tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post4931203106072348115..comments2024-01-28T03:56:39.351-08:00Comments on TOM CLARK: Walter de La Mare: Napoleon: ideological ascendancy in the least rational campaign in recent memoryUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-1066074593024970582016-02-21T12:27:48.376-08:002016-02-21T12:27:48.376-08:00In a perhaps unrelated side note, I'm plagued ...In a perhaps unrelated side note, I'm plagued by wonderment concerning the woman who appears to be either eating a blue pickle or merely gazing in astonishment at our latter-day Napoleon's armpit, in the top photo. <br /><br />Of course if it were really Napoleon, we wouldn't have this problem, there would be no armpit-expanse into which to stare in apparent astonishment, because the arm would be safely tucked into the tunic -- as in fact befits proper dictators. <br /><br />Now I'm aware the wire-loop thingie descending ever so all-but-unnoticeably from the armpit may have something to do with this. But just looking at the astonished woman, you know she's toured this property before, is a woman of the world, and is thus quite likely to be aware of the ubiquitous wire-loop thingie phenomenon, due to what LEOs call "priors". <br /><br />Still, just saying. <br /><br />Now we've never seen Hildebeest with a trailing wire-loop armpit-thingie, much less with an admirer staring in astonishment at it. Perhaps hers is simply tucked in with the rest of the stuffing. (Just how much of that is Hildebeest, and how much is the latest in technology, is not so easy to tell.) <br /><br />But now the Bern, we'd have no idea whether or not he's packing armpit wire-loop thingies because when he jabs his bluster-finger repeatedly in our placidly attentive faces, the instinctive response is not to stare in astonishment into his unseen armpit, but to duck, if you're me, and offer a silent prayer to the ghosts of George McGovern and Jimmy Carter (though of course Jimmy hasn't yet given up his -- our last honest President! and tougher than we ever guessed!).TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-26030883999402620232016-02-21T11:58:21.758-08:002016-02-21T11:58:21.758-08:00Yes, and when all that's true, and the worst t...Yes, and when all that's true, and the worst that can happen and the best that may befall seem to be diabolically converging... When the toxic light glancing off the armoured metallic surfaces of the frantically deathward streaming SUVs slants just right in the imagination, and the freefalling blubber of the diehard animal-devouring supporters in ballcaps flocking toward the the triumphalist xenophobic photo-op rallies shifts out of view a bit, creating the necessary lebensraum for the full play of fancy, one can almost envision Guantánamo as a sort of upscale Elba... but of course with a gigantic Trump Tower and Casino and walled-in Digital Database Immigrant Extermination Chamber -- the standard high-end Murican amenities -- all conveniently built in... not to mention plenty of adjacent attractive property virtually crying out for overdevelopment and deal-doing and tourist-selfie-taking, those great Murican pastimes... not forgetting that That's What Made America Great... the dream, the knowledge, the certainty, that we're all alone together, or really separately, forever, in our vast wasted shrill hysterical brutal made/bought world... surrounded by all the little dead machine-worlds and busy-bots we have bought and wrought... and all these small annoying questions that won't go away... How many different kinds of "restrooms" do we have to have in "public places"?... Should Apple negotiate a hostile takeover of the FBI?... Was conquering Russia really worth it after all?TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-54244427971845011062016-02-21T02:27:27.936-08:002016-02-21T02:27:27.936-08:00Napoleon is an fine model for the bourgeois subjec...Napoleon is an fine model for the bourgeois subject shackled by inexorable colonial impulses. A monster undoubtedly but fascinating nonetheless. Trump's a piss poor repetition; no tragedy in his solitude. He'll leave that drama for the American people (should the worst happen).Mose23https://www.blogger.com/profile/01100756913131511440noreply@blogger.com