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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]


7/2/08

Newspost#020708

The Time being, a rare moment in this period of warmth pre the oncoming Ice-Age...our newspost seems to be compiled of good advices for any trip planner; Which car to choose for economic driving, what to see at London, and finally couple of articles about coming sun eclipse...

Thousands of people are planning to travel to witness a total eclipse, notably happening at city of Nadyn, Siberia on 1.8.2008 at 3.27.07 p.m. (local time), the real happening only lasts a couple of minutes, which doesn´t prevent people from travelling to watch the suns slowly disappearance from several places at Greenland, Arctic, Russia, Mongolia, China...along the Northern latitudes. The incident is said to open visible viewing panel straight to universum. The temperature lessens ten degrees for a time, insects and small animals go nuts, etc, etc...But if one had been around (Well, some alive yet were) to wittness the huge asteroid (comet would supposedly had been too fragile) falling to Tunguska at 7:17 on 30 June 1908, there would really have been something to tell about: "...generated a shock wave that knocked people ground 60 km from epicentre"; "The sky split in two and fire appeared high and wide over the forest"; "The effects...were not limited to Siberia...in London it was possible to read newspaps and play cricket outside at midnight...due to sunlight scattered by dust from fireballs plume". Had it dropped to Paris, Moscow, Beijing the results would have been disastrous. But such a spectacle! Wouldn´t it be worth preparing to travel for? Perhaps not, as possibility of such an impact is according to scientist relatively high and preparations for that case should be started. Remember movie Armageddon? In this case we are warned that yesterdays movies may be tomorrows...hodge podge?

Skeletons in the closet? A lot more of them under the streets on London, go and see what google-maps extension can tell us about each single one of them! Apple also is giving some skeletal habits a go, as it is giving positive look to developing exceptional performance and rich user experience for Iphone with a Sprout Core, platform independent JavaScript-framework. Thats good news, as years of experience with Apples way of business tells that we are propably admitted a multitude of games at Companys shop and multitudes of needed little apps developed by other, individual helpers(meaning unlockers/hackers)[sentences removed not my own text]

And good news for parents (s)caring from childrens daycare benefit/non-benefits...Kids at daycare are healthier when entering Kindergarten than the ones that do not. How reliefing: all that common flu + worse infections are given for the best of kid as they develop a better resistance until entering elementary school. The result - no actual benefit, as by the time they are teenagers, no differences between groups, as immune systems are more developed at that age. Parents have a right to ask for blessing...the research has again proven it.

Wish(?) to check the news(feed), motherlode of all the important information.

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