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Flowers



"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]


9/6/15

'After-Dark-Amorous',or, Lady chatterbox...


 ; Has to be said that, as usual here, we're likely devote our main attention on the subsequent posts for quite various topic. Yet, I suppose, main part from them would be on the books, plants (/herbs, trees) - and, what happens then from feel like suitable. ...Seems that our 'Unca Don'-series closing to it's end, and probably the plants-posts also on some sort pause - temporarily at least - leaves us to wonder what else we'd concentrate our attention on. But, resultatively, decided that at least on some of followed sequels their main focus would be on - the Love.
Has to be said then, quite as well, that there's all kinds of love in the world. I mean, there's most various conceptions and varieties of human life you think might have something to do w. (that). There's - fx - sensuelt love, there's love of gardening, love for the money, love for the fame, religious love ('love of God' in practical sense - we discuss that not here - for it's quite unlikely we'd have anything much to say on that), love for the philosophy, sisterly/brotherly love, parental love, love of the flowers...Almost anything you could think about, humans have the habit from finding (that) having smtgh to do w. (-so called-) Luuv. (A most humanly emotion, that is, obviously. And why not, it's often considered worth all kinds of sacrifices and suffering, quite as well noticeable...in short; There's possibly not much anything new or original, we could invent concerning love, but the focus on that, at least on (some) from followed posts.)
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Oxhearts...in the 'love-bowl.'
; ...Then of completely different aspects mentioned, that during this summery season cultivated some tomatoes (...as my beloved hobby has been for some time now.) The Summer wasn't precisely too supportive (Here having it rained most from the July, sun occasionally shined. Luckily, the August was yet much better...) - but yet I had at least some harvest, finally. I cultivated these beside 'Love apples' (Like goes the Italian saying, or was it by some other foreign folks, I've no idea...but anyway, indeed, the tomatoes look, a little, like apples - ever wondered where that originating? They say that potatoes appear known as 'pommes de terra' (on French),  the 'earth apples' - so maybe the tomato then quite similarly has to carry the name of the 'love apple'. A most usual colour on the love-symbols, et sim, I suppose...along that  pink, but it's a more modern creations, likely... Whatever the origins to those namings, they're generally just terms... - Btw, I also regularly farm potatoes as they're most easy to grow w. a minimum from any additional fertilizing - if the soils from any good. I usually use mainly same fertilizing to them as for onions, only generally them need less by amount. Organically farmed easily and quite effortless unless you want grow any larger fields...which they say is bit more troublesome due because of their vulnerability for pest.) ; ...But, I cultivated this year an old (at least here), traditional species of tomato, 'Oxheart'. And indeed, some of my (unfortunate few, but plenty enough) ripened fruits resemble, a little, for hearts. Like that beside in the pic (Actually it's plum-tomato, by definition, yet funnily some of the first harvested grew for such large - in lack of the good ripening warmy sunshine days during that July - that I first supposed maybe I actually had bought seeds of the beef-tomatoes...But, the colder autumn Months advancing that must've enslowed growth and the rest of them grew to about this regular-sized, or for slight larger tomato.) Tasty...and the best thing is from grow them by your own. Few things make one happier than the first tomatos of the season. Of course they need lots love and care prior that...
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Abutillon x hybridium (flowers)

; Then - just mentioning here, in passing - that for these plants-series I also considered some additional post on the house-hold plants. ...As I actually have plenty, only problem would actually be of which particular species to choose for it. So far, not anything else on that forethought, here just mentioned to some of the subsequent topics... ; However, as some foretaste-of-the-future, here then presented these lovely flowerings by one of my household/indoor plants - Abutillon (x hybridium, by latin/scientific name - I don't know whether them are known, generally, w. some name on English.) Like many old indoor plant, they're hybrids of the various origin-species, which were brough for Europe around the (late) renaissance-period - that said...w. reservation from that my findings should happen hold a precise/most recent  information. ; Anyway, seems that the plant(s) originated of the S.Americas and were brought for decoratives rather early soon after the 'first' over-seas/-Atlantic voyages (So all the species known as indoor plants are hybrids, bred to each other early by that timing. So, their actual origin species - as the usual in case on these things, at least prior there were those dna-techniques - (maybe) is somewhat disputed/difficult trace. There's about some hundreds close spec.  in the Nature, most likely.. 
;...Having grown this flower of the seed I've learned bunch of things during cultivating it: For example the seeds are rather easy to make grow, but then the young 'saplings' are rather delicate from direct sunlight (...Them easily begin loosing leafs, if kept too long under direct shine). Also, it has to be permanent kept on suitable moisture (not overmuch, though) while bit later on growth.  I also noticed it rather easy them to 'overgrow', ie grows too fast, and therefore it seems adviced 'cutting the tops', from time to time, during the early growth (...Of course, only when they're grown for adequate high. That also increases the leafs groth - I didn't, of course, at first notice to do the cutting, and resultatively my plants then actually did grow for quite some overheight...which made look little like 'ragamuffins', so to say... :) ; As could be guessed of their S.American origins, (the Abutillons) are in summer periods best kept well-moistured and -fertilized. But, generally, once they've grown for large enough - or at least from the 2nd summer onwards - it can flower very luxuberantly and continously through most of the summer. (That, w. reminder from one remembering to keep them properly moistured - I read, some place, that during hot summer day a singular large plant can evaporate about 2 l water...) ; Here North them also need be kept in a bit colder, during darker winter months, of course. ...But such a lovely flower - and once it having grown larger (the pot needs to be changed a few times on summer, it grows so quick), is relative easy to keep flourishing. 

 ; ...Funny thing I've also noticed, as is the case from plants usually, that the growth can be quite quick, or goes on some rapid cycles. Namely, sometimes when you in the Summer Months have added the waters and fertilizing, it seems from to grow the extensions (/'twigs'), by almost overnight. Then, in the morning, sometimes, one can discover the said huge growths emerged almost during the same night and already several buds of the flowers starting to form (...them emerge almost equally fast, at least when it's continuosly good sunshine weather) ...Household gardening a good hobby, once you learn it's tricks - 'cause each plant has it's very own particular characteristics. ; G-U-J.
; ...B-t-w, I also experimented w. growing some other lovely Solanum-family plants, namely these Phys. Peruviana ('Cape Gooseberry', by some of the more usual from it's regular names). It's apparently almost as easy to grow as tomatoes (...In fact easier, as the berries are somewhat smaller - if there happens to be enough of the sunshine/warmth during summer. But it grows slower, in overall.). Don't seem I can expect it to make much harvest this year...since the circumstances above described. But the berries are pretty good, they sell them also on shops nowadays quite some times. Of course, it can't be grown here w. shorter summer season, except at the greenhouse. But how lovely the flowers on this cultivable delicacy too... (Seems it also that the main family, Solanum, is named after the Sun - Quite proper, they only grow fast when it shines brighly, temperatures ca over 20 C average minimum.) Good cultivables, I only used the same fertilizing (Bb) than w. the tomatoes, ...plus a little addit. nitrogen-containing fertilizer, few times on season.
Cape Gooseberry Flower.
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