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Wednesday, September 14, 2011
Back in touch with Durrell
Immediately after that encounter with Durrell, three major events took place in my life.
(1) I worked for a while as a seaman on a Greek cargo ship [display].
(2) I returned to Paris and started work as an English teacher at the Lycée Henri IV [display].
(3) I met up with my future wife.
Curiously, an indirect but undeniable outcome of these three events was that I totally abandoned my fascination for Durrell and his formerly-exhilarating Alexandria Quartet. Instead of dreaming romantically about the inhabitants of a make-believe city in Egypt, or trying to imagine Durrell's life in places such as Corfu, Rhodes or Cyprus, I became more interested in the realities of modern Greece. In particular, I fell in love with the island of Tinos [display]. But I was rapidly convinced that there was one outstanding nation on the shores of the Mediterranean, and it was neither Greece, Egypt, Spain nor Italy. That nation was France. Its capital was Paris, where I would be spending the next three decades. And its Mediterranean port was the ancient Greek settlement of Massalia (designated by my friend Natacha as Marseille)... the official European capital of culture in 2013.
At this point, if my story is to be meaningful, readers need to know that, in 1965, I married a French girl, Christine, whose maternal ancestors were essentially Provençal. In the summer of 1968, with our 18-month-old daughter Emmanuelle, we drove down to meet up with Christine's grandparents at their home in the village of Saint Sériès, in the Mediterranean département of the Hérault, not far from Nîmes.
This was an excursion of immense joy: my discovery of Christine's marvelous maternal grandparents, and of their Languedoc province.
One day, Christine's grandparents happened to speak to me of a certain British writer who lived nearby, in Sommières. They told me that he had a reputation of spending most of his time as a boisterous drunkard in local taverns. I soon gathered that they were speaking of my former literary hero, Lawrence Durell, whom I had encountered 5 years earlier in Nîmes, when he was living in a stone cabin up in the vicinity, north of Nîmes, indicated by a green bubble in the above map. Needless to say, I set off immediately, to see if I could meet up once again with Durrell in Sommières. I located the property, but Durrell himself was not there. So, I missed him.
Meanwhile, for years, I had started to realize to what extent the mythical novelist of my late teenage years in Sydney had ceased to concern me directly, if at all. Today, retrospectively, I can understand perfectly why this was the case. Durrell had fascinated me at a time, back in Australia, when I still believed in romantic Mediterranean legends. But I had grown up since then, and I realized that Durrell was merely an adept story-teller: no more, no less. But certainly not an authority on authentic present-day Mediterranean society… which was better described to me—devoid of the romantic trappings of literature—by Christine's splendid grandparents. Her grandfather had worked for the French military as a specialist in explosives.
Christine's ancestors were real Provençal individuals, with authentic Mediterranean genealogies, not mere figments of the fuzzy imagination of a British novelist. Consequently, by "the force of things" (a splendid existentialist expression that I've always admired), I ceased to be a dyed-in-the-wool Durrellian (if ever I were). I became, modestly, the Australian-born husband of a lovely Breton girl (born, in fact, in Cognac) whose mother was Arlesian. Besides, incidentally, Christine told me she loved the French translations of Durrell's novels.
Meanwhile, my second face-to-face encounter with Lawrence Durrell took place in the Latin Quarter of Paris, in the early 1970s, when the novelist was exhibiting his talents as a painter, identified as Oscar Epf.
On that evening, I was thrilled to meet up with the 20-something daughter of the writer/painter, Sappho Durrell. Back at the time of my initial encounter with Lawrence Durrell, in Nîmes in 1963, Sappho was a child.
That evening, in Paris, she was an elegant young woman, sporting a magic name: Sappho Durrell. While her father chatted diplomatically with visitors, I preferred to enter in contact with Sappho. I told her, of course, that I had met up with her father for the first at Nîmes in 1963. Then I explained how I had come upon their family mansion in Sommières, in 1968. I half-expected that I would hear the profound reflections of the writer's daughter concerning life in a small Provençal town such as Sommières. Instead, at that instant, I was utterly stupefied by the spontaneous reaction of Sappho Durrell, who replied casually in the style of a mindless suburban brat:
SAPPHO DURRELL: "We refer to my father's place in Sommières as the House of the Addams Family."
I had no idea who might be designated by Sappho's "we", but I was immediately shocked (the term is true) by the fact that this young woman, daughter of a great British novelist, with the privilege of living with her illustrious father in the heart of Provence, might dare to allude to such cheap foreign shit as an American TV series. I concluded immediately (maybe wrongly, but first impressions count) that, intellectually, there was little to be acquired from Sappho… who may or may not have inherited significant genes from her Alexandrian mother Eve Cohen, a victim of depressive schizophrenia.
Years later, Christine's brother Lan Mafart, aware of my interest in Durrell, happened to be traveling around in the south of France, and he sent me a lovely photo of the entrance to Durrell's house in Sommières:
Lan also sent me a postcard from Sommières, with an image of the ancient rectangular keep on a hill above the capricious Vidourle:
Here, on the other side, is the text (in French) of Lan's postcard, written from the Café du Commerce:
Lan wrote: "A pale lightbulb shines upon the entrance to the house of Lawrence Durrell. The flakes of paint are like dead leaves forgotten by the gardener." In a cynical vein, Lan notes the absence of "camping-cars in the driveway", meaning that Durrell's home is no longer, apparently, a place of pilgrimage (if ever it were).
The most striking aspect of Lan's postcard is the date: 17 February 1990. On that day, if I understand correctly, Lawrence Durrell was in fact working inside his great bourgeois home on the manuscript of his final masterpiece: Caesar's Vast Ghost — Aspects of Provence. And the writer himself would be dead before the end of that year.
Today, when I learn that Sappho Durrell hung herself in London in 1985, and that she left papers suggesting (in terribly indirect terms) that her father might have straddled her incestuously, my immediate reaction is: crazy Addams-family talk!
I simply cannot, for a moment, imagine why Larry—surrounded constantly by hordes of seductive females—might have suddenly decided to fornicate with his 15-year-old daughter. Inversely, I can well imagine why Sappho might have decided, later on, that it would be nice if she were to make herself interesting (Durrell's daughter was a budding writer) by injecting make-believe sex into the alleged relationship with her father. After all, wasn't that a bit like what her old man had been doing, for ages, to add spice to his stories?
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Spare your readers the four-letter words. Your description of Sappho Durrell is anything but kind. What she insinuates is, after all, imaginable. Durrell himself has Justine be raped by a family member the character refuses to name. What the heck was he thinking anyway, naming the poor kid after a lesbian poet who killed herself? And is he more trustworthy, in his eternally drunken taedium vitae?ReplyDelete
When I'm writing about exceptional individuals I once encountered, I would never think of making an effort to be "kind". In one of his letters to Henry Miller, Lawrence Durrell evoked the technique, adopted up until recently by book publishers in France, that consisted of leaving the edges of the pages uncut. So, before you could start to read a newly-purchased book, you had to take out a bladed device (often referred to, these days, as an envelope opener) and slice open the pages. This task always frustrated me, but Durrell spoke enthusiastically of this obligation in the case of his novels. "I'm always reassured by the idea that future readers, when they set out to discover my books, are armed with a knife."ReplyDelete
I agree with you that Sappho's insinuations are perfectly imaginable… even though I end up doubting their veracity.
Concerning the rape of Justine, I feel that incidents in Durrell's novels should not be exploited too literally in the hope of determining what might or might not have happened in the real life of the author.
Your final rhetorical question about the questionable trustworthiness of Lawrence Durrell is perfectly pertinent. I like your expression "eternally drunken taedium vitae", which surely corresponds to the style of his final years at Sommières.
On the other hand, your allusion to Sappho of Lesbos as "a lesbian poet who killed herself" is a little cursory and superficial. Let me propose simply, as a reaction to your harsh comment, these fabulous lines from Rainer Maria Rilke, of a most Durrellian nature:
The woman who loves always transcends the man she loves, because life is greater than fate. Her gift of herself she wants to make immeasurable; that is her happiness. And the nameless suffering of her love has always been this: that she is asked to limit her giving. No other plaint have women ever raised. The two first letters of Heloïse contain that only, and five hundred years later it rises from the letters of the Portuguese nun; one recognises it as one does a bird-call. And suddenly through the clear field of this insight passes the very distant figure of Sappho, whom the centuries did not find because they sought her, not in life, but in fate.
I have pursued this theme in my French-language movie script entitled Adieu, Abelone.
- AnonymousMay 11, 2012 at 5:49 AM
Sappho's later difficulties seem consistent with someone who was sexually abused as a child; one of the great difficulties for those who are is that people simply won't believe it, especially if they know or have met the one perpetrating the incest; and even more so if that person is famous.ReplyDelete
What a pity you didn't treat Sappho as a person, rather than as a) a reflection of the author you admired and b) something you might 'acquire' something intellectual from.
- AnonymousJuly 15, 2012 at 10:25 PM
It is nice to have this come to my attention *after* this whole Sandusky scandal has broken. How is incest covered up? How do people account themselves rationalists (rationalists strolling the Alps!) while besotted with great man delusions? Well, exhibit A with pictures. As Sunday reading, grand.ReplyDelete
- Michael VincentAugust 22, 2012 at 5:25 PM
I think you are most unkind to Sappho , Willie dear .ReplyDelete
Perhaps you have spent too long among the literally minded French ?
To me Sappho's description of the Sommieres house as the " Addams Family house " is just a bit of typical " English " light deprecating humour .. It DOES look a bit like the house in that American TV series , which was popular at around that time .
Far from being " shit " as you describe it ( Aussies , huh ? ) it was just a harmless little TV comedy show - granted , aimed at the lumpen mass intelligence level , but mildly amusing for all that , and widely watched as teatime by people of all sorts as harmless fun .
Uncle Fester was probably how Larry felt , the morning after a session on the sauce .
Children always find the foibles of their parents highly amusing , I know I did .
Perhaps you were really just shocked to find that this person whom you had mentally elevated to the status of Literary Idol and Paragon was an ordinary human .
Thank God she didnt Fart , hey ?
Your Anonymous correspondent finds it perfectly imaginable that Sappho's indirect allusions to having had some sexual relationship with her father represented actual reality .
Yes , well , Doctor Marietta Higgs was of the same mind shortly after , ruining the lives of dozens of people in several families with crackpot allegations of child abuse , and , in the inimitable words of Gregor Fisher's character Ralph.C.Nesbit , " shining a Davy Lamp up their Khybers " in accordance with her Anal Dilation Technique in an effort to prove her obsessions were reality .
Curb your imagination unless you have direct allegations , or proof positive , say I , Inconnu love .
The Drunken bit doesn't aid your case either . Too much sauce certainly removes inhibitions , but all too often leads to the condition known as " Brewer's droop " , you see .
How awful to lose a child , and to suicide too , without all this subsequent speculative whispering ....
"Willie dear" replies to "Michael Vincent".ReplyDelete
Whatever my sins, I'm not an anonymous individual who has come out of the woodwork to crawl upon the corpses of Sappho and Larry.
For those who insist upon the hypothesis that Lawrence Durrell screwed his daughter, there is always (for a short time) the possibility that they might obtain relevant facts by interviewing old-timers in the village of Sommières. Back at the time that the Provençal grand-parents of my wife evoked the existence of Durrell in Sommières, I had the impression that many locals must have been aware of the presence of this English alcoholic. Maybe some of these observers still exist, today. And they might be able to throw light upon the hypothesis that Larry was a daughter-fucker.
Often, a daughter reacts strangely to her father's lovers. In the context of all that has been alleged about a possible incestuous relationship between Durrell and his daughter, we must never forget the presence of his lover Anaïs Nin: the archetype of the incestuous daughter. Sappho Durrell had surely heard a lot about this woman, her father's idol. And she might have imagined herself as a bit like Anaïs.
The poor Sappho should rest in peace, like her father. But I persist in believing that Lawrence Durrell was never an incestuous father. That's to say, I see Sappho Durrell as an innocent make-believe artist.
- AnonymousAugust 23, 2012 at 8:51 AM
Anna's comments seem very harsh here -- Sappho did not accuse her father of incest. This was a description added to her journals in the hopes of selling them (not by the family and not by her!). It was also strategically made once both of them were dead, which meant no libel suit could be filed. Terribly convenient, that.ReplyDelete
The anonymous comment that Sappho's "difficulties" are consistent with incest is astoundingly vague. Suicide is consistent with a great many things, such as mental illness, age, and dependency on anxiety-reducing drugs such as alcohol. Statistical correlates with suicide bear virtually no relationship with popular ideas (gender and age in particular). Incest, however, is correlated with an increased risk of later prostitution, relationship and intimacy challenges, and becoming an abuser. None of which applies to Sappho. Wild speculation does not do her nor her suffering any good, and it only rationalizes her very sad death through a confirmation bias.
The whole matter is just very sad, but before people run to the races, look at her journals and try to find out where she claims incest. Sappho doesn't. Other people do, but she does not, and that means she's just being used after her death for some else's ideas and opinion. Too many writers, journalists, and academics have simply made up whatever suits their opinion on this topic or their need for a new publication, and for a topic like incest, that's simply unethical.
Allegations of incest should never be simply dismissed, but for exactly the same reasons, allegations of incest shouldn't be used just to try to sell a book.
- AnonymousDecember 30, 2012 at 9:17 AM
Hasn´t anybdy here read Bitter Lemons !? Durrell mentions his 2 year old daughter only once in the novel and completely out of the blue! This really shocked me and that´s how I got on this page and now I see this... Now thats the facts... My interpretation Even If he had not raped her he was surely a shitty father, no wonder that´s what happened.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJanuary 26, 2013 at 10:44 AM
Anais Nin was Lawrence Durrell's lover? I think you would be wise to check such facts first, as far as possible, since all protagonists are now deceased.ReplyDelete
Your reactions to both Durrell, Sappho and the comments here do nothing more than indicate your own chauvinistic, narrow-minded attempt to clutch, by over-stretched association, at the coattails of those responsible for making art.
Today, 'The Independent' U.K. has published a contrary jotting from author Jim Crace on Durrell as writer and man, denigrating one as embarassing blowsy comfort and the other as predatory and sleazy. 1st comment reply from Michael Haag, Durrell's current biographer, is worth noting.ReplyDelete
"It is remarkable that Jim Crace can write that Lawrence Durrell's life has been 'peeled off to reveal a predatory and sleazy man'. Being engaged in writing his biography, I can say that Durrell has been the victim of certain predatory and sleazy people out to make a buck. In due course their deceits will be exposed and they will be publicly shamed in my book. Meanwhile it would be good if Jim Crace exercised his critical faculties before reblabbing whatever blab he has picked up from the literary SEWER."
Michael Haag's necessary exposure of the literary sewer is a long time overdue. Thank you William.
Sappho had psychiatric problems for many years. Quite possibly she inherited this from her mother, who suffered from schizophrenia. She kept journals, which she entrusted to a friend with instructions that they published after she and her father had died. Sappho committed suicide in 1985, Durrell died towards the end of 1990, and the a 30 page collection of extracts from the journals was published by Granta in 1991. Bill Buford, described the totality of the journals as "a large and largely incoherent body of work"; he also described Sappho's insinuations of incest as a "fantasy", albeit one which Sappho believed in.ReplyDelete
The actual journal entries as published in Granta don't actually say that Durrell committed incest with Sappho. What they do say is that Sappho felt threatened by her father's dating of women her own age; this, she wrote, was "mental incest." The entire Durrell-incest meme seems to be built on this.
Thank you, Philip Coggan, for that clear and factual summary of the Durrell father/daughter situation. I've always felt sympathy towards many of Sappho's kind-hearted admirers who defend her posthumous combat against an allegedly invasive father, and I'm particularly intrigued by the quite plausible concept of "mental incest". But we must never allow such family affairs to denigrate the fabulous literary prowess of Lawrence Durrell.ReplyDelete
- Lizbeth JonesAugust 17, 2013 at 12:14 PM
I got to know Eve in the late 1970s and she was most certainly not a schizophrenic. She was sensitive, fascinating and stimulating company, extremely kind to me but obviously not given to tolerating fools. What would she have made of you, Mr. Skyvington? Did you ever meet her, visit her and realise how wise she was? I also met Sappho at Eve's London apartment and warmed to her immediately. If they were alive today, I don't doubt they would have sued you for libel. But as they are not, you have taken the coward's way out and raped them both in your own verbal manner. I trust it gave you great pleasure to humiliate the memory of these women. Please do not visit their grave again.ReplyDelete
Let me add that the speculation about sex with Sappho is completely gratuitous. We'll never know. All that is left is the work which should stand on its own merits or demerits irrespective of the possible private peek-a-boos and pecados of the late author and his unfortunate daughter.ReplyDelete
As far as "relevant facts" are concerned, or shall we better say "irrelevant facts", I wonder, exactly, what those "old-timers in Sommières" were doing in the Durrell family private chambers that they should have such intimate knowledge of the late author's "fucking" habits, as Mr. Skyvington so tastefully put it.
I wasn't evoking the idea of visitors eavesdropping in Durrell's house. I was thinking of "paroles de bistrot" (pub talk). In Sommières, Durrell used to spend a lot of time in cafés, and he had the reputation of being a heavy drinker. In his final book, Durrell rambled on ("tastefully, as Vivian Darkbloom might like to say) about "a Latex doll of great beauty, resilience and simplicity". I would imagine that, after a few glasses of wine in a local bistrot, he might have spoken just as openly about his personal passions. I know that there are still residents of Sommières who recall their neighbor Durrell (because I've spoken rapidly with such people on the phone). The next time I'm there, I'll make further enquiries…ReplyDelete
Oh, yes, pub talk. What a reliable source of information. I can just picture Durrell sitting next to his fellow Sommières drinkers remarking, "I just had a wonderful fuck with my daughter last night".ReplyDelete
Do let me know what your "research" reveals.
The person designated as "Vivian Darkbloom" disappointed me by daring to put an appallingly prosaic English-language sentence into the mouth of the poet Lawrence Durrell. She forgets, or chooses to ignore, or is incapable of understanding, that Durrell would have been conversing in French with his village companions in Sommières. If Vivian Darkbloom is able to suggest intelligently the French words that Durrell might have used to talk of "having a wonderful fuck", then I would be happy to think about her criticism and continue our exchange of views. But if (as I suspect) she's simply an English-speaking tourist who's not familiar with Mediterranean conversations and temperaments, let alone the profound sense of the writings of Durrell, then there's no point in our continuing this superficial conversation.ReplyDelete
I take the liberty of advising Vivian Darkbloom to refrain from the gimmick practice of using inverted commas—as in "research"—to indicate disagreement or disdain.
By the way, Vivian Darkbloom, please tell me who you are. Is that your real name?


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To compare weed treatment costs and weed treatment impacts between our rangeland weed IPM decision framework and conventional weed management approaches we will select two, 100 acre pastures on each of four ranches. Pastures represent a common ranch-scale management unit (i.e. producers make specific agricultural management decisions at the pasture level). In this ranch-scale study, ranches are blocks and pastures are the experimental unit. Each pasture in each block will be randomly assigned to be managed using our rangeland weed IPM decision framework or managed under current management decision processes. For pastures enrolled under our IPM decision framework, producers will design an IPM system using our published decision framework to select combinations of prevention tactics and weed management tools and strategies that are compatible with the economical and logistical constraints of the ranching enterprise and support other key management objectives (e.g. herd production, animal performance, drought preparedness). These treatments and strategies may include tactics for preventing weed spread, as well as timing, duration and intensity of grazing, herbicide application, seeding, targeted movement of grazing animals using supplement and temporary fencing, as well as targeted application of IPM treatments in different areas of the pasture. Pastures enrolled in conventional weed management will receive existing weed management practices, which may vary ranch to ranch. Cost of labor, materials and supplies will be tabulated for each pasture treatment and we will measure pre and post-treatment abundance and diversity of desired plant species and as well as weed species composition and abundance. Pre-treatment data will be collected fall of 2013 and treatment data will be collected spring of 2014, 2015 and 2016. Data will be analyzed using mixed-model Analysis of Variance with block and year as random factors in the model (SAS Institute Inc 2008). We will also evaluate, at a ranch scale, the benefits of rangeland weed IPM decision systems for enhancing multiple ecosystem services compared to conventional weed management approaches. We will use the same experimental pastures as those used in Research Objective 1 and also will add a third 100 ac reference pasture adjacent to each ranch that represents an intact, healthy rangeland agroecosystems. This will allow us to evaluate the degree to which IPM enhances ecosystem services relative to conventional weed management practices and allow us to quantify the degree to which IPM enhances these services relative to a healthy, intact rangeland agroecosystem. We will measure five characteristics that tie to key ecosystem services in these systems including: 1) Livestock carrying capacity 2) fine fuel loads and fuel load continuity 3) soil carbon dynamics 4) nitrogen retention and 5) insect diversity. Effects of pasture management systems (conventional vs. an IPM system for invasive plants) on multiple ecosystem services will assessed by using multivariate linear regression to analyze effects of pasture treatments on our five indicators of key ecosystem services.


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On April 2, the registered voters of Winter Haven will be going to the polls to elect a new city commissioner. I strongly recommend that we elect Barry Nottle to this position. Barry is new to politics but he will bring fresh ideas and common-sense solutions to the challenges and issues facing the city of Winter Haven.
Barry will work with the other commissioners to resolve the issues at the Landings and to reach a favorable outcome for the citizens of Winter Haven.
As city commissioner, he will be well prepared to discuss and voice his opinions on the various topics that are on the agenda at the weekly meetings. He will listen to people and will strongly encourage them to participate at these meetings.
Barry Nottle should be our new city commissioner.
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"I ask sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people, except for a few public officials." (George Mason during the constitutional debates.)
"What sir is the use of a militia? It is to prevent the establishment of a standing army, the bane of liberty." (Rep. Elbridge Gerry debating the Second Amendment, 1789.)
"To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them." (George Mason during the constitutional debates.)
"Americans have the right and advantage of being armed, unlike the citizens of other countries whose governments are afraid to trust the people with arms." (James Madison, the Federalist Papers No. 46.)
Studies by Jews For The Preservation of Firearms and other groups shown that over 170 million people were murdered by their own governments in the 20th century, after their government passed what were called reasonable gun laws that disarmed their citizens.
The Jews For The Preservation of Firearms has hard evidence that the U.S. Gun Control Act of 1968 was patterned after the Nazi Weapons Law of 1938. Sen. Thomas J. Dodd, D-Conn., introduced the idea of the Nazi Weapons Law into a Senate Judiciary Subcommittee. In Germany the Gestapo enforced it. In the U.S. it is enforced by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
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Our government has murdered 55.5 million people in the last 40 years. Our Constitution does not give our government the authority to murder people. The babies were murdered because they were not wanted. The governments that murdered their citizens in the 20th century did not want them.
Our government already murders people by the millions they do not want. What stops our government from murdering more of us they don't want? The Second Amendment.
"If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men with army pistols or guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and gallows, and not by a general deprivation of a Constitutional privilege." (Arkansas Supreme Court 1878, concerning the state's constitutional right to keep and bear arms.)
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I would be interested in that vid...any stealth/infiltrator gameplay in it?
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yeah, totally, admittedly though the demo doesn't have much room for snooping around, but I'll try and weave some stealth kills in there.
Probably won't be able to see it until tomorrow though, as it takes for ever for my net to upload and my power will be out for a good portion of tomorrow. Have to put it up in the evening after. Will come by and let you guys know when its there.
lookin forward to it!
Oh Farcry 3 trailer:
FC3 has now made my 2012 awesome games watchlist.
Oh and Jazz...here's a vid on Russian SF which would really be prefect for Koshka Fan-fic
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Soulid_Snake: I really can't get along with this new forum, Sigh
shobhit: I am glad I am not the only one excited about FC3, but let me say this, I hate how Ubi loves those freakin CGI, what is the deal ?!, can't they give us ingame footage, it always make one more excited, The Last Of Us graphics made people question if it is CGI, but since Sony/Naughty Dogs said ingame, people had better understanding of the game graphics, while the CGI gives us no indication about the graphics upgrade since E3, not to mention the same stupid thing happened with R6P, Ubi really needs to stop with these CGI, even SCC got a cool CGI trailer which events never occurred in the game, that is really bad in my book
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Wow. That trailer is awesome. I can't wait for this epic game. This is the best year in history of Ubisoft.
LoLOh and Jazz...here's a vid on Russian SF which would really be prefect for Koshka Fan-fic
For those of you who live in U.S. or Canda you can pre-order ME3 from Orgin and get Battlefield 3 for free
A slightly OT link yet but still...
I'll quote the awesome bit here:
"Stealthy whisper"A Spartan tossing his chest plate should feel like an anvil dropping….
A Spartan sprinting across concrete should be a stealthy whisper….
Putting on your helmet should feel like powering up an F-15E….
These are the sorts of experiences we want to give the players.
I (being a huge halo geek) have read all the first 3 halo novels, dealing with the SPARTANS and their origins. The description of the Spartans, their combat abilities, tactics and physicality..described wonderfully in the books, was always missing in the games...I always thought as to why didn't bungie incorporate certain book elements (like an emphasis on Stealth) into the franchise (Understandable as the core Halo gameplay HAS to be preserved) and was always hoping for a Halo game that allows me to play the Super efficient and super stealthy Spartans.
Here's hoping 343 changes the formula a bit (and it seems like it will...just a teeny bit) and we can get some *gasp* Stealth gameplay in Halo
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This was a vintage news week -- all the good stuff was midcentury modern, and time travelers browsing the headlines must have been terribly confused.
In just one day last week, there were stories involving Lee Harvey Oswald, Natalie Wood and Jimmy Hoffa, proving the age-old axiom, "Everything old has a new conspiracy theory about it again."
Sure, there were brief interruptions with current conundrums -- bizarre-o stuff about Manti Te'o, the Notre Dame player who allegedly had an allegedly dead alleged girlfriend, which is assuredly weird and makes Clint Eastwood's empty-chair stunt at the Republican convention last fall seem, well, sane. And of course there's the Lance Armstrong thing, but that's more of a "How could he do this to us?" kind of mystery.
Still, nothing beats the classic riddles wrapped in secrets inside enigmas and often turned into major motion pictures about the Oswald/Wood/Hoffa stuff. I'm calling it The Oswooffa Triangle. OK, maybe they're not related other than being in 2013 news -- or are they? -- but at least they're way more fun to read about than a celebrity-for-no-reason sporting a "baby bump." (Amazingly, anything mentioning the aforementioned unmentionable person manages to garner the most hits on our newspaper's website. Stop it, people! Stop encouraging her, or she will never go away, like when you keep picking at an annoying scab.)
Ogling Oswald
Anyway, the first item that caught my eye was an AP story about the razing of the Dallas apartment building where Lee Harvey Oswald had lived with his wife, Marina, and their young son several months before the Nov. 22, 1963, assassination of JFK.
The city finally demolished the dilapidated, 10-unit, two story apartment complex on Elsbeth Street after a long dispute with the property owner. A cluster of history buffs looked on in dismay, especially ones who had included the site as part of their JFK tours. Some collected bricks as souvenirs or perhaps as potential eBay merchandise.
"People sell this crap for money. I'm doing it out of a weird kitschy interest," Tom Sclar, one of the tour givers, told the AP. Another man, Jose Sorola, had purchased one of the apartment windows before the demolition for $125 in order to eventually build a "traveling wall" around it for historic display.
Oswald "is a part of Dallas history," Sorola was quoted as saying. "Maybe for the wrong reason, but he's still a part of history."
True. And now his window is a part of, um, weird kitschy interest?
Wood wonderings
Three decades after her mysterious death, there's a newly released coroner's report on Hollywood star Natalie Wood. As the original story goes, she and her husband, actor Robert Wagner, were partying on their yacht with friend Christopher Walken during Thanksgiving weekend 1981. They were out near Catalina Island when the 43-year-old Wood -- who was terrified of the sea -- somehow ended up in the water and drowned.
The latest report in this still-open investigation says some of the bruises found on her body may have occurred before she drowned. But, well, it's all inconclusive. And even more mysterious, the latest article says: "Officials attempted to test some items taken during the investigation into Wood's death ..., but they could not be located." What? Evidence "could not be located?" Mmm, conspiralicious!
Hoffa happenings
Yet another guy has come forward who says he knows where the former Teamsters president is buried. Didn't that just happen in September? And also in 2006 when authorities dug up a horse farm? And in 2004 when they searched a home? And in 2003 when they checked a backyard pool? No wonder most of Detroit is vacant these days. The cops keep digging it up.
Anyway, Jimmy Hoffa is now supposedly in a field in the suburbs, says Tony Zerilli, a one-time Mafia captain, now 85, who was in prison when Hoffa disappeared in 1975, but who says he was in the loop on the final resting place. Of course the fact that Zerilli is reportedly promoting an upcoming book titled "Hoffa Found" has absolutely nothing to do with all this.
Fun fact: Jimmy Hoffa's middle name is "Riddle." Apropos, no?
Indeed, these are all no doubt conspiracies wrapped in intrigue and rolled in mystery and stuffed inside some guy's crawlspace. It's a turducken of conspiracies! And even half a century later, we still can't get enough.
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Kaffe's Classics: 25 Glorious Knitting Designs
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First things first: His name is pronounced like "safe asset." And this American-born, British-residing designer can almost singlehandedly be credited with bringing knitting out of the doldroms.
Welcome to the Neighborhood
If you aren't yet familiar with Kaffe Fassett, this book offers an excellent introduction. And if you are familiar with Fassett, then you'll obviously need to add this book to your collection.
What's Inside
Fassett offers a brief introduction to his color and pattern theories before launching straight into the collection -- 25 designs in all.
All recommended yarns in this book are from Rowan. Several of the patterns call for the now-discontinued Designer DK.
My one gripe? On the back of the cover is a photo of a model wearing the Whirling Star Waistcoat. You'll also find another image of it inside.
Many of his patterns include color charts that would drive all but the bravest knitters off a cliff. If you're patient enough to knit one of his garments, my hat's off to you. It will, without question, be a show-stopper.
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Every year the Salvation Army conducts its Red Kettle campaign and each year thousands of dollars are donated locally.The Salvation Army takes pride in using those locally donated dollars for local projects, but one might wonder just where are those dollars being donated going.An example of the kind of things the Salvation Army in Redwood County supports was evident recently as a donation from the organization was used to help stock items in area nursing homes.According to Char Graff, who serves as chair of the Redwood County Salvation Army committee, the organization focuses on serving as many different groups of people as is possible. So, it inquired of those serving the elderly and received a list of things from nursing home facilities across the county."We asked what needs the residents had, and what you see is what they told us," said Graff.Among the items donated as part of the nursing home project were 45 fleece blankets, two checker boards, two cribbage boards, a radio and CD?player, 120 pair of gripper socks, 12 puzzles and 45 clothing protectors.The group utilized $761.29 of the nearly $27,000 donated in 2011 for this project.According to Karen Christensen, who helps secure volunteers for Salvation Army Projects, the funds from the Salv-ation Army were used to purchase items as well as the materials for the clothing protectors, which were then created by volunteers.The volunteers, co-ordinated through RSVP who helped make them, included Norma Hagert of Red-wood Falls, Pat Macht of Lucan, Helen Lem-cke of Morgan, Marlys Mathiowetz of Red-wood Falls and Susie Irlbeck of Wanda.This is just one of myriad ways the Salva-tion Army has helped, as it also makes donations for things such as sending kids to camp and providing backpacks to students to helping with immediate needs, such as gas, groceries or emergency housing.The Salvation Army also recently helped cover costs for some equipment for the county emergency management program.The Salvation Army serves as a last resort for people who have exhausted other options and yet are still in need of help.More about the Salvation Army may be found at the Northern Division Salvation Army Web site which serves Minnesota and North Dakota at www.thesalarmy.org.If you need help, call Western Community Action at (507) 637-2187 and speak with Amy Joubert.
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Michigan has ended a six-year moratorium on the construction of expressway sound walls. The State Transportation Commission recently adopted a new policy.
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In other Thibodaux City Council action: March 20, 2013
Published: Wednesday, March 20, 2013 at 10:56 a.m.
Last Modified: Wednesday, March 20, 2013 at 10:56 a.m.
The following is a rundown of all action taken Monday by the Thibodaux City Council. All votes were unanimous; all members were present.
Action: Introduced an ordinance authorizing the mayor to sign a supplemental agreement with the Louisiana Department of Transportation for the Canal Street Bridge Pedestrian Crossing. The state will pay for part of the project as part of the agreement.
Action: Adopted a resolution requesting the Louisiana Municipal Association to investigate and compare cost savings, efficiencies and investment performance for the Municipal Employees' Retirement System, the Municipal Police Employees' Retirement System and the Municipal Fire Employees' Retirement System with other state-managed retirement systems.
Action: Decided not to condem a building at 318 N. 13 St. after improvements were made.
Action: Mayor Tommy Eschete discussed T. Baker Smith's 100th anniversary.
Action: Passed an ordinance authorizing the mayor to execute a cash sale for the purchase of property associated with the construction of the Tiger Drive Bridge State Project.
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When we reviewed Alexandre Aja's "Mirrors" this past summer on the podcast, we all agreed that it was an interesting concept that was pretty much ruined by the hilarity of Kiefer Sutherland's histrionic performance. And by "performance", I mean him shouting at things and shooting mirrors with guns. For those who didn't see it, no I'm not making that up.


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DENVER -- The play was going to video review, but the person in a Sharks jersey closest to the action when the puck crossed the goal line in the final instant of overtime Sunday night knew his team was not going to like the outcome.
"I heard the horn after it was already by me by a bit. I thought it was going to be good," goalie Antti Niemi said of the desperation shot by Matt Duchene that gave the Colorado Avalanche a 3-2 victory over the Sharks. The shot went in a mere three-tenths of a second before the game would have gone to a shootout.
It was another crushing defeat for a San Jose team that reached the midpoint of this lockout-shortened, 48-game season with an 11-7-6 record after starting 7-0. Yes, the Sharks could take some satisfaction in the fact that -- reversing Saturday's 4-3 overtime loss to the St. Louis Blues -- they were the ones who erased a two-goal deficit. And they did pick up a point.
But losing with less than a second to play has a special sting.
The final sequence of events started with 11.2 seconds left in overtime and Joe Pavelski losing a defensive-zone faceoff to Duchene, who had notched Colorado's first goal as well.
"You'd like to win that draw. That's something you pride yourself on," Pavelski said. "You get put out in a situation like that, and you lose it right away."
The puck then found its way to Avalanche forward PA Parenteau at the blue line. He fired away, and Pavelski did exactly what he wanted to do -- block the shot.
"You'd like to think if you block it every time, you're going to get a little better result," he said. "But sometimes you're not."
This time the puck went straight to Duchene, whose 16-foot wrist shot from the slot beat Niemi. Such is hockey's fickle nature.
"We can analyze that 100 times if we wanted," Sharks coach Todd McLellan said. "It hits (Pavelski) in the chest, it falls right on the guy's tape and he puts it in the net. That's the way it happens sometimes."
Goals by Duchene and Ryan O'Reilly had built a 2-0 lead for the Avalanche that the Sharks didn't start chipping into until the final minute of the second period when Patrick Marleau scored his team-leading 13th goal of the season. Logan Couture knotted things up late in the third period by blasting a one-timer past Colorado goalie Semyon Varlamov for his 10th.
The game was Colorado's first since ending the Chicago Blackhawks historic streak of earning at least one point in the first 24 games of the season, and the Avalanche picked up where it left off Friday night.
A penalty to Adam Burish put Colorado on the power play early, and the Avalanche took a 1-0 lead at 6:47 of the first period. Justin Braun's unsuccessful clearing attempt ended up with Duchene taking a back door pass -- also from Parenteau -- and punching it into the San Jose net.
Colorado then doubled its lead at 6:58 of the second period when the Avalanche sped down the ice and O'Reilly tipped a centering pass from Aaron Palushaj past Niemi.
That's where the score stood until Marleau deflected a shot by Braun past a screened Varlamov with 39.1 seconds left in the period. And the Sharks evened things up at 16:35 of the third period when Couture -- who had been frustrated when a glove save by the Colorado goalie robbed him on a power play earlier in the period -- blasted a one-timer from the high slot into the Avalanche net.
"I was able to find a soft spot there, and the puck came off my stick very nicely," said Couture, who scored for a second consecutive game. "Just shooting it as hard as I could."
Couture expressed his frustration over the way the game -- as well as much of the season -- has gone.
"We have to start finding ways to win these games," he said. "Yesterday we gave up a lead, today we come back. One point is good, but you need to get two in this league."
"I didn't agree with the call at all tonight," he said. "I thought he was clearly pushed into him. I'm sure the officials will review it and see it that way as well."
Do not expect McLellan to tell his offensively struggling team not to crash the net, even with the penalties being called.
"We want our guys to go hard," he said. "We want our guys to be competitive in the blue paint."
"It's a nice thing to get," he said. "Hopefully there's a lot more where that came from."
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2. Owen Nolan 206
3. Jonathan Cheechoo 165
4. Joe Thornton 160
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The Truckee volleyball team handled Incline in straight sets, 25-14, 25-11, 25-8, at Incline on Tuesday to earn its fifth straight win.
Junior Chelsea Mohun was named Player of the Match for the Wolverines, as she recorded 19 service points, six service aces, 10 digs and four kills to help lead to the lopsided win.
Mackenzie Redner tallied a team-high 15 kills and 12 digs, while Mel Jones finished with 11 kills and 11 service points, and Gabby Moretti had 32 assists. Kestlie Stefanelli contributed 10 digs and Moretti eight.
The Wolverines are now 14-9 on the year and 4-0 in Mount Rose League play. They beat their last four opponents in straight sets and have won every match against the Nevada Division I-A and Division III. The nine losses all came against schools from larger divisions.
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Songs of the Sea with Victoria Kirsch and Friends - AT CAPACITY
Beach=Culture at the Annenberg Community Beach House
Monday, March 11, 2013 from 6:30 PM to 8:20 PM (PDT)
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5:15-6:15pm Docents available to discuss the site at the Marion Davies Guest House
6:30-8:30pm Concert
Jamie Chamberlin, soprano
Zachary Gordin, baritone
Timothy Loo, cello
Victoria Kirsch, piano
Music of the Waves, Enchanted Islands and Underwater Cathedrals; celebrating the beauties and dangers of the sea. Featuring Byron Adams' "Nocturne" for soprano, cello and piano, Debussy's "La Cathédrale Engloutie," excerpts from Rodgers and Hammerstein's South Pacific and Gabriel Fauré's Les Berceaux, and songs and arias by Britten, Piazzolla, Weill and more.
Greek-American Soprano Jamie Chamberlin has been recognized for her abilities as both a singer and actress. Alan Rich of LA Weekly writes, "I would be thrilled to revisit the vocal and comedic talents of Jamie Chamberlin any time she comes my way." Frequently in demand as a recitalist and concert artist, Chamberlin performs regularly throughout California and beyond. Recently, she has enjoyed debuts with the Louisville Orchestra, and with Long Beach Opera as Lucy in Shostakovich's comic operetta, Moscow, Cherry Town. She made her professional debut with the Los Angeles Philharmonic in 2004 singing the soprano solo in the world premiere of Esa-Pekka Salonen's monumental orchestral work, Wing on Wing. The following season, she made her solo debut with Los Angeles Opera singing the High Priestess in Aida and the Cretan Woman in Idomeneo, with Plácido Domingo. In 2006 Chamberlin was an artist in the prestigious Merola Opera Program at San Francisco Opera. She received critical praise for both her portrayal of Anne Sexton in Conrad Susa's Transformations, and for her sparkling performance in the Merola Grand Finale on the stage of the War Memorial Opera House. Chamberlin holds both Bachelor of Arts and Master of Music degrees from UCLA where she performed a variety of roles ranging from Contessa di Folleville in Rossini's Il Viaggio a Reims to Anita in West Side Story.
Baritone Zachary Gordin is renowned as a dynamic and engaging artist, bringing masterful singing and strong physicality to a wide variety of roles: from baroque heroes to contemporary works written specifically for him. Recent operatic highlights include: Silvio in I Pagliacci with Sacramento Opera, Aeneas in Dido and Aeneas and El Cantaor in La Vida Breve with West Bay Opera, Germont in La Traviata with West Bay Opera and Center Stage Opera, Enrico in Lucia di Lammermoor with North Bay Opera and Center Stage Opera, and Escamillo in Carmen with San Francisco Lyric Opera. On the concert stage, he has performed Brahms' Requiem and Vaughan Williams' Dona Nobis Pacem with the Oakland Symphony Chorus, Schubert's Mass in E-flat and Psalm 92 with the San Francisco Choral Society, Bach's Cantata #82 "Ich habe genug" with the Sacramento Philharmonic, and Orff's Carmina Burana in performances with the Pacific Shores Philharmonic, Oakland East Bay Symphony, Bakersfield Symphony, and others. Upcoming this season is Fauré's Requiem with Oakland East Bay Symphony, Mozart's Coronation Mass with the Sacramento Philharmonic, Escamillo in Carmen with Diablo Symphony and Cinnabar Opera, Dichterliebe at the Olympic Music Festival, and many others. In addition to his performing schedule, he maintains an active vocal studio, and is in demand as a presenter of workshops and master classes for emerging artists.
Pianist Victoria Kirsch creates innovative programs that combine opera, song, theater, poetry and visual arts. In addition to Songs of the Sea, current projects include The Poet's Voice: Collaborative Art in Words and Music (with poet Dana Gioia), Trunk Show: Smoke and Mirrors, or the Alchemy of Desire; Andy Warhol's World in Song; This, and My Heart: The Worlds of Emily Dickinson; and Chick Songs: Art Songs by Women Composers. She continues her association with Julia Migenes, playing for the celebrated soprano's shows throughout the world. She is the music director of Opera Arts, a Palm Springs-based performance organization. Victoria has worked with national and regional opera companies (Los Angeles, Cincinnati, Long Beach Operas) and international competitions (Operalia, MONC Auditions), and she has been a popular teaching artist for Los Angeles Opera's Community Programs Department. She returns to the faculty of the Los Angeles-based SongFest summer program in July 2013, and she was a vocal faculty member at USC's Thornton School of Music from 1995 to 1999. She was associated with the Music Academy of the West in Santa Barbara for many years, playing in the studio of renowned baritone and master teacher Martial Singher and serving as a member of the vocal faculty.
Blüthner piano provided by the Kasimoff-Blüthner Company, Hollywood.
Stop by early for information on the Beach House by docents from the Santa Monica Conservancy.
Tickets are free but space is limited and reservations are required. If you would like to attend, please reserve online. Please plan to arrive by 6:15pm to retain your reservation. Late seating, even for reservation-holders, is not guaranteed. To adjust or cancel your reservation for this event, email email@example.com. We appreciate your keeping in touch!
Directions: The Beach House is located at 415 Pacific Coast Highway, Santa Monica, CA 90402 on the west side of Pacific Coast Highway, a half mile north of the California Incline and a half mile south of Chautauqua Blvd. Plenty of public parking is available - enter off PCH at the Beach House Way traffic light. The facility is easily accessible by foot or bike from the beach bike path, although the Beach closes at sunset. There is ample bike parking at racks throughout the site - remember to bring your own lock.
Parking: For weekday evening Beach=Culture events October - April starting at 5pm, there is a special $5 parking charge at the park and pay machines available in three areas of the ACBH parking lot. Machines take cards and cash and this special rate is only for Beach=Culture attendees; please inform the attendant you are here for Beach=Culture. For regular fees and parking lot hours, please check the website for details.
Other events: To view & make reservations for future free Beach=Culture events, check http://annenbergbeachhouse.com/beachculture.
General Info: For hours, events and more, visit http://www.annenbergbeachhouse.com, or call 310-458-4904. Back on the Beach Café hours are subject to change but generally close by 3pm on winter weekdays - call ahead.
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415 Pacific Coast Hwy at Beach Coast Way
Santa Monica
Monday, March 11, 2013 from 6:30 PM to 8:20 PM (PDT)
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Welcome to Beach=Culture, a year-round series of free arts and culture events at the Annenberg Community Beach House. The Beach House is a City of Santa Monica facility and is open to all - no membership required. For more information, please visit annenbergbeachhouse.com. Click to join the Beach House email lists or the Cultural Affairs Division lists for info on other arts programming, including artist opportunities, annual festivals, and arts events around town.
The Beach House is made possible by a generous gift from the Annenberg Foundation, at the recommendation of Wallis Annenberg, and in partnership with the City of Santa Monica and California State Parks. Additional funding was provided by the US Department of Housing & Urban Development and the federal Preserve America program. The Annenberg Community Beach House is wheelchair accessible and ADA compliant. For disability related accommodations, please call Guest Services at 310-458-4904.


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AUBURN, N.H. — They walked for miles through the woods, the girls in bonnets and long skirts, the boys in suspenders and broad-brimmed hats, towing heavy wooden handcarts. They slept in a field under tarps in a torrential downpour, and in the morning, they ate oatmeal in sodden clothes among the mosquitoes.
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Liverpool Message Board
Is it Suarez or us who are wrong?
Presumably we sold Suarez a "project" which involved Champions League football when he signed. He's given his all for the club when on the pitch but it hasn't worked out for a number of debatable reasons. He has no affinity to LFC beyond that so is he wrong to want to leave the club and further his ambitions elsewhere?
As for how he's gone about it ... at this moment in time he has made it clear he wants out & the club have made it clear they are not selling him. He has not refused to play or train as far as I'm aware. So why is it that a number of supporters who previously idolised him now hate him? Isn't it our problem that we transfer our passion & life-long commitment to the club we support onto our best players and get upset when our expectations are shown to be delusional?
And, for the future, presumably we have attracted/have tried to attract players by selling the same "project" (Coutinho/Mkhitaryan/Costa). I guess we may be faced with being a stepping-stone club for a few years yet.Sort: Newest | Oldest | Most Replied Expand all replies
dsteer_lfc_68 dsteer_lfc_68 Aug 15, 2013 16:21 Flag
I think its a good point Paddy, we have to realize that the vast majority of footballers have little real affinity to their clubs other than the fact they are their employers. So on that level I cannot be too harsh on Suarez for wanting to move on, just as I'd not be harsh on a young manager looking to further his career by changing companies to get more experience, more money, or a chance to become a senior manager.
However, just like the rest of us, there is a way to leave a company, and there is a way to leave a club. Most of us don't sign long term contracts with our employers, so maybe its not a perfect analogy, but I think most of us don't do all we can to annoy our current boss and customers in order to move to the competition.
Now maybe there was a promise, if memory serves Merielles also complained about a broken promise (over a new contract) when he left. But for me its just another excuse to try to worm out of the commitment made last summer. If Suarez was able to get a promise from BR, then why was it not documented in the paperwork signed with the club?
But end of the day when there is a contract its there to protect both sides of the transaction. Last summer it gave LFC the confidence our best player would be around for a while, and it gave Suarez a nice pay day. But if a contract is to be modified, or canceled both sides have to agree, and while I do think we'd sell Suarez for the right price, and to a club we don't directly compete with (Real for example) selling to Arsenal for less than the club think he's worth would hurt us both financially and from a football perspective, so no one should be surprised the club has dug its heals in to protect itself.
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Hi Dave
I agree that the club are 100% right to look after their interests - it's just that I don't think we should hate Suarez for trying to look after his own. I think the club handled it very well up to the demand from BR for an apology - I think that was an emotional response and one which makes it harder to both sides to climb down.
As for the 'promise' - I agree that it's very odd that it isn't in writing. That said, some conversation took place otherwise what was the 'clause with no meaning' there for? Maybe a genuine misunderstanding or maybe BR said to LS "that the club won't wear it in the contract but I'll give you my word that I'll sell you if we don't get CL"? To be fair to BR, he has categorically denied it so it is likely it's the former.