a voice from the rustbelt
Sunday, October 13, 2024
Doggy costumers meet in Lakewood O.
Friday, September 27, 2024
Lake Anna prepares
Thursday, September 26, 2024
summer becomes autumn
Wednesday, September 18, 2024
when a lie becomes a confession
Vance let the cat out of the bag, “I will lie to get the media to talk about what i want them to talk about”. The most Republican thing ever said.
“If I have to create stories so that the American media actually pays attention to the suffering of the American people, then that's what I'm going to do”. ~ (current alias, JD Vance) Republican nominee for Vice-President. 2024.
“Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour”. ~ Exodus xx. 16.
That commandment speaks to a grievous form of lying, lying to do harm to person(s), malicious perhaps to death. Vance is a US senator from Ohio. He slanders his fellow Ohioans with repeated lies, that they kill and eat wildfowl, and neighbours' pets. The particular people he attacks are émigrés from Haiti living in Springfield, and Dayton. He gets bonus lies in that they are black people from the Caribbean, Kamala Harris' father came from Jamaica in the Caribbean.
“…But let us not forget that violence does not and cannot exist by itself: It is invariably intertwined with the lie. They are linked in the most intimate, most organic and profound fashion: Violence cannot conceal itself behind anything except lies, and lies have nothing to maintain them save violence. Anyone who has once proclaimed violence as his method must inexorably choose the lie as his principle. At birth, violence acts openly and even takes pride in itself. But as soon as it gains strength and becomes firmly established, it begins to sense the air around it growing thinner; it can no longer exist without veiling itself in a mist of lies, without concealing itself behind the sugary words of falsehood. No longer does violence always and necessarily lunge straight for your throat; more often than not it demands of its subjects only that they pledge allegiance to lies, that they participate in falsehood...”. ~ from Aleksandr Isajevič Solzhenitsyn Nobel Lecture. 1970.
“Every lie is a poison; there are no harmless lies. Only the truth is safe”. ~ Lev Nikolajevič Tolstoj. Resurrection. 1899.
Monday, September 16, 2024
Il pubblico usa il gesso per creare arte
Early Sunday morning two drawings considering Palestine, and the slaughter of thousands of children in Gaza.
Friday, September 13, 2024
2024 Miscellany #14
Misny in costume again
Thursday, September 12, 2024
art at Kenyon College
Charles J. Connick made stained glass windows for the grand dining hall on Kenyon's campus in 1928. He also produced a multi-scened doubled lintel window in the church, and two multi-scened windows in the tower of Peirce Hall, which has the dining room.
Connick has many windows looking down on students eating. Some are triples, some more. Connick himself was well read, and wrote well himself. Each window has medallions of American and British writers, and their works. Some windows have quotations, some have additional figures away from the central point of interest. This one includes Melville's Moby, and Thoreau's Walden. Some students have wanted to read all the works portrayed.