nothing but respect

Theresa May ranted with all the gravitas of an adult toddler – and with all the effect - The Guardian. умри, Денис - лучше не скажешь.

“Throughout this process,” she howled, “I have treated the EU with nothing but respect, the UK expects the same.” это сильно. respect, wow.

respect my ass

Moses and Monotheism

The book, after all, insisted on some strange and disturbing things. Most startling, it argued that Moses himself was not a Jew. How did Freud know? First of all, he claimed that Moses is not a Jewish name but an Egyptian one; second, Freud’s study of dreams and fairy tales convinced him that the Bible had inverted things.

In the Exodus story, Moses’ mother, fearing Pharaoh’s order to kill all Jewish boys, leaves the infant Moses in a basket on the river’s edge, where he is discovered by Pharaoh’s daughter.

But Freud maintained that the Jews were the ones who had found him by the river. (In fairy tales and dreams, the child always begins with rich parents and is adopted by poor ones, yet his noble nature wins out — or so Freud insisted.)

Freud also said that monotheism was not a Jewish but an Egyptian invention, descending from the cult of the Egyptian sun god Aton. - Defender of the Faith?

see also Moses and Monotheism, 1939 by Freud

похоже на Хармса

Когда же я стану поэтом
Настолько, чтоб все презирать,
Настолько, чтоб в холоде этом
Бесчувственным светом играть?

это Г. Иванов, а похоже на Хармса

fear mongering

The Plot to Subvert an Election

нового ничего, просто срочно что-то потребовалось, чтобы спустить провальную историю про Kavanaugh пониже на первой полосе, чтобы не огорчались deranged readers of the deranged nyt

верую

Верю в смерть после жизни, любовь после секса и крем после бритья. - народ

секс после любви?

I never read a book I must review; it prejudices you so. - Oscar Wilde as quoted in Пьер Байяр, "Искусство рассуждать о книгах, которые вы не читали"

"здоровый образ жизни" - это современный вариант аскезы, а здоровье как таковое воспринимается чем-то вроде заслуженной награды, ожидающей мучеников. © kot-kam

We are moved by nothing but pure patriotism and the joyful sacrifice of our powers for those who have sacrificed so much for us. - Beethoven

vocal beauty

Nadine Sierra, soprano - Praised for her vocal beauty...

vocal, i'm sure

Watch: Soprano Nadine Sierra Live From The Greene Space - ...hailed as “the new face of opera”

face, right

meanwhile on wqxr Frederic Chopin Nocturne No. 20 in C-sharp Minor, Op. Posth. and then Etude in G-sharp Minor, Op. 25/6 and then Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, Trio Sonata for Flute, Violin and Continuo in B minor, WQ 143

free will

via

see also Choose Your Own Adventure (And Beyond)

хозяин-барин

Chemnitz unrest: German top spy Maassen forced out:

The government's decision came amid a furore over Mr Maassen's response to recent far-right unrest in Chemnitz.

Anti-migrant "hunts" were reported there on 26 August after a German man was killed in a brawl with migrants.

Mr Maassen doubted that foreign-looking people had been hounded. Chancellor Angela Merkel was urged to sack him.

Okay You're the boss.

Female Voices

An Artist Who Champions and Channels Female Voices

изделие слева называется “Untitled #1379 (The Doctor’s Wife)"

авторка - одна Petah Coyne

Dalai Lama wisdom

Dalai Lama says 'Europe belongs to Europeans'

'It is a triumph of the radical left that only the Dalai Lama can speak the truth' - @DouglasKMurray (Douglas Murray)

i follow two more Murrays: Craig Murray @CraigMurrayOrg ‏and Charles Murray @charlesmurray

doctor, is something wrong with me?

also John Murray Cuddihy! и Murray N. Rothbard.

Фауст

Фауст по wrti

Вы стро́йны и во всей красе,
Ваш вид надменен, взгляд рассеян.
В того невольно верят все,
Кто больше всех самонадеян.

- перевод Пастернака

Уход Лао-цзы

- А что там за тонкий дымок, что за легкая струйка возносится к небу у входа на перевал? - спросил начальник.

- Это мои соломенные сандалии, которые я сжигаю, ибо больше в них не нуждаюсь, - отвечал Лао-цзы, - мои страннические сандалии, которые я приношу в жертву духам Горы.

- Поль Клодель, Уход Лао-цзы

via Пьер Байяр "Искусство рассуждать о книгах, которые вы не читали"

тут надо вспомнить Hence, конечно, и Одена In Memory Of W.B. Yeats

Time that with this strange excuse
Pardoned Kipling and his views,
And will pardon Paul Claudel,
Pardons him for writing well.

Min Kamp

не зря все-таки Кнаусгор книжку назвал Моя борьба, в шестом томе наконец появилась биография Гитлера. но неправильная. Slate разъясняет бестолковому Кнаусгору, что он не так пишет про Гитлера, как положено. разъясняет, не стесняясь в выражениях:

- confused reading of a poem
- he’s a disaster
- absolutely enormous number of bad ideas
- banal
- random declaration from on high
- sophistry on nearly every page
- pretentious historicizing

ну прямо „Звезда“ и „Ленинград“.

для убедительности автор статьи упоминает всех подряд от Паули до Стерна. в общем выговор Кнаусгору с занесением. должна еще NYT отметиться. не сомневаюсь, появится что-то вроде Сумбур вместо музыки.

upd 09/18: nyt откликнулась, но пока что не из всех стволов, довольно сдержано. предсказываю broadside in the coming days.

Hitler and Knausgaard

Pool with Two figures

Hockney painting set for record $80m: A painting by British artist David Hockney is set to become the most expensive work by a living artist to ever be sold at auction.

еще две работы Hockney. под ними - Сарьян и Матисс. навеяло.

Rihanna's in lingerie

Rihanna's Fenty lingerie show praised for diversity - это BBC

а вот HuffPo, много картинок

rough few years

Some of the field's rock-solid findings now appear sketchy at best. Entire subfields are viewed with suspicion. Many, perhaps most, studies published are flawed. 

- ‘I Want to Burn Things to the Ground’

somewhere in the beginning they say As you’ve no doubt heard by now, social psychology has had a rough few years. - like about a hundred?

very funny article, especially where it attempts to be even-handed. lots of examples. Alan Sokal mentioned.

Researchers find oddities in high-profile gender studies - same issues, more funny examples.

@charlesmurray

upd 9/20: Journals Retract 6 More Articles by a Controversial Cornell Food Scientist

a bit less Russian

The previous president, Yeltsin, was boozy, jokey, generous. Now people wanted somebody a bit less Russian.

- Russia's answer to James Bond: did he trigger Putin's rise to power?

это The Guardian.

нет ли тут антисемитизма

интересно, лорда Пальмерстона избрали премьер-министром Великобритании после Дизраэли потому что people wanted somebody a bit less Jewish?

опять же, хотелось бы знать, что стало бы с автором статьи в Guardian, если бы он что-то подобное написал про выборы премьер-министра Израиля.

@ новости кинокритики


кстати, правильный перевод названия газеты - Гвардеец. если New Yorker - the parish magazine of East Coast liberalism, то Гвардеец - parish newspaper of British libtard crowd.

history rhymes

History does not repeat itself, but it rhymes - attributed to Mark Twain

strange they don't mention Marx: History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.

Quote Investigator

Huey Long never made a shrewder observation than his remark that if Fascism came to the United States it would come disguised as anti-Fascism. - Ibid.

There is a Providence that protects idiots, drunkards, children and the United States of America. - Otto von Bismarck

WaPo зажигает

Another hurricane is about to batter our coast. Trump is complicit.

ну точно The Onion

жж

в приемной у врача

лежала библия, открыл наудачу 1 Samuel 18:27

David took his men with him and went out and killed two hundred Philistines and brought back their foreskins. They counted out the full number to the king so that David might become the king's son-in-law. Then Saul gave him his daughter Michal in marriage.

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