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The Whale as an Object

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  From 1900 to 1999, humans killed [murdered]nearly 3 million whales, in every corner of every ocean.  Already by the 1970s they had reduced the population of every large species to near extinction.  It was, in the estimation of Phillip Clapham, the former head of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s lab for cetacean research,  the “largest removal of biomass in world history.”   It was also the closest thing to genocide we can observe in the history of human relations with their large mammalian relatives.  In less than a century, humans transformed the world’s oceans from places that pulsed with living whales, to nearly empty water. https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2022/06/history-of-soviet-whaling-greenpeace-twentieth-century.html 'IS MOBY DICK CONNECTED TO LEBOWSKI?' Abstract Hieroglyphic images appear recurrently throughout the text of Herman Melville’s Moby Dick. Whether the marks in question are ancient Egyptian ciphers, Queequeg...

Evel Knievel

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                                         [pic https://www.duderanch.com/montana/rich-ranch/ ] Robert 'Evel' Knievel is buried in Harrison Cemetery BUTTE Montana. BUTTE is an interesting place with an interesting history including one of the oldest Whore Houses in good ol' USA, located on Mercury Street - listed on the US Historic Register of buildings as a 'Museum 'and formerly cost 8$ for a Tour-it ceased trading as a Whore House in 1982. [pic TripAdvisor] Some of the surrounding polluted landscape of BUTTE is full of toxic foul-smelling lakes etc although it has to be said the scenery is generally very bucolic and attractive it has a less then idyllic history of labour relations in regard to working people and unionisation. Anyways I've never been to BUTTE [or Montana] although that may change as the place has a lot of attractions a Racetrack not too far from Sturgis etc and I'm de...

Had Me a Real Good Time

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                                     [Cover Artwork Tony Fitzgerald? or is it Fitzpatrick? https://tonyfitzpatrick.wordpress.com/ ] RKO 'Radio Pictures' [Camel Jokes Beards etc- even a Sabre] “- Ronald Kornblow: You know, I think you're the most beautiful woman in the whole world. - Beatrice Rheiner: Do you really? - Ronald Kornblow: No, but I don't mind lying if it'll get me somewheres.” GROUCHO MARX  - Kornblow LISETTE VEREA  - Bea of all the Gin Joints....in Casablanca... Bogarting the Joint.. Mr Wick?   Hash-assassin... Casa-Blanca= White House                  

A Pox on all of You, Jack

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  https://iass-ais.org/proceedings2014/view_lesson.php?id=26 Above site has explanations of some 'Archetypal' Symbolism used by Nazi Propaganda Film makers. [extract below ] This research aims to analyze the symbolic images – and clearly inspired by the mythologies of the West and the East – inserted at crucial moments in the narrative of the most important political documentary in film history, Triumph of the Will, directed by German film maker Leni Riefenstahl. Symbols of power of ancient civilizations are reworked by Nazism, as the spread-winged eagle, representing the Roman Empire, and at the same time so many other peoples and civilizations, which now appears holding a swastika. The most important Nazi symbol, adapted from Hindu and Buddhist mythology, is also a divine representation: stylization of sunlight expanding symbolizes the divine power itself.  Carl Jung distinguishes natural from cultural symbols and both are present in this documentary, which combines ancestra...

The Trashmen on Sunset Blvd

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                                                            OVER THE LINE! LOL..               Way out West ...there was this.. fello, fellas,  fellare  A, fellavi, fellatum Verb Translations (active participant) to  suck (milk) (from) to  fellate to  practice fellatio   https://www.latin-is-simple.com/en/vocabulary/verb/3967/ Fascinate  comes from the Latin word for "evil spell," and originally meant "bewitched" or "spellbound" in the literal, more sinister sense. The word eventually took on the less evil, more metaphorical meanings "to command the attention of" or "to captivate." [merriam-webster] fascinate (v.) 1590s, "bewitch, enchant," from French  fasciner  (14c.), from Latin  fascinatus , past participle of  fascinare  "bewitch, encha...