I have been so busy I don't know what to do. I am cleaning up the last tax returns I am doing before I retire to devote full time to the store. But the new rules about electronic filing are killing me. I hate this shit.
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No worries Troop. We'll hold down the fart til you get back.
That smells good.
Well not really but you know what I mean.
And what's up with Palladian mocking my commenters the other day?
We need us some Palladian posts. I think the poor guy feels neglected or something.
And what's up with Palladian mocking my commenters the other day?
He called us cattle! His whole piece was more cryptic than an Amy's Garden Tale link
PS I know that pose, holding down the fart.
BTW, I just caught up on that Althouse thread.
WTH happened to HD House? He's so tame. I'll bet his blood pressure is way down.
And after we defended him all those years ago.
Hey, you need to take time out to fart. Don't want to spontaneously combust.
Hd has been busy with work too. So he is taking it easier. I think it is a lot better for his health and well being all together.
Evan was just screwing around. It is an honor to be included.
That doesn't preclude us busting his chops though.
Evan was just screwing around. It is an honor to be included.
*You* got included.
We're still hamburger fodder or worse--chopped liver.
Wait he called me a giant ugly monster.....now that's the best thing anyone has called me this week but still....the guy seems upset or something.
You had a great photo series of Palladian a while back. Where did you get all those?
I steal them all over the place. Especailly at Sorry I Missed Your Party.
I owe that guy a few beers.
I have some commenter memories comming up.
No worries Troop. We'll hold down the fart til you get back.
With what, the magic girdle?
Whenever Palladian makes those terribly hip urban comments of his my inferiority complex clicks in...or on. But I know he loves me. Donchya Palladian, huh huh?
Stick with me baby and you'll be farting through silk. Robert Mitchum proposes...
I completely missed the Palladian comment; I don't think I ever even went into that cafe thread. (Thanks for providing the link, chickelit.) I also didn't see it wherever he put it orginally--is it supposed to be in the one with, now, 621 comments? Not sure I want to wade into all of that, even to try to figure out what he means by the deer thing.
reader_iam wrote:
Not sure I want to wade into all of that, even to try to figure out what he means by the deer thing.
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I think he called you a lawn mower. Or a farm implement. link.
Yet to many, Graham v. Deere is the gold standard for non-obviousness. link.
You're certainly non obvious. :)
MamaM believes the key to be in the word capture, not the 621 comments.
In addition to all the other feats proposed, Hercules would capture the swift dear. But for what intent or purpose?
The thrill of the hunt, the joy of catch and release, or the savor of venison stew?
Hercules cleaning the Augean stables in the form of the Althouse "troll hydra," seems too narrow an interpretation and too difficult a task. Deciding who is and who isn't a "troll" is tedious and time-consuming. After all, Hercules was not above easing his labors any way he could.
Better to attack the problem root and branch. The entire fetid mess could be cleaned with ONE simple "delete."
Now THAT would be labor worthy of a true hero.
MamaM: With regard to the 3rd Labor, in terms of its mythology, I rather think Hercules was maneuvering between a rock and a hard place. (Of course, that doesn't capture the whole, given the particular peculiarities of that part of the myth, involving as it does length of time and breaks from complete focus on that Labor therein.) Turning deer into venison stew doesn't play into that at all.
I'm not completely ignorant of the overall reference, MamaM. What I don't know is what Palladian meant or intended by his use of either the reference or the myth, in part, in whole, and all the potential allusions and implications therein.
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But forget all that. Far more interesting, MamaM, to me, would be *your* explication and interpretation. You do psychological and other analysis. I'd like seeing your bringing that to bear here, in this instance, specifically and precisely, in detail.
In other words, do tell.
Life is weird when a comment by one leads to the unbidden bubbling up of a compliment for the Nemesis...
Following Tim's comment, a search for more definition of what comprises a Herculean task, led to this listing of the Labors
With only the hydra in mind, MamaM didn't realize Palladian had skillfully painted all 12 tasks into his word picture. Including the capture of a pet hind from under the very nose of Diana.
Not just any hind or ordinary haunch of stew meat, but one with with golden horns and hoofs of bronze.
As for MamaM interpreting myths, finding her way through Trooper York's maze is challenge enough.
What she can add is this, from this mornings reading of "Falling Upward" by R Rohr: Remember, the opposite of rational is not always irrational, but is can also be transrational, or bigger than the rational mind can process; things like love, death, suffering, God and infinity are transrational experiences. Both myth and mature religion understand this. The transrational has the capacity to keep us inside an open system and a larger horizon so that the soul, the heart, and the mind do not close down inside of small and constricted space. The merely rational mind is invariably dualistic, and divides the field of almost every moment between what it can presently understand and what it then deems "wrong" or untrue.
"Life is weird when a comment by one leads to the unbidden bubbling up of a compliment for the Nemesis..."
Yes, MamaM, but weirder still if Trooper York declared himself to BE "The Nemesis" of Palladian, whereupon we might all need to...rather reluctantly...laugh just a little bit less.
Or perhaps I should just speak for myself?
Regarding declarations by TY on something other than exemptions, MamaM went back to the definition, which yielded the following:
...the spirit of divine retribution against those who succumb to hubris.
...often used as a term to describe one's worst enemy, normally someone or something that is the exact opposite of oneself but is also somehow similar.
Somehow similar...the net that catches humans and hubris in one fell swoop, with less to declare than "oh".
You guys are all talking way over my head here.
Nemesis? Diana? I did once lead a three person pilgrimage to Lago di Nemi back in the 90s. It's a very cool place, but I think I was under the influence of Sir James Frazer at the time. I didn't find any Roman galleys either.
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wv = "nematoad"
OK I'm making that up but it would be a cool coinage. Nemat means thread in Greek and so a nematoad is a "thread toad."
A group of toads is called a "Knot."
A Knot of Nematoads.
I didn't find any Roman galleys either.
Nor did I appreciate the full extent of that story.
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