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Rosberg takes pole as Hamilton falters
Nico Rosberg took pole position for the Hungarian Grand Prix while Mercedes team-mate and title rival Lewis Hamilton was set to start last after his car caught fire.
Nico Rosberg took pole position for the Hungarian Grand Prix while Mercedes team-mate and title rival Lewis Hamilton was set to start last after his car caught fire.
Nico Rosberg completed the week of his life with victory in the German Grand Prix on a day when Lewis Hamilton produced a backs-to-the-wall drive to limit the damage to his team-mate and title rival.
Formula One leader Nico Rosberg put Mercedes on pole position for his home German Grand Prix today while team mate and title rival Lewis Hamilton crashed early in the session.
Lewis Hamilton denied Mercedes team mate Nico Rosberg the satisfaction of lapping fastest at his home German Grand Prix on Friday.
Nico Rosberg has been forced to change his helmet design ahead of this weekend's German Grand Prix after upsetting football's world governing body FIFA.
Nico Rosberg has signed a "multi-year contract extension" with Mercedes, the team have announced.
Lewis Hamilton has aimed another little dig at Formula One title rival Nico Rosberg by jokingly suggesting ahead of next week's German Grand Prix that it is not his Mercedes team mate's home race.
Lewis Hamilton achieved Silverstone redemption as he won the British Grand Prix to close in on Nico Rosberg in the drivers' championship.
Championship leader Nico Rosberg grabbed pole position for the British Grand Prix from a crazy qualifying session at Silverstone to again put Lewis Hamilton in the shade.
Mercedes played the strategic game to perfection to help Nico Rosberg claim his third victory this season in the Austrian GP and spearhead a sixth one-two with Lewis Hamilton.
Nico Rosberg stunned Mercedes team-mate Lewis Hamilton to snatch a stunning pole position for Sunday's Canadian Grand Prix.
Nico Rosberg has expressed his shock after a driving event he was involved in left two people in hospital following an accident at the German football team's training camp in northern Italy.
Formula One leader Nico Rosberg expects his rocky relationship with Mercedes team-mate and title rival Lewis Hamilton to improve following their rift after last weekend's Monaco Grand Prix.
Lewis Hamilton believes he learned lessons throughout his troubled Monaco Grand Prix weekend that will prove invaluable in his battle for this year's Formula One world title with Mercedes team-mate Nico Rosberg.
Nico Rosberg returned to the top of the Formula One podium with a lights-to-flag Monaco Grand Prix victory as a left-eye problem for Mercedes team-mate Lewis Hamilton put the blinkers on his challenge.
Nico Rosberg survived an investigation by stewards to wreck Lewis Hamilton's dream of clinching the Briton's maiden pole position in Monaco.
Lewis Hamilton has suggested his under-privileged upbringing has made him hungrier for this season's Formula One world title than team-mate Nico Rosberg.
Lewis Hamilton won the Spanish Grand Prix on Sunday to chalk up his fourth victory in a row and wrest the Formula One championship lead from Mercedes team-mate Nico Rosberg.
Lewis Hamilton made it four pole positions in five races this season as he again left team-mate Nico Rosberg trailing as Mercedes once more locked out the front row of the Spanish Grand Prix grid.
Mercedes motorsport boss Toto Wolff has faith Nico Rosberg will not let Lewis Hamilton's dominant run drag him down.


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|Uniform Type Identifier (UTI)
|Developed by
|John Gruber
|Initial release
|March 25, 2004[2]
|Latest release
|1.0.1 / December 17, 2004[3]
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Markdown is a plain text formatting syntax[5] designed so that it optionally can be converted to HTML using a tool by the same name. Markdown is popularly used to format readme files, for writing messages in online discussion forums or in text editors for the quick creation of rich text documents.
The Markdown language was created in 2004 by John Gruber with substantial contributions from Aaron Swartz,[6] with the goal of allowing people "to write using an easy-to-read, easy-to-write plain text format, and optionally convert it to structurally valid XHTML (or HTML)".[3]
Taking cues from existing conventions for marking up plain text in email such as setext, the language was designed to be readable as-is, without looking like it's been marked up with tags or formatting instructions,[7] unlike text formatted with a Markup language, such as HTML, which has obvious tags and formatting instructions. Markdown is a formatting syntax for text that can be read by humans and can be easily converted to HTML.
Gruber wrote a Perl script, Markdown.pl, which converts marked-up text input to valid, well-formed XHTML or HTML and replaces left-pointing angle brackets ('<') and ampersands with their corresponding character entity references. It can be used as a standalone script, as a plugin for Blosxom or Movable Type, or as a text filter for BBEdit.[3]
Markdown has since been re-implemented by others as a Perl module available on CPAN (Text::Markdown), and in a variety of other programming languages. It is distributed under a BSD-style license[4] and is included with, or available as a plugin for, several content-management systems.[8][9]
Sites such as GitHub, reddit, Diaspora, Stack Exchange, OpenStreetMap, and SourceForge use variants of Markdown to facilitate discussion between users.[10][11][12][13]
There is no clearly defined Markdown standard, apart from the original writeup and implementation by John Gruber, which is considered to be abandonware,[14][15] leading to fragmentation as different vendors write their own variants of the language to correct flaws or add missing features. In late 2012, a standardization effort was started, spurred in part by a blog post of Jeff Atwood.[16] A community website now aims to "document various tools and resources available to document authors and developers, as well as implementors of the various markdown implementations".[17] A tool (named Babelmark2[18]) is also available to "[compare] the output of various implementations" to "promote discussion of how and whether certain vague aspects of the markdown spec should be clarified".[19]
A number of lightweight markup languages extend Markdown by implementing added features (such as tables, footnotes, definition lists, and Markdown inside HTML blocks) not available with plain Markdown syntax. Among these are Markdown Extra, MultiMarkdown, Maruku,[20] Kramdown and the Pandoc Markdown extension.[21] In some cases, this is in order to enable conversion into more formats than HTML, e.g. LaTeX, RTF and DocBook.
Many implementations also intentionally omit support for middle word emphasis. The original Markdown implementation interprets constructs like
my_long_variable as a request to emphasize "long" in the middle of a word. Many users found this confusing, so many later implementations such as PHP Markdown and Python Markdown do not implement middle word emphasis by default.[22]
The essay "Thoughts on Markdown" stated that Markdown's original developer, John Gruber, has not responded to discussions about extensions to Markdown, and that "Markdown is changing, with or without him".
The following shows text using Markdown syntax on the left, the corresponding HTML produced by a Markdown processor in the center, and the text viewed in a browser on the right.
Heading ======= Sub-heading ----------- h3. Traditional html title Paragraphs are separated by a blank line. Let 2 spaces at the end of a line to do a line break Text attributes *italic*, **bold**, `monospace`. A [link](http://example.com). <<< No space between ] and ( >>> Shopping list: * apples * oranges * pears Numbered list: 1. apples 2. oranges 3. pears The rain---not the reign---in Spain.

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Text attributes italic, bold,
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While Markdown is a minimal markup language and is easily read and edited with a normal text editor, there are specially-designed editors that preview the files with styles. There are a variety of such editors available for all major platforms, and there are syntax highlighting plugins for markdown built into emacs, gedit, and vim.
Implementations of Markdown are available for many different frameworks, platforms and languages.
- The sourcecode documentation generator Doxygen supports Markdown with extra features.[23]
- RStudio, an IDE for R provides a C++ wrapper function for the markdown implementation sundown.[24]
- IntelliJ IDEA, an IDE for Java, provides a Markdown plugin[25][26]
- MultiMarkdown, a format and program with more syntax features and export options than traditional Markdown
- PageDown, a parser for StackExchange's Markdown syntax[27]
- GitHub Flavored Markdown (GFM) adds syntax highlighting, task lists,[28] and tables.[10] It has several implementations:
- ""Grip - Github Readme Instant Preview" (Joe Esposito) - Python
- "Vim-Flavored-Markdown" (Jeff Tratner) - Vim scripting
- "GitHub-Flavored Markdown Comments" (Evan Solomon) - PHP WordPress plugin
- "Markdown on Save" (Mark Jaquith) - PHP WordPress plugin
- "Node-GFM" (Gabriel Llamas) - JavaScript
- "Parsedown" (Emanuil Rusev) - PHP
- Pandoc adds tables, line blocks, definition lists, superscripts and subscripts, can generate table of content.[29]
Test Suites[edit]
There are many more open-source implementations of Markdown available online.
See also[edit]
- Similar lightweight markup languages:
- Comparison of document markup languages
- Comparison of documentation generators
- ^ Daring Fireball Statement by creator John Gruber
- ^ "Daring Fireball: Markdown". Web.archive.org. Retrieved 2014-04-25.
- ^ a b c Markdown 1.0.1 readme source code "Daring Fireball – Markdown". 17 Dec 2004.
- ^ a b "Markdown: License". Daring Fireball. Retrieved 2014-04-25.
- ^ "Markdown". December 4, 2013.
- ^ "Markdown". Aaron Swartz: The Weblog. March 19, 2004.
- ^ Markdown Syntax "Daring Fireball – Markdown – Syntax". 13 Jun 2013.
- ^ "MarsEdit 2.3 ties the knot with Tumblr support – Ars Technica". Retrieved 2009-08-11.
- ^ "Review: Practical Django Projects – Ars Technica". Retrieved 2009-08-11.
- ^ a b "GitHub Flavored Markdown". github.com. Retrieved 29 March 2013.
- ^ "Reddit markdown primer. Or, how do you do all that fancy formatting in your comments, anyway?". reddit.com. Retrieved 29 March 2013.
- ^ "Markdown Editing Help". http://stackoverflow.com. Retrieved 11 April 2014.
- ^ "SourceForge: Markdown Syntax Guide". sourceforge.net. Retrieved 2013-05-10.
- ^ Atwood, Jeff. "Responsible Open Source Code Parenting". Codinghorror.com. Retrieved 2014-04-25.
- ^ "Trouble with parentheses in Markdown hyperlinks". Six.pairlist.net. 2012-10-17. Retrieved 2014-04-25.
- ^ Atwood, Jeff (2012-10-25). "The Future of Markdown". Codinghorror.com. Retrieved 2014-04-25.
- ^ "Markdown Community Page". Markdown.github.io. Retrieved 2014-04-25.
- ^ "Babelmark 2 - Compare markdown implementations". Johnmacfarlane.net. Retrieved 2014-04-25.
- ^ "Babelmark 2 - FAQ". Johnmacfarlane.net. Retrieved 2014-04-25.
- ^ Maruku
- ^ Pandoc Markdown
- ^ Markdown Discuss
- ^ "Doxygen Manual: Markdown support". Stack.nl. 2014-04-21. Retrieved 2014-04-25.
- ^ file 462 lines (396 sloc) 12.572 kb. "rstudio/src/cpp/core/markdown/Markdown.cpp at master · rstudio/rstudio · GitHub". Github.com. Retrieved 2014-04-25.
- ^ "JetBrains Plugin Repository :: Markdown". Plugins.jetbrains.com. Retrieved 2014-04-25.
- ^ "nicoulaj/idea-markdown ¡ GitHub". Github.com. 2013-12-01. Retrieved 2014-04-25.
- ^ Jeff Atwood (25 Oct 2012). "The Future of Markdown". Coding Horror.
- ^ "Writing on GitHub". help.github.com. Github, Inc. Retrieved 9 July 2014.
- ^ "Pandoc's markdown". Retrieved 2014-08-05.


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Cottage, 2 Bedrooms + Detached Unit, 1 Bath, (Sleeps 4-5)
Unique vacation home located on a private and peaceful estate on Lake St. Francis. Spectacular sunset views from the Adirondack Mountains and paradise for those who love outdoors.
Be amazed by large ships navigating the St. Lawrence Seaway.
This newly renovated cottage opens to a living room, kitchen and bathroom, 2 bedrooms with queen size beds with all quality mattresses and pillows. Linens and towels are supplied. This cottage will accomodate 4 persons. Cleaning fees are included.
Swimming, boating, fishing and recreational opportunities abound, including your own private dock. Boat ramp on premises if you should want to bring your own boat.
Enjoy the serenity of fishing for world famous Lancaster Perch, Small mouth and Large mouth Bass, Pickerel, Northern Pike. Fishing and hunting guides are available.
Fishing guide for Walleye is available @ $375./day.
The cottage is within walking distance to a kayak rental and 2 marinas where boat rentals are available.
If biking is your favorite sport, the Waterfront Trail runs on scenic County Road # 2 through most of the Township of South Glengarry. This winding stretch of road follows the shoreline of the St. Lawrence River and passes through the quaint villages of Glen Walter and Summerstown on the way to Lancaster. East of Lancaster, the Trail follows the South Service Rd for about 10 km. before rejoining County Road 2 for the final stretch extending to the Quebec border. County Road 2 from Cornwall to Lancaster has a designated paved shoulder.
A close by golf course is situated within 5 minutes of driving.
The property is also accessible to shops and restaurants.
Come try our famous Lancaster fishroll.
When are you coming?
Keywords: St Lawrence River, Boat House, waterfront, fishing,hunting,executive,furnished,
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Thanks for the use of your spectacular place durring our long weekend vacation in May with our family
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Changing a liquidator and the tax consequences of owning two properties were among the topics raised in the latest batch of reader questions.
Summertime and the living is easy. That is unless you are a teenager experiencing one of the essential initiations into adulthood; toiling away at a summer job. The range of exciting opportunities have not changed all that much for our youth and I think this is a good thing: there is nothing like serving up burgers or pumping gas during long hot days to get young people thinking about what they really want to do with the rest of their lives. But what has changed for many families is the necessity of summer jobs for the family teens and, as a consequence, gone too is that first job's critical role in helping young people learn about managing their own money. It goes without saying that when cash was scarce and allowances non-existent, even the surliest teenager was motivated to mow lawns or babysit in order to earn money for a coveted bicycle or the latest Beatles release. Some enterprising youngsters even turned these odd jobs into full-fledged enterprises and no doubt have since gone on to successful business careers.
In life, things are not always what they seem. Keen observers know that to be especially true of financial markets.
Last weekend, more than 40,000 people packed the CenturyLink Center in downtown Omaha, Neb., for the Berkshire Hathaway annual meeting, to hear Warren Buffett and his long-time business partner, Charlie Munger, speak for hours about the economy.
The consequences of a property transfer to children and of voluntary disclosure of past tax inaccuracies were among the topics raised in the latest batch of reader letters. Here's what they wanted to know.
We know we have employee benefits, and the lucky among us have company pensions, but how many of us know exactly what we have in the way of health, dental, insurance or retirement entitlements, thanks to our employment?
April brought another substantial spring for the Gazette portfolio. The basket of 15 Quebec-based companies gained 4.2 per cent last month to improve its year-to-date number to 10.9 per cent.
If you are one of the many Canadians who can look forward to a federal or provincial tax refund, you can luxuriate in dreaming about what to do with it.
A fat dividend from Héroux-Devtek Inc. helped the Gazette portfolio finish 2012 with a flourish.
In the spirit of the season, let me offer some creative ways to give to your loved ones and those around you so the money you spend really shows you care without breaking the bank.
As we approach the end of 2012, we thought it would be beneficial to look back and highlight several names that have made significant moves this year and share our thoughts on their prospects going forward.
Part 3 of a six-article series on financial, tax and investing strategies.
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Monday, September 01, 2014
`The Point of Style'
My fourteen-year-old's barber recommended gel for his newly short hair. It comes packaged in a tube like glue. He's freshly aware of such things, much given to mirrors and his reflection in windows. "Just checking," he says. "Style, Dad." I paid for the haircut and the goop, which reminds me of a product from my adolescence – Butch Wax (sounds like a lesbian bar) – and signed the slip. As usual, my signature is unrecognizable even to me. Since I was younger than my son is today I have wanted elegant handwriting but settle for chicken scratch. The barber, who smells heavily of cigarette smoke, though we have never seen her smoking, says, a little tartly, I think, "That's your name?" I bite my tongue and console myself with Howard Nemerov's "Writing": "Still, the point of style / is character."
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Sunday, August 31, 2014
`Giving Elegance to Trifles'
"The purpose for which letters are written when no intelligence is communicated or business transacted, is to preserve in the minds of the absent either love or esteem; to excite love we must impart pleasure, and to raise esteem we must discover abilities."
When did I last receive a letter? I mean "letter" in the conventional, almost extinct sense of a sheet of paper, handwritten or typed, with a message composed in complete sentences, folded, sealed in an envelope, stamped, addressed and mailed – a significant investment of time, energy and thoughtfulness our literate forebears took for granted. The closest surviving descendant of this non-machine-generated ideal is the birthday card, a second-best, ghost-written surrogate. This would have appalled Samuel Johnson, author of the passage above in The Rambler #152, published on this date, Aug. 31, in 1751. Johnson continues:
"Pleasure will generally be given as abilities are displayed by scenes of imagery, points of conceit, unexpected sallies, and artful compliments. Trifles always require exuberance of ornament; the building which has no strength can be valued only for the grace of its decorations. The pebble must be polished with care, which hopes to be valued as a diamond; and words ought surely to be laboured, when they are intended to stand for things."
There was, in other words, an art to letter writing, prescribed in part by an unwritten code of manners ("Dear," "Sincerely," "P.S."), a mingling of formality and affection, and a willingness to select the correct words and polish them. Cousin to such a letter is the flow of familiar conversation. Or the rare, well-written, thoughtful email, such as I received Friday from Helen Pinkerton. She writes, in part:
"In your blog for August 11 on Louise Bogan I like the way that you show your gift not only finding exceptional passages of criticism in older writers but adding your own perceptions about the passages in question. I admire and enjoy your way of writing what is really the equivalent of a very short literary essay. You, yourself, are pretty strong on `much in little.'"
That such a compliment is delivered in careful, measured prose, not in today's more overheated, formulaic fashion – the verbal equivalent of the vulgar "High five!" – lends it an earned quality. Helen respects language and other people. It's no coincidence that she noticed a typo I had missed in the same post. Johnson says in the same Rambler essay:"As much of life must be passed in affairs considerable only by their frequent occurrence, and much of the pleasure which our condition allows, must be produced by giving elegance to trifles, it is necessary to learn how to become little without becoming mean, to maintain the necessary intercourse of civility, and fill up the vacuities of actions by agreeable appearances. It had, therefore, been of advantage, if such of our writers as have excelled in the art of decorating insignificance, had supplied us with a few sallies of innocent gaiety, effusions of honest tenderness, or exclamations of unimportant hurry."
Saturday, August 30, 2014
`Blorting and Blorting Through the Hours'
Perhaps the least Larkin-esque word ever used by Larkin in a poem: blort. It looks like a typo for blurt or a cartoon sound effect. The OED doesn't recognize it. Its closest possible cognate in that dictionary is blore, a verb meaning "to cry, cry out, weep; of animals, to bleat, bray, bellow." In "Faith Healing" (The Whitsun Weddings, 1964), Larkin writes of the women seeking the touch of the faith healer: "…and such joy arrives / Their thick tongues blort." In that context, I've always assumed it meant to make an unintelligible animal sound rather than to be humanly articulate. It carries a hint of sexuality and perhaps is meant to suggest glossolalia or speaking in tongues. In a letter to Anthony Thwaite written in 1960, Larkin says:
"…blort is intended: it is I think a variation of blore which is a dialect word meaning to bellow (like an animal). I am rather alarmed not to find blort in the dictionary, but D.H. Lawrence uses it somewhere, and I certainly don't mean blurt, which has a quite different meaning to my mind."
Five years later in a letter to Judie Johnson, Larkin says of the word: "It means a thick heifer-like bellowing. I don't know where I found it—one of Lawrence's dialect poems I believe." The editor of The Complete Poems (2012), Archie Burnett, does our homework and locates the word in a laughably ridiculous poem by Lawrence, "Tortoise Shout": "I remember the heifer in her heat, blorting and blorting through the hours, persistent and irrepressible."
Thirty years ago, another reporter and I at an Indiana newspaper played a mildly subversive game. We challenged each other to work obscure, preferably sexually suggestive words into our copy. He covered city government and my beat was courts, so our use of exotic lingo was conspicuous even to narcoleptic copy editors. The rules were simple: Use only real words and use them correctly. I recall only one of them: fream. The OED gives "to roar, rage, growl: spec. of a boar," with a hint of the sound said animal makes while in rut. The pun on "bore" was irresistible. I used "freamed" as a synonym for the ubiquitous "said" when quoting a judge renowned for the flatulence of his pronouncements from the bench. An editor caught it, asked me if it was a typo for "creamed," and deleted it. There's a metaphysical realm reserved for words that exist only briefly and amusingly, and then are gone.
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Friday, August 29, 2014
`The Depth of Unchecked Evil'
Thanks to Cynthia Haven we have Helen Pinkerton's thoughts on Vasily Grossman's Life and Fate. Helen's reactions to the novel recall my own:
"I finished it recently and found it possibly the greatest novel I have ever read. He creates a world – actually, two worlds, the Russian and the German – of believable human characters, who try to live worthy lives under a totalitarian government that is structured to destroy their humanity by bringing out the worst in each of them. Chapter after chapter unfolds individual dramas, wherein moral choices are made that are lived with and often died by."
Earlier this month Helen wrote in an email:
"I have been reading the novel through in the last few months. I am very near the end, where Victor Schtrum is about to find out what will happen to him for his `mistakes.' Grossman's portraits of human and inhuman persons living in a totalitarian state are extraordinarily authentic and moving. I have to say that it is one of the finest novels I have ever read. I read War and Peace when I was in my teens, so I don't remember it very well. But my impression is that Grossman's novel is more important to me, because the events that are his subject took place in my life-time and his insights into the moral dilemmas and tragic choices of Russians, Germans, Tartars, Ukrainians, and the one Italian priest help me to understand the importance of knowing what happened to the human soul in those terrible years in order to understand the depth of unchecked evil in our contemporary and future society, world-wide."
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`Filled With Very Little'
"We may suspect that the author wrote them for himself, and didn't know that he was tracing for others the image of a solitary and lucid man, conscious of the singular mystery of each moment."
Back to aphorisms. This is Borges writing of the Italian-born Argentine aphorist Antonio Porchia (1886-1968). Private writing of a literary nature made public is rare, especially in recent centuries. Writers are forever preening and customarily write to be read. Most could not and would not write without the assurance of readers. We sometimes sense Pascal is writing in a personal vacuum, and Robert Walser, but even Kafka has his eye on the future. Porchia is an odd case. He published a single book, Voces, starting with a private edition in 1943, which he tinkered with for the rest of his life. Think of it as a terse Leaves of Grass. Ultimately, Porchia published some six-hundred aphorisms and nothing else. He is routinely called a poet but writes brief bits of prose. A selection in French came out in 1949. W.S. Merwin published the first English version of Voices in 1969, with Copper Canyon Press putting out an updated edition in 2003. Porchia is one of literature's solitaries, a modest autodidact of the word. In his 1969 note, Merwin says of Porchia, "the aphorisms themselves are not, in his view, compositions of his own so much as emanations which he has heard and set down."
There is a sense not of misanthropy in Porchia but monastic austerity, minus a deity. Merwin tells us Porchia's father had been a priest in Italy, but abandoned his calling. His recurrent themes are solitude and suffering, but without self-pity. His thinking is stark and modest, qualities reflected in his choice of forms. Each aphorism is a small illumination. He has no dogma to preach and follows no system of thought. In this, he is like another European transplanted to Argentina, Witold Gombrowicz. Sometimes, Porchia has a Chestertonian taste for paradox: "A large heart can be filled with very little." He channels Kafka: "When one does not love the impossible, one does not love anything." And Heraclitus: "Everything that changes, where it changes, leaves behind it an abyss."
One of the effects of reading a body of aphorisms is to further condense one's thoughts and words. Novels and histories start to seem ungainly, like corpulent children. But one also becomes aware of the risks in thinking and writing aphoristically, the temptation to slip into portentousness, like pundits, street preachers and other crackpots. Bad aphorisms are too pleased with themselves, like comics who laugh at their own jokes. One also starts seeing aphorisms everywhere, even where they don't exist. Rereading Auden on Shakespeare (ed. Arthur Kirsch, 2001), I found this in the lecture on Richard II: "Richard has few feelings, but he enjoys those situations that should produce feelings." Porchia writes: "A child shows his toy, a man hides his."
Thursday, August 28, 2014
`It's a Very Solitary Instrument'
If this blog has accomplished anything worthwhile in eight and a half years, it is to keep alive the names and works of good writers half-lost to oblivion. There's no fairness to literary reputation. Mediocrities thrive, worthies fade. The only true act of criticism is to read a writer attentively and share your pleasure or displeasure with another, whether in a high-toned journal or over breakfast. Chief among the writers I've championed for the most selfish of reasons, undiluted enjoyment, are two American poets, L.E. Sissman (1928-1976) and Herbert Morris (1928-2001). At a website called Spoken Web I found a recording of a reading Sissman gave at Sir George Williams University in Montreal in 1972, seven years after he was diagnosed with Hodgkin's lymphoma and four years before his death. The sound of his voice was new to me, deeper and somehow more richly American than I had imagined. A Detroit native, Sissman speaks with Midwestern flatness mitigated by a hint of Harvard. His voice is strong, betraying no cancer or its treatment. He talks like a polite and almost pedantic wiseguy, interrupting and revising himself frequently, a quality we find in his poems.
Of the first poem he reads, "Mouth Organ Tunes, The American Lost-and-Found," Sissman says he tried to capture "the terminal flatness and grain-ness of American life, United States life, and the attempts to alleviate this barrenness by all sorts of temporizing accommodations, going to Howard Johnson's on a Sunday, or having a kinky party in New York to show off one's new paintings or celebrating the death of a genuine antique American and New Englander and looking at the house that he lived in and so on."
In the poem and in Sissman's comments, I detect no Ginsbergian snottiness about middle-class Americans. No contempt or condescension. The first section of the poem is titled "In a Ho-Jo's by the River," and Sissman is celebrating a familiar fixture of the American road. The only other writer I recall who singles out Howard Johnson's is Stanley Elkin in the first phrase of the first sentence in The Franchiser (1976): "Past the orange roof and turquoise tower…" Sissman continues:
"Anyway the tune is called, the poem is called `Mouth Organ Tunes," and I use the mouth organ as an instrument here to suggest the, well the mouth organ is something that can be played in a band, but is better not, it's a very solitary instrument and to me it always conveys the loneliness of an individual against insurmountable odds."
Not to mention cowboys around the campfire, bluesmen and Larry Adler – an all-American instrument. The other poems Sissman reads, all found in Hello, Darkness: The Collected Poems of L.E. Sissman (1978), are "The Big Rock Candy Mountain," "The Birdman of Cambridge, Mass.," "A College Room, Lowell R-34, 1945," "East Congress and McDougal Streets, Detroit, May 25," "The Museum of Comparative Zoology," "A Deathplace," "Getting On: Grave Expectations," "The Mid-Forties: On Meeting No One in New York," "A Comedy in Ruins" and "Cockaigne: A Dream."
About "East Congress and McDougal Streets, Detroit, May 25," Sissman tells the audience it was about a "shattering experience" he had in 1964 when he returned to his old neighborhood in Detroit and found "how puny it was and how destroyed it was by the passage of time." The poem recalls Donald Justice's disciplined excursions into nostalgia. In it he writes: "This was Jerusalem, our vivid valley. / In our dead neighborhood / Now nothing more can come to good." Here is the poem's final line: "My thirst for the past is easy to appease."
Introducing "A Deathplace," Sissman says: "Let me get onto a poem that is now again a little bit more serious, although not ultimately so I hope. It's about being very sick at the hospital and knowing one is in good hands." The poem, the only one Sissman reads explicitly acknowledging the cancer that was killing him, has one of his grim, memorable, witty openings:
"Very few people know where they will die,
But I do: in a brick-faced hospital,
Divided, not unlike Caesarean Gaul,
Into three parts."
And here are the final four lines:
"Then one fine day when all the smart flags flap,
A booted man in black with a peaked cap
Will call for me and troll me down the hall
And slot me into his black car. That's all."
Wednesday, August 27, 2014
`Irrespective of the Reader's Convictions'
"Aphorisms are essentially an aristocratic genre of writing. The aphorist does not argue or explain, he asserts; and implicit in his assertion is a conviction that he is wiser or more intelligent than his readers. For this reason the aphorist who adopts a folksy style with `democratic' diction and grammar is a cowardly and insufferable hypocrite."
The writer of carefully hedged aphorisms, qualified to fit every contingency, is no aphorist at all. "Wiser or more intelligent" isn't quite right. It's more accurate to say an aphorist weds ruthlessness to cant-free concision, gifts few writers possess in tandem (Swift did, supremely). Aphorisms are as tight and difficult to write as sestinas. They can be cold, merciless and unforgiving, and thus are ideal for delivering carefully aimed jabs of truth and puncturing pretensions. Can one imagine a politically correct aphorism? There's nothing of self-regarding virtue in the form. An aphorist assumes truth trumps compassion and tact. Elsewhere in his foreword to The Viking Book of Aphorisms (1962), W.H. Auden says an aphorism must "convince every reader that it is either universally true or true of every member of the class to which it refers, irrespective of the reader's convictions."
For inclusion in their anthology, Auden and his co-editor, Louis Kronenberger, rely heavily on the long-reliable – La Rochefoucauld, Chamfort, Lichtenberg, Kraus, Pascal, Chesterton, Santayana and, of course, Dr. Johnson. They quote Johnson, via Boswell -- "In lapidary inscriptions a man is not upon oath" -- and in nine words he acknowledges human mendacity even in death, and forgives it.
Aphorisms can show up anywhere. They need not be written and discretely identified as aphorisms, maxims, epigrams, apothegms or aperçus. A reader can happen upon them in poems (as in Pope) and prose (as in Proust), where their serendipitous discovery contributes to the wallop they pack. Some writers are aphoristic with some regularity. It's a quality, like a sense of humor, I associate with mental health. Take Stevie Smith's "God and the Devil" from A Good Time Was Had by All (1937):
"God and the Devil
Were talking one day
Ages and ages of years ago.
God said: Suppose
Things were fashioned this way,
Well then, so and so.
The Devil said: No,
Prove it if you can.
So God created Man
And that is how it all began.
It has continued now for many a year
And sometimes it seems more than we can bear.
But why should bowels yearn and cheeks grow pale?
We're here to point a moral and adorn a tale."
If the final, aphoristic line sounds familiar, your memory is good. Smith borrows it from Dr. Johnson's "The Vanity of Human Wishes" and revises it for her own purposes:
"His Fall was destin'd to a barren Strand,
A petty Fortress, and a dubious Hand;
He left the Name, at which the World grew pale,
To point a Moral, or adorn a Tale."
Smith must have been exceedingly fond of the line. She used it a year earlier in her first novel, Novel on Yellow Paper:
"For this book is the talking voice that runs on, and the thoughts come, the way I said, and the people come too, and come and go, to illustrate the thoughts, to point the moral, to adorn the tale."
Tuesday, August 26, 2014
`The Golden Age Continues, Even Now'
For some of us, connections with eminent forebears – real, physical connections, not sentimental swoonings -- are matters of some gravity. I've documented my pedigree and A.J. Liebling's elsewhere, and now I've thought of another forming a pleasingly closed loop: I shook hands with Steven Millhauser, who shook hands with Lionel Trilling, who shook hands with Whitaker Chambers, who shook hands with Louis Zukofsky, who shook hands with Guy Davenport, who shook hands with me (many sub-loops could be traced, leading us to Auden, Barzun and Bellow, among others). I'm tempted to start another beginning with my introduction to Ralph Ellison but that's enough phantom associations for now. I came across a more substantial, albeit broken, linkage while reading Walter Martin's translation of Baudelaire's Complete Poems (Routledge, 2002). In his "Afterthoughts," Martin writes:
"My credentials are as follows: Once I shook the hand of Basil Bunting, who dined with William Butler Yeats, who shared rooms with Arthur Symons, who spent twenty years translating Baudelaire and was a friend of Paul Verlaine, whose series of three articles on the book [Les Fleurs du Mal] had appeared in 1865. Two years later Baudelaire was dead, having refused, for reasons known only to himself, to meet Verlaine or Mallarmé or any of the young poets of his day who aspired to become him."
This notion of kinship, of writers as a sort of family to whom we owe a debt of gratitude, seems especially important to Martin. He traces two lines of descent from Baudelaire – Verlaine/Rimbaud, Mallarmé/Valéry – and offers a lengthy list of writers who share his "complex patrimony." Among them: Corbière, Proust, Eliot, Auden, Larkin, Montale and Winters. They passed along Baudelaire's influence, Martin says, "so that in a sense, attenuated as it may be, exhausted as it is, the golden age continues, even now." Martin's fellow feeling extends to his acknowledgements page, where he expresses gratitude to, among others, Edgar Bowers, Dick Davis, Dana Gioia, Donald Justice, Helen (Pinkerton) Trimpi and Janet Lewis. Explaining his theory of translation, which includes replicating Baudelaire's forms, meters and rhymes, Martin quotes bluesman Furry Lewis: "If it ain't rhymed up, it don't sound good to me or nobody else."
Martin sounds like an interesting fellow. The brief biographical note in the book says he was born in Texas, read French at Stanford and taught English in Nepal. He formerly owned Chimaera, a bookshop in Palo Alto, and was working on a translation of Théophile Gautier's Émaux et Camées. Martin's lineage and thankfulness prompts me to add an afterthought of my own: I've shaken hands with two men who shook hands with A.J. Liebling – Tony Hiss and James Salter.
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In this episode, we take a look at Heartland, Imperial Settlers, Destination Neptune, and Firefly: Pirates. We hear about a dangerous woman, discuss whether or not boardgaming has become less fun for us, and answer a pile of other questions. We end the show with our top ten games that teach or feature logic!Listen now.
In this episode, we take a look at Shadowrun Crossfire, Russian Railroads, Roads and Boats, Battle Sheep and more! We discuss the Dice Tower Convention 3, point out Tom's glaring error, and talk about the future of the show. Finally, we talk about what games to take with you to the South Pole!Listen now.
In this show, recorded live at Dice Tower Conventioni 2014, Tom and Eric are joined by a host of contributors to announce and present the best games of 2013 - the Dice Tower Award winners. We also talk a bit about the convention, and are joined by Sam and Zee to answer questions from the audience.Listen now.
Eric decides to post something anyway on our week "off", and talks more about his experiences at Origins 2014.Listen now.
In this show, Tom goes to the floor of Origins and talks to random people he meets about the show. Eric interviews his sons about their experiences, and we talk about the highlights of the Origins Game Fair 2014.Listen now.
In this show, we take a look at Kaosball, Lost Valley, Jupiter Rescue, Splendor, Starship Catan, and Zimbbos. We answer questions about lending out our games and playing competitvely, and end the show with our top ten games that "take a minute to learn and a lifetime to master".Listen now.
In this episode, we talk about X-Wing, Mai Star, Happy Birthday, Arkadia Quest, Xenoshyft, and Rivet Wars. Tom talks about the Dice Tower Origins 2014 plans, and also talks about his time at the Cool Mini or Not convention. Greg talks about the worst stores ever, we answer questions, contributors chime in, and we end the show with the biggest surprises we've ever encoutered in a game.Listen now.
Steven Banas joins us, as we talk about Hot Tin Roof, Eldritch Horror, City of Iron, Hegemonic, Airlines Europe, and Kayanak. A funny Tale of Horror is brought out, and we answer questions - such as how to deal with an angry gamer. Finally, we end the show with our top ten "Next Step" games - games to teach people after they've started the hobby.Listen now.
In this show, Mark takes the ten by ten challenge, Geoff examines a gaming lawsuit, Brian takes a look at Betrayal at House on the Hill, and Bill talks about running a convention. We review Hearthstone, Formula E, Marrying Mr. Darcy, Horse Show, Race Formula 90, and Dungeon Dice; and then take a look at the Spiel des Jahres nominees. A Tale of Horror, questions, and our answers to "Do you keep track of your games played and wins/losses?" round up the show.Listen now.
In this show, we talk about Dungeon Petz, Khet, C3K, Mission Red Planet, Ka-boom, and Toss Your Cookies! We also hear about a Tale of Jerkiness, why Eric hates Citadels, and several other questions and answers. Finally, we end the show with our top ten games with hidden objectives.Listen now.
In this show, we are joined by Brad Talton from Level 99 Games, and proceed to talk about Polar Derby, There's A Moose In The House, the X-wing Rebel Transport, Ruse, Boss Monster, Android Netrunner: Honor and Profit, and Splendor. We start a new game show, listen to a tale of Horror, learn how to win at rock-paper-scissors, hear about the Gathering of Friends, and answer a pile of questions! Whew! Finally, we end the show with ridiculous rules found in rulebooks.Listen now.
In this show, Tom talks about the gaming in LA, we discuss our Origins Game Fair plans, and we talk about The Agents,Cube Quest, Great Heartland Hauling Company, and Loot. Once again we answer questions, we look at a slash fiction game, and we talk about our top ten asymetrical board games.Listen now.
In this show, Tom and Eric take a look at Rogue Agent, Lewis and Clark, Celestial Rainbows, Quarriors: Light & Dark, Wooolf!, Capo dei Capi, Alien Hotshots, and Galactic Strike Force. Brian takes a look back at Upwards, Tom and Eric examine the Dice Tower Network's game of the month, Settlers of Catan, we have a Tale of Horror - and we end the show with our favorite old TV shows that we wish became board games!Listen now.
In this episode, we take a look at Lewis and Clark, Oneupmanship, Freedom: the Underground Railroad, Pairs, and Mice and Mystics: Heart of Glorm. We descend into yet another tale of horror, answer some questions, and finish up the show with our top ten exploration games!Listen now.
In this show, we review Clash of Cultures, Eight Minute Empire Legends, Common Ground, Damage Report, and Splendor - while Eric gets angry at a game. Geoff analyzes Werewolf, Mark talks about Adepticon, we talk about Origins and much, much more! We end the show talking about how to deal with those who make fun of our hobby.Listen now.