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Body position: not unlike the Pietà with the role of Mary being served by the wheeled office chair; feet propped on the corner of the desk, at the level of my head; torso slightly twisted to view computer; hand pawlike upon the mouse. A bodily position which is not to change as I proceed through a series of wikipedia pages: from Rembrandt’s Slaughtered Ox, to Francis Bacon’s Figure with Meat, to Velasquez and Las Meninas, to the Order of Santiago, to James son of Zebedee (in Spain); and ending at the Historia Compostelana.

I had never heard of the last item. I had had no idea that there were legends of St. James having been in Spain. Velasquez had received the Order of Santiago late in his life. Not even the king could grant this order, I read, but a special commission was required to investigate the purity of the bloodline of the nominee. St. James was “the moor killer”, which was barbaric, that a holy figure could be thought of this way, but I could see the attraction in being immersed in some of these myths: the decapitated form of St. James in a pilotless ship sailing across the Mediterranean to Spain. Rather than me, here, this, this desk, distant hum of a refrigerator and whir of the computer fan. Not sailing or lying headless in a boat. I suddenly remembered I had aggressively to search out life, as I read in Tolstoy the other day — life was God. I remembered the Slaughtered Ox, which is a striking painting. (As I edit this post months after first having written it, I find myself in the exact “Pietà position” described in its opening… And I find myself still in this position and still editing months after having finished the preceding sentence.)

Idea occurs to me that all the world was created that I might focus on a simple thing. Idea occurs to me that Life is not outside the window, not outside the door, not to be found in an “adventure”, whether real and challenging or fake and amusing, but in that moment when I clicked from the page of the Order of Santiago to the page of St. James of Zebedee then scrolled down to the part about Spain. This was somewhere in the past, if not in memory. Somewhere in these moments in which so much passes without me noticing it, there was life.

Velasquez, it occurred to me, was one of those great painters I simply never thought about: how much greatness there had been which one never thought of or knew about in the first place, so of what use was greatness? (Then I clicked on the Order of Santiago.)

(Tolstoy had asked that also. Even if he were as great an artist as Shakespeare, what then? What would that matter?) For Tolstoy Life was God, while for Aristotle logos was I guess God; but if logos was the same as reason (which is certainly disputable) Tolstoy did not think it was God; for reason, according to My Confession, if I’d read it properly, belonged to the upper classes and only persuaded one of the evil of living, and of god’s non-existence. Be like the simple people who never doubted such things, thought Tolstoy (though he was skeptical of the forms of the church, which these simple people embraced. Was the word “god” itself such a form, an icon? Was that why one ought not pronounce the name of the supreme being?). The existence of God was as evident and obvious as the appearance of life….

Using Perseus, I’d looked up ἀγεννής earlier, which means low-born, low-minded, sordid: Aristotle didn’t think much of the lower orders and slaves, certainly didn’t suppose they had the answers to life. (After I had looked up ἀγεννής I had looked up the English word illiberal, which is another translation of the word ἀγεννής and indeed the one given in the translation I was reading.) Idea again occurred to me that all the world was created that I (by which I meant all persons) might focus on a simple thing –could be a word, could be a stone– then I clicked on the link to Historia Compostelana and somewhere also along the line (I recall now it was from the James page) I had clicked on a link to an apocryphal text that was supposedly written by James, at which point it occurred to me that I had been interested for a while now in how you got the word Iago from the word James, but instead of finding that out I landed on the wikipedia page for Shakespeare’s character Iago, and read about the source text Shakespeare used for Othello, and thought about how many great authors and film makers had not started from scratch but used as there template someone else’s narrative. There Will Be Blood: “Oil!” The Shining: “The Shining”. Othello: “Un Capitano Moro” in which, according to the wikipedia article, the Iago character is not given a name. (A picture of Edwin Booth as Iago, from 1870, is featured in the top right corner of this article.) (I did not find out how you got Iago from James.)

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Las Meninas ; Order of Santiago ; James, son of Zebedee in Spain ; Historia Compostelana

Bill Callahan

Les montagnes d’arguments entassés depuis un an s’écroulement à la fois
The mountains of arguments piled up for a year collapsed in an instant

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This may have been six months ago, a year ago. A old heavy set man in Indian garb came in, put a card down in front of me which said “Fortune Teller” along with some additional info I did not retain, and then proceeded to tell me about myself, English is not bad: “You are very cheerful, but overthink things… ” Then he said something about “seventeen years”, and the last two years had not been good, I’d been holding something back… Facts which startled me later.

I asked him if there was something I could do for him and tried to communicate with my expression acceptance and kindness toward him as a person, while at the same time rejecting his services. “Are you Greek? Italian?” he said. I shook head no. “I have four children, all without food” (I took out six dollars from the tip jar for him which I later replaced from my wallet — the tips are communally divided). “I just work here,” I said, so as to excuse myself, I suppose, for not giving all.

“I will be back,” he said, counting, pocketing, heading to the bus stop. “May I have water?” “There.” I said. “A cup? Oh” “Yes, there, you see it,” I said. “I see it here.”

He came back a month or two later, had me write something on a piece of paper which he then tore up in front of me, placed behind his back and returned in front of me whole. I gave him a little more money, direct from my wallet this time, and, with all the kindness in my eyes and expression I could muster, said Please, no more for me, not again, thank you.

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Istrian Peninsula……………………….South of the lakes,
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Tax Reform Act of 1986……………………Great bitter lake
Istrian Peninsula …………………….Thomas Hutchinson
Scholars use Hutchinson’s career to represent the
tragic fate of the many Loyalists marginalized
by their attachment to an outmoded
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“No one is so poor they cannot give what they have, but first and foremost, who they are.” Francis.

[1277α] [ENG] … ἀλλὰ μὴν ἐπαινεῖταί γε τὸ δύνασθαι ἄρχειν καὶ ἄρχεσθαι, καὶ πολίτου δοκεῖ που ἡ ἀρετὴ εἶναι τὸ δύνασθαι καὶ ἄρχειν καὶ ἄρχεσθαι καλῶς.

…“Another point is that we praise the ability to rule and to be ruled, and it is doubtless held that the goodness of a citizen consists in ability both to rule and to be ruled well.”