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"All the names I know from nurse:
Gardener's garters, Shepherd's purse,
Bachelor's buttons, Lady's smock,
And the Lady Hollyhock.

Fairy places, Fairy things,
Fairy woods where the wild bee wings,
Tiny trees for tiny dames.
- These must all be Fairy names !"

(from Child's Garden of Verses
by R.L. Stevenson)


"Anyone can write a short-story.
A bad one, I mean."

(R.L. Stevenson)
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"Science without conscience is the Soul's perdition."
- Francois Rabelais, Pantagruel
- Acc to/above is citated from: Medical Apartheid. The dark history of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present, by Harriet A. Washington (Doubleday ; 2006 ; p. 1.)

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"In the high society of the first half of the century, marriage, despite it's bestowal status upon the wife, was the most absurdity. Marriage, conferring instanteous rank or money, ... lost most of its prestige and moment right after the wedding. ...By the end of the century, spurred by Rousseau's moralistic Nouvelle Hèloíse, a contrary cult, that of virtue, arose. After 1770 conjugal and maternal love became not merely admissible, but, for some, moral imperatives. ...

[...]
...Rousseau, who sought for himself the crown of morality in ostensibly defending marriage, presents in his Nouvelle Hèloíse the most enticing and extended defense of illicit love ever penned. The root of the problem is that as the century progressed sensibility became confused with morality: passionate feeling, if expressed in a highly civilized mode with grace and nuance, makes us forgive the Rousseau of The Confessions, for example, his pettiness, his jealousies, his betrayals. This moral-amoral byplay, present already in the novels of Richardson, was to be more intense as the century unfolded."
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Madelyn Gutwirth : Madame De Staèl, Novelist. The emergence of the Artist as Woman (10,15.)

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"...As the social contract seems tame in comparison with war, so fucking and sucking come to seem merely nice, and therefore unexciting. ... To be 'nice', as to be civilized, means being alienated from this savage experience - which is entirely staged. [...] The rituals of domination and enslavement being more and more practiced, the art that is more and more devoted to rendering their themes, are perhaps only a logical extension of an affluent society's tendency to turn every part of people's lives into a taste, a choice; to invite them to regard their very lives as a (life) style." - Susan Sontag , on 'Fascinating Fascism' (-74; p 103;104-5 at Under the sign of Saturn)
; "Anyone who cannot give an account to oneself of the past three thousand years remains in darkness, without experience, living from day to day." (Goethe) - as cited by Sontag (on same compile; p. 137.)

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"It is widely accepted that we are now living in the 'Anthropocene', a new geological epoch in which the Earth's ecosystems and climate are being fundamentally altered by the activities of humans. I loathe the term, but I can't deny that it's appropriate."
; (Goulson), Silent Earth : Averting the Insect Apocalypse (2021; p 47.)
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"It is sometimes said that humanity is at war with nature, but the word 'war' implies a two-way conflict. Our chemical onslaught on nature is more akin to genocide. It is small wonder that our wildlife is in decline."
; (Goulson, 2021 ; 118.)
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"If we believe absurdities, we shall commit atrocities." (Voltaire)
- Citated from; (Joy, Melanie), Why We Love Dogs, Eat Pigs and Wear Cows : An Introduction to Carnism(2010; p. 95.)
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"In the presence of the monster, you have eyes and ears for nothing else."
; (Flora Tristan) : London Journal of Flora Tristan: the Aristocracy and the Working Class of England ; 1842-edit. (tr: 1982. ; p. 71.)

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"Every minority invokes justice, and justice is liberty.
A party can be judged of only by the doctrine which
it professes when it is the strongest."
Mdme de Staêl
(on) 'Consideration sur le Révolution de la Francaise' [1818]


7/1/08

Muleskinner Blogging Advices

Like anybody we also have a lot to recommend as the reader of this blog might have noticed; now here´s a few blogging advices we´d like to give. Not necessary to follow (any) of them, but doesn´t do bad either...

  1. You need a camera. Digital as possible, cellphone goes as well. It´s always entertaining to have pictures along with the text. Using your own pictures in the blog frees you best to find suitable pics in any time.

  2. Do not add unnecessary links to every web-sites/persons/whatever mentioned in your text(s). There´s Wikipedia for linking to things like that. If a reader is interested what might have happened fx 1995 or who was Princess Diane, he can find out that by himself. Too many links make text but frustrating to read, not necessary add any extra value to your blog. Only use linking for the purposes of the writing of your text (mostly to give some background to things said and/or connecting it to others texts).

  3. Its good to have a clear, focused main theme for your blog. Not necessary very easy, as many of us like write from variety of topics. Can be even more troublesome, if there´s several writers on blog texts, like the case concerning this blogs topics.

  4. Avoid too hasty publishing schedule. Its better to have something worth reading than an endless list of this-and-that stories (matter of taste naturally...). Overally, its still better not spit written words like talking, the quality of your language unavoidably suffers from that. Still a problem, even if you´re fluent in your language (which I´m not...), because then your propably easily playing (too) much with the words just for an amusement of it.

  5. On most cases, better to avoid writing much about techno-computerized topics; meaning new web inventions, programs, platforms, browsers, also hardware review kind-of-stuff. Internet is full all that, written by some computer-professionals, keeping their own posts dedicated to that. Of course, blog with a certain specified readers propably benefits (readers find them useful) from that kind of reviews and they possibly get people involved in using something they find worth checking. However, no need for too much of that, propably your local net help/management person is doing them enough already.

  6. Last but not least: have fun.

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