Two Palestinian boys play on a donkey cart next to a wall of graffiti in Deir el-Balah refugee camp, central Gaza Strip, on Wednesday: photo by Khalil Hamra/AP, 1 June 2016
Two Palestinian boys play on a donkey cart next to a wall of graffiti in Deir el-Balah refugee camp, central Gaza Strip, on Wednesday: photo by Khalil Hamra/AP, 1 June 2016
D.H. Lawrence: Tortoise Gallantry
Making his advances
He does not look at her, nor sniff at her,
No, not even sniff at her, his nose is blank.
Only he senses the vulnerable folds of skin
That work beneath her while she sprawls along
In her ungainly pace,
Her folds of skin that work and row
Beneath the earth-soiled hovel in which she moves.
And so he strains beneath her housey walls
And catches her trouser-legs in his beak
Suddenly, or her skinny limb,
And strange and grimly drags at her
Like a dog,
Only agelessly silent, with a reptile's awful persistency.
Grim, gruesome gallantry, to which he is doomed.
Dragged out of an eternity of silent isolation
And doomed to partiality, partial being,
Ache, and want of being,
Want,
Self-exposure, hard humiliation, need to add himself on to her.
Born to walk alone,
Forerunner,
Now suddenly distracted into this mazy side-track,
This awkward, harrowing pursuit,
This grim necessity from within.
Does she know
As she moves eternally slowly away?
Or is he driven against her with a bang, like a bird flying in the dark against a window,
All knowledgeless?
The awful concussion,
And the still more awful need to persist, to follow, follow, continue,
Driven, after æons of pristine, fore-god-like singleness and oneness,
At the end of some mysterious, red-hot iron,
Driven away from himself into her tracks,
Forced to crash against her.
Stiff, gallant, irascible, crook-legged reptile,
Little gentleman,
Sorry plight,
We ought to look the other way.
Save that, having come with you so far,
We will go on to the end.
D.H. Lawrence (1885-1930): Tortoise Gallantry, from Tortoises (1921)
Some officials worry about briefing Trump, fearing spilled secrets: image via Reuters Top News @Reuters, 2 June 2016
A tranquilised leopard is carried out from a house in Kathmandu, Nepal: photo by Navesh Chitrakar/Reuters, 1 June 2016
A tranquilised leopard is carried out from a house in Kathmandu, Nepal: photo by Navesh Chitrakar/Reuters, 1 June 2016
having come with you so far
The carpenters Union making its views known outside trump's San Jose rally: image via john r stanton @dcbigjohn, 2 June 2016
Smoke seems to be coming from this parking lot. A loud bang and a flash but not sure what caused it.: image via Nicky Woolf @Nicky Woolf, 2 June 2016
we ought to look the other way
More parking garage mischief, fire extinguisher smoke I think: image via Julia Carrie Wong @juliacarriew, 2 June 2016
Very volatile crowd, fights breaking out as protesters target Trump supporters: image via Julia Carrie Wong @juliacarriew, 2 June 2016
Interviewed a lot of young Chicano anti-Trump supporters, all supporting Bernie Sanders so far: image via Julia Carrie Wong @juliacarriew, 2 June 2016
Now in the streets: image via Julia Carrie Wong @juliacarriew, 2 June 2016
Trump supporter runs from protesters: image via Julia Carrie Wong @juliacarriew, 2 June 2016
The awful
concussion,
and the still more awful need
to persist, to follow,
follow, continue,
driven,
in silent isolation
doomed to partiality, partial
being,
ache, and want of being,
want,
want,
self-exposure,
hard humiliation
A supporter of the opposition Coalition for Reforms and Democracy (CORD), led by former Prime Minister Raila Odinga, wears a mask and looks on during a rally held in Nairobi, Kenya: photo by Dai Kurokawa/EPA, 1 June 2016
A supporter of the opposition Coalition for Reforms and Democracy (CORD), led by former Prime Minister Raila Odinga, wears a mask and looks on during a rally held in Nairobi, Kenya: photo by Dai Kurokawa/EPA, 1 June 2016
Conflict-affected women line up to receive their families’ food rations provided by a local relief group, in Sana’a, Yemen: photo by Yahya Arhab/EPA, 2 June 2016
Conflict-affected women line up to receive their families’ food rations provided by a local relief group, in Sana’a, Yemen: photo by Yahya Arhab/EPA, 2 June 2016
A woman walks past a wall of mock-up mobile phones displayed outside an electronics store in downtown Tokyo, Japan. The store owner started this display with a few thousands of mobile phones ten years ago: photo by Shuji Kajiyama/AP, 2 June 2016
A woman walks past a wall of mock-up mobile phones displayed outside an electronics store in downtown Tokyo, Japan. The store owner started this display with a few thousands of mobile phones ten years ago: photo by Shuji Kajiyama/AP, 2 June 2016
Martin Sonka of the Czech Republic (dark blue plane) leads Nigel Lamb of Great Britain (yellow) and Yoshihide Muroya of Japan (silver) along Mount Fuji prior to the third stage of the Red Bull Air Race World Championship in Chiba, Japan: photo by Predrag Vuckovic/AFP, 2 June 2016
Martin Sonka of the Czech Republic (dark blue plane) leads Nigel Lamb of Great Britain (yellow) and Yoshihide Muroya of Japan (silver) along Mount Fuji prior to the third stage of the Red Bull Air Race World Championship in Chiba, Japan: photo by Predrag Vuckovic/AFP, 2 June 2016
A boy, whose brother was killed, reacts at a site hit by airstrikes in the rebel-controlled area of Maaret al-Numan town in Idlib province, Syria: photo by Reuters/Khalil Ashawi/Reuters, 2 June 2016
Boy abandoned in Japan for being naughty found alive, unharmed: image via Reuters Top News @Reuters, 2 June 2016
the still more awful need to persist, to follow
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