"In anguish all the objects of the world and our environment itself suddenly appear devoid of all importance, they become ridiculous and collapse into an absolute nullity."
"Homelessness is my number one priority" - Gavin Newsom, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023
Candide and Martin touched upon the Coast of England, and what they saw there.
(Candide ou l optimiste
VOLTAIRE (François-Marie AROUET dit)
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They arrived at Portsmouth. The coast was lined with crowds of people, whose eyes were fixed on a fine man kneeling, with his eyes bandaged, on board one of the men of war in the harbour. Four soldiers stood opposite to this man; each of them fired three balls at his head, with all the calmness in the world; and the whole assembly went away very well satisfied.
“What is all this?” said Candide; “and what demon is it that exercises his empire in this country?”
He then asked who was that fine man who had been killed with so much ceremony. They answered, he was an Admiral.
“And why kill this Admiral?”
“It is because he did not kill a sufficient number of men himself. He gave battle to a French Admiral; and it has been proved that he was not near enough to him.”
“But,” replied Candide, “the French Admiral was as far from the English Admiral.”
“There is no doubt of it; but in this country it is found good, from time to time, to kill one Admiral to encourage the others.”
Pour encourager les autres. Oh middle class these folk use to be just like you "Admirals" of San Francisco-by-the Pacific Ocean but they sunk so low there was nothin' no one would do except like monkey minds throw money like feces much to the applause and approval of tax payers in this City and County surrounded by water on three sides and protected by dykes and the Golden Gate Drawbridge and crony Capitalist Bay Bridge.
FIRST EDITION of Voltaire's famed philosophical tale. The complexity of its clandestine publication is evident from the fact that Bengesco lists eight different editions, all of which appeared without an imprint in 1759; Bengesco identifies the present edition of 299 pages (Morize 59a) as the first, the typographic ornaments revealing the printer to be Cramer of Geneva. Among other characteristics of the first edition noted in his supplement to volume I (vol. II, p. xvi), are the printing error on p. 103 ('ce' repeated twice) and the presence of the 'Advice to the Binder' leaf at the end. In Voltaire and Candide (1959) Wade argues that Voltaire first had a trial edition made (Morize 59x), but he nevertheless takes Morize 59a 'to be the authoritative edition'. Pomeau, in Complete Works of Voltaire vol. 48 (1980), places Morize 59a first among the editions of 299 pages, putting the Morize 59x edition, which originated in London, second. Cramer is well known as the publisher of all Voltaire's important works from the end of 1756 onwards. Voltaire himself became known as the Sage of Ferney, the substantial estate just over the border from Geneva, which he bought in 1758. His extraordinary secrecy over the publication of Candide was not without cause. On 2 March 1759, the work was denounced by the Council of Geneva who ordered it to be destroyed. Bengesco 1434; En français dans le texte 160; Morize 59a; Pomeau 299G; Rochebilière 846; Wade 1.
August rent rise is a wound following June death blow and July fight but not lethal. Anxiety steps in regarding the near future of 3 months. Each day though I make positive contributions to increasing my chances so I hold Hope Against Hope and read Existential philosophy. Sacramento is insurance. And Sacramento is where I left 36 years ago. Better in some respects in 2023 post-Covid with more of an urban vibe as a food and drink and safe art life destination but bloody hot and a car is almost mandatory to exit downtown. Only $40 RT to downtown Sacramento and a late bus and an early one. Nomadic life has an edge appeal but no, I can just visit a different neighborhood with no homeless.
I think money. And social control. No win. SF is a difficult spot these days and Sacramento might be the fire next time. "God gave Noah the Rainbow sign/No more water, the fire next time"
"Homelessness is my number one priority" - Gavin Newsom, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023
Candide and Martin touched upon the Coast of England, and what they saw there.
(Candide ou l optimiste
VOLTAIRE (François-Marie AROUET dit)
Buy Used
US$ 6,740.84
They arrived at Portsmouth. The coast was lined with crowds of people, whose eyes were fixed on a fine man kneeling, with his eyes bandaged, on board one of the men of war in the harbour. Four soldiers stood opposite to this man; each of them fired three balls at his head, with all the calmness in the world; and the whole assembly went away very well satisfied.
“What is all this?” said Candide; “and what demon is it that exercises his empire in this country?”
He then asked who was that fine man who had been killed with so much ceremony. They answered, he was an Admiral.
“And why kill this Admiral?”
“It is because he did not kill a sufficient number of men himself. He gave battle to a French Admiral; and it has been proved that he was not near enough to him.”
“But,” replied Candide, “the French Admiral was as far from the English Admiral.”
“There is no doubt of it; but in this country it is found good, from time to time, to kill one Admiral to encourage the others.”
Pour encourager les autres. Oh middle class these folk use to be just like you "Admirals" of San Francisco-by-the Pacific Ocean but they sunk so low there was nothin' no one would do except like monkey minds throw money like feces much to the applause and approval of tax payers in this City and County surrounded by water on three sides and protected by dykes and the Golden Gate Drawbridge and crony Capitalist Bay Bridge.
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FIRST EDITION of Voltaire's famed philosophical tale. The complexity of its clandestine publication is evident from the fact that Bengesco lists eight different editions, all of which appeared without an imprint in 1759; Bengesco identifies the present edition of 299 pages (Morize 59a) as the first, the typographic ornaments revealing the printer to be Cramer of Geneva. Among other characteristics of the first edition noted in his supplement to volume I (vol. II, p. xvi), are the printing error on p. 103 ('ce' repeated twice) and the presence of the 'Advice to the Binder' leaf at the end. In Voltaire and Candide (1959) Wade argues that Voltaire first had a trial edition made (Morize 59x), but he nevertheless takes Morize 59a 'to be the authoritative edition'. Pomeau, in Complete Works of Voltaire vol. 48 (1980), places Morize 59a first among the editions of 299 pages, putting the Morize 59x edition, which originated in London, second. Cramer is well known as the publisher of all Voltaire's important works from the end of 1756 onwards. Voltaire himself became known as the Sage of Ferney, the substantial estate just over the border from Geneva, which he bought in 1758. His extraordinary secrecy over the publication of Candide was not without cause. On 2 March 1759, the work was denounced by the Council of Geneva who ordered it to be destroyed. Bengesco 1434; En français dans le texte 160; Morize 59a; Pomeau 299G; Rochebilière 846; Wade 1.
Seeing those homeless encampments can't be doing your mood much good.
I guess that dinner is designed to keep the apartments turning over.....
1080 sounds like poison.
Another job will pop up, gosh, what about something local.
I keep seeing ads in shop windows for staff.
That retirement village would be the sort to require clotshots.
I imagine waiting lists will grow but vacancies will too.
August rent rise is a wound following June death blow and July fight but not lethal. Anxiety steps in regarding the near future of 3 months. Each day though I make positive contributions to increasing my chances so I hold Hope Against Hope and read Existential philosophy. Sacramento is insurance. And Sacramento is where I left 36 years ago. Better in some respects in 2023 post-Covid with more of an urban vibe as a food and drink and safe art life destination but bloody hot and a car is almost mandatory to exit downtown. Only $40 RT to downtown Sacramento and a late bus and an early one. Nomadic life has an edge appeal but no, I can just visit a different neighborhood with no homeless.
I think money. And social control. No win. SF is a difficult spot these days and Sacramento might be the fire next time. "God gave Noah the Rainbow sign/No more water, the fire next time"