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Saturday Morning Pam-toons. Cf. Mao, Be Your Authentic Self. (Scroll down)
You’ve nothing to fear. I worry a little that, in this politically charged environment particularly, when someone urges you to ‘be your authentic self’ she means ‘come out here where I can get you’. Addendum, April 11, 2021 as follows: Gilbert King, “The Silence that Preceded China’s Great Leap into Famine“, Smithsonianmag.com, Sept. 12, 2012. Continue reading
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Saturday Morning Pam-toons. Plague-Spreader.
When the Bubonic Plague rekindled in 16th and 17th century Europe, some thought the illness was spread by diabolic agents who captured its essence in an ointment and then smeared the greasy substance on walls, people, and all kinds of things. Some of those accused of being plague-spreaders were burned at the stake. What’s interesting Continue reading
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Saturday Morning Pam-toons. “The universities of the West, the lights that illumined the (so-called) Dark Ages.”(Hugh Graham)– Repost, 02/21
It is for us as it was for the Irish Monks of the early medieval period, to carry the embers is to risk burning one’s hands. —Pam, 2021 *Pencil and pencil crayon drawing. For a quick overview of the contribution to scholarship made by these educators and guardians of ancient wisdom, I include the conclusion Continue reading
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Saturday Morning Pam-toons. Ya gotta grab somethin’
Ya gotta grab somethin’ Continue reading
