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On the crown of the passional relation I live,dead to oneness,non-entity and unalone,untouched by the pulls of the solitudes,at rest above the deep green central flowing falling away on either hand to the special margins,the red solitude and the violet solitude,the red oneness and the violent oneness;at the summit of the bow, indifferent to the fake integrities,the silence between my eyes,the body between the wings.

With raiding no longer an option in home territory, Caliph Umar 644took the Levant, inclJerusalem.The new rulers didn’t care what religion their subjects practised, as long as they paid their taxes; Christians, Jews and Muslims all worshipped the same God of Abraham, as far as Muslims were concerned;Jews were now allowed to live in Jerusalem for the 1st time since the Roman destruction of the 2nd Temple in 70 ce.

Syrian Elagabalus, became emperor at the age of fourteen. The young man brought w him to Rome the Syrian god Elagabal, a black meteorite, to replace Jupiter at the head of the Rom pantheon. This was not his only outrage against local taste: he was said to have married several men&a Vestal Virgin, eaten parrots and fed them to pet lions.He was assassinated by soldiers in a latrine @eighteen and thrown into the Tiber.

The evidence for Gauls in London comes from a tablet ~100ce records the sale of a woman from northern Gaul to a man called Vegetus for 600 denarii. This is a standard price, equivalent to 2y salary for a legionary soldier; what is more interesting is that he is the slave of a slave belonging to the emperor himself. The document says that the woman was handed over in a healthy condition&has no history of running away.

What am I in this instant? I am a typewriter making the dry keys echo on the dark and humid early hours. For a long time I haven’t been people. They wanted me to be an object. I’m an object. An object dirty with blood. That creates other objects and the typewriter all of us. It demands. The mechanism demands and demands my life. But I don’t obey totally: if I must be an object let it be an object that screams.

Do I not have a plot to my life? for I am unexpectedly fragmentary. I am piecemeal. My story is living. And I have no fear of failure. Let failure annihilate me, I want the glory of falling. My crippled angel who contorts all elusive, my angel who fell from heavens to the hell where he lives savouring evil.

I’ll return to the unknown part of myself …To create a being out of oneself is very serious. I am creating myself. And walking in complete darkness is search of ourselves is what we do. It hurts. But these are the pains of childbirth: a thing is born that is. Is itself. It is hard as a dry stone. But the core is soft and alive, perishable, perilous it. Life of elementary matter.

My eyes are shut. I am pure unconsciousness. They already cut the umbilical cord: I am unattached in the universe. I don’t think but feel the it. With my eyes I blindly seek the breast: I want milk. No one taught me to want. But I already want. I’m lying with my eyes open looking at the ceiling. Inside is the darkness. An I that pulses already forms. There are sunflowers. There is tall wheat. I is.

I am haunted by my ghosts, by all that is mythic, fantastic and gigantic: life is supernatural. I walk holding an open umbrella upon a tightrope. I walk to the limit of my great dream. I see the fury of visceral impulses: tortured viscera guide me. I don’t like what I just wrote-but I’m duty-bound to accept the whole because it happened to me. My essence is unconscious of itself that’s why I obey self blindly.

So writing is the method of using the word as bait: the word fishing for whatever is not word. When this non-word-between the lines is caught, the word can be tossed away in relief. But that’s where the analogy ends: the non-word, taking the bait, incorporates it. So what saves you is writing absentmindedly.

We have ended up in a bizarre situation, in which the government has handed local politicians huge powers to block development but also puts huge pressure on them to build.if Britain had a proper system of local property taxes,&if councils were able to keep the proceeds from new home sales, rather than the money flowing 2the Treasury the local people might begin to see the advantages of building near their backyards.

Much better jobs can be found in advanced engineering firms. But those jobs are already technically complex and are likely to grow ever more so. They will require highly trained workers. When people talk about reviving manufacturing, I sometimes think they envisage high-paying, steady industrial jobs that can be done by people who have just left school with few qualifications. Those jobs have vanished.

those who lament the lack of manufacturing jobs should explain what kind of jobs they are talking about and what skills the jobs will require. There are plenty of factory jobs around Boston in Lincolnshire, which can be done by people without qualifications. Those jobs are repetitive and ill paid, and few Britons want them.

In 2024, the Labour Party won a huge parliamentary majority in an election that was notable for feeble turnout. Just under 60 per cent of eligible voters in Britain cast a ballot, the second-lowest figure for a century. Turnout in places with large working-class populations was especially pitiful: just 47%in Glasgow (Ne); in Rusholme, an ethnically mixed constituency south of Manchester, it was a mere 40%.

2/2 It would be abhorrent to say that young working-class people who rent their homes do not matter. But, politically, they barely matter. Cut benefits for pensioners, and a noisy row will ensue, amplified by newspapers that have many elderly readers. Cut benefits for working-age people on low incomes- Politicians might feel sorry but they do not fear them, because they are unlikely to vote.

1/2 Before the year 2000, a person in the richest fifth of the population was up to ten percentage points more likely to vote than a person in the poorest fifth. Since 2010, the gap has been about twenty percentage points. Other fissures have opened, too. The old, the highly educated and homeowners have become much more likely to vote than the young, the less educated and those who do not own their homes.

To remake myself..I return to my state of garden and shadow cool reality, I barely exist & if I exist it's with delicate caution. Around the shadow is a heat of abundant sweat. I'm alive. But I feel that I have yet to reach my limits, borders with what? without borders, the adventure of dangerous freedom. But I take risks, I live taking risks. I'm full of acacias swaying yellow,..I am before, I am almost, I am never.

Nor do I think it is necessarily a sign of state failure when people move from one place to another, as politicians have argued. The opposite might be closer to the truth: a lack of movement is worrying, because it suggests that people cannot take advantage of opportunities. Somehow, we have turned an alarming trend into a virtue. Some working-class people do leave the poor areas where they grew up.

I don’t believe the country really has two tribes, which David Goodhart called ‘Somewheres’ and ‘Anywheres’ – one rooted and conservative, the other deracinated and liberal. If it did, how would we explain the fact that so many working-class Somewheres are descended from people who moved so energetically around the country?

'Man was programmed by God to solve problems, but he has started to create them rather than solve them. The machine was programmed by man to solve the problems that he created. But the machine is actually beginning to create problems that disorient and swallow up man. The machine continues to grow. It’s huge now. To the point where man ceases to be a human organism.'

She said it 50 years ago.

In 1775 Plenty of contemporaries thought sovereignty made people stupid. "The spirit of blindness and infatuation is gone forth," lamented Whig churchman Jonathan Shipley. "We are hurrying wildly on without any fixed de-sign, without any important object. We pursue a vain phantom of unlimited sovereignty, which was not made for man; and reject the solid advantages of a moderate, useful and intelligible authority.

‘the stakes’ in George Washington's acknowledgment after the tea party: "I shall not undertake to say where the Line between Great Britain and the Colonies should be drawn. ... But the Crisis is arrived when we must assert our Rights, or Submit to every Imposition that can be heap'd upon us, till custom and use, will make us as tame, & abject Slaves, as the Blacks we Rule over with such arbitrary Sway."

This word only looms so large in our imagination because the spirit of the French, full of royal superstitions, felt under an obligation to endow it with all the heritage of pomp and absolute power which made the usurped sovereignties shine.
Pleople seem to say, with a kind of patriotic pride, that if the sovereignty of great kings is so powerful and so terrible, the sovereignty of a great people ought to surpass it.

‘The desire to be outside time was another face of the desire for perfect independence, for a clean inception in which nothing is owed to any other epoch or anybody else. Western states in continuous existence over the last two centuries have often had the luxury of taking that sovereign ideology for granted and acting as if it were true.’

Imho, not only states but their citizens as well feel entitled this way.

Modern int law (1918) had often figured the colonial world as extralegal space: unsovereign or semisovereign, legally unpossessed, even unoccupied. Some (though clearly not all) European jurists imagined it a zone devoid of valid legal actors or relations, a domain where the rules of “civilized” states did not apply, paving the way not only for colonial domination but also for unrestrained warfare and violence.

The logical necessity of international order for legal validity of any state: ‘it had to be above but also before and after the state. Only this sort of all-encompassing international legal order, existing prior to the consent of states, could transform the creation and demise of states from a matter of fact to one of law because such events now unfolded inside a (higher) legal order, not beyond it.’

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Only recourse to an international legal order that rises above states or constitutions standing next to each other territorially as much as following each other temporally” resolved the problem, Kelsen wrote. Only that could “thrust the bridge of law over the abyss that revolution has laid between two constitutions.”

1/2 The postwar crisis had left the Viennese jurists staring blankly into that vacuum. With their new theory of the primacy of international law, they could seal over that void. The price was sovereignty’s supremacy.

Law, was a science of abstractions. To analyze something legally was not to try to grasp the “thing in itself,” an object existing independently of us in the concrete world, but rather to grasp solely the abstract legal significance humans had assigned to it. “Justice and injustice are never predicates attached to things themselves; they are not qualities, but relationships.”