WHEN in the course of human Events, it becomes necessary….
Oasis: “There is the world dimensional for those untwisted by the love of things irreconcilable.”
byVanderleunonAugust 17, 2021
Summer surprised us, coming over the Starnbergersee
With a shower of rain; we stopped in the colonnade,
And went on in sunlight, into the Hofgarten,
And drank coffee, and talked for an hour. Bin gar keine Russin, stamm’ aus Litauen, echt deutsch.
And when we were children, staying at the arch-duke’s,
My cousin’s, he took me out on a sled,
And I was frightened. He said, Marie,
Marie, hold on tight. And down we went.
In the mountains, there you feel free.
I read, much of the night, and go south in the winter.
luvlay
Volksmarch
See if you can spot the rain chain.
ZaphodAugust 18, 2021, 5:11 AM
Such a beautiful country and no need for Jordan Peterson: all their rooms are already tidy.
Knew a Swiss German guy emigrated to Australia. Could never get my head around that. Born a winner in life’s lottery and threw away the ticket.
JackAugust 18, 2021, 6:22 AM
Nice try but this cannot be real or legal. No Walmarts, heavy traffic, jillions of signs or the most important thing…..negroes! Where are the POC? lol
Annie RoseAugust 18, 2021, 6:25 AM
I needed that breath of fresh air after seeing the video of Aussie teens being beaten and thrown to the ground for the crime of not wearing a mask by police, some who also were maskless. How beautiful and free we once were to wander, before evil was unleashed upon us. Lord God have mercy upon us.
I do hope the Swiss never succumb to the rot infesting our world
Casey KlahnAugust 18, 2021, 7:17 AM
When younger, all I could see was the mountains, and routes. Routes with stupid names, Like Ten C Tuxedo, and Groping for Oprah’s Navel. That;s a real one. You pad up smooth slabs that only sticky rubber shoes will ascend, and when the angle remits only a bit, at the top, there is a rock bowl on the belly, all brown and its an outie.
They said that once you started looking at the flowers, it was all over for you. Now, I look at flowers.
I love that last line about reading and winter. It borrows from Haiku. However, I love winter, so…
TerryAugust 18, 2021, 7:34 AM
Absolutely beautiful. Thank you for posting. Not a freaky looking humanoid whatsoever.
gwbnycAugust 18, 2021, 10:55 AM
My ancestry is mother’s side: Scots-Irish
Father’s: Welsh (his father) and Swiss (mother, 2nd generation immigrant)
I believe our Swiss were many assimilated Jews-to-Lutherans.
Fair amount of jewelers in the ranks. And hard-headed the lot.
My point, anyway, is it appears from the video the Swiss are as national flag crazy as we are.
Not a bad thing.
Excellent but a bit dated book on the Swiss Army and the Swiss National Redoubt.
Casey KlahnAugust 18, 2021, 6:26 PM
Zaphod, my father’s army division held the portfolio of contingencies should the Nazis have occupied an Alpine Redoubt.
gwbnycAugust 18, 2021, 8:45 PM
I recall a foto, perhaps from the above mentioned book of a cave built into a mountainside with its entrance camouflaged with a curtain of chain. I’m thinking this was illustrating a case of the Swiss drawing down the scope of their defenses.
“I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched c-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.”
Lament for the Rohirrim
Where now the horse and the rider? Where is the horn that was blowing?
Where is the helm and the hauberk, and the bright hair flowing?
Where is the hand on the harpstring, and the red fire glowing?
Where is the spring and the harvest and the tall corn growing?
They have passed like rain on the mountain, like a wind in the meadow;
The days have gone down in the West behind the hills into shadow.
Who shall gather the smoke of the dead wood burning,
Or behold the flowing years from the Sea returning?
His soul stretched tight across the skies
That fade behind a city block,
Or trampled by insistent feet
At four and five and six o’clock;
And short square fingers stuffing pipes,
And evening newspapers, and eyes
Assured of certain certainties,
The conscience of a blackened street
Impatient to assume the world.
I am moved by fancies that are curled
Around these images, and cling:
The notion of some infinitely gentle
Infinitely suffering thing.
Wipe your hand across your mouth, and laugh;
The worlds revolve like ancient women
Gathering fuel in vacant lots.
— Eliot
Ferreya
Song of Myself
I CELEBRATE myself, and sing myself,
And what I assume you shall assume,
For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.
I loafe and invite my soul,
I lean and loafe at my ease observing a spear of summer grass.
My tongue, every atom of my blood, form’d from this soil, this
air,
Born here of parents born here from parents the same, and their
parents the same,
I, now thirty-seven years old in perfect health begin,
Hoping to cease not till death.
— Walt Whitman
Search American Digest’s Back Pages
from Canto CXV BY EZRA POUND
The scientists are in terror
and the European mind stops
Wyndham Lewis chose blindness
rather than have his mind stop.
Night under wind mid garofani,
the petals are almost still
Mozart, Linnaeus, Sulmona,
When one’s friends hate each other
how can there be peace in the world?
Their asperities diverted me in my green time.
A blown husk that is finished
but the light sings eternal
a pale flare over marshes
where the salt hay whispers to tide’s change
Time, space,
neither life nor death is the answer.
And of man seeking good,
doing evil.
In meiner Heimat
where the dead walked
and the living were made of cardboard.
“From a student radical/hippie/leftist of the Free Speech Movement/Vietnam Day Commitee era and a full-on Democratic Liberal in the decades after, I think I’ve evolved a politics that is neither right nor left but is, in its elemental nature, draconian. In the last 20 years, I’ve taken apart my beliefs with a sledgehammer. Now I’ve got to put the surviving parts back together with tweezers and other ‘shabby equipment, always deteriorating’.”
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luvlay
Volksmarch
See if you can spot the rain chain.
Such a beautiful country and no need for Jordan Peterson: all their rooms are already tidy.
Knew a Swiss German guy emigrated to Australia. Could never get my head around that. Born a winner in life’s lottery and threw away the ticket.
Nice try but this cannot be real or legal. No Walmarts, heavy traffic, jillions of signs or the most important thing…..negroes! Where are the POC? lol
I needed that breath of fresh air after seeing the video of Aussie teens being beaten and thrown to the ground for the crime of not wearing a mask by police, some who also were maskless. How beautiful and free we once were to wander, before evil was unleashed upon us. Lord God have mercy upon us.
Awesome.
I do hope the Swiss never succumb to the rot infesting our world
When younger, all I could see was the mountains, and routes. Routes with stupid names, Like Ten C Tuxedo, and Groping for Oprah’s Navel. That;s a real one. You pad up smooth slabs that only sticky rubber shoes will ascend, and when the angle remits only a bit, at the top, there is a rock bowl on the belly, all brown and its an outie.
They said that once you started looking at the flowers, it was all over for you. Now, I look at flowers.
I love that last line about reading and winter. It borrows from Haiku. However, I love winter, so…
Absolutely beautiful. Thank you for posting. Not a freaky looking humanoid whatsoever.
My ancestry is mother’s side: Scots-Irish
Father’s: Welsh (his father) and Swiss (mother, 2nd generation immigrant)
I believe our Swiss were many assimilated Jews-to-Lutherans.
Fair amount of jewelers in the ranks. And hard-headed the lot.
My point, anyway, is it appears from the video the Swiss are as national flag crazy as we are.
Not a bad thing.
https://www.amazon.com/Place-Concorde-Suisse-John-McPhee/dp/0374519323
Excellent but a bit dated book on the Swiss Army and the Swiss National Redoubt.
Zaphod, my father’s army division held the portfolio of contingencies should the Nazis have occupied an Alpine Redoubt.
I recall a foto, perhaps from the above mentioned book of a cave built into a mountainside with its entrance camouflaged with a curtain of chain. I’m thinking this was illustrating a case of the Swiss drawing down the scope of their defenses.