David Jones, artist and poet (1895-1974) begins his PREFACE TO THE ANATHEMATA :

'I have made a heap of all that I could find.' (1) So wrote Nennius, or whoever composed the introductory matter to Historia Brittonum. He speaks of an 'inward wound' which was caused by the fear that certain things dear to him 'should be like smoke dissipated'. Further, he says, 'not trusting my own learning, which is none at all, but partly from writings and monuments of the ancient inhabitants of Britain, partly from the annals of the Romans and the chronicles of the sacred fathers, Isidore, Hieronymous, Prosper, Eusebius and from the histories of the Scots and Saxons although our enemies . . . I have lispingly put together this . . . about past transactions, that [this material] might not be trodden under foot'. (2)

(1) The actual words are coacervavi omne quod inveni, and occur in Prologue 2 to the Historia.
(2) Quoted from the translation of Prologue 1. See The Works of Gildas and Nennius, J.A.Giles, London 1841.


18 September 2013

PM regards bLOG Title


The new Australian Prime Minister presents as a simple man. 

“From today I declare Australia is under new management and is once more open for business.”   

What could be simpler than 
simple things ...

Q : Global Warming?
A : "The argument is absolute crap
." (T.A. 2009)

SOLUTION : For the first time in 80 years, there is now no Minister for Science in the Australian Government. 
"There has also been a purge of department heads, and a cleaning-out of staff from the now defunct climate change department is also expected. Abbott’s government has already instructed public servants to begin drawing up new legislation to repeal the carbon price, new treasurer Joe Hockey sent a letter to the Clean Energy Finance Corporation instructing it to cease making loans, and preparations are also being made for the dismantling of the Climate Commission and the Climate Change Authority."
Tony Abbott sworn in, turns against climate programs
Giles Parkinson, 18 September 2013 ( article here )
"Anyone who understands and cares about the environment and economics will know ditching the carbon tax is not only crazy, it is absolutely suicidal."
Tony Abbott will doom future generations if he ditches carbon tax
David Suzuki / The Age, 18 Sept 2013 ( article here )            
          
SOLUTION : A Minister for Sport, at Cabinet level.
 
put simply ...
    
Q : Refugees? Asylum Seekers?
A : Stop The Boats 
        
SOLUTION : "Tony Abbott appoints Angus Campbell to lead Operation Sovereign Borders policy" ( article here )
      
for simple people.

This Toxic Tax! This Toxic Tax! This Toxic Tax!
   
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How will the New Simplicity affect local PRAVDA? 
What changes might our readership expect to see?

We sent one of our reporters to investigate.

Q : Prime Minister, we know you like to keep things simple. How do you regard the Title and meta-Title below, regularly featured at bLOGOS/HA HA ?

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A : Prime Minister Abbott:  

"Everything that is significant is obviously of concern to an Australian government but it is possible to take things very, very seriously indeed without feeling they need to be included in people's titles because we are just getting to a situation of title inflation and frankly I want to avoid title inflation." ( here )

Thank you, Prime Minister. And, just before you get back to work, could you give us a back-to-basics glimpse of how you see y/our new government?

"If you go through the list you will see...

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 If you look at the list of the Cabinet...
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If you look at the outer ministry, you will see...
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If you look at the ranks of parliamentary secretaries...
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You may notice that one of the things that I have attempted to do with this new ministry is avoid the proliferation of titles,
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the sometimes grandiose titles of the former government,
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where it sometimes seemed that ministers needed an extra-large business card to contain all of their various titles."

Tony Abbott : Press Conference, Parliament House, Canberra 16 September 2013 ( here )

Thank you, Prime Minister. I think we've already well covered that last matter.
        

Our reporter presents his business card.  

You can probably guess what's tattooed on the back of his head...

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