Another Week Finished - Movies, Broke, Writing Like A Madman

Friday night, I felt like a blob, vegetating all night with Netflix (Beckett - not the Burton/O'Toole movie, and The Equalizer 3) after group therapy and after paying and a nap, and then I got inspired by T2's questions about Eastern Orthodoxy.

This is what I sent her last night:

https://orthodoxwiki.org/Saint#Recognition_of_saints

Moses the Black - OrthodoxWiki

Gregory Palamas - OrthodoxWiki

Saint Gregory Palamas Monastery

The Sacred Monastery of Saint Nina - Home

This place sent books to us at Ft. Dix:The Orthodox Monastery of the Transfiguration - About our Monastery

Notice their founder.

Today, I slept in. I spent most of the day writing a post about art and democracy that will appear here tomorrow at noon. There was an over-long nap. Working on some posts, including this one. I am trying to keep the email under control and feeling like the boy who had his finger in the dike. 

I got a rejection today.

Thank you for submitting "Irretrievable Breakdown" for publication in Portland Review. After careful consideration, we have decided that your submission does not fit our current needs. We wish you the best of luck in placing your work elsewhere, and we thank you for your interest in our journal.

Sincerely,

Portland Review

Notes from the past two days. 

I have never read Renata Adler, for all people say she needs to be read, and I have not read much of Hannah Arendt, and reading pieces like This Very Complicated Cast of Mind (Granta)

The Most Beautiful Words in the English Language, According to Linguists (Word Smarts). I have to say I'd not have thought of them, and they are rather beautiful.

The Base Determines The Superstructure - by jaime brooks; Music, cultural decline and Chuck Berry. 

Riefenstahl review – nauseating yet gripping story of Nazi poster woman  (The Guardian). This makes me think what will be the future of MAGA's leaders now:

But she appears never to have made a relativist argument: that she was being pilloried in the way that Sergei Eisenstein might have been if history had been different. Perhaps it simply never occurred to her: she was focused only on her own importance, and important she undoubtedly was. She carried on until her death at 101, alternately grumpy and good-humoured, fearful and defiant, incarnating the secret psychological history of a whole generation of West Germans who didn’t see what they should apologise for.

Who wants to live forever? - by Kieran Setiya

It’s odd, in the end, that while I’m terrified of death and thus recoil from the human condition, wishing it otherwise, I feel no urge to deny it. Meanwhile, philosophers like Hägglund recoil from immortality, embracing our finitude—but only on condition that it’s not, after all, a regrettable fact of human nature but a cryptic source of value, without which nothing would matter at all. Hägglund’s affirmation of mortality feels to me, paradoxically, like flight.

Ah, some great music:

 Genius: 

Paula Fourie in Trying to Rejoin the Sun (Granta) writes about her life with Athol Fugard and living through his death. In group therapy last week, not this past Friday (where we spent 15 minutes watching videos on stress), the counselor talked about age differences in dating. This memoir undercuts much of what he said. I do need to write a post on that session.

My Walt Whitman by Federico Perelmuter (Southwest Review) gave me something to think about for "Road Tripping" - maybe even what is wrong with it.

A Danish SF-ish Novel: “On the Calculation of Volume I” (Thornfield Hall) interests me - if for nothing else, another nation's sci-fi. Seriously, this review makes me think the novel turns much on its head.

And some of what I have been playing from YouTube in the background; some it was very much for fun.

I have become fascinated with this channel:

One of the greatest actors I've seen:

And I have been trying to listen to this series:

An actress whose talent never got to fully bloom, but who seems like such a great person:

Journal of the American Revolution

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Since its inception in 2013, our content has been featured across all media platforms and has been cited in publications around the world, including those written by prominent, established historians as well as first-time authors. JAR is an ideal platform for graduate students and junior faculty to add to their publications list. JAR offers a healthy variety of in-depth features and engaging columns, in both short- and long-form, with an eye for accuracy over myth and legend. Collectively, our rapidly growing archive with its amazing substance, depth, and breadth is a tremendous resource for historical research.

A different sort of history, another actress sidelined by time and events:

 Time to catch up with The Times Literary Supplement. Good-night.

A song that everyone seemed to cover back in the late 60s and early 70s, it is not heard now.

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