Something sent by Teddy Moritz, who read it in a book called Defending Jacob, though the quote itself is from the 1921 textbook A General Theory of Human Violence. Despite its seriousness and truth there is just a bit of an air of Wodehouse in the language… “Let us be practical in our expectations of …
Author: Steve Bodio
A Familiar Place…
The road runs straight south from the ancient city of Sanliurfa in Turkey (actually “Urfa”– the title is a post- Ataturk designation) to a border, or, in our fraught times, perhaps, a BORDER, like our southern one. The land is almost flat, dry, but productive since the dam on the Euphrates, which drowned may old …
Roman a Clef?
Two characters from John Moore’s Looking for Lynne reading about themselves:
The New York Carriage Horses
Jon Katz is doing such a serious, informed, and fundamental service in documenting what may turn out to be the landmark Animal Rights case of our time* that anyone who breeds, trains, or otherwise is involved with all our ancient ways and “memes” of human- animal interaction should subscribe to Bedlam Farm Journal and get …
Quick Links
Cornell is besieged by hordes of pest deer and tries “non- lethal” management; the result is surprising in more than one way. (From Reid) The most interesting PD development in a long time, though fruit flies are a long way from humans. (Though more genes are shared throughout the animal kingdom than you might think). …
Ataika, still Queen of the World
Arthur’s work. As Reid says, it’s Ataika’s world; we just live in it. As Arthur said of her late “sister” Lashyn, “the only dog I ever knew who was so confident in her ownership of the living room furniture that she kicked me off the couch.”
Links, Big Birds, and all the news that fits…
When you have been dealing with meds and other unavoidable and annoying facts of aging, everything piles up. You don’t think Lucas Machias or Lane B stops mailing or that Annie D doesn’t send me a mix of the surreal and the biological, or JP stops writing his serious essays, do you? The world goes …
Another day’s wait …
Before regular traffic begins. A productive day, but at 8:21 PM I am unlikely to blog much after a day spent working and answering correspondence at this desk. I should leave you all with an image or two to hold you from… what? Something surreal? Poignant? Beautiful? Art or artifice or nature? Aahh, I know. …
Back Tomorrow
I am tempted to snark “New Meds”, and leave it at that. But not really, though for anyone with these problems, chemistry is a factor. Mostly just had to clear decks and do some catching up. Pics & even words coming…
Old photo #1
Found a hundred or so old photos. Here is Constant Commenter John Hill, better known as “Johnny UK”, on one of his many stays here, riding the Qureshi’s Cebolla north of town.