#kenneth lincoln

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Judge Holden by Rob Wood (2021)

“The judge is clearly no ordinary mortal, but at times it is suggested that he is more of a god than a demon. Sitting half-naked in front of the fire, the judge is described as a "great pale deity" (92). Later, the judge appears as a statue of some godlike being or idol. His eyes, like a sculpture's, are "empty slots" (147). Sitting on the ground with "his hands rested palm down upon his knees," the judge seems to be engaged in deep meditation 147). Rick Wallach argues that here the judge " incarnates the attributes of an oriental deity." Specifically, "the judge's poses suggest Shiva," whose "visage, like Holden's, is always serene amid the carnage he engenders" (128-29). The men seated around the judge grow wary of this meditative state, "so like an icon was he in his sitting that they grew cautious and spoke with circumspection among themselves as if they would not waken something that had better been left sleeping" (147). The implication is that the men grow fearful in the judge's presence, because they sense something otherworldly and malevolent.

The judge is situated somewhere between the demonic and the godlike, a position that corresponds to the Gnostic view of the god of this world. As Hans Jonas explains, the Gnostics believed that demons known as archons "collectively rule over the world" and "are also creators of the world, except where this role is reserved for their leader, who then has the name of demiurge" and "is often painted with the distorted features of the Old Testament God" (43-44). The human spirit is "a portion of the divine substance from beyond which has fallen into the world; and the archons created man for the express purpose of keeping it captive there" (44). The demiurge and his archons conceal the existence of the divine source, or the alien God, in order to keep human beings imprisoned in the cosmos. Thus Gnostic theology identifies the biblical God, Yahweh, as a demon, responsible not only for the creation of the world but also for the obscuration of divine Reality. By conflating the creator God and the devil into one entity, Gnostic theology creates a new kind of deity, whose simultaneously demonic and godlike characteristics are reflected in the multifaceted enigma that is Judge Holden.

In "Gravers False and True: Blood Meridian as Gnostic Tragedy," Leo Daugherty argues that "gnostic thought is central to Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian" (159) and perceptively identifies the judge as one of the Gnostic archons, or perhaps even the demiurge himself. Daugherty writes that like the "archons, Holden also possesses all the other characteristics of Yahweh as the Gnostics saw him: he is jealous, he is vengeful, he is wrathful, he is powerful and - most centrally - he possesses, and is possessed by, a will" (163). The "Earth is the judge's" (164), writes Daugherty, and, indeed, the judge is described as seeming "much satisfied with the world, as if his counsel had been sought at its creation" (140). Christopher Douglas draws attention to McCarthy's use of "as if," arguing that it "marks the failure of traditional realist language to evoke the larger theological design behind the events of the novel and the impossibility of linguistically imagining the design that McCarthy suspects must lurk behind the amoral nothingness of the world" (13). Thus, far from dismissing the judge's participation in the creation of the world as a hypothetical fantasy, McCarthy's "as if" actually gestures toward the ineffable and unutterable reality of this vision.

Sitting in a saloon, the judge is depicted "among every kind of man, herder and bullwhacker and drover and freighter and miner and hunter and soldier and pedlar and gambler and drifter and drunkard and thief," but though he "sat by them," he remained "alone as if he were some other sort of man entire" (325). Once again, we may apply Douglas's reading to McCarthy's characteristic usage of "as if," identifying it as a linguistic marker pointing to a "larger theological design" rather than a simple exercise in hypothetical rhetoric. Although the judge seems perfectly at home in the crazed, blood-soaked world of Blood Meridian, it is continually suggested that he is somehow not of this world. This is yet another of the judge's paradoxical attributes that can be resolved in the light of Gnostic thought. Gnostic texts often refer to the world as the "inn" in order to emphasize the concept that the pneuma lives in temporary exile from its true home. The archons can be thought of as "the 'fellow-dwellers of the inn' though their relation to it is not that of guests" (Jonas 56). Hence, just as the archons inhabit the realm of the manifest world without being human, the judge walks among men while being no ordinary mortal. Furthermore, the judge's existence is not limited to the so-called Wild West of the 1850s, for he was also "among the dregs of the earth in beggary a thousand years and he was among the scapegrace scions of eastern dynasties" (325). This suggests that the judge cannot be limited by time, place, or social hierarchy; his existence stretches back to distant times, distant lands, and infiltrates all levels of human society, from beggar to king.

Most disturbingly, the judge seems to possess no beginning and no end. In a fit of ether-induced delirium, the kid experiences a revelation regarding the judge's mysterious lack of origins: "Whoever would seek out his history through what unravelling of loins and ledgerbooks must stand at last darkened and dumb at the shore of a void without terminus or origin and whatever science he might bring to bear upon the dusty primal matter blowing down out of the millennia will discover no trace of any ultimate atavistic egg by which to reckon his commencing" (310). The kid's vision reveals that the origin of the judge cannot be uncovered through genealogy, nor scientific enquiry; any attempt to do so will only lead one back to the primordial void, the chaos that precedes the existence of the cosmos in the creation myths of countless traditions. Similarly, the judge has no final destination; in the final paragraph of the novel he is dancing an eternal dance, reminiscent of Shiva's cosmic dance of destruction: "He never sleeps, the judge. He is dancing, dancing. He says that he will never die" (335). Ordinary sleep is a minor prelude to the great sleep of death and the immortal judge is eternally wakeful.

Harold Bloom comments on the judge's lack of origins in How to Read and Why, but he curiously argues against a Gnostic interpretation of the passage. Despite the fact that Bloom identifies McCarthy as a Gnostic - "Faulkner is a kind of unknowing Gnostic; West, Pynchon, and McCarthy in their different ways are very knowing indeed" (237) - and is prepared to admit that "McCarthy gives Judge Holden the powers and purposes of the bad angels or demiurges [sic] that the Gnostics called archons," he inexplicably goes on to insist that McCarthy is actually telling "us not to make such an identification," because "any 'system,' including the Gnostic one, will not divide the Judge back into his origins. The ultimate atavistic egg' will not be found" (Modern Critical Views 4). I agree with Bloom's assertion up to a point, namely that the supernatural nature of the judge is such that he surpasses the limitations of the human mind and thus cannot be limited to any one system of thought. Nevertheless, certain aspects of the judge's nature may be illuminated by references to the various spiritual and philosophical traditions that have attempted to address the problem of evil. This is the line of argument adopted by Steven Frye, who argues that the judge's purported lack of origins should not discourage us from interpreting the literary figure in the context of various systems and traditions, including, but not limited to, "Judeo-Christian cosmology and typology, scientific materialism with its often purely atheist implications, the continental philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche, philosophical nihilism, and the fascinating conceptions of ancient Gnosticism." Frye argues that Judge Holden "is by no means a patchwork creation of competing philosophical configurations, but a distinctive artistic embodiment of darkness that stands apart but nevertheless draws on these various perspectives" (Understanding Cormac McCarthy 79). He adds that "it is perhaps more fruitful to consider that various notions of evil, literary or philosophical, partially illuminate rather than define his nature" (91). I would argue that although Gnosticism is not the definitive system through which one may arrive at an understanding of the judge, it is nevertheless a particularly useful one due to its preoccupation with the evil manifest in creation.

Furthermore, McCarthy subtly alludes to the judge's connection with Gnostic archons in his esoteric subheading to chapter 15, "The Ogdoad" (204). The heading refers to a scene in which the Glanton gang stumbles upon eight decapitated heads arranged in a circle. "The heads were eight in number . . . and they formed a ring all facing outwards. Glanton and the judge circled them and the judge halted and stepped down and pushed over one of the heads with his boot" (220). According to A Dictionary of Gnosticism, the ogdoad (Greek for "group of eight") is the "eighth sphere, above the seven planetary spheres" and "may be considered to be the sphere of the fixed stars, but may also be associated with the home of Sophia [the Gnostic personification of wisdom], or the demiurge, or in simpler cosmologies the home of the true God" (A. Smith 177). According to these "simpler" Gnostic cosmologies, the cosmos is ruled by seven archons, whose kingdoms are hierarchically arranged in concentric circles around the manifest world.In what is known as the "Ascent of the Soul" - a teaching common to both Hermeticism and Gnosticism - the souls of the dead must pass through the hebdomad (Greek for "group of seven"). During this process "all passions and vices are given back to the various spheres from which they were derived in the soul's original descent." Afterward, the "essential man' proceeds to the Ogdoad (Eighth) where he praises the Father with those who are there" (Pearson 279). In other words, the perfected spirit ascends to the "eighth realm," thereby returning to its divine source. By knocking over the eighth head, the judge reduces the ogdoad of the alien God to the hebdomad of the archons. If one considers the ogdoad to be the realm of the alien God, then the judge's action is symbolic of his denying transcendence to those who would seek to escape from the manifest world through spiritual development.

The very title of "the judge" carries connotations of biblical judgement, a concept that strengthens his resemblance to the demiurge and the archons. Harold Bloom writes that Judge Holden "seems to judge the entire earth" and the name Holden "suggests a holding, presumably of sway over all he encounters" (Modern Critical Views 4). The judge seems to be obsessed with bringing every animate and inanimate thing in creation under his jurisdiction. When asked why he shoots and stuffs birds, catches butterflies, presses leaves and plants between the pages of his ledger book, and sketches artifacts - often destroying the originals after their image has been recorded - the judge replies, "Whatever in creation exists without my knowledge exists without my consent" (198). This statement would be absurd if uttered by a mortal man, but chilling if uttered by an archon bent on keeping all things imprisoned in the fetters of manifest existence.

This reading also illuminates the judge's desire to have "the existence of each last entity . . . routed out and made to stand naked before him," so he might be "suzerain of the earth." When asked what a suzerain is, the judge replies, "He is a special kind of keeper," one who "rules even where there are other rulers," because his "authority countermands local judgements" (198). Once again, the judge's emphasis on judgment links him significantly to a Gnostic portrayal of Yahweh. Similarly, his insistence that he be the supreme ruler recalls Yahweh's commandment: "Thou shalt have none other gods before me. . . . Thou shalt not bow down thyself unto them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God" (Deuteronomy 5:7, 9). As the Gnostics were quick to point out, Yahweh is actually unwittingly revealing the existence of another god, "For if there were no other one, of whom would he be jealous?" (qtd. in Pearson 66). Like Yahweh, the judge's insistence on being the sole ruler subtly suggests the existence of other "principalities," "powers," and "rulers of the darkness of this world" (Ephesians 6:12) with which he competes for supremacy.”

Most telling of all, however, are pronouncements the judge makes with his hands placed on the ground: "This is my claim, he said. And yet everywhere upon it are pockets of autonomous life. Autonomous. In order for it to be mine nothing must be permitted to occur upon it save by my dispensation" (199). Robert Jarrett explains that "dispensation . . . is a key term in evangelical Protestant theology, referring to the different covenants regulating the relations between Jehovah and man" (Cormac McCarthy 78). It is by such a "dispensation" that a "terrible covenant" (126) was formed between the mortal Glanton and the sinister, Yahweh-like Holden. Leo Daugherty also links this passage to Yahweh, arguing that "Judge Holden's power is not yet complete, since his will is not yet fulfilled in its passion for total domination" and that "this was also necessarily true of the Gnostic archons, just as it was true of the Old Testament Yahweh" (163). According to Gnostic thought, the demiurge and his archons must exercise their tyrannical rule in order to prevent the trapped fragments of the divine from returning to their source, for if all divine fragments were liberated, there would be nothing left to animate the dead matter of the cosmos. As Kurt Rudolph explains, "the powers which rule the world, the Archons . . . try to impede the [spirit's] return in order to prevent the perfecting of the world of light and thus protract the world process" (172). The archons are powerless in exerting their dominion over those who possess gnosis, or what the judge calls "pockets of autonomous life." Thus the judge knows that he will never be suzerain of the cosmos unless he can keep every living thing imprisoned in the manifest realm.” - Petra Mundik, ‘A Bloody and Barbarous God: The Metaphysics of Cormac McCarthy’ (2016) [p. 35 - 40]

“Satan, avenging angel, albino monstrosity, or hyperrealist of paradise lost, the judge remains the most morbidly captivating character in Blood Meridian. He is reminder alone that the American west was at times a holocaust of Manifest Destiny and white supremacy, the devil's genocidal shibboleths.” - Kenneth Lincoln, ‘Cormac McCarthy: American Canticles’ (2010) [p. 87]

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'Along with its spellbinding portrayal of a morally complex American figure and harrowing depiction of the meticulous creation of nuclear bombs, Oppenheimer is an exhilarating cinematic showcase that audiences have not experienced in years. The new film by Christopher Nolan is being celebrated for its dense cast of movie stars and sturdy character actors. There is plenty of justified acclaim for the likes of Cillian Murphy as the titular role, Emily Blunt as Kitty Oppenheimer, Robert Downey Jr. as Lewis Strauss, and even Jason Clarke as Roger Robb, but a cast this expansive and eclectic is prone to overshadow dynamic supporting performances, such as the brilliant performance by Dane DeHaan.

Dane DeHaan Is Part of a Hugely Talented Cast in 'Oppenheimer'

As news hit the public about the film's production, many were transfixed by the deep bench of its supporting cast. The extensive cast is a testament to Nolan's refraining from writing composite characters. It wasn't about who was starring in Oppenheimer, but who wasn't. Anticipation for Murphy receiving the promotion to leading status in a Nolan film and Downey finally emerging out of the post-Tony Stark shadow was paramount. He granted actors like Josh Hartnett and Alden Ehrenreich a revival after years of mainstream dormancy. Kids of the 2000s were baffled, but intrigued by the casting of Josh Peck and Devon Bostick in this austere historical biopic. On top of all this, Oppenheimer will also remind everyone why Dane DeHaan was one of the hottest assets in Hollywood not so long ago.

DeHaan, most known for his entrancing leading role in the Gore Verbinski film, A Cure for Wellness, Josh Trank's found footage superhero thriller Chronicle, and a handful of indie productions, had the makings of an off-kilter but captivating movie star. His appearances in films such as The Place Beyond the Pines, Lincoln, and Lawless equally shaped DeHaan as a reliable character actor. With his piercing blue eyes and gaze of inscrutability, the actor could undermine his boyish good looks with an internal sinister quality. A big break for DeHaan was unfortunately compromised by the unfavorable reception to Amazing Spider-Man 2, where he played Harry Osborn. The box-office bomb that was Luc Besson's Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets in 2017 certainly didn't help matters either. His quick rise to fame in the 2010s appeared to have completely dissipated until he received the call from the master director of populist sentiments with ostentatious thematic structures, Christopher Nolan.

Who Does Dane DeHaan Play in 'Oppenheimer'?

In the new film about J. Robert Oppenheimer and his coordination of the creation of the atomic bomb under the Manhattan Project during World War II, DeHaan plays Major General Kenneth Nichols. He worked as a civil engineer on the Manhattan Project and subsequently joined the Atomic Energy Commission following the war as a military liaison. In 1953, Nichols was elevated to the general manager of the AEC, which was led by Lewis Strauss, who also spearheaded an investigation into Oppenheimer's loyalty to the United States as a result of his past ties to the Communist Party.

Like many of the roles played by recognizable faces, including Oscar-winning actors such as Casey Affleck, Gary Oldman, and Rami Malek, DeHaan doesn't have that much screen time. However, as is the case with the rest of the steep cast, it is not about what DeHaan brings to the plot but rather the presence he conveys. Captured in exquisite black-and-white photography, his reserved menace is tapped into throughout the film. From his first appearance, he is strikingly unmistakable with the glasses, slicked-back hair, and military officer uniform.

Oppenheimer is filled with countless mesmerizing shots under the eye of Nolan's cinematographer, Hoyte van Hoytema. In the same wavelength of under-the-radar magnitude, a scene involving a meeting between Oppenheimer, Strauss, and other AEC officials features a quick and subtle shot of a floral arrangement being moved aside, which reveals Nichols sitting in a seat previously blocked by the object. He is seen glaring into the soul of Oppenheimer, as the film has established to be following from the physicist's perspective. The reveal has the suddenness of a jump scare, and with this seemingly innocuous shot, Nolan shows that a minor character with nefarious intentions for our protagonist is lingering, waiting for his moment.

In the film's somewhat divisive third act, which intercuts between Oppenheimer's security hearing, a more-or-less character deconstruction covertly ordered by Strauss, and the confirmation hearing of Strauss' appointment as Secretary of Commerce by President Dwight D. Eisenhower, Nichols plays a subdued, yet crucial role. Strauss, who resents Oppenheimer for dismissing his concerns regarding the Soviet Union's progress in manufacturing atomic weapons, digs up the physicist's alleged ties to communism, notably surrounding his romantic relationship with Jean Tatlock (Florence Pugh), to effectively deny his influence in bureaucracy.

While in Los Alamos, New Mexico, the location of the Manhattan Project, Oppenheimer wants to hear the status of his government clearance and he asks Nichols, who was in charge of security parameters of the site. In choice words, he informs the soon-to-be father of the atomic bomb that he is overstepping his boundaries with this inquiry. The U.S. military-industrial complex, and by proxy, him, ultimately determines the fate of Oppenheimer and the entire project. The doctor triggers suspicion among his military superiors when a colleague of his is believed to have leaked intel to the Soviets regarding the Manhattan Project. At this moment, Nichols operates as a sobering reminder of Oppenheimer's obligation to serve under a master in the U.S. government. His virtuosic mind for quantum theory does not run the show here.

DeHaan Conveys a Quiet Menace in a Brief Amount of Screen Time

In the timeline presenting the legal face-off between Oppenheimer and Strauss, Nichols enlightens the latter on the former's questionable background. Taking place in the early 1950s, when the second Red Scare led by infamous Wisconsin senator Joseph McCarthy was rampant in the political climate, Nichols is dauntingly representative of the paranoia at the heart of the bureaucratic system, as he feeds Strauss with the indictable information of Oppenheimer's loose communist ties. DeHaan conveys a particular brand of government sleaze in his brief performance — a deplorable superior officer who uses power to maintain control at all costs. He precisely embodies the government's lack of integrity depicted in the film, the kind that expresses no remorse for deploying weapons of mass destruction, but aggressively upholds a moral panic over political alignment.

DeHaan's performance crystallizes an important overarching theme of the film. The collision of idealistic groundbreaking science colliding with the military-industrial complex amounts to Robert Oppenheimer being a helpless figure, contrary to Nolan's claim that he is the most important individual in the history of civilization. The power and influence that figures like Nichols possess is a rude awakening for hopeful pioneers like Oppenheimer, who is immensely conflicted with his ego and the monstrosity that he created, and Strauss, who fancies himself more as an advocate for science rather than an empty-suit bureaucrat. Both of them are expendable in the eyes of the suppressive system carried out by Nichols.

Despite his prowess and inclination towards spectacle-driven action and science fiction, Christopher Nolan allows Oppenheimer to excel as a chamber drama featuring dynamic performers talking in legal hearings. The film is the closest instance of Nolan directing an Aaron Sorkin script (many have cited The Social Network as a fitting companion piece to this film). Banding together this plethora of compelling screen presences to discuss nuclear physics and yell in suits over eyewitness testimony is an ingenious way of exploiting their respective untapped abilities. It is refreshing to see this volume of familiar and respected faces on screen, even in a limited amount of screen time such as Dane DeHaan, who brilliantly portrays a general conveying the overbearing power of the military-industrial complex, sometimes with just a glare.'

#Dane DeHaan #Oppenheimer #Christopher Nolan #Emily Blunt #Kitty #Robert Downey Jr. #Lewis Strauss #Jason Clarke #Roger Robb #Cillian Murphy #Josh Hartnett #Alden Ehrenreich #Kenneth Nichols #Casey Affleck #Gary Oldman #Rami Malek #Josh Peck #Devon Bostick #The Place Beyond The Pines #Lincoln #Lawless #Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets #Hoyte van Hoytema #Jean Tatlock #Florence Pugh

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ABRAHAM LINCOLN •Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO) •Lincoln by David Herbert Donald (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO) •And There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle by Jon Meacham (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO) •The Political Life of Abraham Lincoln Trilogy by Sidney Blumenthal: -A Self-Made Man: The Political Life of Abraham Lincoln, Vol. I, 1809-1849 (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO) -Wrestling With His Angel: The Political Life of Abraham Lincoln, Vol. II, 1849-1856 (BOOK | KINDLE) -All the Powers of the Earth: The Political Life of Abraham Lincoln, Vol. III, 1856-1860 (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO)

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Character Name Ideas (Male)

So I've been browsing through BehindTheName (great resource!) recently and have compiled several name lists. Here are some names, A-Z, that I like. NOTE: If you want to use any of these please verify sources, meanings etc, I just used BehindTheName to browse and find all of these. Under the cut:

A: Austin, Aiden, Adam, Alex, Angus, Anthony, Archie, Argo, Ari, Aric, Arno, Atlas, August, Aurelius, Alexei, Archer, Angelo, Adric, Acarius, Achilou, Alphard, Amelian, Archander B: Bodhi, Bastian, Baz, Beau, Beck, Buck, Basil, Benny, Bentley, Blake, Bowie, Brad, Brady, Brody, Brennan, Brent, Brett, Brycen C: Cab, Cal, Caden, Cáel, Caelan, Caleb, Cameron, Chase, Carlos, Cooper, Carter, Cas, Cash, Cassian, Castiel, Cedric, Cenric, Chance, Chandler, Chaz, Chad, Chester, Chet, Chip, Christian, Cillian, Claude, Cicero, Clint, Cody, Cory, Coy, Cole, Colt, Colton, Colin, Colorado, Colum, Conan, Conrad, Conway, Connor, Cornelius, Creed, Cyneric, Cynric, Cyrano, Cyril, Cyrus, Crestian, Ceric D: Dallas, Damien, Daniel, Darach, Dash, Dax, Dayton, Denver, Derek, Des, Desmond, Devin, Dewey, Dexter, Dietrich, Dion, Dmitri, Dominic, Dorian, Douglas, Draco, Drake, Drew, Dudley, Dustin, Dusty, Dylan, Danièu E: Eadric, Evan, Ethan, Easton, Eddie, Eddy, Einar, Eli, Eilas, Eiljah, Elliott, Elton, Emanuel, Emile, Emmett, Enzo, Erik, Evander, Everett, Ezio F: Faolán, Faron, Ferlin, Felix, Fenrir, Fergus, Finley, Finlay, Finn, Finnian, Finnegan, Flint, Flip, Flynn, Florian, Forrest, Fritz G: Gage, Gabe, Grady, Grant, Gray, Grayson, Gunnar, Gunther, Galahad H: Hale, Harley, Harper, Harvey, Harry, Huey, Hugh, Hunter, Huxley I: Ian, Ianto, Ike, Inigo, Isaac, Isaias, Ivan, Ísak J: Jack, Jacob, Jake, Jason, Jasper, Jax, Jay, Jensen, Jed, Jeremy, Jeremiah, Jesse, Jett, Jimmie, Jonas, Jonas, Jonathan, Jordan, Josh, Julien, Jovian, Jun, Justin, Joseph, Joni, K: Kaden, Kai, Kale, Kane, Kaz, Keane, Keaton, Keith, Kenji, Kenneth, Kent, Kevin, Kieran, Kip, Knox, Kris, Kristian, Kyle, Kay, Kristján, Kristófer L: Lamont, Lance, Landon, Lane, Lars, László, Laurent, Layton, Leander, Leif, Leo, Leonidas, Leopold, Levi, Lewis, Louie, Liam, Liberty, Lincoln, Linc, Linus, Lionel, Logan, Loki, Lucas, Lucian, Lucio, Lucky, Luke, Luther, Lyall, Lycus, Lykos, Lyle, Lyndon, Llewellyn, Landri, Laurian, Lionç M: Major, Manny, Manuel, Marcus, Mason, Matt, Matthew, Matthias, Maverick, Maxim, Memphis, Midas, Mikko, Miles, Mitch, Mordecai, Mordred, Morgan, Macari, Maïus, Maxenci, Micolau, Miro N: Nate, Nathan, Nathaniel, Niall, Nico, Niels, Nik, Noah, Nolan, Niilo, Nikander, Novak, O: Oakley, Octavian, Odin, Orlando, Orrick, Ǫrvar, Othello, Otis, Otto, Ovid, Owain, Owen, Øyvind, Ozzie, Ollie, Oliver, Onni P: Paisley, Palmer, Percival, Percy, Perry, Peyton, Phelan, Phineas, Phoenix, Piers, Pierce, Porter, Presley, Preston, Pacian Q: Quinn, Quincy, Quintin R: Ragnar, Raiden, Ren, Rain, Rainier, Ramos, Ramsey, Ransom, Raul, Ray, Roy, Reagan, Redd, Reese, Rhys, Rhett, Reginald, Remiel, Remy, Ridge, Ridley, Ripley, Rigby, Riggs, Riley, River, Robert, Rocky, Rokas, Roman, Ronan, Ronin, Romeo, Rory, Ross, Ruairí, Rufus, Rusty, Ryder, Ryker, Rylan, Riku, Roni S: Sammie, Sammy, Samuel, Samson, Sanford, Sawyer, Scout, Seán, Seth, Sebastian, Seymour, Shane, Shaun, Shawn, Sheldon, Shiloh, Shun, Sid, Sidney, Silas, Skip, Skipper, Skyler, Slade, Spencer, Spike, Stan, Stanford, Sterling, Stevie, Stijn, Suni, Sylvan, Sylvester T: Tab, Tad, Tanner, Tate, Tennessee, Tero, Terrance, Tevin, Thatcher, Tierno, Tino, Titus, Tobias, Tony, Torin, Trace, Trent, Trenton, Trev, Trevor, Trey, Troy, Tripp, Tristan, Tucker, Turner, Tyler, Ty, Teemu U: Ulric V: Valerius, Valor, Van, Vernon, Vespasian, Vic, Victor, Vico, Vince, Vinny, Vincent W: Wade, Walker, Wallis, Wally, Walt, Wardell, Warwick, Watson, Waylon, Wayne, Wes, Wesley, Weston, Whitley, Wilder, Wiley, William, Wolfe, Wolfgang, Woody, Wulfric, Wyatt, Wynn X: Xander, Xavier Z: Zachary, Zach, Zane, Zeb, Zebediah, Zed, Zeke, Zeph, Zaccai

#will i use these names for future characters? absolutely yes #okay to reblog this #okay to reblog

[power-chords]

Read alone, the phrase ad bellum purificandum—toward the purification of war—is ambiguous. On the standard reading, it suggests that war can somehow be purified, distilled so as to rid it of impurities. But it can also be read as referring to a purification that is effected by means of war. A line from Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address offers an example: "Yet, if God wills that [the war] continue, until all the wealth piled by the bond-man's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash, shall be paid by another drawn with the sword, as was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said 'the judgments of the Lord, are true and righteous altogether.'" A somewhat different example would be a war of ethnic cleansing.

The texts of Burke's Grammar and Rhetoric make it clear enough that his motive in that great exploration of motivation was to purify war rather than to purify by means of war. Having lived through a half century marked by massive genocides and two world wars, Burke sought to understand how the warlike impulse might be distilled into symbolic action. And if the text of the work to which ad bellum purificandum serves as epigraph were not sufficient to disambiguate the phrase, the couplet of which it forms the second member—recorded and translated nicely above—does the trick.

But why, having inscribed the unambiguous couplet over his window frame, did Burke choose to inscribe only the ambiguous second member of the couplet on the flyleaf of the Grammar of Motives? Perhaps he just didn't notice the ambiguity, as I suspect most of his readers don't. But Kenneth Burke was not most readers. Surely he would have noticed the ambiguity created by removing the first line of a couplet he himself had apparently written in the first place. So what might he have meant in creating this ambiguity?

Jim Zappen underscores the preposition ad in the epigraph, with its ironic suggestion of a hope forever unrealizable. Perhaps even deeper in that ad is the suggestion of a fork in the road before which we stand at each moment of our increasingly tenuous existence. One direction leads toward transforming our bellicose impulses into symbolic action—debate, ritual, poetry. The other leads toward holocaust. And as another great twentieth-century sage once said, "When you come to a fork in the road, take it."

#kenneth burke

[free-for-all-fics]

Obscure Characters List - Male Edition

Obscure Characters I love for some reason. (By obscure I mean characters that have little to no fanfic written about them. Not necessarily characters nobody’s ever heard of.) Don’t ask me to explain why.

A

Abraham Alastor/Anthony Clarke (Dark Pictures Little Hope)

Adam (Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter)

Adam (Hallmark Frankenstein 2004)

Al Capone (Night at the Museum)

Alan McMichael (Crimson Peak)

Alec Fell (Nancy Drew, The Silent Spy)

AM (I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream)

Amphibian Man/The Asset (Shape of Water)

Anthony Walsh (Blood Fest)

Anton Herzen (Professor Layton and the Diabolical Box)

Ardeth Bay (Mummy series)

Armand (Queen of the Damned 2002)

Armando Salazar (Pirates of the Caribbean 5)

B

Barnaby (Sabrina Down Under)

Baron Humbert von Gikkingen (The Cat Returns)

Baron Meinster (Brides of Dracula)

Beast/Hank McCoy (X-Men, Kelsey Grammer version)

Beast/Prince (Beauty and the Beast 2014)

Ben Willis (I Know What You Did Last Summer)

Bernard the elf (Santa Clause series)

Black Phillip (The VVitch)

Blade (Puppetmaster series)

Bughuul (Sinister 1 and 2)

C

Caliban/John Clare (Penny Dreadful)

Captain Frederick Wentworth (Persuasion)

Captain James Hook (Peter Pan 2003)

Cedric Brown (Nanny McPhee)

Christian Thompson (Devil Wears Prada)

Colonel William Tavington (The Patriot)

Cornelis Sandvoort (Tulip Fever)

Crown Prince Ryand'r/Darkfire (DC comics/Teen Titans)

D

Daniel Le Domas (Ready Or Not)

Death (Final Destination series)

Dimitri Allen (Professor Layton and the Unwound Future)

Dimitri Denatos (Mom’s Got a Date With a Vampire)

Dustfinger (Inkheart)

Dr. Alexander Sweet/Dracula (Penny Dreadful)

Dr. Gregory Butler (Happy Death Day 1 & 2)

Dr. Manhattan (Watchmen)

Driller Killer (Slumber Party Massacre 2)

E

Edward Gracey (Haunted Mansion 2003) 

Edward Mordrake (Urban Legend/American Horror Story Asylum)

Edward/Eddie “Tex” Sawyer (Texas Chainsaw Massacre 3)

Elemer of the Briar (Elden Ring)

Erik Carriere (Phantom of the Opera 1990)

Ethan (Pilgrim 2019)

F

Father Gascoigne (Bloodborne)

Faustus Blackwood (Chilling Adventures of Sabrina)

Fegan Floop (Spy Kids trilogy)

Fox Mask/Tom (You’re next)

G

George Knightley (Emma)

Ghost/Mitch (Haunt 2019)

Godskin Apostle (Elden Ring)

Godwyn the Golden (Elden Ring)

Gold Watchers (Dark Deception)

Greg (Bodies, Bodies, Bodies)

Grim Matchstick (Cuphead)

Gurranq Beast Clergyman (Elden Ring)

H

Henry Jekyll/Edward Hyde (Broadway, Rob Evan version)

Henry Sturges (Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter)

Hugh Crain (Haunting of Hill House, the book and 1963 film. Not the Flanagan show or 1999 movie remake)

Hugo Butterly (Nancy Drew, Danger by Design)

I

Ingemar (Midsommar)

J

Jack Ferriman (Ghost Ship)

Jack Worthing/Uncle Jack (We Happy Few)

Jafar (Once Upon a Time, not the Wonderland spin-off)

Jan Valek (John Carpenter’s Vampires)

Jefferson "Seaplane" McDonough/Alex (Jumanji 2 and 3)

Jervis Tetch/Mad Hatter (Arkhamverse! Video Games)

Jester (Puppetmaster series)

John (He’s Out There)

Joseph “Joey” Mallone (Blackwell series)

Juan (The Forever Purge)

Juno Hoslow, Knight of Blood (Elden Ring)

K

Kalabar (Halloweentown)

Kenneth Haight (Elden Ring)

Killer Moth/Drury Walker (Teen Titans)

King Paimon (Hereditary)

L

Lamb Mask/Craig (You’re next)

Lamplighter (The Boys)

Launder Man (Crypt TV)

Lawrence “Larry” Gordon (Saw series)

Loki (Apsulov: End of Gods)

Lucifer (Devil’s Carnival 1 & 2)

M

Magic Mirror (Snow White 1937/Shrek)

Man in the Mask (The Strangers)

Manon (The Craft)

Man-Thing (Marvel’s Werewolf By Night)

Marco Polo/Merman (Crypt TV)

Marcus Corvinus (Underworld series)

Markus Boehm (Nancy Drew, the Captive Curse)

Mephistopheles (Faust’s Albtraum)

Micolash, Host of the Nightmare (Bloodborne)

Miquella (Elden Ring)

Mirror Man (Snow White and the Huntsman)

Mr. Crow/Aldous Vanderboom (Rusty Lake series)

Mr. Le Bail (Ready Or Not)

Mr. Slausen (Tourist Trap)

N

Nigel Billingsley (Jumanji 2 and 3)

Night’s Cavalry (Elden Ring)

Nothing (The Night House)

P

Pazuzu (The Exorcist)

Pierre Despereaux (Psych)

Prince Anton Voytek (Vampire 1974)

Prince Escalus (Romeo and Juliet, no particular adaptation)

Prince Quartus (Stardust)

Prince Septimus (Stardust)

Professor Petrie/Phantom of the Opera (Phantom of the Opera 1962)

Peter Quint (Turn of the Screw, the book and maybe some other adaptations. Not the Bly Manor Flanagan show.)

R

Reese Kelly (Scarlet Hollow)

Rene Belloq (Indiana Jones, Raiders of the Lost Ark)

Roland Voight (Hellraiser 2022)

Ronin (Star Trek)

Rorschach (Watchmen)

Rupert Giles (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)

Rusty Nail (Joyride trilogy)

S

Salem Saberhagen (Sabrina the Teenage Witch)

Sam Wayne (Scarlet Hollow)

Silver Surfer/Norrin Radd (Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer)

Simon Jarrett (SOMA)

Sir Lancelot (Night at the Museum 3)

Sportacus (LazyTown)

Starscourge Radahn (Elden Ring)

STEM (Upgrade)

Sutter Cane (In the Mouth of Madness)

T

Thantos DuBaer (Twitches 1 and 2)

The Auditor (Hellraiser: Judgment)

The Babadook (The Babadook)

The Black Knight Ghost (Scooby Doo 2 Monsters Unleashed)

The Curator (Dark Pictures Anthology)

The Designer (Devil’s Carnival 2)

The Djinn/Nathaniel Demerest/Professor Joel Barash/Steven Verdel (Wishmaster series)

The Faun (Pan’s Labyrinth)

The Fox (The Little Prince 1974)

The Jester (The Jester, A Short Horror Film series)

The Kinderfänger (Crypt TV)

The Knight/Tarhos Kovács (Dead by Daylight)

The Look-See (Crypt TV)

The Man (Carnival of Souls)

The Merman (Cabin In The Woods)

The Metal Killer (Stage Fright 2014)

The Mirror (Oculus)

The Narrator (Stanley Parable)

The Other (Hellfest)

The Phantom (Phantom Manor)

The Projectionist (Pearl)

The T-1000/Cop (Terminator 2, Terminator Genisys)

The Tall Man/The Entity (It Follows)

The Thing (The Thing 1982)

The Torn Prince/Royce Clayton (Thirteen Ghosts remake)

The Torso/James “Jimmy” Gambino (Thirteen Ghosts remake)

Thomas Alexander “Alex” Upton (TAU)

Tiger Mask/Dave (You’re Next)

Tommy Ross (Carrie, 1976)

V

Valak (The Conjuring)

Valdack and his real world counterpart (Black Mirror)

Van Pelt (Jumanji 2)

Venable (Wrong Turn 2021)

Viktor (Underworld series)

Viktor Frankenstein/Dr. Whale (Once Upon a Time)

Vladislaus Dracula (Van Helsing 2004)

W

Wade Thornton (Nancy Drew, Ghost of Thornton Hall)

Wesley Wyndam-Pryce (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)

Westley/Dread Pirate Roberts (The Princess Bride)

Wildwind/Dark Skull, Stormy Weathers, and Lightning Strikes (Scooby Doo and the Legend of the Vampire)

“William”/The Headless Figure (Crypt TV)

William "Billy" Butcherson (Hocus Pocus 1 and 2)

X

Xenan the Centaur (Xena Warrior Princess)

#Obscure characters list #character list #Obscure characters #Characters list #Obscure fictional characters #Male Characters List #will be added to over time #I'm not even gonna attempt to tag this any further #It'd just be too much #Don't ask me to explain #I don't know what to tell you #characters I like inexplicably

[grandmaster-anne]

Court Circular | 7th February 2023

Buckingham Palace

The King held an Investiture at Windsor Castle this morning. The following were received in audience by The King this afternoon and kissed hands upon their appointment as His Majesty’s Ambassadors: Mrs Alyson King (the Democratic Republic of the Congo) and Miss Jan Thompson (the Kingdom of Norway). Mr Ayman Jarjour was also received by His Majesty. Mrs Ailsa Terry was received in audience by The King upon her appointment as British High Commissioner to Malaysia. Mr Adam Terry was also received by His Majesty. Mrs Jane Owen was received in audience by The King and kissed hands upon her appointment as Governor of the Cayman Islands. The Queen Consort, President, this afternoon held a Reception for Duchenne UK at Clarence House.

St James’s Palace

The Earl of Wessex this morning received Mr Nicholas Pyle (Deputy Governor of Gibraltar). His Royal Highness this evening attended the New Zealand Society Waitangi Day Service in St Giles’-without-Cripplegate Church, London EC2, followed by a Reception at Girdlers’ Hall, Basinghall Avenue, London EC2. The Countess of Wessex this morning attended The Countess of Wessex Cup between Royal Air Force Wittering, 5th Battalion The Rifles, Royal Corps of Army Music, Queen Alexandra’s Royal Army Nursing Corps, The Lincoln and Welland Regiment and The Corps of Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers of which Her Royal Highness is Honorary Air Commodore, Royal Honorary Colonel, Colonel-in-Chief, Colonel-in-Chief, Colonel-in-Chief and Colonel-in-Chief respectively, at the Royal Corps of Army Music, Gibraltar Barracks, Minley, and was received by His Majesty’s Lord-Lieutenant of Hampshire (Mr Nigel Atkinson).

St James’s Palace

The Princess Royal, Perpetual Master, the Worshipful Company of Saddlers, this morning attended the National Saddlery Competition Showcase at Saddlers Hall, 40 Gutter Lane, London EC2. Her Royal Highness, Commandant-in-Chief (Youth), St John Ambulance, this afternoon held a Young Achievers’ Reception at Buckingham Palace. The Princess Royal, Patron, Royal National Children’s SpringBoard Foundation, later attended a Reception at Westminster School, Dean’s Yard, London SW1. Her Royal Highness, Royal Fellow, the Royal Academy of Engineering, this evening attended The Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering Reception at Prince Philip House, 3 Carlton House Terrace, London SW1, and was received by His Majesty’s Lord-Lieutenant of Greater London (Sir Kenneth Olisa).

#court circular #princess anne #princess royal #king charles iii #queen camilla #earl of wessex #countess of wessex #british royal family

[waugh-bao]

@charliesmydarling​ The jazz drummer in question is Dave Tough (1907-47). He was an early swing/jazz drummer, and also one of Charlie’s biggest heroes. They’re remarkably similar in appearance and personality, actually. 

Tough grew up well educated, but eschewed the professional life his father wanted for him to become a musician. He was born in Chicago, and spent a lot of his early life listening to African-American bands (as well as brining others to Lincoln Gardens to do the same), eventually he became a founding member of the Austin City High School Gang and one of the most prodigious drummers of his generation, though he never willingly took a solo. Even as a teenager, he was so good that Louis Armstrong used to stop by the White City Ballroom a few times every week to hear him play. 

Eventually, he moved to New York to try to make it in the big leagues, and, later in the ‘20s, he traveled to Europe, and found a lot of success in Paris. However, he was also epileptic, and at that time some doctors believed that alcohol was a cure for that disorder, so he developed a drinking problem. Right before the Great Depression, he came back to the US, and bounced for a few years between NYC and Chicago, sometimes playing the drums and sometimes essentially living on the street because he was getting drunk so often he couldn’t work. By 1935, he’d gotten himself somewhat together, and he worked in a variety of famous big bands, including those of Benny Goodman, Tommy Dorsey, Jack Teagarden, etc. 

During WWII, he was in Artie Shaw’s Naval Band, and after that came his apogee. He joined Woody Herman’s First Herd (1945-6), and had his period of greatest professional success and recognition, becoming the first drummer to win the Down Beat, Metronome, and Esquire polls all in one year. But his alcoholism forced him to leave the band, and began drifting around to work occasionally with old friends. In December of 1947, he slipped on an icy sidewalk in Newark, New Jersey and died, aged 41.

Tough is fascinating as a drummer, but also as a human being. He was a talented writer, who worked on a novel (as of yet still unfound) through his life, published a book of poetry so good it was praised by Kenneth Rexroth 40 years later, and wrote music criticism and advice columns for Metronome. In the same vein, he was very interested in, and knowledgeable about, art, literature, linguistics, etc. But he felt that he was an awful writer and an even worse drummer. Those close to him remembered him as a thin, quiet, hilarious little man (about 5’6” and 98 lbs) who always had a book and never had a kind word for himself. A lot of them thought his self-hatred was the root cause of his alcoholism, and why he eventually drank himself to death. 

No-one else saw Tough the way he saw himself, though. He was universally beloved for his extraordinary kindness, and regarded as one of the greatest drummers ever. Woody Herman said, “A giant rhythm player! With the least amount of ‘chops,’ Dave inspired a whole big screamin’ band with his subtleties and strong feeling for time. And he was probably the most gentle, the kindest, one of the grooviest cats you’d ever want to know." Everyone who knew him said the same. Giants of jazz like Dizzy Gillespie, Buddy Rich, Gene Krupa, Lionel Hampton, etc. went on praising him years after his death and the most extraordinary thing you run into reading about him is that basically no-one had a bad thing to say about him. 

Bud Freeman (1906-1991), the saxophonist, became friends with Tough as a kid, and remained probably the closest one he had through his whole life. They were in the Austin City High School Gang together, went to NYC together, worked to find each other positions in Europe, worked together constantly in the ‘30s, etc. After Dave died, Bud, who was a composer and writer in addition to being a musician, made it a mission to ensure that the world didn’t forget his friend. Dave appears constantly in all of his books. 

“Dave started playing drums as a Boy Scout. He was an Eagle Scout and a fantastic drummer at twelve…Even as a young kid, Dave had something very special. He made it easy for those who worked with him. He practically played your instrument for you. When I performed with other drummers, my fingers would lock up because these guys didn't keep good time. Dave's beat was so powerful that my fingers flew over the horn. Dave was a little beyond being a drummer. That was a hell of a deep mind working there. I don't think an ordinary man could play that well. He was just incredible. So strong yet so subtle. He sounded like another note in the band.”

“The great man who was later to lead all the bop drummers in what they thought was a new style.” 

“Dave Tough, who would become the greatest jazz drummer in America, or anywhere…” 

“In my view, he was a Louis Armstrong, a Bix Beiderbecke, a James P. Johnson. A true giant!”

Essentially, he used his second life as a memoirist as a way to help make Tough immortal, and to carry on their longest standing argument after his death, to try to convince Dave that he really was a great musician.  I think the little story he tells about Dave in Crazeology is a beautiful encapsulation of their relationship. 

“He was a very literary person, with expansive interests. That's what had the impact on me. He had a way of looking at things that was helpful to many of us. An example? Dave and I went to take in a Cézanne exhibit in Chicago—we were just kids. And I said to Dave, “Gee, I wish I could say something about this magnificent work.” And Dave looked directly at me and said, “That's the best thing you'll ever say about it.” In other words, all this bullshit that critics have been getting away with for years has nothing to do with how an artist thinks.”

#sorry this is so long #but I really hope the new Charlie bio goes into Dave Tough #because I think Dave being Charlie's hero says so much about Charlie #and about how Keith was always trying to combat Charlie's poor perception of himself/self-hatred #like he knew that Charlie was in danger of going the same was as Dave and he was determined to save him as Bud couldn't save Dave #the rolling stones #charlie watts #keith richards #jazz #jazz history #dave tough #bud freeman #benny goodman #jack teagarden #buddy rich #gene krupa

[kimyoonmiauthor]

Mark Twain’s influence on contemporary writing and Kenneth Rowe screenshots

https://marktwainstudies.com/the-apocryphal-twain-writing-is-easy-all-you-have-to-do-is-cross-out-the-wrong-words/

So in the 1980′s there were a lot of quotes misattributed to various people. Mark Twain was one of the targets. This kind of is emblematic of the problems with story structure tracing as well.

Kenneth Rowe, 1939 Has diagrams similar to the ones used to describe the modern 5-act. He might also be responsible for the misunderstanding of Poetics by Aristotle.

https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.183007

All the “good playwrights” cited are male. Again, there is a lack of citation of where he got his ideas and some of them attributes to Aristotle are erroneous. (No one fact checked him). I found out later he stole most of his work from Joseph Esenwein who got it from Selden Lincoln Whitcomb, who celebrated a woman, George Elliot. (Making Rowe a royal AH--trying to retcon George Elliot out of the record for being a woman and Whitcomb because he celebrates women as validly good writers?).

https://thewritepractice.com/five-act-structure/ So this is what people think 5-act structure is now, but like most White straight men, also doesn’t cite his sources.

Dude, cite your sources. Or you can’t cite them because you don’t know the origin story?

Children Kidnapped for Ben Jonson plays. So Ben Jonson doesn’t have a clean slate either--he was an AH, but an interesting one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yrvYGTj8iM

#Kenneth Rowe #Evidence of the bumps from his book #plagiarism in academia #how could a professor get away with plagiarism this hard?

[linksmiths]

nicholas     galitzine.     he/him.     cis - man.          ›          spotted     at     the     met     steps,     lincoln     “ link ”     smith,     most     likely     listening     to     kerosene!     by     yves     tumor     with     their     airpods     pro.          the     twenty - eight     year     old     gained     quite     a     reputation,     known     to     be     - stubborn     yet     + witty     to     anyone     who     knows     them.          you'll     easily     spot     them     when     you     hear     about     a     collection     of     cds,     a     pile     of     books,     printed     out     posters     of     horror     movies,     followed     by     kenneth     cole     black.          latest     nepoupdates     article     talks     about     a     twitter     scandal     rocking     mayoral     race:     leaked     rant     tweets     from     influential     figure’s     son     threaten     father’s     campaign,     but     i     guess     any     reputation     is     good     reputation.

son     of     politics     and     glamour

born     and     raised     in     the     heart     of     new     york     city

the     offspring     of     a     prominent     politician     and     a     socialite,     surrounded     by     both     power     and     elegance

personality     snapshot

a     headstrong     and     determined     individual,     lincoln     doesn't     back     down     easily

quick-witted     and     armed     with     a     sharp     tongue,     he's     a     master     of     clever     comebacks

beneath     his     tough     exterior     lies     a     kind     heart     and     a     natural     ability     to     bring     smiles     to     faces

collector's     passions

enthusiastic     collector     of     rock     cds,     building     a     treasure     trove     of     timeless     tunes

avid     reader     of     novels,     exploring     worlds     beyond     the     city's     limits     through     words

horror     movie     poster     aficionado,     adorning     his     space     with     the     spookiest     visuals

business     and     beyond

college-educated     in     business,     equipped     with     a     strategic     mind

currently     dedicating     his     talents     to     his     father's     mayoral     campaign

balancing     his     role     in     politics     with     his     personal     passions     and     aspirations

a     social     media     quandary

recently     caught     in     a     media     storm     as     his     private     twitter     account     got     leaked     to     the     press

his     candid     tweets     now     pose     a     potential     threat     to     his     father's     political     campaign

navigating     the     complexities     of     personal     expression     in     a     world     where     every     word     matters

#nepofm.intro

[nicklloydnow]

“The misfits ride on without farewell and encounter skin-dressed ciboleros returning with dried buffalo meat from the plains and ride on, "each passing back the way the other had come," as all travelers endlessly pursue inversions on other men's journeys. Such are the pointless peregrinations of amoral men without women, children, compassion, or reason, save hunting the skins and meat and scalps of living beasts and unlucky victims. The mindless violence begins to circle back on itself, the tale's low comic dialogue mute.” - Kenneth Lincoln, ‘Cormac McCarthy: American Canticles’ (2010) [p. 83]

#blood meridian #cormac mccarthy #johnny depp #tonto #lone ranger #kenneth lincoln #canticles

[tengomilpalabrasparati]

El 3 de febrero se celebra el Día Internacional del Abogado, con el objetivo de reconocer la labor de los hombres y mujeres de leyes que trabajan para conseguir un mundo más justo.

Se pretende destacar la notable importancia de los abogados, en la defensa jurídica a personas, tramitación de procesos judiciales, administrativos y mediación de negociaciones y conflictos laborales, entre otras competencias.

Ser abogado: una profesión de ley

Un abogado es un profesional universitario graduado en Derecho, el cual debe estar colegiado para poder ejercer su profesión, que conlleva varias funciones y competencias, tales como asesorar, defender procesos judiciales y gestionar temas en diversas materias relacionadas con el derecho.

En tal sentido, se especializan en las diversas ramas del derecho público y privado, acorde con la legislación de cada país:

Derecho Administrativo: regula el funcionamiento del Estado como poder administrador entre los distintos órganos administrativos.

Derecho Constitucional: referido al análisis de las leyes fundamentales que definen un Estado.

Derecho Penal: comprende las normas penales que regulan las conductas punibles de las personas

Derecho Procesal: regula la organización y atribuciones de los tribunales de justicia, así como la actuación de las personas que intervienen en los procesos judiciales.

Derecho Laboral: referido a las relaciones entre los patrones y sus empleados, sus derechos y deberes, así como la protección de los trabajadores.

Derecho Tributario: orientado a regular la relación jurídico-tributaria entre la administración y los contribuyentes.

Derecho Civil: regula las relaciones entre personas naturales o jurídicas. Comprende las relaciones patrimoniales, de familia, derecho sucesoral, entre otros.

Derecho Mercantil o Comercial: regula los actos comerciales, mercantiles, financieros entre personas naturales o jurídicas.

Frases célebres

Conoce algunas frases célebres, dedicadas a estos grandes profesionales de la justicia y el Derecho: los abogados

Un abogado es una persona que escribe un documento de 10000 palabras y lo llama resumen (Franz Kafka)

Los abogados son hombres que contratamos para protegernos de abogados (Elbert Hubbard)

El compromiso es el mejor y más económico abogado (Robert Louis Stevenson)

Los juicios son un asunto demasiado importante como para dejarlo en manos de meros abogados (Georges Clemenceau)

A algunas personas no les gustan los abogados, hasta que los necesitan (Kenneth G. Eade)

Los abogados son las únicas personas no castigadas por la ignorancia de la ley (Jeremy Bentham)

Un abogado sin libros sería como un trabajador sin herramientas (Thomas Jefferson).

Películas sobre abogados que te recomendamos ver

Hemos hecho una recopilación de títulos de series y películas sobre los abogados, para disfrutar y compartir:

Dark Waters (EEUU. Director: Todd Haynes . Año 2020): un abogado medioambiental estadounidense entabla una batalla legal contra la corporación de fabricación de productos químicos DuPont, por contaminar una ciudad con productos químicos no regulados.

Buscando Justicia (EEUU. Director: Destin Daniel Cretton. Año 2019): Después de graduarse en la Universidad de Harward un abogado se muda a Alabama a defender a afroamericanos que han sido encarcelados injustamente.

La Voz de la Igualdad (EEUU. Directora: Mimi Leder. Año 2018): película biográfica sobre la jueza y jurista Ruth Bader Ginsburg, quien luchó por la igualdad legal de género.

How To Get Away with Murder: Lecciones del Crimen (EEUU. Productora: Shonda Rhimes. Año 2014): en esta serie televisiva una profesora universitaria y prestigiosa abogada se ve envuelta en una ola de asesinatos, junto a cinco estudiantes que la asisten en la resolución de casos judiciales.

El Juez (EEUU. Director: David Dobkin. Año 2014): un exitoso abogado retorna a su pueblo natal a apoyar a su padre, un juez de pueblo que es sospechoso de un caso de asesinato.

The Lincoln Lawyer: El defensor (EEUU. Director: Brad Furman. Año 2011): la rutina de un abogado dedicado a defender a criminales de poca monta cambiará después de aceptar la defensa de un millonario, acusado de violar e intentar asesinar a una prostituta.

Suits: La Ley de los Audaces (EEUU. Productor: Doug Liman. Año 2011): serie televisiva que muestra a un estudiante brillante e inteligente, que ha dejado la universidad y es contratado para trabajar en una prestigiosa firma de abogados.

The Good Wife (EEUU. Director: Charles McDougall. Año 2009): después de estar más de una década dedicada a su hogar y a su familia una abogada litigante retornará nuevamente a trabajar, tras el escándalo de su marido, involucrado en un caso de corrupción política y acoso sexual.

Erin Brockovich (EEUU. Director: Steven Soderbergh. Año 2000): una mujer sin formación legal que trabaja como secretaria en un bufete legal, se implica personalmente en la búsqueda de los culpables en un caso de contaminación del agua que causa enfermedades a los residentes de Hinkley (California). Basada en hechos reales.

Civil Action (EEUU. Director: Steven Zaillian. Año 1998): basada en el libro del mismo nombre escrito por Jonathan Harr, y a su vez basado en hechos reales, describe las peripecias de un abogado que trata de ganar un caso de contaminación de agua por químicos, en el estado de Massachusetts.

Philadelphia (EEUU. Director: Jonathan Demme. Año 1993): basada en una historia real, narra la lucha del abogado neoyorkino Geoffrey Bowes. Presentó una demanda contra su empresa por haberlo despedido a causa de su orientación sexual y su condición de enfermo de SIDA.

Algunos hombres buenos (EEUU. Director: Rob Reiner. Año 1992): esta película está basada en una exitosa pieza teatral, que arrasó en los escenarios. Un prometedor y brillante abogado de la marina defiende a dos marines, por un asesinato cometido en la base de Guantánamo.

¿Cómo se celebra este día en el mundo?

El Día Internacional del Abogado se celebra en varios países del mundo, mediante la realización de diversos eventos y actividades: conferencias, charlas, lecciones magistrales y jornadas legales comunitarias. Con ello los profesionales del derecho reafirman su compromiso de hacer justicia, con ética y eficiencia.

En Latinoamérica algunos países tienen una fecha especial de celebración de esta efeméride:

Argentina: se celebra el 29 de agosto debido a que en esa fecha se conmemora el nacimiento de Juan Bautista Alberdi, en el año 1810. Es considerado el autor intelectual de la constitución argentina.

Colombia: se conmemora cada 22 de junio, para homenajear al político y abogado Cristóbal Hurtado de Mendoza y Montilla, quien fue el primer presidente luego de la declaración de independencia de Venezuela.

Chile: se celebra el 21 de mayo, debido al fallecimiento del capitán y abogado Arturo Prat Chacón, héroe de la guerra Perú-Chile, quien también fue abogado.

Ecuador: se celebra cada 20 de febrero, con motivo del centenario del nacimiento del jurista y político ecuatoriano Luis Felipe Borja Pérez.

México: se celebra el 12 de julio, motivado a que en esa fecha, en el año 1553, se llevó a cabo la primera cátedra para la enseñanza del Derecho en la Real y Pontificia Universidad de México.

Perú: se celebra el 2 de abril, en honor al nacimiento de Francisco García-Calderón Landa, abogado y presidente del Perú. Es considerado patrón de los abogados peruanos.

Venezuela: cada 23 de junio se celebra el Día del Abogado, en conmemoración del nacimiento del jurista Cristóbal Hurtado de Mendoza y Montilla, quien fue el primer presidente luego de la declaración de independencia de Venezuela.

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Some of the books in MJ's library

Taj Jackson shared that his famous uncle loved the book The Law of Success by Napoleon Hill. He says Jackson loved this book and owned several copies of it.

According to biographer J. Randy Taraborrelli, in the early 80s, Jackson gave copies of the book The Autobiography of P.T. Barnum to both his lawyer and manager and told them, "Make this your Bible. I want my life to be the greatest show on earth."

The Old Man and The Sea by Ernest Hemingway

Rip Van Winkle by Washington Irving

The Power of Positive Thinking by Norman Vincent Peale

Animal Language by Michael Bright

Complete Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson

The 48 Laws of Power

Seagull by Jonathan Livingston

Poetry by Rabindranath Tagore

Robert Burns poems

White Nights: The Story of a Prisoner in Russia by Menachem Begin

Hagakure: The Book of The Samurai by T. Yamamoto

Books by Sri Aurobindo

Books by Kalki Krishnamurthy

The Greatest Salesman in the World by OG Mandino

Malcolm X by Malcolm Haley

The Red Balloon by Albert Lamorisse

The Complete Works of O. Henry

The Verger by Somerset Maugham

The Reluctant Dragon by Kenneth Grahame

The Children's Hour by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The Tyger by William Blake

Sufi Poetry

The Bridge of Sighs by Thomas Hood

The Prophet by Khalil Gibran

Thoughts of Love: A Collection of Poems on Love by Susan Polis Schutz

Complete Stories and Poems of Edgar Allen Poe

They Cage the Animals at Night by Jennings Michael Burch

The Gift of Acabar by Og Mandino

Leaders of Men by Henry Woldmar Ruoff

Reflections in Black by Deborah Willis

Black in America by Eli Reed

Black Heroes of The 20th Century by Jessie Carney Smith

The Negro Caravan by Sterling A. Brown

Before the Mayflower by Lerone Bennet Jr.

How to Eat To Live by Elijah Muhammad

Your Creative Power by Alex Osborn

My Autobiography by Charlie Chaplin

Elvis Day By Day by Peter Guralnick

James Dean: An American Icon by David Loehr

Goldwyn: A Biography by A. Scott Berg

Duse: A Biography by William Weaver

Steps In Time by Fred Astaire

Bruce Lee: The Celebrated Life of the Golden Dragon by John Little

Songs My Mother Taught Me by Marlon Brando

Elia Kazan: A Life by Elia Kazan

The Rolling Stones: A Life on the Road

Abraham Lincoln by Carl Sandburg

Lincoln's Devotional by Carl Sandburg

Lennon in America: 1971-1980, Based in Part on the Lost Lennon Diaries, by Geoffrey Giuliano

Glass Onion: The Beatles In Their Own Words by Geoffrey Giuliano

The Beatles Illustrated Lyrics by Alan Aldridge

The Lost Lennon Interviews by Geoffrey Giuliano

Things We Said Today: Conversations with the Beatles by Geoffrey Giuliano

Books about Hitler - talking to Rabbi Schmuley Boteach, he said, "Hitler was a genius orator. To make that many people turn and change and hate, he had to be a showman and he was."

#mj #michael jackson #book #books #neverland #neverland ranch #library #neverland library

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𝐂𝐇𝐀𝐑𝐀𝐂𝐓𝐄𝐑 𝐔𝐍𝐋𝐎𝐂𝐊𝐄𝐃 ꗃ dev patel, 34, cismale, he/him, marvel. gotham’s got itself a new challenger, WARREN WORTHINGTON III. they consider themselves a hero and go under the name of archangel. they’re known for their techno-organic wings . this song, SAINT BERNARD by LINCOLN, always seems to be playing when they’re around. goes hand in hand with their compassionate and egotistical personality. they kind of remind me of a rush of wind, another person in your mind, living in a silver spoon, perfect smiles, metal beneath the flesh.

𝐒𝐎𝐔𝐑𝐂𝐄 : 616-based, despite having a past with apocalypse he is not adjacent to whatever the hell movie!archangel was! lots of pulling from like uncanny x-force and apocalypes wars  !!

𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐊𝐒 : pinterest

𝐓𝐎 𝐁𝐄 𝐍𝐎𝐓𝐄𝐃 : n/a

𝐅𝐔𝐋𝐋 𝐍𝐀𝐌𝐄 :  warren kenneth worthington iii

𝐍𝐈𝐂𝐊𝐍𝐀𝐌𝐄𝐒 : wren, ware

𝐀𝐋𝐈𝐀𝐒 : archangel/angel

𝐀𝐆𝐄 : 34

𝐆𝐄𝐍𝐃𝐄𝐑 : cismale

𝐏𝐑𝐎𝐍𝐎𝐔𝐍𝐒 : he/him

𝐎𝐑𝐈𝐄𝐍𝐓𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍 : bisexual (heavy femme leaning)

𝐏𝐎𝐖𝐄𝐑𝐒 : flight, wing blades

𝐎𝐑𝐈𝐆𝐈𝐍𝐒 : centerport, long island, new york 

the worthington family was once a powerful family, rubbing elbows with names like rockfeller, vanderbilt, and carnegie. through years of murder, lies, decit, and sabotage, the name and legacy fell soley onto young warren worthington iii, warren ii and kathryn worthington’s otherwise golden child if it hadn’t been for those damned wings erupting from his shoulders when puberty struck.

an original student of charles xavier, warren found a new family amongst the likes of jean grey, scott summers, bobby drake, and hank mccoy when his own shunned him for his mutation. sentinel attacks ruining his after school studies were, however, not what he wanted to deal with late into his teens. he craved the normalcy, he missed the life that had once been carved out for him.

so as soon as graduation from xavier’s was said and done, warren was quick to leave mutantdom. he moved to los angeles for college, reconnected with friends from his pre-xavier’s days, rekindled a romance with his high school sweetheart, candy southern. life was seemingly perfect... as long as his wings stayed harnessed for the rest of his life. but warren had never liked being tethered down, he thought he could be happy amongst humans; but the call to being a hero rang louder. he lived this double life for years: by day he was warren worthington iii, ceo and face of worthington industries, by night he donned his x-uniform again, a symbol for mutants everywhere.

when he lost his wings, warren lost his identity. years of wishing for them gone, imagining how much easier life would be without them, were nothing short of his worst nightmare come true. he was the perfect canvas to be molded into apocalypse’s most beautiful creation.

the road to regain control of his own mind and body has been difficult for him, though slowly with the help of the telepaths around him, especially betsy braddock. he could sense it radiating off his friends they were still afraid of his monsterous side, no matter how much they denied. he and betsy had been through similiar experiences, drawn together by shared experiences. however, neither of them were ready for the vulnerability that came with relationships, no matter how hard they tried, it never worked out in the end.

now in a new universe, warren’s officially lost it all: his fortune, his business, his legacy. it’s been rough ( even rougher than showing up at your ex’s doorstep with no where else to go ) but he’s slowly growing some sort of stability.

its hard being a hero when you still look a horseman of apocalypse </3

warren has the ability to switch between his angel and archangel personas thanks to rigorous mental training, however the longer he stays in archangel form the harder it can be for him to switch back

in his angel form, his wings look and feel like his orginal downy white wings, however hidden underneath the apparent feather are the metal archangel blades

warren says he’s alright but he’s been living in a constant of different levels of suffering since he was 16

he’s currently managed to get some kind of entry level job at wayne enterprises, his masters in business is now a simple source trust me bro

#gothamsintro

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Kenneth Earl Holliday (born June 25, 1949) is an actor of stage, film, and television. He is known for his role as Tyler Hudson on Matlock and as Sgt. Curtis Baker on Carter Country. He was nominated for the Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Male for his performance in the film Great World of Sound. He is a product of the Copiague area of Long Island. At age 12 he lost his father. With the encouragement of his mother he participated in track at Copiague High School where he was part of the Fantastic Four Relay Team and was the star of his football team. He attended University of Maryland on a full scholarship. He was "jazzed" by a class he took related to the history of theater and acting became his new passion. As an undergraduate he played Yank in The Hairy Ape. He was the first African American to perform in a leading role on the college's "main stage." His first work was with the Inaugural Theater Group at the Folger Shakespeare Library in DC. He conducted workshops as a founding member of the DC Black Repertory Company. He starred in the role of Carlyle in Streamers at the Lincoln Theatre. That play led him to Los Angeles where he guest-starred on several shows such as Kojak; What's Happening!!; The Incredible Hulk; Quincy, M.E.; Lou Grant; Soap, Benson; The Jeffersons; The Fall Guy; Hart to Hartand Doogie Howser, M.D. He guest starred on many other shows. He was featured in Roots: The Next Generations and starred in a series of pilots. He provided the voice of the character Roadblock in G.I. Joe and G.I. Joe: The Movie. He appeared in Badge of the Assassin. He has numerous television and movie appearances to his credit, including Miracle On The Mountain, Hope & Faith, and Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. He published a book of poetry in 1998 entitled The Book of K-III: The Contemporary Poetics of Kene Holliday. He became a traveling evangelist and he and his wife spent the next decade preaching in gospel musicals. While taking care of his mother, he accepted the lead role in the movie Great World of Sound. #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence https://www.instagram.com/p/CfOv4ZWLYttD9OMSSy3sc2eilnKkAIHAtRPr4A0/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#africanhistory365 #africanexcellence

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"There have not been any notable demonstrations at any of the trials or hearings held for Trump in the past. Protesters have regularly been outnumbered by reporters."

CRYBABY TRUMP is Miffed that His MAGA Cult Isn't Storming the Courts to Protest His 'Persecution'

Quick Note about a pet grammar peeve of mine.

Grammar pet peeves:  Affect vs Effect.

This pair can be confusing because each word can be used as a verb or as a noun.  Perhaps these definitons can help clarify.

Affect - verb:  Causing a change in something. e.g.

"Trump passing gas affects the comfort of everyone in the courtroom."

Affect - noun:  The way someone displays themselves. e.g.

"Trump's affect is one of ignorance, of not knowing he is passing gas in the courtroom."

Effect - verb:  Making or causing something to happen. e.g.

"A truly noxious gas may effect a total evacuation of the courtroom."

Effect - noun:  The result of some action.  e.g.

"The effect of the noxious gas was that most people covered their nose and mouth."

(Wow, seems like a lot of people enjoyed this!  Thanks for the interest and sharing all your other pet peeves.)

Trump’s Steep Mental Decline Should Be a Top Campaign Issue

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271 Comments "They’ll allow him to go fishing in the swimming pool, like Al Capone at the end."

"There are many examples of early U.S. politicians publicly calling each other names and accusing each other of improprieties.  Here is a very short list of examples:

Gen. Charles Lee called presidential candidate Abraham Lincoln “Ignoramus Abe” and said he was a “well-meaning baboon.”

Lincoln said of senatorial contender Stephen Douglas, “His argument is as thin as the homeopathic soup that was made by boiling the shadow of a pigeon that had been starved to death.”

Presidential candidate Thomas Jefferson derided contender John Adams as, “A blind, bald, crippled, toothless man who is a hideous hermaphrodite character with neither the force and fitness of a man, nor the gentleness and sensibility of a woman."

Adams surrogates called Thomas Jefferson, "a mean-spirited, low-lived fellow, the son of a half-breed Indian squaw, sired by a Virginia mulatto father."

Adams said of Alexander Hamilton, “When Perfidy and Treachery, Imbecility, Ignorance Fanaticism and Fury Surrounded Us; all, Puppets danced upon the Wires of a Bastard Bratt of a Scotch Pedlar.”

Congressman Kenneth Rayner said of President Franklin Pierce, “The minions of power are watching you, to be turned out by the pimp of the White House if you refuse to sustain him. A man sunk so low we can hardly hate.  We have nothing but disgust, pity, and contempt.”

Some of these arguments were also settled with physical altercations on the floor of congress or with duels.  Our saving grace may be nuclear weopons didn’t exist."

#Trump #Headlines HERO