David Jones, artist and poet (1895-1974) begins his PREFACE TO THE ANATHEMATA :

'I have made a heap of all that I could find.' (1) So wrote Nennius, or whoever composed the introductory matter to Historia Brittonum. He speaks of an 'inward wound' which was caused by the fear that certain things dear to him 'should be like smoke dissipated'. Further, he says, 'not trusting my own learning, which is none at all, but partly from writings and monuments of the ancient inhabitants of Britain, partly from the annals of the Romans and the chronicles of the sacred fathers, Isidore, Hieronymous, Prosper, Eusebius and from the histories of the Scots and Saxons although our enemies . . . I have lispingly put together this . . . about past transactions, that [this material] might not be trodden under foot'. (2)

(1) The actual words are coacervavi omne quod inveni, and occur in Prologue 2 to the Historia.
(2) Quoted from the translation of Prologue 1. See The Works of Gildas and Nennius, J.A.Giles, London 1841.


15 July 2013

Let's think about it...

     
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QUESTION:

Isn't having a market-based system, though, quite within the philosophy of the Coalition? Indeed, Howard and the thesis by Greg Hunt in the past? Isn't that kind of what needs to happen?

TONY ABBOTT:

This is not a true market. Just ask yourself what an emissions trading scheme is all about. It's a market, a so-called market, in the non-delivery of an invisible substance to no-one.

QUESTION:

Isn’t that like financial markets?

TONY ABBOTT:

I mean let's think about it. It is a market in the non-delivery of an invisible substance to no-one and look...


 - Tony Abbott, Leader of the Opposition
   Monday 15 July 2013 



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