5 Responses to TT @ TIC

  1. MLHMLH says:
    29 Aug 2016 at 10:48

    I’m 2/3s of the way through. Interesting analysis. I never analyse poetry. But then, I hardly ever read poetry.

  2. Avatartitus says:
    29 Aug 2016 at 20:18

    Thanks, M! This is part of my project to rehabilitate Kipling as an educator for children & for adults, too. I cut the essay short–there was a first-philosophy section, but let’s not overreach, I told myself…

    Of course, it’s also a quiet counterpoise to the Disney-ification of The Jungle Books. I like Louis Prima as much as the next guy–indeed, more–but this won’t stand!

    This is also the first of two essays on modern views of nature. The next is due in a week, or who knows!, it’s an essay on Rainer Maria Rilke’s The panther–Rilke is a contender for German poet of the 20th century!

  3. DevereauxDevereaux says:
    6 Sep 2016 at 02:35

    Seems you are a deeper thinker than this old Marine, Titus. I read your analysis, and your comments on shooting. They were interesting views of America and Americans.

    I would submit that in observance of these two pieces you have written, weaponry is ubiquitous and at least in America natural. Europeans have seemingly lost their knowledge and appreciation (except for the Swiss, who often don’t act like “Europeans”) for the place and use of weaponry. In today’s world of jets, nukes, drones, etc, one loses the value of individual skill with weaponry, and the use and need for same – both skill and possession.

  4. Avatartitus says:
    6 Sep 2016 at 05:43

    Hello, Mr. Devereaux!
    I’m not even sure a majority of America find weaponry natural. Nor am I sure the proportion is increasing as time goes by…
    I can assure you there has never been any age in which any European nation found weaponry natural. The past of Europe is of military classes, not free peoples.
    But of course, the changes have been such that fewer & fewer people even think of being armed as a reasonable choice, much less a political necessity. The Swiss mostly do it because of political necessity. I’m not sure whether arms have a future even there.
    There is some allowance for arms in Israel, but it is highly regulated.

    For my part, I am suspicious that any disarmed people could be free politically.

  5. DevereauxDevereaux says:
    9 Sep 2016 at 11:16

    There it is, as we once said in Nam. Your last sentence is the pith of it.

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