And the Rice woman squeaks...You no doubt know this -
http://bloggingbeirut.com/archives/708-Patti-Smith-Qana.html
You read the stuff about the Christian children's "camps" where they are
urged to die for Jesus?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,,1883730,00.html
Righteous judges...It is Marx (18th Brumaire, but you knew that) says "
Hegel remarked somewhere, that all great world-historical facts and
persons happen twice, in a manner of speaking. He forgot to add: once as
tragedy, the second time as farce." What we have here, though, is
hallucinatory farcical tragedy, something like *Troilus and Cressida*,
with the big numbers going blah-de-blah about "degree" and honour (today
security & democracy) etc etc, and then Achilles has Hector massacred by
his Myrmidons. It's worth rereading *The Iliad* - and the
superscriptions of same by Logue & the recent Jarnot Book XXII, not to
mention Simone Weil & Rachel Bespaloff's angles on "the poem of force".
Our petty existences are all measured by these monstrosities. And we all
know than when we die, some sooner, some later, the world will have
become an even nastier place, more brutish & with an even shorter
memory. Und wozu Dichter in dürftiger Zeit?
mj
Stephen Vincent wrote:
>In case, like me, this Administration - particularly with the continuing and
>worsening horror show in Iraq (let alone the associated issues with the
>'terror agenda') is sickening to the core - the surmise of Bob (I will
>redeem myself) Woodward's new book in the Washington Post provides the start
>of what seems an eye-popping transparent view of the madness that claims to
>to guide 'us' here in these sad States (right down to Henry Kissinger as
>private advisor to the Prez urging him not to withdraw from Iraq because
>that would signal repeat of the USA's mistake in Vietnam - of apparently
>'not staying the course.')!!
>What is that line about history 'repeating itself as farce.'
>These guys and girls (say "Rice") are giving it to us in Clubs and Spades.
>
>Go to:
>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/29/AR2006092900
>368_2.html
>
>Have a good weekend!
>
>Stephen Vincent
>http://stephenvincent.net/blog/
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