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The Exquisite Adonis Blue

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 

 

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In Memoriam – Roger Scruton – Hillsdale College

I had not heard of Hillsdale College until I chanced upon a speech online given there by Kimberley Strassel. I sensed that its ethos was one in which it was still possible to seek truth through study without loss of faith in the inherent value of the knowable object, as had been the case when I had had the great privilege of studying French and German Literature at Christ Church under Alban Krailsheimer and David Luke. That knowledge was inherently valuable was also a truth understood plainly, concretely and resolutely by my father, who had worked as a coal-miner in Wales at the age of fourteen, yet whose numeracy and literacy survived until he died aged 89, and by my mother, whose love and knowledge of English literature were compendious, notwithstanding the modesty of her circumstances. I was therefore fortunate indeed to grow up in an home in which faith in the beauty and importance of music and literature was unassailed by the trickery and deceits of the second rate intellectual world and privileged to be allowed to speak to the young in these terms during my years as a teacher.

Visiting the website of Hillsdale College, Michigan, I find, coincidentally perhaps, a tribute to a very special human being, Roger Scruton, who died this week and whose importance I had only recently discovered. I also find that all is not lost.

His speech is of the greatest importance, as is, I believe from what has been admittedly little more than a cursory glance, the work that is undertaken at Hillsdale College. LJ

In Memoriam – Roger Scruton – Hillsdale College
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Check out this quote

Hi, Iʼm reading this book and wanted to share this quote with you.

“Si rese conto che poco alla volta aveva sempre rimandato alla vecchiaia, a “quando avrebbe avuto tempo”tutto ciò che rende dolce la vita degli uomini. Come se realmente si potesse un giorno avere il tempo, come se, al finire della vita, si conquistasse quella pace beata che ci si immagina. Ma non c’è pace. Forse non c’è vittoria. Non c’è un arrivo definitivo di tutti i postali.” (from “Volo di notte e L’aviatore (eNewton Classici) (Italian Edition)” by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry)

Start reading it for free: http://amzn.eu/iGc9oZY

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… though it took me a while in this occasion. “Munchkin” is not a term that springs easily to mind, I confess. LJ

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Il carrozzone: Renato Zero

Il carrozzone va avanti da sé
Con le regine i suoi fanti i suoi re
Ridi buffone per scaramanzia
Così la morte va via

Musica gente
Cantate che poi
Uno alla volta si scende anche noi
Sotto a chi tocca in doppio petto blu
Una mattina sei sceso anche tu

Bella la vita
Che se ne va
Un fiore un freno la tua ricca povertà
Il pane caldo la tua poesia
Tu che stringevi la tua mano nella mia

Bella la vita
Dicevi tu
È un po’ mignotta e va con tutti si però
Però però
Proprio sul meglio
T’ha detto no

Il carrozzone riprende la via
Facce truccate di malinconia
Tempo per piangere no
Non ce n’è
Tutto continua anche senza di te

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E ti coltivi dove il tempo vola e va
I nostri sogni
La fantasia
Ridevi forte la paura e l’allegria

Bella la vita dicevi tu
E t’ha imbrogliato e t’ha fottuto proprio tu
Con le regine con i suoi re
Il carrozzone va avanti da sé
Il carrozzone va avanti da sé

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Acronyms in the French press.

One of the least pleasing things about reading French journalism is the ubiquity of acronyms. They are rarely explained, though here, for once, is  an exception.

I couldn’t help feeling there was something portentous about it, as if it heralded in some sense its own doom. LJ

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How our home delivery habit reshaped the world | Technology | The Guardian

Quite an interesting appraisal, notwithstanding its questionable provenance. If only the Guardian could manage a more honest and impartial, less prescriptively “woke” and modish tone, with greater frequency, it might be possible to consider reading the paper from time to time, as one could in the eighties, when Araucaria’s crosswords adorned the back page and the world seemed still to cherish the now apparently vain hope of securing the prevalence of sanity. LJ

The long read: The great trick of online retail has been to get us to shop more and think less about how our purchases reach our homes

Source: How our home delivery habit reshaped the world | Technology | The Guardian

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Anger is an Energy: My Life Uncensored by John Lydon, review: ‘a marathon pub rant’ – Telegraph

Johnny Rotten’s ridiculously entertaining new memoir shows how he turned
youthful rebellion into a 40-year career
— Read on http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/bookreviews/11150979/anger-is-an-energy-my-life-uncensored-by-john-lydon.html

An entertaining review of a book I have no intention of reading, though I have a soft spot for its author, I confess. He says a number of things that are sensible, not least that “the weather’s too nice to stay angry all the time.” LJ

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Éloge de la paresse

Le journal des idées, émission de France Culture disponible en Podcast et s’accompagnant d’une transcription très utile à tous ceux qui s’intéressent à l’apprentissage de la langue. LJ

C’est la fin de la semaine, certains d’entre nous éprouvent une saine fatigue. Mais lorsqu’elle s’incruste et devient chronique, la fatigue tourne au symptôme et nous affecte en profondeur.

Source: Éloge de la paresse