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“It’s like there’s a desire to be alienated—a desire to have a translation which you won’t quite understand, and that that will make you feel somehow closer to a language you don’t know.” Comment from Emily Wilson.

Of the desire to be alienated, I wonder if the existence of television provides one explanation: if television is the essence of the non-alienating, of the seducing, then you expect from things of real value, things like the Odyssey, a certain amount of inaccessability, of being alienating.

Sort of reminds of a news item from a few weeks ago: there was a report that found that people shared “fake-news” stories far more than real news stories. Why, because, fake news is entertainment, suprising and amazing and something you want to have others see, while true news is boring and complicated often and perhaps something you’d prefer to forget.

Therefore, a sort of prejudice evolves that the truth will be boring and beyond you, when you’re looking for the true and for things that are serious.

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Question: Was the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia in the mid/late 90’s authorized by the U.N?

Something I remember of that time: Republicans were saying it was a “wag-the-dog” type operation and that Clinton was trying, by means of this bombing, to distract the U.S. public from the Monica Lewinsky affair; meanwhile there was a general awareness that Rwanda had occurred earlier in the decade and that Western Powers had done nothing about that but really ought to have done something about that. There was an analaogy in the minds of many people of the West between Rwanda and Kosovo, I think is fair to say. I feel like the term “boots on the ground” may also have originated or gained currency during that time, Republicans having argued that an air war by itself couldn’t achieve anything; what you really needed was “boots on the ground.” (Here is ngrams viewer for boots on the ground. Here is ngrams viewer for Somalia,Rwanda. boots on the ground,Black Hawk Down)

Answer to foregoing question: apparently not: the bombing was not authorized by the U.N., which was a fact that arose during a dispute I had with a very pro-russian person, who sought to compare the Russian invasion of Crimea with the NATO bombing of Kosovo and environs, an idea that seemed wrong and even incredible to me on the face of it, but which I didn’t recall enough about to confidently deny.

This surprised me: Although it was the largest nuclear disaster since the Chernobyl disaster of 1986, and the radiation released exceeded official safety guidelines, there were no casualties officially reported to be caused by radiation exposure.

“Alors nous Européens, que devons nous, que pouvons nous faire ? Quand une république démocratique vacille, ses sœurs, républiques démocratiques doivent prendre la relève, reprendre le flambeau des valeurs partagées.” Patrick Weil, Monde.

It was roughly the same size and weight as a Volkswagen Beetle, though flatter in shape… Glyptodon

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(36?) Just saw the movie Guadalcanal Diary in which, at one point, the character named Taxi cries out (transcribed exactly this way in the subtitles) “Yahoo! Mail.” Making me wonder if this could pertain to the origin of the free email service by that name: Wikipedia says not.

The spasm of any muscle is what Kundera understood as excitement, erection, “sin”; if these spasms can be slowed, they can be stopped, “sin” will be slowed and stopped… August