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The idea that another way of looking at the Fraudulence Paradox is that it’s a condition of exceptional virtue which is, however, periodically subject to extreme collapses.* In the story Good Old Neon, this collapse takes the form of suicide, but perhaps that is just the most dramatic example of the shut down of one’s desire to impress, and that binge eating (or drinking or shopping) is a more everyday version of the same principle. A shut down of the desire to impress: “In the same measure that I have had to pretend I am something special I’m now going to demonstrate, and with a ridiculous emphasis, that I’m not.)

(The Fraudulence Paradox –scroll to bottom– is an idea of David Foster Wallace in his story Good Old Neon. It describes a vicious cycle in which a person, feeling emotionally empty, earns the admiration of others through his impressive behavior, yet knowing his impressive behavior is just a put on, their admiration makes him feel only more empty. They’ve been fooled into admiring the person; they aren’t appreciating the person himself… You can find it defined in his own words at the link.)

* Perhaps this is how the fraudulence paradox would be viewed from the vantage of one seeing it in another person, rather than seeing it in oneself.

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ὑπὸ λυγμοῦ ἐχομένῳ πταρμοὶ ἐπιγενόμενοι λύουσι τὸν λυγμόν.

(πταρμοὶ — sneezes, λυγμόν — hiccup)

to write: Margrum / Higgs may have value as a sort of weird wisdom literature. So Pursue — )))

Lo impensable se hizo asumible, por el propio peso de las cosas. (x)

2.21 / tr.

λιμὸν θώρηξις λύει.

La durée de nos passions ne dépend pas plus de nous que la durée de notre vie.

The duration of our passions depends not more upon us than the duration of our life.

[We no more determine the extent of our passions than we do that of our life span.]

According to medieval writer Jean Froissart, Edward offered to spare the people of the city if any six of its top leaders would surrender themselves to him, presumably to be executed. Edward demanded that they walk out wearing nooses around their necks, and carrying the keys to the city and castle. One of the wealthiest of the town leaders, Eustache de Saint Pierre, volunteered first, and five other burghers joined with him. Saint Pierre led this envoy of volunteers to the city gates. It was this moment, and this poignant mix of defeat, heroic self-sacrifice, and willingness to face imminent death that Rodin captured in his sculpture, scaled somewhat larger than life.… The Burghers of Calais.

For Obama, Asia represents the future. Africa and Latin America, in his view, deserve far more U.S. attention than they receive. Europe, about which he is unromantic, is a source of global stability that requires, to his occasional annoyance, American hand-holding. And the Middle East is a region to be avoided—one that, thanks to America’s energy revolution, will soon be of negligible relevance to the U.S. economy…

… Vous avez raison, quand vous me trouvez heureux de l’exercice d’un art qui m’amuse et m’intéresse réellement ; mais à quel prix acquiert-on ce talent souvent médiocre et contestable, qui nous console, si vous vouiez, dans certains moments !… (x)

‘Pluck‘ in Measure for Measure

“Chance and change love to deal with men’s settled plans, not with their idle vagaries. If we desire unexpected and unimaginable events, we should contrive an iron framework, such as we fancy may compel the future to take on inevitable shape; then comes in the unexpected, and shatters our design in fragments.” (Hawthorne, The Marble Faun.)

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That’s how America leads – not with bluster, but with persistent, steady resolve.[*]

… As Americans, we respect human dignity, even when we’re threatened, which is why I’ve prohibited torture, and worked to make sure our use of new technology like drones is properly constrained. It’s why we speak out against the deplorable anti-Semitism that has resurfaced in certain parts of the world. It’s why we continue to reject offensive stereotypes of Muslims – the vast majority of whom share our commitment to peace. That’s why we defend free speech, and advocate for political prisoners, and condemn the persecution of women, or religious minorities, or people who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender. We do these things not only because they’re right, but because they make us safer.

USS Pueblo, John Anthony Walker… Walker began spying for the Soviets in 1968, when, distraught over his financial difficulties, he walked into the Soviet Embassy in Washington, D.C., sold a top secret document (a radio cipher card) for several thousand dollars, and negotiated an ongoing salary of $500 to $1,000 a week. Walker justified his treachery by claiming that the first classified Navy communications data he sold to the Soviets had already been completely compromised when the North Koreans had captured the U.S. Navy communications surveillance ship, the USS Pueblo. Yet the Koreans captured the Pueblo in January 1968 – one month after Walker had betrayed the information. Furthermore, a 2001 thesis presented at the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College using information obtained from Soviet archives and from Oleg Kalugin, indicated that the Pueblo incident may have taken place because the Soviets wanted to study equipment described in documents supplied to them by Walker.

Helpful post from the free dictionary on the difference between -ic and -ical as suffixes. It says “One possible reason why the ‘-ical’ variant has arisen in the evolution of English (and caused such confusion between the two suffixes) is to create adjectival forms of nouns that naturally end in ‘-ic.’ In such instances, we actually add a different suffix, ‘-al,’ to the end of the noun, which in turn creates the ‘-ical’ ending.” The entry also provides a list of instances where the different endings indicate markedly different meanings (e.g., politic, political.)

2.44/ eng
οἱ παχέες σφόδρα κατὰ φύσιν, ταχυθάνατοι γίνονται μᾶλλον τῶν ἰσχνῶν.

*παχέες, stout, fat.

This—all of this, but particularly the suffering of considerably more pain and fear than necessary—is what happens to a person who is sick alone. (Anne Boyer)

rehabilitating the reputation of Neville Chamberlain,,,[POST, 07/20/15]

Idea of a way to explain Mallarme: that his poems speak only of the inter-relating vehicles of various underlying unnamed tenors. (Vehicle and Tenor in linguistics, 2nd def.)