questions like, what was the nature of his missions to Russia? And what was the relationship between Tibet and Russia during his missions in boarder international power relations?  Key words: envoy, missions, power relations.

          xxx/ellauri230.html on line 225:   Younghusband expedition to Tibet and Anglo-Russian Convention As for the British, Lord George Curzon, the new Viceroy of India, changed ‘British policy towards Tibet from patient waiting to impatient hurry.’ Two times of attempts, in 1900 and 1901, to direct communication with Tibet were both rejected by the Dalai Lama. The lord was already concerned about the Buriat lama - a Russian subject in Tibetan court, also a high political advisor of the Dalai Lama, and considered him as an evil Russian agent behind the Dalai Lama’s anti-British policies. Inevitably, Curzon was more and more convinced that Dorzhiev’s mission to Russia would ultimately place Tibet under Russian protectorate. Especially, after Dorzhiev’s third mission to Czar Nikolai II it was widely reported that a secret agreement was already made between Tibet and Russia.

          xxx/ellauri230.html on line 230: The Dalai Lama fled to Urga (aka Ulan Bator) in Mongolia along with Dorzhiev. From there, Dorzhiev left for St Petersburg again in March 1905, hoping that Russian government could take Tibet under its protection from British and China. However, after the catastrophic defeat in Russo-Japanese war, Czar’s government could not offer any kind of assistance to Tibet in this historical turbulent time. Meantime, the dramatic rise of Germany in Europe since 1900s eventually led both Russia and Britain to come closer and to settle down their century long Great Game in Central Asia. Anglo-Russian Convention was signed at last by both sides on 31 August 1907, recognizing China’s claim for suzerainty over Tibet. Moreover, the convention also engaged to respect the territorial integrity of Tibet and abstain from all interference in her internal administration.  

          xxx/ellauri230.html on line 262: Based on a webcomic of an anthropomorphic dog sitting in a burning house saying “This is fine,” this is fine is a meme used as a reaction image in which someone ironically says a situation is OK  … and it very clearly isn’t.

          xxx/ellauri230.html on line 341:   In October 2021, NBC sports reporter Kelli Stavast was interviewing racing driver Brandon Brown, the winner of the Sparks 300 race at the Talladega Superspeedway, on his win. In the background of the interview were chants of “Fuck Joe Biden” from the crowd – which Stavast mistook for chants of “Let’s Go Brandon,” and reported it live on-air as such. The use of “dark” in referring to political candidates actually first came from supporters of Donald Trump in March of this year. Supporters coined the phrase and Twitter hashtag #DarkMAGA – a reference to the Make America Great Again slogan – to represent a Trump running for president in 2024 who abandoned all political norms.

          xxx/ellauri230.html on line 343: But slowly, some "pro-Dark Biden" memes began to emerge – particularly in the wake of the death of Ayman al-Zawahiri, the man who took over as leader of al-Qaida after Osama Bin Laden's death, who was killed in a targeted strike ordered by the Biden administration over the summer. White House digital director Rob Flaherty shared an image of Biden with red lasers shooting out of his eyes as a way to express support for the president’s murderous success.

          xxx/ellauri230.html on line 464: 
          The world’s most awesome giant Buddhas
          

          xxx/ellauri230.html on line 481:   Visitors to Monywa, 138 kilometres northwest of Mandalay, will be treated to not one, but two giant Buddhas – one standing, one lying down. At 90 metres long, the one lying down is the largest reclining Buddha in the world. It houses a collection of 9,000 etchings illustrating Buddha’s life that can be viewed by entering through a door in the statue’s backside. The standing Buddha directly behind is 116 metres tall and is known as Laykyun Setkyar.

          xxx/ellauri230.html on line 492: Gazing serenely over the confluence of the Minjiang, Dadu and Qingyi rivers in Sichuan province, the Giant Buddha of Leshan is one of the most popular tourist spots in China. Carved on the side of a cliff in 713BC, the statue was the idea of a monk called Haithong, who hoped the statue would guide shipping vessels through the rivers’ treacherous currents. Sadly, he ran out of funds and the statue wasn't completed until 90 years later.

          xxx/ellauri230.html on line 549:   Vallabhbhai Javerabhai Patel was born on 31 October, 1875 in Nadiad, Bombay Presidency, British India, is an Actor. Discover Vallabhbhai Patel's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is He in this year and how He spends money? Also learn how He earned most of Vallabhbhai Patel networth?  At 75 years old, Vallabhbhai Patel height not available right now. We will update Vallabhbhai Patel's Height, weight, Body Measurements, Eye Color, Hair Color, Shoe & Dress size soon as possible. He is currently single. He is not dating anyone. We don't have much information about He's past relationship and any previous engaged. According to our Database, He has no children. His net worth has been growing significantly in 2020-2021. So, how much is Vallabhbhai Patel worth at the age of 75 years old? Vallabhbhai Patel’s income source is mostly from being a successful Actor. He is from British India. We have estimated Vallabhbhai Patel's net worth, money, salary, income, and assets at $0 according to our database. 

          xxx/ellauri230.html on line 581:   Vauzi vau, löytyy kokonainen japanilaisten pikkujalkojen jumise! Is there really no word for ‘foot’ in Japanese? Ei vaan あし [ashi] on kuin Suomessa sääri ja/tai jalkaterä. Fito on ilmeinen lainasana. Tähän löytyi sentään vastaus:

          xxx/ellauri230.html on line 618:   While the cherry blossom is the flower that most people associate with Japan, the chrysanthemum, or kikuli, is more intrinsically linked to the country’s culture and history. Enid Blytonin Fabulous Fiven Dick on nimetty uudelleen Prickixi, koska Dick on nyttemmin yxinomaan kikuli.

          xxx/ellauri230.html on line 620: Influenced by Chinese custom (no tietysti), the Heian court (794–1185) took to Chrysanthemum the Imperial Blossomdrinking chrysanthemum wine and using chrysanthemum dew as a kind of body lotion. All of this is recounted in The Pillow Book, a collection of observations by the court lady "Sei silmiä" Shonagon. The Chrysanthemum Festival is the last of Japan’s five annual festivals, which includes Boys’ Day in May and Tanabata in July.

          xxx/ellauri231.html on line 241:   Denikin kuoli sydänkohtaukseen 8. elokuuta 1947 lomamatkalla Ann Arborissa Michiganissa. Denikin haudattiin sotilaallisin menoihin Detroitissa. Hänen jäännöksensä siirrettiin Pyhän Vladimirin hautausmaalle Jacksoniin, New Jerseyiin. Denikinin puoliso Ksenia haudattiin (1892-1973) Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois’n venäläiselle hautausmaalle lähelle Pariisia.

          xxx/ellauri232.html on line 85:   Far-right groups have been a consistent presence in the Swedish political underground since the early 1920s, with their high point coming in the municipal elections of 1934, when around eighty council members of Svenska nationalsocialistiska partiet (the Swedish National Socialist Party) were elected across the country. After a long period of mainstream political inactivity in the wake of the Second World War, neo-fascism grew stronger in the 1980s, culminating in the emergence of several new neo-Nazi organisations in the 1990s. The most notable of these groups was Nationalsocialistik Front (the National Socialist Front), who were replaced by the currently active Svenskarnas Parti (the Party of the Swedes) in 2009. The Party of the Swedes’ political program states that “only people who belong to the western genetic and cultural heritage, where ethnic Swedes are included, should be Swedish citizens”, as well as their belief that “all policy decisions should be based on what is best for the interests of the ethnic Swedes”.  Far from being prohibited in Sweden, these monsters are sitting now  in public offices.

          xxx/ellauri232.html on line 88:  The dismantling of the welfare system over the last several decades, congruent with the ‘New Labourisation’ of the Swedish Social Democrats and the tax-cutting policies of the centre-right governments from 2006 to 2014, is, in familiar scapegoating, being blamed on refugees depicted as dead weights burdening the country.

          xxx/ellauri232.html on line 90:   The Social Democratic Party defined Swedish politics during the last century, holding power for more than forty consecutive years, and governing for almost seventy years in total. During the 1980s, the party turned rightwards, adopting the politics of the ‘Third Way’, caught in the first wave of neoliberalism. It lost the power base of industrial workers as industries moved abroad. The following decades saw rapid increases in class divisions, growing faster in Sweden than in any other country within the OECD.

          xxx/ellauri232.html on line 92:   The far Right is moving forward all over the globe: in Putin’s Russia, in the sectarian conflicts of the Middle East, dramatically in India, visible in the success of the BJP (witness the 182-meter statue of Patel!). This occurs as the need for a planned and democratically controlled economy is more pressing than ever, as we face accelerating climate change, and shifting attitudes to nationality, as more and more people across the world are forced to move. Socialism – far beyond the clichés of economism – is needed more urgently than ever.

          xxx/ellauri232.html on line 328: After a rabbi examines a shochet’s knife and is satisfied with his skill and knowledge, he issues him a certificate of kabbalah, attesting to his worthiness.

          xxx/ellauri232.html on line 338: I am new to the concept of Sabbath, and relatively ignorant of Jewish terminology, so please don’t be offended by my ignorance. But I am trying to reconcile the activity done by a rabbi at synagogue on the Sabbath with the concepts of labor and rest. It seems to me that the acts of organizing and conducting a worship/prayer gathering takes quite a bit of work. Is this an exemption to the command to “keep the Sabbath”, or would there be another day of Sabbath for the local rabbi or…what?

          xxx/ellauri232.html on line 350: Nevertheless, a person can be paid a general sum for several days’ work, including Shabbat. For example, the rabbi is paid a set monthly salary which includes his Shabbat duties. Similarly, a babysitter who works during the week, and also on Shabbat, should be paid a set fee for the week. The same with a cantor.

          xxx/ellauri233.html on line 238: Wimpy statists in the sidelines of the big scramble for money cry for big government, a government that gains power at the expense of individual freedom, a government that uses its power to confiscate and redistribute wealth, to regulate and control the economy, and to micromanage citizens’ behavior.

          xxx/ellauri233.html on line 242: Yet it is relentlessly demonized. We are told that businessmen pay “starvation wages,” that the rich get richer while the poor get poorer, and that the free market is impractical—prone to crises, depressions, mass unemployment, and coercive monopolies. Michael Dahlen dispels these and many other myths. He shows that a system of free markets and limited government is not only practical; he shows that it is moral, as it is the only system that recognizes each egoistic individual’s inalienable right to his own lifelong earnings.

          xxx/ellauri234.html on line 471: Sorry, son. I don’t know what to do. I am a software developer 2000-present. My name is "Jack Claxton". In 1995 when I begat my son I had other low-paying dead-end jobs. Now *that* is really sad. I understand my son's disappointment in his dad.

          xxx/ellauri234.html on line 478: Well, I’m sure that your parents feel as a failure, if they are at all like me. I do

          xxx/ellauri234.html on line 481: Understandably,  even I don't actually ever want to listen to me, when I talk like this. I’ve heard psychologists say to not give advice, so I won’t. 

          xxx/ellauri234.html on line 483: I guess your parents probably don’t judge you and are glad to have some help at home - washing the toilet and  taking out the garbage and such.  They  probably worry much more when you don't. One little piece of advice anyway: I do suspect that to cultivate self-discipline is a good start. Not to pamper yourself, you stupid lout. And don't forget to take the garbage with you as you go.

          xxx/ellauri234.html on line 487: Indeed if I could I would rather not have any children. Was almost 30-years old when I did. The issue was the bitch of a partner I chose - not the children. Most of their childhood was complete misery for them but I won’t get those great years back. I kept in a good shape and whacked them well and right to the best of my ability. They are all successful adults now. They are grateful that we are not close at all these days, and I’m living and learning to be OK with that.

          xxx/ellauri234.html on line 489: One word for the wise and depressed men described in this thread: VASECTOMY. Get it! I got it. Too late tho. Highly unlikely that creating another being entirely dependent on you for 18 years is going to do much to change your mood. Don’t have kids unless parenthood is your top priority and ambition in life. Kurt Cobain was right: it’s a setup!. Plant a house. Build a tree! Take a beer! Have a cow! Watch some TV! Join Depressive Quora!

          xxx/ellauri234.html on line 499: Thank you for this response, I am a female, 55 years old, without my 2 children who went in a car accident. All of my life I had to deal with women complaining about being single moms. It is really only me who is genuinely single. Plus, my own mother is toxic. I wish I wasn’t born, but I still see the beauty in this earth for software developers.

          xxx/ellauri234.html on line 502: Dear Jack I second what someone else said in their comment, you are a sick person.  I’m also 27 & I struggled with depression starting at 13. It’s either a miracle that I’m still alive or I just really suck at killing myself because I had 10 suicide attempts & just as many hospitalizations. Honestly if I had ever heard one of my parents say something like your post it would have broken me beyond repair. What a turd!

          xxx/ellauri234.html on line 516:  It’s so painful and scares me so much. I think it’s possible my mental health has been disfigured beyond repair from abuse scapegoating and malice. 

          xxx/ellauri235.html on line 141: Oikeat ihmiset Horatio Hornblower -kirjoissa: Napoleon, Boy George: ‘I was abused every day for being gay in the 70s’, kapteeni Edward Pelle, amiraali William Corn Flakes, Lord St. Vincent, Britannian ulkoministeri William "markiisi Wellesley" Hague, Venäjän zaari Aleksanteri I,  ministeri Anthony Drink and Be Merry, Carl Philipp Gottfried von Clausewitz, ja viimeisenä muttei vähimpänä Riian sotilaskovernööri  Ivan Nikolaevich Essenistä ja monista muista hajalle pommitetuista Saxan kaupungeista, erityisesti "Commodoressa". Mitä vetoa että Iivana on pahis?

          xxx/ellauri235.html on line 353:   Vizi kyllä brittimaa on väärällään sodomiitteja! Nahkaklarinetteja kuin salpausselällä! Fagotteja kokonainen orkesteri! Ffion Hague, the wife of Foreign Secretary William Hague, is now hoping to repeat her success with her latest publication, a book documenting what was believed to be the illicit gay love affair of an 18th century poet with the son of Britain’s first Prime Minister, Robert Walpole. Tää kiivas suklaaosastolla asiointi on 1 epätasa-arvoisen yhteiskunnan piirteitä. Yläluokan äveriäät herrat naivat toisiaan pitääxeen omaisuuden kasassa. Sama ilmiö muinaisessa Kreikassa ja Roomassa. 

          xxx/ellauri235.html on line 444: Of course, most readers will want to learn about Hornblower (one of the few fictional characters with a biography), where that name came from, and what mechanism the father used to develop the many characters in his novels. But who would be startled to learn that Forester played an important role in the propaganda used by the UK to encourage the US’s entrance into WW2? 

          xxx/ellauri235.html on line 475: He empowered children with his stories, though the content was sometimes questioned for its open references to magic, racism, alcohol abuse, and use of words like “ass” and “slit”. Of course with his free use of such words, maybe it shouldn’t be surprising that he was simultaneously trying his hand at children's genitals and pornographic stories for Playboy, further muddying his reputation.

          xxx/ellauri235.html on line 479:     Anti-Semitic sentiments appear in many of his stories, inspired by Jewish publishers who had turned down his work – sentiments for which he never really apologized. In 1983, he told a journalist, “There is a trait in the Jewish character that does provoke animosity. I mean there’s always a reason why anti-anything crops up anywhere; even a stinker like Hitler didn’t just pick on them for no reason.”

          xxx/ellauri235.html on line 481: Roald Dahl's children's books are full of barely submerged misogyny, lust and violence. Roald Dahl was an unpleasant man who wrote macabre books – and yet children around the world adore them. Perhaps this shouldn’t surprise us, writes Hephzibah (Hetty) Anderson. Kids can be so cruel. Oh can we? Thanx mom! .... Oow! Oow!

          xxx/ellauri235.html on line 483: Finnish author Tove Jansson was the woman behind the phenomenally successful children’s books and comics on the fictional white hippo-like creatures she called Moomins. 

          xxx/ellauri237.html on line 684:     Neruda’s death certificate established the cause of death as cancer cachexia, which involves significant weight loss, but the forensic specialists unanimously found that to be impossible. “That cannot be correct,” said Dr. Niels Morling, of the University of Copenhagen’s department of forensic medicine, who participated in the analysis. “There was no indication of cachexia. He was an obese man at the time of death. All other circumstances in his last phase of life pointed to some kind of infection.” Neruda was infected with the Staphylococcus aureus bacterium, which can be highly toxic and result in death if modified.

          xxx/ellauri239.html on line 50: Wayne W. Dyer on izehoitopersoona, joka on tullut mainituxi toisaalla esimerkkinä ESFP-persoonallisuudesta. ESFP (extroverted sensing feeling perceiving) is one of the sixteen personality types of the Myers-Briggs Type Inventory (MBTI) test. ESFPs operate from the principle that “all the world’s a stage” — and they want to be the stars. ESFP on realistinen sopeutuja ihmissuhteissa. ESFP on jenkein ja ämmämäisin tyypeistä: öykkäri ketku touho ääliö. Tai positiivisemmin, "Free-spirited and fun-loving people persons" kuten Kinsella. ESFPs are enthusiastic about having new experiences and meeting new people. They are generally warm and adaptable realists who go with the flow. ESFP authors include Tony Robbins, Wayne Dyer, Deepak Chopra, Bill Clinton, and Paulo "Kani" Coelho. Learn more about how ESFPs write somewhere else. Eli tämä paasaus keskittyy vain Wile E. Coyoteen alias Wayne W. Dyeriin.

          xxx/ellauri239.html on line 118: Kerrotaan, että Laotse olisi kirjoittanut tuhat kirjaa, 930 kirjaa siveysopista ja uskonnosta ja 70 magiasta, mutta kukaan ei jaxanut lukea muuta kuin yhden teoksen, ns. Taoteking’in, joka sisältää hänen oppinsa ytimen ja jota yleisesti pidetään taonuskon pyhänä kirjana. Se oli ainoa joka oli tarpeexi lyhkänen. Kummastuxen avonainen ovi.

          xxx/ellauri239.html on line 140: Vittu namaste on hindiä? Mikä ääliö! Joo ei tällä kyllä kuuhun mennä, mutta eipä oikea tao-tyyppi sinne haluaisikaan, ei ainakaan niin kyrvän näköisellä raketilla kuin maailman rikkain ja kitupiikein penispää Jeff Bezos, joka ei anna alaistensa käydä firman piikkiin edes kusella, toisesta kahvikupillisesta puhumattakaan. Do you think that will be Bezos’ lasting legacy in space, that he built the rocket that looked the most like a dick?

          xxx/ellauri239.html on line 144: 
          Why Does Jeff Bezos’ Rocket Look So Much Like a Penis? Why Does He? Ask a Rocket Scientist.
          

          xxx/ellauri239.html on line 155: I get asked this question a lot, as I am sure other pro-life Catholics do too. It’s as if the basic assumption in the question is “if Jesus said nothing against it, then it must be OK.”

          xxx/ellauri239.html on line 157: Let’s step back a moment and look at that assumption. Did Jesus say anything about abortion? Did he really believe that abortion was okay?

          xxx/ellauri239.html on line 159: Let’s look at Jesus’ life and times. He grew up in a Jewish community where all little boys were required to go to school and study the Torah–the first five books of the Jewish bible. In the Torah is the story of Moses receiving the Ten Commandments from God. One of those commandments is “THOU SHALL NOT KILL.”

          xxx/ellauri239.html on line 161: Don’t you suppose little Jewish boys got those commandments drummed into their heads repeatedly? Wouldn’t you expect the boys would ask questions about that commandment, just as little boys ask questions today? What does that mean? Does that mean I cannot kill a mosquito? Or a fish? Their teacher would remind them that animals could be killed for food and for sacrifice in the temple.

          xxx/ellauri239.html on line 163: I doubt, as I am sure you do too, that they wouldn’t ever question the fact that the commandment dealt foremost with killing another human being. It taught them the stories in the Torah that dealt with brothers killing brothers, of Abraham released from killing Isaac, of Joseph’s brothers throwing him down a well to kill him.

          xxx/ellauri239.html on line 169: As everyone knows, abortion means killing an unborn child. What a woman carries in her womb is not a dog or a cat, it’s a living, growing human being.

          xxx/ellauri239.html on line 171: The Jews of Jesus’ day believed that every child was a gift from God. As good practicing Jews, why would they want to destroy a gift from God?

          xxx/ellauri239.html on line 175: I am sure, as you probably are too, that there were Jewish girls who got pregnant outside of marriage. It is no stretch of the imagination that Roman soldiers could have raped them. Since men are men, I do not doubt that incest existed in Jesus’ community. But Jesus had nothing at all to say about these things. The only examples we have are of his being aware of adultery and prostitution. But there is no mention of abortion to handle rape or incest. It is far more likely that if a girl was pregnant, the solution was to marry her off quickly. We have the example of Jesus’ mother Mary being married quickly to Joseph when she was found to be pregnant. I suspect other parents would do the same.

          xxx/ellauri239.html on line 185: Let’s look at Jesus’ life and times. He grew up in a Jewish community where all little boys were required to have their little wieners skinned.

          xxx/ellauri239.html on line 215: 0 of Jesus Christ’s 278 teachings on 46 different topics are about abortion.

          xxx/ellauri250.html on line 103: Many commentators are loath to describe the falls in life expectancy as actual falls or to ascribe blame to the political situation in the UK. 	Overall, Britain’s NHS is reflective of the failure of socialized medicine: longer waiting times, rationing, poor quality of care and unnecessary deaths. Socialized medicine, the Holy Grail of leftism, is a nightmare. The U.S. should take note of the NHS’s major shortcomings, as that is where the country is headed if we fail to repeal Obamacare! Don't believe the commies! Rather follow Aaron Bandler to Hell on Twitter!

          xxx/ellauri250.html on line 306:   Debby: Let them collapse and go to hell. They cry to everyone that they are a victim when they continually shoot themselves in the foot. It’s a pathetic disgusting and completely nauseating display. I had sympathy for the devil once, I also sold my soul to the devil, and I put my feet in his fire. I will burn no more.

          xxx/ellauri250.html on line 308:   Kimberly: Exactly. Once you’ve been abused, tortured, provoked, manipulated, and had your reputation dragged through the mud, it’s hard to find any sympathy for them. Deep down I feel badly that my ex had to have the pathetic parents he did, since they are the ones fully responsible for his behavior and mental disorder, but at the end of the day, he’s a grown man and needs to learn to own up to his own shortcomings. God have mercy on him… because I sure don’t.

          xxx/ellauri250.html on line 390:   Hytti nro 6 on vuonna 2021 ensi-iltansa saanut draamaelokuva, jonka on ohjannut Juho Kuosmanen. Elokuvan pääosissa ovat Seidi Haarla ja Juri Borisov. Elokuvassa suomalainen naisopiskelija (Haarla) ja venäläinen työmies (Borisov) matkustavat junalla Venäjän halki Murmanskiin. Hytti nro 6 perustuu Rosa Liksomin samannimiseen romaaniin vuodelta 2011. Elokuvaa varten kirjan tapahtumia on kuitenkin muutettu monin tavoin: esimerkiksi junan reitti, miespäähenkilön nimi ja ikä, tapahtumapaikka sekä aikakausi eroavat kirjasta. Hytti nro 6 sai ensi-iltansa 10. heinäkuuta 2021 Cannesin elokuvajuhlilla, missä se voitti juhlien kakkospalkinnon, Grand Prix’n. Elokuva sai teatteriensi-illan Suomessa 29. lokakuuta 2021.

          xxx/ellauri250.html on line 405: They say it’s better to travel than arrive, which in the case of Compartment Number 6 is certainly true. 
          

          xxx/ellauri250.html on line 416: The endless train ride might be a metaphor for a liminal state where everything is up for grabs, but “Compartment No. 6” never makes the enigmas behind its characters’ actions and feelings matter much. 
          

          xxx/ellauri250.html on line 419:   Tää homo ei saa sijoitettua pätkää netflix-laatikoihin ja on sixi aivan hukassa. Onko se rom-com, onko se komedia laisinkaan? Missä kohtaa piti nauraa ja missä itkeä? En ymmärrä. "Because Laura and Lhoja (sic!) don’t entirely play out the cliché of tension and anger leading to true love, the film comes off as vague and evasive." Voi helskutti. In an interview, the director says “What really interested me were the feelings that are beyond sexual tension. Romantic love stories are often too narrow, do they fall in love? If so, when do they have sex?” Erittäinkin hyvin sanottu, mutta se menee tämän homse arvostelijan pään yli niin ettei edes tukka heilahda.

          xxx/ellauri250.html on line 431:     Sometimes you can tell from the first shot. In “Compartment No. 6,” the camera follows a young woman at a party as she leaves a bathroom and enters a living room full of gathered friends. That walking, back-of-the-head shot is one of the soggiest conventions of the steadicam era, a facile way of conveying characters’ own fields of vision while anchoring the action on them. The familiarity of this trope suggests both limited imagination and an unwillingness to commit to a clear-cut point of view. When used cannily, it can convey ambiguous neutrality and looming mystery, but, more often, it suggests the merely functional recording of action, which is exactly what’s delivered in “Compartment No. 6,” opening in theatres on Wednesday. The movie sinks, fast and deep, under the weight of dramatic shortcuts, overemphatic details, undercooked possibilities, unconsidered implications. It’s heavy-handed, tendentious, and regressive—and it should come as no surprise that it’s on the fifteen-film shortlist for the Best International Feature Oscar.

          xxx/ellauri250.html on line 433:   True to national character, the Russian's drunk, aggressive, and crude; boasts of Russia’s greatness; insults Estonia (she explains that she’s from Finland); and, while asking her if she’s “selling pussy (her own, not somebody else's),” grabs her between her legs.

          xxx/ellauri250.html on line 435:   It’s a tale of the endearing Russian bear, which rings discordantly when that bear has its claws out for its neighbors. Russians can't be nice! It is all russki propaganda! It depicts a woman’s quick forgiveness of a sexual predator with whom she’s forced to associate. (What the fuck, some sexual predator indeed, won't even give to her when she asks.) It’s about the fecklessness of the intellectual class and the blank emptiness of the Western (and Westernized) bourgeoisie—the screenplay deliberately leaves F.F. blank, even unto her name. Ljoha isn’t quite as blank, because in his unguarded drunkenness, he blurts out a few of his prejudices and acts out his impulses.

          xxx/ellauri250.html on line 438: "The characters are mere digital figures for a cinematic algorithm." Että kehtaakin jenkki tämmöstä vielä sanoa, jenkkileffat ne vasta on koneella veisattuja täysin klisheisine hahmoineen, ota vaikka Netflixin menesstyssarja Wednesday. Ja tää on ehkä pahin pohjanoteeraus kaikista, mistä näkyy Amerikan oma täydellinen aateköyhyys: "Yet even the grand humanistic reverberations of ancient artifacts (ne kivipiirustuxet joite ei edes jään alta nähnyt) leave Kuosmanen’s directorial gaze uninspired, even uninterested."

          xxx/ellauri250.html on line 448:   Mikähän tää Tsai on miehiään, oisko joku viirusilmä jenkkimamu? Juu justiinsa se!  Finland’s entry in the Academy Awards’ International Feature Film category, “Compartment No. 6” tells a deliberately heart-warming story, of an extremely unlikely friendship, that’s patronizing and inadvertently offensive. Ai vinkuintiaaneilleko? Mistä tää kaveri nyt poltti pelihousunsa? Ei vaan tää onkin joku jenkki woke juttu:

          xxx/ellauri250.html on line 450:   What’s not fine is that Laura eventually initiates physical intimacy with Ljoha. The film’s logic is that she’s in an emotionally vulnerable state and he’s the only one there for her, because Irina can’t even bother to muster up any excitement when Laura calls. Of course it’s entirely possible that she is bisexual. Still, hasn’t Mr. Kuosmanen learned the inherent offensiveness of depicting such sexual fluidity after Kevin Smith made this mistake in 1997 with “Chasing Amy?” “Blue is the Warmest Color” only went on to prove in 2013 the toxicity of this plot device.

          xxx/ellauri250.html on line 722: That money was sent in the form of crypto from Ukraine, through FTX, and then cashed out by FTX and sent to the DNC, i.e. US taxpayer money was taken by Congress, signed off by Biden and shipped to Ukraine as an aid package. Ukraine using FTX sent it back (they didn’t need it but probably kept a part) as a way of laundering it to the Democratic National Committee for their election campaigns (and commit election fraud, as has been proven). Taxpayer money was used to finance the midterm elections, which is no less than money laundering.

          xxx/ellauri250.html on line 754: ”Olen kokeillut lukuisia eri lähestymistapoja. Kilpailua on niin paljon, että pelkkä ’moi miten menee’ on aika toivoton aloitus”, Kananen sanoo. Tai "käytkö täällä useinkin", "liukas lattia", "mitä sinunnäköisesi kana tekee tälläsessä paikassa", "saanko luvan vai tanssitaanko ensin".

          xxx/ellauri250.html on line 756:   Miesten ulkonäköä arvotetaan raa’asti ja monesti ihan suoraan ilmoitetaan preferenssit. Minulta on esimerkiksi kysytty sen pituutta, johon en tietenkään vastaa, koska en minäkään kysele naisilta heidän mittojaan.”

          xxx/ellauri250.html on line 858:       And there came out from the camp of the Philistines a champion named Goliath of Gath, whose height was six cubits and a span [more than 9 feet tall]. 5 He had a helmet of bronze [Why bronze and not iron? Was the iron one in the wash?] on his head, and he was armed with a coat of mail [bronze scale armor] [same question], and the weight of the coat was five thousand shekels of bronze [about 125 pounds]. 6 And he had bronze armor on his legs, and a javelin of bronze slung between his shoulders. 7 The shaft of his spear was like a weaver’s beam, and his spear’s head weighed six hundred shekels of iron [15 pounds]. And his shield-bearer went before him. [No wonder, he was pretty encumbered with all the other bronze on him.]

          xxx/ellauri250.html on line 860: During David’s youth as a shepherd, he (David) developed many skills. He learned music, how to write, use a slingshot, how to pull uncircumcized men by the beard, and how to love Jonathan and obey the Lord. Do I understand that it’s my responsibility to develop my abilities like Jonathan Livingston The Seagull, and it’s God’s responsibility to direct me in how I use them?  Do I realize that the most important skill I possess is my love for the Lord and my heart to obey Him? What miracles might God want to do through me that would show the whole earth that there is a God in the land? Kan jeg ble en helt liksom Harry Hole?  

          xxx/ellauri250.html on line 983: Irlantilais-italialaisen Bruce Springsteenin isäsuhde oli vaikea, mitä hän on myöhemmin kuitenkin pitänyt lauluntekijän uransa kannalta hyödyllisenä asiana. Nuori Bruce sai kipinän ryhtyä rock-muusikoksi nähtyään Elvis Presleyn Ed Sullivan Show’ssa, ja hän sai rahat ensimmäiseen kitaraansa 16-vuotissyntymäpäivälahjanaan. Bruce kävi katolista koulua, mutta ei sopeutunut kouluun koskaan hyvin. Hän vältti Vietnamin sodan kutsunnat vuonna 1967 näyttelemällä hullua lääkärintarkastuksessa. 1960-luvun lopulla hän soitti ja lauloi lukuisissa eri yhtyeissä New Jerseyn Asbury Parkissa. Springsteen ei koskaan tehnyt säännöllistä tai raskasta ruumiillista työtä, vaikka hänen laulunsa usein sellaisesta elämästä kertovatkin. Samanlainen huijari kuin ex-meklari Jo Nääsböö siis.

          xxx/ellauri251.html on line 139: But favourable and fair as thine eye’s beam					Vaan suotuisaa ja vaaleaa kuin silmäs säde

          xxx/ellauri251.html on line 141: Amid the king’s hounds and the hunting men					Kunkun karhukoirien ja mezämiesten keskessä

          xxx/ellauri251.html on line 169: And give our spears their spoil, the wild boar’s hide,				Ja anna luodikoille syötävää, karjun nahka,

          xxx/ellauri251.html on line 195: And edge to spears, and luck to each man’s hand.				Ja luodikoihin tehoja, ja jahtionnea.

          xxx/ellauri251.html on line 198: When the hounds of spring are on winter’s traces,				Kun kevään koirat on talven jäljillä

          xxx/ellauri251.html on line 218: O that man’s heart were as fire and could spring to her,			Jos miehen sydän olis tulta ja sen luo loikkisi,

          xxx/ellauri251.html on line 225: For winter’s rains and ruins are over,						Sillä talven sateet ja rauniot on ohize,

          xxx/ellauri251.html on line 253: The ivy falls with the Bacchanal’s hair						Muratti putoaa bakkanaalin tukasta

          xxx/ellauri251.html on line 287: For if sleep have no mercy, and man’s dreams					Sillä jos unet on armottomia, ja unennäöt

          xxx/ellauri251.html on line 413: Sharp words and soul’s division and fresh tears					Teräviä sanoja ja epäsopua ja tuoreita kyyneliä

          xxx/ellauri251.html on line 496: Heart’s love and heart’s division; but for all

          xxx/ellauri251.html on line 518: Lest love or some man’s anger work him harm.

          xxx/ellauri251.html on line 588: But the gods hear men’s hands before their lips,

          xxx/ellauri251.html on line 612: That shine and shift as the edge of wild beasts’ eyes,

          xxx/ellauri251.html on line 622: Most swift and splendid of men’s children born,

          xxx/ellauri251.html on line 630: Thy sister’s sons, a double flower of men.

          xxx/ellauri251.html on line 802: In sight of all men and the sun’s great light

          xxx/ellauri251.html on line 856: When wild wars broke all round thy father’s house,

          xxx/ellauri251.html on line 1083: ⁠When a wonder, a world’s delight,

          xxx/ellauri251.html on line 1152: ⁠Bowed, and in each man’s ear

          xxx/ellauri251.html on line 1226: But first the sun’s white sister, a maid in heaven,

          xxx/ellauri251.html on line 1241: The starless fold o’ the stars, and making sweet

          xxx/ellauri251.html on line 1258: Far off my father’s house, and left uncheered

          xxx/ellauri251.html on line 1265: For thy name’s sake and awe toward thy chaste head,

          xxx/ellauri251.html on line 1295: Nor any man a man’s mouth woman-tongued.

          xxx/ellauri251.html on line 1358: For spears and strange men’s faces, hast not thou

          xxx/ellauri251.html on line 1362: All couched about one mother’s loosening knees,

          xxx/ellauri251.html on line 1368: Pay thus much also; I shall have no man’s love

          xxx/ellauri251.html on line 1372: Mourn me and bury, and tears on daughters’ cheeks

          xxx/ellauri251.html on line 1377: That face the first o’ the morning, and cold hills

          xxx/ellauri251.html on line 1452: ⁠From the word’s womb the deed

          xxx/ellauri251.html on line 1456: Time’s twin-born brother, imperishable as he

          xxx/ellauri251.html on line 1462: Till life’s right hand be loosened from thine hand

          xxx/ellauri251.html on line 1869: ⁠Or the wild vine’s wan wet rings

          xxx/ellauri251.html on line 1886: ⁠Shine, and many a maid’s by thee

          xxx/ellauri251.html on line 1889: ⁠Out of all men’s sight;

          xxx/ellauri251.html on line 1901: ⁠Mother’s tears in extreme need,

          xxx/ellauri251.html on line 1903: ⁠Of thy brother’s seed;

          xxx/ellauri251.html on line 1959: What snake’s tongue in thy lips? what fire in the eyes?

          xxx/ellauri251.html on line 1980: Queen, thy twain brethren and thy mother’s sons.

          xxx/ellauri251.html on line 1993: O brethren, O my father’s sons, of me

          xxx/ellauri251.html on line 2018: Slain by thy son’s hand; is that saying so hard?

          xxx/ellauri251.html on line 2089: The boar’s head and the horror of the hide

          xxx/ellauri251.html on line 2119: Plexippus, crying out This for love’s sake, sweet,

          xxx/ellauri251.html on line 2124: The earth felt falling, and his horse’s foam

          xxx/ellauri251.html on line 2125: Blanched thy son’s face, his slayer; and these being slain,

          xxx/ellauri251.html on line 2185: Dead, with my son’s spear thrust between his sides,

          xxx/ellauri251.html on line 2215: Fall off from life for love’s sake, and I live?

          xxx/ellauri251.html on line 2244: These fatal from the vintage of men’s veins,

          xxx/ellauri251.html on line 2298: A name to be washed out with all men’s tears.

          xxx/ellauri251.html on line 2311: For these things’ sake cry out on mine own soul

          xxx/ellauri251.html on line 2346: As strews men’s ashes in their enemies’ face

          xxx/ellauri251.html on line 2352: Abhorred, abased, and no tears comfort them:’’

          xxx/ellauri251.html on line 2359: A new-made mother’s new-born love, that grows

          xxx/ellauri251.html on line 2712: ⁠She set her face as a bride’s;

          xxx/ellauri251.html on line 2787: Lifted both hands to crown the Arcadian’s hair

          xxx/ellauri251.html on line 2810: So that men’s eyelids thickened with their tears.

          xxx/ellauri251.html on line 2949: ⁠To feel the sun’s beams

          xxx/ellauri251.html on line 2991: ⁠My life’s blood had thawn,

          xxx/ellauri251.html on line 2992: ⁠Or as winter’s wan daughter

          xxx/ellauri251.html on line 3096: ⁠Not the life of men’s veins,

          xxx/ellauri251.html on line 3128: That law may fulfil herself wholly, to darken man’s face

          xxx/ellauri251.html on line 3161: Nor shall one thence look up and see day’s dawn

          xxx/ellauri251.html on line 3172: Althæa, since my father’s ploughshare, drawn

          xxx/ellauri251.html on line 3185: As a dead leaf or dead foot’s mark on snow,

          xxx/ellauri251.html on line 3190: And lesser than a man’s: for all my veins

          xxx/ellauri251.html on line 3204: Slay and are slain for love’s sake; and this house

          xxx/ellauri251.html on line 3218: With deeds as great as these men’s; but they live,

          xxx/ellauri251.html on line 3223: My father’s, and that holier breast of thine,

          xxx/ellauri251.html on line 3237: Sons of my mother’s sister; and all farewell

          xxx/ellauri251.html on line 3265: Died woman-wise, a woman’s offering, slain

          xxx/ellauri251.html on line 3268: And now for God’s sake kiss me once and twice

          xxx/ellauri252.html on line 60: Saarisen Punk-akatemia, Pirkkala 1980 lyttää epäviisaasti Saarikosken keväällä 1980 ilmestyneen proosateoksen nimeltä ’Asiaa tai ei’.  Osuvampi otsikko sille olisi ’Kirjoitan kirjan, olipa asiaa tai ei’. Saarikosken kirja on pohjanoteeraus. Se on pohjanoteeraus, koska miehellä ei ole mitään sanottavaa. Saman voi valitettavasti sanoa in retrospect E.Saarisen elämäntyöstä. Kuhmon kamarimusiikkijuhlilla vuonna 1983 kylmä koskenkorva ampui kuumat veret Saarikosken molemmista päistä. Pushkinin sanoin: Loin hengen työllä itselleni muistopylvään. Monumentum exegi aere perennius.

          xxx/ellauri252.html on line 213:   Hannu Salaman uusi kirja Joulukuun kuudes ei ole siinä määrin omaelämäkerrallinen teos kuin oli ’Minä, Olli ja Orvokki’. 6/12 on kaihtelematon kuvaus kolmen ihmisen vaiheista ja keskinäisistä suhteista, taitekohtana yhden päivän ratkaisevat tapahtumat. Taustana on kaupunki, Helsinki tällä kertaa, ja merkitsevä on myös ajankohta. On joulukuun kuudes; Ristosen, Sutisen ja Railin suhteiden ratketessa juhlii Pena päivää iltapuvussa, joku taas tekee kuolemaa siltojen alla.

          xxx/ellauri252.html on line 527: China’s rise in the 21st century and its challenge to America’s global preeminence have vindicated MacArthur. He should have been allowed to nuke the chinks off the face of the earth  when there still was a chance. Kiinalaiset on näät hirmu imperialistisia. Ne uhkaa Amerikan Tyynen meren mare nostrumia. Sellainen peli ei vetele! American vital interests are at stake.

          xxx/ellauri255.html on line 92:   With the world’s attention fixed firmly on the invasion of Ukraine, Antony Pyp Pipo’s new history of Russia’s 1917 revolutions and subsequent civil war is especially timely. He explains to Rob Attaboy how the fall of the last tsar launched a chain of events leading to millions of deaths and one of history’s most brutal dictatorships! Lähde: History Extra

          xxx/ellauri255.html on line 94: Rob Attaboy pohjustaa Antony Pyp Pipon haastattelua: The Provisional Government, its effectiveness hampered by a lack of legitimacy, faced a powerful rival in the shape of the socialist-led Petrograd Soviet that ruled the country’s then-capital city (now called St Petersburg). The Bolsheviks, led by Vladimir Lenin (note only 2 letters away from Vladimir Putin!) , sought to undermine the Provisional Government, which itself made a series of missteps – notably continued failures in the war against Germany and Austria-Hungary. Capitalising on these weaknesses, the Bolsheviks under Lenin and Leon Trotsky launched a coup d’état, the so-called October Revolution, seizing power with relative ease. Consolidating that power proved far more difficult, as a combination of opponents – ranging from former tsarist generals to other leftwing political groups who distrusted the Bolsheviks – took up arms against them.

          xxx/ellauri255.html on line 96: 	The stage was set for a civil war between the Bolshevik Red Army and their “White” enemies that devastated the country and led to millions of deaths. Several international powers also contributed troops and supplies to the conflict, predominantly to the Bolsheviks’ opponents. (Note the similarity to Ukraina today!) In 1919, White armies led by Generals Kolchak and Denikin launched offensives that seemed set to destroy the fledgling communist regime, but the Red Army managed to repel them. Following those triumphs the Bolsheviks were eventually able to achieve ultimate victory, though fighting continued for many more months. It looks like this history is just now repeating itself and in just the same place too, fascist Ukraina!

          xxx/ellauri255.html on line 104:  Antony Pyp Pipo:  What has stood out is the sheer horror of the civil war. There’s a savagery and a sadism that is very hard to comprehend; I’m still mulling it over and trying to understand it. It was not just the build-up of hatred over centuries but a vengeance that seemed to be required. It went beyond the killing; there was also the sheer, horrible inventiveness of the tortures inflicted on people. We need to look at the origins of the civil war: who started it, and was it avoidable? But one also needs to see the different patterns seen in the “Red Terror” (the campaign of political repression and violence carried out by the Bolsheviks) and the “White Terror” (the equal or worse violence perpetrated by that side in the war)– and consider the question: why are civil wars so much crueller, so much more savage than state-on-state wars? 

          xxx/ellauri255.html on line 106:  Ah come to think of it, could it be because the guys know each other personally and are old competitors in the same territory? Hmm.  Members of the police, the most hated of all of the tsarist institutions, had to flee for their lives. In the countryside, particularly, peasants and soldiers returning from the front would loot every alcohol store and every distillery they could find. They would then would start burning and smashing up the estates and the landowners’ manor houses.

          xxx/ellauri255.html on line 113: 	Even many Bolsheviks were shocked by Lenin’s extremism. His new government abolished the police and the army, replacing them with Red Guards from the factories, and absolutely everything was nationalised! How indecent!  This course of action wasn’t apparent beforehand, and – not surprisingly since they lost their jobs and status  – many of the civil servants didn’t want to work with the new government.

          xxx/ellauri255.html on line 118: 	Rob Attaboy: The Bolsheviks didn’t have the support of the majority of people around the country at the time of the revolution. Didn’t that put them at a serious disadvantage once the civil war began?

          xxx/ellauri255.html on line 120: 	Antony Pyp Pipo:  However, what’s interesting is how few of the White officers in Petrograd, Moscow and many other places actually joined the revolt against the communists at that stage. I think they were all so dispirited and demoralised by everything that had happened that most of them had sunk into apathy. But yes, there were certain areas where there were very strong reactions against the Bolsheviks. And that early part of the civil war, in the winter of 1917–18, showed that the outcome largely depended on what happened in local areas. It was a geographically fragmented civil war that was taking place across the whole of the landmass. Which really shows it was an oppressed people's uprising.

          xxx/ellauri255.html on line 130: This was almost as unpopular as the Whites’ appalling social policies towards the peasants. The tsarists wanted to get all their land back from the peasants, which of course was going to create a tremendous hatred and fear; as a result, there was almost continual war. The Whites had no proper administration; all they were interested in was taking what they could from these local areas, including food – which in many cases they did not pay for. One almost thinks that the Bolsheviks were onto something there.

          xxx/ellauri255.html on line 134: Antony Pyp Pipo:  Their commitment was unclear, and this was always the problem: they couldn’t make up their own minds. In the early part of 1919, US president Woodrow Wilson thought that some form of peace could be achieved in Russia, and suggested a conference to be held in the Princes’ Islands lying in the Sea of Marmara close to Constantinople [now Istanbul]. However, the Whites were so furious at the Reds and what had happened up till then – the murders of the aristocracy, the destruction and so on – that they refused to sit down with the Reds. And Lenin and the Bolsheviks – who at that stage thought that they were going to win the war (as they did)  – had no intention of sitting down with them, let alone the motherfucking Anglo Saxons meddling everywhere with just their own "vital interests" in mind. 

          xxx/ellauri255.html on line 138: Antony Pyp Pipo:   Earlier on, Russia’s First World War Allies agreed to provide a certain amount of help to the White cause in the form of weaponry. Now, you can provide weapons and you can provide supplies, but you’ve got to be able to get them to their destination – and, until the First World War came to an end in November 1918, the Allies didn’t have access through the Dardanelles and therefore couldn’t supply the Cossacks and Denikin’s White armies in the south of Russia.

          xxx/ellauri255.html on line 139: Some supplies were brought in through the far north – through Murmansk, where the British already had a base, and Archangel, with some marines who’d landed in 1918 to protect the supplies delivered there. Then, in the far east, the Japanese started to land huge numbers of troops. At one stage Japan had almost 70,000 troops in Siberia. The Americans also sent in the equivalent of a small division of troops as part of an expeditionary force.

          xxx/ellauri255.html on line 149: 	That matter of internal lines proved incredibly important, especially when it came to the crucial moments. There were times when the Bolsheviks themselves thought that they’d lost the civil war, and were almost preparing to abandon Moscow.

          xxx/ellauri255.html on line 150: In early 1919, for example, there was a sudden advance by the White General Kolchak’s troops all the way to the Volga. The trouble was that the great advance of General Denikin from the south did not coincide with that – and by the time Denikin’s march on Moscow started, Kolchak’s advance was in full retreat.

          xxx/ellauri255.html on line 152: 	Denikin’s advance initially went well, and there were moments when Trotsky and others in the Red camp really thought that they were facing defeat. But, because the Red Army no longer had to worry about Kolchak’s troops to the east, they were able to reinforce their troops facing Denikin. October 1919 saw a complete turnaround – the final turning point, if you like, in the war.

          xxx/ellauri255.html on line 154: 	Churchill, then British secretary of state for war, couldn’t believe what had happened. He was sending signals to General Holman, commander of the British military mission, saying: “I can’t believe this. The Reds were in full retreat, and now suddenly they seem to be beating the Whites on every front. What’s happened?” He’d failed to understand that it was purely because the Bolsheviks had reinforced that eastern front at a crucial moment, then – with the advantage of their just cause – been able to bring troops back very rapidly to transform the whole situation.

          xxx/ellauri255.html on line 158: 	Antony Pyp Pipo: The Russian Civil War was really the moment when Ukraine started to become a separate entity from Russia, all thanks to Lenin. There wasn't much of malorussian culture in the countryside, mostly some boring poetry and balalaika music. But at this time they finally had a chance to get rid of the Turks and Poles, and  to take Ukraine back to the fold of the great east slavonic commonwealth, by joining the USSR and their Big Brother– and they’d been given the opportunity. But they botched it completely when the USSR collapsed. That is when they went back to fraternize with the West and develop a more modern nazism with Nato.  

          xxx/ellauri255.html on line 160: 	This is what Putin has been raging about: it was Lenin who gave Ukraine its autonomy at that stage. The Bolsheviks thought that allowing a certain amount of autonomy or independence to these former nation states of the Russian empire would cause no problems, because the forthcoming world revolution would bring those states back under communist control – and that’s where they made their great mistake. They did not count on the wily Westerners to come sneaking in with their Coke and burger laissez faire and tease away the little bro.

          xxx/ellauri255.html on line 182: 	Vuonna 1844 Bakunin muutti Brysselistä Pariisiin, jossa hän ensimmäistä kertaa tapasi Marxin ja Pierre-Joseph Proudhonin. Joulukuussa keisari Nikolai I otti Bakuninilta pois kaikki aatelisuuteen perustuvat etuoikeudet kuten wiixet, takavarikoi maat sekä määräsi elinikäiseen karkotukseen Siperiaan. Bakunin vastasi Nikolaille La Réforme -lehdessä julkaisemallaan pitkällä kirjeellä, jossa hän haukkui keisaria despootiksi, näytti fäkkiä, ja vaati Venäjälle ja Puolaan demokratiaa. Euroopan hullun vuoden 1848 aikana Bakunin matkusteli ihan hulluna eri puolilla Saksaa ja osallistui myös Ranskan toisen tasavallan väliaikaishallituksen sosialistien taloudelliseen tukemiseen. Berliinistä hän yritti päästä Preussin hallitsemaan Poznańiin, jossa oli juuri käynnissä puolalaisten kansannousu, mutta poliisi esti matkan. Tämän jälkeen Bakunin matkusti Leipzigin ja Wrocławin kautta Prahaan osallistuen kaupungissa pidettyyn ensimmäiseen panslavistiseen kongressiin. Kokouksen päätyttyä hän oli mukana kaupungissa puhjenneessa Itävallan keisarikunnan vastaisessa kansannousussa, joka kuitenkin tukahdutettiin väkivalloin. Syksyllä 1848 Bakunin julkaisi pamflettinsa L’Appel aux slaves, jossa hän kehotti slaavivallankumouksellisia yhdistämään voimansa Unkarin, Italian sekä Saksan vallankumouksellisten kanssa ja syöksemään vallasta Venäjän, Itävalta-Unkarin ja Preussin kuningashuoneet.

          xxx/ellauri255.html on line 199: Vuonna 1864 perustetun kansainvälisen työväenliikkeen ensimmäisen internationaalin toiminnassa Bakunin oli merkittävässä roolissa vuoden 1866 Geneven kongressista lähtien. Tuolloin hänet muun muassa valittiin sen keskuskomiteaan. Syyskuussa 1867 ranskalainen professori Émile Acollas kutsui Bakuninin niin ikään Genevessä järjestettyyn kokoukseen, jossa perustettiin Ligue internationale de la paix et de la liberte eli Kansainvälinen rauhan ja vapauden liitto. Acollas’n ja Bakuninin lisäksi mukana olivat muun muassa John Stuart Mill ja Élisée Reclus. Järjestön kannattajiin kuului lisäksi lukuisia tunnettuja hahmoja, kuten Victor Hugo, Giuseppe Garibaldi ja Mont Blanc. Vuotta myöhemmin anarkistit jäivät liitossa bolshevikeixi ja perustivat oman järjestönsä nimeltä L'Alliance internationale de la démocratie socialiste (Kansainvälinen demokraattisten sosialistien liitto). Se yritti liittyä myös ensimmäisen internationaalin jäseneksi, mutta kuinka ollakaan ei huolittu, sillä sääntöjen mukaan siihen hyväksyttiin vain kansallisia työväenjärjestöjä, ei mitään joutilaita kv. pellejä. 

          xxx/ellauri259.html on line 541: Solvej Balle blev i 1990’erne opfattet som tilhørende holdet af usædvanlig synlige og overmåde talentfulde kvindelige forfattere. Her over tyve år senere er hun udkommet med det 7 bind lange værk 'Udregning af rumfang’.Med Om udregning af rumfang synes det hele at komme igen, og gudskelov for det. Romanen udgør et fint eksempel på, hvad man kunne kalde spekulativ fiktion, og som vi i forvejen kender fra forfattere som Peter Høeg og Umberto Eco eller (i en periode) fra norske Jan Kjærstad.

          xxx/ellauri259.html on line 548: Solvej Balles roman ’Om udregning af rumfang’ handler kort fortalt om Tara, som sammen med sin mand, Thomas, handler med antikvariske bøger. Efter en forretningsrejse er tiden gået i stykker og kommet imellem dem, fordi Tara er den eneste, der har været i- og oplevet den 18. november, mens Thomas (og alle andre) lever i dagen før. Tara indvier sin mand i problemet flere dage i træk og må starte forfra hver dag med at forklare forskydningen, som han gerne vil hjælpe med at opklare – men det bliver hurtigt et gentagende sisyfosarbejde.

          xxx/ellauri259.html on line 558:   På indersiden af bogcoveret i ’Om udregning af rumfang’ indikeres det, at dette er første bind af, hvad der formentlig kommer til at være en serie på syv bind i alt. Det bliver spændende at se, om efterfølgeren til ’Om udregning af rumfang’ bliver en tematisk videreførelse, en udregning af noget andet eller om fortællingen om Tara fortsætter.

          xxx/ellauri259.html on line 572: Tematikken vil for nogle være velkendt fra filmen Groundhog Day (’En ny dag truer’, 1993) eller muligvis fra Svend Åge Madsens kierkegaardske thriller Lad tiden gå (1986), men hos Solvej Balle tvistes eksperimentet intelligent til »et rationelt delirium« og »en logisk kværnen«, og decideret provokerende er det for læseren at følge, hvordan Tara efterhånden besættes af ønsket om en verden, hvor tiden går, af sin længsel efter at »finde den dør, der fører ud af den attende november«.

          xxx/ellauri261.html on line 242: Amos Wilder was a stern, teetotaling Congregationalist who expected his son to be scholar-athlete and a muscular Christian. When Thornton announced that he had been cast as Lady Bracknell in a school production of The Importance of Being Earnest, the senior Wilder informed him that he would rather that Thornton not play female roles. Papa would not absolutely forbid it, but he assumed that his son would want to honor his father’s wishes. Thornton reluctantly conceded, but later wrote to his father in China, “When you have changed your mind as to it, please notify.” 

          xxx/ellauri261.html on line 248: Theatre became his passion, and he spent hours in the Doe Library reading European newspapers to learn more about the modern expressionist movement. “The way other kids would follow baseball scores,” his nephew related, “Thornton’s hobby was reading German newspapers so he could read up on German Theater and great German directors like Max Reinhardt.” 

          xxx/ellauri261.html on line 249: Wilder wrote a short play which was performed as part of a student vaudeville production at Berkeley High School. Perhaps in reaction to his father’s disapproval of Lady Bracknell, he cast himself in the role of “Mr. Lydia Pinkham.” 

          xxx/ellauri261.html on line 255: He formed a close, fervent and life-long friendship with Gertrude Stein, but his shyness and natural reserve kept him from acknowledging their shared homosexuality.  Writer Samuel Steward records the reticence which kept this close circle of friends deeply in the closet — even to one another. Six years after Wilder’s death, Samuel Steward wrote in his autobiography that he too had had sexual relations with him (and her): 

          xxx/ellauri261.html on line 257: Suddenly she grabbed my knee. “Sammy,” she said, “do you think that Alice and I are lesbians?” I had a genuine hot curl of fire up my spine. “I don’t see that it’s anybody’s business one way or another,” I said. “Do you care whether we are,” she asked. “Not in the least,” I said. I was suddenly dripping wet. “Are you queer or gay or different or ‘of it’ as the French say or whatever they are calling it nowadays,” she said, looking narrowly at me. I waggled my hand sidewise. “Both ways,” I said. “I don’t see why I should go through life limping on just one leg to satisfy a so-called norm.” “It bothers a lot of people,” Gertrude said. “But like you said, it’s nobody’s business, it came from the Judeo-Christian ethos, especially Saint Paul the bastard, but he was complaining about youngsters who were not really that way, they did it for money, everybody suspects us or knows but nobody says anything about it. Did Thornie tell you?” “Only when I asked him a direct question and then he didn’t want to answer, he didn’t want to at all. He said yes he supposed in the beginning but that it was all over now.” Gertrude laughed. “How could he know. He doesn’t know what love is. And that’s just like Thornie.” 

          xxx/ellauri261.html on line 259: Wilder and Steward were lovers for a brief period, but it was not a happy nor easy relationship. “If one accepts the essentials of Steward’s story....,” writes Gilbert A. Harrison, “the sexual act was so hurried and reticent, so barren of embrace, tenderness or passion that it might never have happened. Steward felt that for Thornton the act was literally ‘unspeakable’.” If Wilder ever experienced a deep and lasting relationship with another man, it has not been recorded. 

          xxx/ellauri261.html on line 261: Thornton Wilder’s play Our Town has become a staple of high school drama departments, attractive perhaps more for its economical lack of scenery and props than for its sad story of love, loss and regret. There has been speculation that the character of Simon Stimson, the town drunk and organist for the Congregational Church who eventually commits suicide, represents a closeted gay man destroyed by life in a small town. 

          xxx/ellauri261.html on line 272:   BY JOHN OXENFORD, MEMBER OF THE “DRAMATIC AUTHOR’S SOCIETY;” AUTHOR OF “MY FELLOW CLERK,” “I AND MY DOUBLE,”“THE DICE OF DEATH,” “TWICE KILLED,” ETC. FIRST PERFORMED AT THE THEATRE ROYAL, ENGLISH OPERA HOUSE, APRIL 4th, 1835.

          xxx/ellauri261.html on line 300: Bridget (a lady’s lady)  MISS JACKSON.

          xxx/ellauri261.html on line 302: A Room in COTTON’S house;—an open door in C. flat. 
          

          xxx/ellauri261.html on line 308:  CUT. Hollo! no one in the shop! ha, ha!—(Aside.) Hum, she’s not here.—Have you anything to sell, old gentleman?  
          

          xxx/ellauri261.html on line 315: BOLT. Thank’e, sir. 
          

          xxx/ellauri261.html on line 318: BOLT. Ha, ha, ha! why don’t you laugh, Mizzle? 
          

          xxx/ellauri261.html on line 319:  MIZ. Because I don’t see any joke.

          xxx/ellauri261.html on line 323: COT. Come, this troublesome day’s work is well over. You have some time had my forgiveness, Harriet; I wish not to say anything unpleasant—but when I contrast your conduct with that of these two excellent young men—— 
          

          xxx/ellauri261.html on line 376:     Christoph: „Helfen’s mir, ich riskir jeden Augenblick dass man mir die Thür einsprengt und mich vor den Prinzipal schleppt.“ (IIIter Act, 12te Scene)

          xxx/ellauri261.html on line 561: Espanjan–Yhdysvaltain sodassa Anderson otti osaa Kuuban taisteluihin. Sodan jälkeen hän palasi Ohioon, meni naimisiin ja ryhtyi maalausliikkeen hoitajaksi, mutta lähti jälleen Chicagoon ja päätyi lopulta kirjoittamaan ensimmäistä romaaniaan Windy McPherson’s Son, joka ilmestyi vuonna 1916. Anderson matkusteli muun muassa Euroopassa ja asui myös New Yorkissa ja New Orleansissa. Ensimmäisen vaimonsa kuoltua Anderson avioitui kuvanveistäjä Tennessee Mitchellin kanssa.

          xxx/ellauri261.html on line 566: Stein matkusti 1903 veljensä Leon kanssa Pariisiin eikä palannut Amerikkaan enää kuin yhden kerran, pitämään luentosarjan 1930-luvulla. Stein hänen veljensä asettivat asumaan Rue de Fleurus’lle pieneen kaksikerroksiseen taloon, johon kuului sivurakennuksena ateljee. Molemmat olivat hyvin kiinnostuneita modernista maalaustaiteesta, ja he aloittivat taidekokoelman keräämisen sekä illallisten järjestämisen taiteilijoille ja taiteista kiinnostuneille. Stein ja hänen veljensä olivat ensimmäisiä kubistien, kuten Picasson, Matissen ja Georges Braquen, keräilijöitä. Steinien ateljeessa sijaitseva kokoelma käsitti myös Cézannen ja Renoirin tuotantoa; kaikki seinät olivat kattoon saakka maalauksia täynnä. Eräillä kuuluisimmista illallisistaan Stein järjesti niin, että jokainen taiteilija sai istua omaa maalaustaan vastapäätä, ja kaikki olivat hyvin tyytyväisiä. Pariisiin muutettuaan Stein aloitti 1908 myös kirjailijan uransa käännöstöillä ja sukukronikalla The Making of Americans (1925).

          xxx/ellauri265.html on line 66:     Ukraine will receive a package of support worth £200m from the UK and other European nations for military equipment, including spare parts for tanks and artillery ammunition, the British government has announced. Britain agreed with the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Iceland and Lithuania to send an initial package of support to Ukraine, the UK’s Ministry of Defence said.

          xxx/ellauri265.html on line 68:     Ukraine’s allies have said it is unlikely they will be able to supply the number of tanks previously promised. After a meeting in Brussels of western defence ministers, the German defence minister, Boris Pistorius, said they would not be able reach the size of a battalion. The bad news comes just after the Nato chief, Jens Stoltenberg, announced that Russia had begun a renewed offensive in the east in an attempt to take more territory before new western equipment arrives in the spring.

          xxx/ellauri265.html on line 70: An estimated 1.1 million people arrived in Germany from Ukraine in 2022, exceeding the number of arrivals from the Middle East around 2015, Germany’s federal statistical office said on Thursday.

          xxx/ellauri265.html on line 73: A total of 62% of Europeans agree with the statement that Ukrainians are also fighting for Europe’s freedom and prosperity.

          xxx/ellauri265.html on line 131: Parisuhdekouluttajana toimiva Marianna Stolbow kertoo uusimmassa Anna-lehdessä, miten hän rakastui Lauri Pietariseen. Kaksikko tapasi toisensa, vaikka Marianna oli vielä naimisissa puolisonsa Carlo Colanderin kanssa. Kaksi päivää rinnassani oli ollut kupliva tunne, vaikka olin vakuutellut itselleni ja ystävälleni, että olen menossa tapaamaan ’vain kaveria’. Olin tuntenut Laurin pintapuolisesti monta vuotta, koska poikamme olivat luokkatovereita ja ystäviä, Marianna muistelee.

          xxx/ellauri265.html on line 400: “The erosion of academic freedom and the ascendancy of an illiberal ‘successor ideology’ known to its critics as wokeism, which manifests itself as career-ending ‘cancelations’ and speaker disinvitations, but less visibly generates a pervasive climate of anxiety and self-censorship,” Ferguson wrote in a November Bloomberg opinion essay.

          xxx/ellauri265.html on line 410: Boghossian said he believed suppressing professors’ ideologies is one of the major problems of academia. When asked about private universities like NYU, he said he was more concerned about public institutions because they receive greater funding from taxpayers.

          xxx/ellauri265.html on line 412: “The president of Portland State University said that the highest priority of the institution was racial justice,” Boghossian said. “Now that’s an absolutely remarkable statement, a genuinely remarkable statement. Not budget, not publication, not teaching excellence, not retention, but racial justice. A private institution like Bob Jones University can make their mission statement anything they want to make. My primary concern is with public institutions.”

          xxx/ellauri265.html on line 415: Correction, Dec. 15: A previous version of this article misstated Ferguson and Haidt’s stances on “illiberalism.” They are opposing it, not promoting it. The article has been updated to reflect the correction and WSN regrets the error.

          xxx/ellauri265.html on line 424: Jonathan Haidt: We are on a path to ‘catastrophic failure’ of our democracy !

          xxx/ellauri265.html on line 431: In the short space of seven years, Haidt’s Heterodox Academy has gathered a diverse coalition of more than 5,000 professors, administrators, graduate students and staff that span every imaginable diversity. What unites them is a concern that “viewpoint diversity” and “open inquiry” is shrinking in the academy — the very place where we should be encouraging it the most.

          xxx/ellauri265.html on line 435: There’s a lot of interest internationally, and what I’ve picked up is that everyone recognizes that America is particularly sick, that we’re worse off than other countries. But on the other hand, they see the signs in their own country. And so there’s a lot of interest in what’s happening in America, because it’s clear this could be a problem that many liberal democracies are going to face — or are beginning to face — in the social media age. 

          xxx/ellauri265.html on line 441: I co-founded with Caroline Mehl  OpenMind. If you run or are a member of any kind of group — a classroom, a soccer team, a nonprofit, a company — try OpenMind as a group. This platform actually teaches you the skills of understanding others, appreciating why we often can’t understand others, and how to talk across divides, avoiding communication's stumbling stones! 

          xxx/ellauri265.html on line 442: That’s what has so impressed me about the Village Square and Liz Joyner’s efforts. They were originally very focused on Tallahassee, which as the state capital means you have a lot of people who want to solve problems.

          xxx/ellauri265.html on line 444: And the thing is, it works — it works really well in Tallahassee.  Everybody thinks the way we want. I do think it’s hard to scale.

          xxx/ellauri265.html on line 446: I don’t feel depressed. I feel like it’s dark times. But actually I feel very engaged with life these days. Money is just rolling in. Heterodox Academy’s June 12-14 conference in Denver is sold out, but interested persons can join a waiting list here.

          xxx/ellauri268.html on line 236:     The names of the Hogwarts Houses were created on the back of an aeroplane sick bag. Yes, it was empty to start with. The increasingly dark tone of the series was inspired by Rowling’s life experiences. The Dementors, among the most frightening creatures in the franchise (sic), were inspired by the Great Depression following the gay 20´s. Or was it the Great Recession following the gay 2000's?

          xxx/ellauri268.html on line 242: Hetkinen eikai tää Meropekin ole Joannen omakohtaista kokemusta? JK Rowling’s eldest daughter is Jessica, who was born on July 27, 1993, in Portugal, where Rowling was living at the time.

          xxx/ellauri268.html on line 246: She had begun writing Harry Potter by this time, before the couple divorced in 1994. After the Harry Potter books came out, Rowling’s stardom rose and in time, she met and married her second husband, Neil Murray. Joannella on tosi vino suu.

          xxx/ellauri268.html on line 343: Probably the most influential greedy Jewish caricature after Shakespeare’s Shylock is Charles Dickens’ Scrooge. Scrooge (as many Jewish writers have pointed out) is a miser with an obviously Jewish name (Ebenezer) and a pointed nose. He doesn’t celebrate Christmas and needs to be converted to charity and piety. It’s not especially subtle.

          xxx/ellauri268.html on line 345: Scrooge has influenced many an antisemitic caricature after him. Mr. Potter in “It’s a Wonderful Life” is a twisted, disabled Scrooge of the American Midwest. Dr. Seuss’ Grinch is Scrooge in a fur suit and a vaguely fantasy setting; he’s a scheming outsider who, like his blueprint, has to be converted. The thin, ugly Gollum of J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth is an amalgam of Scrooge and Alberich, the gold-obsessed antagonist of composer (and notorious antisemite) Richard Wagner’s “Das Rheingold.” From his introduction in “The Hobbit” on, Gollum is motivated by a lust for a magic ring he calls “my precious.”

          xxx/ellauri268.html on line 347: Watto, the hook-nosed, greedy small-businessman in “Star Wars: Episode I — The Phantom Menace” even “happens to have a thick Yiddish accent,” as Bruce Gottlieb wrote in Slate. Hans Gruber in “Die Hard” is a foreign, sneering, anti-Christmas villain who murders for gold. Then there are the skeletal-like shape-shifting aliens in John Carpenter’s “They Live,” who combine stereotypes of Jewish greed with tropes of Jewish alienness and shape-shifting assimilation. The parallel here was so blatant that neo-Nazis embraced the movie as their own, much to Carpenter’s horror.

          xxx/ellauri268.html on line 349: Many argue that the pervasive nature of antisemitic tropes means the Gringotts goblins and their ilk do no harm. Most children watching the “Harry Potter” films wouldn’t have picked up on the reference. The British charity Campaign Against Antisemitism, for example, tweeted a statement arguing that there are “centuries of association of Jews with grotesque and malevolent creatures in folklore” and that “those who continue to use such representations are often not thinking of Jews at all” but are innocently thinking “of how readers or viewers will imagine goblins to look.”

          xxx/ellauri268.html on line 351: No doubt that (as Stewart said) Rowling didn’t intend to use antisemitic tropes, just as Carpenter didn’t. There’s a clear distinction between Rowling’s clumsy, clueless use of antisemitic caricature and her enthusiastic, ideological embrace of transphobic hate.

          xxx/ellauri268.html on line 355: But it’s possible to do harm even if you don’t mean to. The conflation of greed and Judaism, and the constant subliminal drumbeat that Jewish people are ugly manipulative alien outsiders, can shape and reinforce ugly ideas about real Jewish people. Faces like mine are exaggerated and distorted and put on Rowling’s goblins and the Ferengi of "Star Trek." That’s why on social media, trolls often tweet pictures of my face at me because I have Jewish features. They’ve been taught by all their pop culture that “Jewish” is a stand-in for “ugly.”

          xxx/ellauri268.html on line 357: Most disturbingly, there’s a direct line between Gringotts and the Grinch and the antisemitic attacks on George Soros. Soros is a billionaire Democratic donor and Holocaust survivor who has become a favorite target of the global far right. He’s been falsely accused of collaborating with Nazis and funding antifa. The right also (again falsely) claimed he was bankrolling the migrant caravan in 2018. That last conspiracy theory allegedly inspired one far-right radical to kill 11 people at a synagogue in Pittsburgh.

          xxx/ellauri268.html on line 359: Embodying greed in Jewish caricatures puts Jews at risk. But it also makes it harder to address the actual evils of greed and inequity. When people imagine they are being oppressed by these ugly aliens over here, it becomes hard to see actual injustice and exploitation committed by supposedly good, upstanding co-nationalists and co-religionists. It’s not an accident that former President Donald Trump has signed on to Soros conspiracy theories.

          xxx/ellauri268.html on line 364: Jewish people are not the main targets of hate and violence in the United States, it is the coons. Again, Rowling’s campaign of hatred against trans people has been much more harmful, and much more consequential, than her goblins.

          xxx/ellauri268.html on line 366: Still, Jewish stereotypes and prejudice persist. That is reflected, and to some degree advanced, by fictional narratives and imagery that (unconsciously or otherwise) associate goodness with Christian charity and evil with supposed Jewish greed. In his "lighthearted" criticism of Rowling, Stewart reminded us that our fantasies remain structured around antisemitism. As long as that’s the case, Jewish people will be at risk, and defeating Voldemort will be that much harder.

          xxx/ellauri268.html on line 540: Simon Wiesenthal had been an architect in what is present-day Ukraine before World War II broke out, but after the war began his life took a horrific turn. Wiesenthal was sent to his first concentration camp in 1941 in Ukraine and later escaped from the Ostbahn camp in 1943, just before the Germans began to kill the inmates, according to the Simon Wiesenthal Center’s website. He was recaptured in June 1944, and sent to Janowska where he narrowly avoided death one more time—when the German eastern front collapsed and the guards decided to bring the remaining prisoners to the Mauthausen camp in Austria. He was freed there by the U.S. Army in May of 1945, weighing less than 100 pounds.

          xxx/ellauri268.html on line 542: After the war ended, Wiesenthal dedicated his life to tracking down Nazi criminals after realizing “there is no freedom without justice,” according to The Associated Press. Wiesenthal began his work gathering and preparing evidence on the Nazis for the War Crimes Section of the United States Army, according to his website. He’d go on to head the Jewish Central Committee of the United States Zone of Austria and later helped to open the Jewish Historical Documentation Center. The center worked to gather evidence for future trials on war criminals.

          xxx/ellauri268.html on line 548: It’s believed Wiesenthal also played a role in hunting down notorious SS leader Adolf Eichmann, who had organized the extermination of the Jews. Wiesenthal received information that Eichmann had been hiding out in Argentina and passed the information on to Israel, according to his center’s website.

          xxx/ellauri268.html on line 556:   “When history looks back, I want people to know the Nazis weren’t able to kill millions of people and get away with it,” he once said, according to the center’s website. Wiesenthal died in 2005 at the age of 96. Kosto elää, tai siis eli.

          xxx/ellauri280.html on line 74: We guarantee you will enjoy this novel. Before giving up too many spoilers, know that the story is filled with plenty of dangerous events and characters. There are too many characters to count. There are many reasons why this book is considered Ken Follett’s best book. We are looking forward to more of Follett’s upcoming books.

          xxx/ellauri280.html on line 175:   Arie (Arie Bar David) ja hänen perheensä ovat suomalaiskristittyjen vuonna 1971 perustaman kibbutsin ’jäseniä’. Suomalaisten saapuessa rakennuksia ei vielä ollut, vain paljas vuorenrinne ja jotain  arabiaxi räyhääviä filistiinejä. Vuoteen 1974 mennessä he olivat rakentaneet sementistä 8koko joukon settlementtitaloja.

          xxx/ellauri280.html on line 177:   Arie saapui paikalle kahden veljensä kanssa useita vuosia myöhemmin. He olivat siihen aikaan nuoriso-ohjaajia, jotka pitivät messiaanisille juutalaisille nuorten leiriä… Arien tarina on poikkeuksellinen… ’Isäni matkusti Bulgariasta Israeliin vuonna 1928.” Totta kyllä, enemmistö meistä ei ole tehnyt niin, eikä juutalaisista kovin monta muuta ole messiaanista. 

          xxx/ellauri281.html on line 495:   Miller briefly lived in the same Brooklyn brownstone as the young Norman Mailer. (Mailer would later say: “I know he was thinking what I was, which was, ‘That other guy is never going to amount to anything.’ ”)  

          xxx/ellauri281.html on line 523: Arthur Miller was 35 and at the top of his career when, in 1951, he first set eyes on Marilyn Monroe. He was the author of “All My Sons” and “Death of a Salesman,” the first play to win all three major drama prizes (the Pulitzer Prize, the Tony Award and the New York Drama Critics’ Circle Award). He would soon begin work on “The Upokas.” She was 24 and, except for her glorious behind, virtually unknown.

          xxx/ellauri281.html on line 525: The occasion was a Hollywood party in Miller’s honor. A married father of two, he was dazzled by the erotic scenery. Women were clearly on offer to him. He had, he would write, “never before seen sex treated so casually as a reward of success.” When Monroe arrived, she was “almost ludicrously provocative,” he wrote, squeezed into a dress that was “blatantly tight, declaring rather than insinuating that she had brought her body along and that it was the best one in the room.” The director Elia Kazan caught “the lovely light of lechery” in Miller’s eyes.

          xxx/ellauri281.html on line 527: The public didn’t exactly applaud this match. Gossip columnists fixated on, as Mr. Bigsby puts it, “a red in bed with America’s snow queen.” Mailer famously snarked that “the Great American Brain” had met “the Great American Body.”

          xxx/ellauri281.html on line 531: Miller would give up his career to help guide hers, and he spent years working on “The Misfits,” directed by John Huston, for which he wrote the screenplay and she would star. On the set she’d be hospitalized and, around this time, have an affair with Yves Montand. The couple got a Mexican divorce in 1961; Miller would marry the Magnum photographer Inge Morath, whom he met during the filming.

          xxx/ellauri281.html on line 535: The long, strange, elegiac ballad of Arthur Miller and Marilyn Monroe — one that would end for her in miscarriages, bottles of pills and increasingly erratic behavior, and for him in a long gap in his theater career — takes up only a few chapters of “Arthur Miller: 1915-1962,” Christopher Bigsby’s sober and meteor-size new biography. But they are crucial chapters. The book moves inexorably toward Monroe’s appearance; her magnetism sucks everything rapidly toward it. Miller’s long life (1915-2005) can be cleaved neatly into B.M. and A.M. — before Marilyn and after.

          xxx/ellauri281.html on line 646: Most of al-Hamdānī’s life was spent in Arabia itself. He was widely educated, and he traveled extensively, acquiring a broad knowledge of his country. He became involved in a number of political controversies. When he was imprisoned for one of them, his influence was sufficient to invoke a tribal rebellion in his behalf to secure his release.

          xxx/ellauri281.html on line 650: The qaṣīda (also spelled qaṣīdah; is originally an Arabic word قصيدة, plural qaṣā’id, قصائد; that was passed to some other languages such as Persian: قصیده or چكامه, chakameh, and Turkish: kaside) is an ancient Arabic word and form of writing poetry, often translated as ode, passed to other cultures after the Arab Muslim expansion. The word qasidah is still used in its original birthplace, Arabia, and in all Arab countries.

          xxx/ellauri281.html on line 724:   John Train, Paris Review Co-Founder and Cold War Operative, sentään kuoli 94-vuotiaana 2022, onnexi. His career, ranging from literature to finance to war, and from France to Afghanistan, seemed to cover every interest and issue of his exalted social class. Yet he was also an operator in high finance and world affairs who, by one researcher’s account, had ties to U.S. secret services. Mr. Train founded and ran a leading financial firm devoted to preserving the money of rich families, and he worked to support the mujahedeen in their fight against the Soviet Union in the 1980s. The Guardian reported that Train, Smith had $375 million under management in 1984. In 1986, Fortune magazine wrote that Mr. Train’s firm “claims to be the largest in New York serving rich families.” Mr. Train’s books on investing were praised as riveting in The New York Times and “classic” in The Wall Street Journal. Among them were several about successful financiers, whom he referred to as “money masters,” and their techniques. He treated his political interests less jokingly. A committed cold warrior, he wrote for The Wall Street Journal about military affairs. He became concerned that the conspiracy-monger Lyndon LaRouche was a “possible Soviet agent.” (Lyndon began in far-left politics but in the 1970s moved to the far right and antisemitism.)

          xxx/ellauri281.html on line 726:   A yet murkier side of Mr. Train’s political engagement was documented in Joel Whitney’s 2016 book, “Finks: How the C.I.A. Tricked the World’s Best Writers,” a history of connections between Paris Review founders and intelligence agencies. Drawing on a collection of Mr. Train’s papers at Seton Hall University and two interviews with him, Mr. Whitney wrote that in the 1980s Mr. Train used a “shell nonprofit to foster schemes” furthering U.S. “intelligence and propaganda missions” in Afghanistan. Mr. Train ran an organization, the Afghanistan Relief Committee, which presented itself as largely devoted to helping refugees and offering other forms of humanitarian aid, but a study by the left-leaning Institute for Policy Studies found that its budget was spent largely on “media campaigns.” Vanhuxena John Train koitti lukea hankkimiaan afgaanimattoja. 

          xxx/ellauri281.html on line 730:   On the subject of oligarchy and the treasure storehouses which oligarchs build for themselves, Alexei Navalny´s video reveals that he’s following a U.S. and NATO script, google translated into Russian.   Navalny is of Russian and Ukrainian descent. His father is from Zalissia, a former village near the Belarus border that was relocated due to the Chernobyl disaster in Ivankiv Raion, Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine. Navalny grew up in Obninsk, about 100 kilometres (62 mi) southwest of Moscow, but spent his childhood summers with his grandmother in Ukraine, acquiring proficiency in the Ukrainian language.

          xxx/ellauri281.html on line 732:   Navalny’s idea is that Putin is the single mastermind of Russian rule and that he dictates to the oligarchs the tribute they should pay–in treasure for him to accumulate and display for himself, his friends and girlfriends in private. This is an Anglo-American cartoon about how oligarchy works everywhere, including the UK and the U.S.–in Russia in particular.

          xxx/ellauri281.html on line 734: It’s not how governments operate–democratic ones and every other kind, including the Russian kind–that has been well-known to everybody since time immemorial;  and to university professors since 1911. That was the year when Robert Michels, a German-born sociologist working in Italy and France, published the first edition of what he called the “iron law of oligarchy”.

          xxx/ellauri286.html on line 341: Putin’s Troll Empire. Elokuun puolivälissä kasassa oli noin 30 000 dollarin edestä 

          xxx/ellauri286.html on line 483: Мочи перхоти (Perhot’ podzalupnaya)Virzaputken hilsesmegma

          xxx/ellauri286.html on line 486: Ублюдок (Svoloch’)bastardiIhmisjäte. Melko itsestään selvä tää.

          xxx/ellauri286.html on line 487: Чушь собачья (Piz’duk)koiran läjä (lässyttäjä)Paskapuhetta

          xxx/ellauri289.html on line 351: SE parantaa käyttökokemusta koko anekaupan muuntosuppilossa tuotesivuilta kassaprosessiin, jotta sivuston vierailijoista tulee maksavia asiakkaita. Vertaapa perinteiseen ratkaisuun, jossa insel on ize  maxumiehenä! Depending on the factors above (and your source), a good conversion rate can range from 2% to 5%. It’s not just about revenue, what we really care about is the score.

          xxx/ellauri292.html on line 43: Some biblical scholars maintain that the woman in Jericho who hid Joshua’s two spies was a harlot or a prostitute. But if that was the case, how did this woman, Rahab, become one of the ancestors of Jesus Christ? Wouldn’t THE Father ensure a pure lineage for His Son? Wouldn't any father?

          xxx/ellauri292.html on line 49: Rahab marries Radames, a young Egyptian officer, who is to become the new governor of Jericho. They live in the Egyptian embassy set in the city wall. When the Israelites approach Canaan with their army, pharaoh sends word that he is withdrawing his troops. Radames fabricates a story to tell Jericho’s king, but the babylonian lawmaker Hammurabi doesn’t believe it…and he has his eye on the beautiful Rahab.

          xxx/ellauri292.html on line 120: Super Tekla denies accusations of live-in partner: ‘Nasa tamang katinuan pa naman ako’

          xxx/ellauri292.html on line 128: (He couldn’t control himself, he wants to touch me.)

          xxx/ellauri292.html on line 135: Super Tekla also denied that he was neglectful of his and Michelle’s baby boy, named Angelo, who was born with an anorectal malformation.

          xxx/ellauri292.html on line 145: “Di pa nag-si-sink in ‘yun sa utak ko na gagawin ‘yun sa akin. Unang-una, wala akong kaalam-alam, plinano nilang lahat,” the comedian then said of Michelle’s interview with Raffy.

          xxx/ellauri292.html on line 146: (It hasn’t sunk in yet in my brain that they would do such a thing. First of all, I have no clue, they planned it all.)

          xxx/ellauri292.html on line 148: He then told her: “Michelle, karapatan mo ‘yun, nung una pa lang. Binlock n’yo na ako sa Facebook, wala akong idea nagkalabuan tayo. Gusto mong makipaghiwalay sa akin. Hindi ko pinagsisiksikan yung sarili ko sa inyo Michelle.”

          xxx/ellauri292.html on line 159: Super Tekla doesn’t want to be compared to Unkabogable star Vice Ganda.

          xxx/ellauri292.html on line 203: No kyse on Ano Rexissä esillä olevasta amerikkalaisen bullshittaiteilija Kill Bill Violan teoksesta Catherine’s Room (2001). Teoksen nimi viittaa Italian Sienassa 1300-luvulla eläneeseen Katariina Sienalaiseen, yhteen katolisen kirkon tunnetuimmista pyhimyksistä. Katariina ei ollut nunna vaan dominikaanien sääntökuntaan kuulunut maallikkosisar. Oma hiljainen tilansa hänellä silti oli – ja sellaisen voi hänen neuvonsa mukaan jokainen rakentaa: ”Tee itsellesi oman mieleisesi kaappi, josta sinun ei tarvitse koskaan tulla ulos.”

          xxx/ellauri292.html on line 383: Εὐχαριστοῦμεν τῷ θεῷ πατρὶ τοῦ κυρίου ἡμῶν Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ πάντοτε περὶ ὑμῶν προσευχόμενοι, ἀκούσαντες τὴν πίστιν ὑμῶν ἐν Χριστῷ Ἰησοῦ καὶ τὴν ἀγάπην ἣν ἔχετε εἰς πάντας τοὺς ἁγίους διὰ τὴν ἐλπίδα τὴν ἀποκειμένην ὑμῖν ἐν τοῖς οὐρανοῖς, ἣν προηκούσατε ἐν τῷ λόγῳ τῆς ἀληθείας τοῦ εὐαγγελίου τοῦ παρόντος εἰς ὑμᾶς, καθὼς καὶ ἐν παντὶ τῷ κόσμῳ ἐστὶν καρποφορούμενον καὶ αὐξανόμενον καθὼς καὶ ἐν ὑμῖν, ἀφ’ ἧς ἡμέρας ἠκούσατε καὶ ἐπέγνωτε τὴν χάριν τοῦ θεοῦ ἐν ἀληθείᾳ.

          xxx/ellauri295.html on line 509: Toora (hepr. תּוֹרָה, Torah, ’opetus’) on heprealaisen Raamatun eli Tanakin ensimmäinen osa. Toora käännetään usein sanalla laki, vaikka asianmukaisempi käännös on opetus. Juutalaisille toora on Tanakin keskeisin osa, joka luetaan synagogassa läpi joka vuosi. Toorasta käytetään myös kreikkalaisperäistä nimeä Pentateukki, joka tarkoittaa viisiosaista kirjaa. Kirjaksi sidottua Tooraa kutsutaan myös hepreankielisellä nimellä humaš.

          xxx/ellauri296.html on line 123:   The Achaeans were a proto-Greek component of the Sea Peoples from Crete, and the Cretans were allied for centuries with the Pelishtim, to the point where “Creti and Pleti” was a common phrase for King David’s bodyguard.  The Pelishtim (pelasgit?) are commonly referred to as “uncircumcised” in the Bible.  At least one archaeologist has no problem with calling the Pelishtim “Greeks.”

          xxx/ellauri296.html on line 286: 
          Jenna Jameson’s Instagram page is filled with photos of fellatio and other kosher dishes she’s been cooking up; she’s even dropping Hebrew words on Twitter.
          

          xxx/ellauri296.html on line 295: 
          Nina Hartley,  now 56, is a bona fide porn legend, having starred in over 1,000 adult films and directed 18. After winning eight Adult Video News Awards throughout her career, she’s now a sex educator and speaker.
          

          xxx/ellauri296.html on line 449:     Pitää ’vähäiset’ synnit vakavina… Älä arvioi vain  rikkomuksen vähäpätöisyyttä, vaan hänen suuttumustaan, joka varoittaa sitä vastaan… Hän, joka syyllistyy pieneen rikkomukseen, usein kerää itselleen yllättävän suuren rangaistuksen… Kun paha luonne saa pienen voiton, se vahvistuu ja saavuttaa suurempia voittoja. Kuten viisaat sanoivat (A vot perkele, tuota ne tekkööt  4:2): ”Yhden käskyn noudattaminen johtaa toiseen; kun taas yhden rikkomuksen tekeminen johtaa toiseen.”

          xxx/ellauri298.html on line 190: My first poem is titled, ‘Badges.’ 

          xxx/ellauri298.html on line 213: My next poem is titled ‘Stay Beneath the Smoke.’ 

          xxx/ellauri298.html on line 215: ‘Stay beneath the smoke,’ The firefighter urged us In 

          xxx/ellauri298.html on line 216: his talk the other day. ‘Down there you’ll breathe And not choke.’ The more 

          xxx/ellauri298.html on line 223: putting out fires’ to evoke what the role is like to be responding to 

          xxx/ellauri298.html on line 225: reflection or looking at the ‘big picture’ of their workplace. The symbol of 

          xxx/ellauri298.html on line 229: ‘smoke and mirrors,’ and smoke stacks through which leaders, managers, and 

          xxx/ellauri298.html on line 233: much smoke. When I ask clients and colleagues, ‘What’s it like to work here?’, a 

          xxx/ellauri298.html on line 238: poem called ‘Acronym.’ I should say by way of introduction that in American 

          xxx/ellauri298.html on line 259: hospital service. The presentation of the above ‘case’ was filled with emotion and 

          xxx/ellauri298.html on line 263: them as well as to the ‘case’ they were narrating.This led to the sudden shift of 

          xxx/ellauri298.html on line 275: A lady colleague from Laos (a dainty dish indeed) would invariably talk about not ‘rocking the boat’ and ‘letting things ride’ when 

          xxx/ellauri298.html on line 281: been a ‘Boat Person’ who managed to escape with her life from Southeast Asia 

          xxx/ellauri298.html on line 282: during the Communist takeover in the late 1970’s on a very fragile craft. The 

          xxx/ellauri298.html on line 289: cement and deepen our ‘working’ relationship and led to many future criminal 

          xxx/ellauri298.html on line 292: My final poem in this paper is called ‘Watchman’s 

          xxx/ellauri298.html on line 293: Prayer.’ It is particularly gooey, which is why I saved it last. 

          xxx/ellauri298.html on line 296: my patient’s fever finally break? Will my ship prevail in the storm? Will my quiet 

          xxx/ellauri298.html on line 297: city rage and burn? If You can, then spare us, If not, then prepare us – Peril’s 

          xxx/ellauri298.html on line 298: perch Is never far. I walk the ancient widow’s watch. My lover fishes far out at 

          xxx/ellauri298.html on line 303: people who are metaphoric ‘watch(wo)men’ of others: from widows to parents, to 

          xxx/ellauri304.html on line 452: “That’s astonishing….an Italian operetta, a Broadway musical, Arabian Nights….how do you compose so many different things?” Jerome Kern shrugged and answered: “I just keep writing the same old Kletzmer music.”

          xxx/ellauri304.html on line 466: Tätä on noudatettava, koska se toimii - se on toiminut maailman sivu, samalla konstilla on meidät kaikki nussittu. The structure itself puts tension and action and drama into everything it touches — and that’s what you want your book to do. And that’s what your readers will also want your book to do. Readers have a comfort zone and this structure will put them in it.

          xxx/ellauri304.html on line 470:       Everybody’s favorite hero is the person s/he wants to be or have. If you are an acne-ridden teeen it is James Bond. If you are James Bond it is an acne-ridden teen with pointy breasts.

          xxx/ellauri304.html on line 474:     As a boy, I remember a movie where Tarzan is asked by Jane to fight against some Nazis who have come to their neck of the jungle. But Tarzan refuses; the F.D. Roosevelt of his time, he’s got nothing against Nazis. But then they bomb Pearl Harbor sorry kidnap Tarzans son, Boy, and Tarzan bestirs himself, sticks a knife in his arse, and says “Now Tarzan fight.” Että jenkkitolvanoille pitääkin ihan kädestä pitäen opettaa tätä paskan lapparointia.

          xxx/ellauri304.html on line 476:     I can’t escape it. Every character I’ll ever write is me. Some little piece of me; some tiny corner of my little mind that often you’d rather not confront openly; but it’s me. Flaubert wasn’t fooling when he said: “Madame Bovary, c’est moi.” It’s me. They’re all me. And in your books, they’ll all be you, if you ever write any books, sucker. 

          xxx/ellauri304.html on line 480: If I write a character entering a room, I see him in my mind. Does he enter the room like John Wayne? That’s one way. Burt Reynolds is another way. Dustin Hoffman, as Ratso Rizzo, is still another way. There are no other ways. Fucking film and TV viewers, devil take them.    

          xxx/ellauri304.html on line 484:     Another side-note. Basically I hate research into facts and history and blah and blah. So you can’t think of character traits? Here are some opposites for you. I can think of dozens more.

          xxx/ellauri304.html on line 511: That’s a start that I borrowed from somebody…(all right, stole. There were dozens more where I found them. I think it was a dictionary.)

          xxx/ellauri304.html on line 513:   As novelists, we create a character not by what we tell but by what we show. Show not tell, you know (fucking immigrants shut up). What does that character say? What does he do? What do others say about him? What do they think of him? What would he say if he was slapping a kid at the local Walmart’s? That’s characterization and it makes your fictional people come alive.

          xxx/ellauri304.html on line 517:   Sometimes though they might do a little more. They won’t steal the real action but they set the mood, they add humor, they make the setting more believable. You can do this by making placeholders eccentric or obsessive. I read analysis once of an old flick called Beverly Hills Cop. It featured a clerk in an art gallery. He was effeminate. By itself, that’s not unusual. But he had a Jewish accent, and that was unusual because Jews weren’t generally treated as queens in Hollywood — it teems with them (although today H’wood can say anything it wants about Jews, even Christians. You can tell this was an old movie.) What that character did however in the film was to help make Detroit cop Eddie Murphy, the negro comedian, feel even more alien in L.A. than he otherwise would have.

          xxx/ellauri304.html on line 519:   Heroes have their Achilles heels. The most honest president of the U.S. cheats on the golf course; that is what makes people real. The late Robert Parker’s Spenser character was interesting. He was a yuppie. He ran, he lifted weights, he liked to cook, he liked unimposing little wines with sardonic personalities, he pretended he didn’t care about clothes but somehow always managed to wear the same basic uniform;, he lived with a woman, Susan the insufferable, who could psycho-babble Jay-Z into impotence. But the characterization hook was that Spenser spent his life being a private eye and shooting people, which was totally alien to the character’s nature. That started to round him out and make him real. Without that hard edge, he’d have been just another fan of Barry Manilow.

          xxx/ellauri304.html on line 523:     Just in passing, most writers have blind spots. Some writers can’t do cops. Some can’t do the opposite sex. I can, I can even write about it, meaning them.

          xxx/ellauri304.html on line 533:     In Hollywood where they are always looking for blockbusters — but then don’t know what to do with them so they go back to filming comic books — for the thing they most desire is “high concept.” That means a clean plot, a story you can tell in one sentence.     If you can't summarise your novel, well, imagine your novel-to-be is a movie already and tell us about it in a sentence. That should be easy enough. 

          xxx/ellauri304.html on line 543:   “When his sister is murdered at her wedding reception by a pair of New York City mafia goons, Japanese-American yuppie Miles Haverford goes to Japan and brings back to America a group of Yakuza crime family assassins who extract revenge for the young girl’s death.”

          xxx/ellauri304.html on line 549:   “After his fake execution for a murder he didn’t commit, ex-cop Remo Williams is forced to work for America’s secret crime-fighting agency CURE, while being trained by the world’s greatest assassin, the aged, ageless, cranky, mercenary, mystical Chiun, Master of Sinanju.”

          xxx/ellauri304.html on line 554: Here’s what we add to make Temple Dogs a paragraph long:

          xxx/ellauri304.html on line 556: “While in Japan, Miles meets the Yakuza chieftain, the aging Nagoya, and learns that, by blood, he is truly a member of this crime family. But Nagoya’s assistant and heir, the street warrior Sato, also of mixed blood, tries to drive Miles away because the young American and Sato’s woman, Lady Tomiko, are clearly falling in love. Yet Miles eventually wins over the Yakuza men and Sato is among the group that returns with Miles to New York to slowly, individually, bloodily tear apart the DeSanto Mafia crime family.”    

          xxx/ellauri304.html on line 560: “In New York, the DeSanto crime family is dead or in jail. Miles’ parents in New York are safe from Mafia reprisal. The Yakuza assassins are ready to return to Japan, but Miles has decided that the life of a buttered-bun Wall Street lawyer is no longer for him. He bids his family goodbye and returns to the Japanese home of Yakuza chieftain Nagoya. It is time for Nagoya to pass on the leadership of the criminal clan and his choice is his faithful assistant, Sato. But Sato declines the ceremonial cup and instead stands beside Miles and calls him ‘Someone whom the gods have sent from across the sea to lead you to tomorrow.’ And then he bows to Miles, the new leader.

          xxx/ellauri304.html on line 562: “In the book’s final scene, Lady Tomiko and Miles make their way up the four hundred steps of the shrine of Kumanomichi to take their wedding vows. Then home to a cardboard box and some wild fornication, as only the Japanese women know how.”

          xxx/ellauri304.html on line 569:   Rutikuiva John Grisham kirjoittaa jokaisesta kirjasta pitkän luonnoxen jonka kirjoittaminen kestää kauemmin kuin ize kirjan. Se on helppo uskoa. Before beginning the actual writing of her bestselling books, Mary Higgins-Clark develops an outline and frequently very detailed biographies of the main characters, stuff that’ll never make it into the book but which Mary feels comfortable knowing. 

          xxx/ellauri304.html on line 571:   Basically, I’m not a big fan of Raymond Chandler's Big Sleep. Well, why pussyfoot around? Actually I think the book is stupid; however, Raymond Chandler is a particular favorite of artsy-fartsy mystery readers and critics and this rather bizarre genre mystery featuring the private eye Philip Marlowe is often ranked as one of the 100 best novels of all time. I just don't see why, I think my Remo Vanha Vainooja is 10x more fascinating.

          xxx/ellauri304.html on line 583: A lot of pulp writers have (or had) style.  Mary Clark (+2020) had a style, Dean Koontz (*1945), Stephen King (*1947), Molly Cochran (*1949), Andrew Klavan (*1954), Larry Block (*1938), Susan Isaacs (*1943), Harlan Coben (*1961), Sue Grafton (+2017), they all have styles. Or had. I am told I have a style too (or had), although I don’t really know what style is. Didn't.

          xxx/ellauri304.html on line 592:     Scene by scene construction. It’s not one long narrative that never ends. Not usually, not any more. Instead, the story stops, starts again somewhere else, stops, starts again. These scenes are like chapter breaks, except more frequent. This is all copied from movies. How sad. 

          xxx/ellauri304.html on line 594:     Dialogue that sounds real. This is not tape-recorded dialogue but an attempt to make speech sound more realistic than it often has been written. Sometimes people say things that aren’t exactly to the point; nothing wrong with that as long as it’s interesting and/or entertaining and can move the story forward. Cases in point: the overrated Quentin Tarantino in films like “Pulp Fiction.” One of the best at it was novelist George Higgins. Elmore Leonard is excellent; also Larry Block.

          xxx/ellauri304.html on line 598:     Those things are all status objects. Here’s another: a guy rents a room in a sleazy hotel; it is a hovel in a dump. The floor of the room is littered with racing forms. Those are status objects and tell you something about the occupant. Or maybe the newspapers are neatly stacked against the wall and, instead of the racing form, they are copies of the Wall Street Journal with many stories circled by magic marker. Those are also status objects but should give you quite a different picture of the room’s occupant. Tattoos today are status objects; so too is a lack of tattoos. They illuminate character sometimes. And just as often an absence of intelligence. Its known as product placement on video. Rei Shimura has a lot of it.

          xxx/ellauri304.html on line 601:     Finally, a large percentage of novels today are written in restricted third person viewpoint. In other words, in each individual scene, the author works through only one person’s head. Anybody else in the scene, except the major player at that moment, is made to live by his actions and his words, but not by you — as author — getting into his head and telling us what he’s thinking. (Obviously, by the way, private eye novels are in some way illustrative of this rule because most PI’s are written first person since it’s impossible to get into another character’s thoughts and feelings except by showing him cavorting on your literary stage.) 

          xxx/ellauri304.html on line 617: A guy named Leonard Bishop has a rule: keep the dialogue short. Four sentences is a speech. More than that, break it up. Let something happen. Let the person sip a drink or light a cigarette, scratch his butt or sneeze, anything. Let the speaker be responded to or questioned by another character. Let’s face it; nobody gets a a chance to speak for five sentences in a row without being interrupted, unless he or she is one of our neighbors in the East. Personally I find even Quentin Tarantino tedious.

          xxx/ellauri304.html on line 621:     See that guy up there waiting in the checkout line near the cash register? Yes, of course he’s reading. He’s always reading. He’s Stephen King — and yes, to this day, he reads every check he gets. And if you would emulate him, then start imitating him.

          xxx/ellauri304.html on line 623:     What to read? If you get no checks, read Writer’s Digest. Read the how-to books. If you want to read books on writing, you can’t find much better stuff then Stephen King on Writing, anything by Dean Koontz or Larry Block, a very specific mystery writing manual from Hallie Ephron (*1948), Writing Mysteries from MWA, a collection which includes me and my ex-partner, read my blogs and those about the writer’s soul by Molly Cochran. Read “Trial and Error”by Jack Woodford (+1971), one of the great commercial writing geniuses. And be sure to read my long time personal favorite book by one of my all time, all-star heroes, “Dare to be a Great Writer” by Leonard Bishop, which is not 300 pages of “rah-rah boys, go do it” but is instead 329 specific tips on how to get the trucks out of the garage in the morning. Fabulous. Reading and writing and remembering, are the only two of the three R’s that count. Who the hell cares about ‘rithmetic? Except Chuck Berry, who could count 6/8 time like a genius.

          xxx/ellauri304.html on line 629:       Suppose you want to write a “big book.” No genre junk for you. Okay. Here’s what you need to know. A “big book” is just a genre novel that got bigger. More pages, more everything. just make it a little bigger, a little more breathless, give it a little more end-of-the-world panache. Think of selling it to Hollywood where they call it high concept but what that really means is that it’s a very short outline of a book for people who can’t read a whole book or even a whole paragraph at once and their mind starts to wander after one sentence. Where was I? Ah yes:

          xxx/ellauri304.html on line 631:       Hannibal Lecter. Anthony Hopkins, sama heppu joka esiintyi savinaamaisena Titus Andronicuxena, koikkelehti Hannibal Lecterinä elokuvassa Uhrilampaat. Anthony Hopkins on Why He Became an Actor: ‘I Was Tired of Being Called Stupid’. Hannibal Lecter on kirjailija Thomas Harrisin luoma kuvitteellinen hahmo, joka esiintyy hänen kirjoittamissaan romaaneissa Punainen lohikäärme, Uhrilampaat, Hannibal ja Nuori Hannibal sekä niihin pohjautuvissa elokuvissa ja televisiosarjassa. Hän on hyvin älykäs ... Tai sitten ei. Hannibalin lukijat ja kazojat eivät ainakaan, ne ovat punaraitapyllypaviaaneja.

          xxx/ellauri304.html on line 633: You don’t have to be an expert; you can learn enough to fake it and sound like one. That’s what Google is for. You don’t have to write about what you know, only about what interests you.

          xxx/ellauri304.html on line 636: I was going to write about research but I hate research, research sucks. So maybe this can be about theme because “big books” frequently have a theme, although it’s not absolutely necessary. See, themes are about ideas and some writers, very skillful and very successful, have never had an idea in their lives. Still and all, books and stories are made better when they have a strong theme, some underlying message that can resonate with your readers.

          xxx/ellauri304.html on line 638: For instance, the overrated “Catcher in the Rye’s” theme is that life sucks. Okay, if you say so. Include me out. The vastly better “This is Graceanne’s Book” has the opposite theme — that you can win; no matter the odds, you can do it. I like that one better. It is pure bullshit, but then so am I. Or was. 

          xxx/ellauri304.html on line 640: 	Theme isn’t something you paste on after you write the first draft. Now, potboilers in general don’t have much thematic content because they doesn’t need to go far beyond: Bang Bang and the good guys in the white hats win. Theme is a more ever-present feeling that permeates the book you’re working on. Do you think when Ayn Rand wrote The Fountainhead or Atlas Shrugged, she first wrote the stories and then asked herself, “Now whatever could this be about? Selfishness?” But then, she was more political than most and, as I said, many books don’t have any discernible theme, except, buy it please and make me rich. That's my theme anyway.

          xxx/ellauri304.html on line 643:   AND FINALLY — YES, YOU OUTLASTED ME — I’M DEAD… AND HERE ARE A COUPLE OF END PAPERS. Posted on September 23, 2013 by brian.

          xxx/ellauri304.html on line 645: 	Did you ever hear of a guy with plumber’s block? Electrician’s block? Did a mechanic ever have mechanic’s block? No, no, and no. The reason is that none of them get paid if they don’t show up to work, so block isn’t really a viable option like flu. However for writers, it often is, but then, they don't get paid. Read Trollope’s autobiography. He worked according to schedule and if he finished a novel, but still had fifteen minutes left in his usual writing day, he would take a fresh piece of paper, write “Chapter One” and get started immediately. Time’s a-wasting, children, said Trollope and went out to fornicate some neighborhood trollops. It pays to be mediocre.

          xxx/ellauri304.html on line 652: Thank you for a useful and interesting writer’s blog, it really helps with my plumber's block.

          xxx/ellauri306.html on line 66:   Why do so many people (especially philosophers) hate Ayn Rand? She’s almost unknown in the UK - so much so that when there was a documentary about her on TV, The Daily Telegraph - a right-wing paper by British standards - felt obliged to explain to its readers who she was. She was, it said, “An unpleasant Russian-American fruitcake.” What was Ayn Rand? Cod philosopher, bad writer and deeply narcissistic, severely socially impaired person.

          xxx/ellauri306.html on line 223: Accusé de traîtrise par certains historiens canadiens-français en raison de ses nombreux changements d'allégeance, il est l'un des personnages les plus colorés et controversés de l’histoire de la Nouvelle-France. 

          xxx/ellauri306.html on line 578:   Täytyypä kazoa mitä Mätien tomskujen tampiot tästä sanovat! Top critics: Cruise’s toothy heroics are ill-suited to moral complexity, but he is elevated by a stellar supporting cast... A summer genre movie for grown-ups. Too-long Grisham thriller is full of adult themes. Höh, montako panoa? Näytetäänkö muka kuinka se menee sinne? (Ilmeisesti noin 2, ei näytetä.) The Firm amusingly satirizes the New Traditionalist aspirations of today's young urban elite -- not so much the lifestyle itself as the illusion of utter security it represents. Alas, Tom Cruise is Tom Cruise, playing yet another variation of his screen image. A first-class thriller and thought-provoking morality play. Is this a thriller? You've never scene (sic) a 'suspense film' drag its heels so deplorably. Moderately entertaining... and a big step up from the book. No, the book moved at turbo speed. At two and a half hours, the movie crawls. Two-and-a-half hour movies -- jeez, there ought to be a law. 
          

          xxx/ellauri306.html on line 600: Jovovichin äiti on venäläinen näyttelijä Galina Loginova Jovović ja isä montenegrolainen lastenlääkäri Bogić Jovović. Millan ollessa viisivuotias perhe muutti Yhdysvaltoihin Sacramentoon, Kaliforniaan. Hän aloitti mallinuransa jo 12-vuotiaana. Ehkä tunnetuimman mallisopimuksensa hän solmi L’Oréalin kanssa. Vuonna 2005 Milla Jovovich ja näyttelijä Carmen Hawk lanseerasivat Jovovich-Hawk-vaatemalliston. 

          xxx/ellauri307.html on line 922: Vuonna 2007 joka viidestoista myyty kovakantinen romaani oli James Pattersonin kirjoittama, minkä arvioitiin tarkoittavan 16 miljoonaa myytyä kirjaa pelkästään Pohjois-Amerikassa. Forbes-lehden mukaan Patterson ansaitsi 50 miljoonaa dollaria kesäkuiden 2007 ja 2008 välisenä aikana, mikä asetti hänet parhaiten ansaitsevien "kirjailijoiden" listalla toiseksi. Kokonaisuudessaan Pattersonin kirjat ovat myyneet maailmanlaajuisesti noin 350 miljoonaa kappaletta (2016). Hän on voittanut palkintoja: mm. Edgar Awardin, BCA Mystery Guild’s Thriller of the Year ja International Thriller of the Year -palkinnot. Pattersonia kutsuttiin Time-lehdessä "mieheksi, joka ampuu sontaa nopeammin kuin varjonsa" [kertokaapa tarkemmin?]. Hän on ensimmäinen kirjailija, jonka kaksi kirjaa sijoittuivat samaan aikaan ensimmäisiksi The New York Timesin aikuisten ja lasten bestseller-listoilla, ja ensimmäinen, jolla on kaksi kirjaa NovelTrackerin top 10 -listalla yhtaikaa. Hänellä on eniten New York Times bestseller-listalle päässeitä kirjoja: yhteensä 45 kirjaa. Hän on myös vieraillut Simpsonit-tv-ohjelmassa (jaksossa "Yokel Chords"), jossa hän esitti ketäs muuta kuin itseään. Lisäksi Patterson vieraili cameoroolissa (esittäen itseään) rikossarjan Castle avausjaksossa. Castle kertoo jännityskirjailijasta, joka auttaa poliisia listimään huppupäisiä notmiitä.

          xxx/ellauri312.html on line 355: Dr. Thomas Harvey stole Einstein’s brain, planning to study it to try to determine whether he was a genius. Harvey measured and photographed the brain, and commissioned a painting of it from an artist who had done portraits of his children's brains. He kept it in a jar in a beer cooler in his basement. 

          xxx/ellauri312.html on line 532: Though deeply pessimistic about the dangers of nuclear confrontation and the gap between rich nations and poor, Mr. Rorty retained something of Dewey’s hopefulness about America.

          xxx/ellauri312.html on line 539: Noudattaen ajatustaan ​​vahvasta väärinlukijasta hän lyö muiden kirjoitukset lysyyn muotoon, joka palvelee hänen omaa tarkoitustaan’ (TRR, s. 131). Rorty ei kuitenkaan pitää tätä käytäntöä negatiivisena tai perusteettomana, sillä totuus ja tarkkuus eivät ole hänen pääasia tavoitteet. Hän rekonstruoi muiden ajattelijoiden argumentteja tarjotakseen sen, mitä hän pitää tuoreena ja tuoreena

          xxx/ellauri312.html on line 544: Rortyn omat, joskus omituiset, Jamesian ja Deweyanin uudelleenlausunnot teemoja” (PSH, xiii). Nämä uudelleenlausunnot menevät niin pitkälle kuin suosittelevat sitä, mitä James ja Deweyn olisi pitänyt sanoa. James should have been satisfied with ‘‘The Will to Believe’’ rather than ending with a ‘‘brave and exuberant ‘‘Conclusion’’ to Varieties of Religious Experience’’. Bernstein finds Rorty guilty of fabricating a Nietzscheanized James or a Wittgensteinianized Derrida or a Heideggerianized Dewey. In this way, Rorty practiced something of what the ancients called "wisdom", and we moderns call "self help". 

          xxx/ellauri312.html on line 546:     Kierkegaard’s view was that one’s relation to a deity is irreducible to a creed (TRR, pp. 391–392). Instead of belief, what is vital is the religious romance. Willy to believe. The intimacy between a lesser being and a greater being is something we find in Keats' Endymion. Rorty analogizes religious faith with the experience of lovemaking. Unfair relations are valuable if they are able to deepen an individual’s unique life experience. They redeem the believer and the lover by helping them grow meaningfully, not by stretching uncomfortably. Religious connections range from "one of adoring obedience, or ecstatic communion, or quiet confidence, or some combination of these". Sounds a lot like Al Bundy's Love And Marrage.

          xxx/ellauri312.html on line 548: Rorty defines redemptive truth as "a set of beliefs that would end, once and for all, the process of reflection on what to do with ourselves". A hand job, that is what I need. While science offers us ‘‘an edifying example of tolerant conversability’’ or of ideal social cooperation, it remains an impoverished resource for self-flourishing. Kukoistus, hei täältäkö Eski Saarinen sen otti? Rortylta? No hmmm, se on kyllä positiivisen psykologian avainsanoja.

          xxx/ellauri312.html on line 610: Rorty narrates that the West’s first redemptive principle was man’s relationship with God, the guarantor of universal truth, meaning, and salvation. God was eventually dethroned by the Truth of philosophy, as heralded by the Enlightenment and the scientific revolution. Truth’s goal was to decipher reality’s blueprint. At present, the truth is being nudged over by the Imagination. The modern imagination aspires to enlarge our acquaintance with humanity and enrich ethical relations. Rorty argues that a culture of imagination can serve the redemptive purposes previously ministered by religion and truth, only in a manner more suited to a liberal, secular context. He calls this a literary culture, a culture where meaningful human relationships are ‘‘mediated by human artifacts such as books and buildings, paintings and songs’’ (TRR, p. 478). For Rorty, the literary culture may successfully usher a new world motivated by the ideal of human solidarity.

          xxx/ellauri312.html on line 614:  As a visionary, 1 I will use abbreviations for The Rorty Reader (TRR), The Philosophy of Richard Rorty (TPRR) and Rorty’s publications; see references. 104 Int J Philos Relig (2017) 82:103–118

          xxx/ellauri312.html on line 615: 123 he desires a human culture fueled by an ethic of self-reliance. Why then does Rorty, a resolutely anti-transcendent pragmatist, brazenly harp on the redemption trope? What purpose does this religiously-inspired idea serve in his project? How will the use of the religious concept impact our current understanding of Rorty’s pragmatism?

          xxx/ellauri312.html on line 619: Redemption is also bound up with the sacred, or the locus of a manifestation of something great and holy as opposed to the profane or commonplace. Charles Taylor distinguishes the sacred as non-human forces located in ‘‘certain places (e.g., temples), times (e.g., feast days), actions (e.g., rituals), or people (e.g., priests, victims)’’ in contrast to the ‘‘merely worldly’’ (2011, p. 118).

          xxx/ellauri312.html on line 620: The sacred elevates the ordinary human constitution. In today’s biggest monotheistic religions, Christian sacraments and Islamic rites are designed to welcome the purifying grace of the Divine in a believer’s life.    

          xxx/ellauri312.html on line 625: romantic hope with those who profess a desire for ‘‘a world in which human beings live far happier lives than they live at the present time’’

          xxx/ellauri312.html on line 630: From an individual perspective, redemption can also be understood as ‘‘a longing for one’s life to be ‘made good’ by virtue of some kind of participation in the life of some larger, awe-inspiring thing’’ (Smith 2005, p. 82). It is about self-enlargement, or enlargement of one's penis manually in pirsuna pirsunamenti. In contrast to religious edification as spiritual upliftment, Rorty’s version is designed for pseudo intellectual penal enlargement. 

          xxx/ellauri312.html on line 654:   Alluding to Hölderlin’s "Patmos", Heidegger declares that "where danger is, grows the saving power also".  Missä hätä on suurin, on apukin lähinnä. Jos on hätä kädessä, siitä pääsee käden käänteessä. Pimeintä on juuri ennen aamunkoittoa.  Tätä sananlaskua hoki patologian professori  Bo Ekdahl ollessaan hermostunut Åsa Nilssonnen pandemiaa ennakoineessa ysäridekkarissa Tunnare än blod. Bo ei lukenut lehtiä. Kollega Hayakawa tunnetaan paremmin semantikkona.

          xxx/ellauri312.html on line 945: Brawne Lamia’s name comes from a combination of John Keats’ beloved Fanny Brawne, and his poem named Lamia (1819). She is described as a rather short and muscular with an intense gaze. She has shoulder-length black curls, dark eyes, sharp nose and wide expressive mouth. She is said to be very beautiful anyway.  She becomes "romantically involved" with Johnny and pregnant to boot.  She's from Lusus, a world that has gravity 1.3 times stronger than that of Earth. Because of that, she's shorter than many others, but has "heavy layers of mussel". Varoitus! seuraava kuva paljastaa yxityiskohtia ulkosynnyttimistä!

          xxx/ellauri312.html on line 1043:     and welcome to our German Word of the Day. This time we’ll have a look at the meaning of

          xxx/ellauri312.html on line 1047: A great word to know, though we’ll also talk about something really incredibly boring. But we’ll also look at the meaning of the verb erlösen, and that’s totally worth it. Like… for real. Like… literally.

          xxx/ellauri312.html on line 1049:     Erlösung sounds a lot like the English word loan and the main use of both of them is money that you get. But that’s just a coincidence because the two are not related. And Erlösung is muuuuuuch cooler because… you don’t have to pay it back.

          xxx/ellauri312.html on line 1051:     The origin of Erlösung is the super ancient Indo-European root leu. Leu was about the idea of losing something and naturally, first this was focused on virginity and beaver hunting. In Latin on the other hand, the root shifted to a more sophisticated sense of washing and shaving of the mussel. That’s where ablution and absolution comes from, by the way, as in ego te absolvo, ense candido conchulam in candidam.

          xxx/ellauri312.html on line 1055: yaaaaaawwwwwwwwwwnnnnnn… my god, this is soooo boring. And there are still 10 pages. Daniel, dude, why did you make that so boring…..  what?…… boring topic? No man, there’s no such thing as a boring topic. There’s just boring presentation… yeah… look, we’re live so I can’t explain that now but we’ll talk later, okay… … … cool… oh, can you fetch me a coffee? Thanks.

          xxx/ellauri312.html on line 1060:     Oh and to really hammer the point into your head, here’s a link to a famous old Schlager called “Liebeskummer lohnt sich nicht”… viel Spaß :)

          xxx/ellauri314.html on line 104: ’Neill Eugene">Eugene Gladstone O’Neill (16. lokakuuta 1888 New York, Yhdysvallat – 27. marraskuuta 1953 Boston, Yhdysvallat) oli toinen yhdysvaltalainen näytelmäkirjailija. O’Neill toi Anton Tšehovin, Henrik Ibsenin ja August Strindbergin edustaman dramaattisen realismin amerikkalaiseen näytelmäkirjallisuuteen. Heti ensimmäinen O’Neillin näytelmä, Taivaanrannan tuolla puolen (Beyond the Horizon, 1920), voitti näyttämötaiteen Pulitzer-palkinnon. Hän sai kaksi muuta Pulitzeria näytelmistään Agatha Christie (1922) ja Strange Interlude (1928). Hänelle myönnettiin kirjallisuuden Nobel-palkinto vuonna 1936.

          xxx/ellauri314.html on line 106: O’Neillin isä oli suosittu näyttelijä, ja Eugene O’Neill kulki 

          xxx/ellauri314.html on line 111: Myrskyisän elämän elänyt O’Neill oli aviossa kolmasti. Hänen tyttärensä Oona meni 17-vuotiaana naimisiin Charles Chaplinin kanssa 1943, minkä jälkeen O’Neill teki tämän perinnöttömäksi, samoin kuin poikansa Shanen, jonka elämäntapaa isä ei hyväksynyt. Hänen poikansa ensimmäisestä avioliitosta teki itsemurhan. 

          xxx/ellauri314.html on line 113: Ei Shane kuitenkaan, josta näkyy tulleen nimekäs rullalautturi. His normal stance is Goofy. In Shane's 2015 "Shane Goes Skate Mental" video part, Shane performed a nollie backside heelflip down the steps at Wallenberg. This is one of the most difficult tricks a skateboarder has done at this location. Shane O’Neill (n. 1530 – 2. kesäkuuta 1567 lähellä Cushendumia, Antrimin kreivikunta) oli irlantilainen aatelisherra, joka johti 1560-luvulla kapinaa Englannin ylivaltaa vastaan. MacDonnellien joukot kuitenkin hyökkäsivät petollisesti hänen kimppuunsa ja surmasivat hänet. Näin englantilaiset pääsivät eroon O’Neillista, jota he eivät itse olleet kyenneet kukistamaan.

          xxx/ellauri314.html on line 115: Pitkän päivän matka yöhön tai Pitkä päivämatka yöhön (Long Day’s Journey into Night) on O’Neillin kirjoittama nelinäytöksinen näytelmä, joka valmistui vuosina 1941–1942 mutta julkaistiin vasta 1956. Suurelta osin omaelämäkerrallista, hänen omia vanhempiaan ja veljeään kuvaavaa näytelmää pidetään hänen mestariteoksenaan, ja hän sai siitä postuumisti Pulitzer-palkinnon.

          xxx/ellauri314.html on line 124: muistuttava talo Connecticutissa. Perheen sukunimi oli jossakin vaiheessa ollut Tyrone, kuten näytelmän perheellä. Perheenjäsenten iät näytelmässä vastaavat varsin tarkoin O’Neillin perheen jäsenten ikää näytelmän tapahtuma-aikana, elokuussa 1912. Kirjailijaa vastaa näytelmässä Edmundin hahmo: myös Eugene O’Neill itse vietti aikaa merillä ja tuberkuloosiparantolassa. Parkinsonin tauti kuitenkin vei Eugenen loppupeleissä. 

          xxx/ellauri314.html on line 126: Kirjailijan isä oli näytelmän isän tavoin yhden suositun roolin – Monte Criston kreivin – vangiksi jäänyt näyttelijä. Kirjailijan äiti kävi näytelmän Maryn tavoin katolista koulua Keskilännessä, Saint Mary’s Collegea Indianan osavaltion Notre Damessa. Kirjailijan isoveli, myös nimeltään Jamie, kuoli alkoholismiin 1923.

          xxx/ellauri314.html on line 131: O’Neill (Oona siis) oli isänsä toinen lapsi tämän avioliitosta kirjailija Agnes Boultonin kanssa. Hänellä oli myös vanhempi veli Shane (1918–1977) sekä kaksi vanhempaa sisarusta vanhempiensa edellisistä avioliitoista. Vanhemmat erosivat vuonna 1929, minkä jälkeen O’Neill tapasi isäänsä enää harvoin. Hän asui lapsuutensa Point Pleasantissa, New Jerseyn osavaltiossa äitinsä ja isoveljensä kanssa. Kesät perhe vietti Bermudalla. 

          xxx/ellauri314.html on line 133: Vuoden 1942 lopussa O’Neill tutustui Charles Chapliniin, joka alkoi opettaa hänelle näyttelemistä. Hän opetti hiänelle muutakin ja näytteli hiänelle erästä oleellista osaa, ja niinpä he avioituivat kesällä 1943 O’Neillin täysi-ikäistyttyä. Avioliitto herätti paljon kohua parin 36 vuoden ikäeron takia ja koska Chaplinin entinen naisystävä Joan Barry oli juuri nostanut häntä vastaan isyyssyytteen. Eugene O’Neill katkaisi välit tyttäreensä lopullisesti avioliiton jälkeen ja teki hänet perinnöttömäksi. 

          xxx/ellauri314.html on line 135: Liitto oli onnellinen ja kesti aina Chaplinin kuolemaan vuonna 1977 asti. Heille syntyi kahdeksan lasta: Geraldine (s. 1944), Michael (s. 1946), Josephine (s. 1949), Victoria (s. 1951), Eugene (s. 1953), Jane (s. 1957), Annette (s. 1959) ja Christopher (s. 1962). O’Neill jätti avioiduttuaan urahaaveensa ja keskittyi vaimon rooliin. Perheen muutettua Yhdysvalloista Sveitsiin vuonna 1953 hän luopui Yhdysvaltain kansalaisuudestaan ja otti aviomiehensä Britannian kansalaisuuden. Chaplinin kuoltua O’Neill asui vuorotellen Sveitsissä ja New Yorkissa, mistä oli ostanut asunnon. Hän kärsi vakavasta alkoholiongelmasta ja kuoli vuonna 1991 haimasyöpään. Viinapiru oli Tyroneilla geeneissä. Oona ei voinut kyllästyä Charlien hassuun kävelyyn, kepin heilutuxeen ja wiixeen vetelyyn.

          xxx/ellauri320.html on line 260:   J.K.RowlingUK700MfantasyPorry HatterAnything’s possible if you’ve got enough nerve.

          xxx/ellauri320.html on line 263:   Stephen KingUSA400MkauhuSeYou have to stay faithful to what you’re working on.

          xxx/ellauri320.html on line 266:   John GrishamUSA280MjännäriSärkelä itteWriting’s still the most difficult job I’ve ever had – but it’s worth it.

          xxx/ellauri320.html on line 274:   Deepak ChopraIndia/USA100MizeapuMinä izeAlways go with your passions. Never ask yourself if it’s realistic or not.

          xxx/ellauri320.html on line 280:   Barbara CartlandUK5MromanssiKorkaamaton piluAs long as the plots keep arriving from outer space, I’ll go on with my virgins.

          xxx/ellauri329.html on line 49: Et moi, noir promeneur qu’évitent les enfants,			Ja minä, musta kävelijä, jota lapset välttelevät,			

          xxx/ellauri329.html on line 51: Je m’en vais, ces jours-là, vers les tristes banlieues.		minä menen niinä päivinä kohti surullisia esikaupunkialueita.		

          xxx/ellauri329.html on line 59: Les noms entrelacés de Victoire et d’Eugène,			Victoiren ja Eugènen toisiinsa kietoutuvat nimet,			

          xxx/ellauri329.html on line 61: Pas du tout le croquis odieux qu’à côté				lainkaan häiritse se vastenmielinen luonnos, joka sen vieressä on	

          xxx/ellauri329.html on line 62: A tracé gauchement, d’un fusain effronté,			kömpelösti piirrettynä röyhkeällä hiilellä,				

          xxx/ellauri329.html on line 65: Et, quand s’allume au loin le premier réverbère,		Ja kun ensimmäinen katuvalo syttyy kaukaa,				

          xxx/ellauri329.html on line 66: Je gagne la grand’ rue, où je puis encor voir			tulen pääkadulle, jossa näen edelleen					

          xxx/ellauri329.html on line 97: In 2004, Harper’s magazine published Natasha, a first short story by a promising 31-year-old Jewish Canadian writer, David Bezmozgis. This memorable tale of a doomed teenage love between Mark, a Jewish Toronto slacker, and his troubled (shiksa) Russian cousin by marriage was eventually released in a collection chronicling the lives of a Latvian immigrant family, not unlike the author’s own. Bezmozgis’s debut became a cult sensation with critics drawing literary comparisons to Bernard Malamud and Philip Roth. The story was subsequently reprinted in 15 languages. After penning two more acclaimed novels, then writing and directing his first feature Victoria Day (SFJFF 2010), Bezmozgis finally brings his modern classic to the big screen in a remarkably assured adaptation that’s both highly provocative and deeply poignant. At the heart of this emotional, coming-of-age drama are the extraordinarily measured performances of Alex Ozerov as Mark and newcomer Sasha K. Gordon as the sexually precocious Natasha, the dark star who forever alters Mark’s staid, suburban existence. Fans of the writer’s original source material will not be disappointed in David Bezmozgis’s haunting narrative of forbidden love caught between the old world and the new, further proof of this talented artist’s notable command of both literature and the cinema. —Thomas Logoreci Note: Mature Content. A New Life in the west means a second chance for precocious Latvian jews.

          xxx/ellauri337.html on line 127: Im Juni 1941 lernt Leni auf einer Betriebsfeier Alois Pfeiffer kennen, der sich dort eingeschlichen hat. Er ist viril, aber nicht besonders intelligent und wird von seiner Familie gnadenlos überschätzt. Während andere ihm Berechnung unterstellen, glaubt der Verfasser, dass Alois sich wirklich in Leni verliebt hat und dass Leni einfach schwach geworden ist. Nach einer einzigen Nacht stellt Alois sie seiner Familie vor, dann wird der gesamte Pfeiffer-Clan bei den Gruytens vorstellig. Leni wirkt abwesend, plädiert aber selbst fürs Heiraten. Sie will kein Hochzeitskleid und es gibt auch keine Hochzeitsnacht, da Alois sogleich einrücken muss. Vorher gibt es jedoch einen erzwungenen Vollzug der Ehe im Bügelzimmer bei Gruytens, und so ist Alois für Leni „gestorben, bevor er tot war“. Der Tod auf dem Schlachtfeld lässt nicht lange auf sich warten. Leni, quasi zum zweiten Mal verwitwet, trägt keine Trauer und nimmt Alois’ Bild bald wieder von der Wand. Was bleibt, sind Nachname und Witwenrente.

          xxx/ellauri337.html on line 233: Es gibt Eigenschaften, die ihren Wert in sich selbst haben, die er ‚Selbstwertmodalitäten’ nennt. Er ordnet sie unter Termini wie

          xxx/ellauri337.html on line 235:     'angenehm – unangenehm’ als sinnliche Werte

          xxx/ellauri337.html on line 237:     'edel – gemein’ als Lebenswerte

          xxx/ellauri337.html on line 239:     'recht – unrecht, schön – hässlich, wahr – falsch’ als Eigenschaften geistiger Werte bzw. als Funktionen des geistigen Fühlens.

          xxx/ellauri337.html on line 246: Der menschliche Geist zeichne sich im Wesentlichen durch folgende Merkmale aus, die ihn vom Tier unterscheiden: Menschen werden durch kulturelle Werte gelenkt. Sie sind zur begierdefreien Liebe fähig und sind unabhängig von ihren Trieben (Haha LOL, das war gut von dir Max). Menschen können Einsichten über das Wesen der Dinge gewinnen und allgemein-gültige Werte finden. Tiere ‚leben ausschließlich in ihrer Umwelt’, doch der Mensch reicht „über alles mögliche Milieu des Lebens“ hinaus.

          xxx/ellauri337.html on line 248: Es lasse sich feststellen, dass der Sexualimpuls ausschließlich der Fortpflanzung diene, solange er in Brunstzeiten eingebettet ist. „Herausgelöst aus der ‚instinktiven Rhythmik’, wird er mehr und mehr selbständige Quelle der Lust“ – und kann „schon bei höheren Tieren … den biologischen Sinn seines Daseins weit überwuchern (z. B. Onanie bei Affen, Hunden, und Schwanzwedeln bei intellektuellen Männern)“. 

          xxx/ellauri337.html on line 250: Max hatte bereits früher angekündigt, eine grundlegende und umfassende ‚Philosophische Anthropologie’ zu veröffentlichen. Nach seinem Tod wurde festgestellt, dass er nicht mal angefangen hatte, sie zu schreiben. 

          xxx/ellauri337.html on line 570: 
          Netflix’s Bodies: Is Longharvest Lane a real place?
          

          xxx/ellauri354.html on line 165:  T.S. Eliot was the poet who perhaps had a permanent place in Kai’s  personal literary cosmos – he introduced Eliot’s poetry to Finnish readership in the late 1940s. This passage, from Little Gidding, might well serve as his epitaph.

          xxx/ellauri354.html on line 267: Eventually Notari ended up as a fascist, founding the Milanese newspaper “L’Ambrosiano” in 1922, and was appointed to the very institutional “Accademia d’Italia”: just like another firebrand-turned-reactionary, the initiator of the Italian Futuristic movement Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, who, as a young, used to call for burning academies down... [signed] Enzo. The Black Pig is not a novel, as Enzo claims, but an energetic, apparently learned, vitriolic attack on the precepts and clergy of the Catholic Church.

          xxx/ellauri354.html on line 271: In 1907, Notari (1878–1950) was already a best-selling journalist, polemicist, biographer, novelist, and dramatist. All told, he would write more than thirty books, in six of which he examines the position of women in society, most notably with a 1903 exegesis of prostitution in high and low places called Signore sole: Interviste con le più belle e le più celebri artiste (Single women: Interviews with the most beautiful and famous artists) that sold 21,000 copies and was denounced as immoral and obscene and taken to court, which inevitably increased its readership. It was followed by Quelle signore: Scene di una grande città moderna (Those women: Scenes of a great modern city; ca. 1904), which was set in a house of prostitution and whose main character, Ellere, was recognizably based on Notari’s good friend Filippo Tommaso Marinetti (1876–1944), an Egyptian-born Italian poet, editor, firebrand, and founder of the Futurist movement. 

          xxx/ellauri354.html on line 273: Notari’s novel sold 80,000 copies in six months and sales only increased when it was accused of offending public morality; it and its author were acquitted, with Marinetti serving as witness for the defense. “It was Notari’s good fortune,” one scholar writes, “to be accused of obscenity by a court in Parma.... Marinetti, who attended and clearly relished the trial, wrote a detailed account of it for Parisian readers... and then translated his account into Italian, appending a brief, self-congratulatory introduction” (Adamson 97). Marinetti bragged that the trial “gave an extraordinary boost to the book’s sales such that, today, one finds it in all the elegant parlors, in all the bedrooms, under the virginal bedlinens of all the convent-school girls and inside the prayer benches of all the new brides” (qtd. in Adamson 97–98). Notari quickly produced a sequel, Femmina: Scene di una grande capitale (1906), which became a best seller before it too was seized and banned. Notari proudly listed these three books’ sales figures and legal histories in the front matter of his next book, The Black Pig (1907).

          xxx/ellauri354.html on line 279: The Black Pig’s front matter also mentions two earlier publications that reveal Notari’s anticlerical bias: Carducci Intimo (1903), a biography of Giosuè Carducci (1835–1907), the Italian poet, professor, classicist, translator, freethinker, fierce opponent of the Catholic Church, and author of “Hymn to Satan,” who would be awarded the 1906 Nobel Prize in Literature; and Il Papa alla porta! Inchiesta e conclusioni per l’abolizione del Papato (Throw the Pope out! An inquest and conclusions for the abolition of the Papacy), aimed at the recently elected and very conservative Pope Pius X. Notari’s anticlericalism is also visible in his dedication of The Black Pig: “A due invitti innovatori di un Italia pagana e virile, dedico questo libro di demolizione di una Italia chiercuta e bazzotta” (To two indomitable revivers of a pagan and virile Italy, I dedicate this book aimed at the destruction of a tonsured and limp Italy).

          xxx/ellauri354.html on line 281: Indeed, as Rinaldi claims, The Black Pig “tells you about those priests” (FTA 8). And it is easy enough to see why the priest thought it “a filthy and vile book.” But Rinaldi’s complaint, that it “shook my faith” (7), needs to be read in the context of everything else we know of this character. If Rinaldi is a real believer—which I doubt—he would disdain Notari’s book, which, although heavily documented, is dripping with scorn, irony, and bias. But if his faith is automatic and largely irrelevant, or if it has already been shaken, he might have read on, attracted by Notari’s wide reading, his witty, strong prose, and his relentlessly rationalist logic, sometimes reminiscent of MarkTwain.

          xxx/ellauri354.html on line 374: In the appendix, each location is carefully catalogued with notes as to placement, location of the sundial, and maker(s) if known. McLemore’s observation that they’re “all sad like that” is hard to argue with: there are a lot of ways to say “remember you will die,” “time is fleeting,” and “seize the day,” and many of them are in Gatty’s book. The motto that S-Town host Brian Reed1 finds in a mission garden, knowing to look for it because John told him to, does not appear there, but does in another: “Nil boni hodie diam perdidi: I did nothing good today — the day is lost.”

          xxx/ellauri354.html on line 390: Serius est quam cogitas. (It’s later than you think.)

          xxx/ellauri354.html on line 406: lïèo agg. e s. m. [dal lat. Lyaeus, gr. Λυαῖος (propr. «liberatore»), der. di λύω «sciogliere»]. – Nella mitologia greca, epiteto di Dioniso perché, col dono della vite, avrebbe liberato i mortali dagli affanni. Per metonimia, nell’uso poet. (come s. m.), il vino: d’almo lieo [cioè: di generoso vino] Coronando il cratere, a tutti in giro Ne porsero i donzelli (V. Monti).

          xxx/ellauri356.html on line 88: Etymologisen sanakirjan mukaan hempeys : 1) ’heikkous, kevytmielisyys’; 2) ’kiivaus, vallattomuus’; 3) ’uteliaisuus’; 4) ’(liika) lempeys, velttous’. Toisaalta hempeä: suloinen, kaunis, herkkä, viehkeä, vieno (kielitoimiston sanakirja). Synti uskonnollisena terminä voi viitata hairahdukseen, jumalanvastaisuuteen tai rikkomukseen. Käsittääkseni lestadiolaisuuteen viittaavana terminä hempeys voi viitata avoimeen asennoitumiseen muita uskontoja ja synnillisiä tekoja/ajatuksia kohtaan. Annen kenties myös Pipsan äiti oli lessutaustainen.

          xxx/ellauri356.html on line 118: En 2020, elle fait partie des premières personnalités à répondre à l'appel de Laurent Joffrin ayant l'intention de lancer un mouvement pour la « refondation d’une gauche réaliste, réformiste ».

          xxx/ellauri356.html on line 141: Jacques Derrida était le troisième fils d’Aimé Derrida, juif d'origine séfarade, et de Georgette Sultana Esther Safar, issue d'une famille juive d'Algérie dont les ancêtres établis depuis plusieurs générations dans ce pays. Isä Aaron Prosper Charles ( "Aimé") Derrida (1896–1970) työskenteli koko ikänsä viini- ja väkeviä alkoholijuomia valmistava yrityxessä Tachet, myös matkustavana myyjänä (hänen poikansa mielestä työ oli "uuvuttavaa" ja "nöyryyttävää", hänen isänsä pakotettiin olemaan "kuuliainen työntekijä" siinä määrin, että hän heräsi aikaisin tehdäkseen kirjanpidon ruokapöydässä).

          xxx/ellauri356.html on line 377: Wasf on arabien runogenre, alongside 'the boast (fakhr), the invective (hijaa’), and the elegy (marthiya)'. In waṣf love poems, each part of a lover's body is described and praised in turn, often using exotic, extravagant, or even far-fetched metaphors. The Song of Solomon is a prominent example of such a poem, and other examples can be found in Thousand and One Nights. The images given in this type of poetry are not literally descriptive. Instead, they convey the delight of the lover for the beloved, where the lover finds freshness and splendor in the body as a reflected image in the world. Hilvik ei perustanut metaforista, se käytti vertauxia mieluummin. 

          xxx/ellauri356.html on line 442: Д’ну по́ доскам башкой лысой плясать!		Tanssitaan laudoilla kaljupään kanssa!		

          xxx/ellauri356.html on line 443: Д’ну сапо́жки лизать, лоснить, сосать!		Nuollaan saappaita, kiillotetaan niitä, imetään!

          xxx/ellauri356.html on line 444: Д’как брыкнёт его тут Дева-Царь по башке:	Kuinka Neitsytkuningas potkaisee häntä päähän:	

          xxx/ellauri356.html on line 446: Д’как притопнет о корабь каблучком:		Kuinka hän leimaa kantapäänsä laivaan:		

          xxx/ellauri357.html on line 139: corporate job she worked wasn’t the right ‘fit’ for her. 

          xxx/ellauri357.html on line 142: Ever since making this decision, Pia hasn’t looked back. 

          xxx/ellauri357.html on line 143: She’s since opened countless opportunities for herself, 

          xxx/ellauri358.html on line 274: Meneillään on ”suuri sukupuolinen erkaantuminen”. Niin ilmiötä nimittää aiheen johtaviin tutkijoihin kuuluva apulaisprofessori Alice Evans King’s College Londonista.

          xxx/ellauri363.html on line 184: historioitsija ja huuhaafilosofi Michel Foucault’n (1926 – 1984) analyysi. Eurooppalaisen vankilalaitoksen ja rangaistuskäytännön historiaa käsittelevässä teoksessaan Tarkkailla ja rangaista

          xxx/ellauri363.html on line 186: kykenemisen ja vallan (pouvoir) kolminaisuudesta. Foucault’n analyysin keskiössä on

          xxx/ellauri363.html on line 480: ’se tanner, jossa järki astuu kaksintaisteluun himojen kanssa’”.

          xxx/ellauri363.html on line 492: 	  Hannexesta Freud liioittelee siitinelon merkitystä mielenterveydelle. Kyltymättömän sukuvietin tyydyttäminen ei hänen mukaansa ole neuroosien parannuskeino. "Tuollaisen 'hoidon’ järjettömyys selviää, kun ajattelemme hurjastelijoita, miehiä tai naisia, joilla sukupuolinen vallattomuus kuuluu jokapäiväiseen ohjelmaan. Tuon väärän opin mukaan voisi odottaa heidän olevan yleisesti terveitä. Todellisuudessa kuitenkin juuri näiden keskuudessa hermoviat rehottavat, he ovat sielullisesti epänormaalia väkeä. Eihän kukaan normaali nyt bylsi monta kertaa päivässä saati peräpuolelta."

          xxx/ellauri363.html on line 600: Foucault’n mukaan tieto ja valta eivät ole toisilleen vieraita, vaan kytkeytyvät

          xxx/ellauri363.html on line 602: Historiantutkimuksen metodina genealogia tarkoittaa kehityskertomusten ja jatkuvuuksien purkamista sekä vastamuistien kuulemista. (Mitähän vittua sekin mahtaa tarkoittaa.) Foucault’n mukaan

          xxx/ellauri363.html on line 612: minuudestakin on vaan valvontavallan synnyttämä tarrapinta. Oikeisto- ja talouslipilaaripiireissä Foucault’ta on kritisoitu deterministisistä ja strukturalistisista painotuksista. Hän tekee subjektista zydeemille alisteisen position, jolta uupuu intentionaalisuus.

          xxx/ellauri363.html on line 617: Foucault’n mukaan vankilarakennus käy koneiston lailla ja tekee sen

          xxx/ellauri363.html on line 619: arvioivasta katseesta. Foucault’n mukaan tuo tunne pureutuu vähitellen yksilön

          xxx/ellauri363.html on line 635: Foucault’n mukaan on yhdentekevää, kuka kurinpitokonetta loppuen lopuksi käyttää. Vaikka

          xxx/ellauri363.html on line 636: kurinpitolaitoksessa valta saa hierarkkisen muodon, ei tämä Foucault’n mukaan tarkoita,

          xxx/ellauri363.html on line 639: Kurinpitovalta ja tuotanto ovat Foucault’n mukaan erottamattomat, sillä kuri

          xxx/ellauri363.html on line 646: Foucault’n mukaan tuotantosuhteiden piiriin. No niin tietysti, samaa termiittipesän normitouhua.Yksilön toimintaa ohjataan ”oikeaan” suuntaan palkintoon ja sanktioon perustuvan mekanismin avulla. Foucault kirjoittaa, että kurinpidollinen rangaistus ”ei ole niinkään loukatun lain kostoa kuin toistoa, sen toistettua painottamista. Parannus saadaan aikaan behavioristisen kasvatuksen

          xxx/ellauri363.html on line 743: Deborah Sampson (very masculine young girl, not world famous). Oho näitä taisikin olla 21+. Kazo myös kuvat!  21+ steamy photos of Scotland’s finest gay men in Elska Glasgow! 

          xxx/ellauri376.html on line 279: L’homme ne naît pas méchant, il ne naît pas bon non plus, comme l’entend Jean-Jacques Rousseau. L’homme naît avec plus ou moins de passions, avec plus ou moins de vigueur pour les satisfaire, avec plus ou moins d’aptitude pour en tirer un bon parti dans la société. 

          xxx/ellauri376.html on line 281: Au début du roman, Bernard est présenté comme un personnage détestable, un véritable voyou sans scrupules. Il est élevé dans une famille de brigands et est un con. Cependant, au fil de l’histoire, nous assistons à sa transformation profonde, alors qu’il est confronté à l’amour et à la bienveillance de la belle Edmée de Mauprat. Bernard devient ainsi le symbole de la rédemption, luttant contre ses instincts les plus sombres pour devenir un homme meilleur. 

          xxx/ellauri376.html on line 283: Edmée de Mauprat, quant à elle, est une jeune femme noble et vertueuse. Son personnage est empreint de douceur et de détermination, faisant d’elle un personnage féminin fort et inspirant. Leurs histoires entrelacées de passion et de rédemption nous tiennent en haleine, nous invitant à réfléchir sur la nature humaine et sur la possibilité de changer et de se racheter. Lunastusta kehiin taas. Vizi moraali on yhtä kaupanhierontaa. 

          xxx/ellauri376.html on line 285: Un véritable chef-d’œuvre de la littérature qui continue de fasciner les lecteurs aujourd’hui. D’autres l’ont critiquée pour sa complexité narrative et ses personnages peu convaincants. Certains lecteurs, y compris Poline, ont également trouvé que le roman était trop long, avec des passages qui semblaient superflus et qui ralentissaient le rythme de l’histoire.

          xxx/ellauri376.html on line 488: « Si Piron a fait la fameuse Ode, il faut bien le gronder, mais l’admettre ; s’il ne l’a pas faite, fermons-lui notre porte.» Fontenelle. (Discours pour l’admission de Piron à l’Académie.)

          xxx/ellauri376.html on line 503: Foutre de l’amant de Daphné,

          xxx/ellauri376.html on line 505: Qu’à force d’être patiné :

          xxx/ellauri376.html on line 506: C’est toi que j’invoque à mon aide,

          xxx/ellauri376.html on line 507: Toi qui, dans les cons, d’un vit raide

          xxx/ellauri376.html on line 513: Que tout bande !! que tout s’embrase

          xxx/ellauri376.html on line 516: Les cieux n’ont point d’objets si beaux :

          xxx/ellauri376.html on line 522: D’un torrent de foutre inondés.

          xxx/ellauri376.html on line 526: Soyez l’objet de mes hommages,

          xxx/ellauri376.html on line 528: Qu’à Priape, on élève un temple

          xxx/ellauri376.html on line 529: Où jour et nuit l’on vous contemple,

          xxx/ellauri376.html on line 531: Le foutre y servira d’offrandes,

          xxx/ellauri376.html on line 544: Meurt en tâchant de s’enculer.

          xxx/ellauri376.html on line 547: Dont on vante l’esprit divin ;

          xxx/ellauri376.html on line 551: N’en a pas moins foutu qu’un autre ;

          xxx/ellauri376.html on line 554: Mais sans le cul d’Alcibiade,

          xxx/ellauri376.html on line 555: Il n’eût pas tant médit des cons.

          xxx/ellauri376.html on line 558: Qu’un bougre a mis au rang des chiens,

          xxx/ellauri376.html on line 561: Rien ne l’émeut, rien ne l’étonne ;

          xxx/ellauri376.html on line 562: L’éclair brille, Jupiter tonne,

          xxx/ellauri376.html on line 563: Son vit n’en est pas démonté ;

          xxx/ellauri376.html on line 565: Au bout d’une courte carrière,

          xxx/ellauri376.html on line 568: Cependant Jupin dans l’Olympe,

          xxx/ellauri376.html on line 572: L’ardent fouteur de Proserpine

          xxx/ellauri376.html on line 577: Ne nous foute l’âme à l’envers.

          xxx/ellauri376.html on line 580: Si l’on foutait encore chez vous,

          xxx/ellauri376.html on line 588: Et de n’en pouvoir faire autant.

          xxx/ellauri376.html on line 592: Tu ne vaux pas, ne t’en déplaise,

          xxx/ellauri376.html on line 596: Exemple qu’à Rome on suivit.

          xxx/ellauri376.html on line 597: On y vit plus d’une matrone,

          xxx/ellauri376.html on line 603: L’intérêt sacré de la couille ;

          xxx/ellauri376.html on line 606: L’amour du foutre a la victoire,

          xxx/ellauri376.html on line 612: Que l’or, que l’honneur vous chatouille,

          xxx/ellauri376.html on line 618: Ce n’est que feu, que sang, qu’horreur

          xxx/ellauri376.html on line 621: Ce héros n’est plus qu’un fouteur.

          xxx/ellauri376.html on line 625: Qu’on foute, l’on sert sa patrie,

          xxx/ellauri376.html on line 626: Qu’on soit chaste, à quoi lui sert-on ?

          xxx/ellauri376.html on line 635: Par ce plaisir qu’on nomme abus :

          xxx/ellauri376.html on line 636: L’homme, l’oiseau, le quadrupède,

          xxx/ellauri376.html on line 638: Ainsi l’on fout par tout le monde

          xxx/ellauri376.html on line 640: Qui rend l’univers éternel ;

          xxx/ellauri376.html on line 641: Et ce beau tout, que l’on admire,

          xxx/ellauri376.html on line 643: N’est qu’un noble et vaste bordel.

          xxx/ellauri376.html on line 647: Dans les cieux, sous l’eau, sur la terre,

          xxx/ellauri376.html on line 648: Tout nous annonce que l’on fout :

          xxx/ellauri376.html on line 650: Raisonnable ou non, tout s’en mêle :

          xxx/ellauri376.html on line 656: Quoique plus gueux qu’un rat d’église,

          xxx/ellauri376.html on line 660: Grands de la terre l’on se trompe,

          xxx/ellauri376.html on line 661: Si l’on croit que de votre pompe,

          xxx/ellauri376.html on line 664: Quand j’enconne et que je décharge,

          xxx/ellauri376.html on line 669: Ce n’est qu’à des âmes communes

          xxx/ellauri376.html on line 671: Mais la mienne que rien n’alarme,

          xxx/ellauri376.html on line 672: Plus ferme que le vit d’un carme,

          xxx/ellauri376.html on line 674: Qu’on me méprise et me déteste,

          xxx/ellauri376.html on line 675: Que m’importe ? mon vit me reste :

          xxx/ellauri376.html on line 676: Je bande, je fous… c’est assez.

          xxx/ellauri379.html on line 115: Analyysi. On the most superficial level, Heart of Darkness can be understood through its semiautobiographical relationship to Conrad’s real life. Much like his protagonist Marlow, Conrad’s career as a merchant marine also took him up the Congo River. And much like Marlow, Conrad was profoundly affected by the human depravity he witnessed on his boat tour of European colonialism in Africa.

          xxx/ellauri379.html on line 117: But it’s overly reductive to boil Heart of Darkness down to the commonalities it shares with Conrad’s own experiences. It would be useful to examine its elements crucial to the emergence of modernism: for example, Conrad’s use of multiple narrators; his couching of one narrative within another; the story’s achronological unfolding; and as would become increasingly clear as the 20th century progressed, his almost post-structuralist distrust in the stability of language. At the same time, his story pays homage to the Victorian tales he grew up on, evident in the popular heroism so central to his story’s narrative. In that sense, Heart of Darkness straddles the boundary between a waning Victorian sensibility and a waxing Modernist one.

          xxx/ellauri379.html on line 119: One of the most resoundingly Modernist elements of Conrad’s work lies in this kind of early post-structuralist treatment of language—his insistence on the inherent inability of words to express the real, in all of its horrific truth. Marlow’s journey is full of encounters with things that are “unspeakable,” with words that are uninterpretable, and with a world that is eminently “inscrutable.” In this way, language fails time and time again to do what it is meant to do—to communicate. It’s a phenomenon best summed up when Marlow tells his audience that “it is impossible to convey the life-sensation of any given epoch of one’s existence—that which makes its truth, its meaning—its subtle and penetrating essence… We live, as we dream—alone.” Kurtz—as “eloquent” as he may be—can’t even adequately communicate the terrifying darkness he observed around him.“The horror! The horror!” is all he can say. Some critics have surmised that part of Heart of Darkness’s mass appeal comes from this ambiguity of language—from the free rein it gives its readers to interpret. Others posit this as a great weakness of the text, viewing Conrad’s inability to name things as an unseemly quality in a writer who’s supposed to be one of the greats. Perhaps this is itself a testament to the Heart of Darkness’s breadth of interpretability.

          xxx/ellauri379.html on line 241: And I looked, and behold, a pale horse! And its rider’s name was Death, and Hades followed him. And they were given authority over a fourth of the earth, to kill with sword and with famine and with pestilence and by wild beasts of the earth. Terveisin Jaakko Parantainen, Neuropositron. Posilla mennään! (Apokalypsis 6:8)

          xxx/ellauri379.html on line 343:   New Yorkerin Isaac Chotiner on vissin varmasti arvaatko mikä. Two Jews on the deck of the Titanic as it starts sinking, one of them bursts into tears. “What are you crying for?” asks the other. “It’s not your boat.”

          xxx/ellauri379.html on line 345:   I don’t put much trust or much faith in America “turning” places into pro-American liberal democracies.  We’re essentially saying that we have some sort of say over how democratic countries run their business.

          xxx/ellauri379.html on line 347: Putin said, “Whoever does not miss the Soviet Union has no heart.” And then he said, “Whoever wants it back has no brain.” All nations are made up.  We invent these concepts of national identity. They’re filled with all sorts of myths. You must realize that Russia has a G.N.P.  smaller than Texas. Netanjahu has earned a place next to all-time crooks like Hitler, Mussolini, Pol Pot, and Ronald Reagan. We should be pivoting out of Europe to deal with China in a laser-like fashion, number one. And, number two, we should be working overtime to create friendly relations with the Russians. The Russians are part of our balancing coalition against China. what we have done with our foolish policies in Eastern Europe is drive the Russians into the arms of the Chinese. This is a violation of Balance of Power Politics 101.

          xxx/ellauri379.html on line 351: Hölmö Hekku Haukka kirjoitti Quorassa: The only way to avoid WW3 is make sure Russia knows if they invade, they will suffer the repeat of 1941 and after that we’ll get serious about this “war” stuff and really start throwing punches. Russian leadership understands very little, but brute force is something very difficult not to comprahend. If they know attacking NATO is wose than suicide we may remain peaceful and safe. We can’t rely on diplomacy or sanity, the only languague the Kremlin understands is being smacked around for lifting a finger.

          xxx/ellauri380.html on line 301: Well said. And, it’s not as if Jews had no history in the land of their forefathers, foremothers, and foreskins. 

          xxx/ellauri380.html on line 356: The whole world is laughing at Ukraine’s failed counteroffensive, which captured nothing more than a couple patches of trees and trenches? How did the Russians, armed with shovels, defeat the “brave” Ukrainian Nazis armed with NATO weapons? No dear. It is definitely not. The “whole world” does not laugh at an invaded sovereign nazion that for over two years and against all odds has made a mockery out of the supposed "second best" army in the world. Don't pretend you’re aligned with the rest of the world. You are not! There is no "rest of the world" in fact!

          xxx/ellauri380.html on line 425: In eight remarkable chapters of August 1914 (the so-called Stolypin cycle), Solzhenitsyn painted a portrait of the statesman Pyotr Stolypin, scourge of the revolutionary left and reactionary right alike and the last best hope for Russia’s salvation. Prime Minister of Russia from 1906 until 1911, Stolypin’s abiding concern was to promote far-reaching agrarian reforms that would lead to the creation of a “solid class of peasant proprietors” in Russia. He believed that a property-owning peasantry would provide the social basis for a revitalized monarchy in Russia. He was a “liberal conservative” who rejected pan-Slavist delusions and who advocated a monarchy that respected the rule of law, one that could govern in cooperation with a “society” that had an increasing stake in the existing social order. But unfortunately Stolypin was shot (in the presence of the Tsar) at the Kiev opera house in September 1911. His assassin was, quite strikingly, a double agent of the secret police and revolutionary terrorists!

          xxx/ellauri380.html on line 453:     Salman Rushdie’s new memoir, “Knife,” addresses the attack that maimed him in 2022, and pays tribute to his wife who saw him through.

          xxx/ellauri380.html on line 475: Arabs like to call Jews apes and dogs but from our point of view they're nebbishes, sad sacks, fuck-ups, ne’er-do-wells. They're schlemiels.

          xxx/ellauri385.html on line 423: Iceland. Although, at one point, it was a gorgeous and wild country with relatively unique geology (there are other places like it, just not as easy to fly to)—it’s now an amusement park.

          xxx/ellauri385.html on line 425: The first time I went there in 2005, tourists were already overrunning it. Still, at some of the geyser fields it still felt wild, with only wooden planks down and no railings for protection. By 2015, each site became like waiting in line at a Disney World attraction, and any quaint hot springs are now swarmed by tourists taking selfies. The locals are absurdly proud of their local landscapes. Like, I’ve ne ver been to a country where the people identify so closely with the scenery. They act as if they built it all by hand, and like nowhere else in the world competes with it. I guess that’s what happens when the bulk of your economy is from tourists constantly praising what they see, and when you live on a medium-sized island with less than 400k people.

          xxx/ellauri385.html on line 429: When I got stranded on September 1st due to the bus system shutting down, the locals were very cold. I suppose you can’t expect people to flock to help you, but I and a few other people needed to travel only about 25 miles to get to where we needed to be. The car rental company (which seemed to only own one car) quadrupled the charge after they heard how desperate our situation was. A local refused to give us any advice or phone numbers to even call a taxi/rental agency until we paid them $350 so that they could go shopping in the next town over—then they unexpectedly joined our rental car and demanded they be driven back afterwards.

          xxx/ellauri385.html on line 431: Some people were okay. You can find good people anywhere, but the arrogance and undue pride I encountered, as well as the overrunning by tourists—means I wouldn’t even consider returning.

          xxx/ellauri385.html on line 646: Pyhä Jean-Baptiste-Marie Vianney (1786-1859), myös Curé D’arse, oli roomalaiskatolinen ranskalainen pappi, pyhimys ja ihmeidentekijä. Hän on kaikkien pappien, seurakuntapappien, Iowan Dubuquen arkkihiippakunnan, ripittäjien ja Kansasin Kansas Cityn hiippakunnan suojeluspyhimys, ja Napsun armeijan sotilaskarkuri. Perseessä oli 230 asujainta. When Vianney's bishop first assigned him to Arse, Vianney got lost trying to find the town. Couldn't find his arse using both hands. With Catherine Lassagne and Benedicta Lardet, he established a home for girls. Vianney spent time with girls in the confessional and gave homilies against cursing and profane dancing. Vianney had a great devotion to Saint Philomena. He was regarded as her guardian because he erected so often in honour of the saint. He was a rare example of a pastor acutely aware of his responsibilities. In November 2018, Vianney's heart was transported to the United States for a 6-month nationwide tour.

          xxx/ellauri388.html on line 123: Lexan Ylösnousemus- teoksen (kz. albumi 361) ensimmäisen suomentaja oli Tolstoin ‘opetuslapsi’ Arvid Järnefelt, kuuluisan suomalaisen taiteilijasuvun vanhin iljes, jonka elämänkaari oli samantapainen kuin Tolstoin. Nuorena miehenä kumpaakin houkuttelivat seurapiirit, sangaton spermanlennätin ja makea siitinelämä, kunnes herääminen moraalisiin arvoihin ja yksinkertaisen elämän autuuteen muutti kaiken. Ylösnousemuxen kansissa on nykyään huorahtavia tazkattuja tyttöjä. Ei sentään Lexan puoliveteinen erektio vieläkään. 

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