Artificially Recovered Memory

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Facebook threw up a quotation, from a translation of Dante, that I posted 8 years ago:

”….so that you can understand how love must be

The seed of every virtue growing in you,

And every deed that merits punishment.”

oh gods, how true. Have I cultivated any virtues in the past 8 years? That isn’t as easy to answer as the question about any deeds that merit punishment.
Is it a scale? Will love draw us all into him/her/itself at last and forever?

As the year turns again, I’m grateful to be here, still hoping for wisdom as to how to justify me, how to merit my blessings.

“I praise the Fall: it is the human season…”

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    1. no I ain’t no good, but love? So I aspire:

      ”I have been so great a lover, filled my days/So proudly with the splendor of love’s praise:/The pain, the calm, and the astonishment,/Desire illimitable, and still content.”
      -R. Brooke

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  2. Thank you for the Autumnal greeting, dear Hyp! “One day at a time/One moment at a time….”, said a certain Pastor Niebuhr. As well to recall that all is grace, no? I’m off to peruse some Louis MacNiece, from his _Autumn Journal_.

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    1. this reminds me of a piece on Anarchonomicom (enter the name, you can read it) today, about how the future of right wing males, the ONLY space they will be able to occupy free of the baneful interference of women and government, will be:

      Book clubs!

      ….wherein they will read and reread the military strategy of the great Caesars! If they could do it in Latin that’d be a plus as far as keeping the book club cells secret.

      I actually am not sure whether Kulak is describing something that’s actually happening, to be honest….but I don’t want to ask her on the site.

      But check it out! Nanda, Judy and Simon, I think you’ll all appreciate it!

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  7. It’s a year or two since I finished Bronze Age Mindset. It took me a while because the book made me giggle constantly. The telegraphic me-Tarzan style, no superfluous verbs or modifiers (e. g., “What mean?”) plus the way he stuck in niggling complaints like women never wanting the window open at night with his critique of the modern “mindset”… a laffriot! Delightful! I really mean that, no sarc.
    And —-spoiler alert!— in case you’re wondering, the eponymous Bronze Age “mindset” is that every man wants to be a god.

    So BAM is ultimately not real….profound. Aaaand…I’d say its time has come, and gone, but the book has a legacy in posts like Kulak’s and in the—idk what you call it—cultural meme? —from a year or so ago about men constantly thinking about the Roman Empire.
    WHAT are they thinking, though? I mean I doubt many of them, at least the young ones, know much about Roman history. (If they did they’d know Rome’s fall was due to an unchecked influx of migrants who didn’t assimilate to their culture but were still allowed to gain positions of power in civil and military posts.)

    What about you, Simon, our warrior? Whence the impetus to study Latin?

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    1. On a side note, my childhood best friend’s gap year was learning French in France at some University for rich kids. I learned Spanish in Santiago, Chile. He died alongside his sister in a small plane on a ski trip in the Colorado Rockies a year or two later. RIP

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