Ah, Dr. Bones! The Radiant Effulgence of _les belles-lettres qannádîennes_ hath ascended to resplend upon our palæosabbath!

’Tis sort of like "Mr. Eliot’s Sunday Morning" [0] today, doncha know? Except for the palaeoreligionistical connexion, of course, and the neobile ’n’ venom, and the fact that instead of that mundane hippopotamus [1], the R. E. of Qan. Lit. comes offerin’ everybody a swell deal on some used camel jokes.

The camel’s nose is in thy tent
Qannádâ!
Free speech is gagged and straightness bent!
Qannádâ!
Avenge the heckler patriots
Who die the death of endless cuts,
Before the window of opportunity shuts,
Qannádâ! Dave’s Qannádâ!

"Just kidding, Señor Torquemada: I was never more than in B’rons’vîq Hadasht [2] once for about half an hour. Qannádâ is "all your misfortune, and none of my own," sir. Whereas Neocomrade Ann, Baronness Coulter in the peerage of Wingnut City, well, . . .

" .. How about this, Your Churchship? Qannádâ the Qurst lets Her Ladyship out of the dungeon in exchange for Neocomrade D. Frum and a future draft pick? Or howa about Neocomrade D. Frum plus Neocomrade J. Kuhner and two draft picks? (...)

"Your Churchship has never heard of Neocomrade J. Kuhner?! Well, the pet google can fix that up pronto:

’Jeffrey T. Kuhner is a radio host in Washington DC on WTNT, a columnist and writer. He is a regular contributor to the commentary pages of [_America’s Moonpaper_] , where he writes a weekly column, and has written for _Human Events_, National Review Online and _Investor’s Business Daily_. He is also the president of the Edmund Burke Institute for American Renewal, a Washington D.C. think tank devoted to integrating minorities into the conservative movement. The Institute produces a monthly magazine, _Reflections_, to which he regularly contributes. He is also a radio personality, appearing often as a guest or fill-in host of the "Savage Nation" and the Jerry Doyle show.
’Kuhner was BORN IN MONTREAL . . . ."

*** ... and now, enough of that! ... ***

The Muses and you and I are safe enough from the iron talons of the Qannádî Inquisition[4] , I guess, Dr. Bones, for me to ask out loud how it is that neoscum, like the Kuhners and the Frums and the Davey Brookses and the _Freidamen_ R. von Wisse [4] , regularly drifts downwards from them to US, whereas it is almost a proverb that ordinary scum RISES?

No rule without a probative exception! The (hopefully) one and only Neocomrade Dr. M. A. Weinstein-Savage was NOT born at Montreal, only in the Bronx [5]. That fact probably helps explain why the hoity-toity neogentry from Castle Podhóretz up the slippery slope over there to your starboard, Dr. Bones, keep poor "Michael Savage" at arm’s length and more.

Which brings us back to the Radiant Effulgence of Qan. Lit., in the sense that Neocomrade D. Solway is not quite so hoity-toity as he might be, gallantly risin’ to the defense of a (_dhimmiyya_!) neothuggess in distress. Crown Prince Johnny and Princess Neoterica have degenerated sadly from what thei elders were back in the palmy days of the Hate-’68 Movement™, but not yet to the point of makin’ used camel jokes and Danish cartoonin’ the crux of Hyperzionistical agitprop. Ann, Baron Coulteress, is bound to seem at least a little distressin’ to really refined and hereditary neocomrades.

Be that as it may, the Radiant Effulgence of Qan. Lit., hereinafter REQL, lays considerable rhetorical stress on a dichotomy of camels and aeroplanes. Unfortunately, it does not get the maximum mileage out of either, if the present keyboard be the judge. The camel I shall abandon to neo-Levantine hands, and that is itself rather my point: the REQL certainly should have pointed out that the fiendish Natives completely failed to invent heavier-than-air aviation, despite all the silly guff their apologists talk about Islamic ‘science’. [6]

The aeroplane, in fact, was invented right here in Qannádâ -- North Carolina bein’ close enough to Québec City for government work. And though that claim might be quibbled against, surely nobody who has been marketeered into buyin’ any release of the Western Sieve (®) neoproduct whatsoever can suppose Terror From On High to have been invented anywhere else than in The Grand and Glorious West. Natives, even the non-fiendish ones, simply are not up to that sort of trick any more. If, indeed, they ever were. Everybody around here knows that, does she not?

I guess the REQL will accuse me of "blaming the victim" when I point out that the Big Bang of 23 Jumádae l-’Awwal 1422 could never have happend, had the Wright stuff never come to pass. On the other hand, even the most militant and extremist of self-crazed neoterics can scarcely deny the factual substance of ny victim-blaming. (Can she?) No Orville and Wilbur would have meant no Guernika, no Rotterdam, no Hamburg, no Dresdan, no Tokyo, no Hiroshima; not even a tiny little Belgrade during Secretary Albright’s War! And, in the fullness of parallel time, it would have no "9/11" either.

This is what anybody outside the Rovan Empire [7] or some less select loony bin would call a "just a fact," no?

The REQL and its ideobuddies can have their "Our Western Civilisation," as far as I am concerned, the intellectual history of Old Europe being more than enough for the present _dhimmí_ to be getting on with. Nevertheless, the self-servicin’ flim-flam that the neocomrades like to package that way--and even the Huntin’tonian Clashism (®) neoproduct, to some extent--are not without all basis in the former Real World. The Natives of the world have indeed borrowed a long, long list of miscellaneous appliances from Greater Europe, even though it a joke both tasteless and witless to call any such inventory ‘Civilisation’ or even "a civilisation."

Quite a number of items on that laundry list of appliances could be classified as DIRTY laundry.

Or, since the REQL presents itself as a literary neo-gent, "poet and essayist ... [and] author," let us shake our own tiny Eng. Lit. spear a little and call the dirty appliances ‘petards’ -- _i.e._, appliances capable of being deployed against Wunnerful US from whom they have been borrowed. Most likely without proper royalty payments, too, though that is rather a different neogrievance.

So then, Dr. Bones, when Party Neocomrades Rosencrantz and Guildenstern get their comeuppance in the old play, may one not describe them as "blameworthy victims" or the like without gross inaccuracy?

If perchance I got that one wrong, perhaps you could explain whether it is wrong (A) because R&G are not to be called ‘victims’, or (B) because there is no issue of ‘blame’ involved, strictly speaking, or (C) for some other reason?

And I remain, sir,
Yours for the Advancement of Qan. Lit.

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[0] Should be "Mr. Eliot’s Sunday Morning SERVICE," for Massa Tom ’10 was a High Anglican even before he perverted to Christojudaeanity from H*rv*rd Buddhism. See http://www.bartleby.com/199/23.html. (( Notice that after June there might be a problem about which ’10 it was, in the case of less notorious persons. ))


[1] You promised me, Dr. Bones, that you would ask Dr. Liddle and Capt. Scott why the poor unpoetic beast was not christened a _*potamippus_, as all analogy clearly demands that it should have been, Hippopotamus, "Horse River," being obviously the site of one those sea battles--_nautomachiai_, not *_machonautiai_!--that fall somewhere around the end of Thucydides and beginning of Xenophon.

Did you ever get an answer about it?


[2] http://www.canada-photos.com/data/media/10/new-brunswick-lighthouse_2321.jpg


[3] What do you suppose the neo-S*m*te for ‘inquistion’ is, Dr. Bones? After all, the father of _M. le président du conseil des ministres israëliennes B. de Nétanyahou_ has written on the Spanish version at length, http://tinyurl.com/yku7cz3 , and I should think his (the Daddy’s) chauvinism would forbid publication in Greater Texan alone, despite it bein’ scarcely a tract fit to edify the masses of Hyperzion.

For Modern Written Palestinian, Doniach gives [604a] _maHákimu t-taftysh al-’isbániyya_, which suggests that the late M. de Ben Yéhouda [http://tinyurl.com/ykekt8v] will have neoconcocted himself somethin’ like maybe _*pittûsh_.

But Father Zeus knows best, sir, and especially when I can’t lay my hand on that cheap paperback bilingual dictionary. (The neo-S*m*te wikipedia just transliterates our _dhimmí_ word: http://tinyurl.com/yk24yam .)


[4] http://tinyurl.com/232rwb . And further http://tinyurl.com/yfrw8jl : "Wisse is ORIGINALLY FROM MONTREAL, Canada and earned her PhD from McGill University in 1969...."

(( Somebody should advise the learnèd wikipædiatricians that "Montreal, Canada" sounds dreadfully tacky and provincial and parochial, especially when the danger of anybody this side of Rio Limbaugh FL thinkin’ first of Montreal, Pennsylvania, is negligible. ))


[5] http://tinyurl.com/yl35ldr


[6] Like "Dr. Saliba demonstrated through examples that this spirit of innovation and liberation from Greek sources was not only confined to the field of astronomy. He described that implementing Islam’s laws of inheritance requires complicated computations and these computations necessitated the development of new arithmetic tools and eventually the new discipline of algebra by Al-Khwarizmi. As a result a new discipline, _ilm-al-faraid_ (the science of inheritance) came into being, once again thanks to Islam’s unique juridical requirements. The concept of the decimal fraction was introduced, toppling the cumbersome use of Greek numerals. Dr. Saliba also showed several Latin manuscripts produced in the Middle ages that in fact wrote numerals from right to left (in keeping with the Arabic tradition) while the remainder of the text was in the usual direction from left to right. Ibn-al-Haitham (d: 1039) overthrew the old Greek model explaining how the eye sees and conjectured a model of vision that we still use today. Abu Bakr al-Razi (Latin Rhazes d: 925) had the intellectual courage of challenging the Greek master Galen and describing the clinical differences between smallpox and measles. These examples served to demonstrate that science in the Islamic world was far from being a preservation exercise, rather we glean that the incoming Greek sciences were approached with utmost criticism, were comprehensively attacked and most of the sciences, especially astronomy, were established on new footings." [http://www.khwarzimic.org/islam/report_saliba.htm]


[7] ’’That is not the way the world really works anymore. WE are an Empire now, and when WE act, WE create OUR OWN reality. And while you’re studying that reality -- judiciously, as you will -- WE will act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that’s how things will sort out. WE are history’s actors . . . and you, all of you, will be left to just study what WE do.’’

[ http://tinyurl.com/533kj ] (( It can NEVER be quoted too often, that gem! ))