540 - "Sham Paris": An Entire City’s Stunt Double | Strange Maps. Legend has it that hardly anyone turned up for the opening night of Jean Giraudoux's (1) play La guerre de Troie n’aura pas lieu. Taking the billboards for the play too literally, Parisian theatregoers thought it had been cancelled. True or not, it’s tempting to read this anecdote as a tribute in reverse - even more sublime for being unintended - to the original ruse that ended the Trojan War. The beleaguered Trojans tricked into hauling that wooden, warrior-filled horse inside their unscalable walls - this is the Odyssean Moment: that seminal turning point in military prehistory, when obfuscation and deception joined high courage and brutal force in the human arsenal of war.
In 1917, the spirit of Odysseus moved the French high command to construct a wooden decoy of their own. But in this case, that decoy wasn’t an instrument to conquer a city. In that early, primitive stage of air warfare, the proto-Luftwaffe’s payload consisted of single, hand-thrown bombs. The original legend reads: The Translucent Glass Frogs of the South American Rainforest | Environmental Graffiti. Silicosis From Work on Blue Jeans Killed Workers, Study Says. Rewriting in Style. I write for myself and I'll say anything I damn well please.
Transcripts follow. (Source: Dexter; Image above, via NME.) Transcript December 2, 1996 Green Day P.O. Box 710 Berkeley, Ca 94701-0710Re: InsomniacTo whom it may concern:I am a parent, and I am very disturbed by the cassette tape my 8 year old son was listening to. His 60 year old grandmother bought it for him as a birthday present and was totally unaware of its explicit content. The store in which she bought it did not have any ticket or color on it to warn parents of the content within. A issue I plan to pursue with the right people.Isn't it possible to make music anymore? Mary Jo Bang: On Learning, Self-Discipline, and Taking the Road Less Traveled.
Although the world at large knows Mary Jo Bang primarily as an award-winning poet, her biography is full of unexpected twists. She has earned no less than five degrees—a B.A. and M.A. in Sociology from Northwestern University, a B.A. in photography from the Polytechnic of Central London, training as a Physician’s Assistant at St. Louis University, and an M.F.A. in creative writing from Columbia University—and she has worked as a commercial photographer, a research assistant to a geneticist, a welfare caseworker, a sweatshop garmet worker, a writer, and a teacher, among other things.
Drawing on the richness of these many incarnations, Bang has published six books of poems to date, including The Eye Like a Strange Balloon, Louise in Love, The Bride of E, and Elegy, which won the 2007 National Book Critics Circle Award. Her translation of Dante’s Inferno, with illustrations by Henrik Drescher, is forthcoming from Graywolf Press in 2012. And how did you learn how to learn?
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The Chimera finally was defeated by Bellerophon, with the help of Pegasus, at the command of King Iobates of Lycia. Since Pegasus could fly, Bellerophon shot the Chimera from the air, safe from her heads and breath.[8] A scholiast to Homer adds that he finished her off by equipping his spear with a lump of lead that melted when exposed to the Chimera's fiery breath and consequently killed her, an image drawn from metalworking.[9] Pebble mosaic depicting Bellerophon killing the Chimera, from Rhodes archaeological museum.
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