May 07, 2010
— LauraW Something kind of awesome found over at S. Weasel's comments.
Check it out today if you have a few moments. It's an interview of Samuel Clemens by Rudyard Kipling.
Not all that long, and pretty nifty if you're into that sort of thing.
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Today's stockmarket: weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee...................!
Posted by: conscious, but incoherent at May 07, 2010 05:35 AM (YVZlY)
Posted by: conscious, but incoherent at May 07, 2010 05:37 AM (YVZlY)
Posted by: EC at May 07, 2010 05:39 AM (mAhn3)
Posted by: Truck Monkey at May 07, 2010 05:41 AM (yQWNf)
Posted by: lauraw at May 07, 2010 05:43 AM (ilImR)
Posted by: Mal at May 07, 2010 05:44 AM (Z+qzA)
Posted by: dagny at May 07, 2010 05:45 AM (irmo5)
Posted by: conscious, but incoherent at May 07, 2010 05:45 AM (YVZlY)
Posted by: Who Knows at May 07, 2010 05:48 AM (7FgWm)
"No law can make a book live or cause it to die before the appointed time."
Too bad Internet pron wasn't around to be included in the discussion.
Posted by: Kratos (missing from the side of Mt Olympus) at May 07, 2010 05:48 AM (9hSKh)
Posted by: conscious, but incoherent at May 07, 2010 09:37 AM (YVZlY)
That definitely looks like a made man, d'ya know wut I mean? Fuggetabowtit.
Posted by: ontherocks at May 07, 2010 05:48 AM (HBqDo)
UK elections:
Left-wingers won't let go of power, (gosh - where have we heard this before?)
and the conservatives kinda screwed up and stuff. (gosh, where have we heard this before?)
Still, looks like Britain is screwed. The uber libs and the neo-uber-libs are gonna join hands and take Britain off the socialist cliff together. weeee.
Posted by: Lemon Kitten at May 07, 2010 05:49 AM (0fzsA)
Posted by: Bulldyke McAmbulancedriver at May 07, 2010 05:52 AM (qDbMQ)
Nothing funny about it, really. To me, libtard crusaders for social "justice" always ooze that "The lady doth protest too much, methinks" vibe.
Shakespeare wrote that line over 400 years ago, and I bet the understanding was ancient even to him.
Posted by: MikeO at May 07, 2010 05:53 AM (lBmZl)
Nothing funny about it, really. To me, libtard crusaders for social "justice" always ooze that "The lady doth protest too much, methinks" vibe.
Agreed. They wish to use the force of gov't to atone for their own sins and shortcomings. Easier to do that than fix themselves, no?
Posted by: Kratos (missing from the side of Mt Olympus) at May 07, 2010 06:01 AM (9hSKh)
Laura,not on this one, the overnight thread...couldn't reach anyone else. i don't want to draw anymore attention to it by putting it out here again.
Is it possible to help with that?
Posted by: Who Knows at May 07, 2010 06:06 AM (7FgWm)
Posted by: andycanuck at May 07, 2010 06:06 AM (WBIMn)
Posted by: Beppo at May 07, 2010 06:07 AM (bJQm3)
Posted by: Who Knows at May 07, 2010 06:07 AM (7FgWm)
Posted by: Bill C at May 07, 2010 06:08 AM (I+7Zv)
Well, that's okay, I suppose, it's not like she's Ace and would get into trouble for reading the comments.
Posted by: andycanuck at May 07, 2010 06:08 AM (WBIMn)
Posted by: Kratos (missing from the side of Mt Olympus) at May 07, 2010 06:10 AM (9hSKh)
Posted by: lauraw at May 07, 2010 06:10 AM (ilImR)
Posted by: FUBAR at May 07, 2010 06:12 AM (1fanL)
Posted by: lauraw at May 07, 2010 06:13 AM (ilImR)
Posted by: conscious, but incoherent at May 07, 2010 09:37 AM (YVZlY)
Know who the big loser is in this whole mess? Santa Monica hookers.
Posted by: FUBAR at May 07, 2010 06:13 AM (1fanL)
Replace the AT with a @ and have it end in .com with it all typed as one word without spaces. (It's to stop spammers from copying e-addresses to spam.)
samplespacing@gmail.com
Posted by: andycanuck at May 07, 2010 06:13 AM (WBIMn)
Posted by: Mr. Chumpo at May 07, 2010 06:14 AM (dDysH)
Posted by: eman at May 07, 2010 06:15 AM (ONBbr)
Posted by: lauraw at May 07, 2010 06:16 AM (ilImR)
Posted by: conscious, but incoherent at May 07, 2010 09:37 AM (YVZlY)
Remember Sonny and Cher used to bring her out on stage, she was adorable...what happened?
Posted by: dananjcon at May 07, 2010 06:19 AM (pr+up)
"The Dow experienced its largest intraday loss in history -- plunging almost 1,000 points -- as a trading error sparked a massive selloff."
Posted by: Curmudgeon at May 07, 2010 06:19 AM (tH7KR)
Posted by: eman at May 07, 2010 06:22 AM (ONBbr)
Posted by: Who Knows at May 07, 2010 06:23 AM (7FgWm)
Posted by: Chaz at May 07, 2010 06:24 AM (ONBbr)
I miss touching now yank myself, but it's better this way.
Posted by: Chaz at May 07, 2010 10:24 AM (ONBbr)
FIFY
Posted by: conscious, but incoherent at May 07, 2010 06:27 AM (YVZlY)
Posted by: laceyunderalls at May 07, 2010 06:30 AM (pLTLS)
Former US General Warns of Chemical Attacks against Israel (Pajamas Media interview)
Posted by: Kratos (missing from the side of Mt Olympus) at May 07, 2010 06:31 AM (9hSKh)
Posted by: conscious, but incoherent at May 07, 2010 06:31 AM (YVZlY)
He'd hate your guts.
Posted by: You'll always have Ricard Nixon for a hero at May 07, 2010 06:32 AM (hXTix)
Posted by: Mjim at May 07, 2010 06:35 AM (V8B//)
I don't remenber reading any of the classics...and Shakespeare, my head hurts thinking just about it. Chaucer (sp) rings a vague bell. Does James and the Giant Peach count? Its sad...really, eh...Hi-school in the 80's.
Posted by: dananjcon at May 07, 2010 06:35 AM (pr+up)
Neither Romney nor Palin will be the GOP candidate in 2012.
Romney is Mr. Mandated Healthcare - DOA
Palin endorsed McCain and Fiorina (an affirmative-action feminist-equalist playing kissy face with Jesse Jackson - barfariffic!) - questionable judgement.
Possibilities: Mike Pence, John Thune, Jim DeMint (how I wish), Bobby Jindal (he could still make a comeback.)
Posted by: JB at May 07, 2010 06:39 AM (arkzF)
Nixon wasn't a conservative, dipshit.
Posted by: Mal at May 07, 2010 06:42 AM (Z+qzA)
Posted by: Mal at May 07, 2010 10:42 AM (Z+qzA)
Nixon and Bush. Two of the most liberal Republican Presidents, but to hear liberals talk, they're Evil Incarnate.
Posted by: FUBAR at May 07, 2010 06:46 AM (1fanL)
Twain, though, did manage to become a major PITA in his later years. You might say modern smart-ass collegianism is a bad cross between aping his attitudes and those of Hemingway. But it is definitely aping.
I'm unaware of his position on the Nixon question.
Posted by: comatus at May 07, 2010 06:48 AM (/VEEI)
Posted by: Henry David Thoreau at May 07, 2010 07:11 AM (ilImR)
Clemens was certainly no conservative.
Yet, one thing that distinguishes conservatives from leftists is that we can read and admire the literature of Clemens on the merits, despite his handicap of leftist thought. A leftist will dismiss an author out of hand when their political views aren't exactly in lock step.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at May 07, 2010 07:24 AM (ZSVyF)
A literary god known for using his longhorn to mark twain and then some. You know, all it really takes is a moustachio like that to pull some serious wool. Just ask Sam Bigbone Elliott.
Posted by: Compos Longhorn Mentis at May 07, 2010 07:25 AM (gj9Sj)
Immediately after that very interview Mark Twain's moustache ass raped Kipling's moustache repeatedly. It was quite a scandal and Twain's honorary degree was taken away and given to a small boy with a beautiful costrato speaking voice. Sadly, the young lad could not carry a tune and later committed suicide by what the British press referred to as "a means too revolting and lewd to describe in these pages."
All true. Look it up.
Posted by: Dang at May 07, 2010 07:41 AM (UA4gE)
Indeed, and I thank you for the link, Laura W. Huck Finn is still causing controversy, as some schools ban it due to use of the n-word, even though it is deployed in one of the most anti-slavery novels ever written.
It amazes me how literate people were in this generation; although his comments were tidied, I'm sure, to hear Twain speak so cogently and wisely off the top of his head is humbling.
Such a sad life he led at the end, and with no faith to comfort him. But truly the best writer America has produced.
Posted by: Filly at May 07, 2010 08:24 AM (dSJW9)
Suck my dick, commie assholes.
Prithee, Ipay head to my words this morn'. Do not forsaketh the inestimable power of the grape, indeed if one wishes to find solace and comfort in the bosom of one of such hideous visage as Charlotte Bronte.
Jus' sayin'
Posted by: W. Shakespeare at May 07, 2010 08:41 AM (1RxFh)
If you read nothing else of Twain read A Tramp Abroad and his autobiography. The novels are classics but he really was best as an essayist.
Clemens, speaking of Kipling: "Together we encompass all knowledge. Kipling knows everything worth knowing and I know all the rest."
Posted by: Gilded Splinters at May 07, 2010 09:01 AM (rSR+H)
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Posted by: Comrade not-a-raaaaaacist at May 07, 2010 09:55 AM (4Irul)
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Posted by: Comrade Arthur at May 07, 2010 11:01 AM (4Irul)
Posted by: Shooter at May 07, 2010 11:12 AM (zfRju)
Shooter, how dare you say that about the man who invented Christmas -- and Childhood!
He once visited my part of the country, and pronounced the denizens "sullen and clownish." Apart from being true, we've never forgiven the mealy-mouthed sonofabitch.
Posted by: comatus at May 07, 2010 11:31 AM (/VEEI)
Clemens, speaking of Kipling: "Together we encompass all knowledge. Kipling knows everything worth knowing and I know all the rest."--Posted by: Gilded Splinters
On novels, "Personally, I never did care for fiction or storybooks. What I like to read about are facts and statistics of any kind. Get your facts first. Then you can distort them as much as you please."
On conscience, like a child, needing a good spanking and severity in order to maintain order and keep it from intruding where it isn't welcome and has a habit of hampering any pleasure in life. His distinction between the conscience and a child, it isn't good to kill a child, but helpful to kill one's conscience.
On opinions, Clemens makes the distinction between his private opinion vs. polling the weather before stating his public opinion.
So he fought one campaign during the War Between the States for the South. I didn't know or remember that interesting piece. Did he abandon the effort prior to the end of that war or afterwards to go West, mining and scribing for Nevada politicians?
LauraW, great link. Thanks.
What an interesting fellow Kipling was, so down to earth. I keep meaning to read his novel, Kim.
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