I drove my last mile home today behind a beat-up Nissan Pathfinder driven by a fat Latina woman. The back of the car had two bumperstickers that said: "My child won the Monthly Attendance Award at Martin Luther King Elementary School."
I can only imagine the pride of such a parent and the life trajectory of such a child burdened with such unduly high expectations.
When asked to explain the symbolism of the bindi (the colored dot worn on the forehead of Indian women), V.S. Naipaul said: "The dot means: my head is empty." (Pg. 387)
I got into a discussion last night of young female artists on the prowl for a man to take care of them.
"Isn’t it the same for male artists (freelance writers in particular, my group)?" I was asked.
Well, no. I know very few men, if any, who are looking for a woman to financially provide for them. Most men would feel emasculated by that. A woman doesn’t feel defeminized when she seeks out a man to provide for her.
A man’s manliness is largely determined by his work. A woman’s femininity is not determined by her work.
In the late 1970s, Naipaul became obsessed with Islamic fundamentalism. He said it was a growing threat to the world, that the Iranian Islamic radicals did not want a revolution so much as an opportunity to kill their opponents and start a theocratic state.
He was right.
Naipaul wrote the book, "Among the Believers." "His thesis…was [that Islam was] innately imperialist, requiring its followers to diminish their native culture."
Quentin writes: "I can’t find the quote online, but if I can trust my memory, it was from a V.S. Naipaul interview. The author was asked how he thought the situation in the Middle East would end, and he said that it would end with "victory for one side and defeat for the other". The interviewer thought this sounded a bit harsh, to which Naipaul replied that he was not condoning the situation, that was simply what he saw."
Yes, even a rude crude bloke like me can find other people abrasive.
I must’ve changed. It must be all the Alexander Technique and yoga I’m doing. I feel different. I’m not as flip and as cynical. I no longer find the cynical pose as amusing as I once did.
I don’t believe in astrology but I don’t deny its relevance either. I’m agnostic.
But one can’t be agnostic in the way one lives. You either live as God matters or you live as if God does not matter. You either live as if astrology matters or you live as if it does not.
I live as if it did not.
But my new rebbe Guru Singh says:
We are Mercury retrograde and in the midst of an extreme period between two eclipses. This is a time for only conscious action. Here is the subtler score: the New Moon Solar Eclipse of January 25-26, 2009 and the Full Moon Lunar Eclipse of February 9, 2009 connects with a Mars/ Saturn /Uranus link within the Moon and Jupiter locked on the 8th and 11th of February. Those two days do NOTHING but meditate and relax.
As this is a binary universe–for every action there is an equal reaction–the two weeks we are reviewing here are not only a time to watch out for, but also a moment of unique opportunity. It can greatly empower anything you truly focus your attention on.
RabbiGadol: NPR has a report on some of the Pervert Rabbis of Brooklyn
RabbiGadol: Christ, there is nothing Jewish about this music.
RabbiGadol: Once, this was a place of torah
RabbiGadol: Now, it is the domain of Vishnu
RabbiGadol: This is why we don’t trust "converts"
RabbiGadol: Luke, the rabbis are talking
RabbiGadol: NPR ran a piece on pedophile rabbis in Brooklyn
RabbiGadol: People who otherwise would not have heard of this shanda are talking about it
RabbiGadol: This music is full of pagan lures
RabbiGadol: She is no Debbi Friedman
RabbiGadol: You should visit India, become a Yogi
RabbiGadol: Judaism never did fit you
RabbiGadol: The further you are from it, the happier you are.
RabbiGadol: The rabbis, too.
RabbiGadol: Yes, look at you! Are you ever this happy when in shul?
RabbiGadol: Pure goy joy
RabbiGadol: Ugh….You are just making it hard on real converts
Vishnu: Have you ever banged an Indian?
Vishnu: Maybe they have a JDate for Hindoo?
Vishnu: For THIS two temples had to fall?
Vishnu: Visit me in India.
Vishnu: Your new Motherland
Vishnu: And I shall provide you with a bride
Vishnu: With 6 arms
Vishnu: She keeps singing the same thing over and over, and for all your understanding of it, it might was well be in Hebrew
DrWilliamPierce: Why not return to your own kind?
YourMoralLeader: i like them darkies
DrWilliamPierce: Do you really?
DrWilliamPierce: Or is it that you cannot get a proper Aryan, like Holly Randal
DrWilliamPierce: More racially treasonous music.
DrWilliamPierce: Would that there were proper white women here. Holly or Emma
guest8: Where are those two these days?
YourMoralLeader: emma’ s got her own place
YourMoralLeader: holly has a nice british BF
DrWilliamPierce: "emma’s got her own place" – this is how Luke characterizes the crawlspace beneath his hovel
YourMoralLeader: gonna give my CFS to wehe guru
guest18: and luke has his yoga
DrWilliamPierce: He’s done with Judaism. and that is a good thing
guest18: and his gay music
guest18: doing yoga with tzizit…how revolting
DrWilliamPierce: I don’t think that’s what he is wearing
guest18: shema yisrael ada…
guest18: what is that shmata called?
DrWilliamPierce: Luke has confided to me that he has small idols that he prays to
guest18: his wee wee?
DrWilliamPierce: In fact, he is facing and praying to one now.
guest18: why can’t he just go mainstream for gods sake
DrWilliamPierce: Soon he wil be a yogi in India
DrWilliamPierce: He informs me that he has selected a name. Yogi Bear
DrWilliamPierce: He will collect a substantial following in India.
DrWilliamPierce: Including females of the sort he could never get here
guest18: indian women smell
guest18: but he will "curry" favor with them
DrWilliamPierce: Indian cooking is tops
DrWilliamPierce: Especially for a vegetarian like Luke
guest18: yeah give up that kosher crap
DrWilliamPierce: The next logical step: a visit to India
DrWilliamPierce: Luke is 90% of the way out of Judaism
DrWilliamPierce: Yogic Faith is the way out
guest18: he will then start a deepark chopra knockoff in his hovel
DrWilliamPierce: and $$$$$$ will flow in
guest18: he couldn’t make it with the jewish chicks
DrWilliamPierce: He was meant to be with Hollly
DrWilliamPierce: But messed that up
guest18: I TOTALLY AGREE !!!"
guest18: this was the woman for him
guest18: she was his soul mate
guest18: and he f**ked that up
DrWilliamPierce: They were perfect for him
guest18: a shidduch made in non jewish heaven
DrWilliamPierce: She could have provided him with an environment in which to indulge his writerly fantasies
DrWilliamPierce: Just as her mother did her father
guest18: and she was sweet smart sexy and was willing
DrWilliamPierce: AND she would have given him a fine home, children, and many sex partners of the desired gender
guest18: he will never get another holly again..
DrWilliamPierce: Luke woud not have had to do anything
DrWilliamPierce: Oh well – Holly has long since moved on
guest18: as the famous neil diamond said….holly holy night
DrWilliamPierce: And Luke is trying to. Hence yoga, not judaism
guest18: pray dear luke ….the young hot women will not succumb to your charms
guest18: as you do not have a pot to pish in
guest18: or in your case piss in
guest8: Do you two have a life outside of this chatroom?
He’s had a good innings. Three kids, two grandkids, thousands of people who adore him. He’s the subject of a flattering new biography.
I saw him a couple of months ago at Loma Linda University.
I haven’t been back to Australia since 2000 to see the rest of my family.
David Deutsch emails:
Luke, I’m flattered by what you said about preferring to be abused by me than praised by a milquetoast, but really, I love you as much as ever.
The only truly objectionable passage was your reference to how his mistresses must have accepted his abuse because he was a great writer. I think it fair to say that the vast majority of women being abused don’t stay with their abusers because the latter are brilliant, or clever or artistic, and I presume most of them are not. That Naipaul was a great writer doesn’t mean that in the comfort and privacy of his own abusive relationships he was tossing off bon mots as opposed to simply telling his current masturbation tool that her breasts were getting saggy and that a great man such as himself deserved a perkier pair. I’d have a lot more to say about all of this, but the best part of the posting was:
"I often say outrageous things, but I do this to start conversations, not to end them. If I am talking to someone I don’t care for, I usually won’t go to the bother of saying something outrageous."
Thus, I’m going to presume I don’t actually have to rant about how screwed up abusers and abusees are, because you doubtlessly already know (and nobody is more adept at self-abuse in all its forms as Luke Ford), and that this, to borrow from Elvis, is the wonder, the wonder of you.
I liked the thing about Trinidadian trash talking–I think you need to reclaim your black heritage. The next time people object to something you say, just speak authoritatively about how "In Trinidad, that’s just the way people" and let them fill in the blanks.
But the highest praise I can offer is that I’ve reached the age of 39 without either reading or wanting to read Naipaul, and now I want to.
I sat next to an Aussie in shul on Shabbos.
He’s seen "Shane Warne The Musical." He said it was shmutzy.
"What do you expect?" I said.
He said he was at a breakfast a few years ago where Shane Warne came in after partying all night and with a cigarette in one hand, gave an amusing speech. Then that day at the MCG, Shane took seven wickets!
Shame that propriety kept Warne from captaining Australia.
Was Naipaul’s great writing worth the sin of his passionate illicit relationship with Margaret of Argentina?
Perhaps what I need to spark my writing is a good affair. Such a shame I am so moral, so corralled by the Holy Torah.
Naipaul says about meeting Margaret when he was 40: "I was passionately looking for sensual fulfillment, but passionately, and when it came it was wonderful, and I will never run it down. All the later books in a way to some extent depend on her. They stopped being dry… The books stopped being dry after Margaret, and it was a great liberation… Nothing was missing. The world was complete for me."
I’m reading the latest triumph by Patrick French: "The World is What it is: The Authorized Biography of V.S. Naipaul"
The vice of the English working class is fornication, of the middle class it is adultery and of the upper class, it is incest.
As for my life, it is but grim duty. I buy the meanest kisses at famine prices. (Thomas Hardy)
Naipaul said about his affair that it killed his wife: "I was liberated. She was destroyed. It was inevitable."
"Margaret was Vidia’s ideal woman, a woman of a kind who had existed previously only in his fantasy life: he could string her along and mistreat her, with her abject consent."
An Italian friend, Marisa Masters, told Vidia not to leave his wife. To have an affair instead. "I tell him I understand a writer needs to get a bit of knowledge."
"Margaret gave him sensual fulfillment, Pat the cerebral equivalent. Like Graham Greene and Catherine Watson, they would meet in unlikely locations around the world for sex and excitement while the travelling writer went about his business."
"She said he should not think she would be willing to hop over to England every few months to satisfy his carnal desires, although she rued the fact that only he seemed to be capable of satisfying hers."
"No other man could give her the sensations he gave her. She said she had done things to Vido that would have made her sick with anybody else, and yet she still longed for the time when she could do them again."
