I’ve got nothing tonight — I’m weary of arguing, and the Muse is silent — so for now, an update to an old item from the early days of this blog.
The original post was about a Victorian-era bust of Washington Irving that stands in Prospect Park. Have a look.
Here’s another example of the same peculiarity of the period: a building on a corner of Seventh Avenue in Brooklyn.
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Well.
“Liberty”. “Checks cashed”. Sign of the times.
After yesterday’s shootout and being the end of Thanksgiving week, this I think is timely:
http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/2015/11/being-thankful-for-left.html
Oh hell, I meant “shootout” here on the blog. My fault.
That’s a good essay, Robert. Thanks for the link. And it’s true — it’s very tempting, in darker moments, just to “pour a glass of wine and watch the sun go down”. (I have “wine” enough to see me through, I think, if I were to succumb.)
So it’s good to be reminded how important it is to keep up the fight — which I intend to do.
We have the numbers, and right is on our side.
Damn right. Fight them until hell freezes over, then fight ’em on ice.
Why is that period used after “Liberty”? One word is not a sentence.
A question mark, an exclamation mark, even an ellipse, I could understand, but a period?
Jeffery Hodges
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Hi Jeffery,
As I observed back in 2006 — it’s declarative. It turns that noun into a statement.
It might as well read “LIBERTY, motherf***er.“
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Malcolm,
I hope you know that I truly appreciate your efforts in this regard. Any comments I post that may seem critical of your efforts are merely a reflection of my own exasperation with the Left’s dismissal out-of-hand of your carefully composed and sincerely held logic. I don’t know how you maintain your composure, but I surely hope you keep doing what you do.
Thank you very much, Henry.