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urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:m_francis The Auld Blogge: Mike Flynn's Journal Occasional Thoughts, Announcements, Warnings, and Cautionary Tales m_francis 2014-10-29T04:23:13Z urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:m_francis:323077 Flynncestry: The Flynns of Loughrea 2014-10-29T04:23:13Z 2014-10-29T04:23:13Z

The Leaving of Ballinlough
We know from his gravestone in Washington, NJ, that TOF's ancestor Martin Flynn was "born in Loughrea in the County Galway." When years ago TOF wrote a letter to the Connaught Tribune asking after these Flynns of Loughrea, he received letters from Ireland, England, Australia, Canada, all from Flynns with roots in Loughrea. One correspondent, Fr. Jarlath Flynn, told TOF that the Flynns of Loughrea had come originally from Co. Roscommon. (Another sent me an article from the Connaught Tribune about the history of the Flynns of Ballinlough.) Hence, much of the previous episode in this saga.

Meanwhile, a Flynn in Ballinlough passed on a story told by her father. John Flynn, that after the Cromwell War, one widow Flynn, rather than pay rent to the new English landlord, took her family to live with her relatives in Loughrea. The article in the Tribune had mentioned that intermarriage with the Burkes was evidenced by the name  Fiachra, a traditional Flynn name, showing up in Burke families. Since Loughrea was the seat of the Burkes, it seemed at least plausible that the widow was a Burke.

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 urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:m_francis:322841 Who Sez the Know Nothings Are Dead? 2014-10-27T15:41:40Z 2014-10-27T15:41:40Z

h/t Mark Shea

or that the Klan is moribund? Their tudes and tactics apparently live on in what used to be the Democratic Party of Washington State. A life-long Democrat himself until driven out by anti-Catholicism, this fellow Miloscia has been attacked with unparalleled vitriol. OMG, he's been a lobbyist for the Catholic Church! that evil band of idolators. Note the button-pushes intended to appeal directly to the Triumphant Will, bypassing the Intellect: the bishop's mitre, the references to Mississippi OMG!, the various secular obsessions with the pelvis, "health choices" as a euphemism for You Know What, and so on.

Sometimes, TOF thinks that it is the devotion to logic and reason that really outrages these emotionalists.

TOF being a certified Olde Pharte™ can remember Ancient Days, when the Democratic Party was referred to only half in jest as "the secular wing of the Catholic Church." Caesar, however, is never to be trusted when Power is on the table.

Be interesting to see if the National party stomps down hard on this local lizard and the rock it crawled out from under. urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:m_francis:322627 In Psearch of Psyche: Man the Animal 2014-10-27T01:30:12Z 2014-10-27T01:30:12Z

 Man, the Animal

Man, the Animal: Making Sense
It seems like only a couple days ago that we were speaking of that strange borderline between plants and animals; viz., the possibility of sentient plants. Wait a minute, it was only a couple days ago! How time flies when you're having fun. Or reading this blog, which is not always the same thing.

Today, we take up the animal soul and see what that means for human life.

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 urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:m_francis:322332 While Scrolling Down the Wed One Day... 2014-10-27T00:56:05Z 2014-10-27T00:56:05Z

...in the merry, merry month of October, TOF found this image of Hans and Pastor Dietrich conversing by aid of the talking box. Now my image of the Krenken is influenced by Nicholas Jainschigg's original art for ANALOG, which I have in my office, but this fan sketch by Greg Stevens is not too bad.

I had not known anyone had ever done fan art for any of my stuff. I wonder if there's any more out there.
 urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:m_francis:322193 In Psearch of Psyche: Day of the Triffids! 2014-10-24T01:06:15Z 2014-10-24T01:06:15Z

 Psyche, in psearch of you

Is TOF's Faithful Reader ready? Yes, that's right. It's the next inpstallment of that pscintillating pseries, In Psearch of Psyche! For those coming late to the party, the previous chapters were:

"To Deepen into Art..."

In Psearch of Psyche: Some Groundwork

In Psearch of Psyche: Man the Vegetable

For those disinclined to wade once more through those swamps, some key points are these:

Psyche, or soul, is the substantial form of a living body, no more mysterious in its way than the sphere that somehow informs a basketball.

There's more to it than that, of course: the form is "in motion" and not simply shape and arrangement. That's what makes the Argument from Motion (q.v.) so interesting.

Soul is whatever a living body possesses that a dead body does not. It cannot be the matter of the body itself, since materialistically-speaking, the corpse consists of all the same matter as the organism that immediately preceded it. And in fact, your matter is continually changing at the atomic level. You are not today the stuff you were ten years ago. Since you are in fact the same person, you cannot be only your stuff.¹

Inanimate forms possess (generically) four powers: gravity, electromagnetism, strong (nuclear), and weak (radiative). Without these powers, atoms would have no substantial form: The negative charges of the electrons would cause them to plummet into the positively charged nucleus. The positive charges of the protons would cause them to fly apart from one another, rather than huddle together in a nucleus.

Living things are those whose actions are immanent: that is, their acts originate within the thing itself and are done for the sake of the thing. A basketball does not bounce for its own sake; but a petunia blooms for its.²

The simplest of living things are the vegetative things, which include plants, fungi, and the like. (This is psyche-ology, so we won't worry overmuch about distinctions of bodily classifications made by creative taxonomists.

The vegetative psyche, a/k/a the reproductive soul, possesses (generically) four powers in addition to the powers of the inanimate form: nutrition/metabolism, development/growth, and reproduction, plus homeostasis to maintain these in balance.

A plant does not have two souls. Its inanimate powers are recruited into the service of the organism, so that (e.g.) the chemical processes of electromagnetism provide for the digestion and incorporation of food into the stuff of the organism.

Man³ likewise incorporates both the powers of his inanimate stuff and his vegetative powers, which is why the Late Modern obsession with eating and reproductive acts reduces Man to little more than a vegetative state.

Clarifications:
1. not your stuff. This so upsets the Usual Suspects that they deny the minor premise. You are not the same person you were ten years ago. You only think you are. How "you" can think without being "you" is carefully ducked.
2. Note to the excessively literal-minded: This does not imply conscious intention.
3. Man. Do we really need to reiterate that this is the base meaning of "man" as "a rational animal," the same root as "men-tal"? When we mean Man, the Male, we'll say so. Males, alas, lack an exclusive word for themselves as rational beings, to which lack their wives will nod wisely in agreement. The original word for males in Anglo-Saxon was weremann (in contrast to wifmann), abbreviated wera ond wifa as it reads in Beowulf.

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 urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:m_francis:321883 Flynncestry: The Good Old Days of Murder and Mayhem! 2014-10-12T03:39:58Z 2014-10-12T03:39:58Z
THE BEGINNINGS OF THE FLYNNS

Once upon a time, there was a tribe of Gaels descended from CONN THE HUNDRED-FIGHTER and so known as the Connachta. The Connachta grew fruitful and multiplied and divided into the Ui Briuin, Ui Fiachrach, and other tribes; and the Ui Briuin subsequently split into the Ui Briuin Ai on the plain of Mag nAi, the Ui Briuin Breifne (O Rourke, O Reilly, etc.) and the Ui Briuin Seola (O Flaherty, etc.). The Ui Briuin Ai, in turn, diversified into the Sil Maelruain (O Flynn, etc.), the Sil Muiredaigh (McGeraghty, O Connor, etc.) and the Sil Cathail (O Flannigan, etc.)

AD 554. CURNAN, the son of Aedh Abraidh, 8th Christian king of Connacht, went to St. Columcille for protection from the High King, Dermot son of Cearbhail; but Dermot's soldiers ignored the guarantee of sanctuary and forcibly took Curnan from Columcille and killed him, "which was the cause of the Battle of Cul-Dreimhne." Columcille went to his relatives, the O Neill of the North, who allied with the king of Connaught to defeat the High King. It is from Curnan that the O'Flynns trace their descent.

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 urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:m_francis:321640 Beyond the Bounds 2014-10-10T22:07:07Z 2014-10-10T22:07:07Z
"The love of Theory is the root of all evils." -- Wm. M. Briggs, Statistician to the Stars

A recent issue of The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction announced itself as devoted entirely to "stories that deal with touchy themes or go beyond the bounds of Political Correctness."

Now, while PC generally entrains touchiness, the converse is not true. Not all touchy subjects are politically incorrect. Indeed, to treat traditional values in a dismissive way is in many ways the hallmark of political correctness. This is because political correctness has little to do with adherence to the orthodoxy of any particular political creed. Rather, it is the bizarre notion that something must be correct because it is politically orthodox. It surfaced among Marxist "political officers" in the grand old days of the Soviet Union, and was most egregiously instanced in Lysenkoism. It is to be contrasted with the opposite process, by which something becomes orthodox because it is correct.

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 urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:m_francis:321395 When the inmost sea of all the earth was shaken with his ships 2014-10-07T21:05:44Z 2014-10-07T21:05:44Z
TOF has been reminded that today is the anniversary of the Battle of Lepanto in 1571, forty-two years after the First Siege of Vienna. In recent years, this has been re-imagined by the bien pensants as a minor border skirmish, barely noticed by the mighty muslim world, although much puffed about by the puny West. That in itself, beside being an instance of what W.S. Gilbert noted as "the idiot who praises with enthusiastic tone/Every century but this and every country but his own", it is even if true an indicator of what a significant victory it was: The very fact that an existential threat to the West was just a ho-hum to Islam tells us what a David-Goliath thingie it was. It would not be until 1683, a century after Lepanto, when the Jihad finally faltered and broke at the Second Siege of Vienna.

Celebrated in verse:

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 urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:m_francis:321137 Battle of the Books 2014-10-07T16:34:42Z 2014-10-07T16:34:42Z The Greater Lehigh Valley Writers Group (or GLVWG, pron. "glivwig") proposes to put on a Battle of the Books, for which we will practice this coming Thursday. In this battle, three contestant authors will read portions of a book of their own exemplifying elements of the writerly art; to wit:

First Impressions: The book's cover, with title and blurb, are the author's first chance to make a good impression. Each author will be given a chance to read the blurb and show the cover (if available) before reading the opening page of his or her book.

Enter the Hero: There is a place in every book where we meet the protagonist (another first impression), and each author will read the paragraph in which the hero is revealed to the reader.

Meet the Bad Guy: Ditto for the antagonist.

Look Who's Talking: Dialogue is perhaps the most enjoyable part of reading as the characters interact and move the story forward. The authors will read a short exchange of dialogue without explanation.

Let's Go Places: Every scene has to take place somewhere. Each author will read a paragraph that sets a scene for a chapter or segment.

Random Read: The authors will be required to read from a random page and paragraph selected by the audience.

Closing Lines: Every book has a conclusion, and each author will share the closing line of his or her book to conclude the program.

TOF will be one of the three contestants vying for the coveted jelly beans to be awarded by the audience.

He appeals here to his Faithful Reader: Which of the TOFian novels shall bear pride of place in this noble contest? Nominations are hereby solicited. Vote early and often. urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:m_francis:321008 First Way, Part III: The Big Kahuna 2014-10-02T00:44:12Z 2014-10-02T00:44:12Z
Previous episodes in this exciting series, now drawing toward its thrilling climax:

Background lays out the history of the Argument from Motion and the impatience of those who demand that it prove more than it asserts to prove (e.g., that it prove that Jesus is Lord or some such thing, as if the objector were genuinely concerned about this shortfall). The initial proposition in Euclid does not prove every conclusion in Euclid, and the same is true in other sciences as well.

Part I A Moving Tale discusses the concept of "motion" used in the Argument from Motion, and how this is persistently misunderstood today. Kinesis means the actualization of a potential, so "change" is a better summation of the concept than the modern term "motion," which to the our ears sounds like local motion only.

Recall that we are using "motion," "change," "actualization [of a potential]," and "kinesis" as synonyms.

Part II Two Lemmas demonstrate that

Whatever is being actualized right now is being actualized by another. In many cases, a thing is changing as a whole because it is being changed by one of its parts. The cat crosses the room to the milk dish because its legs are moving it; its legs are being moved by its muscles, etc. This is because the changer must be actual while the changee must be in potency and what is in potency cannot make something else actual.

There cannot be an infinite regress of instrumental changers, since an instrumental actualizer has no power to actualize diddly squat unless it is concurrently being actualized itself. Obvious instrumental changers include... well, instruments: golf clubs, clarinets, et al., which have no power to strike balls, make music, etc. unless they are concurrently being employed by a golfer or musician. Not all instruments are obvious: e.g., the muscles are used instrumentally by the nerves to move the arms. But not all changers are instrumental, either, and such "accidental" series can in principle (if not in fact) regress without limit.

A number of objections and misunderstandings were also dealt with in these prior posts.

We are now ready for the Big Kahuna:

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 urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:m_francis:320622 The Autumn of the Modern Ages: Preface 2014-09-28T02:29:48Z 2014-09-28T02:29:48Z
This is the first of a series of posts on the collapse of the Modern Ages. It uses as its starting point, John Lukacs' essay, At the End of an Age. It was originally envisioned as a fact article for ANALOG, but it became way too long for that. However, as TOF transcribed the final portions of these posts, he realized that he might be able to salvage one part of it: the Autumn of Modern Science for such an article, and so that is reserved from this series.

TOF also notices in Preview-view that there are whimsical font changes throughout which he has not been able to correct. Go figure.

The Autumn of the Modern Ages

by Michael F. Flynn

"When the world was half a thousand years younger…"

So began Johan Huizinga's portrait of the 15th century world: The Autumn of the Middle Ages. "Autumn," because if the medieval world was fading, it "faded" in a burst of color and drama, and its passing was also a birth: The Renaissance. [JH]

It wasn't the first time the West had pulled off this re-birth thingie. When the world was half a thousand years younger still, Europe had once before been transformed – and more happily so, for the 10th century had seen, in the revival of commerce and town life, in a renewed thirst for knowledge, the fading of a genuinely desperate era. And five hundred years before that, in "the autumn of late antiquity," people like Boëthius or St. Augustine would later rightly be styled the last of the Romans and the first of the medievals.  [PB].

There is nothing magical about that 500-year interval, but…  Another half millennium back and Caesar crosses the Rubicon and the decaying Republic ends in an Augustan rebirth bright enough that men fifteen centuries after found themselves blinded by its light.

And a half-millennium forward of the Renaissance brings us to…

Well, today.

Thoroughly Modern Milieu

The Series Begins Here, with links to subsequent parts
 urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:m_francis:320455 The Ongoing Redef 2014-09-28T00:22:58Z 2014-09-28T00:22:58Z A couple of interesting stones embedded in the hillside of the slippery slope down which we are presently tumbling presented themselves to TOF's attention recently.

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 urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:m_francis:320100 Timothy Leary, Batu Khan, and the Palimpsest of Universal Reality 2014-09-25T01:41:19Z 2014-09-25T01:41:19Z Over on the story preview page we have another Blast from the Past, a novelette entitled "Timothy Leary, Batu Khan, and the Palimpsest of Universal Reality," which appeared in F&SF in April, 1993. Only Part I is up. Part II will follow in a week.

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 urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:m_francis:319846 Book Review: Wreck of the River of Stars 2014-09-22T20:04:05Z 2014-09-22T20:04:05Z

Joseph Moore at Yard Sale of the Mind has posted a review of The Wreck of 'The River of Stars'. He thinks it's pretty good.

All the characters are loveable in some way, even those who seem harsh or cruel. Each has strengths and weaknesses, and many hold grudges or other hurts. These are revealed over time and become factors in the ultimate fate of the ship and its crew. Moments of great beauty and heroism, of the least likely coming through big, of tragic loss – it's a modern Greek tragedy.

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 urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:m_francis:319720 In a Popular Albeit Neverending Series 2014-09-21T22:59:24Z 2014-09-21T22:59:24Z
which for fear of spoilers TOF shall not name, the following comment was made by a blogger. Names and context have been altered to protect the innocent.

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 urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:m_francis:319287 Poetry Time: Hopkins 2014-09-19T02:37:22Z 2014-09-19T02:37:22Z When TOF was in high school, he (along with his fellow scholars) was assigned to write a term paper on a selected English writer. Unlike most of the others, the selection in his case was made by Sister. She selected for his edification Gerard Manley Hopkins, a poet of whom TOF had not hitherto heard of. (Sister had the firm belief that TOF would one day become a Jesuit, and Hopkins was a Jesuit. In the end, the Jesuits lucked out.)

This was not the poem, but one TOF selected more or less at random for the blog. It is one of several untitled poems, apparently written while Hopkins was suffering from clinical depression, with its accompanying sleeplessness and despair. Like all of Hopkins' poems, it is meant to be read aloud.

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 urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:m_francis:319179 The Journeyman: On the Shore of the Unquiet Sea 2014-09-18T23:08:50Z 2014-09-18T23:08:50Z
The latest episode in the travels and travails of Teodorq sunna Nagarajan, nearly finished now, begins thusly:

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 urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:m_francis:318929 What the Well-Dressed Woman Will Be Wearing 2014-09-18T20:33:54Z 2014-09-18T20:33:54Z

 "Down, boy!" or PTSD in the sexual revolution.

 urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:m_francis:318601 Clearing the Tabs 2014-09-16T20:45:57Z 2014-09-16T20:45:57Z
Deja Vu All Over Again

Check out the four video clips here. Plus ça change and all that. Clinton is especially interesting, though no one later accused him of lying.

How to Spot Bad Science

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 urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:m_francis:318263 Counterattack! 2014-09-10T23:19:37Z 2014-09-10T23:19:37Z TOF is trying an experiment. Can he load a video from his machine to the intertubes? We shall see. [The answer turned out to be no.]

The great classic movie COUNTERATTACK was made in 1964/65 by a groups of juniors and seniors at Notre Dame High School, Green Pond, PA, and was presented on the occasion of an evaluation by Middle States Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools at the request of the principal, Fr. Strassner. Much of what has changed in the last 50 years can be deduced from viewing this film.

From comments by four of the original cast: Gary Armitage, Jim Reilly, Jim Welsh, and yr. obt. svt.:

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TOF Spot, here

Hot off the press!!
Ladies and Gentlemen, Bryan Thomas Schmidt presents the (tentative) Table of Contents for Mission: Tomorrow, coming from Baen Books in 2015.
18 stories, 100,938 words of great science fiction! All original except for Silverberg and Gunn.
Concept: Science Fiction writers imagine the future of space exploration in a world no longer dominated by NASA. What might it look like? Private or public? Stories of space exploration, travel and adventure.
"Tombaugh Station" by Robin Wayne Bailey
"Excalibur" by Jack McDevitt
"The Race For Arcadia" by Alex Shvartsman
"A Walkabout Among The Stars" by Lezli Robyn
"Sunrise On Mercury" by Robert Silverberg
"Tribute" by Jack Skillingstead
"The Ultimate Space Race" by Jaleta Clegg
"Orpheus Engines" by Chris McKitterick
"Around The NEO in 80 Days" by Jay Werkheiser
"On Edge" by @Sarah A. Hoyt
"Airtight" by Michael Capobianco
"Ten Days Up" by Curtis C. Chen
"Windshear" by Angus McIntyre
"Malf" by David D. Levine
"Panic Town" by Michael Flynn
"The Rabbit Hole" by James Gunn
"Rare (Off Earth) Elements" by Ben Bova
"Tartaros" by Mike Resnick

TOF notices his title has been shortened from "In Panic Town, On the Backward Moon" to simply "Panic Town". Not complaining.
 urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:m_francis:317795 First Way, Part II: Two Lemmas Make Lemma-aid 2014-09-09T01:50:28Z 2014-09-09T01:50:28Z TOF's Dilemma
We are now ready to prove two lemmas regarding motion, hence... dilemma. ROFL. Never mind. We interrupt this pun to stay on focus. Besides, there are a couple of initial propositions.

Those who have been following these maunderings would be well-advised to read

Background and

Part I

lest they lose themselves in the woods. First, we have to get a word out of our way.

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 urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:m_francis:317671 m_francis @ 2014-09-06T21:20:00 2014-09-07T01:20:33Z 2014-09-07T01:20:33Z We have been remiss in reblogging new posts to the Auld Blogge. The action takes place primarily at The TOF Spot, and it has been a long time since anyone has commented here. This is a sorrow, since there are many fine old names that once frerquented these halls we don't see so much anymore over there. Come one come all. The hyperlinks in the titles should take you directly to the post in question. However, two of the items deal with short fiction that is put up on a revolving basis and will be down by now.

In reverse chronological order, the latest posts are:

The Journeyman: the Naming of Names

There are many peoples and cultures on World, and Teodorq sunna Nagarajan will encounter most of them in his journeys. On the western continent, where he starts out, the peoples run from west to east:

The Ships That Sail the Air

Every writer of fantasy and science fiction is either Irish or ought to be

A Placid Day on Old South Side

Yesterday, as every year since the memory of man runneth not to the contrary, the Sicilians of St. Anthony of Padua parish in Easton PA have manned up and hoisted a 200-pound statue on their shoulders and paraded around South Side with an Italian oom-pah band while people run out from their houses and pin money to the banner. Go figure. It's enough to give Baptists conniption fits.

 He ain't heavy. He's my ancestral patron saint.

The Lizards of Nagrafki-Uri

A discussion on the blog of Mr. John Wright mentioned a stunning lack of space lizards in modern SF. Although this contention was quickly rebutted by others, it reminded TOF that back in high school, he had started writing a grand space opera involving Lizards, Spiders, Humans, protoplasmic blobs, and sundry other folk in a great cosmic game of conquest and revenge.

The Advent of TOF

TOF's first paid publication was a collection of fillers and quotes, for which he was remunerated the princely sum of $60, but his first actual paid story had a more checkered career.

Sometimes the Mask Doesn't Just Slip

It is tossed off entirely and dances and capers:

First Way, Part I: A Moving Tale

Drier

The TOFheim dryer which for fourteen years had done its duty vis a vis wet laundry, gave up the ghost and joined the choir eternal.

An Aching Need Now Filled
by the estimable Dr. Boli in the internet quiz: Which Genocidal Dictator Are You?

TOF, Covered
TOF is taking a break from his Achilles-like tortoise-chasing to finish "In Panic Town, on the Backward Moon" and amused himself by finding the covers of all the Analog issues that featured his story.

Whimsy
A couple of items, courtesy of Mark Shea, offered without comment:

Teresa Benedicta of the Cross
Brandon at Siris reminds us that today is the feast of St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross, of the Discalced Carmelites, martyred by the Nazis for the crime of being Jewish.

Where Wolfe
The estimable Michael Swanwick provides a link to an MIT Q&A with master writer Gene Wolfe. Its reading is recommended.

Medieval Science Fiction
The collection of essays is supposed to come out this month from Oxford University Press. Meanwhile, themes are being presented at history conferences.

A Good Thing ISIS Isn't Israeli...
...or this might have led on the evening news.

TOF the Scrivener
TOF is busy finishing a short story that he should have finished two days ago for an anthology yclept Mission Tomorrow. He had started out writing a different story and then realized it was going nowhere, and not even going nowhere fast. So, like a circus performer, TOF leapt from one dead horse to another hopefully more lively.

Dragons
TOF once listened to a discussion between Stan Schmidt, then editor of hard SF mag ANALOG, and George Scithers, then-editor of fantasy-horror mag WEIRD TALES. George told Stan that he did not think it was possible to write a story that would be acceptable to both Analog and Weird Tales.

In Psearch of Psyche: Man the Vegetable

Quick Recap
This series began with a brief reflection on a comment made by Thomas Disch shortly before his tragic suicide. Disch had said that to "deepen his fiction into art," he would have to return to Catholicism, which he was unwilling to do. Wondering what Disch might have meant by this, and rereading (for the first time since college) Robert Brennan's text Thomstic Psychology, TOF speculated that he might have meant a "thicker," more insightful depiction of characters, for the modern view of human nature is astonishingly thin. You have no will, no mind, not even a self.

Jody Bottum, to whom the remark was made, informed TOF that the remark was more broadly meant:

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The Circle of Life
A few days back TOF was recruited into a rescue expedition. The TOFish granddaughter formerly known as the SAMBBITU* had obtained discount tickets to Great Adventures park and was taking her boyfriend and her two young brothers to the park. Alas, she had gotten only a few miles into the wilds of New Jersey -- just past Exit 6 on I-78 -- when her car stopped running. This is always a bad sign, and worse when you are already driving it.

Woe for Nineveh
David Warren poses a thought-experiment:

The area and population of the territory the "Caliphate" now controls in Syria and Iraq being currently roughly equal to that controlled by the government of Israel, let us imagine what the "coverage" would be, had the Israelis told all Muslims to run for their lives

A Surprise Visit

The Lehigh Valley Express-Times runs one of those "On This Day in History" things, including 100, 50, and 25 years ago today in the Express and/or the Globe-Times, its ancestral papers.

In today's paper was this:

Just in Case You Thought It Was Something New

 War always brings with it an increased price of necessary living commodities. The War of 1812 was no exception to this inflexible consequence. Sugar reached thirty-five cents a pound, coffee was forty cents, and all classes of cotton and woolen goods commanded prices as high in proportion. ...

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The Life and Times of the Venus Fly-Trap
For this week's literary gem over on the Story Preview page, TOF reaches deep into the receding past and finds clutched in his hot little hands his very first published story: "The Life and Times of the Venus Fly-Trap," which appeared in The Crusader No.1, Fall 1964. That's right, it was TOF's high school literary magazine, in the issue of which he placed not one, but two stories! The fix was in, for he was especially close to one of the two co-editors. (See right. Note that HS students in those days knew how to dress themselves. We carried brief cases, not back packs. In short, we were going to our "jobs" not to "play.")

First Way, Some Background
Over on Briggs' place a discussion of the so-called Argument from Motion is being served up piecemeal, literally a paragraph at a time. urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:m_francis:317421 Catching Up on the TOF Spot 2014-07-15T00:21:57Z 2014-07-15T00:21:57Z

The Glorious Eighth

The Longford Collector

In Psearch of Psyche: Some Groundwork

A Hobby? In the Lobby?

Dispatches from the Age of Reason

 urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:m_francis:317029 Over on Another Blog 2014-07-04T21:51:26Z 2014-07-04T21:51:26Z

The usual suspects are at work where the Statistician to the Stars is manfully working his way through Thomas' Contra gentiles, and TOF notices a peculiarity previously glimpsed on the blog of P.Z.Meyer: viz., so soon as You-Know-Who is glimpsed at the end of a syllogism based on causation, they will deny causation and declare randomness rules. But let randomness appear to make room for free will, and their universe becomes strictly deterministic with mechanical causes strictly propagating the past into the future. Often, the same person will make both claims, though usually on different threads. There is probably no solution to this game of intellectual Whack-a-Mole, but TOF was especially charmed by the notion that there is no cause for radioactive decay, which is said to be due to magical chthonic effects obtained by invoking "chthulu" or "quantum mechanics" or something.

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In recent days and in contrast to the Christmas spirit or even the basic idea of good will toward young men, Sid the Kid, the heir apparent to the title of Great One in the National Hockey League has been savaged seemingly to the tune of a tirade-a-day by analysts and commentators who seem to be united in their opinion that the 18-year-old hockey player is a mouthy jerk who doesn't deserve his assistant captain's title, a rumored spot on the Canadian Olympic team, a right to protest calls made against him or his team and/or a right to open his mouth regards his former coach or his new coach.continued I think Kelley is right, and Crosby reminde me of an 18 year old who had the same traits- Steve Yzerman.
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TYLER, Texas — An east Texas man, who is also a registered sex offender, pleaded guilty Friday to child pornography violations, announced U.S. Attorney John M. Bales, Eastern District of Texas.
This case is being investigated by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), and the Texas Department of Public Safety's Criminal Investigations Division.
Alvin Westley, 49, from Palestine, Texas, pleaded guilty Jan. 9 before U.S. Magistrate Judge John D. Love to possessing child pornography.
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Determined athletes from all over the borough are limbering up to take on one of running's biggest challenges.
The London Marathon takes place on Sunday, with more than 30,000 runners taking on the 26mile course around the capital.
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Carshalton amateur boxer Paul Simmons, 28-years-old, will be running to raise money for the Cystic Fibrosis Trust as his girlfriend's younger brother and sister both have the life-shortening condition.
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Kate Harbottle-Joyce, 32-years-old, is running in memory of her late dad and grandmother who both died from lymphoma. She is hoping to raise £500 for the Lymphoma Association.
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The Sutton woman added: "Both my late Dad, Malcolm Harbottle, and my Nanna, Sheila Wiltshire, had chronic lymphatic leukaemia which is a form of lymphoma.
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He chose Crimestoppers after he found himself caught up in the riots that affected London nearly three years ago. He was coming home from work through Lewisham in his car when he arrived at a roadblock made up or rioters.
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- Tuesday 28 SeptemberBy Donna
Wow Joel good question. Because maybe woman like themsleves better than men do. They have better morals than men. Just saying. But the woman on this show are nothing more than pathetic.
- Tuesday 28 SeptemberBy sbj
Simple biology. One husband can knock up all 4 wives and everyone will know who the father and mothers are. But only 1 out of 4 husbands can knock up 1 wife and no one would know who the father was without some very bizarre living arrangements.
* This is not meant to be a plug for bigamy.
- Tuesday 28 SeptemberBy Sandy
Reply to Joel: "Funny, you never hear of the opposite in Utah--one woman with several husbands. Why is that?" The reason is that women are smarter than that!! Believe me…one husband is MORE than enough!
- Tuesday 28 SeptemberBy Laura
Auntie Mimi, Thank you for the laugh, and I couldn't agree with you more. Good grief, sometimes one is too many. And, while I certainly do not agree to this life style, I've always said it would be nice to have a wife to help out around the house. My guy sure doesn't know how.
- Tuesday 28 SeptemberBy Cam
Lexxoni: They refer to themselves a sister wives, but I don't believe that they're actually sisters. I had a college friend from Utah who came from a Mormon family where there were sister wives and they were not actually sisters. They refer to themselves as sister wives in the same way that people of some religions refer to each other as "brother" and "sister" even though they are not technically brother and sister because they are brothers and sisters through the Lord just as these wives consider themselves sisters through their marriage.
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I think it's about accelerating procreation.If one man knocks up 4 women then 9 months later you have 4 children.If 4 men go after 1 woman 9 months later you have only 1 child.(providing no twins or more happens).As a side note if your against poligamy shouldn't gay marriage also be inapropriate?
- Tuesday 28 SeptemberBy Carole
Agree with you 100%
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- Tuesday 28 SeptemberBy tlm
he said on the show several times love is to be shared not limited but the women can't share their love with other men. He wasn't raised in the faith, he converted. Wake up women he is using you.
- Tuesday 28 SeptemberBy Heather
Absolutely!!!! AMEN! Women that fall for this crap will fall for anything. Insane isn't it?!
- Tuesday 28 SeptemberBy LouLowest Rank Vote downVote upReport this
I really don't see how it is anyone's business the way people live their lives! They aren't hurting anyone. The kids seem well adjusted. They work and make money to support their family.
And yes, I know that it's against the law..but I am just asking why?
- Tuesday 28 SeptemberBy LindaDeHigh Rank Vote downVote upReport this
How does the law read about this? It sounds like they are not all "legally" married so how is it that they are breaking the law?
- Tuesday 28 SeptemberBy Heather
Then they shouldn't be paid to parade it on TLC. Especially knowing their children and "marriages" fall under a microscope. Maybe they needed extra money to keep their "pimp" to only 4 women instead of more?! Who really knows or understands "crazy"?
- Tuesday 28 September
I don't understand how he can afford all those children, are they all on welfare????? if so WHY? and how can the welfare department
not know what is going on here and stop sending them the money they must need to raise all those kids, from what I understand all of them in this setting are on welfare and we are all paying for them to live in this ungodly way
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@lexxoni: They are not biological sisters. Sister wife is a term used in polygamist relationships to describe the sister like relationship between the women. I say if it's between consenting adults, the family can afford the children and the children are not being neglected or abused then they should be left alone.
- Tuesday 28 SeptemberBy LindaDeHigh Rank Vote downVote upReport this
See... I don't understand how this is illegal. They are not related by blood and only one set of adults is legally married. And nooone has mentioned anything about neglect or abuse of the children
- Tuesday 28 SeptemberBy Melanie
This is a sticky situation. On the one hand, live and let live. On the other, God condemns this action. I go with God!
- Tuesday 28 SeptemberBy Carl D.
I'm going to go with the invisable man that lives in the sky. That is a good choice!
- Tuesday 28 SeptemberBy AlookatitallLowest Rank Vote downVote upReport this
God blessed Job with many wives...
Solomon had 1,000...well, 700 wives and 300 concubines...
David, Abraham, and Jacob married more than one wife...
doesn't sound like God is against it.
He is, though, against unmarried people having casual sex, one night stands, "friends with benefits", etc.
- Tuesday 28 SeptemberBy lorrdwolfLow Ranked Vote downVote upReport this
Um, no it is not. It is against Christianity. Judaism, Islam, and Mormonism, whatever you think of those religions, allow it. Laws against polygamy are entirely CHRISTIAN in nature and, as such, are probably unconstitutional. Polygamy is not for me but restricting marriage in this fashion clearly violates some peoples religious tenents (sp?) with no clear societal benefit.
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Over the Horizon: Symbol and Utility in the Great Carrier Debate
Driven in part by a recent article in Proceedings, the magazine of the United States Naval Institute, the debate over the nature and utility of aircraft carriers has once again erupted between naval analysts. In "Twilight of the $uperflous Carrier," Capt. Henry J. Hendrix of the U.S. Navy and retired Lt. Col. J. Noel Williams of the U.S. Marine Corps argue that modern supercarriers are simply too expensive and too vulnerable to be usable weapons of war. They contend that the era of the supercarrier has come to an end, and that the future of naval power resides in warships like the USS America, a big-deck amphibious assault ship that will eventually be capable of operating the F-35B Lightning II VSTOL fighter jet. Bryan McGrath of Information Dissemination disputes several key assumptions of the article, including the relative vulnerability of supercarriers and big amphibious ships, and the role that UAVs will play in the future of carrier aviation.
But while this discussion has thus far been useful and productive, it sidesteps some of the most important ways in which aircraft carriers matter for national defense and national power. ...
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January 08, 2013
When trainer Danele Durham looked at the Remington Park tote board the night of Dec. 9 before the Springboard Mile she thought surely it was broken. How else could the odds for her horse, Texas Bling, be flashing 99-1? Read More
December 28, 2012
Specialty coffees, craft beers and a variety of Mexican food items are among the new food and beverage options Oaklawn will offer during the 2013 live season that begins Friday, Jan. 11. These menu items will join the world-famous corned beef sandwiches, jumbo shrimp and other popular treats offered at concession stands on the first floor of the grandstand. Read More
December 07, 2012
Oaklawn will have nearly triple its work force by the time its live race meet starts Friday, Jan. 11 and in order to ensure it has enough staff for the 56-day season, there will be three job fairs starting Saturday, Dec. 8. The other two job fairs will be held Friday, Dec. 14 and Saturday, Dec. 15. All three will be held from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. or until all jobs are filled at Oaklawn's Business Administration office on Golf Links Road. Read More
November 27, 2012
Live racing returns to Hot Springs with the opening of Oaklawn's 2013 live meet Friday, Jan. 11. Greeting fans will be some of the most competitive racing in America with more than $20 million available for purses as well as the popular promotions Oaklawn fans look forward to every season. Read More
November 27, 2012
During a four-day period, Nov. 14 – 17, Oaklawn guests and employees came together to collect more than 5,000 cans of food and other non-perishable food items. This food was then taken to Jackson House and Potter's Clay Ministries in Hot Springs Nov. 19, just in time for the Thanksgiving holiday. Read More


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Copper porch roof w.\ black [paint/coating?]--Sealing [corroded?] seams? (Pictures)
I have an old copper porch roof which is covered with a black coating (I don't think it's paint but I could be wrong). Picture below.
The seams are cracked and corroded, and it's causing a nasty leak onto our front porch. (Close-up picture below)
It may be a few years before we can afford to hire someone for a permanent fix (also, we share the roof with the neighboring house which is currently unoccupied).
What can I (a relative newbie) do to temporarily stop the leak and make the roof a bit more aesthetically pleasing?
My instinct is to cover the seams with some metal roof sealing tape and then paint the whole thing black. Or maybe there's some kind of caulk/sealant for this?
Any step-by-step advice would be appreciated. (As well as insight into what exactly my roof-type is called, so I can research it better).
Are you sure it is copper, a magnet will not stick to copper?
It looks like terne metal. Scrape a area with a knife and see what color it is.
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