The Illustrious House of Ramires , by Eça de Queirós. A novel about an ineffectual nobleman writing an historical novel about his heroic ancestors. Queirós has been called the Portuguese Flaubert. Large Fees and How to Get Them : a book for the private use of physicians , by Albert V. Harmon, M.D. If you practice early 20th medicine and want large fees, this book is essential reading. If you don’t, there are still lessons in its amusing and unsentimental discussion of various topics, like in the chapter “The Bugbear of Ethics”, where Harmon advises “ethics in its place is a good thing...But there is such a thing as overdoing the ethical proposition”. Histrionics: Three Plays and Over All the Mountain Tops , by Thomas Bernhard. Bernhard once said “I despise actors, indeed I hate them, for they ally themselves at the least sign of danger with the audience and betray the author and completely identify with stupidity and feeble-mindedness. Actors are the destroyers and exte...
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ReplyDeleteI've been trying to interest the Ukrainians in the indelible, edible 'jackfruit', so far with no success.
DeleteIf only a black-faced Fawcett had travelled to Ukraine bearing jackfruits. The world would be a different place today, and a better one.
ReplyDeleteThat's true. I often pause and think "If only there were a program sending minstrels and jackfruits into trouble spots," then I go back to drinking.
DeleteAlas, since a blackened face is so integral to the art form, it would be difficult for a minstrel to sustain his minstrelry after being beheaded.
DeleteA jackfruit "surge" might be more successful, although I fear our enemies abroad would just use them for target practice.
The men of Khesiya village must be really, really, lazy. Maybe I should move there, I would fit right in.
ReplyDeleteFez: Stealthily blanketing an area with jackfruits at night could be effective. I know it would scare me if that's what I awoke to.
ReplyDeletethis one was made for ADC:
ReplyDeleteAn Italian senator is seeking an exorcist after being "cursed" by evil African spirits in revenge for calling Italy’s first black minister an orangutan.
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http://www.thelocal.it/20140828/ive-been-cursed-by-evil-african-spirits-top-politician
"He later claimed he was a “misunderstood animal lover” and refused to resign. But that explanation failed to convince the prosecutor of Bergamo, who ordered him to stand trial for defamation aggravated by racial discrimination. The trial is ongoing.
DeleteAfter a spate of bad luck - including undergoing six operations, losing his mother and last week finding a 6ft snake in his house - Calderoli told the weekly gossip magazine, Oggi, that African spirits have plotted against him in revenge for the insult."
He also might get prosecuted for killing that snake, which animal rights activists claim is a protected species.