tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post6977560479384159620..comments2024-01-28T03:56:39.351-08:00Comments on TOM CLARK: HistoricalUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-83110878408958475972010-12-15T19:39:21.652-08:002010-12-15T19:39:21.652-08:00Yes, let's keep digging. Grand idea. Perhaps w...Yes, let's keep digging. Grand idea. Perhaps we will also find some ingarys.Robbhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12312524900784740898noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-64744265749927033072010-12-15T19:17:09.157-08:002010-12-15T19:17:09.157-08:00Hi Robb,
I think they're probably buried down...Hi Robb,<br /><br />I think they're probably buried down about a foot below mine. <br /><br />But it's like they say, nuts for the natives, foryn for the foryners...<br /><br />As long as there's time, though, let's keep digging.TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-85727678706196813882010-12-15T17:03:14.112-08:002010-12-15T17:03:14.112-08:00Loved this, Tom. Thank you. It brought much-needed...Loved this, Tom. Thank you. It brought much-needed foryn to my day — I forgot where I buried my nuts.Robbhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12312524900784740898noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-68769000603096641302010-12-15T03:54:22.537-08:002010-12-15T03:54:22.537-08:00Not so much thought as
what time attempts to thi...Not so much thought as <br /><br />what time attempts to think,<br /><br />subsurface ground thick with lost peanuts, and squirrels scratching about, and wandering around aimlessly<br /><br />drained by the time<br /><br />(another lost night in red mist of city rain)TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-21620466354027497002010-12-13T07:58:58.119-08:002010-12-13T07:58:58.119-08:00Tom and Curtis,
A pleasure to catch up w/ this st...Tom and Curtis,<br /><br />A pleasure to catch up w/ this string of five comments, going along as they do to all such things -- subsurface ground thick with lost peanuts, and squirrels scratching about, and wandering around aimlessly (after you drove over a parking barrier having finished that exam). . . . And to see that squirrel, these barns, and to read again "if so, when? And if not now, why not" (which is to say, "If it be not now, yet it will come"). Meanwhile ---<br /><br /><br />12.13<br /><br />light coming into fog against invisible<br />plane of ridge, red-tailed hawk calling<br />in foreground, wave sounding in channel<br /><br /> signed lower left, selected<br /> one of the subsequent<br /><br /> what time attempts to think,<br /> that light, with what<br /><br />silver of sunlight reflected in channel,<br />whiteness of gull flapping toward pointSTEPHEN RATCLIFFEhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12339481653546188412noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-30614048714850583922010-12-12T14:41:24.512-08:002010-12-12T14:41:24.512-08:00Thanks for your kind words. I won't bore you ...Thanks for your kind words. I won't bore you with the details, but the exam was quite tricky and difficult (the "real world experience" of 30 years of actual legal practice could definitely get you in trouble in terms of answering certain of the questions, which to my mind is silly since the bar exam is supposed to test your ability to "think like a lawyer"). I was so drained by the time I completed it that I immediately drove over a low parking barrier and wandered around aimlessly for about 15 minutes. I will now get around to seeing The Inside Job. Immediately after you mentioned it, other people started to also. Your description ("the vast wealth of the very few at the vast expense of the very many") makes so much sense. As soon as I learned and understood how hedge funds operated, some of this became clear to me. And as I think I mentioned before, watching the Goldman Sachs executives make Congress look silly earlier this year (which surprised me mostly because of the context of their testimony, which I would have thought gave Congress an unbeatable advantage) made me realize who was in charge. The fact that I saw someone I knew (but clearly didn't know enough about) testifying was utterly bizarre, especially because I thought he was an extremely effective witness for GS.<br /><br />But back to the poem, which I've been carrying around in my head all day through a long drive. It is very popular and admired in our house.<br /><br />so time remits all labours then; or was it<br /><br />death, and were the labours<br /><br />sorrows? It's not easy keeping this straight.<br /><br />We like this very much.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-27181194838062583802010-12-12T10:24:43.182-08:002010-12-12T10:24:43.182-08:00Curtis, congratulations are in order.
From a self...Curtis, congratulations are in order.<br /><br />From a selfish point of view, as things are currently in a pretty low state around here, we can but wish this state too were within your licensed zone of operation, or should the word be jurisdiction? <br /><br />For now however we shall have to abide in innocuous envy of those two major mid-Atlantic states. <br /><br />From the sound of history these days, they are in any event likely to have enough business to keep you busy. <br /><br />(Oh, and about the banking system, that film The Inside Job pretty much clarifies the meaning of that term: it's a "system" that ensures the vast wealth of the very few at the vast expense of the very many, a strategy, again, well beyond the ken of even the most cynical squirrel.)TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-11121300136856639282010-12-12T08:48:16.087-08:002010-12-12T08:48:16.087-08:00Beyond our ken, not theirs. I put a lot of confid...Beyond our ken, not theirs. I put a lot of confidence in squirrels. For me, the phrase "banking system" is fraught with difficulties. It's one of those things that seems to have been deliberately devised with devious complications calculated to confuse both amateurs and lower-level initiates. A former in-law of ours is considered a serious expert in it and the less said about her the better (especially now that the season of good cheer is upon us). Incidentally, I wanted to mention (since I've brought it up before) that I passed the test I was preparing for. The good news reached me a few days ago and definitely raised my and my extended family's spirits. I can now opine and pontificate in my chosen, licensed field in two major mid-Atlantic states.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-70174738981833018742010-12-12T08:05:37.239-08:002010-12-12T08:05:37.239-08:00Curtis,
The squirrels here have had a comparative...Curtis,<br /><br />The squirrels here have had a comparatively slender granary these past few years. Of course like everyone else's, their supply is ultimately tied to the waxings and wanings of the Big Granary -- the one owned by the humans, that is.<br /><br />We had a next door neighbour who fed them peanuts for many years. They would carefully bury the peanuts in dispersed locations, seemingly in response to the natural impulse to save them up for hard times. But then later they would never be able to find them. A lot of bewildered scratching-about...<br /><br />Of course after some years, the subsurface ground was thick with lost peanuts. By then, just about any place that was scratched would yield a peanut. <br /><br />Perhaps this reflects a larger banking strategy, beyond our ken.<br /><br />Since then the neighbour has passed away.<br /><br />Now the major soft touch for food for the resident scavengers -- raccoons, possums, mice, rats -- is us.<br /><br />But all of the above creatures are "in the moment", and don't have banking systems.TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-88761558525165820912010-12-12T03:59:54.176-08:002010-12-12T03:59:54.176-08:00I was having a conversation along these same lines...I was having a conversation along these same lines last night, but not nearly as lucid (especially my part). You have found a red squirrel who really looks like he knows history and has it in perspective. The progression to winter is noted and about to be felt.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com