Our first hike together in 2 hard years

 

They died with no tapeworms in their guts. For their family that may be consolation enough. This makes some of us very impatient.

 

2 dead in New Mexico from taking ivermectin for COVID

Misuse of ivermectin can lead to drowsiness, dizziness, tremors or a coma, doctors say.

Misuse of deworming drug has soared »

VANISHING ACT--article in the New Yorker about Richard Neutra

 

In the years just after Richard Neutra died his widow, Dione Neutra, wanted very much to publish a book about his work and their almost half century together. I was  acquainted with Dione well enough for me to have been in her house (built by her husband) and she to have been in mine (in Brentwood--a vacant lot now, after the disaster with the next owner, who enlarged it then lost a reported hundred million dollars gambling). Knowing I was in contact with New York publishers, Dione asked me to write to one of them for her. I did write to a New Yorker who had been my editor on several projects. I don't have a copy, but in the letter I described what Mrs. Neutra wanted to do and stressed how important Neutra had been to California architecture.  As a friend, the editor (now long dead) was disposed to take a letter from me seriously. He did not dismiss the letter at once. Nevertheless--this would have been 1972? 1973?--he replied that he had asked around and that there was (I remember these words very clearly) "among New York publishers absolutely no interest in Richard Neutra."  In the intervening half century I have had many occasions to repeat that judgment  ironically.

John Grisham sounds off on the political correct term "Native American"--something that outraged me when it was being demanded by the self-righteous and imposed by editors.

 Here I interpolate a slight improvement.

"The term "Native American" is a politically correct creation of clueless white people who feel better [than other white people] using it, when in reality the Native Americans refer to themselves as Indians and snicker at those of us who don't."

THE WHISTLER, P. 70.

I have not written the Glenn-Tucker chapter yet for ONE OKIE'S RACIAL RECKONINGS.

Man attempts to storm cockpit, strangles and kicks flight attendant on JetBlue flight

 You know what happened? Donald Trump released RAGE. Now it is OK not just to feel rage but to act it out.  You want to shoot up a supermarket? Supper! You want to control women? You are claiming you have prevented all rape? Go, Greg Go! Express your Rage. Everyone does it now. You want to shoot a child in the car you are parallel to? Blaze ahead, your Rage needs to find expression. You have a knee that finds a neck to press on? Oh, do it, do it, in your MAGA cap.

We need to acknowledge he power of one man, Donald Trump.

The Skillet bread is becoming so good that the Caregiver is not anxious to have bread like I made before getting sick, two years ago.

 In fact, I heard the word "wonderful" today.

How I am violating the recipe #1: I am not mixing by hand but in the Mixer and letting it go on several minutes as I add the flour--maybe 10 minutes total. #2: I am putting in a little honey. #3: I have been dumping raisins in, the last 2 times, and they mix and stay suspended rather than falling to the bottom. 40 minutes at 400.

As I was leaving

 

On beach at 9 and was rewarded by whales. Others saw a pod.

 2 is all I saw. Someone else saw a full breaching.

"The Facts of Lives"--letter in TLS 17 September 2021

 

The Google image today scares me. It reminds me of the decorator crab several years ago that chased me on the beach thinking I was his mother.

 I had no idea what it was but I took pictures of it to prove I was not crazy yet.

Letter to TLS--I see it at the top of the Letters page, September 17, 2021. They used 2 short columns so I did not see it at first glance.

  It's nice. You know you are alive still when the TLS prints one of your letters.

         In the September 3, 2021 TLS Alison Kelly praises Ira Nadel’s Philip Roth: A Counterlife as “an analysis in both the psychological and literary senses.” Nadel had “conducted wide-ranging primary research over many years.” Now, “drawing particularly revealing insights from his subject’s personal correspondence, Nadel feels qualified to diagnose psychological conditions such as ‘the savior complex’, ‘the escape artist’, 'his Judaic sense of moral obligation’ and, most sweepingly, ‘the Roth problem.’” Nadel’s “deep understanding of Roth’s entire body of work” enables “him to offer elegant critical readings of both major and minor texts, and to psychoanalyze Roth indirectly, through the writing, in particular through his fictional characters.”

         In my 2012 Melville Biography: An Inside Narrative (499-500) I wrestled with Nadel’s declaration in his 1984 Biography: Fiction, Fact, and Form that “the biographer is akin more to the creative writer than the historian.” I quoted Victoria Glendinning’s outrage in “Lies and Silences” in The Troubled Face of Biography (1988): “Nadel . . . asks: ‘To what extent is fact necessary in a biography? To what extent does it hinder the artistic and literary impulse of the biographer? To what degree does the biographer alter fact to fit his theme and pattern?’ His view is that the biographer has every right to change facts in order to make a psychological or artistic point. This makes me shiver.”

         Since Alison Kelly says Nadel’s “scholarly” book is based on long and wide primary research, she owes us to confront his apparent repudiation of his 1984 position on creative biography. As it is, Kelly’s bland endorsement of Nadel “makes me shiver.”

Hershel Parker

Morro Bay, CA

Pelicans all feeding at same spot. Shoal of herring? Dead whale? dead shark?

 

Every 2 or 3 years I buy 5 new pr of running shoes, usually the cheapest. In 2020 it looked as if I would never use any of the 2019 lot.

 Imagine, dying with 4 or 5 pairs of  size 12 running shoes in their boxes. What a waste!

Today I broke in the 5th pair. What a relief!

Sunday noon

 

Trying to see if these come in size 5 small

 

Noon Today.

 

Republicans in Pennsylvania subpoena personal data on every voter in state. Would I make up a headline like this?

 

Republicans in Pennsylvania subpoena personal data on every voter in state

Will anyone say NO out of Personal Choice?

Well, here is cheering news for the very old. What is nearly 86 but very old?

 

People older than 85 make up only 2 percent of the population, but a quarter of the total death toll. One in 35 people 85 or older died of covid, compared with 1 in 780 people age 40 to 64.

In 1955 I spent many months in TB facilities (one a Louisiana warehouse for the dying--and many died--before I left it). In the late 1980s doctors (who had just seen a lecture on what to watch for) were sure shingles above the eye meant I had AIDS. Last year great ocular oncologists told me I had Lymphoma and that they could enucleate (remove) my formerly good right eye. I have made up my mind not to die of Covid, dammit, and to keep both eyes.

One would not wish Lin Wood ill, but if he joins Veronica Wolski would you be surprised? You would not laugh, but you might express some exasperation.

 

• POLITICS

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

How Lin Wood and His QAnon Fans Tried to Force a Hospital to Use Ivermectin

How many prominent Anti-Vaxxers are willing to die to show they are right? And this woman probably did not die with worms that Ivermectin might kill.

 

JEFFERSON PARK, PORTAGE PARK, NORWOOD PARK

Veronica Wolski, Jefferson Park Anti-Vaccine Activist, Dies From COVID-19 At Age 64

Wolski, a QAnon supporter known for demonstrating on a bridge over the Kennedy Expressway, started an uproar at an area hospital last week when she insisted they give her a medication meant to treat parasites in animals and humans.

A student was filmed putting American flags in a trash bag on 9/11. He says he was protesting Islamophobia.

 Like shooting long-distance runners to protest athletic inequality. 

When did it become OK to be vicious? 2016, at the Cleveland Convention? Earlier? Trump made it OK to Lie, to Rage, to Lie about your Rage, to Rage about your Lies.

 

Business owner in tears over customer's 'vicious' email from vegan customer: 'When did it become OK to speak to people like this?'

Emerald Pellot

Mon, September 13, 2021, 7:36 AM

 Well, she could have died of covid but without worms if her friends had gotten her out of the hospital.

Veronica Wolski, Chicago woman at the center of ivermectin firestorm, dies of pneumonia due to COVID-19 infection, officials say

Feasting near shore yesterday

 

“I did not murder my daughter. There are people getting vaccinated that are still getting Covid and they can still spread Covid,” the mother told news channel KPRC-TV.

 WELL, YES, SHE DID MURDER HER DAUGHTER.

“I did not murder my daughter. There are people getting vaccinated that are still getting Covid and they can still spread Covid,” the mother told news channel KPRC-TV.

Man in MAGA cap lets big dog run loose in no-dog area. Today. After seeing a dolphin

 

I did not even mention the fact that it was a no-dog beach.

Me: Would you hold your dog while I get by, please?

RANT. You could call the police. They are all my friends. I have millions of dollars. [He really said that.]

Me: A friendly dog can knock an old man down and hurt him pretty bad.

TRUMP MAN: I trained my dog. He does not jump up on people, &c &c., [more rant]

10 seconds later the dog goes up to a couple. She reaches down, to pat him, I think, and a moment later she falls flat on the sand., full length. It's deep sand, so she probably was not hurt. Her husband tried to find a way of helping her up.

Me to MAGA man as I passed the flattened woman: A friendly dog could do some real damage to an old person.

I have to learn how to get the camera ready for a picture, fast.

Great News from Texas! Greg Abbott Eliminates Rape in Texas. But will he Eliminate Rape in adjacent states as well?

 

Greg Abbott claims Texas will get rid of rapists, eliminating need for victims to have abortions

2 remarkable young men I met yesterday and talked to. I have talked to only one other person on the beach in almost 2 years.

 How strange to chat with other people. We were all vaccinated--but wary.

My cousin Willy Sims in 1889 on Democratic suppression of Black votes in Chatham Virginia. ATTENTION GA AND TEXAS! YOU MAY HAVE MISSED A TRICK.

 

He told a horrific story of the election in Chatham. In the voting room he witnessed the systematic suppression of votes by negroes. Miller Ragsdale, a notorious card sharp, illegally opened the secret ballots: “ Runners were posted outside to warn colored men that their ballots would be known and their employment taken away if they voted the Republican ticket.” “No Republican voter was allowed to vote who had been absent thirty days in the last twelve months, although their homes and families were there . . . Colored voters who had always lived and voted there were told that they had been transferred to precincts twenty-five or thirty miles distant, although they protested that they had never heard of the precinct and could not get there. Many were told that their names were not registered, although they had heretofore always voted there. The recently registered colored voters were all told that they did not look like they were of age, and on their offers to prove their age they were told they would not believe a negro on oath.” Such were “only a few of the many outrages perpetrated,” Sims said. He concluded: “I have heard of and seen election frauds before, but this far surpassed all my ideas on that subject. In fact, it was no election at all. It was a grand farce under the form of law.”

Skillet bread this morning. A few raisins in it.

 

An 1880s template for ongoing ongoing ongoing "recount" of Arizona ballots from 2020.

 

 

“Miller Ragsdale, who is a notorious card sharp handled the ballots, and as I knew his reputation I watched him. The first colored voter offered his ballot a few minutes after the polls opened. Ragsdale, to my astonishment began to open the ballot, and as he opened it he slipped from his sleeve another Republican ballot and held up the two ballots and exclaimed: ‘the black rascal is trying to vote a folded ballot!’

“Thereupon the Democrats gathered around, with hands in their hip pockets, and said they did not intend to have Mahone methods adopted there. Ragsdale said he would open every colored man's ballot thereafter, and whenever a colored voter appeared he did open his ballot and expose it. I protested against this and told him that the law guaranteed a secret ballot. He said he knew the law and did not want any Republican advice, and continued all day to open the colored men's ballots. Runners were posted outside to warn colored men that their ballots would be known and their employment taken away if they voted the Republican ticket.

“The judges then proceeded to conduct the election according to their plan. No Republican voter was allowed to vote who had been absent thirty days in the last twelve months, although their homes and families were there, while Democrats were allowed to vote who had been absent two years. Colored voters who had always lived and voted there were told that they had been transferred to precincts twenty-five or thirty miles distant, although they protested that they had never heard of the precinct and could not get there. Many were told that their names were not registered, although they had heretofore always voted there. The recently registered colored voters were all told that they did not look like they were of age, and on their offers to prove their age they were told they would not believe a negro on oath. Some were refused votes because their families were in Danville, while they worked at Chatham. Others were told they they could not vote at Chatham, although their families lived there, because they worked a month in Danville.

“Colored voters who had regular transfers from other precincts in the county were denied the right to vote because their transfers were not in proper form, although they were issued by Democratic registrars. These are only a few of the many outrages perpetrated, and I wrote every one of them down, giving names and acts, and forward the list to Petersburg last night.

Sample of Democratic Rabble-Rousing (not Republican Rabble-Rousing)--white women with negro babies

Staunton Spectator 6 November 1883 

VIRGINIA IN SACKCLOTH AND ASHES . . .

Infamy.--D. R. Strouse, from Salem, reports that Gov. Cameron in his speech there said, "I understand there are white people here who are afraid that their daughters will have negro babies."

    If Gov. Cameron or any other man talks in this way from the stump in Virginia, he should be taken right out and treated to a coat of tar and feathers, be he drunk or sober.--Charlotteville Chronicle.

A new headline from Texas? 2 Negroes Appointed to the School Board . . . . No, it's Richmond, VA

 The State Board of Education has appointed two negroes on the School Board for Richmond. Are the white people of this State going to stand it? Will they not rise up in a body and put down the Coalitionists?--Danville Times.

as copied in the Richmond Dispatch 24 February 1883

Agent-Telegrapher Kansas City Southern RR Singer Louisiana, Beauregard Parish 1953

 

In the mail yesterday HOW D. H. LAWRENCE READ HERMAN MELVILLE, Acknowlegements

 

Yesterday