tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post2049833858106529591..comments2024-01-28T03:56:39.351-08:00Comments on TOM CLARK: Of Kith and Kin: Braemar: A Royal Gathering / Kobane: Three Funerals and a WeddingUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-45830809625925437312015-09-08T14:21:04.270-07:002015-09-08T14:21:04.270-07:00Terry,
The post is what remains of something ...Terry,<br /><br /> The post is what remains of something much longer, one of those attention-testing overloads... but, one bleary moment, crippled wrist, failing eyesight, hit wrong key and poof everything disappeared.<br /><br /> Has happened before, try to take it as a sign... of something.<br /><br /> When I started out on the long retrieval trek, I understood that what I really wanted to recover were the two sequences, the Royals at Braemar, the funerals and wedding in Kobane.<br /><br /> Somebody here thought this was being a bit unfair to the Royals... and somebody is always right.<br /><br /> But I just couldn't help it.<br /><br /> Somebody asked, What are they laughing at?<br /><br /> But I thought the proper question should be, when are they doing this laughing?<br /><br /> Does nobody ever brief the Royals on, like, world events and that, do you suppose?<br /><br /> Ar they laughing and pointing at some hapless refugees caught on the wire in Hungary, on a tv monitor?<br /><br /> Or has MI-5 sent them James Bond in tartans, to run through a brief briefing?<br /><br /> Their jollity we remember is occurring a bit after the heroic PM despatched a killer drone to Syria (not quite his jurisdiction, last I checked) to take out some embarrassing and probably, in the moment of his death, embarrassed young British citizen (though not, as it happens, of sound Anglo-Saxon Stock, nor Norman either, for that matter).<br /><br /> The Kobane wedding sequence was meant to be the "point" of the post (though saying what the point of a post is is a little like explaining, yeesh why do blogging if you're going to be worried about explaining? ... because, hey, nobody is going to care!).<br /><br /> The third and fourth shots from the Kobane wedding sequence have to be among the more interesting photos ever posted here. On the one hand, traditionally framed and composed wedding photos. On the other hand -- the hand upon which we count in, let's call it history, or a historical aspect -- they are something else again. They could be frames from a Kiarostami film, for the composition. But we are seeing them in the place where they are, in real time and space, these people, seeing their circumstances, and imagining and speculating and pondering upon their histories, matching the little that we do know up against the enormity of what we don't, can't, never will know...<br /><br />And then, their futures.TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-73794293866878181012015-09-08T07:38:05.228-07:002015-09-08T07:38:05.228-07:00Except for the one smiling girl holding a baby, th...Except for the one smiling girl holding a baby, that's the grimmest wedding party ever. But the very fact that these people would get married (unless it's an arranged marriage)says something in favor of human resilience.tpwhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05909239000589253931noreply@blogger.com