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Frances Marlene Reust
Frances Marlene Reust, 82, passed away at home surrounded by her loving husband, children and grandchildren on Thursday, December 30, 2021.
Frances was born to Ralph Eleston and Pansy Florine (Davidson) Williams in Peru, Indiana on March 29, 1939. She was the second born of 4 children. In her youth, Frances loved to read, spend time with her siblings, work in the garage with her dad and going hunting and fishing.
Growing up, Frances was a natural born caretaker. She enjoyed working in industries that helped serve other people. The majority of her career was spent waitressing at the Irma Hotel and Green Gables in Cody, Wyoming. She also worked as a bartender, secretarial work and was even the curator of the Museum of Northwest Colorado for five years.
Frances worked hard at everything she did, including her education. After getting her GED, she wanted to prove to herself that she could continue her learning and succeed. She went on to graduate with an associate degree in Arts and Science at Northwestern College in Craig, Colorado. She even taught an art class through the college for a few years.
As she got older, she met David L. Reust in Cody. The two were married on February 10, 1982. Frances brought to this union four children. Dave instantly became a father and was very much loved by all of them. Dave and Frances moved to Worland in 2013 where they settled down and spent their days enjoying their grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
Frances loved her family more than anything. Her door was always open, and you could always stop by and visit her. You would find her with a smile on her face, and she never let you leave without a big hug and a kiss on the cheek. If you acted up, Frances was the first to let you know that your behavior was unacceptable. Words were never spoken, but you got "the look" and knew that you better shape up.
Frances looked at everything with an artistic eye and found beauty in all things. Some of the things she liked to do were metal detecting, hunting for rocks, searching for gold with her husband, gardening, reading, working in various forms of art, from pencil drawing to working in bronze and everything in between, sewing, knitting, crocheting and reading her Bible.
Frances was preceded in death by her parents, Ralph and Pansy Williams, brother, Roy Gene Williams and grandson, Jeremiah Lee Brousseau.
She is survived by her husband, David Reust; brother, Lynn Williams of Fruita, CO; sisters, Jeanine Wisenbaker of Evanston, WY and Cynthia (Jerry) Smiley of Sheridan, WY; children: Victoria (Randy) Harry of Worland, Dale Brousseau of Laramie, WY, Steven (Rhonda) Brousseau of Navarre, Florida, Alan Rudio of Middletown, CA; grandchildren: San'dell Harry of Worland, Gabe (Emma) Harry of Nampa, ID and Josh (Codi) Harry of Worland, and 15 great-grandchildren.
A private family burial took place Tuesday, January 4, and a celebration of life will follow this spring. Memorial donations may be made to New Hope Humane Society. Please send checks to PO Box 524, Worland, WY 82401. Online condolences may be made at http://www.bryant
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Death becomes her. Disease, too. And insanity. They have been Galás's inspirations since th e1980s, when she began performing quadraphonic jazz anthems of doom with titles such as "The Litanies of Satan" and "Plague Mass". Nice girls don't do this. Nor do they transform themselves into a vision that Bram Stoker might have had after bingeing on absinthe and raw pork chops. But Galás is a serious figure – a film-mkaer, too, whose "Schrei 27", co-created with Davide Pepe, is something remarkable: an uncompromising experiment exploring those master-themes of mortality, morbidity and madness. You might sum up her life in the same phrase.


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One might reasonably conclude from this passage that JCVI has a dearth of small thinkers: this is akin to proposing to light your yard by shifting the position of the moon.
Yet Gibson et al. pulled it off using a tiered assembly method. They synthesized 101 overlapping pieces of DNA ~6 kb long. Using in vitro recombination they assembled groups of these into 24 kb fragments and propagated them using bacterial artificial chromosomes. Using a similar strategy they managed to continue assembling fragments up to about 144 kb in size; beyond this, however, the in vitro method did not work. So they turned to the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae to assemble the larger "C" fragments into half-genome and even whole-genome constructs. They then checked the whole genome for errors using the famous "shotgun" approach. Amazingly, their first run produced only two errors, both human in origin. After some wrangling they ironed it all out and ended up with precisely the genome they wanted, complete with special "watermarks".
So they managed to construct an enormous hunk of DNA. What's the benefit? Well, they can do those crazy experiments that they're planning, for one thing. For another, assuming they can figure out how a mycoplasma works, they can design a new mycoplasma that does something special. For instance, they could design a new genome containing genes that allow the bacterium to eat toxic materials, or purify uranium out of the soil, or turn biomass into octane.
Granted, it is possible to get some of these genes into a bacterium using plasmids or BACs. However, what goes in can also go out—ejecting a plasmid is relatively easy, especially if it doesn't provide any selective advantage. Completely ejecting a genomic cassette, while possible, is much more rare. Moreover, if you can custom-design the genome, then the custom enzymes can be interspersed with essential genes, making deletion that much more unlikely. Thus, once the genome can be manipulated at will, the only limitation on what an organism can be made to do is the extent of our ability to find or design proteins that fulfill the desired function. Figuring out which of a hundred-odd genes from M. genitalium can be done away with is just an efficiency step to make space for new genes to do whatever we want.
This approach will be a powerful tool for other experiments as well, don't get me wrong. For instance, you could use the approach to place custom tags around certain genes so that they get excised at particular times or in a conditional manner, or you could swap sequences around to get a better idea how important gene arrangement is. But there's no denying the enormous advance that this success makes possible, despite the authors' decision not to speculate in the paper. The genome-synthesis technique is an essential step in the construction of a completely custom organism.


This is the quintessential Punjabi dish with the rich flavour of onion seeds (kalonji) and other spices wafting in the air when you prepare it. In Achari recipes you would use the spices necessary for making pickles (achaar) hence the name.
This dish, Aloo Achari, is adapted from the recipe by Master Chef Sanjeev Kapoor. I tried this out recently and we loved it with rotis.
The original recipe called for the use of mustard oil but as I am not accustomed to using this, I used the usual cooking oil.
Wash and boil the baby potatoes and peel them when they cool. Keep aside.
Now add the coarsely ground spices powder, salt, black salt, and sugar. Mix well.


That should be it. You never want to edit the EHCP template conf files directly (found in /var/www/new/ehcp), as any changes you make will be overwritten when the panel next syncs. You want to use the custom template functionality in the panel to make sure your changes persist. I hope this helps. Please let me know.
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After you've updated your panel, logout and login as admin, then select the domain you want to add a subdomain to (in your case "mydomain.com"), click on "Add Subdomain". Add the "devel" subdomain. Go back to the main domain management screen for "mydomain.com". Click on "List Subdomains". Click on the "Edit Template" icon for the "devel" subdomain.
Click on the "Save Template" button.
Now, make sure you follow the instructions I posted above to get php-fpm to process .html files. It should work this way now too, and we now have custom subdomain template functionality (assuming I coded the functionality correctly, which from my initial testing, I hopefully did).
Works .. with a small caveat.
Being a long term cynic.. been in IT too long.
11) Added <?php phpinfo(); ?> to index.html - Worked like a charm!!
So Only issue - which I can live with, is that the .html is the default extension and .php must be specified.
Awesome, glad it worked. Let me know if you run into any issues as a result of updating to the latest dev version. These features will be released to the stable build soon.
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"Happy Days 1 and 2 – a historiography" By Stephanie Barbé Hammer
By Guest Writer October 29, 2018 October 30, 2018
What few people know is that Samuel Beckett and Ron Howard are close friends.
Ron – as Opie – met the postmodern playwright when the latter was wandering around the studio looking for Sam Shepherd and Alain Robbe-Grillet, who were undertaking a dubious and ultimately not well-thought-out rewrite of Gunsmoke.
"I hate pretending to be this innocent but dumb little boy," Ron informed Beckett.
"Interesting," said Beckett, taking notes. "Use that anger to make something different – that's what I do," and he invited the child actor and his guardians to accompany him back to England and see his new play Happy Days.
"Happy Days!" sighed little Ron as he sat with his family looking at the woman standing in the hole in the ground with nothing to keep her amused but a gun and a purse full of 13 items (excluding the gun) for the entire 3 hours of the play.
He grew up thinking about that woman and her nonstory.
"How can I bring this sensibility to American audiences?" he thought. "How can we get BEYOND the banalities of Andy Griffith?"
Then he saw a movie about the 1950's.
You know the rest of the story. Ron made his own version of Beckett's play, and it became a hit television series that ran for many years. In fact, the show is — arguably — still running thanks to syndication (how Beckettian! The show is endless [apparently]).
But there may be still a few bits of information that you may not know about the influence of Beckett on the Howard opus.
The Fonz is an entirely Beckettian invention, based on Godot. Godot — who never comes — finds his antithesis in the Fonz who always arrives and his arrival –always expected and always, but always fulfilled – forms the tedious, comedic, ever-repeating highpoint of this theatre of the absurd tv show.
In addition, we should note the transmigration of Pozzo and Lucky from Godot into Pozzi (later spelled Potsie) and his friend Ralph. Who is master and who is slave? This is the running question throughout the trajectory of that meaningless relationship.
See the brilliance of the Beckettian intervention/translation that Ron brought to us?
Plot: Fonz jumping the shark is quite similar to the husband kissing the wife at the end of the Happy Days Silly, impossible, but sweet. For the Fonz loves his shark. So much.
More about the Fonz. I invite you to ponder the thought of the Fonz in the Beckettian universe. Buried up to his neck in plodding plot formulations, the Fonz retains his joy. Like his progenitrix, Winnie, the Fonz exclaims: "It's just another happy day… so far." Only he does this in a more pithy manner, more suited to television:
"Perfectamundo," in other words.
Ongoing: the friendship between the two playwright/directors continues to this day. Death is no obstacle in the arts. Ron conjures Samuel Beckett in a special necromancy ceremony every month to get new ideas and to get validation. "How do you like my Han Solo movie" he asked the dead playwright recently. "It's ok," says Beckett, "but to be honest, I like that Childish Gambino video about America better. Couldn't you make something like that?"
Ron is silent. It's not such a happy day today, after all.
Ron wrinkles his forehead and smooths those last wisps of hair.
Being avant-garde is hard.
Stephanie Barbe Hammer is a 5 time Pushcart Prize nominee in poetry, fiction, and nonfiction. Her work has appeared in the Bellevue Literary Review, Pearl, GRAVEL, Birds We Piled Loosely, and the Hayden's Ferry Review among other places. She is the author of SEX WITH BUILDINGS, HOW FORMAL?, The PUPPET TURNERS OF NARROW INTERIOR, and DELICIOUS STRANGENESS: A POCKET GUIDE TO MAGICAL REALISM. She's working on a novella about a Beverly Hills teenager interested in plumbing and necromancy and a novel about two misguided fangirls on a train to Montreal. A relentless urbanite, Stephanie now lives in rural Washington State where she wanders amongst the pines looking for a dry cleaner, a taco truck and someone — anyone — to talk to.
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18 August, 2019 17 August, 2019 Sean Gabb
Brexit: Is There a British Strategy?
A Speech Given in Bratislava
on Tuesday the 6th August 2019
to the Institute of Economic and Social Studies
One of my Books
Introductory Note: I made this speech to an audience of Slovak journalists, politicians and diplomats. It was a view of the British situation that none had seen before. I hope it turns out to be a correct view of the situation. I hope this because I want it to be true, and because anything less than this will damage my reputation in Slovakia as an oracle for all things British. It probably is correct. However, we are dealing with a contest between human beings in which chance is at least as important as the grand forces. If I am wrong, it will show that the British ruling class is more fractured and unfit for government in the general sense than I presently believe it to be – and more unfit for government than is good for the future stability of the country. SIG
I will begin my speech by thanking Richard Durana and all my other friends at INESS for having invited me once again to give what is now my traditional "summer lecture." This being done, I will make an important – indeed, an essential – reservation.
I have known Boris Johnson for twenty years. I know several of the other Ministers in the new British Government. But I am here this evening in no possible sense as either an official or an unofficial representative of the British Government. I have not discussed the content of my speech with anyone in that Government. My speech is, and must be seen in all respects, as a personal view. It is a view based on a close observation of British politics, and I hope it will be useful to anyone who wishes to understand what is happening at the moment in London. It is, I know, being covered by the Slovak media. It will be studied, I believe, by persons in the Slovak Foreign Ministry, The speech is, even so, a personal view.
Not a Government of Right-Wing Extremists
The subject of my speech is whether there is a British Strategy for Brexit – that is, for leaving the European Union. There is a clear strategy, but it is not the strategy you will read about in the British media, and that is now being analysed by the governments of the other member states of the European Union. This strategy – this misunderstood strategy – can be summarised in the words of a hostile British observer. Martin Fletcher writes for The New Statesman magazine in London, and is a former Foreign Editor for The Times. His view is that the Conservative Party, and therefore, the British Government, has been captured by a group of right-wing extremists. Their intention, he says, is to leave the European Union without any Withdrawal Agreement except one written on their own terms. They care nothing for the political and economic harm such an unagreed withdrawal will have on Britain. They are deaf to the voice of reason.
This is a dangerous misunderstanding of the new British strategy. It is dangerous because even political extremists can be made to hear "the voice of reason." You may think that, if the European Union and its member governments continue to insist on the Withdrawal Agreement negotiated with Theresa May, these people will eventually give in, just as Theresa May did. The result will then be a general election or another referendum, after which you will hear no more of Brexit. If that is what anyone in this room, or anyone following this speech, believes, let me assure him that it is very dangerous misunderstanding.
Europe: A Peripheral Issue in British Politics
Considered purely in itself, membership of the European Union has never been an important issue in British politics. The European Union is a free trade area with a customs and regulatory union. Except in terms of trade and some regulations, membership does not constrain any member state from doing what its ruling class really wants to do. The Hungarians and Poles do largely as they please in matters of immigration and what Western leftists call "human rights." The French have never worried too much about the Maastricht Convergence Criteria in fiscal and monetary policy. The British are outside the Euro and outside the Schengen Area.
Of course, there has been a vocal opposition in Britain to membership ever since we first joined in 1973. But the number of people interested in theoretical matters of sovereignty has always been limited, and these people were generally ignored during the first twenty-five years of our membership. The gathering crisis over our membership that we can date perhaps to the election of the Blair Government in 1997 is best compared to the referred pain you see in a human body. You have a shooting pain in your left arm. You take it to a doctor. If he is any good, he will not tell you to rub cream on your arm. Instead, he will put a stethoscope to your chest. That is, I suggest, a good analogy for our debate over membership of the European Union.
Euroscepticism as Transferred Opposition
Ever since about 1997 – perhaps for some time before – the British ruling class has been engaged in a project of transformation. I will not bother to call these people bad. They believe they are supremely enlightened – so enlightened that they have the right, by whatever means they find convenient, to make us share the enlightenment. Many of my fellow countrymen, however, do not see this Transformation as enlightened in any reasonable meaning of the word. There will be the appearance of a multicultural love feast in which billionaires and Moslems and transsexuals join hands and dance. The reality will be a working and middle class destroyed by managed flows of global trade and services, and atomised and thereby made unable to resist by managed flows of migrants. The new world that many of my countrymen see waiting is one in which we look from the windows of our microscopic and rented high-rise flats, while they are driven about in bullet-proof cars, and armed police push other vehicles out of the way.
Because making our views plain on the Transformation is either illegal or unwise in Britain, we have complained instead about the European Union. That has remained an open issue, and has been used to its fullest extent. The UK Independence Party grew big by talking about the European Union, but whispering about the Transformation. At first, UKIP did well only in elections to the European Parliament, which is a body of no practical importance. Then, in the 2010 general election, UKIP won no seats, but gained enough otherwise Conservative votes to deny the Conservative Party an overall majority. Then UKIP won the 2014 European elections in Britain. By the 2015 general election, the Conservatives were frightened that UKIP would again deny them an overall majority. Therefore, David Cameron promised that a Conservative Government would offer a referendum on membership of the European Union. This promise was just enough for him to win a small overall majority. But 3.9 million people still voted UKIP, and UKIP came second in 120 constituencies.
I will pass over the mistakes that David Cameron made in the 2016 Referendum. What matters is the margin of victory for the leave side. You will have heard that the margin was small – 52-48 per cent to leave. The important truth is that around two thirds of the English voted to leave. The narrow overall margin is because of the Scottish and ethnic minority votes, and these are not important. Officially, the Referendum was about membership of the European Union. Unofficially, it was a vote of confidence in the Ruling Class and its project of Transformation, and the English voted that they had no confidence.
This is the background to the chaos that followed the Referendum. Just as for much of the population, membership of the European Union was a peripheral issue for the Ruling Class. The main agenda for this class is the Transformation that I have mentioned. The details of a customs and regulatory union are less important than control of education, the media and the criminal law. This being said, membership is useful so far as it blurs the lines of accountability. It is also an article of belief among some elements of the Ruling Class. For this reason, the verdict of the 2016 Referendum was unwelcome. It meant a diversion of effort from the main agenda. It upset various important people. The obvious solution was to give us a minimal departure that would satisfy us, but would keep in place those elements of the European Project that really are important to the Ruling Class.
Government by Conspiracy?
One of my Books.
Here, I come to a digression on the nature of how Britain is governed. My country is not particularly democratic. At the same time, there is no cabal of evil persons directing all events and appointments from behind the scenes. This is generally not how ruling classes operate. A more realistic model can be taken from Ian Kershaw's analysis of the National Socialist revolution in Germany. This proceeded with limited central direction. Before 1939, the leaders were concerned mostly with foreign policy, after that with fighting a big war. Instead, the revolution was decentralised. Reliable men were put in key positions and told to "work towards the Fuhrer" – that is, to act in any situation as they might imagine Hitler himself would act. The result was often administrative chaos. The benefit was that the leadership could concentrate on what it saw as the essentials, and more local knowledge could be used in the overall revolution than would otherwise have been possible.
This is largely how things work in Britain. Our own Transformation is not driven by detailed orders from the Shadowy-Ones-on-High, but by creating a bias within every useful institution to those who are broadly in favour of the Transformation. The benefit is a constrained diversity of approaches that can be presented as a genuine diversity of opinion. The disadvantage is that executive power lies in this country where it has since 1701 – that is, in the hands of the Ministers of the Crown, who are accountable to the House of Commons. If the Prime Minister turns out to be a fool, and the other ministers are too cowardly to stab him in the back, there is no easy way to remove him.
The New British Government: There to Rescue the System
I come at last to the Brexit strategy of the new Government. These people are not right-wing extremists who can eventually be forced to give in. Just like Theresa May, they see Brexit as a problem that needs to be solved. If they could wave a magic wand, they would roll back the calendar to 2016 and make sure that Remain won the Referendum. Or they would roll it back a little farther and make sure the Referendum was not called that year, or at all. But they cannot. Instead, they have to deal with the effects of leaving a political fool in charge for three years of the Brexit process.
Theresa May had one job after 2016. This was to produce the minimal departure I have mentioned. Instead, she negotiated a Withdrawal Agreement that caused a storm of outrage among the English. The details of what this Withdrawal Agreement contained are, again, unimportant. What does matter is that the Withdrawal Agreement was published in English on the European Commission website, and millions of us read its 585 pages. We may not have been that interested in the details of our membership. But the details of our "withdrawal" were unacceptable. She tried three times to force it through the House of Commons. Each time, a majority of some very trashy people were terrified to be seen supporting it. Anyone else less stupid would have tried something else. Instead, Theresa May treated us with open contempt. Whether or not we really cared about it, we had been asked if we wanted to remain in the European Union. Having voted "No!" we expected some show of respect for our clear instructions. We did not welcome a Brexit-in-Name-only.
At first, the damage was confined to the possibility of a Labour Government. Then, with the rise of the Brexit Party, the system as a whole moved towards a crisis of legitimacy. The European elections of the month before last were seen as the second Referendum the Remainers had demanded. It was won by the Leavers. The Conservative were crushed. Labour was humiliated. It seemed that a general election would, for the first time, produce a bloc in the House of Commons of Members opposed not only to the peripheral issue of the European Union, but also to the Transformation.
So Theresa May had to go, and she was replaced by Boris Johnson. His own inclination, I have no doubt, is to get a few cosmetic changes to the existing Withdrawal Agreement, and then tell us he is a diplomatic genius. His problem is that this will no longer do. Theresa May has left too much poison in those waters. Brexit must now be more meaningful than was at first projected. Last week, there was an election in Wales to fill a vacancy in the House of Commons – a bye-election. This should have been won by the Conservatives. Instead, the Brexit Party took enough Conservative votes to give the seat to one of the opposition parties – not the Labour Party, which did badly. The political arithmetic is that anything less than a No-Deal Brexit or a diplomatic triumph will mean a collapse of the Conservative vote at the next general election. And this will not mean a Labour Government, but political chaos and a crisis of legitimacy.
What the British Government Now Wants from Europe
Now to the British strategy on Brexit. The new Government must have a diplomatic triumph. That means something like the following:
We want to be outside the customs and regulatory union, and not subject to any of the European institutions. At the same time, we want privileged access to the Single Market and continued participation in those areas of the European project that suit our convenience. We are willing to pay money for this, but nothing more. In other words, we want most of the benefits of membership of the European Union and none of its costs.
You may think this a most unreasonable demand. You are probably right. But that is what the British Government has no choice but to demand. If it does not get this, it will walk away without any withdrawal agreement. Any economic consequences can be dealt with as and when they arise – and there may not be that many of these. This is not a government of right-wing extremists. But it is ready and willing to cut taxes and deregulate to offset any dislocations caused by withdrawing from nearly half a century of economic integration.
And this is not the whim of a group of right-wing extremists. It is now the settled opinion of much of the British Ruling Class. Anything less than I have said will bring on a political crisis in Britain. This is the only thing that now matters to these people. It is now a matter of saving their Transformation. Just as the Stalin Regime in 1941 suddenly revived Russian nationalism to save its Revolution, so our own rulers now will wrap themselves in a Union Flag that they have long despised, and tell us that they are our most devoted servants. Do not expect Brexit to be stopped by any coalition of Remainers. Do not hope for any "voice of reason." The Ruling Class has made the political calculations, and it has decided that it must either give us Brexit and possibly lose the Transformation, or deny us Brexit and almost certainly lose the Transformation. This is what matters. As for Boris Johnson, all he wants is an easy life as Prime Minister. He is clever enough to know that there is only one path to getting his easy life.
A Closing Threat to Our European Partners
Following from this, do not expect Britain after leaving without any agreement to be a friendly partner. We are the only great military power in Europe. We have one of the main financial centres. We have a close relationship with the Americans, the Indians and the Chinese, among others. It we showed willing, we could have a close relationship with the Russians. For the past five hundred years, we have specialised in making life difficult for anyone who wanted a united Europe. If we choose, we can make like very difficult indeed for what is left of the European Union. This, I will add, is not some threat made by an observer without power to influence events. It is instead a prediction of how the British Ruling Class is likely to act now that its position is under domestic threat.
If you have followed me so far, I am not sure I have need of a conclusion. But I will give you one. You are not dealing with Boris Johnson and a group of right-wing extremists who have inexplicably gained supreme power in Britain, and who can be pushed out or brought to a different view of what they want. You are dealing with a British Ruling Class that no longer cares to frustrate the will of the people in the peripheral matter of the European Union. We want, I will repeat, most of the benefits of remaining in the European Union and none of the costs. The European Union has a choice. It can make the leaving process easy for us or hard for itself. For domestic reasons, the new British Government has no choice but to mean exactly what it says to the European Commission and, by extension, to the other member states of the European Union.
Published by Sean Gabb
Sean Gabb is a writer and educator of moderate note. There was a time when he was politically active as a libertarian. But that was then. View all posts by Sean Gabb
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JohnAllman.UK says:
I read this entire article enthralled and in eager anticipation of the full explanation as to what "The Transformation" was I expected to get to before long. I got to the end disappointed and none-the-wiser. I hope your listeners already knew all about The Transformation you kept mentioning and therefore enjoyed listening to your speech with understanding even more than I enjoyed reading it without as much understanding as I'd have liked to have had.
Where can I read earlier work of yours, explaining about The Transformation, please?
Sean Gabb says:
Try this and the internal links: https://www.seangabb.co.uk/the-conservatives-useful-idiots-or-unfit-for-purpose-2019-by-sean-gabb/
19 August, 2019 at 2:39 am
I tried your link and its immediate sublinks but remained disappointed. Admittedly, you write more-or-less as well as I do if not better, and entertainingly. You seem better educated to be a writer by trade than I am, though I dare say neither of us identifies as a writer by trade, even if we both wish to be commemorated posthumously by historians for the clever tracts we wrote in life. You earn respect from me for that, albeit respect that I have little hope you will reciprocate because I understand class.
To recap, your link (etc) taught me that there was also something called "The Project" (which may or may not be a synonym for your other, recent still-too-mysterious, proper-noun neologism, "The Transformation" of which I'd hoped for clarification). Fake (or "Quisling") "conservatism" was lamented, without clarity of what it was hoped might be conserved by genuine so-called Conservatism (for example the natural, human, breeding-pair family that confers such benefits upon the children raised within successful specimens of this social-biological phenomenon, once accorded lip service routinely in Conservative Party manifestos, decade after perfidious decade.
I do get the general gist that you think something is wrong. I warm to your hints that you believe you have an inkling what, but don't necessarily want to say. But I gave up Greek and Latin when I was 15. I am now 66. If I have discovered in you an intellectual at last who has a clue what has gone wrong and how to put it right, then please try to emulate Albert Einstein, whose book explaining Special Relativity to the mere layman like me impressed me as a teenager. Keep it simple. Spell it out. Risk being accused of "populism", a fashionable slur, because you communicate too effectively for your ideological enemies' liking.
Please define The Project/Transformation. What specific mischief is this nebulous phenomenon you claim to have observed actually about?
Tom Rogers says:
Looks like Brexit might be the crucible for a Counter-Transformation.
Do you already know what "The Transformation" is then?
Yes, alas only members of the English Revolutionary Command Council are permitted to know, and even then the authoritative précis is written in an obscure medieval dialect of Latin, which in turn is translated from Ancient Greek.
Just to emphasise: I am not a member of the English Revolutionary Command Council, as I failed the linguistic initiations after accidentally insulting the War Secretary using a Latin swear word that, due a grammatical complexity, I had got mixed-up with the name of a horse; however they sometimes contract me to carry out political assassinations using my special lethal concoction of Pomfret cakes dipped in Sherbet lemon and laced with opium.
I'm afraid it's all hush-hush and rather exclusive.
And you won't be getting much more work from us. When I instructed you to "Take Mr Epstein out and interrogate him on his links with Tony Blair," I didn't expect you to put the telephone down after "Take him out."
My humour is very 'West Yorkshire'. People don't always appreciate it.
Once, on a visit from the county 'political police', I shouted through the letterbox so they and the neighbours could hear: "Sorry, I'm too busy planning my next bank heist".
They duly buggered off!