Two Open Drink Recipies (en anglais)

Open Cola contains caffeine, which may kill in small doses.
Free Beer is safer, except that you may burn yourself.

Le retour de Don Quixotte (G. K. Chesterton)

Don Quixotte n'était pas fou, puisqu'il ne s'est pas trompé.

Qui le dit? Le bibliothécaire Michael Herne. A qui le di-t-il? A Douglas Murrel, un gentilhomme qui préfère la compagnie un peu marginale, voire folle. Temoin: il sauve un homme des psys, et Herne en et actuellement recherché aussi. Comme de la police. Pourquoi? Parce qu'il a trahi l'arrière-pensée des capitalistes qui avaient collaboré avec les jeunes gentilhommes pour le mettre en pouvoir: le premier litige où il doit juger comme un roi, il décide pour le travailleur syndicaliste John Braintree, amoureux de la soeur de Douglas. Contre les gentilhommes Lord Seawood et Lord Eden:

"In this matter," went on the Arbiter, "we must be careful to distinguish the intellectual principle involved from any emotional differences about the tone and terms of discussion. I will not refer to the language used here by the Leader of the Labour organisation, especially in its reference to myself. But if he states that the Craft should be controlled by those who completely and competently practise it, I have no hesitation in saying that he states the ancient medieval ideal and states it correctly."..."Of course," continued Herne, "it is open to Lord Eden and Lord Seawood to take advantage of this system and present a Masterpiece of this form of manual labour. I do not know whether they would be resuming a craft, with which they were occupied at some time of which I have no record; or whether it would be necessary for them to be entered under articles; and act as two apprentices to some existing labourer. . . ."

Evidemment, les capitalistes en question ne font pas partie des jurandes! Ayant dévoilé ça, il se voit obligé de prendre la fuite. Il a également perdu Mlle Seawood, en faisant allusion au fait que Seawood Abbey était bel et bien une Abbaye - volée de l'abbé ou de l'abesse pendant la réforme. Qui l'aide a fuire? Murrel, qui le qualifie comme Don Quixotte et qui se qualifie soi-même comme Sancho Panza. C'est sur la route assis sur son calèche qu'ils parlent du Chevalier de La Manche:

"They say I am behind the times," said Herne, "and living in the days that Don Quixote dreamed of. They seemed to forget that they themselves are at least three hundred years behind the times and living in the days when Cervantes dreamed of Don Quixote. They are still living in the Renaissance; in what Cervantes naturally regarded as the New Birth. But I say that a baby that is three hundred years old is already getting on in life. It is time he was born again."

"Is he to be born again," asked Murrel, "as a medieval knight-errant?"

"Why not?" asked the other, "if the Renaissance man was born again as an Ancient Greek? Cervantes thought that Romance was dying and that Reason might reasonably take its place. But I say that in our time Reason is dying, in that sense; and it is old age is really less respectable than the old romance. We want to recur to the more simple and direct attack. What we want now is somebody who does believe in tilting at giants."

"And who succeeds in tilting at windmills," answered Murrel.

"Have you ever reflected," said his friend, "what a good thing it would have been if he had smashed the windmills? From what I know now of medieval history, I should say his only mistake was in tilting at the mills instead of the millers. The miller was the middleman of the middle ages. He was the beginning of all the middlemen of the modern ages. His mills were the beginning of all the mills and manufactures that have darkened and degraded modern life. So that even Cervantes, in a way, chose an example against himself. And it's more so with the other examples. Don Quixote set free a lot of captives who were only convicts. Nowadays it's mostly those who have been beggared who are jailed and those who have robbed them who are free. I'm not sure the mistake would be quite so mistaken."

"Don't you think," asked Murrel, "that modern things are too complicated to be dealt with in such a simple way?"

"I think," replied Herne, "that modern things are too complicated to be dealt with except in a simple way."

THE RETURN OF DON QUIXOTE

BY

G. K. CHESTERTON


DODD, MEAD & COMPANY

NEW YORK 1927

Deux biographies sacerdotales ...

Pasqualina Lehnert: Ich durfte ihn dienen

Eugenio Pacelli, depuis sa nonciature en Allemagne jusqu'à son decès comme Pape Pie XII fut servi par Soeur Pasqualina Lehnert. Au sujet controversiel de sa silence à propos les persécution des Juifs par les Nazis, elle nous donne ça: il avait lu que les évêques hollandais avaient protesté, et Hitler avait réagi en ordonnnant une déportation de 20.000 Juifs. Il avait conclu que s'il protestait lui-même, il en déporterait au moins 100.000, puis il déchira la protestation déjà écrite.

P. Bryan Houghton: Unwanted Priest (wikipedia manque tout l'article en anglais)/Prêtre rejeté

La vie d'un Bryan (oui, c'est une autobiographie) qui pouvait "always look on the bright side of life", et qui n'avait rien de blasphème, tout au contraire. Ses parrains dans la conversion catholique, à Paris, après une période athée et communiste, furent Jacques et Raïssa Maritain, si bien je m'en souviens. Il devint prêtre, il démissiona de sa paroisse à cause de la réforme liturgique, il écrivit des choses pertinentes contre le darwinisme et les dérives du collégialisme, y compris la dureté et l'impiété de la réforme liturgique comme alors appliquée. Si la rédemption liée comme elle est à la croix, n'est pas apte pour de la comique, la providence, par contre montre que le bon Dieu a de l'humour, selon ce bon prêtre.

Paris-Alaska: Organic veggies/AMAP

Alaska (in English)
Paris (en français)

This would have gladdened the man who wrote:

God made a world of reason as sure as God made little apples (as the beautiful proverb goes); and God did not make little apples larger than large apples. It is not true that a man whose apple-tree is loaded with apples will suffer from a want of apples; though he may indulge in a waste of apples. But if he never looks upon apples as things to eat, but always looks on them as things to sell, he will really get into another sort of complication; which may end in a sort of contradiction. If, instead of producing as many apples as he wants, he produces as many apples as he imagines the whole world wants, with the hope of capturing the trade of the whole world - then he will be either successful or unsuccessful in competing with the man next door who also wants the whole world's trade to himself. Between them, they will produce so many apples that apples in the market will be about as valuable as pebbles on the beach. Thus each of them will find he has very little money in his pocket, with which to go and buy fresh pears at the fruiterer's shop. If he had never expected to get fruit at the fruiterer's shop, but had put up his hand and pulled them off his own tree, his difficulty would never have arisen. It seems simple; but at the root of all apple-trees and apple-growing, it is really as simple as that.

His name is G K Chesterton. Here is the whole essay.

Encore des blogs BD et dessin ...

Une vie de Tseumpfeuh.
fluoxyne
michelle hoefener, sketch book
Miya dessine des manga
Xa'blog
et biensur Sissy's Art Blog

Memory eternal, Solomon Linda!

"Sample of Mbube performed by Solomon Linda's Original Evening Birds (opens directly in Windows Media Player]."

This is from Wiki article on Solomon Linda, who died Oct 8th 1962.
Le même article (plus ou moins) en français.

Colloque "Justice et Religion"

Je donne critiques de l'évènement et de certains discours à Antimodernism:
Merci, Eric Wenzel!
Justice sans religion - est-ce possible?

Article sur "Paved to fear" en Science et Avenir

L'article s'appelle:
"Dans la peau d'un schizophrène"
apparu au numéro d'Octobre2008, p. 70

Ma critique du concepte schizophrénie et de "Paved to fear" se trouve à Antimodernism, j'y ai fait un url abbrégé, http://tinyurl.com/4qrlg7

Nouveau lien "Dans la peau d'un ..."

"Beurgeoisie" avortionniste? Ou juste curieuse sur leurs réussites?

Il s'agit, dans le titre, évidemment du site, et pas du phénomène éponyme! Je ne sais pas comme il est ou ne l'est pas représentatif pour les bourgeois Arabes.

Ce site sur Obama (connu comme "pro-choice")
Et sur Rachida Dati (qui a une dette de gratitude envers l'avortionniste législative connu, Simone Veil, selon ce site).

Précisons, que j'aime leur dévise. Et que mon combat (mené sur deretour entre autre) n'est pas contre les gens en fonction de leur classe ou de leurs origines, mais, par exemple, contre avortionnisme, darwinisme, certaines idéologies intermédiares entre cette pseudo-métaphysique et cette pseudo-responsabilité - et pour le christianisme traditionnel, entre autres choses.