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Friday 30 August 2024

Seeping, seeping, always seeping



But the brilliance, the versatility of madness is akin to the resourcefulness of water seeping through, over and around a dike.

F. Scott Fitzgerald - Tender is the Night (1934)


She's a Norwegian princess. He's an American self-professed shaman. Their wedding is this weekend

The Norwegian king’s eldest child, Princess Märtha Louise, will marry American self-professed shaman Durek Verret on Saturday in a picturesque corner of southern Norway...

The princess — she has retained the title — has said she can talk with angels, while Verret, 49, claims that he communicates with a broad range of spirits and has a medallion which helps ward off spells and cure diseases.


They were all mad. Or just going mad... Or drifting into superstitions that were disguised madnesses!

Ford Madox Ford - When the Wicked Man (1932)


Police stand by as Extinction Rebellion protests at Windsor Castle

Police in Windsor Home Park made no attempt to stop a mass protest from Extinction Rebellion activists at the Long Walk on Friday.

As part of the three-day protests, activists were staging a symbolic re-enactment by black-clad protesters of “oil slicks”, signifying “how our political, judicial and media systems now serve the interests of oil, money, and other villains”.



Destiny sometimes proffers us a glass of madness to drink. A hand is thrust out of the mist, and suddenly hands us the mysterious cup in which is contained the latent intoxication.

Victor Hugo - The Man Who Laughs (1869)

2 comments:

Sam Vega said...

As part of the three-day protests, activists were staging a symbolic re-enactment by black-clad protesters of “oil slicks”....

....one of whom was seen to shake hands with the other protesters and let himself into the King's private apartments at the end of the protest.

A K Haart said...

Sam - ha ha - he would if he could.