Sooo, brought in a few of my less valuable books for trade and discovered Bloch's "Marquis De Sade - His Life and Works", which puts him into context with the rest of the Era, the countless unforgivable crimes of Louis XV, his concubines and Mary Antoinette, the innumerable vices and sins of the Clergy and Church, (with many pages given over to police reports detailing the "in flagrente delicto" acts of Monks, Jesuits, Priests, etc. It is very laugh-out loud, and while I'm barely 30 pages in I've already made as many pages in notes. Unfortunately it demands a bit of attention, and my attention has been a bit scattered by the events of the weekend.
Anyways; news I've been following, the apparent closeness of the Russian American election, news that Elon Musk has apparently been in contact with Putin, that he's paying voters to vote Trump, his Million Dollar Lottery, his dancing dipshit routine, and Trump, who's so chaotic and terrifying that there's no keeping up with him, and no point even trying...
Closer to home, news of the poor girl burned alive in a Halifax Wal-Mart Oven, Temporary foreign worker/or International Student, I knew all this without even reading the article, Canada, we've become the Dubai, the UAE of North America, bringing in cheaply paid foreign workers, giving them little to no training, and placing them in dangerous situations where this should not even be possible, yet clearly it is and it's happened. Or the recent case of an employee found dead in a Cambridge, Ontario, walk-in Freezer, Canada's become a bit like France, over there you serve 5 years in the French Foreign Legion and you become a citizen, over here you work 5 years for some of the dodgiest employers ever and - if you survive, you get citizenship.
Back to the election, Bloch and the Marquis De Sade, It's worth noting that while eventually the populace in France rebelled against the obscene hypocrisy and corruption of the Nobility/King and Clergy, resulting in the French Revolution, In America they're seriously considering reelecting them in. I mean - time, if ever there was one, to yell "Off with their heads...". Win or lose this election won't be so clean cut...
There are no clean players, from Trump, Musk, Bezos, Thiel, the list of corrupted technocrats, politicians and their sycophants should keep the guillotine busy for quite some time...on the other hand, never have they been easier to identify, merely look for the Trump Logo/Flag.
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Other than that, my books slowly arriving - early last week (the same day I was setting my chops to Bloch) Muireann Maguire's "Red Spectres" arrive, one I've long looked forward to, as well as Friday I received David Lindsay's "A Voyage to Arcturus". And there are yet two to arrive by Cendrars, and I've lengthened my list with a few more via Bloch.
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Friday night, the Dosed Party, up far too late (in fact didn't sleep, a little sketch all day and only slightly recovered for work Saturday, today feeling a little bit better. You can have too much of a good thing. I am getting a little bit too old for this, and am going to need a few weeks banging on a Tamborine following a granola truck to fully recover. This is how the Yellow Deli gets you...