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In what was one of the worst offensive displays under head coach Mike Tomlin, the Pittsburgh Steelers offense turns the ball over eight times, and falls to the Cleveland Browns 20-14 in AFC North action. In all, the team had five lost fumbles and three interceptions.Brandon Weeden pass and Lawrence Timmons picked it off and returned it 53-yards for a touchdown. Making the score 7-0 Pittsburgh before the offense takes the field.
The Browns defense forced a turnover of their own on the Steelers first possession, when running back Rashard Mendenhall fumbled. Seven plays later, they got on the scoreboard with a Phil Dawson 39-yard field goal. The kick made the score 7-3 midway through the first quarter.
For the second time in the game, the Browns took advantage of a second fumble, this one by running back Isaac Redman to take their first lead of the game. Armed with great field position at the 10-yard line, Weeden hit tight end Jordan Cameron with a five-yard touchdown pass to make the score 10-7 midway through the second quarter.The Browns offense came back to mount another drive in the second quarter. Using a balanced run/pass attack, they moved into scoring position and extended their lead. Dawson again capped this 10-play drive with a 32-yard field goal to make the score 13-7 with just over three minutes remaining in the first half.
After not being able to cross mid-field in the first half, the Steelers finally touched Browns territory late in the half and made it count. On a slow but effective two minute drive, the team took advantage of a 25-yard pass interference in the End Zone call on wide receiver Plaxico Burress, to set up a Chris Rainey one-yard touchdown run with less than five seconds remaining in the half to take the score to 14-13.
Like in the first half, the Browns were able to capitalize on a Steelers turnover to regain the lead. It took just three plays after a Charlie Batch interception for Trent Richardson to punch it in from 15-yards out. With the touchdown, the score becomes 20-14 Cleveland with five minutes remaining in the third quarter.
On top of the turnovers, the Steelers offense never seemed to get into a flow behind Charlie Batch, with all four running backs putting the ball on the ground including two lost fumbles by Mendenhall. While Jonathan Dwyer led the running backs with nine carries and 19 yards, it was Rainey who sparked the team on the ground. Unfortunately, he left the game late due to injury on a play where he too fumbled. Besides the fumbles and lack of running game, Batch, who finished 20-of-34 for 199-yards and three interceptions, got no contribution at all from Mike Wallace, who recorded his only reception of the game on the last play (nine yards). Emmanuel Sanders (5-75-0) and Heath Miller (6-63-0) paced the receivers.
Defensively, the team played one of their best games of the season regardless of the final score, holding the Browns at bay all day, even though they had tremendous field position most of the game. The fact that the Steelers offense still had a chance to pull out a win after seven turnovers is an amazing feat in itself. In all, they recorded four sacks, two by Jason Worilds, who was filling in for injured linebacker LaMarr Woodley, one by James Harrison and one by Brett Keisel. They also did a solid job of keeping Trent Richardson in check with the rookie accounting for only 85 yards on 29 carries and the one touchdown.
Injuries continue to be a story for the Steelers as they announced that Doug Legursky would start at left guard in place of Willie Colon (Knee). Colon was available for action, but has not taken the field. During the game, the hits continued with the loss of two more starters and one back up to injury. In the first half, the defense took a hit when Woodley left the field with an ankle injury. Although he attempted to return, he was eventually replaced by Worilds. That trend continued in the second half, as rookie right tackle Mike Adams left the game on a cart with an ankle injury and running back Chris Rainey left with what looked to be a groin injury in the fourth quarter.
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1/4 tsp salt
1/2 tsp mixed spice
1/2 tsp ground cinnamon
200g butter
200g dark brown sugar
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1 tbsp marmalade
1/4 tsp vanilla essence
4 eggs, lightly beaten
800g mixed dried fruits (usually sultanas, raisins and currants)
100g mixed peel
150g glace cherries, halved
100g blanched almonds, chopped
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Gai Waterhouse had an easy points win over John Singleton in the second of their title series on Monday but lost one round on a foul.
"She's old - just like you," Waterhouse ripped. More Joyous raced ancient in the controversial All Aged Stakes at Randwick recently, but surely it's not your vintage but how you carry the years.
Singo is a sprightly 71 and we grumpy seniors must stick together. You don't call a fine red wine "old" but "mature".
On the Saturday in question, Singo's blood was up. Booze has been suggested, even medication, but he was intoxicated, rightly or wrongly, with injustice.
Told More Joyous, the apple of his eye, was "off", the advertising guru, punter, radio-station owner, and philanthropist, may have overreacted a tad. Back in the old days he was even a fight promoter.
Thus he went into the ring with Waterhouse. Referee Ray Murrihy, the chief stipe, has pledged to get to the bottom of the matter.
The alleged merchants of ''off", former rugby league champion Andrew Johns, Allan Robinson, a former but very capable jockey, and Eddie Hayson, were asked to stand and deliver. Otherwise they could be warned off. Murrihy, though, will hardly be wearing his death-sentence hat.
Maybe in the era of "Hollywood" George Edser, this was regarded as a catamount to the rack, but being made to do regular confinement at race meetings now would be more of a deterrent.
Outed in the 1960s, Edser served 18 years, often being hauled out of the long grass at Warwick Farm when attempting to watch the action, and also used a stepladder to look over racecourse fences.
These days you get a better service on television. Even the original Gai-Singo clash, missed by racegoers, was seen up close and personal by off-course viewers. Ironically, on his return, Edser had to front stewards in 1981 and a young bookmaker, Robbie Waterhouse, was called to the same hearing involving a horse called Happy Fella.
According to David Hickie's Legends of the Racetrack, Waterhouse had said he had borrowed from Edser when short on the racecourse. (On reflection, it was about as likely as Lady Gai getting a load of horse manure off another trainer.)
"There are more heartbreaks than hoof beats on the racecourse," Edser opined.
Robbie Waterhouse is very much involved in the More Joyous saga, as is his son, Tom, allegedly the source of "off", which he vehemently denies. The term "Chinese whispers" came to the fore on Monday. Chinese whispers is a game often played by children and there is nothing juvenile or quiet about racecourse mail, a more fitting term concerning More Joyous.
Despite usually being out of the corner of the mouth, it is boomed in an adult fashion. Often the source is sought and gets back to "they say" by urgers and touts.
None of those already mentioned had the copyright on the go-slow for More Joyous in the All Aged Stakes.
While she may have bobbed and weaved, danced and back moved on All Aged day (the first round), Lady Gai was the aggressor on Monday, but her attack was misdirected regarding the Nash Rawiller ride in the All Aged Stakes.
"Nash rode the horse perfectly," Singo counterpunched to the Waterhouse lead that the top jockey "wasn't in as composed situation as normally" because of the owner's outburst earlier. Compared with Rawiller's effort on More Joyous previously at Rosehill, it was a bottler. And Rawiller isn't a prelim boy, but a contender for the heavyweight title. Pre-race banter shouldn't be a problem. The anticipated fireworks in the return promotion on Monday could get me back. Fifteen rounds of Fine Cotton was enough male Waterhouse for one lifetime.
However, the possibility of Chris Murphy adds spice to the bill. Murphy once verbally set about the style of Ray Murrihy's favourite hat, gnashing like a greyhound on a live kill. It took me back to the Monday nights at The Old Tin Shed.
Still, a change is necessary for Singo. He'll be sent to the training camp, the Shit House, on his Strawberry Hill farm. Forgive the title, but that's how it's tagged - any attempt at sanitisation would take away character.
It is full of memorabilia, including his OAM (which was still in the box the last time we were there), but given more prominence was a poster of the Paul Ferreri-Rocky Gattellari bout at the Hordern in 1979, an early promotional venture.
My colleague Roy Masters will be imported from Melbourne to get our boy in the right frame of mind. Motivation along the lines of the "fibros", us, against the ''silvertails'', them. Stretching it on the financial score, but hunger must be generated. Face slapping, another Masters ploy, will be employed, with Charkey Ramon called upon to inflict the right measure.
I'll be doing a Bundini Brown. Remember Bundini? He chanted advice to Muhammad Ali.
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finally, wireless music!
picked up my airport express today, and it rocks the house. seriously, it rocks the house! the setup was completely painless: installed the software, launched the airport express assistant, told it to connect to my existing wireless network, entered a password to save the settings, and it was done. now...
19:51:38 August 10, 2004, Tuesday (PDT)
belated "congrats"
here's to tim and jenn, on both their wedding (mucho belated) and their reception! if you didn't know, they got married last january at the garfield park conservatory, and then had their reception this weekend in bloomington at central station. eating, drinking, dancing... all the good stuff you'd expect but...
17:58:33 July 26, 2004, Monday (PDT)
stottsan digital media redesign
FYI, the stottsan digital media site is undergoing a redesign. figured it was about time to revamp and allow for some photo showcasing, etc... should be ready shortly, but for now enjoy a splash page that gives a preview of the future design. yay!...
11:35:38 July 12, 2004, Monday (PDT)
correction, now i'm the iron chef
a while back i posted this about how i'm an awesome cook... certainly (despite the crappy photo) that meal rocked, but i now realize just how fantabulous i truly am. last week i made 3 kickass dinners ("stott's spinach salad," "holy-shit-that's-spicy italian sausage omelet," and "teriyaki-ginger stir fry") and i've...
09:55:37 July 12, 2004, Monday (PDT)
greece wins the eurocup
last weekend, on the 4th, i was having lunch in greektown when greece won euro cup 2004. talk about a crazy street party, damn! everyone spilled out from 9 muses after the game ended and within minutes halsted was shut down. there were some idiots that insisted on throwing fireworks...
11:46:33 July 10, 2004, Saturday (PDT)
so i'm a day behind, cut me some slack... :) apple previewed some cool stuff today @ WWDC 2004. i'm most excited about spotlight and dashboard. if i've had one need lately it's better search, especially as my photo and music collection grows. (no, i don't use iphoto, thank you...
12:03:28 June 29, 2004, Tuesday (PDT)
wow, that's some horribly hot acting
i was all excited for tonight's premiere of fox's north shore -- probably too excited. i mean, it is hawaii, and it is fox. and of course don't forget that brooke burns is on... but even though everyone was crazy hot, the acting was seriously some of the worst i've...
19:07:50 June 14, 2004, Monday (PDT)
dirty ruben love
damn! will ferrell is hilarious. nice to see him breaking into a new discipline, too... check him out in "afternoon delight" on mtv.com... oh, and "if you don't think this song is the greatest song ever, i will fight you. that's no lie." stay classy....
09:29:16 June 12, 2004, Saturday (PDT)
mazatlan photos
posted the photos from mazatlan tonight... they're all available here at photo.stottsan.net, and a select few start here are featured on my site. as usual, enjoy!...
23:32:56 June 7, 2004, Monday (PDT)
what's the best airport food value?
for my cheddar, it has to be mcdonald's. i know, i don't even eat it normally. but at ORD there isn't any other place where you can pick up a meal and a drink for under $5. sure you can hit up wolfgang puck's, but you're lucky to get out...
23:26:48 June 7, 2004, Monday (PDT)
pop kicks soda's ass!
ok, i don't know how it works out in terms of people but "pop" looks to hold the surface area crown, at least according to this map right here. why does the silly south insist on using "coke" when "pop" and "soda" make waaaaay more sense?!?!?! thank gawd the midwest...
18:14:44 May 26, 2004, Wednesday (PDT)
OC in the 70's
ok, so it's wisconsin and not cali... but still, rachel bilson was on that 70's show tonight. fez is my new hero. awesome. oh, and if you haven't figured it out yet, this post was a complete waste of time -- i'm just taking a cooking break and had to...
18:27:39 May 5, 2004, Wednesday (PDT)
remote encephalography my ass
jesus, alias has reached a new low. on tonight's episode the CIA needed to find someone but wasn't having any luck. however they did have a brainwave scan spit out by a wooden box (don't ask). no sooner than i asked myself "how the crap can you find someone using...
20:02:05 April 25, 2004, Sunday (PDT)
is everyone getting served?!?!
jesus, you know catchphrases have reached their peak when they show up on south park... in tonight's episode the boys are playing in the parking lot when some punk kids come up to them with a boombox and get their dance on. needless to say, the boys get served! when...
20:48:38 April 7, 2004, Wednesday (PDT)
firefox on tv
if you haven't noticed, i'm a geek. :) so of course i had to post when i saw firefox on law & order: criminal intent. i'm guessing it was firefox, although they didn't show the titlebar. since the episode couldn't have been shot that recently, it very well could have...
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Octavio Paz (1914-1998) was an activist and a writer. During the 1960s, he served for six years as the Mexican ambassador in New Delhi before resigning in support of the student demonstrations at the 1968 Mexico City Olympics. His poem "The Shame of the Olympics" was translated by Mark Strand and published in the New York Review of Books.
That same year, Paz published the essay "Marcel Duchamp o el castillo de la pureza," which was later translated by Donald Gardner and republished as "Marcel Duchamp, or the Castle of Purity." His interest in concrete poetry and the role of chance in art led to experiments in graphic poetic devices. The visual artist Vicente Rojo helped Paz with the design of an edition of visual poetry discs, entitled Discos visuals.
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Jan. 30 (BusinessDesk) - Reserve Bank governor Graeme Wheeler kept the official cash rate at 2.5 percent, while saying the rate will have to rise soon as inflationary pressures escalate in an economy with "considerable momentum".
"The bank remains committed to increasing the OCR as needed to keep future inflation near the 2 percent target mid-point," Wheeler said in a statement. "In this environment, there is a need to return interest rates to more-normal levels. The bank expects to start this adjustment soon."
While a strong New Zealand dollar was keeping a lid on tradable inflation, "the bank does not believe the current level of the exchange rate is sustainable in the long-run," he said. The New Zealand dollar dropped as low as 81.97 US cents, from 82.65 cents immediately before the 9am announcement. It was recently trading at 82.10 cents.
Wheeler said inflationary pressures are likely to increase in the next two years, and figures this month showed consumer prices rose at an annual 1.6 percent pace in the December quarter, slightly ahead of expectations.
Last month the Reserve Bank signalled interest rates would start rising in 2014, and the inflation data fuelled market expectations Wheeler might have raised the benchmark rate as early as today. Economists were more circumspect with most picking a March hike, saying a later move would let Wheeler explain his decision in the full monetary policy statement, press briefing, select committee hearing and updated forecasts.
"While we believe a hike today would be entirely justified based on fundamentals, we do not expect the RBNZ to deliver a hike," Bank of New Zealand strategist Kymberly Martin said in a note before the release. "Rather, we expect it to remain 'on hold' consistent with previous rhetoric, but prepare the market for a 25bps rate hike as early as March."
In its December forecast track for the 90-day bank bill rate, seen as a proxy for the OCR, the Reserve Bank projected the rate would increase to 2.7 percent in the March quarter of 2014, rising to 3.8 percent by the end of the year, and 4.8 percent by March 2016.
Wheeler said the scale and speed of increases in the OCR would "depend on future economic indicators."
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Thursday, December 06, 2007
Snow Stalking The Wily Red Fox
Two decades ago there were far more red foxes than coyotes, and one thing we'd do is cut a fresh red fox track, and take off cross-country on foot along the snowy trail.
Once I drove to my late brother George's house, and spotted a fresh track crossing the road a quarter-mile from his home. I stopped, got out, and studied it. The track was smoking hot.
George and I put our heads together, and he felt the fox would probably skirt behind the barn, head off across the field, hunt the open fields for mice, and then settle down for a nap atop a clump of uprooted trees a half-mile from his place.
We took turns dogging the tracks, and it was his turn. I'd lag behind, check ahead through binoculars, and try to make certain we didn't accidentally bump the critter. We headed out on the track, and the fox did cut behind the barn, moved down a hill, and crossed the field.
I glassed the track from cover, and lost them near a patch of sumac this side of a fence row 300 yards away, and on the other side of the fence was the tree-tops that would provide a sunny hiding place for a napping fox.
We eased through the field, spotted several areas where the fox had tried for a mouse, but the tracks stay straight until it came to a small knoll, and we bellied up to the edge of the knoll. More fox stalks are blown because people rush to see what is on the other side, and blunder into the fox. Once spooked, the animal will run for a long distance.
My head eased over the top, and I glassed everything within view. The fox was nowhere to be seen, but its tracks cut through the field, into the sumac bushes near the hill-top, and we couldn't see the tracks past there.
We huddled, and whispered back and forth, and felt if the fox wasn't in the sumac, which we didn't really consider, we'd have a reasonably clear look at the tree-tops. Perhaps the fox was already sunning himself.
I studied the sumac until my eyes watered, and couldn't see tracks coming out. We had to keep going while we were fairly close to the animal. Stalling now could ruin the hunt.
We crossed the open field and approached the sumacs with caution. We could then see the fox tracks heading toward the fence line and the nasty mass of tree-tops were scattered about like jackstraws.
"I can see his tracks down to the fence," George whispered. "Check the tree-tops, and see if you can spot him. We'll stick out like two sore thumbs while crossing the field to the fence row."
Long minutes were spent glassing the tree-tops before I spotted the reddish-russet color of the sleepy fox. He was facing away, directly into the wind, and we formulated plans. I would give George hand signals, and a palm raised up meant for him to stop.
We watched a minute or two longer, saw the fox raise his head and check his back trail once and then twice, and after the second time, we had five minutes to move. As soon as his head went down, George stayed low and ran for the fence only 40 yards from the fox.
He eased into place just as the fox's head came up to look around, and when it went down, I moved out. We met at the fence, and George pointed to a hole in the fence that would put him only 25 yards from the fox but he didn't dare make a sound getting into shooting position.
The fox looked around again, and when his head went down, George crawled to the hole, and snaked through. He had to depend on me now to tell him when the fox raised his head again.
Two minutes later the fox raised his head, and I made one small hand movement to George. He raised his 12 gauge 3-inch magnum, started to aim and the fox stood up when it caught the movement, and with one shot this fox hunt was over.
Stalking fox is no different than stalking bedded coyotes. Work into the wind, check closely before making a move, and when the stalk leads to a close shot, make it count. It's an exciting way to spend part of a mid-winter day.
Stalks often fail for one reason or another, but when they work, there is plenty of good exercise and some up-close and spectacular action.
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A "garden variety" leaf is a broad, flat structure, but if the garden happens to be somewhere arid, it probably includes succulent plants with plump leaves full of precious water. Fat leaves did not emerge in the plant world easily.
A new Brown University study published in Current Biology reports that to sustain efficient photosynthesis, they required the evolution of a fundamental remodeling of leaf vein structure: the addition of a third dimension.
Leaves, after all, are food factories complete with plumbing to transport water and sugar. The farther those veins are from cells performing photosynthesis, the less efficient the process will be.
Researchers Erika Edwards, a professor at Brown, and former graduate student Matt Ogburn, wondered how plants managed to evolve fat leaves, given the hydraulic challenges of gaining girth.
Of all plants, Edwards said, maybe succulents could sustain photosynthesis in fat leaves with sparse venation because they store so much water right where it's needed. But she and Ogburn found that even succulents were constrained by 2D veins.
"There must be some kind of a tradeoff in a fat leaf that's really different from most flat leaves," said lead author Ogburn, who is now a postdoctoral fellow at Yale. "There's a benefit to that in storing water in the leaf, but it's going to have a cost to it in terms of the other things the leaf has to do."
To do their study, Ogburn and Edwards looked deep into the catalog of two dry-climate plant groups, Portulacineae and Molluginaceae. They pieced together their evolutionary history, measured the water storage of 83 species, and the vein structure of 42.
Up to a certain level of thickness, leaves retained the planar vein structure of flat leaves. As a consequence, their vein structure was sparser and path lengths were longer - but only up to a point.
The researchers discovered that after a certain threshold of thickness, vein structure had evolved to become three dimensional, abandoning the single plane layout of flatter leaves for either an oval or circular orientation in cross-section.
That 3D vein structures independently evolved more than 10 times, in two ways, in just this limited sample of two lineages, suggests that the different vein structure is no coincidence, Ogburn and Edwards said. Instead it seems conclusively to be a functional trait that emerged to allow leaves to become thicker.
"If you had just a 2D-veined pile of species and a 3D-veined pile of species and you didn't know how they were related to each other, you might say, maybe 3D venation just evolved once a long time ago, and had absolutely nothing to do with succulence," Edwards said.
"But when you can lay them out on a phylogeny and reconstruct how many times this transition happened- the more times you see this repeated correlation between these two traits the more power you have to say that this is actually adaptive."
The researchers wrote that 2D arrangements of veins, because they produce a low density of veins in thicker leaves, likely imposed a hard limit on leaf thickness. Evolution of 3D veins allowed them to burst through those constraints.
"Increased leaf thickness [when veins are planar] negates the hydraulic benefits of dense leaf venation," Edwards and Ogburn wrote in Current Biology.
"It also predicts an upper limit to leaf thickness that would be set by the minimal functional vein density... However, the repeated evolution of 3D venation allowed for further increases in succulence while maintaining moderate hydraulic path lengths."
In other words, leaves became free to be fat, in an evolutionary vein.
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In early March the Outdoor Leadership class climbed Mt McGinnis and skied out the creek for a full traverse. March 6 was a 14 hour, 10+ mile day, with 4000 feet of elevation gained and lost. On March 8, the Glacier Travel and Crevasse Rescue class traversed the first icefall of the Mendenhall Glacier, from the toe through the first icefall to top of the West Glacier Trail. This traverse has only been done once before, reports ODS Program Director Forest Wagner. "I'm especially proud of these efforts and of the amazing students we have in outdoor studies," said Wagner.
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Murder Is Not an Anomaly in War
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War perverts and destroys you. It pushes you closer and closer to your own annihilation—spiritual, emotional and finally physical. It destroys the continuity of life, tearing apart all systems—economic, social, environmental and political—that sustain us as human beings. In war, we deform ourselves, our essence. We give up individual conscience—maybe even consciousness—for contagion of the crowd, the rush of patriotism, the belief that we must stand together as a nation in moments of extremity. To make a moral choice, to defy war's enticement, can in the culture of war be self-destructive. The essence of war is death. Taste enough of war and you come to believe that the Stoics were right: We will, in the end, all consume ourselves in a vast conflagration.
A World War II study determined that, after 60 days of continuous combat, 98 percent of all surviving soldiers will have become psychiatric casualties. A common trait among the remaining 2 percent was a predisposition toward having "aggressive psychopathic personalities." Lt. Col. Dave Grossman in his book "On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society," notes: "It is not too far from the mark to observe that there is something about continuous, inescapable combat which will drive 98 percent of all men insane, and the other 2 percent were crazy when they go there."
During the war in El Salvador, many soldiers served for three or four years or longer, as in the U.S. wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, until they psychologically or physically collapsed. In garrison towns, commanders banned the sale of sedatives because those drugs were abused by the troops. In that war, as in the wars in the Middle East, the emotionally and psychologically maimed were common. I once interviewed a 19-year-old Salvadoran army sergeant who had spent five years fighting and then suddenly lost his vision after his unit walked into a rebel ambush. The rebels killed 11 of his fellow soldiers in the firefight, including his closest friend. He was unable to see again until he was placed in an army hospital. "I have these horrible headaches," he told me as he sat on the edge of his bed. "There is shrapnel in my head. I keep telling the doctors to take it out." But the doctors told me that he had no head wounds.
I saw other soldiers in other conflicts go deaf or mute or shake without being able to stop.
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In his memoir "Wartime," about the partisan war in Yugoslavia, Milovan Djilas wrote of the enticement that death held for the combatants. He stood over the body of his comrade, the commander Sava Kovacevic, and found:
"… Dying did not seem terrible or unjust. This was the most extraordinary, the most exalted moment of my life. Death did not seem strange or undesirable. That I restrained myself from charging blindly into the fray and death was perhaps due to my sense of obligation to the troops or to some comrade's reminder concerning the tasks at hand. In my memory, I returned to those moments many times with the same feeling of intimacy with death and desire for it while I was in prison, especially during my first incarceration."
War ascendant wipes out Eros. It wipes out delicacy and tenderness. Its communal power seeks to render the individual obsolete, to hand all passions, all choice, all voice to the crowd.
"The most important part of the individual life, which cannot be subsumed in communal life, is love," Sebastian Haffner wrote in "Defying Hitler." "So comradeship has its special weapons against love: smut. Every evening in bed, after the last patrol round, there was the ritual reciting of lewd songs and jokes. That is the hard and fast rule of male comradeship, and nothing is more mistaken than the widely held opinion that this is a safety valve for frustrated erotic or sexual feelings. These songs and jokes do not have an erotic, arousing effect. On the contrary, they make the act of love appear as unappetizing as possible. They treat it like digestion and defecation, and make it an object of ridicule. The men who recited rude songs and used coarse words for female body parts were in effect denying that they ever had tender feelings or had been in love, that they had ever made themselves attractive, behaved gently. ..."
When we see this, when we see our addiction for what it is, when we understand ourselves and how war has perverted us, life becomes hard to bear. Jon Steele, a cameraman who spent years in war zones, had a nervous breakdown in a crowded Heathrow Airport after returning from Sarajevo.
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