tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post1656096745964920047..comments2024-01-28T03:56:39.351-08:00Comments on TOM CLARK: The Emperor's AttendantUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-21653252516297553842010-07-30T18:55:48.090-07:002010-07-30T18:55:48.090-07:00we all know what Shakespeare
said about the lawyer...we all know what Shakespeare<br />said about the lawyers...but the<br />common man needs the law.<br /><br />as for the emperor's attendant<br />it might very well be the electorate for Pres.Obama, who I<br />believe would really not like to<br />be in Afghanistan.<br /><br />As for the Japs in WWII who are<br />our Japanese friends now,cultural<br />relativism and historical political correctness ought to consider<br />besides Pearl Harbor...the Rape of<br />Nan King...the Battan Death March<br />all of which occurred before Hiroshima<br /><br />I bring this up because unlike<br />the Emperor of the United States<br />the electorate has enough sense<br />to realize that there are those<br />who wish a nuclear attack on Infidels just because we are and<br />and the thousand year old Buddhist<br />statues the Taliban destroyed because they were are a stones throw from Pakistan's nuclear arsenal...<br /><br />"History" said James Joyce "is a<br />nightmare from which I am trying<br />to awake" History can be painful<br />if it is not taught,which it is not,eventually there will be more<br />nightmares in the present.<br /><br />The forum of this blog takes place<br />in part in TC's historical memory.<br />TC in addition to being a poet is<br />also an historian....see The World<br />of Damon Runyon, The Exile of Celine, the bio of Charles Olson,<br />Allegory of a Poet, etc.<br /><br />The Irish among others who know<br />their history know that history<br />is nightmare from which we are<br />trying to awake...by the way<br />did the Brits ever apologize for<br />the Potato Famine?Elmo St. Rosenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-33358158558973695432010-07-30T09:50:32.393-07:002010-07-30T09:50:32.393-07:00Hi. I didn't take the lawyer comments too seri...Hi. I didn't take the lawyer comments too seriously. From my point of view, in terms of societal esteem, it's been all downhill for the profession since Watergate when we were treated to the sight of all those lawyers going to jail. And since then, we've had two presidents become disbarred lawyers, which is more than dispiriting. At least one was Republican and the other was Democrat, so some sort of universal balance was maintained. The way Jane has been taught history and literature up to this point is entirely agenda-driven and extremely troubling to me. At some point, however, I expect she'll be able to break free and have an opportunity to resurvey the landscape and make up her own mind.Curtis Robertsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-14096459344101706312010-07-30T08:21:25.088-07:002010-07-30T08:21:25.088-07:00Curtis,
That lawyer joke was too lame for words, ...Curtis,<br /><br />That lawyer joke was too lame for words, I don't know why I wasted any on it. Anonymous's sweeping generalization provoked a flippant banana peel of a response. <br /><br />The whole issue of historical accountability, guilt, responsibility, blame is obviously so tangled. I'd been reading Rebecca West on the Nuremberg Trials. It reminded me that actual human beings, often petty and venal ones, originate much of what we think of as history, and from their acts, it seems, whole grand trains of evil can follow as if by some inevitable (and insane) momentum.<br /><br />The fact that Jane is not taught this history in school is very, very sad. The old saw about history repeating itself... <br /><br />Sometimes it seems there is no cultural memory any more. <br /><br /><br /><br />Don,<br /><br />"...portent and resonance, recall that fear, as one looks out over the battlefield of one's brothers and cousins and friends..."<br /><br />That describes the meditations out of which this post grew. I've been revisiting that period leading up to and just after Pearl Harbor in memory and imagination. <br /><br />The sense is that wars proceed from fixed ideas.TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-70204611723720496652010-07-30T07:35:51.367-07:002010-07-30T07:35:51.367-07:00I understand the current Persian emperor, from a d...I understand the current Persian emperor, from a different hemisphere, has close advisers, too.<br /><br />This probably has even less to do with your topic than the BP spill but I always find Krishna's advice to Arjuna to be so absolutely terrifying in the Bhagavad-gita. These pictures, their portent and resonance, recall that fear, as one looks out over the battlefield of one's brothers and cousins and friends.<br /><br />Of course, such is the struggling, the suffering, the plight ...Issa's Untidy Huthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07352841590717991698noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-16176942366039537102010-07-29T12:24:29.751-07:002010-07-29T12:24:29.751-07:00I love your photo-bracketed dream fable. I wish t...I love your photo-bracketed dream fable. I wish things like this really happened. Seeing the Pearl Harbor photos (both of them new ones to me, but like most people of "my generation", I certainly grew up on photos like this, filmed documentaries, WWII movies and the anecdotes of people who lived through the war) makes me wonder what thoughts occurred to the original photographers of war. My almost 13-year old daughter knows nothing about any of this. Apart from what her mother and I have tried to teach her, all of these historical references have been completely excluded from her education (which is nonetheless heavily and rigidly politically focused) and the entertainment she is presented. Some lawyers do have a lot to answer for, but it's a complicated subject and not one-dimensional.Curtis Robertsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-20804384383588898212010-07-29T08:35:42.281-07:002010-07-29T08:35:42.281-07:00Letters are tres belles.
But I wonder, do you si...Letters are tres belles. <br /><br />But I wonder, do you sign yours? <br /><br />I don't know about you, but these days I'm finding anonymity a serious obstacle to honest two-way internet communication.<br /><br />Anyway, not that it apparently matters overmuch to anyone else, I actually had in mind, with this post, some things not specifically related to the BP disaster.<br /><br />But... if the shoe fits the platform, I guess.TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-36473941504458880562010-07-29T08:01:51.409-07:002010-07-29T08:01:51.409-07:00ever notice that 99.44%
of ALL of our "truste...ever notice that 99.44%<br />of ALL of our "trusted" ""Leaders" are l.a.w.a.y.e.r.s/and/constipational Scholars and they all have more university credentials than out Poets<br /><br />:xxxoooxoxxxxoooo...>(@*<<br /><br />I fail to see ANY-thing phunny in punctuation or in politics or in re:ligion; or in Political Correctness<br /><br /><br />pee est I don't have a blog nor intend to... I yet write letters... remember letters?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-9505803561780289082010-07-29T07:48:37.474-07:002010-07-29T07:48:37.474-07:00I GUESS I get the connection....
I have a feeling...I GUESS I get the connection....<br /><br />I have a feeling maybe lawyers caused the platform to sink.<br /><br />(Here bloggers are supposed to make fun punctuation thingies, I think, to show the tone is meant to be humouresque. I've never learned those.)<br /><br />From the first minute the pointing of the fingers created a crossfire of guilt and blame transferred and misplaced and directed and redirected that seemed to demand a neural rewiring on the massive scale in order to take it all in.<br /><br />"Offshore drilling opposition likely a temporary blip," says Tom Fowler of Hearst Newspapers Syndicated, on this bleak tern grey morning. <br /><br />Here we go again...TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-75775893987180551342010-07-29T07:16:03.189-07:002010-07-29T07:16:03.189-07:00just heard on a national news tv show that:
"...just heard on a national news tv show that:<br /><br />"it may be that the firemen who were fighting the (initial) explosion/blaze MIGHT have actually caused the platform to sink (..)"<br /><br />ahhh....<br /><br />here come the lawyers!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com