Give Today…

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Yesterday the reports broke.

Today you should support these people for showing more about war, our ice cream warriors, how hate grows easier the longer it lives. Soldiers kill because you ask them to. Soldiers continue killing because they ask themselves to. Soldiers are killers. They are not heros. Do not ever think that there are levels of killing.

Watch this…

There aren’t levels to killing, just stories you tell yourselves. War at a distance is easy. Hate for everyone makes killing essential, even urgent. Missing a target, unforgivable among these TV heros. The cheers in you headset drown out their crying.

You make murderers of us all

So how else could this have gone. How about driving a Bradley into the area. After all it’s only a guy with an AK47. Can’t the Brave Bradley take out a lone gunman with an AK?
Guess not. Too dangerous. But isn’t this war? Aren’t you heros? Brave, trained, ready, armed, courageous… all these and more. Aren’t you? Guess not.

Hope your ice cream didn’t melt, but your medals do. Cheap, yellow metal.

Empson, Again.

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7 Types of Ambiguity

  1. The first type of ambiguity is the metaphor, that is, when two things are said to be alike which have different properties. This concept is similar to that of metaphysical conceit.
  2. Two or more meanings are resolved into one. Empson characterizes this as using two different metaphors at once.
  3. Two ideas that are connected through context can be given in one word simultaneously.
  4. Two or more meanings that do not agree but combine to make clear a complicated state of mind in the author.
  5. When the author discovers his idea in the act of writing. Empson describes a simile that lies halfway between two statements made by the author.
  6. When a statement says nothing and the readers are forced to invent a statement of their own, most likely in conflict with that of the author.
  7. Two words that within context are opposites that expose a fundamental division in the author’s mind.

The book is available online from here

Ambiquity & Anxiety

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7 Types of Ambiguity

  1. The first type of ambiguity is the metaphor, that is, when two things are said to be alike which have different properties. This concept is similar to that of metaphysical conceit.
  2. Two or more meanings are resolved into one. Empson characterizes this as using two different metaphors at once.
  3. Two ideas that are connected through context can be given in one word simultaneously.
  4. Two or more meanings that do not agree but combine to make clear a complicated state of mind in the author.
  5. When the author discovers his idea in the act of writing. Empson describes a simile that lies halfway between two statements made by the author.
  6. When a statement says nothing and the readers are forced to invent a statement of their own, most likely in conflict with that of the author.
  7. Two words that within context are opposites that expose a fundamental division in the author’s mind.

The book is available online from here

The Anxiety Of Influence

Harold Bloom – A theory of Poetry