Lockdown Update Day 354

[elisi]

Analysis: A close reading of public domain information regarding the settlement between Philip Rutnam and the Home Office
We now know what appears to be the financial value of a square formed about the Prittster.

(Context: Philip Rutnam: £340k payout to official after Priti Patel bullying claims)

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Write to Your MP: Tell your MP that Napier and Penally Barracks must be closed: people seeking safety deserve so much better.

(Context: Storm worsens around migrants housed in military barracks in the UK

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And hey, since this has turned into a 'political' post, have this absolutely incredible poem from G.K.Chesterton:

Elegy in a Country Churchyard

Short and devastating.

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It's been forever since I posted art, but since I still have some saved, have a piece by Wangechi Mutu (with what looks like a coronavirus in the background...)

Comments

[yourlibrarian]

Indeed, it looks like genderswapped Shape of Water, Corona edition.

[elisi]

I hadn't thought of that... :)

[a_phoenixdragon]

That sculpture is very interesting...

[elisi]

Isn't it just?

[sea_thoughts]

Wow, Chesterton! o.o

[elisi]

ikr? SAVAGE.

[sea_thoughts]

I hadn't read of his poems before apart from The Donkey, this was unexpected!

[elisi]

You have not read The Old Song?

To quote Pratchett & Gaiman in their dedication (of Good Omens):

The authors would like to join the demon Crowley in
dedicating this book to the memory of

G.K. Chesterton

A man who knew what was going on.

In the book Crowley references Chesterton on page 273. He’s leaving London and on his way to Tadfield, having just come from Aziraphale's burned bookshop which fell on top of him:



Lightning made the London skies flicker like a malfunctioning fluorescent tube.

A Livid sky on London, Crowley thought, And I knew the end was near. Who had written that? Chesterton, wasn't it? The only poet in the twentieth century to even come close to the Truth.

(All is Good Omens.)

[sea_thoughts]

No, back when I bought my (old school) copy of Good Omens, Google had only just come into being so it didn't occur to me to look up the poem online. *facepalm*

[elisi]

Ahhh, that makes sense. I remember the days pre-Google. :)