Kim Dorman

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“The eyes are the windows to your soul” Shakespeare

@jmasseypoet Karma is inexorable; each person in the Epstein files, including Donald J. Trump and every other elite at the top, will reap the consequences of their actions.

I’ve been spending less time here because my feed is nothing but Epstein. What bothers me the most is that the truly demonic elites at the top will never face consequences. The flurry of information creates enough confusion around them to write it off as noise. It makes me sick.

@jmasseypoet @WSJFreeEx Perhaps Trump is closing the Trump Kennedy Center to avoid any further embarrassment from high profile artists (such as Philip Glass, Renee Fleming, & others) cancelling &/or refusing to perform there. That sounds in character for such a vain, petty man.

@AmericanGwyn 🙏

@AmericanGwyn good list! I also like: Peter Matthiessen Evan S. Connell Willa Cather Mark Twain Charles Portis Ágota Kristóf Stendhal

MY 10 FAVORITE NOVELISTS: 1. William Faulkner 2. Cormac McCarthy 3. James Joyce 4. Vladimir Nabokov 5. Denis Johnson 6. Marilynne Robinson 7. Herman Melville 8. John Williams 9. Thomas Bernhard 10. Philip Roth

Fresh milk, Bryansk Oblast, Russia, 2004 - by Oleg Videnin (1963), Russian

@VDHanson Trump’s second presidency may herald the beginning of a nightmare of unimaginable proportions.

The National Nightmare Is Ending Après Biden, “L'audace, l'audace, encore l'audace, toujours l'audace”! To paraphrase mixed French 18th-century memorable quotations: after Biden, follows not the deluge, but now daring, and still more daring, and always more daring. Why? A combination of two self-evident truths. Joe Biden’s inept administration proved an ungodly disaster, not just for America but for the West as well, who looked abroad for a stronger America but found it weaker. And second, Trump Invictus is now liberated—“In the fell clutch of circumstance/I have not winced nor cried aloud,/Under the bludgeonings of chance/My head is bloody, but unbowed.” He is without worry over another election, or a discredited and defanged media (“so doves do peck the falcon's piercing talons”), much less a third Nancy-Pelosi contrived impeachment. Instead, he stalks indomitable, after failed de-balloting capers, failed lawfare vendettas, and failed two assassination attempts. To quote Shakespeare of his recent visit to Notre Dame and the once hostile Euro crowd who now mobbed him, “He doth bestride the narrow world /Like a Colossus, and we petty men /Walk under his huge legs and peep about /To find ourselves dishonorable graves”. In sum, our weakest president is to be followed by our most audacious. Biden’s bumbling arrogance nearly destroyed the American military in Kabul. It ruined Western deterrence. It showered the creepy Taliban with a multibillion-dollar new windfall arsenal. His lies, his incompetence, and, yes, his narcissism demoralized Americans and our allies, but at least ensured he would never reach 50 percent approval again. What immediately followed from the Kabul nightmare was as bad or indeed worse: two theater-wide wars in Ukraine and the Middle East, appeasement of Iran, hammering of Israel, a nonexistent US border, 12 million illegal aliens, the hyperinflation of staples, the weaponization of the executive branch, Third-World lawfare, looting and shoplifting legitimized, spiking crime contextualized, and printing trillions of debased dollars normalized. Biden sought to turn the once preeminent US military into a cruel cultural woke joke. The trainwreck of the last four years was force-multiplied by Biden’s own feebleness, masked by the most scandalous media-politico conspiracy of suppresson of it in US history. But now there is a giddy sense that restoration and normalization are not just possible but on the horizon. The truth now is set free, and it smothers the old lying denials about the origins of COVID, about the truth of diversity/equity/inclusion, about the naked greed of the Biden family syndicate, about the dementia of Joe, about the chauvinism of three sexes, and about the joy and momentum of the fracking, gun-toting, MacDonald’s veteran and border hawk Kamala Harris. No one fears or listens to the now defenestrated frauds and tiring dissimulators: the Bidens, a Fauci, Mayorkas, Garland, Milley, Austin, Jean-Pierre, Comey, Brennan, Clapper, or McCabe—and their old lies that Hunter is brilliant, Biden is fit as a field, no gain-in-function viruses, a bat caused COVID, the border is secure, Chinese army generals are more trustworthy than Trump, the laptop was Russian, Trump is a Putin puppet, and always their nauseating “I can’t recall”, “ I don’t remember”,  “I have no recollection”, and “I am not at liberty to say”. Our allies are feeling more confident, our enemies scared. The idea of an impending deterrent and reliable Trump administration has terrified Iran and helped collapse Syria. Israelis buoyant. Not so Hezbollah, Hamas, and the Houthis. In anticipation, the dollar reigns, the stock market stays strong. Even Trump’s traditional enemies, whether on Wall Street, Silicon Valley, or in corporate board rooms are whispering that they secretly are delighted with their old nemesis’s dream of more and cheaper energy, less government regulation and taxation, and confidence again that everything is now possible when a government says an exhilarant yes to dreams rather than a crabby no to them. Suddenly the woke bullies are on the run. The porous border really can be closed; illegal alien gangs and criminals will be sent packing. The Left now invokes no Logan Act. They are instead relieved that the President-elect is now the virtual President—and their guy is gone. Biden yelps now that his sins were not doubling down on them and sinning even more when he had the chance. In other words, the recently impossible is not just possible again, but likely! Each of us, at least for this brief window of opportunity, again feels, “I am the master of my fate, I am the captain of my soul.”

@josephQED Indeed!🫖

@mkimdorman And also to you, Kim! HNY Will raise a cuppa toyou, of the same sencha I sent (yama moto yama)

Coffee dripping now. Gathering Moss a new book, a 1970s Daedelus issue, Pacific Shift (WIT), then some Saigyo Awesome Nightfall for the old. Tomorrow, 1/1, the Four Quartets, as always. Brautigan, Trout Fishing:

Der leere Tisch / the empty desk: Herman Melville

@TheMonologist Welles is right on all counts — additionally, On the Waterfront is a very great film

Fragments of Paradise | The Jonas Mekas Story | Feature Documentary youtu.be/MqkSEYiCrQI?si… via @YouTube thanks to @herbert_pfostl

I an not I; thou art not he or she; they are not they. - Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited Author's Note.

@AmitMajmudar Here in Kerala, a Malayalam version of Mahabharata (by Ezhuthachan) is revered. I don’t know if it includes the Gita (I’m not able to read Malayalam). Thinking of Ramanujan’s essay “Three Hundred Ramayanas” — I wonder how many Mahabharatas there are …

I don't judge Homer translations because I don't know the original. having cross-compared English Gitas w/the Sanskrit, I know the pitfalls. simpler-sounding versions of Homer may well match him at a verbal level--Adam Nicholson says Homer rarely used subordinate clauses at all

@AmitMajmudar interesting connection

@mkimdorman yes

This short D H Lawrence quatrain has a Gita-like feel to it, doesn’t it

@beatgozon 🙏!

@mkimdorman early 80’s album, not well known, several really good songs, good band backing him. Desmond Dekker ~ Compass Point youtube.com/playlist?list=…

@beatgozon thanks, Jeff! I love Desmond❤️

Desmond Dekker ~ Unity Special dedication to @mkimdorman youtu.be/QOSZfrMSChI?si…

Floating Icebergs collection.cooperhewitt.org/view/objects/a…

@mkimdorman @MrPrudence The field of action of a photograph should be that chessboard of the heart and mind upon which poetry and art have always operated. --Frederick Sommer, 1952