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In the New Yorker...
Front-Ranger:
It made me think of you!
Front-Ranger:
To get me in the mood for the season premiere of Downton Abbey, I'm reading "The King's Meal" by Lauren Collins, in the food issue (from November 21). It's a lovely piece about the curator of Historic Royal Palaces, Lucy Worsley. Cool name, cool job, cool lady!! Is this the year of 15 minutes of fame for the curators of the world? I hope so. Reading about her BBC programmes, I realize I'd be watching a lot more TV if I lived in Britain!!
Jeff Wrangler:
Even though the New Hampshire primary has come and gone, I think Nicholas Lemann's commentary, "Enemy of the State," in the January 9 issue, is a good read. He sets out the implications of Republican anti-government in a lucid and succinct way.
I also like the following: "On the small isues, ... the triumph of anti-government rhetoric has been a real impediment for President Obama. It gives the Republicans justification to oppose, by rote, every appointment and every expenditure, which helps make their belief in public-sector inefficiency self-fulfilling but otherwise doesn't do anybody much good."
ifyoucantfixit:
I agree with your statement Jeff. I just cannot understand, how none of the people that vote Republican, can not see it. That it is the Tea Party folk, and the rest of the people, that follow their lead. That are causing the congress, and the Country to be in this stalemate. It is not the President. He inherited the problems that we are facing. It was the fault of GWB. He got out before he got all the derision that he deserved. I guess
that a lot of people are just plain stupid. Even in the face of facts to the contrary. They refuse to place the blame where it belongs. I suppose it is the fault of the so called "LIBERAL MEDIA?" I don't know even where that kind of media resides. Even here in Portland.. Liberal as it is. The local newspaper. The Oregonian is very conservative. It endorses every conservative candidate that runs for office.
serious crayons:
As I'm working through my past issues, I started a piece from July by Alec Wilkinson, about people who live in tiny (REALLY tiny) houses. In the opening, he says, "I used to dream sometimes that I had found rooms in my apartment that I didn't know were there, and, as I explored them, I felt a serenity that I did not feel in my waking life."
I suspect Wilkinson is revealing more in that sentence than he knows. Houses, in dreams, typically don't stand for actual living spaces, but represent one's own mind. Dreaming of finding previously unknown rooms in his home most likely means he has been discovering unknown aspects of himself -- coming upon a bear, so to speak.
It might sound a little crazy, but dreams tend to be really symbolic, and often in an oddly literal way.
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