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Ours is not to reason why, indeed
Feb. 1st, 2020 04:03 pmApropos the day, the days. The jumping of the cliff (of Dover). I don't have anything smart and/or consoling in me. Hence, links to more eloquent people.
Requiem for a dream
On loathing Rees-Moog
John Le Carré: It's breaking my heart, a speech held when receiving the Olaf-Palme-Award, in which he says:
I’m not just a remainer. I’m a European through and through, and the rats have taken over the ship, (...) We Brits are all nationalists now. Or so Johnson would have us believe. But to be a nationalist you need enemies and the shabbiest trick in the Brexiteers’ box was to make an enemy of Europe. “Take back control!” they cried, with the unspoken subtext: and hand it to Donald Trump, along with our foreign policy, our economic policy, our health service and, if they can get away with it, our BBC.
And lastly, because there's always music German-Russian pianist Igor Levit's encore at that most British of events, the First Night of the Proms 2017: Beethoven (born in Bonn, died in Vienna), in a version arranged by Hungarian Franz Liszt:
Requiem for a dream
On loathing Rees-Moog
John Le Carré: It's breaking my heart, a speech held when receiving the Olaf-Palme-Award, in which he says:
I’m not just a remainer. I’m a European through and through, and the rats have taken over the ship, (...) We Brits are all nationalists now. Or so Johnson would have us believe. But to be a nationalist you need enemies and the shabbiest trick in the Brexiteers’ box was to make an enemy of Europe. “Take back control!” they cried, with the unspoken subtext: and hand it to Donald Trump, along with our foreign policy, our economic policy, our health service and, if they can get away with it, our BBC.
And lastly, because there's always music German-Russian pianist Igor Levit's encore at that most British of events, the First Night of the Proms 2017: Beethoven (born in Bonn, died in Vienna), in a version arranged by Hungarian Franz Liszt:
