In high school we were required to read a few of Hemingway’s books.

Upon the in-class review and discussion I opined to the teacher: “Sir, if we wrote anything like that you would fail us in English Literature”. The teacher did not answer my comment.

Unfortunately I did not know at the time that Hemingway was a communist; after all he fought enthusiastically for the communist side during the Spanish civil war as did many other Americans and Britishers. This would have helped me tremendously in my history classes.

“we shot an elephant, and then we had some drinks. And the drinks were good.�

That’s a great synopsis of Hemingway’s literary output.
The man ended up committing suicide though: somehow, on some level, he realized what his “life” had been about.
And maybe he was introduced to a next life where he was an elephant to be shot by some “Hemingway”, or a bull to be ********* in some “bullfigh” while all the “Hemingway”s watch and enjoy what they see: the start of a redemptory course.

hello Mr Curtin

your pulse of the slackers rising

how nice it wd be for you or kevin barret could interview Roger Waters

frankfurt courts charging rogerwaters of fascist themed concerts. INVERSE

begins and ends with quotes from the shabbatz goy communist Hemingway. See that picture on the wall? Now, who was this wife he keeps evoking? Answer:

(((Martha Gellhorn))).

as for the rest of Hemingway’s writing, all I can remember is:

“we shot an elephant, and then we had some drinks. And the drinks were good.”

Wine in the morning,
And some breakfast at night.
Well I’m beginning to see the light.

Some people work very hard,
And still they never get it right.

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btw, Woody Harrelson, Jennifer Lawrence, Donald Sutherland, Julianne Moore, and Philip F#cking Seymour Hoffman are all g-g-grrr-great! in The Hunger Games.

https://allpoetry.com/the-great-hunger

It appears this article has an immense hunger for comments.

Sometimes, Mr Curtin, it’s important to get out of one’s head [mind] in order to come to one’s senses.

And sometimes it’s very important to remember to breathe – consciously.

That full-stop, that “period” isn’t what we’ve been led to believe it is: when the ocean is calm where did the wave go? – What do you mean, the wave is a process and not a thing!?

With love,
Kali.

Among great writers of the 20th Century…

…Tom Wolfe.

Thank you for writing back.

May I ask why your daughters are miserable? How exactly do your daughters behave differently than those of your cousin?

I agree America is realigning. Truthfully, it’s just a regression to the norm. The America experiment was interesting, but I can sense its artificiality the older and older I get.

Regarding Asians

It’s true that Red Staters likely won’t accept Asians. They may be more honest about the fact that Asians should be in Asia, but they won’t view them as kin. In reality, there is nowhere for Asians within the Red-Blue dichothomy: Blue Staters view Asians as castrated coolies meant to lower the cost of labor; Red Staters likely want nothing to do with Asians, and to the extent they do, it will probably be an even worse version of the Blue State treatment. Asians put up with this because they remain under the impression that there exist no alternatives. And the longer Asians reside in America, the harder it will be to leave as they’ve made more ideological committmenets and have a greater share of their social networks within America.

May I recommend “Sixth Column” by Robert Heinlein? There is a character named “Frank Mitsui”, one of many Asian-Americans shot on sight by an invading force of Asians from Asia. This is because such Asians, many of whom are half-breeds, are viewed as incompatible within the White-Yellow dichotomy though which Asians view the world. Heinlein’s analysis is prescient: Asian-Americans, to the extent that they deviate from the Asian norm, have no place in any world order in which China triumphs.

My daughters are much better looking and more intelligent but they are miserable teenagers.

Damn Bro., you done made a couple of Kats here celibate for life.

Papa Doc – Taki

Hemingway in the Red Cross Hospital (1918)

Do you think homeschooling could have prevented this?

I have a distant cousin in Australia who sent her kids to a Montessori school near Melbourne. They live in a large house with a bit of wild scrub and trees. Their 3 kids are quite normal I think. They smile and they play together. My daughters are much better looking and more intelligent but they are miserable teenagers. They went to a Catholic primary school and then to a state secondary school.

I really cannot directly answer your question. But I do think that home schooling will have a good future – especially if a group of neighbours pool their efforts. There must be ancient school text books somewhere that have not been tampered with by the Jews and the Woke Brigade.

Leaving America is simply a band-aid.

The USA is heading for a sort of rearrangement I think. Traditional people are leaving blue states and moving to red states. At some point, there is going to be prolonged violence. Not a civil war as such but more of an asymmetric war IMHO. There will be extended power cuts for long periods. ATM’s will stop working. Shelves will empty of food. Do you really want to stick around?

New York & California losing Seats as the Mass Exodus continues | Armstrong Economics

If you are in a red state, the locals might well decide that you don’t belong. Let’s face it, we are all racists deep down.

Although I am much older than you, I am somewhat luckier. I am partly Egyptian but I look Scandinavian or German. In Kiev, people often ask me for directions – they assume that I am a well-informed local. It is relatively easy for me to find a Ukrainian or Russian wife 40 years younger.

I have a Chinese/Singaporean friend in Australia. We went to college together. He spent many years in Papua New Guinea. He has a Filipina wife. They seem to be happy together. There are many Filipinas who are partly Chinese. Pretty well all businessmen in the Philippines are partly Chinese. They seem to mix well.

I wish you good luck. 🙂

I understand where you’re coming from. It is sad that this is happening to Norway.

I’m of East Asian descent, but my family has been in America for a quite a long time (hundred+ years) and we originally assimilated to the pre-1960’s WASP culture. Sadly, we’re the exception to the rule and I find myself in unusual situation where I actually have to “un-assimilate”, given that 1) WASP culture is dead, and 2) it’s actually frowned upon by mainstream society to have assimilated to pre-1965 American culture. The term “whitewashed” has been used as a form of disparagement among ethnic minorities throughout my entire life. Even though I am not “white”, I am sympathetic to the argument that mass immigration is in fact irreversibly changing the social fabric of this country, if only because those of us that actually did the “right thing” are now at a strategic disadvantage for having done so.

Do you think homeschooling could have prevented this? Leaving America is simply a band-aid. The cultural influence of America has no geographic limits; even parts of China are affected in some way. Perhaps this is just modernity. Japan also has an increasing divorce rate.

We know that some fiction writers need to play out their stories — partially at least — in real life. The quality of their literary inventions is dependent on those experiences and it shouldn’t be a surprise writers force these mergers between fantasy and real life. Anyone who took the tour of Hemingway’s home in Key West should remember the podium where he stood and spoke his stories into their unique — yet often relatable –realities. Even at home his writing involved the active writer; not the chair and certainly not the bed.

My attempt up-thread to turn discussion to the text as it “lies on the page” went quite flat; you show why it’s difficult to separate Hemingway from his writing. I haven’t been to the typing podium at Key West, but I knew that he wrote while standing, from which I’d inferred that he drew full breath from full body, rather than half-breath from a folded, seated body.

The physical involvement of a writer with his product seems that it can leave a non-reader with a literary experience – Oh, I don’t read, but I watched him in the bar when he came in, and I sent over a shout and a drink; he nodded. How close, then, is such writing performance with acting? Hm … Hem and Cooper ….

People say boys are done “maturing� by the age of 30. Do you think it is possible for your son to change?

I think the personality of a person is determined by the age of 4. I have an older and a younger brother. They have not changed in any way from what they were as youngsters.

I suspect my son might have become different if he had been allowed to see me. They stopped me from seeing him from the age of 3. I was allowed to see him only once for one hour when he was 4 – in the presence of an elderly Norwegian psychologist. Her fee was NOK 4000 – a considerable amount of money in 1994. Of course, there were massive legal fees just to make that visit possible.

The Norwegian authorities are perfectly aware of all of this. Their objective is to “Norwegify” kids – so that they look at the Norwegian state as their parent. Vast numbers of Norwegian women have kids with foreigners – but not men. The women claim to be single mothers and get big handouts from the state plus free university etc. Frankly, it is a scam.

I think that many men in Norway have gone on strike. As a result, the women seek babies with foreigners. The following article is written by a Norwegian woman. She asks all the wrong questions. 🙂

One in five men haven’t had children of their own by the age of 50. Fewer and fewer men are becoming fathers. What’s happening to Norwegian men?

The Pakistanis in Norway are very smart. They take the handouts and send their kids to private schools in Pakistan. That way, there are now 3 generations of Pakistani Norwegians who have not been Norwegified. 🙂

I am 70. You have a Chinese handle. I advise you to marry a Chinese lady – but not a Westernised one. They are just as crappy as the Anglo version IMHO.

Here is a potential future mayor of Oslo. The royal palace is in the background. Karl Johans Gate is the main street of that city.

If you are planning to have children NOW. Make sure live somewhere other than shithole usa. And then move further.

Fascinating story. I plan to have kids in the future and this gives me food for thought.

Correct me if I am mistaken, but it seems as though you think nothing more could have been done to change his development trajectory? Given the circumstances within which he was raised, he was always going to become the person he became? It seems as though people that grow up in such challenging circumstances may find a way to succeed in spite of said circumstances, they bear a scar for which no amount of mental therapy, alcohol, or even societal success could ever compensate

You’re likely much older than I, but I’m curious about your thoughts on this topic. People say boys are done “maturing” by the age of 30. Do you think it is possible for your son to change?

Thanks Dube.
Some of the above comments note that Hemingway told of murdering a German prisoner. Indeed, he told various people of how he killed 122 enemy soldiers (in three months!) Not a boast he would add; after all, he also taught sniping to the soldiers.
Alas, there was no record of these deeds, nor of the 16 times he was wounded, etc. You get the picture.To some people, with ample justification, he will be always be a liar and five fingered valor poser. There’s little doubt about the expansive accounts of him deluging people with his obvious fantasies which, even had they been true, would amount to boorish and sociopathic self-revelry and promotion.
To others though they will take a charitable view of Hemingway, as do I. We know that some fiction writers need to play out their stories — partially at least — in real life. The quality of their literary inventions is dependent on those experiences and it shouldn’t be a surprise writers force these mergers between fantasy and real life. Anyone who took the tour of Hemingway’s home in Key West should remember the podium where he stood and spoke his stories into their unique — yet often relatable –realities. Even at home his writing involved the active writer; not the chair and certainly not the bed.

Who said anything about banning? I used ‘should’ as in fat women should not wear thongs, not that it should be illegal. Let fat men hunt all they want. (Absent HBD I lean pretty libertarian). My point is there’s nothing inherently ‘manly’ about drinking beer while sitting behind a blind and shooting with a scoped rifle.

Hunter-gatherer weapons can be pretty sophisticated. Enough to make hunting doable for someone fit and highly trained, but not so advanced to make it easy for a fat guy drinking a beer.

You know, we could also reintroduce wolves, cougars et al to their natural range. It’s ironic that the same people that are so adamant about preserving, say, Africa’s large predators don’t want to preserve their own. Maybe we should figure out how to manage our wolves and cougars before we tell Bantu farmers what to do about their lions and hyenas.

It’s extremely unlikely the moon landings were faked for one simple reason …

It would be very easy for the Russians to publish the real story about 9/11 and identify the responsible individuals. Why do you think they won’t do it?

It would be very easy for the Russians to point out that Beirut harbour was blown up by a small modern nuclear device. Why don’t they do that?

I could go on but what is the point. You clearly think that geostrategy is a game of checkers – with all the pieces visible to bystanders. 🙂

It’s theatre Old Sport, The US and Soviets are, were and allways will be in cahoots against YOU.

https://twitter.com/2LarryJohnson7/status/1384597571830747136

It’s extremely unlikely the moon landings were faked for one simple reason: the Soviets would not have let the Americans get away with it. Uncovering the hoax would have been the biggest propaganda coup ever

You missed the other alternative, dear, and that is blackmail.

Of course, you are correct, the Soviets being all-time leaders of space industry always knew the Moon landings were faked.

They managed to obtain hard evidence for the fakery. They sent a submarine which picked up the empty Apollo 13 capsule from the second alleged flight in the Atlantic, off the Azores Islands.

The Soviets then handed it back to the Americans, with the Hungarians acting as witnesses to both parties, in exchange for funds, investments, grain imports, factories, and all sorts of economic advantages.

Here is the Apollo capsule being handed back by the Soviets to US icebreaker Southwind in Murmansk in 1970:

https://www.aulis.com/odyssey_apollo.htm

After enjoying the rewards from their secret and cosy blackmail, while in the meantime demanding huge sacrifices from the USSR’s population to face the American Cold War foe, the Soviet authorities became themselves trapped by the Moon landing hoax, and could not acknowledge it publicly.

This situation was very well described by Russian Physics professor Alexander Popov in a four-part series about the Moon Landing Hoax, broadcast on state-owned RT channel in Arabic language about two years ago. So it is clear that the Russians are now distancing themselves from the hoax.

That would mean, for instance, that in the absence of wolves and cougars white-tail deer would proliferate in the eastern half of the US to the point that they would cause serious damage to the environment before their population crashed and most starved to death. Since you’re not worried about the killing of herbivores per se and since your ridiculous suggestion that hunting should be limited to clubs and spears amounts to a ban, what exactly is your motivation for a ban? Simply a desire to lord over others? You should rejoice because I have no doubt something just that stupid and intrusive will be enacted in the Great Central North American Utopia.

It’s extremely unlikely the moon landings were faked for one simple reason: the Soviets would not have let the Americans get away with it. Uncovering the hoax would have been the biggest propaganda coup ever, a million times bigger than showing up Eisenhower as a liar in the Francis Gary Powers affair.

Not many Eye-talians in Montana, bub, and I’m not one of the few.

Oh well, why stop now.

Cooper & Hemingway: The True GenNYT Critic’s PickDirected by John MulhollandDocumentaryNot Rated3 hours
By Andy Webster
Oct. 10, 2013

Gary Cooper and Ernest Hemingway, two models of American virility, had similarities, not least as outdoorsmen: Cooper grew up on a farm in Montana, and Hemingway was a big-game hunter and deep-sea fisherman. But they were also a study in contrasts: Cooper worked with movie crews; Hemingway labored alone. Cooper was understated and conservative, Hemingway volatile and a liberal. The mix, as John Mulholland’s exhaustive documentary “Cooper & Hemingway: The True Gen� demonstrates, made for a friendship spanning decades.

“The true gen� (Hemingway’s military shorthand for “genuine information�) suggests Cooper’s economical acting style, which dovetailed with Hemingway’s less-is-more writing philosophy. Cooper had starred in Hollywood’s adaptation of Hemingway’s “Farewell to Arms� (1932) before the men first met in Idaho in 1940. Hemingway later insisted that Cooper be cast in “For Whom the Bell Tolls� (1943). After a critical and commercial decline, each rebounded in 1952, Cooper with “High Noon� (for which he won his second Oscar) and Hemingway with “The Old Man and the Sea� (and, two years later, his Nobel Prize). They died weeks apart in 1961.

Your interlocutor is a black who frequently inserts black themes accentuating black males’… superiority &…attraction to them re white females… they know they’re looked upon as …utterly savage. That’s their perception among normal whites,

Brandi, OId Sport, you’re finally starting to get it.

Don’t waste your time. Your interlocutor is a black who frequently inserts black themes accentuating black males’ supposed superiority & supposed attraction to them re white females.

As I said some time ago…

Blacks have always insisted that “black is beautiful� & similar self-deception because they know they’re looked upon as ugly and stupid and utterly savage. That’s their perception among normal whites, Indians, Asians, Mestizos,…

So, their saying they like being black is a huge lie. Just look at procedures Michael Jackson went through to bleach himself, or numerous cosmetic products & operations that would make them as white as possible. Among popular culture, Mulattoes are afraid their progeny will go way back to shitskin negritude.

I think Diana Ross & some other entertainers feel the same- don’t go back to black. That’s why all the hair industry & what not.

Blacks, males, frequently try to think of themselves as irresistible to white females. But they mostly get landwhales & crumbs from the table. I am not speaking about morality, but who are the most “successful� lotharios in modern Babylon, Hollywood? Whites, from Brando, Beatty, Nicholson to DiCaprio. No blacks. Even among whoring Hollywood females like Angelina Jolie & that Lawrence slut. All white. And no one cares for blacks as erotic partners. So, even if those, morally decrepit & sexually dissolute females are not attracted to black males- it says a lot.

There is one thing that could contradict my statement. Perhaps average blacks, being simply dumber & without self-reflection, truly think they are manly, superior, wanted …. But that just shows their confidence is based on self-delusion.

I’ve noticed that Arabs, most of them, still think they’re “manlier� than Israelis. Then I said- if so, how Israelis had beaten you to the pulp in any war from 1948. And it was not just technology. They own you- and you’re afraid. Then- who’s the boss? Who’s better. Who’s dominant? No media, finances, culture- but manliness. You got trashed.

Nervous smiles and change of the subject.

Blacks are probably self-assured because of media & their aggrandizement in some sports. If sports- which is a primitive form of masculinity- had been shown in all their richness (water sports, air sports, volleyball, UFC, handball, winter sports, hockey, tennis, …)- the self-image of blacks would be strongly reduced & they’ll be put in their place.

Where are they among special military units (Green Berets, Seals, Rangers, ….)?

Simply, most blacks are poor & are stuck with their blackness (society, culture,…), so they they try to pump up some pride to compensate for their shortcomings. If there were cosmetic or genetic procedures to make them white, they would use them all in a nanosecond to flee from blackness.

Of course- this all is superficial. When Lenin or Hitler, short people, talked- all macho soldiers marched. The ultimate manliness is the strength of a character, unattainable to most blacks.

For hunting: most hunters I know are extroverts with money and boredom. They don’t hunt to prove their manliness or for thrill- it is mostly about socializing with other men & eating. Unlike Hem, they don’t read. Non mental types, but usually rather good people.

For plebs: don’t worry, economic troubles will have ended this house of cards. No amount of rationalization, arguing etc.

That’s why our lands are turning into jew- and negro-ruled cesspools.

(…Yeah, and just wait until he leaves Montana…)

It’s not so much about killing animals as facing danger. “Western” men are not willing to face danger, physical or even social. That’s why our lands are turning into jew- and negro-ruled cesspools.

Hi Wazoo, Geat comment!

Who in his right mind wouldn’t fear a lion? Why go out of your element to look like a cowardly fool, instead it of perfecting your own toke on Why pay for the experience of looking weak and subservient to the expert, and in front of his own wife? Anyway, the wife was no longer young, so what was she worth?

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I question conventional hunting, period. By the time guns were invented we were thousands of years past the point of needing to hunt game for food. Gun hunting is oxymoronic. When humans hunted to live they did so with primitive weapons. Furthermore, there’s nothing manly about anything that can be accomplished by a fat man drinking a beer.

I’m not at all against hunting per se, and I’m not concerned about the ‘animal rights’ of a dumb herbivore. But hunting should be done like it was always done. On foot and with crude weapons by men fit enough to run fast, run far and use a weapon that requires physical strength. That would exclude most people from hunting, but that’s the point.

To Linh’s point, the fear is everywhere. The left is so brainwashed in their insane cult I’m not even sure fear is the issue. For most of the right, the problem is the will to act. Instead of bread and circuses we have cheap Chinese electronics and an entertainment industry that despises us. But who will act? We can’t even turn off the Sportsball.

If I am not mistaken Alfred did send in a report on his visit to Nigeria some time ago, although I don’t recall if he commented on the physical looks of the women there.

had a son with

In Norway, half of all kids born have unmarried parents. It is normal. Legally, there is no distinction. If I had planned to do what you suggested, I would not have moved from Paris to Oslo and given up my lucrative tax-free work in Munich. She told me that she wanted to live in Paris. That was the plan. When she was about to deliver, she insisted on moving to Norway – to please her mother.

OK. I agree that I am a sucker. But I don’t go around impregnating pretty girls and then abandoning them. If that were the case, I would not have spent several hundred thousand dollars on legal fees and the same again on lost earnings. Living 4 years in Oslo in a good area and with no income is an expensive business I assure you. I had to wind up my successful software consultancy that was based in Paris. My customers were around Europe – UK, Belgium, Germany, France and Italy. Not in Norway.

Cost of Living in Oslo

All I was trying to say is that Norwegian women are as crappy as American women. I am not asking for any sympathy. Merely passing on my experience FWIW. 🙂

The only Nigerian women who I had dealings with were the prostitutes who banged on my door at my hotel in Lagos. Of course, I never let them in.

I hope this does not affect his future relations with women.

He did badly in his school-leaving exams. He got a job at Trondheim University as a janitor. Ex-classmates of his were students there. I brought him to Australia. With the help of my then-wife, we encouraged him. Got him into a physiotherapy college – his marks were just good enough. After a year, his teachers told him that he was too smart and that he should try for medical school.

He came several times to Australia for long periods. He studied hard and was accepted at the Oslo University Medical School. He was elected class leader. He did very well. He graduated. A bit later, I was in England and in the middle of a divorce. I wanted to visit him in Oslo. He sent me an email accusing me of mistreating him. He is huge and a weight lifter – 195cm and 100kg. I was always polite, generous and kind to him. He did not want to meet me. I have not heard from him since. I try to forget him.

When he was in Australia, he had a nice girlfriend. He dumped her for no reason. Not in a nice way. He told me how he dumped plenty of girls in Oslo. He is very good-looking.

I guess he was damaged from the way he was brought up. Kids need two parents. His Norwegian family never wanted him to get a profession. They would have preferred him to be a fisherman or a plumber. I am reconciled that he has become a psychopath. There are quite a few of them in my family. I feel sorry for any girl he marries.

I just did a search. It seems he is now a GP in a small community in the far north of Norway. Only a few kilometres from the Russian border. That is really funny. I am planning to get another Russian wife soon. Maybe that is also his aim. 🤣

I had a son with a Norwegian woman. I supported her and the child financially for many years.

OK, allow me to switch to Truth Van Buren for just a hot minute.

You “had a son with” and “supported financially”? Nice, I do not read anywhere there where you “married” or “made a lifetime commitment to”, or “impregnated two more times and raised a family with.”

So basically, Old Sport, you are angry at a woman for being better at playing the “Pump and Dump” game than you were. Yes, you were going to get tired of her and move on, instead, she got tired of you, and more than the pain of not being able to see your son (and this is an educated guess here) you are stung by the pain of “losing the game.” Yes, believe me, I know, I like to win too.

So what do I base my prognosis upon? Well, your constant allusion to your “beautiful red ferrari.” your money, your lifestyle, multiple languages, alleged intellect, etc.

And, lets face it; if not overt, somewhere covertly in your mind you did have the desire to take her son away. I mean, let’s just face it, you had other bytches to raise him whom were probably younger at that point.

My friend, quite honestly, your post is a mishmash of self-fellatio, and “duh man be holdin’ me down. That’s not to say that you are a bad man, hey, we all have our faults, but if a woman did this to you I can make a strong assumption, from experience, that one of two, or maybe both, factors are at play:

#1 You married your mother.

#2 The herring-eater had grounds for what she did.

As usual, face up to your mistakes, improve from them and move forward. You see, Old Sport, what women most desire from you is commitment, even if they say otherwise, even if they are brainwashed liberal sluts – if you do your job as a man, they will reluctantly learn to do theirs as a woman, almost always, anyway.

And hey, I did mention two nations in my original post, maybe you will find a London Nigerian more to your liking.

Sincerely:

Truth Van Buren.

Speaking of Jaurès, the murder of intelligent people who have the knack for uniting people is the MO of satanic groups.

Satanic, as you say.
For example —
* “Even the best of the ‘goyim’ should all be killed.â€� (Soferim 15) — apparently this translation is not 100% and better read … “Especially the best … ”

These and other quotes from the Jewish “holy book” the Talmud (means Instruction) are by Nathanael Kapner who is Jewish.

https://www.realjewnews.com/?p=156

In Christian eschatalogical (“end of age”) terms there can be no doubt ref identity of the “Beast” in today’s world, identified by Christ as a liar and a murderer … incl such who deliberately or otherwise go along with policies of destruction.
ref John chapter 8 (KJV)

42 Jesus said unto them, If God were your Father, ye would love me: for I proceeded forth and came from God; neither came I of myself, but he sent me.

43 Why do ye not understand my speech? even because ye cannot hear my word.

44 Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.

45 And because I tell you the truth, ye believe me not.

Wishing your son all the very best, Alfred.

He’s a brave-looking boy and if he gets the chance to listen to his Daddy he will not go far wrong. Pity about his mother, boys need mothers as well as fathers.
I hope this does not affect his future relations with women.

I happen to meet and see beautiful, intelligent lovely women from Norway to Nigeria, but maybe I’m weird.

I had a son with a Norwegian woman. I supported her and the child financially for many years. We lived together in Paris and Oslo. She turned against me and stopped me seeing my son. She accused me of kidnapping him when I took him home from his Kindergarten as it was my weekend. I was following the instructions of one of the top family lawyers in Norway. I was arrested by their anti-terrorist police.

The make magistrate released me the next day.

The case came to court. The judge was a vicious young woman. The “jury” was two elderly Norwegians. The judge kept on shaking her head at my “wickedness”. The fact that I had a red Porsche proved that I was a dangerous person. The fact that I was living in a city with a ferry service to England was further confirmation that I planned to abduct my son. The fact that I had obtained an Irish passport for my son was further proof of my perfidy.

On a Saturday, I took my son for a haircut – further proof that I wanted to make him unrecognisable. Numerous other silly accusations – that I spoke several languages, that I wanted my son to have a good education, that I had lived in numerous countries, that I earned a lot of money etc.

BTW, everyone involved knew my address and phone number (landline). My distinctive red Porsche with foreign number plates was parked in front of the house. There were almost no such cars in Norway at the time.

I was sentenced to 3 years in prison. I appealed. The case went to their high court. They refused to look at it as it was an “open and shut” case.

I appealed to the Norwegian Supreme Court. Most unusually, they decided that what I did was lawful. However, “because he was a foreigner, he was in a position to commit this crime”. They gave me a 6 month suspended sentence for having been in a position to break the law!

If you like Norwegian girls, by all means fuck them. Impregnate them if you wish. But don’t ever think that you will be allowed to see your child.

Speaking of Jaurès, the murder of intelligent people who have the knack for uniting people is the MO of satanic groups. In the Spanish civil war the communists were of the same cloth as Bela Kun a few years before in Hungary. When I grew up I was taught that they were almost saintly in their endeavours for justice and equality, not much mention of the murders they committed, very similar to the murders in Spain: kill the local prominent people able to lead, subjugate the traumatised rest. Give some trinkets to selected groups and call it justice. After the second world war they repeated the act. After ’56 we had the pleasure of a softer leadership, to make us more manageable.
John Dos Passos was there with Hemingway and saw the same things, had some questions and left.

His friend Ernest Hemingway shot back: “Civil liberties, shit. Are you with us or against us?”

Then, getting no reply, Hemingway lifted a clenched fist to Dos Passos’ face:

“You [quit] and you will be finished, destroyed. The reviewers in New York will absolutely crucify you. These people know how to turn you into a back number. I’ve seen them do it. What they did once they can do again.”

https://www.henrymakow.com/2019/08/communists-have-controlled-american.html
When I was young, I did not understand what Jesus meant by “He that findeth his life shall lose it: and he that loseth his life for my sake shall find it.” I understand it a bit better now.

A British wartime journalist would never write propaganda, would he? Never would make up or omit pertinent details.
“Nine aircraft dropped a total of 7950 kg of bombs, but no hits at the bridge were observed because visibility was very poor. The reason for the poor visibility was fire and smoke from the blasting and setting on fire by the Reds, and possibly the international brigades, ahead of the air attack. The relatively primitive targeting devices used at that time were also responsible for non-military objects being hit.”
https://carolynyeager.net/guernica-politics-propaganda

Yes, thank you very much. That is helpful.

Video Link

We are Guernica and we don’t like it, restated
https://www.unz.com/mwhitney/flashpoint-ukraine-dont-poke-the-bear/#comment-4602293

The comment you are replying to contains only one line by the poster: “Ernest on the left,” explaining a photograph.
The rest is quotations from the link to a book review of Mary Dearborne’s Ernest Hemingway: A Biography , provided as a courtesy so that the reader may determine whether he wishes to click on the link.

It’s very easy to figure out most of the MEN OF UNZ have never been married, never lived with a woman don’t have kids or a house.

What does this have to do with a link to a Hemingway biography, or indeed what does anything else you wrote? You seem to be trying awfully hard to find reasons to attack other posters, whom you assume are all men when you can’t know that.
You seem to be a very troubled person with a lot of anger issues. Attacking strangers on the internet will not resolve them.

‘I happen to meet and see beautiful, intelligent lovely women from Norway to Nigeria, but maybe I’m weird.’

? There is some sort of Lebanese community in Nigeria, but…

Still better than the communists with their lofty ideals and murders and misery.

I am sorry, but this is the simplistic worldview promoted by the imperialists, the warmongers and the banking oligarchy who, by no random chance, happen to have consistently constituted a tightly-knit group throughout the 19th and 20th Century.

The truth is that the existence of Labour movements and pacifist movements predates the birth of the USSR by several decades. Even Socialism as an ideology seeking socio-economic justice for Labour classes preceded Marxism by several decades too.

By no random chance, International Workers leader Jean Jaurès, who rejected Marxism as an ideology, but was a fiercely committed pacifist who mobilised global Labour against war, was assassinated by the PTB’s on 31 July 1914 at the outbreak of WW1, so the massacre of working class cannon fodder could not be prevented.

Similarly, Labour movements and other organisations striving for socio-economic fairness have continued existing and affirming themselves long after the USSR disappeared.

Analysing the alleged historic “justifications” presented to us on the basis of the obsolete Cold War criteria is both intellectually deficient and morally bankrupt. You should ask yourself why working people who simply demanded peace and social justice are still demonized as “dangerous communists”. This tells more about the plutocracy who still stigmatise them to the day, and about the plutocracy’s real objectives.

There were those who saw the German planes bombing. Here is one report:

http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/guernica.htm

Why would all these people be making up lies to cover up for a Soviet directed false flag on the ground? They wouldn’t have favoured the Soviets any more than the fascists; at least not to the extent to make up lies to support such a hoax. Some people just can’t accept that the Nazis ever did anything wrong.

You and Commentator Mike seem to agree that Guernica was a deliberate massacre. Reading this site convinced me that this is another story turned into a soul rotting myth.
https://www.unz.com/article/the-people-who-were-burned-to-ashes-on-ash-wednesday/
Read the first few comments, please.
By the way, Picasso started out his famous painting on a bull fighting theme (that’s why there is a prominent bull head in it), just repurposed it for propaganda. He was a very talented painter, just as Hemingway was a very talented writer, but both loved the world too much.
I don’t know enough about history, perhaps Franco was really evil. Still better than the communists with their lofty ideals and murders and misery.

Compare Spain to Poland with respect to GDP and living standard.

Franco was a despicable tyrant.

He brought down the legally elected Spanish government in a way so bloody and violent that it broke the fabric of the Spanish society and polarised it for decades; the country hasn’t recovered from it to the day.

Franco was the political whore of the global financial oligarchy.
Following the crisis of 1929 and its repercussions throughout the 1930’s, with no solution in sight, this oligarchy reached a power stalemate with the national Labour classes. It was vital to crush them, and to give a warning and teach a lesson to workers worldwide about what would happen to a people who would dare aspiring to more economic equality; this lesson was to crush the Spanish people.

Just like in our time they crushed Yugoslavia for being multi-ethnical, or crushed Greece for rebelling against debt slavery, all things that the oligarchy cannot tolerate.

Hitler was happy to go along with Franco, because Hitler was a dupe.
He was cunningly made to believe that he was Western civilisation’s White Knight in shining armour, whose role was to protect the West from the USSR’s Socialist peril. He sided with Franco and helped him by bombing Guernica in particular, which civilian death toll, disputed as it may, still makes it a crime against humanity committed by a foreign army.

When WW2 broke up, Franco took great care not to side with his “friend” Hitler. Spain was too much to the West of Europe and already under Atlantic control anyway, so nothing was at stake for the US/UK/Zionist oligarchy. Franco obeyed his pimps and kept “neutral” while Germany was first made to destroy the USSR, for then to be destroyed herself, assuring that the “Western” alliance made its two main geopolitical foes destroy each other before intervening.

Once WW2 ended, Franco happily became the whore of NATO, which wasn’t a big change anyway since those in control of NATO were the same warmongers who planned and provoked WW2 in the first place.
He deprived the Spanish society from liberty and justice, with the blessing of his Atlantist controllers, and actively participating in their terrorist actions. He helped Mossad by letting them freely use Ceuta and Melilla as basis for their covert operations, rented his intelligences services for the terror destabilisation of 60-70’s Italy, and for the coloured “revolution” that brought down the great French nationalist General de Gaulle in 1968.

Franco did NOTHING for Spain; Spain has had one of the greatest, most brilliant civilisation of modern times for many centuries and owes nothing to this runt. His legacy is nothing; he is inexistent in Modern Spain, except for the long-lasting harm he caused.

Franco was a despicable brute and political whore who belongs to the gutter of history. Sadly, a lot of people do like brutes and whores, otherwise, the US wouldn’t be in the situation it is today.

Dayummm, you guys just eliminated 80% of the women in the white world, No wonder Aldey can’t stand you.

I happen to meet and see beautiful, intelligent lovely women from Norway to Nigeria, but maybe I’m weird.

Absolutely agreed. Most people denounce the book as worthless gossip, but not me.

And it is way more than gossip- Johnson’s exposition of Marx’s Capital is brilliant, in my opinion better than Hilferding’s, Schumpeter’s, Kolakowski’s …

Hem is, somehow, sketched in the book. The most disagreeable person is BertolT Brecht, and I agree. No redeeming qualities at all.

For those of you who still read, you can download the book for free from the Russians (click on the image, then get): http://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=4AE5E9B2599AFE51303ACA004BA01C06

A very nice sentiment, but the concept of romantic marriage is an historical blip.

Marriage is to secure private property rights for offspring, maintain order and in many cases, unite two tribes, states or kingdoms.

Personally I’d keep the harem and hire women professors for learning and discussion.

The Communist’s run off lists. Supreme court stack: check. Murder Loyalists: check.

Franco didn’t initiate he did respond; they had no choice.
It began when they recaptured areas and found consistent patterns: priests, govt officials, police and business people murdered. Communism never varies; it is always the same.

Franco saved his country from decades of suffering and prepared the Spanish economy for the future. Compare Spain to Poland with respect to GDP and living standard.
Most people would have preferred 1950’s Spain to Russia or the Eastern bloc.
Same with Portugal.
Fascism worked and it still works. When the society is ready it moves on.
Communism destroys, eliminates a people’s sense of culture and leaves a wreckage when it fails from financial idiocy.
How is this not obvious?

Damn Aldey, you’ve been on a roll all week.

I mean, a lot of your posts are nutty, like thinking white women should be encouraged to kill their babies and wanting the Chinese army to take over America, but a couple you hit dead center.

I agree.
Add Scottish (also tend to be ugly), Irish, Oz,NZ, and Canadian.
Decent white women: Slavic, Hungarian, Argentinian and Boer.
English has been the language of feminism to a large extent.
French and Germa women are beautiful but I’m not sure how far the mind virus has advanced.
Sad.

“…and stopped reading his WWII novel, “The Naked and the Dead,â€� after the first few pages.”

Same. Second-rate drivel.

The British writer, Paul Johnson’s, 1988 book Intellectuals, exposed many Leftist “intellectual” icons, such as Rousseau, Marx, Brecht, Bertrand Russell, as well as Hemmingway. Very good, in my opinion.

Why is it that people constantly conflate prostitution with crime?

In the case of Barcelona, most of the women are imported from Eastern Europe and Africa. Many are essentially slaves and trafficked … by the usual suspects.

I don’t think it is the same in Thailand. I have heard of Australians having a mistress in Thailand. The mistress is married to some Thai guy who is happy with the arrangement. It is a very different culture.

Here is what goes on in Barcelona:

“Now that I’m back from Europe I feel compelled to share a story about something very scary that could have happened to me, in hopes that my fellow ladies who like to travel can keep some of these things in mind while travelling abroad,” wrote Heather.

SHOCK WARNING Woman’s post about human trafficking goes viral…after she narrowly escapes being taken by a ‘TAXI DRIVER’

And how did he get along with Ezra Pound?

Hemingway and Pound: A Most Unlikely Friendship
https://www.simplycharly.com/read/reviews/hemingway-and-pound-a-most-unlikely-friendship/
Although Hemingway never visited Pound at St. Elizabeths, fearing he would be placed back on the FBI watch list, he signed a letter along with Robert Frost and T. S. Eliot to help free the aging poet. Hemingway believed Pound was insane, “not the same man he had known back in early Paris days,� but he believed he belonged in Italy “where he is loved and understood�; in April 1958, when Pound was 72, his indictment was dismissed. He returned to Italy that July, living quietly in Venice until his death on November 1, 1972, outlasting Hemingway by 11 years.

Although the Pound-Hemingway friendship was contentious at times, Hemingway did not have many relationships that lasted 40 years because he simply did not nurture his associations. He and F. Scott Fitzgerald fell out of favor quickly and he lampooned Sherwood Anderson with The Torrents of Spring. So the fact that he kept in contact with Pound and was instrumental in his release from St. Elizabeths proves that he cared about and respected the poet. And John Cohassey meticulously writes about their unique bond in Hemingway and Pound: A Most Unlikely Friendship.

“Pound’s crazy. All poets are. They have to be. You don’t put a poet like Pound in the loony bin.”

It has become a cesspit of vice. The biggest brothel in the world is on the border with France.

Now, it is dangerous to walk the streets of the wonderful city of Barcelona.

Why is it that people constantly conflate prostitution with crime?

United Nations report cited Spain as the third biggest capital of prostitution in the world, behind Thailand

I live in the Thailand and there is very little violent crime compared to Spain, and almost none in areas of prostitution(the cops are already there[as investors]). ;^) Maybe Spain’s crime problem is like you said: from adopting a liberal ideology? Not happy endings(pay before you play).

I guess the “Republicans� won the civil war after all.

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Hemingway’s “adventures” were only adventurous to urban people whose nearest brush with death was being run over by a taxi while crossing the street. Officebound, they daydream about traveling to far-away exotic places and living the life of a swashbuckling outdoorsman such as was depicted by Hemingway and was the face which he presented to the world. In reality, as you say, everything is local. What is mystical and mysterious to an outsider is prosaic and mundane to the person living there. On the opposite side of the coin, tales of life in Hollywood would be as alluring and enchanting to someone who grew up in a town of 250 people in Alaska or Northern Idaho.

That’s an interesting vignette, but I don’t see how it relates to the USA blundering into WW1 & 2 or what it has to do with a supposedly non-combatant war correspondent carrying a pistol and murdering an enemy soldier who has surrendered.

Iberia, the only remaining place of tauromachia cult in Europe (plus South France) is the least Indo-European part of Europe. Iberia used to be also a place of a congregation of “Jews” known as Sephardim, who simply once upon a time appeared there in a great number.

https://phys.org/news/2017-07-bronze-age-iberia-steppe-invaders.html

“It was surprising to observe such a striking Y chromosome discontinuity between the Neolithic and the Bronze Age, such as would be consistent with a predominantly male-mediated genetic influx”

Cutting down males and raping women would mean that male DNA of original cultures was cut down, so mainly maternal DNA would be left. That could lead to the elevation of female gods over male gods, as a form of autochtonic resistance against the invaders.

Palestinian Jews were taken over by autochtonic Canaanites when they willfuly changed Biblical patrilineal lineage to the matrilineal one, refused to pronounce the name of their famous male god (but not his opponents like Baal), and built up the female Shekinah mythology.

The Great Mother won but hardly anyone noticed.

Macomber was cleansed because he was about to start to follow a male god. But modern Western marriage is a structure of worship, devoted to the Great Goddess. If alliens are watching us, they surely realize this, as well as certain continuity with Minoans.

The title gives away as to which side Hemingway was on (“short, happy life” could not be just a few days of good shooting). On the side of goddess, ready to worship her with his anal beads and his pen. But he dreamed of male gods (matador was NOT one of them, as tauromachia, namely opposing/killing a powerful male animal, is clearly a part of cultures of the Great Mother), so he cleansed himself too.

In the end, male gods are more merciful: they do not appear to make females to want to cleanse themselves.

Guernica is a still-believed-today example of as you earlier remarked, popular “history” being just rehashed commie propaganda.

from Carolyn Yeager

When we look more closely at the record of the events, we find that manipulation is indeed what happened—the story of Guernica became a propaganda tool of the Communists with the aid of a world-class artist like Picasso. If it were truly about terrorizing a population, Picasso should have created a Dresden, Hamburg, or Hiroshima masterpiece instead.

https://carolynyeager.net/guernica-politics-propaganda

I remember reading somewhere that after Hemingway death, anal beads (and few sets of them) were found in his personal things.

We sense that there is something something wrong here, even if the thing is hard to name.

So an interpretation just for fun: it is a story of the Great Mother figure getting rid of her unworthy male follower. Note that Margot is the only figure in the story acting like a god: with no doubts, and transcending morality (fornicating, killing etc): she is the law. From the perspective of a devotee of Great Mother, Macomber life was both happy and short because he lived with a goddess, which is always dangerous even if rewarding. And Africa is an altar of Old Times.

I got this idea watching the documentary below. Go to the end (40:00+) where the story of cleansing the followers of the male god by the Great Mother devotees is suggested:

Video Link

My impression is that Picasso spent the war in Paris,

It is just “an impression“.

Picasso had no “spent the war in Paris“, but had been living in Paris since 1901, when he took over the workshop of his painter friend Casagemas after the latter committed suicide. This suicide had a profound effect on Picasso, who started painting portraits of Casagemas and inaugurated his “Blue Period”.

Picasso- The death of Casagemas

Apart from a short return to Barcelona in 1902, Picasso then lived without interruption in France since 1904, which is arguably the cradle of end 19th-20th Century modern painting and it attracted artists from different nationalities.

Picasso wasn’t in Paris as some sort of protection from the upheaval caused by the Spanish War or WW2; he had been living there for four decades.

Wow. Such rejoinders bowl me over. I still recommend Pan’s Labyrinth. It’s an eye opener.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eaO0_i-7oJA
Video Link

You sound like every lonely spinster in love with a married man who won’t leave his wife.

Ah yes, Guernica, the best piece of communist propaganda ever. The evil Germans didn’t bomb the peaceful village of Guernica. It was the Soviet communists in the village, on the ground who blew up the town. The whole thing was preplanned with all the communist and dam fool liberal useful idiot newspapers all ready to report the atrocity blamed on the Facists.

It was the style at the time. All little boys wore dresses. A dress is basically a king shirt. Factory made cheap baby and toddler clothes did not exist until around 1920.

Until then, baby and toddler clothes were handmade by mommy grandma’s aunts and friends. Long shirts, or dresses are much much much easier to make than short shirts and pants.

A dress is just a long shirt. So instead of making a boys shirt that stops at the waist and a pair of pants, just make the shirt 12 inches longer. Then it’s just 24 inches of stitching less than half an hour for a skilled home sewer which all women were in those days.

All toddler boys wore dresses through human history until factory made cheap toddler clothes became available. Cut down in laundry too.

Little toddler boys on the frontier who grew up to be mountain men wore long shirts or dresses. Men like Daniel Boone Kit Carson Andrew Jackson, all toddler boys. The most macho conquistador kings wore them as toddlers. So did your ancestors. all of them.

For about the last 55 years baby and toddler girls have been dressed as boys.

Why did toddler boys wear long shirts or dresses instead of pants and shirts, finances, practicality and laundry.

Not every mother could afford to hire a full time dressmaker to make pants and shirts for toddler boys. In fact, most of them had to hand sew their baby toddler and all their. children’s clothes , plus their own clothes and husbands shirts. As well as housework cooking laundry etc.

It’s very easy to figure out most of the MEN OF UNZ have never been married, never lived with a woman don’t have kids or a house.

good analogy. makes me wonder what she had to do to be selected for her role? Whose knob is she polishing tonight?

You may be confusing the body politic, with a body of real men.
The former find it childlike that the latter might lead the same lives were all laws abolished.

“But if he could describe it all he would be an artist. But if he were an artist, there would be deeper wounds which he could not describe.�
—Silence
Edgar Lee Masters (1869 – 1950)

These same critics mostly failed to understand the outstanding genius of Louis Ferdinand Celine

Ah … Celine. Familiar with both Balzac and Celine, I rate them both very highly. Celine’s epic trilogy is for me an astounding voyage. Full of color and fantastic humor … am I less an admirer for laughing my way through the volumes?

“Maybe you need a pair of teats, or more testosterone, your choice. It’s all the rave now”. Said Wilson.

Hemingway was a dam fool idiot liberal who pretended to fight with the soviet communists in the Spanish civil war. At least he was smart enough to not actually fight. The Russian and Spanish communists sent all the sissy liberal volunteers like Hemingway to the front lines to be killed first.

When it became clear they were losing . The Russians looted the country. Their biggest haul was the mint, the national treasury all the gold the Spanish government had. Telephone exchanges and all the equipment. Medical equipment, machinery if all kinds, including household tools sewing machines washing machines etc.

Barcelona was a communist stronghold because it’s a sea port. The Russians held on long enough to load their loot on ships that carried the loot to Russian Black Sea ports.

It’s a good thing they don’t teach history any more. Because every word of history taught during most of the previous century is just communist propaganda.

Franco is the greatest hero of the 20th century. Best thing he did was wipe out many of the American Jewish communist Abraham Lincoln Brigade. The Russian communists put the sissy city boys of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade in the front lines against Franco’s Army.

Unfortunately the Jewish communists won the war against America.

If all the conservative or any websites on the net, UNZ attracts the most whining complaining women hating men. It’s like a bitter divorcée support group. Except most of the MEN OF UNZ never married.

Read Hemingway a little deeper. There are a lot of his macho men putting their girl friends on a train to get an abortion.

In the small town where I live, women, kids and whole families hunt to get their winters meat and they do it all. There is no fanfare other than who got a moose and where.

I may very well live in your state.

The only joke bigger than the guides that come up here from out of state (and run back home when winter approaches), are their clients (adorned in their new Cabela’s ensembles).

Subsistence hunting, however, is a family/community affair, ancient in its origins, and very very necessary when living rural and/or remote on a fixed/limited budget.

‘Spain was neutral during World War II (Picasso had applied for French citizenship before the Germans took Paris, but was denied’

My impression is that Picasso spent the war in Paris, enjoying the benevolent toleration of the German occupiers.

I don’t actually have much against Picasso himself. A lot of his remarks are singularly commonsensical, and of course a man should feel free to paint whatever he wants to paint.

His admiring fans, they I have different feelings about.

“The Brothel Of Europe” … how awful to see this …

I also spent time in España (Una.Grande.Libre) late 60s to mid 70s
A beautiful country … wonderful people … and now this … que vergüenza …

As you say Franco kept Spain out of WW2.
Mussolini wanted Spain in to close out Gibraltar and thus make the Med an Italian-Spanish lake … interesting speculations if that happened …

After Franco had seen off the commies and although neutral, Spain did send Division Azul (named for the blue shirt Falange) to fight on the Eastern Front.
(link is in Spanish)

https://ww2diario.blogspot.com/2011/07/parten-para-rusia-los-primeros.html

Olé!

Yes, that is the modern western way. Still, some westerners would resolve it the way I mentioned even nowadays – crimes of passion have not disappeared. Of course I don’t advocate it; just thought of it as an alternative old fashioned plot resolution.

Divorce would mean alimony payments, maybe even property division. Also, reading this story gave me the impression that this was not the first time she had cheated on her husband.

Guided hunts aren’t very masculine, as all that is required is following your guide around till you find the animal you’re looking for and you as the client pull the trigger. That’s it. No other effort is needed. What I hear from a few guides I have come across is that these ‘hunters’ complain about the weather, walking up hills or that it is taking too long and we should go back to camp where the liquor is.

This hunting method even gets rid of the fear element as you have experienced men with rifles to back you up if you fail to make a kill shot. Almost anyone of any gender or age can do this. Heck now days if you shoot a lion in Africa it was most likely raised in a pen for clients to shoot. What kind of brain would consider this endeavor as something to brag about?

In the small town where I live, women, kids and whole families hunt to get their winters meat and they do it all. There is no fanfare other than who got a moose and where.

They have to compete with outsiders which some call ‘head hunters’ as they seem more concerned with the size of the antlers than anything else besides their clothing and new 4-wheeler.

I have only shot a few caribou and one moose plus some pain in the ass bears. It’s all a chore- packing, cutting up the meat etc. And unless you are an opportunistic hunter (poacher) it costs more in terms of putting meat on the table than with a credit card.

So neither guided or traditional hunting are particularly a manly activity other than it was mostly done by men in the past. It’s just what some guys think will make them appear more masculine than their everyday living in a city or suburb permits. They have earned their Carhartts and Cabelas clothing cause they got the story to back up the appearance. If really needed they even have the evidence staring vacantly on their living room wall just to get their manliness conversation going…

It’s not that peculiar for a wealthy guy raised in the city think this way. Some dudes in Sun Valley or Hollywood might be impressed but get a bit more remote and you’re just a ‘head hunter’ to locals.

If the surname of Francis is not coincidental (which could be, especially as his juxtaposition has a perfectly English surname, Wilson), that would make Mr Macomber a part of Africa, a part of those who are to be slaughtered. He would be standing together with a lion, and with a buffalo, not with his wife (which, if I remember is never addressed as Mrs Macomber), and certainly not with Mr Wilson.

Why do you go to Africa?
To slaughter, and to be slaughtered.
Out of Africa means into Africa.
Etc.

A rather dark message but that’s it. Would make a human Darwinist out of Ernest.

Spain was neutral during World War II (Picasso had applied for French citizenship before the Germans took Paris, but was denied

Or better yet, divorce her, and make time with someone nicer.

And leave her to Wilson, who probably doesn’t want her long-term. A fitting outcome.

But don’t let her have any guns, either. And cut short the escapade.

Dear Linh Dinh,
Wishing you continued improving health.

Is our mutual friend who is no longer with us a man who was tricked into abandoning his role as a protector for his precious daughter by those who seek to degrade our culture or a man who struggled to be as good as God in a very broken and flawed world? Or perhaps both?

The answer might depend on whether the observer is enmeshed in a world view that is based on materialism and is post God or who sees the sacred creation of God in all of creation, living and non-living.

If you are the former, you do a damn good job of seeing sacred in each of us. Nonetheless, I still would encourage you to consider the likelihood of the latter. The chance that we are here by chance is approximately nil.

In hindsight, I am sure our friend saw many many ways he might have better protected his beloved child. Jordan Peterson talks about the danger of not being aware of evil in the world. Raising children who are naive to real dangers from others. I try to use the lessons of such a tragic experience to raise my own children. But after the fact, what is to be done then? Might it not be wise to leave vengeance to the Lord, and seek the best in what remains?

The Christian moral framework does have the possibility of rendering people defenseless if done wrong. But it is also a source of great strength that cannot be coopted by those oligarch sociopaths who would enslave us if done right. They are not targeting and weakening Churches by accident.

I may be wrong, I still have a lot to learn, but this is how it looks to me. Thanks for remembering our friend, in any case, even if it had the subtly of a hammer and nearly as wounding. But I expect nothing less than the painful truth from you. And I think brutal honesty is the only way we can face what we must face. When the social engineers of our society pushed that idea that we don’t need fathers to be good protectors, to be courageous men who could conquer their fears, and who could not be tricked into trusting those who did not earn trust, they left children vulnerable. They knew what they were doing. Drag Queen Story Hour at a tax payer funded library pretty much captures it.

God Bless and protect you, Linh Dinh. May our friend with a pure (if unprotected) heart who is no longer with us rest in peace.

It would have lain even better out in the hallway under the wet shoes and far from the ellipsis segue from unreality to courage, leaving out all the pleasurable parts, if any, that Ernest seems to have slept through, but at least she didn’t ditch him, perhaps because it’s not only the Sun that also rises.

Sleep drunk. Wake sober. Swyve early.