and then there was blog…

…they won’t go away you know. They will push their candidate like a Manchurian candidate until, frothing at the mind you accept their candidate out of sheer exhaustion.

i read some of Richard Whalen’s nonsense today in the Bungehuis. His objections to ‘Oxford as candidate’ chapter is sickly beguiling in its openness to what the Stratfordians believe. Stratfordians being repeated so often, you’d begin to think these were honourable men.

Fight them tooth and nail with their own tools. Sharpened pen meets sharpened pen and the true believer lives on. How can you change a man’s faith? Leo Africanus, (see TLS this week), might be able to help with this question, but only God can truly verily help us.

Harper’s bazaar carried an article by Jonathan Bate on why Sh is still the man. And his analysis of criticism and theatre history once again affirms our man as the man, much maligned then romanticised, but still our man.

His book the ‘Genius of Shakespeare’ also begins with a long list of why it has to be our man, connecting: him, writing, acting, publication, and Stratford. At which interstices the Oxfordians often gather to deconstruct and deny.

The best part of his scholarship is that Bate includes the rest of contemporary Elizabethan and Jacobean society in defense of his argument. Something ‘they’ always prism through the Big Boar or some other brilliant bore.

Let me quote a gaoled Timothy Leary for a moment:
‘when the up/down dualism of the
domination/submission circuit goes,
the other dualisms start to go too.’

Because that’s what we have here. I either am, or am not, an Oxfordian. Most ‘Orthodox’ scholars could give two figs either way and end up retreating from the dualism and any eventual argument.

Leary also claimed Ideology and Morality are the two chief defects of human suffering. Then again he also predicted an Immortality pill and a Death Simulation pill, neither of which is with us yet.

Alan Harrington, who wrote ‘The Immortalist’, said,

‘Mobilise the scientists, spend the money,
and hunt down death like an outlaw.’

Sh said,

‘So shalt thou feed on death that feeds on men,
and death once dead, there’s no more dying then.’