“But this is a different thing./ I’ll not fight with the Powers of Air,/ Sentry, pass him through!”

[larryhammer]

A few links, some of which I’ve been sitting on for a while, waiting till I had three (because three things make a post).

Same-sex love spells of the ancient world and orchard trees react to lovers meeting beneath them. Just two of the wonderful posts from Papyrus Stories blog. (via)

Separating Fact from Fiction on Social Media in Times of Conflict. From Bellingcat, investigative journalists specializing in fact-checking and open-source intelligence, which means this is exactly their wheelhouse. (via)

The time they dubbed Star Wars in Navajo.

---L.

Subject quote from The Fairies’ Siege, Rudyard Kipling.

Comments

[asakiyume]

I'll not fight with the powers of air either! I don't know much Kipling; must check out that poem on the strength of your subject line.

Good links! I wish I could check out just a *snippet* of Navajo-dubbed Star Wars (I don't have a Disney account), but as it is, I will just trust in its awesomeness.

And yes: re being skeptical of footage designed to incite and outrage.

[graydon]

Kipling got kinda primal sometimes; The Peace of Dives, In the Neolithic Age, The Last Rhyme of True Thomas and Tomlinson strike me as fellow-examples. They're all declaimable, too.

[larryhammer]

Very declaimable. Add to those my favorite, "The Sea and the Hills."

[graydon]

Entirely declaimable!

To me at least in a different place in the energy taxonomy; first-tier implicative conflict of the feels, rather than the overtly supernatural.

[asakiyume]

I'll check them out too!

[larryhammer]

It's not Kipling's best poem tbh, but it lands the ending with those lines. See graydon's suggestions.

I have a selection of Kipling edited by T.S. Eliot, which is a fun congruence to contemplate, especially since Eliot wrote an introduction that is more appreciative than not.

[asakiyume]

I have a selection of Kipling edited by T.S. Eliot --awesome, especially since it's appreciative (i guess you probably don't edit a selection/collection if you're not appreciative, but still!)

[larryhammer]

I could totally see Eliot being more than halfway dismissive of Kipling's rhymes, but he was entirely professional about it (of course, his day job was as a poetry editor).

[graydon]

One Eric Blair had to invent "good bad poet" and defend it as critical vocabulary because he loathed Kipling's political views but was too honest to assert he was an incompetent poet. It's an interesting tangle of stuff.

[larryhammer]

I've read that essay. He did a lot of tapdancing. Auden balanced that line a lot better. Not well, mind, but better.

[sovay]

I have a selection of Kipling edited by T.S. Eliot, which is a fun congruence to contemplate, especially since Eliot wrote an introduction that is more appreciative than not.

Nice! I do not have that collection; I have just read Orwell snarking about it.

[larryhammer]

It's a very interesting artifact. I once sat down with the TOC of that and a Collected Kipling to map what sorts of things were included and excluded, but I never completed it.

[sovay]

Same-sex love spells of the ancient world and orchard trees react to lovers meeting beneath them. Just two of the wonderful posts from Papyrus Stories blog.

Yaaaay.

[larryhammer]

Yaaaaaassss.