Colby Cosh is back to form with the best thing he’s written in many months, a sweetly gentle piece of cynicism.
[The paragraph below comes from Teaching a Stone to Talk by Annie Dillard. The eclipse next May 20 will be annular, not total, so there will be no screaming.]
The second before the sun went out we saw a wall of dark shadow come speeding at us. We no sooner saw it than it was upon us, like thunder. It roared up the valley. It slammed our hill and knocked us out. It was the monstrous swift shadow cone of the moon. (more…)
Four months ago at this website, the warning was issued, “If you encounter a Swiss on the road this month, and you’re not driving in Switzerland, please exercise appropriate caution.” Alas, such caution should not have been confined to June. “SUV registered to Swiss Embassy in fatal accident.”
Over at the Grouchy Ex-Wives’ Blog, or whatever they call it, there’s another round going of the endless lamentations that Latter-day Saints might have a shared identity and expectations of one another. So uncivilized, and calling again to mind that description by Conrad: “The sympathetic and deserving creature that knows all about his rights, but knows nothing of courage, of endurance, and of the unexpressed faith, of the unspoken loyalty that knits together a ship’s company.”