Monroe Doctrine!
The election in Colombia was held on Sunday and the results were known by Sunday evening. The leftists are claiming fraud. It’s all projection all the time with these guys.
I keep watching (in vain) for the Arabic version of those once-trendy “COEXIST” bumper stickers replete with the “approved” inclusive symbols. Glad I haven’t been holding my breath.
The intolerant always prevail against the tolerant.
For what it’s worth…
Today my son bought tickets, just a formality as they wanted to spread out the visitors, to Steamtown to see the behemoths side by side.
Yes Two Big Boy Locomotives were in Scranton Pennsylvania, side by side. A reunion of sorts.
Here I am in front of the operating one.
This is the front view of the two.
And here, the cab of the operating one and the front of the static display.
The operating one had the fire going to keep it warm as it takes a week to cool it down and a lot of fuel to get it back up to operating temperature.
We also did a short visit to other parts of Steamtown.
( better picture there of both the Big Boys. )
Enjoy,
Gerard
Further reference, The pictures I took are now online at:
Gerard
Huh?
Grok:
Opening lines of the Odyssey
Robert Fitzgerald (1961)
Sing in me, Muse, and through me tell the story
of that man skilled in all ways of contending,
the wanderer, harried for years on end,
after he plundered the stronghold
on the proud height of Troy.
Robert Fagles (1996)
Sing to me of the man, Muse, the man of twists and turns
driven time and again off course, once he had plundered
the hallowed heights of Troy.
Emily Wilson (2017)
Tell me about a complicated man.
Muse, tell me how he wandered and was lost
when he had wrecked the holy town of Troy…
Fitzgerald is the most expansive and lyrical. Fagles keeps a strong invocatory rhythm while expanding polytropos. Wilson is the most compressed and contemporary.
Edit: I think it’s clear and obvious that Wilson’s translation is lazy and deceptive
Translation (faithful to the original Greek of Homer’s Odyssey 1.1–9):
Tell me, Muse, of the man of many turns,
who was driven far and wide after he had sacked
the sacred citadel of Troy.
Many were the cities of men he saw and whose minds he came to know,
and many were the pains he suffered in his heart upon the sea,
striving to win his own life and the homecoming of his companions.
Yet even so he could not save his companions, though he longed to:
for they perished through their own reckless folly—
fools, who ate the cattle of Helios Hyperion;
and he took from them the day of their return.“the man of many turns” is a translation of the single Greek word πολύτροπον (polýtropon), the first adjective used to describe Odysseus in the Odyssey.
Literal meaning
- πολύ- (poly-) = “many”
- τρόπος (tropos) = “turn,” “way,” “manner,” “direction”
So the word means, quite literally, “much-turned” or “of many turns.”
Why the ambiguity is deliberate
Homer chose a word that works on two levels at once:
- Geographical / narrative Odysseus is the man who is constantly turned aside — driven off course, forced to take detours, wandering through many places before he can reach home.
- Character / psychological He is the man of many turns of mind — resourceful, adaptable, cunning, full of devices and strategies. He can shift tactics, invent stories, and reinvent himself as needed.
This double meaning is one of the most famous pieces of wordplay in Greek literature. The poem opens by presenting Odysseus as both a physical wanderer and a mental shape-shifter in the same breath.
Nick Shirley sues inCA:
https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/74750612/shirley-v-bonta/
https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/69023282/reges-v-cauce-et-al/
https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/63588594/reges-v-cauce/
The Euroworms are squirming. Worthy of a bit of Schadenfreude.
At €2.38 per liter, it’s still almost twice the price in the US. Maybe if the Euros want to lower fuel prices for their citizens, they could consider reducing taxes on fuel. Maybe get rid of Net Zero nonsense, too. Nah, just keep torturing your people.
Schadenfredue is my raison d’etre