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Limbo Lounge

Stuck in Heathrow today due to a train delay (couldn't find the replacement driver) and subsequent screw-ups by the British Air line attendants. Knowing my flight was tight they put me on the expedited line but then let 20 people go ahead of me. When they let me go up, they said the flight was closed. The silly travails of us international flyers! I did get pissed but my character, unfortunately, is not one to fly off the handle. So I waited patiently a told my story to the overwhelmend but competent manager who quickly rebooked me to Dulles and upgraded me to World class and let lounge here in the BA lounge which is actually quite nice. I will add pixs when I get back since they have these computers fixed so you can't upload anything. Perhaps when I redo our basement I'll make it look like an airline lounge with a bank of monitors, some couches, and lots of things to eat and drink. Or perhaps this is someone's version of Limbo. Waiting, always waiting.

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The Walter Benjamin Research Syndicate

"The tradition of the oppressed teaches us that the 'state of emergency' in which we live is not the exception but the rule. We must attain to a conception of history that is in keeping with this insight. Then we shall clearly realize that it is our task to bring about a real state of emergency, and this will improve our position in the struggle against Fascism. One reason why Fascism has a chance is that in the name of progress its opponents treat it as a historical norm. The current amazement that the things we are experiencing are 'still' possible in the twentieth century is not philosophical. This amazement is not the beginning of knowledge--unless it is the knowledge that the view of history which gives rise to it is untenable."

--Walter   Benjamin, "Theses on the Philosophy of History," (Spring, 1940)   trans. Harry Zohn.

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slumbering until nightfall

From Entropy and Me, a blog by Halvard Johnson, Works in progress 29 :

16.
fighting the high cost of prescription meditations
comparing the works of Proust, Gide, and Sartre
putting something aside for a rainy day
asking for another user's name and password

17.
scanning the shelves for news
cleaning up after the latest tsunami
taking care of our parents
looking forward to end-of-life decisions

18.
reassessing works already completed
exterminating the brutes
removing the snow from the car
rebuilding the old road from Fredrikstad to Skjeberg