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3  Dec 25   

Significant Scots – Mark Boyd

Pound ABC’s p 134 on Cupid and Venus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Alexander_Boyd#cite_ref-Pound134_1-0

I looked up the Pound.ref (ABCs, p. 134). I wanted to know which language he, E.P., was referring to, since the poem is in Scots.  This is sous-entendu in his wording, though the surrounding selections are in English.

Per Wiki, Mark Boyd spent much of his life in France, publishing two books of poetry in Latin while teaching in Bordeaux at the Collège de Guienne, where Montaigne had been a student. 

(I don’t know what strange atavistic impulse was driving me to delve into such things, though it is true that my middle name is Maclaine, and I distantly follow the affairs of the Maclaine Clan. So much for a personal spate of small-cap identitarianism.) 

The four ‘O’s that shape a bubble

This contribution to the “bubble of bubble talk” is one reason I read the FT, even though it is a tool of capitalism. In fact that’s what we need to do, to take and to use the tools of capitalism. 

This is an insight I owe  to my friend and almost not quite fellow-traveler, the late Loren Goldner. Over forty years ago he famously, to me, replied to my question as to how he always knew understood what the capitalists are doing: “I read the Financial Times.  There the capitalists tell each other flat out what they are doing.”

(To clarify: I said “not quite a fellow-traveler” because I was a “petty-bourgeois social-democrat”.)

The four ‘O’s that shape a bubble

https://www.ft.com/content/ff72f64b-fc58-4f11-9b75-e30f99031936

“The one constant trigger for a crash, going back to the railroad bubbles of the 19th century, has been rising interest rates and tightening financial conditions. So while we are clearly in a bubble, it could keep growing until the money inflating it starts drying up.”

Capitalism (Wiki)

 

Nemo saltat sobrius nisi insanit

Thanks for this post. All fiction is speculative. But I admit I’ve never been a  fan of speculative or science fiction, though I am a proponent of science, and of speculation. Maybe because of its form, iambic pentameter, Turner’s Genesis is changing my mind.

 Grief, Shmief! I’m so sick of it.

Yet I’m stuck in the Ick of it

Struldbrugg

 When they came to fourscore years, which is reckoned the extremity of living in this country, they had not only all the follies and infirmities of other old men, but many more, which arose from the dreadful prospect of never dying. 

Wiki on struldruggg

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Struldbrugg

Or, as I  call it, Senemtia

https://alteritas.net/pastis/inventory/dementia/

Luggnagg

Or, as I  call it, Senemtia

The ick of it

The incomparable beauty of bossa nova

What Is the Good Life?

Chaparral Sunset

https://alteritas.net/pastis/inventory/deja-vu/

Canaan

https://alteritas.net/pastis/inventory/memory-the-mockingbird/  https://alteritas.net/pastis/inventory/plane-noise/

Turn not your eyes, leaves though they be,
to dazzle or blaze. Live off not light but light
transformed, simple, eccentric, stoic in the sun.

#CompKreyoLit

https://alteritas.net/GXL/?p=2013
The executioner

https://alteritas.net/GXL/?p=1879
Stichless seam

https://alteritas.net/GXL/?p=1648
Idols

Carney’s Tightrope Act in Québec

Senectus nos privat omnibus voluptatibus?

— No shit, Sherlock!

                                         But senectus, all the while

depriving  us of all voluptatibus, also offers

us up a kind of sweet distance between

the source of noise and ones own ears,

A buffer between the outside and oneself.

To play upon one image, that of an old man

Senectus by name , who slowly comes to recognize

that he is emaciated, IS emaciatING,

if not on weekly or monthly basis, nonetheless

inevitably by whatever measure of time you chose …

Think instead of it or him (the actual gender of senectus,

but I for one think that if it’s a he or a she

that we’re limited to, better would be a she)

as a sort of condiment used accessorily,

This in the series of eggs, gossamer so sheer,