Keeper of the Cheese

Fez 2, a photo by Link.n.Logs on Flickr.

Only the Waves Reply

Your mind is tossing on the ocean;
There, where your argosies with portly sail,
Like signiors and rich burghers on the flood,
Or, as it were, the pageants of the sea,
Do overpeer the petty traffickers…
 - The Merchant of Venice

GLEE! the great storm is over!
Four have recovered the land;
Forty gone down together
Into the boiling sand.

Ring, for the scant salvation!
Toll, for the bonnie souls,—
Neighbor and friend and bridegroom,
Spinning upon the shoals!

How they will tell the shipwreck
When winter shakes the door,
Till the children ask, “But the forty?
Did they come back no more?”

Then a silence suffuses the story,
And a softness the teller’s eye;
And the children no further question,
And only the waves reply.
 - Emily Dickinson

If you go there plan on staying..

But you never ever will return from Bermuda

   - Roky Erickson

Aura

“The experience of aura is based on the transposition of a social reaction onto the relationship of the lifeless or of nature to man. The person we look at, the person who believes himself looked at, looks back at us in return. To experience the aura of a phenomenon means to endow it with the power to look back in return.”…

Aura is thus in a sense the opposite of allegorical perception, in that in it a mysterious wholeness of objects becomes visible. And where the broken fragments of allegory represented a thing-world of destructive forces in which human autonomy was drowned, the objects of aura stand perhaps as the setting of a kind of Utopia, a Utopian present, not shorn of the past but having absorbed it, a kind of plenitude of existence in the world of things, if only for the briefest instant. Yet this Utopian component of Benjamin’s thought, put to flight as it is by the mechanized present of history, is available to the thinker only in a simpler cultural past.

— Jameson, Frederic, Marxism and Form: Twentieth-Century Dialectical Theories of Literature (Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1971) p.77, quoting Benjamin, Walter, in Schriften I (ed. Adorno, 1955)

Arizona Yodeler - DeZurik Sisters

Born and raised on a farm in Royalton, Minnesota, Mary Jane (February 1, 1917–1981) and Carolyn Dezurik (December 24, 1918 – March 16, 2009) were part of a family of seven. Their father Joe played fiddle, their sisters sang, and their brother Jerry played accordion and guitar. Inspired by their family and the sounds of the animals and birds around them, they developed an astonishing repertoire of high, haunting yodels and yips that soon had them winning talent contests all over central Minnesota. In 1936, they signed a contract to appear regularly on Chicago radio station WLS-AM's National Barn Dance, and were hired in 1937 to perform on Purina Mills' Checkerboard Time radio show, where they sang as The Cackle Sisters.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_DeZurik_Sisters

Blood, Thicker than Water

Ducats to buy mercenaries and buy them off.

But for a game named after a banking family the ducats had rather a limited role.

Far more important was this lady, the French Princess, who cemented the alliance between her father and the Turk.

They first turn on the Emperor and his Medici banker, here seen conferring:

Hanging in the balance of a roll of the dice.

The final foes to finish off, Spain and the Pope.

The victorious alliance.

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