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Entries from November 2007
étourneau
Stumbling over the vines... a swarm of soûlards or drunks. Read on...
étourneau (ay-toor-no) noun, masculine
: starling, star (bird)
: scatterbrain, featherbrain, birdbrain (you get the picture)
Les aigles ... volent seul... ce sont les corbeaux, les choucas et les étourneaux qui vont en groupe. Eagles ... fly alone...they are crows, daws, and starlings that flock together. --John Webster
In books: "The Boy Who Drew Birds." John James Audubon, who was born and raised in France, was sent to America at age 18 to avoid service in Napoleon's army... Read on, here.
Imagine a vintner's field in wintertime. Row upon row of dark, leafless vines... trunks over which a spray of rust-colored limbs (or so the morning light, reflecting across the unpruned field, would have us think). Now imagine that woody, glowing champ* disintegrating from the "waist" up (this, before your
very eyes)! Watch as the vines seem to lose their combined "heads," if not their minds!
Les étourneaux...
They are called "scatterbrains," tout simplement.* Not the vines, which appear to be losing their heads, but the birds who've alighted, eaten, and are now, once again "altitude bound" -- by the thousands! The visual effect of so many migrators "unmoored" is, if not stunning, sobering.... to the birds at least.
For while the birds themselves aren't scatterbrains, they sometimes act that way after feasting on the fermented fruit which, this time of year, might as well be grape-size "shots" considering the alcohol inside those wrinkled raisins.*
Now this would explain the odd swerving flight pattern that some exhibit--those birds that can't seem to hold a feathered finger to beak while "walking" a straight line (for starlings are known to walk and not hop). Like that, they commonly flunk French breathalizer tests before jamming jail cells from Lille to Paris, all the way down to Marseilles.
A former fêtarde* myself (and still a bit featherbrained from it) I shake my head and cluck my tongue on hearing those birds, beaks-a-begging, try to get out of jail time by pleading with the French cops, swearing that they are merely scatterbrained and not at all soûlard!*
Update: One of our birds seems to have landed on my friend Ann's Paris bistro table. Can you see its bloodshot eyes and that telling grenache-stained grin?
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References: le champ (m) = field; tout simplement = quite simply; le raisin (m) = grape; fétard(e) = merrymaker, partyer; soûlard(e) = drunkard
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Etourneau. Les aigles ... volent seul... ce sont les corbeaux, les choucas et les étourneaux qui vont en groupe.
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Mistletoe in them thar hills! The Tuscan Vauclusian countryside.
gui (gee ["g" as in "get"]) noun, masculine
: mistletoe (gui de chêne) or "Druid's plant"
Le respect que les anciens Gaulois avaient pour le gui et particulièrement pour celui qui croissait sur le chêne, est connu de tout le monde.
The respect that the ancient Gauls had for mistletoe and particularly that which grew on the oak tree, is known the world over.
--from the "Dictionnaire provençal-français" by S. J. Honnorat
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On a Sunday afternoon balade,* we (Jean-Marc, an aunt, two uncles, the kids and I) stepped outside and into a bit of kissy kissy history.
While the undulating hills surrounding the town of Cairanne resemble a famous Italian countryside, Tuscan they're not. This is the land of the Vaucan -- or rather "voconce". Here in the Vaucluse, over these pine-scented hills and across the red sea of vines below, a certain group of Gallic tribesman once puttered and maybe even puckered up....
As we stepped off the thyme-scented path to catch our breath, the men in our party took a moment to free an ailing tree. The oak's trunk was riddled with ivy until Uncle Jean-Claude and Jacques went to work, liberating its limbs.
As the men pulled down the ivy, freeing the frail tree, Aunt Marie-Françoise pointed to something high up on a branch. Next, she began talking about druids, potions and parasites! Her French words fashioned images in my head, of white-haired wizards and Gallic magicians intent on finding a potion for... parasites?
Lost in language and a very surreal tale, I tried to understand the foreign words, one of which returned again and again as if to illustrate Aunt Marie-Françoise's point. Gui... gui... gui... she repeated, pointing to the oak's branch. Gui... gui...gui...
That is when--poof!--a giddy Gallic ghost appeared in time to whisper a clue. This is what the ancient Gaul said to me (a bit shy and stuttering was he): "Gui...gui...gui... GUI-ME a kiss?!"
Kiss? Ah...mistletoe! I refused the bise* (what with, you know, Jean-Marc in tow!) but thanked the French phantom for the clue. As for the French word for mistletoe, who knew?
I observed the "parasite," its translucent white globes the size of cocktail onions. I'd never seen Gaulois* mistletoe before but can tell you that the Gallic version is grander than the store-bought stuff. Like mistletoe on Miracle-Grow!
Still, I'm not sure what druids, potions and parasites have to do with all this. And the question remains, should I have accepted? Should I have puckered up and given that Gallic ghost a kiss?
Post note: With a better understanding of language, specifically its building blocks, I might have been able to piece together the meaning of druid and how these ancient Celtic priests might be called "they who know the oak". Here now from the Online Etymology Dictionary (etymonline.com):
Druid... from O.Fr. druide, from L. Druidae (pl.), from Gaulish Druides, from O.Celt. *derwijes, representing O.Celt. derwos "true" and *dru- "tree" (especially oak) + *wid- "to know" (cf. vision). Hence, lit., perhaps, "they who know the oak."
More on the Druids, those "knowers of oak" from Wikipedia.org:
"The Druids were polytheists, but also revered elements of nature...such as the sun, the moon, and the stars, looking to them for "signs and seasons". They also venerated other natural elements, such as the oak, certain groves of trees, tops of hills, streams, lakes and certain other plants, especially mistletoe [GUI] and holly.
More on mistletoe ... druids and cures... at the end of this letter!
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une balade (f) = walk, stroll; la bise (f) = kiss; Gaulois(e) = Gallic
In Film: Academy Award, Golden Globe and BAFTA nominee for Best Foreign Film, Joyeux Noel (Merry Christmas) tells the true-life story of the spontaneous Christmas Eve truce declared by Scottish, French and German troops in the trenches of World War I.
Hear Jean-Marc pronounce today's quote:
LE GUI. Le respect que les anciens Gaulois avaient pour le gui et particulièrement pour celui qui croissait sur le chêne, est connu de tout le monde.
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Terms & Expressions:
au gui mener = to the mistletoe go, to lead to the mistletoe
au gui l'An neuf = mistletoe for the New Year
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More on druids... how mistletoe can disarm an enemy:
"The Druids considered the mistletoe to be a sacred plant and believed it had miraculous properties which could cure illnesses, serve as an antidote against poisons, ensure fertility and protect against the ill effects of witchcraft. Moreover, whenever enemies met under the mistletoe in the forest, they had to lay down their arms and observe a truce until the next day." --from www.culture.gouv.fr
tirailleur
tirailleur (teera-yuhr) n.m.
skirmisher; soldier, infantryman, sharpshooter; sniper
Example sentence:
Les tirailleurs de l'armée française d'Afrique ont contribué par leur courage à placer la France parmi les puissances victorieuses de 1945.
The sharpshooters of the French African army contributed, by their bravery, to putting France among the victorious powers of 1945. --from the book "Paroles d'indigènes Les Soldats oubliés de la Seconde Guerre mondiale"
Book: A Savage War of Peace: Algeria 1954-1962
The upside about those glaring plasterboard walls, here in our unfinished farmhouse, is their potential for bringing the "big screen" home (this, with the help of a laptop and a projector). The downside about home cinema is getting four Franco-American film critics to unite. (Jean-Marc likes historicals, I like drama, and the kids like Jamel Debbouze [read: comedy]). Recently, our tastes teamed up in the tear-jerker "Indigènes,"* a film about the forgotten North African soldiers of WWII.
Eight-eyes glued to the plasterboard screen, we witnessed the power of hope amidst prejudice and unreward as the "indigenous" soldiers (aka the Algerian Infantry Division) arrived in France from the colonies to help free their "motherland". The following, from OpenDemocracy.net summarizes the film's subject matter:
In 1944, the French army had 550,000 soldiers, more than half coming from the "empire": 134,000 Algerians, 73,000 Moroccans, 26,000 Tunisians, and 92,000 sub-Saharan Africans... They were also too often used as cannon-fodder, second-class soldiers: fed more poorly, clothed more shabbily, paid less, rewarded rarely, promoted hardly, humiliated routinely. [The film] Indigènes reminds us of all this.
If one can marry comedy with tragedy, then actor Jamel Debbouze offered just the featherlight sweep needed to lighten four heavy hearts who, turning from the plasterboard "big screen," paused now and again to ask ourselves, Why?
Post note: In 1959, during decolonization, pensions for the North African soldiers were frozen. In 2006, after viewing the film "Indigènes," President Jacques Chirac acknowledged the money owed and reinstated pensions. In view of the almost fifty year time lapse, many veterans were not able to collect as they had since passed on.
Les Indigènes: a film by Rachid Bouchareb. See this film in French with English subtitles
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References: les indigènes = natives (Algerian, Tunisian and Moroccan soldiers were referred to as "natives")
Listen to Jean-Marc pronounce today's word and quote:
Tirailleurs. Les tirailleurs de l'armée française d'Afrique ont contribué par leur courage à placer la France parmi les puissances victorieuses de 1945.
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Evian Travel Trio: Pure natural Evian mineral water propelled by nitrogen.
Related Words & Expressions
tirailler = to pull at, to tug at
tiraillement = tugging, gnawing pain, tightness
tiraillements = friction, conflict
Many thanks to readers for submitting these WWII book recommendations:
1. Is Paris Burning?
2. Wine and War
3. And There Was Light: Autobiography of Jacques Lusseyran, Blind Hero of the French Resistance
4. Suite Francaise
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Warmth and light in the town of Montpellier.
paix (pay) noun, feminine
: peace
Qui vit en paix avec lui-même vit en paix avec l'univers.
He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe.
--Marcus Aurelius
(The following is a prayer* that fell out of a book on my husband's nightstand... [I wasn't snooping. Really, I wasn't!] The English translation follows...).
Seigneur, faites de moi un instrument de votre paix.
Là où il y a de la haine, que je mette l'amour.
Là où il y a l'offense, que je mette le pardon.
Là où il y a la discorde, que je mette l'union.
Là où il y a l'erreur, que je mette la vérité.
Là où il y a le doute, que je mette la foi.
Là où il y a le désespoir, que je mette l'espérance.
Là où il y a les ténèbres, que je mette votre lumière.
Là où il y a la tristesse, que je mette la joie.
Ô Maître, que je ne cherche pas tant à être consolé qu'à consoler, à être compris qu'à comprendre, à être aimé qu'à aimer, car c'est en donnant qu'on reçoit, c'est en s'oubliant qu'on trouve, c'est en pardonnant qu'on est pardonné, c'est en mourant qu'on ressuscite à l'éternelle vie.
Lord, make me an instrument of Thy peace;
Where there is injury, let me sow pardon;
Where there is discord, let me sow harmony;
Where there is error, let me sow truth;
Where there is doubt, let me sow faith;
Where there is despair, let me sow hope;
Where there is darkness, let me sow light;
And where there is sadness, let me sow joy.
O Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console; to be understood, as to understand; to be loved, as to love; for it is in giving that we receive, it is in forgetting ourselves that we find, it is in pardoning that we are pardoned, and it is in dying that we are born to Eternal Life.
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References: prayer = (the little card that tumbled out of the book, and on which the prayer was printed, attributes the prayer to "Saint François" [Saint Francis of Assisi]. The prayer is commonly known as "The Prayer of Saint Francis")
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La paix. Qui vit en paix avec lui-même vit en paix avec l'univers.
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Gift shop:
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In French music: French Playground (various artists sing in French)
Grey Sea Salt from Guerande, Brittany
End Quote:
Garde la paix en toi, ensuite offre la aux autres.
Keep peace in yourself, then offer it to others.
--Thomas A Kempis
buissonnière
"Vauclusian sky" by Jean-Marc
buissonnière (bwee-sohn-yehr) adjective
: living in bushes
When a French student skips class, s/he goes and "lives in the bushes" for a day... We call this "ditching"; here in France it is called "l'école buissonnière" (literally "bush school"). Borrowing the bush term, and backtracking to my Arizona childhood, we hooksters (hooky players?) might've called ourselves "Creosote Class Cutters"* or "The Desert Scrub Club"....
*creosote bush: desert shrub of southwestern United States and New Mexico having persistent resinous aromatic foliage and small yellow flowers (definition from onelook.com)
(...faire l'école buissonnière = to play hooky...)
After allowing my daughter a ditch day yesterday (French teachers are on strike...does this count?), I thought "why not take one yourself"? So this morning I lingered a bit over breakfast, putting an extra heaping of strawberry jam over yesterday's stale cinnamon toast and having a second cup of coffee
while letting thoughts percolate. That's when--bingo!--it occurred to me that I might continue in this lazy mode... if only it weren't for the work load! How can one take a day off when one has a column to write?
Steal, of course.
(The following post was "lifted," along with my work load, from my husband's wine blog. I hope you'll enjoy his updates about our wine adventure. You'll also learn the outcome of that Wine Label Poll we had last month. For now, I wish you bonne lecture*!)
Jean-Marc writes...
Dear wine lovers,
All our tanks have now finished both their fermentations (alcoholic and malolactic). The four filled tanks we have express their "terroir" identity with, of course, the grape variety's influence. What is interesting here is that depending on "terroir" and with the same grape variety, the wines express
themselves very differently....
(To read the rest of this post (and to view Jean-Marc's tasting video!) click here.
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bonne lecture = enjoy (the reading)
Listen to my son, Max, pronounce today's word and expression
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Culture color clash, but cute: my boys. Max (12) and Coco (10 weeks).
chaton (sha-ton) noun, masculine
: kitten
In books: French for Cats: All the French Your Cat Will Ever Need
Les caresses n'ont jamais transformé un tigre en chaton.
No man can tame a tiger into a kitten by stroking it.
--Franklin Delano Roosevelt
My son, Max, and I--two self-appointed mother hens--are on night watch. It is our duty to help a five hundred gram furball feel welcome and at home. Though our new pet--un minet!*--seemed to warm to our unfamiliar farm....when night fell so did his furry little heart.
Perhaps cats' hearts aren't furry, but they can be fearful. So when the crying and miaulement* became hard to bear, Max and I redoubled our efforts (adding song to our midnight bag-of-tricks). But when two dozen refrains of "Meunier Tu Dors"* didn't work we were desperate.
"She wants her mommy," I said to a sleepy Max.
"'He' does. 'HE' wants his mommy," Max corrected.
That's right: she is a he. I keep forgetting. It must be that ultra feminine coat he has on. His fur is as long as the Côte d'Azur and, the color, cool as the Paris skyline in wintertime: mostly gray with hues of blue (that bit of Provence, you know, thrown in too).
"Blue or gray, she's one big furball!" I say, as she, er, HE, curls up at our feet. "...un grand boule de poil!'" I repeat.
"Non, UNE boule de poil," Max corrects.
"Ah, so "furball" is feminine?"
OK, I can remember that: furball is feminine. Now to get the minet to forget (forget his mama... so we self-appointed hens can get some shut-eye.)
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un minet (une minette) = kitty cat; le miaulement (m) = meowing; Meunier, tu dors = Miller, You're Sleeping
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Chansons Pour Noel: Songs for Christmas (in French):
coin du feu
When a coin du feu feels good!
le coin du feu (kwan dew fuuh) noun, masculine
: fireside
Mais il existe un havre où l'on peut toujours savourer une relation authentique: le coin du feu chez un ami auprès duquel on peut se défaire de ses petites vanités et trouver chaleur et compréhension.
But there is another realm where we can always find something true, the fireside of a friend, where we shed our little conceits and find warmth and understanding.
--Kressmann Taylor, author of Address Unknown
The words "Chestnuts roasting on an open fire" meant little to the pint-size Phoenician who once sang them. More than thirty years later, and Jack Frost still isn't hanging outside my window. (Though it is snowing in parts of Provence...)
One thing roasting "fireside" in my childhood home was cheddar cheese, this, over a flour tortilla (and this, beneath the oven's grill). As for snug fireside seating, my mom got creative: she pulled a few chairs across the cramped linoleum floor, flush with the oven's open door (on which we set our
feet -- all four!).
(Wait a minute... isn't this account of "My Mother Stuck Our Feet into the Trailer Oven!" the stuff of a gritty memoir? Move over Frank McCourt. Step aside Mary Karr! On second thought and before I get caught--like that guy who wrote about alcohol, drugs, rehabilitation and whatnot--I'll have you know the oven's "fire" was low, and that's as far as my gripping tell-all goes!)
Back to my story, which takes place early morning in the desert, near Christmas time....
...Feet resting on the oven door, box of black licorice between us (or orangettes,* depending), my mom fueled her fire for fiction, and I, warm and toasty beside her, watched literature light up her face...
Should mom make it back to France (quelle chance!* quelle chance!), she'll now have a fireplace on which her feet might dance. And I might roast chestnuts beside her, listening, as she spoke, of rearing us girls while damn near broke.
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A chestnut recipe for you -- with instructions in French & English! Click here:
http://french-word-a-day.typepad.com/recipe/2007/11/cream-of-chestn.html
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orangette (chocolate) candied orange peels; quelle chance! = what luck!
Book references: "Angela's Ashes: A Memoir" by Frank McCourt
"The Liars' Club: A Memoir" by Mary Karr
James Frey's "A Million Little Pieces"
Listen to Jean-Marc pronounce today's French word & quote:
Coin du feu. Mais il existe un havre où l'on peut toujours savourer une relation authentique: le coin du feu chez un ami auprès duquel on peut se défaire de ses petites vanités et trouver chaleur et compréhension.
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(sohnzh)
noun, masculine
A Restless Writer Dreams
When William Faulkner, famous American novelist, poet and Nobel Laureate, came to stay with us here at the farm, I offered him a fold-out cot.
I could have offered him our bed,
but, you know,
he got the other instead.
As for my lack of fuss
(no guest towel, no pillow, no spare toothbrush),
who knew I was hosting a literature buff?
That's when it finally dawned on me
that there, in a cap and a long white nightie,
was a 20th Century celebrity!
Oh Glory be, there were we...
Faulkner, yours truly
and several bottles of eau-de-vie.
"Your imagination is good," said he....
"But we haven't got all night,
so pull up a chair
and I'll teach you to write!"
That's when so many tablets,
not of stone...
but of wood chips,
appeared out of nowhere
to receive the writer's
savoir-faire.
Then, like Moses channeling words from above,
Faulkner wrote down truths on how to write without fear—
and always with love!
And though his words were addressed to a restless writer,
they are dear to everyman—
so get out your highlighter!
Here is the wisdom that the prize-winning author wrote down,
on wood chips, no less,
for there wasn't any holy stone lying around!
"(one)...must teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid; and, teaching himself that, forget it forever, leaving no room in his workshop [âme*] for anything but the old verities and truths of the heart..." He went on to say that it is a human "...privilege to help man endure by lifting his heart, by reminding him of the courage and honor and hope and pride and compassion and pity and sacrifice which have been the glory of his past."
Fast, fast, fast...
I copied down the writer's words
but the clarity of my dream wouldn't last.
By the time I awoke,
my memory bank
was flat broke.
I was still the restless writer that I had always been,
without any special favors
from the man with the golden pen.
Post note: While the dream, above, was vividly real, the two excerpts, in the penultimate paragraph above, were taken from William Faulkner's acceptance speech for the 1949 Nobel Prize in Literature.
le lit = bed
l'eau-de-vie (f) = brandy
le savoir-faire = know-how, expertise
l'âme (f) = soul
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Update! The format of the above story was radically changed (see the previous version at the end of this post!), following Nancy's helpful suggestion (see comments box). That said, I am not sure about including this story in the book compilation. Please don't be shy, send me your thoughts.
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Songe. L'espérance est le songe d'un homme éveillé.
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Related Terms & Expressions:
en songe = in a dream
faire un songe = to have a dream
un songe-creux = a visionary
songer = to dream
la songerie = reverie
songeur, songeuse = pensive (adj.); dreamer (noun)
Here is the previous version of the story
When William Faulkner, famous American novelist, poet and Nobel Laureate, came to stay with us here at the grape farm, I offered him a fold-out cot. I could have offered him our bed, but, you know, he got the other instead.
As for my lack of fuss (not a guest towel, pillow or spare toothbrush), who knew I was housing a literature buff? That's when it finally dawned on me that there, in a cap and long white nightie, was a 20th century celebrity!
Faulkner, yours truly ...and several bottles of eau-de-vie.
(Thank God neither of us was tipsy!)
"Your imagination is good," said he. But we haven't got all night, so, if you like, pull up a chair and I'll teach you to write!
That's when so many tablets, not of stone but of wood chips,
appeared out of nowhere to receive the writer's savoir-faire.
And while his words were addressed to a restless writer, they are dear to everyman—so get out your highlighter!
Here is the wisdom that the prize-winning author wrote down, on wood chips, no less, for there wasn't any holy stone lying around. He said:
Fast, fast, fast... I copied down the writer's words but the clarity of my dream wouldn't last. By the time I awoke, my memory bank was flat broke. I was still the restless writer that I had always been, without any special favors from the man with the golden pen.
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attentionné
The handpainted sign reads: "To live well: love well and let others say what they will". ("Pour bien vivre, bien aimer et laisser dire.")
attentionné,e (ah-tohn-syon-ay) adjective
: thoughtful, considerate
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When my father returned home to Idaho, from France, he had a few foreign banknotes left over from his trip. Thoughtfully, he tucked the paper euros into a book and sent the money to me.
When the slim volume arrived, I admired its gold cover... until I remembered the gift inside (and dived in)! The cash lasted only seconds in my hand before my son walked into the room, his sleeves inching up and over his growing wrists....
And so I put the pognon into my pocket, the kids into the car, and the cash into two new winter coats. The children warm and snug, I returned home from the store to feel the chill of Hiver's approach. Shivering, I reopened my father's book and the warmth of his words enveloped me.
(My father's inscription read: "I'm very proud of you. Love, Dad.")
See a photo of my dad, here, at the end of this post, and discover the book Dad sent: "The Snow Goose" (set partly in France...). After reading that book, I ordered this French-themed story by the same author.
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References: le pognon = cash, dough; l'hiver = winter
(Uh oh. My French speaker is out in the grape fields, drilling holes for future vines... Perhaps, with a bit of payola, I can get my pint-size Francophones to "parler" on Wednesday...)
Gifts for a Francophile:
Race to the finish with this sleek new version of Mille Bornes, the classic auto race card game.
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fondre
Medieval (and very-nearly-melts-the-heart): Les Arcs-sur-Argens, Var.
fondre (fon-dr) verb
to melt, smelt, merge
to slim down
Le même soleil fait fondre la cire et sécher l'argile.
The same sun melts wax and hardens clay.
--Clement of Alexandria
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A trail of sawdust leading out of our house, followed by potato chips (leading out of a handyman's hamper) means our parqueteur* is on lunch break. I peek through the kitchen window and watch the would-be lumberjack sitting on the steps en face.* Finally at rest, he soaks in the sun and shares a hearty casse-croûte* with two canine colleagues (a male and female dachshund that doze while their master is paid to pose).*
"It looks like he's finished," I say to the girls who gawk alongside me. "Do you want to take Monsieur Yves his coffee?" My daughter and her friend, Manu, light up. "Oui, oui!" they agree.
On a wooden tray, I set a demitasse cup over a matching saucer. Beside the tiny tasse* I tuck one, two, oh-why-not three, colorfully wrapped caramels. I add a jam jar of sugar and a spoon before handing the tray to the girls who attempt to balance the plateau* between them. Remembering the obstacle course that is our front porch (with ladders and cords to trip over), I caution the candy/coffee caterers to find another method of transport. The girls quickly divide up the tray (Jackie taking the coffee and two caramels, Manu the sugar, a caramel, and spoon). I hand Manu one more bonbon, for balance, and off the girls trot.)
Minutes later, the girls return. I notice the coffee cup is already empty... the wrappers too.
"Well, did Monsieur Yves like the bonbons?" I say.
"He said that he's on a régime!"*
A diet? I think about the trail of greasy potato chips and wonder if he's counting carbohydrates... and candy?
"Well, then," I questioned. "Where did the caramels go?"
"Down with his diet?" the girls supposed.
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L. Ron Hubbard: Scientologists observe founder's birthday with service
A church of Scientology in Los Angeles. Photo courtesy of Wikimedia Commons
TUESDAY, MARCH 13: On this birthday of L. Ron Hubbard, Scientologists are called to focus on humanitarian work and promoting awareness of human rights. Members of the often-controversial group regard the life of L. Ron Hubbard as exemplary. Scientologists today continue to believe that humans suffer from negative memories of past lives, working to "audit" the memories and achieve a clear, pure state.
Born in Nebraska in 1911, Lafayette Ronald Hubbard gained attention for his science fiction and fantasy books before launching the Dianetics self-help system, which was released in printed form in 1950 and which followers regard as "the modern science of mental health." As Dianetics expanded, Hubbard developed a set of doctrines and rituals, which led to the new spiritual movement known as Scientology. Though Hubbard's work remains controversial, the group continues to expand.
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L. Ron Hubbard: Scientologists observe birthday of religion's founder
FRIDAY, MARCH 13: Scientologists pour into Clearwater, Florida, for a birthday celebration for their founder, as thousands more perform community service in their own locales for the birth anniversary of L. Ron Hubbard. Born in Nebraska in 1911, Lafayette Ronald Hubbard gained attention for his science fiction and fantasy books before launching the Dianetics self-help system, which was released in printed form in 1950. (Wikipedia has details.) As Dianetics expanded, Hubbard developed a set of doctrines and rituals, which led to the new religious movement known as Scientology.
Several aspects of Hubbard's life are controversial, but the group continues to expand. At the 2014 LRH Birthday Celebration in Clearwater, expansion was discussed—with particular mention made of the first Ideal Advanced Organization, in Denmark, and the Ideal Pacifica Bridge in Los Angeles.
Additional controversy is stirring in the midst of the new HBO-funded documentary, "Going Clear," which recently was shown at the Sundance Film Festival. (The Huffington Post reported.) Based on Lawrence Wrights's 560-page book, the documentary has spurred legal action from the group. Nonetheless, L. Ron Hubbard remains one of the 100 most influential Americans of all time—at least, according to Smithsonian magazine.
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A Tour of the Ronald Reagan Library Exhibit: D23 Presents Treasures of the Walt Disney Archives
July 4, 2012 October 19, 2022 / DAPs Magic News / By DAPs Magic / 6 minutes of reading / Leave a Comment
DAPs Magic Disney News – by Mr. DAPs
On July 6, a new exhibit will be opening at the Ronald Reagan Library. The exhibit, entitled D23 Presents Treasures of the Walt Disney Archives offers guests a look at the biggest public display of the Walt Disney Archives ever. It includes treasures dating back to the very beginnings of the Walt Disney Company and has artifacts through the years all the way up to props from movies that have just recently been released. The exhibit covers around 12,000 square feet of space and every corner is utilized.
On Saturday June 30, 2012 several members of online media were invited to preview this exhibit. After a brief welcome and introduction to the exhibit, the online journalists were set loose to explore this museum.
The first room showcases the beginning of the Walt Disney Company. Many Disney fans will recognize the artifacts found in this room. This room houses a script that was in Walt Disney's desk through the years until his death of the original Mickey Mouse short Steamboat Willie. It also has memorabilia from some of his other projects during that era, original merchandise, and some videos about the time.
The Golden Age of Animation
The next room is quite a bit smaller and focuses on animation. It includes an animation desk and also some of the restored books from some of classic princess movies. These may be recognized as the books that were opened and closed at the beginning and ends of these movies like Snow White, Sleeping Beauty, and Cinderella. There are models and other displays in this room that showcase the Golden Age of Animation.
The Hub of a Creative Empire
Moving along there is a much bigger room. Immediately noticeable is a car at the far wall, an office on the left, and a submarine on the right to point out a few artifacts. The office on the left is Walt Disney's office. It has been meticulously recreated. Archivists used iPads to compare this office to Walt Disney's original office so that every detail is exact. Even the books are in the precise place that Walt Disney once kept them. The piano that the Sherman brothers would use when visiting his office is found here as well. Other exhibits in this room include the submarine from 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, the flying car from The Absent Minded Professor, one of Julie Andrew's costumes from Mary Poppins…just to name a few things found there. It also should be mentioned that a giant illustration of Disneyland is also displayed here. Many other artifacts from classic Disney movies can be found in this room and the adjoining room as well. Some of these artifacts and movies are more recognizable than others. It is a wonderfully diverse collection of classic Disney memorabilia.
This exhibit also wraps around a hallway that is used to reach the room dedicated to the Presidents that is toward the end of the flow. It also includes memorabilia from National Treasure and some of the Disney animated features. There is also a pretty impressive mural made up of scenes from Disney animated features in this hallway.
A Big Tent
The next part of the exhibition is found in a big tent. However, if one wasn't told ahead of time that they were entering a tent… they may not realize it. First, one must walk down a flight of steps (a whole was knocked into the wall to accommodate these steps and this expansion of the exhibition). At the bottom, after a quick right turn there is a hallway of magnificent costumes ranging from a dress worn by Julie Andrews in The Princess Diaries to the Cruella De Ville outfits worn by Glenn Close. Further along are some Enchanted costumes and artifacts from Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland. The details found on the tea party table are rather amazing. It could take quite some time to stand and absorb how much work went into that table. This hallway continued to wrap around the outside of this huge tent and included a display from Tron: Legacy along with some costumes and vehicles from the Marvel movies (Iron Man's costume being one of them).
Finally at the end of this hallway one finds themselves facing the head of a dragon. This corner of the tent/display hall is dedicated to the Magic Kingdoms. The dragon from Fantasmic! definitely dominates this area. However, many other classic icons from both Disneyland and the Magic Kingdom will be recognizable.
The center of this tent/display hall is dedicated to the Pirates of the Caribbean films. The biggest part of the exhibit is a miniature (that isn't so small) of the Black Pearl. The miniature of the Endeavor is also found here along with costumes and props from Pirates of the Caribbean.
A Patriotic Legacy
Seeing that this exhibit is at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, it is only fitting that there would be a room dedicated to Ronald Reagan's connection with Disneyland and the Walt Disney Company. It also includes other connections with the White House through the years. Some of these letters in this room are pretty amazing and easily a highlight.
This room also has busts of every President of the United States. These busts are a part of the process of bringing to life these Presidents for the Hall of Presidents in the Magic Kingdom at Walt Disney World.
The Story Is Still Being Told
"The magic of Walt Disney was larger than life, and the treasures he left will endure to entertain and enlighten worlds to come." – President Lyndon B. Johnson
This quote is over a photo of Walt Disney in the last room. It faces a recreation of the Team Disney building from the Walt Disney Studios with a video of what is new and exciting from Disney.
D23 Presents Treasures of the Walt Disney Archives
D23 Presents Treasures of the Walt Disney Archives is an amazing exhibit for Disney fans of all ages and knowledge levels. There is something there that everyone will enjoy. It has a wonderful cross section of artifacts representing so many different corners of the Walt Disney Company. If the goal for the day is to the see the entire Ronald Reagan Library, plan on allotting a few hours to the Disney exhibition. If Disney is the main goal, and every sign must be read, absorbed, and photographed*… a whole day could be spent wandering through the halls of this beautiful exhibit.
Mr. DAPs Tours The Exhibit
The following video represents a quick tour of the entire exhibit. Elements of it will be broken up for future articles about D23 Presents Treasures of the Walt Disney Archives.
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Sicklinghall is a village and civil parish in North Yorkshire, England that is situated between the town of Wetherby ( to the east) and the village of Kirkby Overblow.

In 2007 the population was recorded as 300, increasing to 336 at the 2011 Census.

The village is surrounded by granges; on the eastern side lie Skerry Grange and Sicklinghall Grange and on the western Addlethorpe Grange. Sicklinghall Grange is set in a  estate, it is the UK residence of racehorse owner, Sir Robert Ogden. However the 'big house' is Stockeld Park, a Grade I-listed palladian villa that sits at the heart of a 2,000-acre estate and is home to the Grant family.

History
The village is referred to in the Domesday Book as "Sidingale", in the hundred of Burghshire in the West Riding, and the lord and tenant in chief is noted as the King. In Kirkby's Inquest (1284-5) the village is referred to as Siclinghalle; in the Knights' Fees of 1302 it is Sykelynghall, and in the Nomina Villarum (1316) it is written Sigglinghall.

There has been a school in the village of Sicklinghall since at least 1850 when Mrs Fenton Scott of Woodhall built a single storey school house.

There is a Roman Catholic convent situated by the Church of the Immaculate Conception and monastery dating from 1852 to the south of the village.

Public buildings and amenities
The village has two churches; St Peter's (Church of England), and the Church of the Immaculate Conception (Roman Catholic). There is a pub called The Scott's Arms, a primary school and a village hall. There are ponds at either end of the village.

Sicklinghall has a range of equestrian-related centres in and around the village's centre, with the Sicklinghall Park livery located in the village centre, and Hill Croft Farm Riding Stables located about  west of the village on the road towards Kirkby Overblow.

Sports teams
Sicklinghall has a cricket team playing in the local Wetherby Cricket League. The ground is situated at the top of the village, the club having moved from nearby Stockeld Park in 2002.  In 2016 an arson attack on the cricket club destroyed the pavilion.

Celebrities
Former Leeds United and Aston Villa manager David O'Leary is a resident of Sicklinghall.

Sir Robert Ogden the racehorse owner currently resides in Sicklinghall.

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Our role as engineers in the society cannot be overemphasized[ CITATION Stu18 \l 1033 ]. We are professionals who make decisions that have huge impacts on people's day-to-day life[CITATION Wet08 \l 1033 ]. We are responsible for planning, designing, construction, manufacturing, operation and maintenance of different structures and products that are used by people every day, all over the world[CITATION Wha13 \l 1033 ]. As a result, our work should benefit humanity and avoid or minimize any likelihood of causing harm to the people or the environment[CITATION Sti11 \l 1033 ]. Engineers possess great power to bring real change to the society. However, the great power goes together with great social responsibility[CITATION Jos16 \l 1033 ]. This is where the code of ethics becomes very crucial in engineering. The code of ethics basically entails the attributes of conduct and morals of engineers both as individuals and as professionals. Most societal problems have numerous possible solutions and therefore it is the responsibility of engineers to make the best decisions based on integrity, honesty, equity, justice and without bias. In general, engineers should perform their duties by strictly observing the upmost principles of morals and ethical conduct[CITATION Smi141 \l 1033 ].
Canons of Engineers' Code of Ethics
Engineers' code of ethics has five fundamental canons[CITATION Nat081 \l 1033 ]. First, engineers should consider the health, safety and welfare of the general public when making decisions and also comply with sustainable development principles. This means that engineers should always give health, safety and well-being of people and environment a top priority in their decisions and actions[CITATION Bow10 \l 1033 ]. Second, engineers should only perform services in fields of their competence. This means that engineers should only accept and perform engineering assignments which they have adequate knowledge and competence. Third, engineers should ensure that any public statements they issue are true and objective. This means that before engineers share information with the public in form of public statements, reports, testimony, etc., they should ensure that the information is true and not exaggerated for whatever reasons.
Fourth, engineers should act for every client or employer as faithful trustees or agents, and should avoid potential or identified conflicts of interest. It means that engineers have to be open, loyal, truthful and faithful to their clients or employers as long as they are working for and/or with them. This can be achieved through disclosure of any relevant information, not accepting or soliciting any "gifts" from parties dealing with the employer or client, using clients/employer's confidential information appropriately and not accepting any other professional employment with their current clients/employer's consent. Fifth, engineers should shun away from deceptive acts. This means that engineers should not secure work or contracts through false means such as using fake qualifications, giving bribes or competing unfairly. They should also not falsely or maliciously injure their colleagues' professional reputation, employment or prospects, or criticize the work of other engineers indiscriminately. Sixth, engineers should act in a manner that upholds and improves the integrity, dignity and honor of the engineering profession by avoiding corruption, bribery, fraud, dishonest and improper utilization of resources.
In 2017, engineers' code of ethics was updated and three more canons were added to make them eight canons[CITATION Ame17 \l 1033 ]. Therefore the seventh canon is that engineers should continue with professional development and encourage those working under them to follow suit throughout their careers. One of the requirements for professional engineers to maintain their license is a particular number of professional development hours. Out of this number of hours, at least two are in ethics[CITATION New18 \l 1033 ]. This further emphasizes the importance of ethics for practicing engineers. Last but not least, engineers should promote equality, equity and fair treatment of all persons irrespective of their gender, national origin, race, age, religion, ethnicity, political affiliation, disability, sex orientation, economic status or marital status. This code of ethics is applicable across all fields of engineering[CITATION Ame11 \l 1033 ].
Importance and Issues Related to Engineers' Code of Ethics
The code of ethics is very essential in the engineering profession[ CITATION Yar09 \l 1033 ]. It provides a guideline on how engineers should behave and conduct themselves both as individuals and professionals[CITATION Doo12 \l 1033 ]. Engineers must observe their conduct at all times because the society does not separate their individualism from professionalism. For instance, if an engineer is found to be mischievous in his individual life, the public is likely to be suspicious about his integrity and capability to make critical engineering decisions that have huge impacts on the society. This is a tall order for engineers because just like any human being, they have a private life to live. Nevertheless, balance between personal/private life and being a professional is not a very difficult task for engineers who adhere to the code of ethics. This is because they are in full support of the code of ethics, they understand its importance and integrate it in their lifestyle. As a result, their personal life is not in any way affected by adherence to the engineers' code of ethics.
Another major challenge that engineers face every other day is the aspect of money. It is worth noting that engineers are among professionals that work in very challenging and tempting environments. It is very common for parties involved in a project, whether public or private project, to try and influence engineers' decisions and actions indirectly. For example, a key stakeholder's representative may invite an engineer for a meeting to discuss genuine issues related to the project. Since the meeting is organized by the stakeholder's representative, he organizes for everything related to the meeting, including paying for the venue, meals and drinks, and facilitating the engineer's transportation. But there is nothing for free in this world and in most cases, such representatives end up trying to bribe the engineer by offering incentives, "gifts", etc. The incentives or "gifts" are usually hefty and it only takes an engineer who is guided by the code of ethics to turn down the offer. Those who give in eventually compromise their decisions and actions in favor of the people from whom they received the deals. Engineers who strictly observe the code of ethics will always avoid such circumstances by ensuring that there is no room to find themselves in such circumstances. For example, they should make it clear to all stakeholders involved in the project that there shall be no private meetings between two parties only. If any meeting related to the project has to be organized, then all parties involved should be informed and requested to attend. At no point should a practicing engineer put personal interests or gains before public interest. In fact, employment opportunities, contracts and opportunities always come along the way of engineers who never violate code of ethics between at point is their reputation dented.
The engineers' code of ethics also helps in whistleblowing. Although this is a controversial issue, whistleblowing can help prevent engineering disasters. There are situations where engineers have no other option but to blow the whistle. This has to be done when the engineer believes beyond reasonable doubt that there is a misconduct happening or has happened. If the However, the misconduct must be justifiable and should be reported to a suitable third party in a proper manner[ CITATION Mal10 \l 1033 ]. An example of a misconduct is a small error that is discovered during the late stage of design, mostly during approval of the designs. Considering the urgency of producing the product so that it can be delivered to the market or client earlier and also to avoid costs and delays associated with correcting the error, the management of a company may be curious to ignore the error on the basis that its consequences are insignificant. But from an engineering perspective, ignoring such an error is a looming disaster. In such a case, engineers who strictly adhere to the code of ethics should gather enough evidence to convince the company management to correct the error so as to prevent. If they do not get audience from the company then they should go ahead and report the matter to a relevant third party for an appropriate action to be taken. Unfortunately, many whistleblowers end up being victims of their decisions to raise the issue. There are several engineering case studies where whistleblowers ended up losing their jobs as part of the whistleblowing consequences[ CITATION Kle11 \l 1033 ]. Therefore engineers should promote adherence to code of ethics by all their colleagues at workplaces so that when such a case arises, they solve it together as a team instead of reaching a point where external third parties have to be involved[ CITATION Kuh08 \l 1033 ].
The code of ethics is also important in engineering profession because it helps in holding engineers accountable for their decisions and actions. Engineers are responsible for making critical decisions that have huge impacts on people's lives. As a result, they must be responsible for their actions. If they make wrong decisions, people's lives will be greatly affected. This may include destruction of property, inconveniences or loss of life. Violation of any of the engineers' code of ethics has consequences. The consequences may include: losing trust from employers, clients or colleagues, losing your practicing license, losing a job or contract, damaging your reputation, etc. As aforementioned, the code of ethics prescribes a guide for engineers' conduct. The code of ethics is also accepted by almost all professional engineering bodies, organizations and societies. This means that if engineers violate any of the canons itemized in the code of ethics, they may be deregistered from the relevant professional societies, organizations or bodies and therefore may find it difficult to get employed or continue with their professional development in their careers.
Another issue of interest to me is the impact of technology and sustainability on implementation of and adherence to the engineers' code of ethics. These are two critical issues today and must be considered in almost all aspects of our life. We should use modern technology to enhance adherence to the engineers' code of ethics and also ensure that these ethics make it easier to make engineering projects and products more sustainable.
As a practicing engineer, the code of ethics demands me to act and conduct myself in a certain manner so that the decisions I make will improve people's lives and protect the environment for present and future generations. The code of ethics gives me a guideline on what I should do and not do as a practicing engineer. It is therefore my responsibility to ensure that I do not violate these ethics so as to avoid consequences and the impacts of the violation on humanity and the environment. The code of ethics reminds me that I should put public interest first and not my personal interests or gains. Most importantly is that it reminds me of consequences of violating any of the principles in the engineers' code of ethics. The best way to adhere to the engineers' code of ethics is to make it your lifestyle. Doing so ensures that all decisions I make are guided by the code of ethics hence the probability of violating any of them is almost zero. It is also important to learn and start practicing the engineers' code of ethics during training so that once you start practicing, you are fully aware of all the ethics, their importance to yourself and the engineering profession, and also the consequences of violating them. As engineers, it is our responsibility to make decisions based on integrity, transparency, equity and equality, prioritizing the public interest, and be accountable for our decisions and actions.
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[15] J. Kleijnen, "Ethical Issues in Engineering Models: An Operational Management Researcher's Reflections," Science and Engineering Ethics, vol. 17, no. 3, pp. 539-552, 2011.
[16] M. Kuhar, "On Blacklisting in Science," Science and Engneering Ethics, vol. 14, pp. 301-303, 200
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Scott Morrison was asked about the Israel Folau case on ABC's 7.30
When Leigh Sales put a hypothetical question to the PM, Scott Morrison refused to budge and be drawn into "extreme" examples.
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The PM has revealed his thoughts on Israel Folau's fight against Rugby Australia after being grilled about his plans for a new Religious Freedom bill. CREDIT: 7:30 Report...
The PM has revealed his thoughts on Israel Folau's fight against Rugby Australia after being grilled about his plans for a new Religious Freedom bill. CREDIT: 7:30 Report
Scott Morrison was asked to weigh in on the Folau controversy on the ABC's 7.30. Picture: 7.30/ABCSource:ABC
Scott Morrison has weighed in on Israel Folau's fight against Rugby Australia after being asked about the controversy during an interview on ABC's 7.30 program last night.
After speaking about the religious freedom bill being put forward by the Liberal Party this year, Leigh Sales asked the prime minister for his view on Folau's recent sacking following the comments he made about homosexuals on social media.
Despite the PM skirting around the question, Sales pushed the issue, asking if being a public figure made any difference to the type of views you can express.
"If a public figure said, for example, that Jews are going to hell, they would be rightly and roundly condemned for that," Sales said.
"But if a public figure says gays are going to hell, it can be defended as religious freedom. Do you see any problem with that situation?"
But Mr Morrison said he would not let the debate around anti-discrimination legislation "derailed" by "extremes of examples" like Sales had put forward.
"Well, again, I mean, the issue is making sure you get the balance right in the legislation, which respects the same principle of anti-discrimination as applies to many other cases," He replied.
Scott Morrison delivered a very diplomatic answer when asked to weigh in on the Israel Folau controversy. Picture: 7.30/ABCSource:ABC
"We already have anti-discrimination legislation which deals with these sensitivities in other areas, and that will apply also to religious faith.
"And what I would hope is that we can have a sensible and adult debate about this one - not one that is drawn to extremes of examples or things like that to try and derail debates, but one that actually keeps people together and honours the key principle.
"I mean, religious freedom is a core pillar of our society. And it's not unreasonable. And I think there are many millions of Australians who would like to see that protected, and I intend to follow through on that commitment."
Sales also asked the PM about the Folau case, where the Wallabies star is fighting his sacking by Rugby Australia over an Instagram post.
"Under the changes you introduce, would you like to see somebody like Israel Folau be able to make the remark he made and be safe from being sacked," Sales asked.
Mr Morrison was very brief with his response, saying a balance needs to be struck between an employer's expectation of their employees and how much say they should have over what they do in their personal lives.
Sales didn't hold back in the PM's first interview on 7.30 since winning the election. Picture: 7.30/ABCSource:ABC
"I think it's important, ultimately, that employers have reasonable expectations of their employees, and that they don't impinge on their areas of private practice and private belief or private activity," Mr Morrison said.
"And there's a balance that has to be struck in that, and our courts will always ultimately decide this based on the legislation that's presented."
He added that as the Folau case would likely be making its way through the court very soon he couldn't really make any further comments.
Mr Morrison said there is currently a gap in the law when it comes to expressions of religious faith, and the new bill aims to close that gap.
"We're looking at a religious Discrimination Act which I think which will provide more protections for people because of their religious faith and belief in the same way that people of whatever gender they have or sexuality or what nationality or ethnic background or the colour of their skin — they shouldn't be discriminated against also," he said.
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The Strangely Troubled Life of Digby Mackworth Dolben
Popular success came late in life to Robert Bridges—not that he much cared. When the journalists finally descended on his house in the summer of 1913, he responded first with indifference—and then not at all, leaving their importuning knocks unanswered. One might suspect he had learned to hate the press from Tennyson, whose grand performance as poet and sage had burdened the Victorians of Bridges' generation with an interpretation of the role whose hoary magic they could never quite forget, however much they would come to hate the trick—but Bridges' own reserve was deeply felt and honestly acquired.
He was born in 1844 into a wealthy family of the Kentish gentry, and as such he had no need of ever living by his pen. He loved poetry but studied medicine, believing a physician's practice would ground his literary efforts in what a platitudinous friend would later call "a knowledge of men." He intended to retire at the age of forty to a life of writing, but he found after all that a little knowledge of men goes a long way, and following a serious illness, he decided to pack in his doctor's kit ahead of schedule. Raised as he had been among a tribe of rentiers, whose arbitrary privilege was dignified by time and the speciousness of heraldry, he had a certain grandeur of manner, which his success as a college oarsman had only reinforced. Physically imposing, he was in his later years likened to Olympian Zeus, with white luxuriance of beard, and fingernails that had been hardened into talons by his unwillingness to bathe in water that was anything but cold. If he seemed imperious from a distance, he was good-natured among his friends: his lordliness remained confined to the domain of literature, where it was ironized by the almost total apathy with which his work was publicly received.
He had privately printed his poems in small editions, austerely designed but sumptuously made, and costly. His eccentric publishing program was part of a more general revival of interest in the craft traditions of bookmaking that was then in the air. Connoisseurs, aesthetes, and antiquarians hunted stalls and attics for forgotten treasures and rejected masterpieces; and small presses sprung up to produce new volumes that could be shelved with justice among those vellum bindings in the private dusk of any velvet-curtained study. Bridges' own books were of this species, printed on handmade paper and set in the obsolescent type that a friend had found at the Clarendon Press in Oxford under a century of dust. Their very limited impressions tended to sell out, they were even profitable, but the demand for them was not so great that any avaricious publishers came calling. And he grew old in this career: esteemed by some, but never in fashion, even as the fashion swung from the overripeness of the 1890s to the jaded sobriety that marked the century's end.
A detail from a page of the 1890 edition of Robert Bridges's Growth of Love: the book was sold by the Bodley Head in London, a newish antiquarian bookshop whose cramped premises became a Bohemian haven, and whose owners were soon to launch the publishing program that would produce the scandalous Yellow Book. The Bodley Head touted The Growth of Love as being "choicely printed in Fell's Old English type on Whatman's handmade paper, by Mr. Daniel, at his Private Press; limited to 100 copies."
But soon Bridges found himself in a new position. An editor at the Oxford University Press plumped for his inclusion in the "Oxford Poets" series: the result, published in 1912, gathered together for the first time into an inexpensive volume the fruit of Bridges's lonely and uncompromising art; and in its first year, it sold an astonishing 27,000 copies. On this swelling wave of approbation, he would be appointed Poet Laureate. At the age of 69, Robert Bridges was famous.
If he had thought that his eighth decade on Earth would afford him dignified repose, he had been mistaken. It brought only a war, and as the Imperial Poet, it fell to him to invoke the muses as young men went to slaughter by the millions. When the war was over, he turned from civic work to The Testament of Beauty, a book-length poem in which he laid out his philosophy of life. It was not a Christian philosophy. Though he never joined the small number of embattled public atheists, he had by the end completely discarded the religious enthusiasm of his youth and discovered in its place a mild sort of pagan spirituality shaped by the writings of Plato and Lucretius. But he had once been Christian, and he had once been ardent—and even if the experience had failed to furnish him with any lasting faith, it had at least given him lifelong friends.
As a boy, Bridges experienced the power of a strain of romantic Christianity peculiar to his time. The direction of the Church of England was then heavily disputed from below by evangelicals who pushed for protestant austerity, and from above by a movement that sought to emphasize the Anglican Communion's share in the medieval traditions of the Catholic Church. In Oxford in the 1830s, these high church Anglicans had hammered their theology into a fine gold leaf: they were dazzled by the beauty of their work but failed to see that it was far too fragile to survive the ecclesiastic contest it invited. Where delicate theology failed, bold aesthetics would have a trial. As doctrinal points receded into the background, the high church Anglicans began to indulge a taste for pageantry and ritual shared by their Pre-Raphaelite contemporaries. They dreamed-of jeweled chalices and samite robes, the aromatic haze of incense, and at times the livid traces of the scourge.
Bridges fell in with the high church set at school. As boys, they had no opportunity to test their radical spirit, no chance to strike it against the hard surfaces of life, to watch the sparks and see whether its cutting edge grew sharp or dull—but they were earnest in their fantasy. In later years, their paths diverged. Some, like Bridges, lost their zeal and woke up from the dream, while others submerged themselves more deeply in it, drifting steadily towards the Catholic church. But before this happened, Bridges met two important friends. They shared his love for poetry, a passion which would abide even after religious enthusiasm ceased to offer any common ground. For just as Bridges was abandoning his high church scruples, these two friends were planning, quite independently of one another, to join the Church of Rome. They both died young, though decades apart; and in old age, Bridges looked back on them, flush with his own unexpected success, remembering the literary sustenance that these friendships had given him in his youthful ambitions and in his middle-aged obscurity. As Europe sleepwalked towards the Great War, this elderly Victorian neo-pagan gathered the old manuscripts of his two intensely Christian friends for publication.
It was not only an exercise in nostalgia—one of these friends was Gerard Hopkins, who had died as a failed Jesuit priest in 1889. Bridges' 1918 edition of the Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins revealed in time that Hopkins' stunted life had been a chrysalid state from whose cramped walls a broad-winged poet would emerge into the open air. Bridges' tribute to the other writerly friend of his youth, published seven years earlier, could hardly be anything but negligible in comparison. But The Poems of Digby Mackworth Dolben does have a curious interest of its own. The poems themselves are indifferent—at best the juvenilia of an artist whose promise had been thwarted by an early death. But Bridges introduced them with a lengthy memoir that depicts Dolben's strangely troubled life with understated skill. Henry James was intrigued by the story and wrote that it was "very beautifully and tenderly, in fact just perfectly, done."
Robert Bridges and Digby Dolben met in the early 1860s at Eton, then as now the most celebrated of England's public schools. Bridges was older and heartier than Dolben and as a distant cousin, felt a duty to look after him. The two were drawn together by similar inclinations and a shared outlook on life, being determined, artistic, and "terribly serious." Bridges introduced Dolben to his circle of high church friends; Dolben took to them, and before long, he outdid them all in his enthusiasm for the cause. He crossed himself at meals, read improper religious tracts, and eventually made forbidden pilgrimages to consult with certain priests on the prospect of his immortal soul. To his friends, he seemed dreamy, abstracted, other-worldly, even saintly: to the head master he was an agitator, dangerously misguided.
"My recollections of Mackworth Dolben are of a young monk of mediaeval times. . . . In appearance he was tall and slight, with a complexion of transparent pallor. He had good features, and fine dark melancholy eyes. Do you remember Doré's picture of a young monk sitting in chapel among a lot of older men, & gazing sadly into vacancy? He was rather like that."
After Bridges went up to Oxford, Dolben's eccentricities increased. He became a novice in the English Order of St. Benedict, signed his letters Dominic, and was furnished with a monk's habit which he wore in public, delighting in the provocation, wearing it on one occasion through the streets of Birmingham, walking barefoot, surrounded by a mob. More and more he seemed to live in dreams, hoping to ignite his friends with embers of his fervency and planning the creation of a mystic Anglo-Catholic Brotherhood at a monastery of their own establishment. Meanwhile, his health deteriorated. He left Eton for good, and lived between illnesses with a series of private tutors whom his parents hoped would raise his Greek and Latin to Oxford standards. While sitting his entrance exam at Balliol, he fainted midway through and was disqualified. While preparing for a second try at Christ Church, he died: drowned in the River Welland where he had been swimming with the young son of his tutor. He was 19 years old.
These are the circumstances of the last years of his life as Bridges gives them, but his technique as a biographer is subtle. His brief life of Dolben is composite and many sided, gaining a range of textures from the incorporation of other voices, including that of Dolben himself, whose letters are excerpted and whose poems are called on to illuminate the recesses of his inner life. And it is here in the biographical application of Dolben's poetry that Bridges is at his most suggestive.
He identifies two strands that run through Dolben's poems. The first is his mystic and medievalizing Christianity, which came to dominate his writing in the last two years of his life. The second is his ardent affection for another of his Eton classmates, a particularly attractive (if in Bridges' estimation somewhat vacuous) member of their high church circle. Bridges calls this an "idolization" but infatuation is a better term; the poems are plainly homoerotic. While editing the book, Bridges refused the suggestion put forth by mutual friends that he rewrite Dolben's poems to read as though they had been written for a girl: but he did agree to suppress the identity of Marchie Gosselin, the seemingly oblivious young man who had so enamored Dolben and who had himself died a few years before Bridges began his memoir, as the British Minister to Lisbon and a knight (his widow requested the suppression after denying access to his diary). Bridges does not ignore this part of Dolben's life—in a way, he seems to ruminate it deeply—but his expression is hesitant, extremely guarded, couched in an almost Jamesian aversion to any direct, conclusive statement. Was he grasping for an acceptably oblique means of treating what was still an impossible subject? Or did he only dimly see the subtext that is so evident today? His account of Dolben's death presents similar ambiguities, and one wonders in the end whether Bridges intended to raise the possibility that Dolben committed suicide.
To the extent the book is ever read today, it is by Hopkins scholars looking to shed some light on that poet's own frustratingly elusive inner life. For Hopkins and Dolben knew each other, wrote letters to each other, and read each other's poetry: though they met on only one occasion, in Oxford, at Bridges's instigation. The suggestion made by many biographers that Hopkins was in love or at least infatuated with Dolben is eminently credible, though not undisputed. After he heard the news of Dolben's death, Hopkins wrote to Bridges that "there can very seldom have happened the loss of so much beauty (in body, mind, and life) and of the promise of still more as there has been in his case" and wondered whether Dolben's family had thought of publishing his poems.
The Poems of Digby Mackworth Dolben (1915 edition), with an introduction by Robert Bridges. Internet Archive.
The Growth of Love (1890), by Robert Bridges. Internet Archive.
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Gilbert Wakefield ( - ) est un critique et philologue anglais.

Biographie
Né à Nottingham, il entre dans la carrière ecclésiastique, mais sans approuver les doctrines du clergé anglican. Il est instituteur à Warrington, puis professeur de belles-lettres à Hackney. Il quitte l'enseignement en 1791 pour les travaux littéraires et la politique : il se lie avec Fox et Wilberforce et défend, de concert avec eux, les idées libérales.

Critiquant la guerre contre la France, il publie dans ce sens des pamphlets qui le font incarcérer (1798). Il meurt du typhus peu après sa sortie de prison.

Œuvres
On lui doit :
des éditions d'Horace, Virgile, Lucrèce, Dion ;
des commentaires sur des poésies de Thomas Gray (1786) et de Pope (398) ;
Delectus tragœdiarum græcarum, 1794,
un recueil d'observations philologiques intitulé : Sylva critica, 1789-98.

Comme philologue, il est aussi hardi que Richard Bentley. Parmi ses écrits théologiques, on remarque ses recherches sur les opinions des écrivains des trois premiers siècles concernant la personne de Jésus-Christ (Early Christian Writers on the Person of Christ, 1784).

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Naissance en novembre 1756
Naissance à Nottingham
Décès en septembre 1801
Décès à Hackney (borough londonien)
Décès à 44 ans
Philologue britannique
Étudiant de Jesus College (Cambridge)
Mort du typhus


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Q: Would a closed field of gravity neccesarily lead to paradoxes? I've asked wether artificial gravity, as seen in some SF-Movies, would violate known laws of physics. To recap, my idea of an Artificial Gravity (AG) system was like this:

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*A Device that creates an 'artificial gravity' (AG) inside a Box, with these properties:

*the system does not use inertial forces (like centrifugal force) or a huge mass to create AG

*the AG 'feels' just like gravity/inertia over most of the volume of the box

*the Device, the Box and its content are still subject to any gravitational forces that may be present, but the AG force adds to other gravity/inertia forces, net force may be zero

*Matter, Energy and Information can leave and enter the box
there is a smooth but strong gradient in the AG at the walls of the box -

*conservation of energy still holds: if the AG does work, this energy has to be supplied to the device in some way, vice versa for work done against the AG

*conservation of momentum still holds: for every force due to the AG on an object, there is a corresponding counteracting force on the device
Basiclly, I tried to rule out all the obvious ways such an AG would violate laws of physics (or could be used to costruct another device that does so), and see if one can find a less obvious way und thus rule out the possibility of AG.

If you want to talk about the original question, please head over (and please do!). I may have thought of a way a device like this could create an impossible situation, but I don't understand enough relativity to know wether I'm right.
Suppose you take a number of boxes as describet, and cut open two sides. Then you arrange the boxes in a rough circle or polygon. The AG in each box is adjusted so that the net 'gravity' (AG + gravity at the place the box is) result in a sort of circular, homogenous field of gravity. The devices are anchored somwhere to account for any momentum. An observer placed inside the sytem would not 'fall' freely around the circle, but would bump into the wall after the first bend since there would be no centripetal force present. However, we can build a circular rail through the boxes and attch our oberver to that, then he could travel round and round while constantly getting faster. Whee!
Now, I think there would be no meaningful way to define gravitational potential in such a situation, so we could not tell how fast the clock of the observer on our merry go round is going. So the device would create a prardoxical situation is thus impossible.
On the other hand, either our observer is in free fall or we know the accelration she is subject to (either from the rail, or from bumping into the walls of the boxes). So her watch will behave like any other wach subject to the same acceleration.
I tend to believe the second interpretation is correct, our AG would not create an impossible situation, but since I don't realy undersant gravity, relativity and all the rest I thought I ask.
p.s. I've thought about posting this thought experiment as an answer to my first question, but since I'm totally unsure I want to exp.ose my little thought experiment to more scrutiny.
p.p.s Why is there no 'thought experiment' tag?

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