Miscellaneous posts, daily doodles, pastimes, comments, articles and reflections on this and that.
The Adonis Blue, loveliest of all the blue butterflies and rivalled only, perhaps, by the White Admiral as a thing of delicate wonder in flight, lending its grace to the beauty of the chalk uplands of southern England. This is the butterfly of our joyous childhood excursions to Hod Hill, where, I hope, it will continue to flourish long after the footprints of rapacious men fade from view. LJ
It occurs to me that this is an amusing example of the Sorites Paradox. The excerpt is from R.F.Delderfield’s “To serve them all my days”. At what moment does a pencil become a pencil-stub? This schoolmaster appears to know!
During the filming of The VIPs in 1963, one of the many crappy movies Richard Burton made for money, he drank half a gallon of cognac in one day. But what might have killed most people was nothing to Burton, who had built up an extraordinary tolerance for alcohol over the years.
— Read on www.independent.ie/entertainment/movies/hellraisers-the-winners-of-the-alcoholic-oscars-26462797.html
“And darkness and decay and the Red Death held illimitable dominion over all.”
Rigorous scrutiny and reevaluation of the received views of the New Deal, offering revelatory insight into the nature of FDR.
Sublime! LJ
Direction Schiltigheim pour visiter l’établissement Les Plaisirs gourmands, classé meilleur restaurant gastronomique de France et dans le TOP 10 du classement mondial sur Tripadvisor.
— Read on www.ambassadeurs.alsace/actualites/un-restaurant-alsacien-designe-meilleur-restaurant-gastronomique-de-france-en-2022-051353
La France et l’Allemagne affichent leurs désaccords en annulant leur conseil
“Emmanuel Macron et Olaf Scholz forment «l’alliance des nombrilistes», cingle Der Spiegel dans un éditorial.”
Den nya regeringen vill utvisa fler personer som är i Sverige utan tillstånd. Men över hälften av alla utvisningar går inte att göra. Flera länder vägrar …
— Read on sverigesradio.se/artikel/regeringen-vill-utvisa-fler-personer-men-manga-utvisningar-gar-inte-att-gora
www.bbc.co.uk/mundo/noticias-internacional-63040009
“Hay que tener en cuenta que el derecho europeo está por encima del derecho nacional, por lo que el Tribunal de la UE podría echar por tierra cualquier medida que considere contraria al derecho comunitario.”
Hmm…
Le premier d’une très longue série à avoir été enterré à Westminster, c’est Edouard le Confesseur. C’était en 1066.
— Read on www.radiofrance.fr/franceinter/podcasts/le-vif-de-l-histoire/13h54-le-vif-de-l-histoire-du-jeudi-15-septembre-2022-1245891
Émission faisant partie du programme “Le vif de l’histoire”, diffusée sur France Inter.
The best photo I’ve ever taken.
La Marche sur Rome ou la prise de pouvoir par les chemises noires en Italie
— Read on www.radiofrance.fr/franceinter/podcasts/le-vif-de-l-histoire/13h54-le-vif-de-l-histoire-du-lundi-26-septembre-2022-4321544
Analyse historique diffusée sur France Inter cent années après cet événement dont les conséquences sont bien connues ou le devraient être.
In 1970, Stanford professor Paul Ehrlich published a famous book, The Population Bomb, in which he described a disastrous future for humanity: “The battle to feed all of humanity is over. In the 1970s and 1980s hundreds of millions of people will starve to death.” That prediction turned out to be very wrong, and in this interview Nicholas Eberstadt tells how we are in fact heading toward the opposite problem: not enough people.
— Read on www.hoover.org/research/de-population-bomb
catafalque: a decorated bier on which a coffin rests in state during a funeral
Sad news indeed at the most difficult of times. A remarkable human being, the Queen is a great loss and is already sadly missed. RIP
LJ
Geo-fence – Wikipedia
— Read on en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geo-fence
A blend of homesickness, nostalgia and longing, “hiraeth” is a pull on the heart that conveys a distinct feeling of missing something irretrievably lost.
— Read on www.bbc.com/travel/article/20210214-the-welsh-word-you-cant-translate
Tar-Baby
Read on en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tar-Baby
While the term is new, the concept isn’t. One workplace expert said that there have always been employees who react to burnout by “doing the bare minimum.”
— Read on www.cnbc.com/2022/08/30/is-quiet-quitting-a-good-idea-heres-what-workplace-experts-say.html
At first glance, this looks like the death of selfless vocational commitment to me, not altogether unsurprising in this myopic age of solipsistic folly. LJ
La dernière interview de Mikhaïl Gorbatchev au <i>Figaro</i>: en 1989, «nous avons pris la seule décision acceptable»
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