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Friday, January 12, 2018

Reading through the news this morning... .

We do not talk — we bludgeon one another with facts and theories gleaned from cursory readings of newspapers, magazines and digests.
— Henry Miller, born in 1891

 KGB, Mossad , Stasi, ASIO the accented voices of Villains - Secret MEdia Dragons


We find that certain Anglican cultures sometimes do not get a Bohemian or Slavic sense of humour and the creative ways of spilling (sic) words

Reading through the news this morning...



 ...as I often do; smh.com.au, afr.com.au, johnquiggin.com.au, Financial Times aka ft.com, philly.com, the New York Times, Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, Drudge Report, Memeorandum, the RealClear sites and other deepblog.com sources.



Elizabeth Hardwick said real literature should elicit criticism worthy of the achievement in question. That meant, among other things, a stubborn commitment to good, clear pros Cold Pressed Prose 


The Ten Most Important Lost Texts From The Ancient World


From an Indian equivalent of Aesop’s fables to the holy scriptures of Zoroastrianism to an early Chinese encyclopedia to Sappho’s poems.



Deep Web Search Facts You Need To Know - Truthfinder



  1. Australian Women War Reporters, from the Boer War to Vietnam (2015) by Jeannine Baker
  2. Margaret Flockton, a Fragrant Memory (2016)  by Louise Wilson
  3. Griffith Review 55, State of Hope (2017) edited by Julianne Schwarz and Patrick Allington
  4. No Way But This, in search of Paul Robeson (2017) by Jeff Sparrow
  5. Damned Whores and God’s Police (1975, updated edition 2016) by Anne Summers
  6. Return to Moscow (2017) by Tony Kevin
  7. The Art of Time Travel, Historians and their craft (2016) by Tom Griffiths
  8. Don’t Take Your Love to Town (1988), by Ruby Langford
  9. Maybe Tomorrow (1998) by Boori Monty Prior
  10. The Art of Frugal Hedonism (2016) by Annie Raser-Rowland with Adam Grubb
  11. Can You Tolerate This? (2017) by Ashleigh Young
  12. Songlines, Tracking the Seven Sisters (2017) edited by Margo Neale
As a recycled teenager who knows thar every day above the ground is a great day this story is highly recommended:


Was It “the Word” That Was Made Flesh — Or Something Else? “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.” This sentence, the first verse in the Gospel of St. John, should be familiar, and the same can be said for this excerpt from that Gospel’s 14th verse, alluding to the birth and life of Christ: “And the Word was made flesh and dwelt among us.”

 The reality is that there was as much light and shadow in the Middle Ages as there is in every other age. To be sure, Thomas Aquinas composed his Summa theologiae at a time of brutal wars and torture chambers. But what about the Enlightenment, which produced the Terror of the French Revolution? What about our own time of unprecedented technological progress, which nevertheless assaults human dignity in so many ways, from the insidious talk about “human resources” to the epidemic of abortion? Human nature is fallen.

 There’s a good deal of the detective in a literary tourist, much of which is explained by the thrill of ferreting out connections that shed light on the life of authors and books and places. Intrigued by this local publishing phenomenon, I wanted to know more. What kind of books did they produce? Who was this ambitious young publisher named Miller? Where did he live and work? What did he look like? I couldn’t find a photograph of him anywhere. Nothing in the city archives. Nothing on the Internet. I had so many questions — almost as many as Andrew Sheer has for Justin Trudeau. The Graphic Publishers mystery, just like a political scandal, demanded solving, so I started to dig and after a good many twists and turns, eventually found much more than I’d originally bargained for.

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