﻿{"id":19402,"date":"2020-03-17T10:36:02","date_gmt":"2020-03-17T09:36:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testanonpertinente.net\/?p=19402"},"modified":"2021-12-02T16:36:38","modified_gmt":"2021-12-02T15:36:38","slug":"19402","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testanonpertinente.net\/?p=19402","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Whichever time stan\u00addard we\u2019re on, the question<br>\nof how fast and whe\u00adther it\u2019s worth it, we&nbsp;are<br>\nunder\u00adlaid by drift in the form of <em>mantle<\/em>, and<br>\nthat should be at least a start. If the&nbsp;woman<br>\ngets up in the mor\u00adning you could say&nbsp;it<br>\nwas to be anoin\u00adted, if that (in this&nbsp;time)<br>\nweren\u2019t so puny and obse\u00adquious. The&nbsp;wrong<br>\nstan\u00addard makes it so, and the bru\u00adtal&nbsp;fact<br>\nis that there\u2019s no simple dif\u00adfe\u00adrence of opinion<br>\ninvol\u00adved&nbsp;: the wrong is an <em>entailment<\/em>, and<br>\nfol\u00adlows into the glo\u00adwing tail of \u201chis\u00adto\u00adry\u201d&nbsp;as<br>\nfor example the Marxist comet burns&nbsp;with<br>\nsuch love\u00adly, fla\u00adring destruction.<\/p>\n<p>That we could come off the time stan\u00addard&nbsp;is<br>\na first (and pre\u00adli\u00admi\u00adna\u00adry) pro\u00adpo\u00adsal&nbsp;; having<br>\nnothing to do with some zeal about traverse<br>\nor the syn\u00adchro\u00adnous double twist of a&nbsp;minor<br>\npro\u00adtein. We could come off all that,&nbsp;to-<br>\ngether, into the nea\u00adrest city of numbers<br>\n(of which there are four, <span class=\"amp\">&amp;<\/span> could be five). This<br>\n<em>is<\/em> just a pro\u00adpo\u00adsal, set on the table to&nbsp;move<br>\nright out of range of those sicke\u00adning&nbsp;and<br>\ngrea\u00adsy sureties\u2014like \u00ab&nbsp;back to our proper<br>\nhomes&nbsp;\u00bb (or look after the Golden Rose).<\/p>\n<p>The homing ins\u00adtinct of a great&nbsp;deal<br>\nelse might then be cra\u00adcked up&nbsp;: the loving<br>\nmagne\u00adtism by which conse\u00adquence springs<br>\nto atten\u00adtive dis\u00adplay in the field of&nbsp;roses.<br>\nThat, say, and the jus\u00adtice of what&nbsp;we<br>\nare said to deserve when so hopelessly<br>\nwe want so much more. We do <em>not<\/em><br>\nget what we deserve, <em>ever<\/em>, since we&nbsp;have<br>\npro\u00adper claim by the limits of hope&nbsp;and<br>\nhowe\u00adver far a given desire has within range.<\/p>\n<p>So, we could come off that stan\u00addard,&nbsp;and<br>\n\u201cpos\u00adses\u00adsive indi\u00advi\u00addua\u00adlism\u201d would be <em>who we<\/em><br>\n<em>are<\/em>\u2014the first city. Break the char\u00adter,&nbsp;lift<br>\nthe harlot\u2019s curse, the revol\u00adted abstraction<br>\nof \u201cpopu\u00adlism\u201d by which the dark is so feared.<br>\nHolding hands is a dis\u00adgus\u00adting trick, and&nbsp;is<br>\naug\u00admen\u00adted by the expec\u00adta\u00adtion of plenty.<\/p>\n<p>Which would set out our past as gained<br>\n<em>into<\/em> the ter\u00adri\u00adto\u00adry of for\u00adtune, and dis\u00adpose&nbsp;of<br>\nthat lum\u00adpy yarn run\u00adning back into the&nbsp;trees.<br>\nAgain, what we recall is the <em>choice<\/em>, of&nbsp;our<br>\npre\u00adva\u00adlence, the rich gar\u00adden of the climatic<br>\nter\u00adrain. And choice is not then one <em>from<\/em><br>\n\u201cthe rest\u201d\u2014the \u00e9li\u00adtist dream of the&nbsp;crown<br>\ndomed in the Castle of Gold\u2014but an<br>\ninclu\u00adsion <em>within<\/em> that mea\u00adsure, of choice,<br>\nthe second city of this middle earth.<\/p>\n<p>And the ques\u00adtion of \u201cexchange\u201d is thereby<br>\nalso dis\u00admant\u00adled. The dis\u00adpute, over&nbsp;how<br>\nfar the values are trim\u00admed, is strict\u00adly&nbsp;a<br>\nconsequent dis\u00adtur\u00adbance, since \u201cfair&nbsp;price\u201d<br>\nis only the extent of our fears in&nbsp;the<br>\nchest, of wha\u00adte\u00adver sun\u00addry moth <span class=\"amp\">&amp;<\/span>&nbsp;rust<br>\nwe see in our age. \u201c<em>Our<\/em> age\u201d\u2014at it<br>\nagain, the cre\u00addible is what we apt\u00adly&nbsp;wear<br>\nin our timid <span class=\"amp\">&amp;<\/span> ten\u00adder years. The standard<br>\nis a <em>fear index<\/em>, a mea\u00adsure of what (for&nbsp;ex-<br>\nample) \u201c<em>natu\u00adral<\/em> gas\u201d will do to a&nbsp;pre-<br>\ncarious eco\u00adno\u00admy. Whoever in some sheltered<br>\ndomain cal\u00adled that vapour \u201cnatu\u00adral\u201d deserves<br>\nto laugh right into the desert. These are&nbsp;the<br>\narid dis\u00adpla\u00adce\u00adments beyond which lies in its&nbsp;state<br>\nthe third city, or the jewel of the&nbsp;air.<\/p>\n<p>Further than this, up to our necks in&nbsp;our<br>\npol\u00adlu\u00adted his\u00adto\u00adry, the fourth city is not yet&nbsp;known.<br>\nGoing off the stan\u00addard is thus far only&nbsp;a<br>\npro\u00adpo\u00adsal&nbsp;: the mantle is warm and&nbsp;in<br>\nconstant flow, but no man has yet crossed<br>\nthe plains. No trum\u00adpets in any case for&nbsp;such<br>\n<em>banal<\/em> fol\u00adly&nbsp;: the modest hatred of our&nbsp;con-<br>\ndition and the com\u00adpe\u00adti\u00adtion which we therefore<br>\ncall time. They will not sound, as we cannot<br>\nyet see the other side, but we deserve to,&nbsp;and<br>\nif we can see thus far, these are the&nbsp;few<br>\nouter lights of the city, bur\u00adning on the horizon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whichever time stan\u00addard we\u2019re on, the ques\u00adtion of how fast and whe\u00adther it\u2019s worth it, we&nbsp;are under\u00adlaid by drift in the form of mantle, and that should be at least a start. If the&nbsp;woman gets up in the mor\u00adning you could say&nbsp;it was to be anoin\u00adted, if that (in this&nbsp;time) weren\u2019t so puny and obsequious.&nbsp;[\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-non-classe","post_format-post-format-quote"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testanonpertinente.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testanonpertinente.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testanonpertinente.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testanonpertinente.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testanonpertinente.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/testanonpertinente.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19402\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testanonpertinente.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testanonpertinente.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testanonpertinente.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}