are often difficult to use, are expensive, and can result in excessive heating resulting in deformation, uneven heat distribution and decomposition.
When the materials to be bonded are thermoplastic polymer composites, they can be joined by simply heating the interface by means of a heating element or hot plate to a temperature sufficient to allow them to be forged together when the heating source is removed. Similarly, the interface can be heated radiantly. However, these techniques have the disadvantage of being limited to the joining of small structures, the physical size being limited by the size of the hot plates, infrared lamps, and other similar heat sources. Furthermore, the bond line is often located in positions so to be inaccessible to such heating devices. In addition to the abovetwo pieces of thermoplastic conduit together by fusing them to each other and to a thermoplastic sleeve surrounding the conduit joint. Sindt (U.S. Pat. No. 4,120,712) uses an induction heating device to produce eddy-current heating in steel shims to melt a hot-melt adhesive covering the outer surface of the shim.
The use of a metallic element made from wires, films, screens and the like for direct resistance and induction heating has the disadvantage of introducing a foreign material into the thermoplastic joint. In hostile environments, corrosion and seepage in association with the metallic material can lead to deterioration and delamination of the plastic joint.
Rather than using a metallic element, Thorsrud (U.S. Pat. No. 4,707,402) uses electrically conductive particulate materials such as carbon black, metal oxides and mineral powders in


and effective bonding. The upper composite material is bulk heated more readily near the upper surface (the surface nearest to the induction coil) with heat flow downward through the composite to the bond line. As such, the induction heating must be applied slowly to avoid overheating of the composite surface nearest the induction coil and pressure must be applied to the substrates in order to insure good contact between the relatively cool lower substrate and the downward heat flow from the bulk heated upper composite substrate. Such bulk heating causes the composites to delaminate and the fiber layers to distort. To avoid such delamination and fiber-layer distortion, the outer surfaces of the composite and substrate must be pressurized from both sides during and/or immediately after the welding operation.
Burkein converting a weapon
into a machinegun, and any combination of parts from which a ma-
chinegun can be assembled if such parts are in the possession or under the
control of a person.” 26 U.S.C. § 5845(b). The 1968 Act borrows the same
definition for the term where it is used in the 1968 Act. 18 U.S.C.
§ 921(a)(23).
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punishment “if the firearm possessed … is a machinegun.”
Similarly, § 924(c)(1)(C)(ii) imposes a more severe penalty for
a second § 924(c) conviction “if the


a demonstration.
Because the indictment charged Kelerchian not with
conspiring to make and making any false statement to the ATF
but with conspiring to make and making specific false
statements to the ATF, the government was required to
produce evidence showing that the specific false statements
were in fact made and failed to do so. We disagree.
    The letters said the Sheriﬀ’s Department was “interested
in a demonstration” of several listed guns and had found a
dealer, Kelerchian, who had “oﬀered to conduct such a
demonstration.”       The     letters   explained     that    the
“demonstration[s] will give [the] department personnel a
better understanding of the capabilities, limitations, and
diﬀerences of these [requested] guns.” From the content of
these letters, a reasonable juryand money laundering in vi-
olation of § 1956 and § 1957 was the substantive oﬀense in
Count IX’s conspiracy charge.
    To establish a conspiracy to commit an oﬀense against the
United States in violation of § 371, the government must
prove “(1) an agreement to commit an oﬀense against the
United States; (2) an overt act in furtherance of the conspiracy;
and (3) knowledge of the conspiratorial purpose.” United
States v. Soy, 454 F.3d 766, 768 (7th Cir. 2006). The government
must show only “that the conspirators agreed that the under-
lying crime be committed. … In other words, each conspirator
must have specifically intended that some conspirator commit
each element of the substantive oﬀense.” Ocasio v. United
States, 136 S. Ct. 1423, 1432 (2016). “[T]he fundamental char-
acteristic of a conspiracy is a joint commitment to


Breast filariasis: real-time sonographic imaging of the filarial dance.
A 50-year-old woman presented with a palpable tender nodule in the upper quadrant of the breast that was clinically thought to be a fibroadenoma, with mammographic findings of a well-defined lobulated density. Sonographic examination revealed a "filarial dance sign" within the cystic lesion, which is diagnostic of lymphatic breast filariasis. In endemic areas, sonographic examination is recommended to search for this pathognomonic real-time diagnostic feature and, if present, to initiate treatment without delay.will be the result.

Luncheon should be omitted unless very hungry.

SUMMER MENU

_OBESITY--IRREGULAR HEART ACTION NERVOUSNESS_

BREAKFAST

    Melon, peaches, or berries
    Tender fish, broiled
    A new potato or a bran muffin

LUNCHEON

    Corn or beans
    A salad--lettuce or celery

DINNER

    A light soup--vegetable
    Eggplant, okra, beans, or squash
    Bran gems or a potato
    Nuts, with a lettuce salad

FALL MENU

_OBESITY--IRREGULAR HEART ACTION NERVOUSNESS_

/First Day/: Immediately on rising, drink a cup of hot water,
followed by a cup of cool water. Devote as much time as possible (from
three to ten minutes) to such exercises as can be endured. (See Vol. V,
pp. 1343 to 1346.) Inflate lungs to their utmost


three tablespoonfuls of wheat bran

DINNER

    Celery or vegetable salad, with nuts and oil
    Turnips, carrots, winter squash, or onions;
      preferably en casserole
    A bit of very tender fish or white meat of
      chicken
    A potato or a corn muffin

For cooking en casserole, see p. 671, Vol. III.

MENUS FOR ANEMIA

SPRING MENU FOR A YOUTH

_ANEMIA--MALASSIMILATION--UNDERWEIGHT--NO APPETITE_

The following menus should be carefully adhered to for two or three
days, or until normal hunger is produced:

BREAKFAST

    Prunes or dried peaches
    Bananas, nuts, or nut butter
    A pint of rich milk

LUNCHEON

    A light vegetable, such as boiled onions, peas,
    with a little sugar
    One egg whipped, or a glass       A baked potato
      of milk. (Both, if the          One fresh vegetable
      appetite will accept them)
    A baked potato--sweet or
      white

It would be preferable to make the entire meal (dinner) upon whipped
eggs, if they appeal to the taste.

For "Choice of Menus," see p. 683, Vol. III.

WINTER MENU

FOR THE YOUTH

_ANEMIA--MALASSIMILATION--UNDERWEIGHT--NO APPETITE_

BREAKFAST

    A cup of chocolate or cocoa, or warm milk
    Steamed wheat, farina, or corn hominy

LUNCHEON

    Vegetable soup
    Fish


merely a form of congestion
throughout the capillary vessels of the body. It may have been caused
by exposure--a draft of cold air blowing upon some exposed part
of the body, in which case Nature closes the pores of the skin in
self-defense. The poisons that are constantly being eliminated through
the pores are thus prevented from escaping through these channels, and
are picked up by the circulation, and carried to the lungs to be burned
with oxygen. The lung capacity being too limited, or the amount of
poison too great, Nature suppurates these poisons and throws them off
in the form of mucus.

[Sidenote: Cause 2]

When a quantity of food, greater than the body can use, is taken and
ingested into the circulation, the excess is carried to the lungs in
the same manner as above described, and thebody, while the same quantity of water taken
from two to three hours after a meal, will nearly all pass off in the
form of urine.

MENUS FOR NASAL CATARRH

LATE SPRING AND EARLY SUMMER

_NASAL CATARRH_

Sweet orange, cherries, or very ripe grapefruit just after rising.

BREAKFAST

    Three or four egg whites, whipped five minutes,
      to which add two teaspoonfuls each of lemon juice
      and sugar, while whipping
    One very ripe banana, or plain boiled wheat,
      with nuts

LUNCHEON

    A green salad, with tomatoes and oil
    One fresh vegetable--peas or beans
    Corn bread--butter
    Buttermilk

DINNER

    Spinach, kale, young cabbage, or


                 A cantaloup

LATE FALL AND EARLY WINTER

_NASAL CATARRH_

    MENU I                             MENU II

BREAKFAST

    Grapes                             One very ripe banana with
    Bran gems                           One fresh vegetable                Choice of one or two fresh
    A baked sweet or white               vegetables
      potato                           A glass of buttermilk
    A very small portion of fish       Corn bread--a very little

DINNER

    Choice of two fresh vegetables     Choice of two fresh vegetables
    Two glasses of milk or a


Leathernecks. He spent nearly four years at a small Illinois daily newspaper before joining The Republic in Columbus, Ind., in 1994. There, he covered the “courts and cops” beat, and reported news from nearby towns by traipsing through the hinterlands of southeastern Indiana.

In his spare time, Scott enjoys reading history books, riding bicycles, running and—most importantly—watching baseball and cheering on the Chicago White Sox. Scott also serves on the Zionsville West Middle School PTO Board. He lives in Zionsville with his wife and two daughters, along with two cats and a spoiled Chihuahua.

Multimedia

Videos

Nominations

Events

On Tuesday, April 24 IBJ & Indiana University will host Education-to-Employment (E2E) Convergence, a panel discussion focused on how Indiana can build a talent strategy around a more highly educated workforce. E2E will identify examples ofthe 1,994 women screened, 1,310 (66%) were enrolled in the study (871 HIV-positive and 439 HIV-negative). After enrollment, the core visit included a physical examination with complete gynecologic exam and specimen collection. Blood was tested for CD4+ T lymphocyte cells (CD4+) count and HIV viral load at 6-month intervals.

HPV DNA Detection and Classification {#s2c}
------------------------------------

HPV testing was performed on all HERS women at enrollment and every 6 months thereafter using cervicovaginal lavage samples. Viral DNA fragments from cervicovaginal lavage were amplified by using the consensus primers MY09/11 and HMB01 and were hybridized for a consensus probe and for 26 HPV types HR-HPV: 16, 18, 26, 31, 33, 35, 39, 45, 51, 52, 56, 58, 59, 66, 68, 73, and 82 and LR-HPV: 6, 11, 40, 42, 53, 54, 55,


were available for analysis. Since SNPs in the ImmunoChip are mostly in the fine-mapped regions with high linkage disequilibrium (LD), correction for multiple testing was performed based on the effective number of tests which resulted after pairwise correlations between markers, as previously described [@pone.0099109-Moskvina1]. Based on this matrix, there were 94,307 effective tests among African Americans, 93,164 among European Americans, and 96,967 among Hispanics that resulted in adjusted p-value corrections of 5.30×10^−7^, 5.37×10^−7^, and 5.16×10^−7^, respectively. Additionally, among the SNPs common in all three ethnic groups, there were 80,510 effective numbers of tests (adjusted p value = and 6.21×10^−7^).

Statistical Analysis {#s2f}
--------------------

Cox proportional hazard models with the Wei-Lin-Weisfeld (WLW) extension [@pone.0099109-Xue1] were used to assess the influence of all SNPs (individually) with clearance of HR-HPV [@pone.0099109-Sudenga3]. This approach can simultaneously analyzeC.) European Americans only, and D.) Hispanics only.](pone.0099109.g001){#pone-0099109-g001}

10.1371/journal.pone.0099109.t001

###### Cox proportional Hazard Ratios (HR) for the SNPS associated with time to clearance of high-risk (HR-HPV) HPV infection in the race-adjusted analysis, individual race-specific analysis, and pooled analysis of the three races separately.

![](pone.0099109.t001){#pone-0099109-t001-1}

                                                                                Race-Adjusted


HPV persistence/clearance among HIV patients; thus it was adjusted as a time-varying covariate. Also, none of the top hits in [table 1](#pone-0099109-t001){ref-type="table"} was associated with CD4+ change over time of infection, suggesting that these are independent SNP associations. The most significant association with time to clearance of HR-HPV in the adjusted analysis was seen with several SNPs located on chromosome 1 within the *MAGI3* gene region: rs1112085, rs11102637, and rs12030900 (in LD). The minor alleles for these SNPs in LD were associated with faster time (days) to clearance. MAGI-3 is part of the membrane-associated guanylate kinases (MAGUK) family of proteins that have inverted domain structure, and are part of the PDZ domain-containing proteins, which are localized between epithelial cells [@pone.0099109-Thomas1], [@pone.0099109-Ainsworth1]. The E6 protein of HPV inhibits cellular[@pone.0099109-Lee2], which inhibits the proliferation of most epithelial cells [@pone.0099109-Lee2]. The E7 protein of HPV has been shown *in vivo* to block SMAD3 by binding to its target sequence of DNA, which then also inhibits TFG-β for inhibiting DNA synthesis [@pone.0099109-Lee2]. Again, women in our cohort that had the minor allele for the SNP in UTR of SMAD3 cleared the HPV infection faster than those with the major allele. We hypothesize that the major allele variant may interact with HPV differently and therefore increase time to clearance.

Interestingly, the most significant association with time to clearance of HR-HPV in the African Americans analysis was with the SNP rs1633038 located on chromosome 6. The minor allele for SNP rs1633038 was associated with faster time (days) to clearance 1.9 times (HR = 1.89,


for European Americans and Hispanics were small, so any race specific associations need further evaluations in larger cohorts. Several SNPs that were significantly associated in multiple races independently seem interesting, even for smaller sample size. Few other SNPs have been shown to be significantly associated with HPV clearance in another cohort of HIV+ adolescents (REACH); however, most were not included in the ImmunoChip and of the few included (e.g. rs228942 and rs9292618) [@pone.0099109-Sudenga3], they were not significantly associated with HPV clearance in HERS. REACH comprised of adolescents also at early period of infection and HERS only had adults, mostly after several years of infection and thus may indicate different network of immune-related genes involved in the two scenarios and will need caution in interpretation requiring further research.

Of note,the MHC region as well as other regions so this may explain the deviation. Since the SNPs are close together, they are in high LD and therefore result in similar p-values. To our knowledge, the majority of genetic studies model the association using logistic regression, and the same assumptions of the Q-Q plot may not hold for the Cox proportional hazard model. The results could reflect a true association since we are assessing the association between a virus and immune related genes; therefore, we would expect a complex network of genes to play a role in clearance of HR-HPV and our significant findings are biologically plausible. Such an approach and methods have not been used often, specifically with high density SNP analyses; thus, it is difficult to interpret


Scott Holmberg, M.D., Denise Jamieson, M.D., Caroline C. King, Ph.D., Jan Moore, Ph.D., Ruby Phelps, B.S., Dawn Smith, M.D., and Dora Warren, Ph.D. from the CDC; and Katherine Davenny, Ph.D. from the National Institute of Drug Abuse.

**Disclaimer**

The findings and conclusions in this report are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official position of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and other affiliated institutes.

[^1]: **Competing Interests:**The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

[^2]: Conceived and designed the experiments: SLS CCK AMR SC RSK KVS JDS DJJ SS. Performed the experiments: SLS SS. Analyzed the data: SLS HWW SS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HWW CCK DJJ SS. Wrote the paper: SLS SS. Reviewed and edited the manuscript: HWW CCK AMR SC RSK KVS JDS DJJ.
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“The reach on one of our pre-game videos was about half a million people, and we found [the live stream] increased traffic to our main website when our fear was that it would erode it,” he said. “Our [next] goal [with Facebook Live] is to enrich the game day experience by delivering the fan perspective while the game is on, or club-specific commentary that’s not in breach of the broadcasting right.”

Maxworthy believes branded content that natively matches the Facebook Live stream will be most successful.

For example, it created a branded reel with an Australian cinema brand HOYTS that aggregated fan content, game highlights and a single movie review.

“The theme


(seldom or sometimes OR = 1. 550, P = 0. 002, often or always OR = 1. 754, P = 0. 004), internet addiction (OR = 1. 901, P =0. 004), fight (OR = l.785, P = 0. 000)and current smoking (OR = 4. 016, P = 0. 000). The risk factor of suicidal ideation were lonely(seldom or sometimes OR = 1. 823, P =0. 010, often or always OR = 4. 445, P =0. 000), depression (OR = 3. 226, P = 0. 000) and only child (OR = 1. 612, P = 0. 003), the protective factor was schoolboy (OR =0. 648, P = 0. 000). The risk factor of internet addiction were schoolboy (OR = 2. 480, P = 0. 000) depression (OR = 2.spindled, pleomorphic or osteosarcomatous phenotypes, it characteristically contains an anaplastic component \[[@B1],[@B17]\].

The most effective treatment modality for chondrosarcoma is surgery with wide en-bloc resection with an adequate histologically clear margin, the type of surgery depends on histologic grade, tumor extension and location \[[@B1],[@B13]\]. Irradiation and chemotherapy do not appear to have a significant effect on survival and they should be used for palliative purposes \[[@B1],[@B13]\]. The treatment of metastases in the thyroid gland is controversial because the prognosis is basically poor, depending on the primary sites. Thyroidectomy is invasive and may not be effective in prolonging survival time; however, it may help preserve the quality of life in case of extension to surrounding tissues \[[@B2],[@B10]\].

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Even if primary and metastatic chondrosarcomas of the thyroid gland are exceptional, they should


– for example, the scenes with Mrs. Leonidas are a bit of a drag, but I guess they’re necessary to punctuate the action of the battle scenes – but really, you’d be hard pressed to find a more entertaining film this spring. 300 is the best action film released in the last couple of years, and what’s more it does it with class and originality. Go and see it now.

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Also, the mixture of a look that is sort of modern-era (there are elements from each of the last 3 or so decades in her style channeled through a specifically early nineties bent) and a very stylized architecture of a very specific past epoch is really lovely.

this is a lady with a really beautiful face, she would look good in anything! for me the look is


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my siblings and me – eventually joined him. All of us are US citizens now except my mom who is a permanent resident.

“I’ve loved soccer most of my life. In Yemen, there was nothing else to do. We’d play soccer from morning till the sun went down. In 2006, everybody was playing, everybody was enjoying soccer. When I went back in 2012 to visit family, I noticed nobody is playing the sport, there is war so nobody is outside playing. The places where we played soccer were a little destroyed or occupied by forces.

“I’ve played Division II soccer and now I’m playing Division III. In my community I’m the only one playing college right now. I still hope I have a chance of making it. I’m actually thinkingthere – every different color, race, everything. If the president stops that, he’s really destroying the image of American society.

Hassan Nazari, 62, Iran

Nazari was the defensive anchor for Iran at the 1978 World Cup before he left his homeland in 1979 after the Iranian Revolution. He went on to play in the UAE and Qatar before arriving in the US in 1985. Since then, Nazari has built one of the country’s most respected development academies, the Dallas Texans, helping produce a string of top stars, including Clint Dempsey and Omar Gonzalez.

“Every country has the right to create a safe environment for their citizens. What I believe is they should do so in a proper way. For people with documents and who have gone through the process, they should


song. TrekMovie’s Christine Rideout (aka Starfleetmom) made a fun recording of her Amazon Echo singing the Star Trek theme and teaching some Klingon.

Hard to say who won that trivia, but probably not James Frain — Klingville? Seriously? And there was some impressive Trek awareness by Mary Wise and Anthony Rapp.

The world celebrates Star Trek Day

#StarTrekDay was a trending hashtag on Twitter today with many fans celebrating their love for the franchise which took them to strange new worlds. We have gathered some tweets from a few prominent people and institutions showing their love.

The ultimate Star Trek supercut

Danish Star Trek fan Johan Albrechtsen of Moovy.dk sent in a link to his brand new supercut tribute to Star Trek, made to celebrate the 51st anniversary. This great new video spansthe entire franchise on film and TV, including Star Trek: Discovery.

How do you celebrate Star Trek Day?

What were your favorite moments from Star Trek Day? Are you celebrating with a cellular peptide cake? Does it have mint frosting? Let us know in the comment section below, or tweet us @TrekMovie.

]]>https://trekmovie.com/2017/09/08/netflix-reveals-most-popular-episodes-shatner-trolls-alexa-sings-and-more-star-trek-day-fun/feed/75Revealed: Doctor Who’s Peter Capaldi Auditioned For Sisko In ‘Star Trek: Deep Space Nine’https://trekmovie.com/2017/09/07/revealed-doctor-whos-peter-capaldi-auditioned-for-sisko-in-star-trek-deep-space-nine/
https://trekmovie.com/2017/09/07/revealed-doctor-whos-peter-capaldi-auditioned-for-sisko-in-star-trek-deep-space-nine/#commentsThu, 07 Sep 2017 22:19:39 +0000http://trekmovie.com/?p=50644The anonymous team behind the Twitter Account @trekdocs regularly reveals documents from Star Trek’s long history (see TrekMovie interview from earlier this year on more about them). Today they posted notes from a 1992 UK casting session for main characters in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. The list includes Alexendar Siddig (under his real name Siddig El Fadil) who landed the


and licensing process to see if we will include segments from these auditions in the film, and if they will serve our story at large, but our team has had a great time watching these alternate takes from other great performers and hope we’ll be able to share at least a selection with the DS9 fanbase.”

He was also able to share an additional image of Capaldi’s audition which comes are courtesy of a VHS tape from Ira Steven Behr’s personal collection which was recently uncovered through the project.

Another shot from Capaldi’s DS9 audition

That What We Left Behind doc should arrive by this time next year. For more infomraiton visit ds9documentary.com.

]]>https://trekmovie.com/2017/09/07/revealed-doctor-whos-peter-capaldi-auditioned-for-sisko-in-star-trek-deep-space-nine/feed/18Interview: William Shatner On Why ‘Star Trek II’ Worked, If He Would Appear In ‘Discovery,’ And Morehttps://trekmovie.com/2017/09/06/interview-william-shatner-on-why-star-trek-ii-worked-if-he-would-appear-in-discovery-and-more/
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I have found directing documentaries really entertaining and informative for me, so I follow a question and try and make points of it. My entré seems to be science fiction or space, so I am actively attempting to sell documentaries pertaining to that. I have three projects that I am actively pursuing. None are Star Trek per se, but science-fiction and science. Such as the guy who began JPL is a fascinating character and I want to do a documentary on his life. There are a lot of young, talented people at NASA, and I want to do a documentary on them. And the list goes on.

William Shatner with Professor


a sort of mentor to Burnham and can apparently dispense advice via hologram wherever she goes.

The exact nature of their relationship still isn’t clear. Did she grow up on Vulcan? We don’t know yet, but as someone who has known Sarek for decades, it makes sense that she might also know Sarek’s son Spock. So don’t be surprised if you hear Spock’s name get dropped on the show, and maybe they know each other and he’ll send his friend a subspace message. If nothing else, Michael and Spock can commiserate about how Sarek is so darned hard to please.

6. They spent a lot of money on the pilot

Last week we told you that the head of CBS Interactive describedStar Trek: Discovery as “cinematic.” He wasn’t kidding! The wordthe bridge I see an oval shape, a captain’s chair, a couple of consoles behind and ahead of the captain, and a ring of duty stations with most of the crew facing a large viewscreen. To me, all the core elements of a quintessential Star Trek bridge are there, right down to the questionable Starfleet philosophy generally not requiring any seat restraints, even though the inertial dampeners are sure to act up at some point.

If you were to show any casual observer of pop culture scenes from this bridge, they would almost certainly immediately identify it as Star Trek, even if they had no idea that this was from a new TV show. They would also probably accept this as what a science fiction space ship could look


affect your chances of survival?

Trinneer graciously gave us some of his time to talk about what he expects from the event, and reminisce with us about his days as Chief Engineer Charles “Trip” Tucker on Enterprise.

The Math of Khan

TrekMovie: How did you get involved with The Math of Khan event?

Connor Trinneer: Well initially I’d met David, who’s one of the board members and founders of the museum. He was in Vegas with his daughter last year, [and I] got to know him a little bit, and then got a call from out of the blue. Cindy, the woman who was organizing this, said they’re doing “The Math of Khan” and would I be interested in doing the intro to this guy’s speech? And I thought, ‘Sure! Why not?’

Thea little one walked in here and had to shut this hatch? He could cut his finger off!’” I’m not sure that’s the exact dialogue but it was something to that effect.

So that was one of those WTF moments of “What am I gonna do here?” And the other one was when I had to play myself when I was cloned. There had to be some subtle nuances that were different enough that you realized what you were watching wasn’t quite Trip. And that’s the minute work of an actor where you find these things; it didn’t even matter if anybody recognized it, I did. And trying to find the click on the dial that’s one off the original character.

But they were absolute joys to do. Anytime you


sorts of things. But the people involved, it’s such an important franchise for [them], that they’ve got a lot of fingers in that pie to get it right. Sometimes that can be a bad thing but I think that there’s enough people involved that know what they’re doing that they’ll be in good shape. I’m excited about it.

TM: We are too! So what was the biggest surprise for you when you first became a part of this franchise?

CT: The conventions! (laughs)

In all honesty, the work is the work. You’re an actor, you go in there, you put on your costume, you create a character, and you go do your thing. But it was the conventions that were the big shocker to me, I didn’t know what to expect.

I,not have happened. I imagine that, I don’t know that for a fact. One of the things they had to do was to involve us into the web of the history and the chronology of the show. And one of the ways they did that was by making sure the Captain lived. And why they did what they did, I don’t know.

What would have happened? He would have boldly gone on!

TM: He could go on to Discovery. He could show up there, it would work.

CT: Anything can happen! I’ve thought about this. I’m like, “Could I be like Obi Wan, or R2D2, or Princess Leia, when they do a little video presentation of certain things you need to know, and all of a sudden Trip’ll pop up?”

He’s dead


Netflix in the US and globally. Directed and produced by Craig Thompson, who also co-produced Shatner’s The Captains in 2011 and Chaos on the Bridge in 2014, The Truth Is in the Stars moves away from looking at the making of Star Trek to a focus the franchise’s influence. In this film, Shatner narrates and travels the world for a series of interviews with celebrity Trek fans as well as brilliant, groundbreaking scientists.

William Shatner and Neil deGrasse Tyson in “The Truth Is in the Stars” documentary

Mini Review

William Shatner is the perfect host for this doc that explores the intersection of imagination and science. Whether he’s bringing sandwiches to Seth MacFarlane (“This is the greatest deli sandwich you’ve ever had!”), asking Whoopi Goldberg how Star Trek changed her visionthrill when he makes Hawking laugh.

For all of the fun he has had poking fun at his Star Trek image over the years, he spends the time in this doc showing how important it is, too, and how inspiring the show has been for the dreamers and scientists who are out there exploring theoretical physics and space itself.

William Shatner with Stephen Hawking in “The Truth is in the Stars”

The Truth is in the Stars debuts Sunday, March 19 at 8:30 p.m. ET on The Movie Network in Canada. There will be multiple re-airings and the documentary will be available on TMN GO and The Movie Network OnDemand. For more info visit themovienetwork.ca.

Trailer

Doc airs Sunday in Canada, coming to Netflix soon

While Canadians get to see the new documentary first


future treks to the Federation would be on the way! Excellent!

Alas, my dream store faded away after I moved from Brooklyn to New Rochelle, NY. In 1977, The Federation Trading Post closed the doors of its Manhattan store. After that, The Federation Trading Post West opened in California and was strictly a mail-order catalogue business. I’m pretty sure the mail-order business has been defunct for years now.

For all of you who were lucky to have had the experience of the Federation Trading Post, especially at that real “kid age,” you can relate to all of this. It really was a special place for us fans. For all of you who didn’t get a chance to visit this once upon a time midtown magic, I wish you could have!

]]>https://trekmovie.com/2017/02/23/remembering-the-federation-trading-post-the-1970s-nyc-star-trek-mecca/feed/61Forgottenmarauders called the Klingons, uh, Kreeg. The Kreeg are a race of mutant humanoids who loved smoke-spewing custom cars and flashy neofascist fashion seven years before The Road Warrior committed to the whole post-apocalyptic drag racing thing. While the Kreeg are obviously inspired by Klingons, their sagittal bumps inspired the makeup used to depict Klingons in The Motion Picture. The look was probably created by Robert Kinoshita, the film’s art director and a master designer whose credits include Forbidden Planet and Lost in Space.

Nets and punches are thrown, stun guns are fired, rifles are rejected, and, dum, dum, dum, the only black guy gets shot. You didn’t see that coming, did you? The wounded minority in question is Pater Kimbridge, previously a major character played by the amazing


like something out of a Gene Autry film. They have no medicine and don’t even know how to dig an irrigation channel. The Motion Picture features several Native Americans in the rec room briefing scene wearing feathered and beaded headgear with their uniforms – single examples of traditionalism in a sea of culturally neutral officers and crew. Fast forward to The Next Generation episode “Journey’s End” and you have American tribes still running from the white man and doing a mishmash of rituals that belong to no one tribe. They’re as embarrassingly stereotypical as that colony of leprechauns was in “Up the Long Ladder”.

Kimbridge requires a kind of medical attention that only two people on the planet can perform. One is so far away even the subshuttle couldn’tretrieve him in time. The closer one disappeared out near “Women’s Country” over a year earlier. Hunt licks his lips, fixes his combover, and assembles his team. Women’s Country, here we come! But not all is well and good in the land of the Amazons. Hunt is horrified to learn that the men there are used as pack animals who are tied by the neck and sold as chattel. “Women’s lib gone mad!” Hunt proclaims!

Dominatrix lead societies are something Roddenberry couldn’t get enough of. The concept first appears in his original 1964 series pitch “Star Trek Is…” with no less than two episode summaries exploring it. The first was called “The Venus Planet” and featured a race of women looking to entrap and possibly enslave men through their


as his oppressor, Bele. In the end they are said to be both equally responsible for destroying their world. But that’s not a fair conclusion. What are the oppressed supposed to do? How exactly do you compromise with a side that considers you to be only three-fifths of a person? Settle for being three-quarters of a person? Seven-Eighths? Civil rights is an all-or-nothing game. If the planet Cheron was destroyed it’s Bele’s people’s fault for not just accepting that Lokai’s people were, indeed, people, too.

But really, nothing in Planet Earth’s gender analogy works at all. I still can’t figure out if this is supposed to be a role reversal scenario or a warning about what feminism’s outcome would be if left unchecked. While women have never sought toWe went into the relationship of the two pretty well last year on an episode of The Shuttlepod. If Leonard Nimoy had to thank George Lucas for Star Trek’s second coming, then George Lucas absolutely has to thank Patrick Stewart for Star Wars’.

While Star Trek would continue to plug along in its fourth decade (almost 300 hours worth of new material!), it was obvious some of the holo-paint was beginning to crack. Yes, we had highlights like Seven of Nine, the Dominion War, the Las Vegas Star Trek Experience, and the sublime Y2K-inspired Q vs. Spock. Notable also is the creation of Memory Alpha, started in 2004.

People have talked about franchise fatigue until they’re green in the face, but it wasn’t just that. 1999’s Galaxy Quest gave the


are complete deleted scenes. It’s really something you’ll have to see for yourself. As a life-long Trek fan, whose first love is TOS, this is an easy recommendation. The glimpses back in time are well worth it. There’s a lot of love put into this set by all involved.

Mirror Chekov reminds Sulu that Uhura is deadly with her knives

The only thing that saddens me, is that we know other deleted scenes exist, and this taste of them leaves you wanting to see even more. Those other deleted scenes must really be lost at this point, chopped up and sold to folks in the ’70s and ’80s, or worse, tossed in a trashcan by an editor long long ago.

We’re incredibly lucky as fans to have The Roddenberry Vault. Itroom floor footage, special effects tests, deleted scenes, omitted dialogue, and alternate takes from the show, then put them together in a series of documentaries, all featuring Star Trek stars and guest stars, behind-the-scenes creatives, and other experts.

The discs were put together by Roger Lay, Jr., and Mike and Denise Okuda, who have spent almost a decade curating and assembling the footage, and somehow managed to keep it a secret. We got to chat with Mike and Denise about the joy of discovery and the process of assembling this incredibly exciting collection of unseen footage; turns out they’re just as excited about it as we are.

Rod Roddenberry, Mike and Denise Okuda inspect archived film

TREKMOVIE: The Vault is such a present for fans, it’s like that thing you’ve wanted


not the actual Wah Chang Gorn. That would have been cool. This is some other toothy lizard man with big, blank, white eyes.

William fires his golden bullet at the Lizardman/Mitri/Asmodeus causing the ancient crypt to start caving in and the heads of an entire UNESCO subcommittee to spontaneously explode. The heroes escape with Anitra in tow. Asmodeus never quite falls down dead, but rather disappears into the depths of the crypt as the fire grows around him, leaving room for another appearance down the road. After all, this was supposed to be the pilot episode for a series. You can’t expect to defeat Satan’s right-hand man on you first day at work.

This is basically confirmed when Anitra hand delivers William’s payment at his state-side office: the Boucher paintinglast act of deceit, the Tyranias actually wanted him to fix a left over nuclear warhead that was aimed at the PAX. Several technicians were killed in the blast, much to the disapproval of the PAX leadership who abhor the violence of the olden days.

Pacifism is another of Roddenberry’s core beliefs and it’s the only one that is completely immune to criticism and cynicism. When Hunt insists he did what he had to to save their bacon the PAX tell him they are all willing to give their lives before taking the lives of others no matter what the reason. The discussion is ended when the nuclear shock wave finally hits the PAX base, blowing everyone over and terrifying a group of children. The sight of the PAX


sweeping the nominations in 1968 and nine of the films earning nominations, Star Trek has a history of dominating them.

However, it’s just that: history. None of those films have won a Hugo and the franchise has not won an award since “All Good Things…”, the 1994 series closer for TNG.

Apparently he did put an end to their little trek through the stars.

Star Trek may be a victim of its own success. In popularizing sci-fi in the 1990’s, it created more competition for itself. Or it could be that the franchise ran out of dilithium a long time ago. Either way, I really want to see Star Trek: Discovery win a Hugo next year.

23. That time Shooter McGavin was a big damn hero

Actor Christopher McDonald is better known toinformation in this documentary and they should give it a chance. We were very aware of this issue, and I really think we worked very hard to make sure that if you’re the biggest Trekkie that ever lived, you’ll enjoy this doc and you’ll learn new stuff.”

There’s more, but check it out for yourself. The doc premieres this Sunday on The History Channel. Check out a clip below:

]]>https://trekmovie.com/2016/08/12/interview-producer-of-new-history-channel-documentary-talks-50-years-of-star-trek/feed/26Restored Original Enterprise Model Docks in Washington, DChttps://trekmovie.com/2016/06/28/restored-original-enterprise-model-docks-in-washington-dc/
https://trekmovie.com/2016/06/28/restored-original-enterprise-model-docks-in-washington-dc/#commentsWed, 29 Jun 2016 03:43:21 +0000https://trekmovie.com/?p=42241Millions of people every year will now be able to see the original model of the USS Enterprise at the Smithsonian – unfortunately for them, just like as Picard tells Data in First Contact, they won’t be able to touch it.

The 50-year-old original model of the Enterprise went on


display today in the main lobby of the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC. Previously, it had been at its sister museum in Chantilly, Virginia (displayed prominently in the gift shop) and then dry-docked for a couple years while it was restored to its former glory.

While the ship (excuse me, the model) has been redone to appear just as good – if not better – than it did in 1966, the restoration process left the visible electrical wires on its port side visible. The wires ran the lights on the ship, but were never filmed.

The Smithsonian has always endeavored to tell not just the story of advancing science and technology, but also of the people who were involved and the broader cultural impact, Dr. Margaret Weitekamp,as a true hero is director Robert Wise, who, with superhuman effort, made sure the Enterprise got out of dry dock. He did everything he could to make Trek into a true cinematic experience, all the while trying to hold together a very difficult production which continually resisted order(and which by the way, never had a definitive budget). Throughout the book, Wise is lauded by virtually everyone for his great skill and his extraordinary grace in dealing calmly with problems that seemed to grow bigger by the day.

In case you haven’t figured it out by now, I loved this book. The story contained within is as much of an odyssey as the journey the Enterprise takes in the film, and I give it my highest recommendation.

The first print


challenges he faced, and his feelings about Star Trek in general.

When Volume 3 is released, TrekMovie will publish a comprehensive review of all three books.

***UPDATE***

Since this story’s publication last Friday, it has come to our attention that Marc Cushman has a monetary interest in the Jacob Brown Media Group. Subsequently, the project’s Kickstarter pitch was changed to reflect this new information.

Over the weekend TrekMovie reported on the Star Trek: TNG reunion event at NYCC, which included a comment from Marina Sirtis about how Gene Roddenberry would have felt about Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. Today DS9 co-creator Rick Berman responded to Sirtis’ assertion. More details below.

Berman Responds to Marina Sirtis Comment About Roddenberry and DS9

As TrekMovie reported, cast members from Star Trek: The Next Generation gathered at theTrek films (including 1991’s Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country) went largely ignored. This point is worth noting: even during his lifetime, Roddenberry did not own or control Star Trek. Ultimately, his was a significant voice, but not the final say.

However, the gaps in the record remain: what specifically did Roddenberry know about Deep Space Nine? If Roddenberry knew of ideas and/or characters, were they relevant to what became the actual series? And finally, what did Gene express to others about those ideas? Having these answers will hopefully settle the contradictions discussed above.

Rick Berman, Gene Roddenberry, Michael Piller and cast celebrating the shooting of the 100th episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation (“Redemption, Part 1”) in April 1991 – six month before Roddenberry’s death.

For fans of Star


and Being Overruled On Spock’s Death in Star Trek

In an interview promoting his upcoming appearance at the Destination 3 convention in London, Star Trek II (and VI) writer/director Nick Meyer talked to the official Star Trek site about his time with the franchise. In regards to Star Trek II Meyer recalls the experience fondly, but he also did note a couple of areas of tension with making the film. Firstly, Meyer talks about how he first had trouble with William Shatner and the script for Wrath of Khan, saying:

I know that, originally, Bill Shatner didn’t like the script at all, and I was very floored by this because everybody else did like it. And I sort of listened to his complaints with mounting alarm, and the form itdeath, saying:

When Paramount saw the movie, when Leonard saw the movie, and everybody said, “Well, gee. Gee. Maybe killing him isn’t such a good idea.” And at that point, we got into the whole thing about “Remember” and showing his coffin on the planet, and stuff like that. All of which at the time I furiously objected to. I just thought this was so unfair to an audience of people who really care about this sh-t, and then saying, “You know, oh, it was just a dry hustle.” No, I didn’t think that was right. And in retrospect, you know, maybe I was wrong about that. At the time, I just thought that my vision of the thing was being insensitively overruled. But that’s when they made that


opened in 1976. The ship has moved around a bit over that time, but since 1999 it has been on display in the gift shop inside a special case (see below). In April of this year the Smithsonian announced the ship would be moving again, this time to the central "Milestones of Flight" hall which is being renovated.

USS Enterprise on display at the Air and Space Museum Gift Shop

On Friday in a blog post the Smithsonian revealed the Enterprise display was taken down on September 11. Renovations to the new Milestones of Flight Hall will be completed in time for the Museum’s 40th anniversary in 2016. According to the Smithsonian, the11-foot long Enterprise model is in need of "some conservation" before it can return for public viewing.

USS Enterprisethe crew of the Enterprise, and that lack of dramatic tension boxed in the writers…

David Gerrold: Well that came from Gene’s lawyer [Leonard Maizlish], a scumbag of a human being. I cannot say enough things – he was a truly evil human being. He was going to be Gene’s helper on the show. He appointed himself Chief of Staff and he would go around and say we can’t do this and we can’t do that and “on Star Trek everybody loves each other.” For those of us who had written for the show knew that wasn’t true! We knew our people got into arguments. But what happened was he would go to Gene and say “you can’t let David do this and can’t let Dorothy do that.” Everybody


Trek: The Motion Picture and also how cast members were paid in the subsequent films. Here is the exchange.

Masters: So going back in time, I wrote quite a bit about the first Star Trek movie…There was a lot of dysfunction in the Star Trek family. Originally they didn’t include Spock and Leonard Nimoy had big issues with Paramount, I think they were in litigation. There were also problems with Gene Roddenberry and they brought in Harold Livingston to write the script and the two of them were at war with each other. I read, and I think I even wrote myself, about how Livingston would write his version of the script and then Gene Roddenberry at one point was intercepting the pages and substituting his own and youguys in the cast didn’t know what was what with that at the beginning of the movie.

Takei: We did not and we kept getting rewrites after rewrites and the first film we had the most difficulties with. We were in trouble from the beginning and it went way over budget and way over schedule and that’s when Paramount said there is going to be no more Star Trek films made – this was it…but when it opened, bless their hearts, the Trekkies all lined up in front of the box office and they made it a profitable film and so the green ugly head of greed came up at the front office and they decided they will do another one, but that is when Leonard [Nimoy] came into


he had been killed off.

Masters: So they brought him back. It is the Hollywood way.

Takei: Well he was enticed with remuneration. And that is when we discovered that Bill had written into his contract that if any other actor should be remunerated more than him, his will go up to equal that.

Masters: Did the rest of the cast find out and say ‘if they are getting this, then we should have that?’

Takei: We did. And unsuccessfully.

Masters: Well those were tough guys in those days. Barry Diller and Michael Eisner and Jeffery Katzenberg. Tough customers

Takei: Yes they were tough guys, yes.

Nimoy’s Take

Takei’s recollection of some of these events differs from Leonard Nimoy’s. Here is what Nimoy had to say back in 1986 in an interview with Ft. Lauderdale Sunincluding some who worked with Williams, went to social media to express their condolences. We have compiled those below, plus take a look at some Star Trek/Williams connections – including the TNG role written for him (but played by someone else).

Trek Celebs Wish Robin Williams A Farewell “Nanu, Nanu”

Joining the chorus of millions, many Trek stars expressed their grief over the passing of comedy legend Robin Williams. This included Wil Wheaton, who worked with Williams in the 1997 movie Flubber:

Robin Williams could not have been kinder or more generous when I worked with him in Flubber. My heart goes out to his family.

Pegg is also notable as he is the star of the 2015 sci-fi comedy film Absolutely Anything, which features Robin Williams voicing an alien (along with


film series – and he said with television he had to walk a very tight rope. You know, we were dealing with issues at that time – the civil rights movement, the Vietnam War, the Cold War – and that episode where Kirk kissed Uhura, a white man kissing a black woman, that was blacked out in all of the Southern states: Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana. Our ratings plummeted!

(Gene) said he knows that the LGBT issue is a civil rights issue, but he had to keep the show on the air as a television series, and if he pushed the envelope too far he wouldn’t be able to address any of the issues. He’d be canceled. Same thing with feature films now: bigger budget, higher risk. AndTrek: The Next Generation, co-creator of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and Star Trek: Voyager
Michael Piller is best known for co-writing the TNG episode “The Best of Both Worlds” and executive produced the TNG finale episode “All Good Things…”. The clip below is of a phone conversation between Larry and Michael on the 10th anniversary of TNG in 1997.

A Great Holiday Gift: TREKLAND On Speaker Vol. 2
Your last day to order TREKLAND CDs to have them to you by December 24th is Tuesday December 17th. Get your copy for $21.99 (or save $4 when you buy both) from the Trekland Blog.

]]>https://trekmovie.com/2013/12/12/exclusive-clips-from-larry-nemeceks-trekland-on-speaker-all-good-things-words-deeds/feed/16Book Review + Unboxing Video For Star Trek: Federation: First 150 Yearshttps://trekmovie.com/2012/12/08/book-review-unboxing-video-for-star-trek-federation-first-150-years/
https://trekmovie.com/2012/12/08/book-review-unboxing-video-for-star-trek-federation-first-150-years/#commentsSun, 09 Dec 2012 07:06:26 +0000https://trekmovie.com/?p=31252It’s the big-ticket Star Trek item of the season (well, for book-lovers,


we went from this war-torn world and created this positive future that is so much of Star Trek.

I also had to solve the problem of Khan. I lived through the 1990s and I know he wasn’t a dictator. I loved the way I solved it, with just a footnote at the beginning of the book, and I think fans will really enjoy it. Obviously the Romulan War was fun to work on. I am a history buff, especially World War II and World War I, and I think laid a war that makes sense, and I laid out a canonical connection between the Romulans and Cheron, which I am proud of.

Exclusive image of Khan from "Star Trek: Federation First 150 Years"

TrekMovie: Obviously this book is set in whatInactivated

The US Navy Ship USS Enterprise (CVN-65) is the eighth ship (not counting the Space Shuttle) to bear the name "Enterprise." It was christened in 1960 and was the first nuclear powered carrier. It has engaged in multiple combat operations, starting with the Vietnam War in 1965.

The "Big E" is the first nuclear powered carrier to be taken out of service by the US Navy. While the ship has been ‘inactivated’ it has yet to be fully ‘decommissioned,’ but that should take place no later than March 15th of 2013. The ship needs to have all the nuclear fuel removed before it can be decommissioned. The remains of the ship will be scrapped by 2015.

Before the event Star Trek’s William Shatner announced he would be in attendance to


reactor. While they referred to the ship as the Enterprise, the real ship was not available for filming and so the scenes were done onboard the USS Ranger.

USS Ranger standing in for USS Enterprise in "Star Trek IV"

Enterprise To Live On

While one Enterprise ends its days, another ship will soon take on the historic name. The Navy has announced that CVN-80, a Gerald R. Ford class nuclear carrier due for service in 2025, will be the ninth ship to bear the name USS Enterprise.

May history never forget the name Enterprise

The next USS Enterprise

Thanks to all the readers who sent in tips on this event

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https://trekmovie.com/2012/11/27/review-star-trek-the-next-generation-365-photo-book/#commentsWed, 28 Nov 2012 00:23:14 +0000https://trekmovie.com/?p=30940Following up from their 2010 Star Trek The Original Series 365 photoGeneration 365” easily deserves a place in any Trek fan’s library.

If you are simply looking for an ‘episode guide’ to Star Trek: The Next Generation, don’t bother buying this book. It won’t satisfy you. If you are looking for a rich, immersive journey into the production and life of TNG, then “Star Trek: The Next Generation 365” is definitely a book that is for you.

Our special thanks to Abrams for providing a review copy of this book.

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https://trekmovie.com/2012/11/16/scripts-revealed-for-scrapped-star-trek-final-frontier-animated-series/#commentsSat, 17 Nov 2012 02:27:08 +0000https://trekmovie.com/?p=30810Six years ago TrekMovie broke the news that CBS was considering a new animated Star Trek series developed by some insider vets. This show "Star Trek: Final Frontier" never made it past the development stage, but in the


The effect of model inclination during fabrication on mouthguard calliper-measured and CT scan-assessed thickness.
Excessive material thinning has been observed in the production of custom-made mouthguards in a number of studies, due to production anomalies that may lead to such thinning. This study investigated thinning material patterns of custom-made mouthguards when the anterior angulation of dental model was increased during the thermoforming process. A total of 60 samples of mouthguard blanks were thermoformed on identical maxillary models under four anterior inclination conditions (n = 4 × 15): control 0, 15, 30 and 45°. Each mouthguard sample was measured, using an electronic calliper gauge at three anatomical points (anterior labial sulcus, posterior occlusion and posterior lingual). Mouthguards were then CT scanned to give a visual representation of the surface thickness.imaginative force organized into permanent shape.

Imagination breeds thoughts that are worth remembering, and form stamps them in the memory.

'Write the vision, make it plain.' A visionary imaginer, such as Dante, Bunyan, Blake or Yeats, must keep to the simplest style, as Coleridge said. A verbal imaginer, such as Shakespeare, Melville or Conrad, frames a varied, profuse and highly-wrought dialect.

The sweetness of life lies all in the imagining, be it anticipating things to come, or recalling the past, or creating works that are not to be gnawed by the tooth of time.

Break the capacious vessel of tradition, and the wine of imagination spills out wasted. Its fruit buds and ripens on the tall tree of form, which we have now sawn down, as it stood in the way of


mean no less for never having lived. And the stage of our dreams shrinks when they cease to play on it. A literary persona, like a deity, has life and yet is free of the taint of being real and human. The figures of art, like those on Keats's urn, win the one brief immortality that this world can grant. The work of art is the city that Tennyson wrote of, which 'is built to music, therefore never built at all, and therefore built for ever.'

Before the gods came there was art. And now that they have gone there will be nothing but kitsch.

12 Art and the creeds

Dante or Chaucer show that an orthodox creed is a good point for poetry to set sail from. But neo-christians likeus to the shape of the latest moral stamp.

The only writers who have any influence in the real world are those that are as shallow and mediocre as the real world.

'All bad art,' as Wilde said, 'is the result of good intentions.' Art is strong enough to live down its producer's best purposes or worst prejudices. But it can't fulfil the former or fix the latter. Art doesn't care enough about our prejudices to want to undermine them. And our prejudices are too coarse to be touched by art.

A poem that could change the world would have to be doggerel.

I have no doubt that it's myself that art improves, and my neighbours that it needs to.

Writers can't set the world to rights by their scrupulous use of the


like the resurrected flesh, 'is sown in corruption, it is raised in incorruption.' How is it born, but by debauching innocence? An artist is an undiscovered traitor. They are so eloquent in broadcasting their love for our sad dust because they have left it so far behind them. The only pacts they make are with the prince of sin.

Hold fast to your integrity, but don't allow it to taint your work. As Catullus wrote, singers ought to be chaste, but not their song. 'Art,' Picasso said, 'is never chaste.'

TASTE AND TRADITION

Contents

Taste

Standards

The medium

Forms and genres

Tradition

Periods

Beauty

TASTE

Taste, like all the rest of our traits, is disjointed and fragmentary. Try to trace the shape, and you'll miss the colours. Contemplate the colours, and you'll fail to catch the form. And few ofa fine taste. Yet we are still vain of whatever taste we have acquired. Taste is honed by shame, imagination is heightened by pride.

Some people are not hard to please because they have no taste, and some because they have enough to know that most things are not worth their displeasure.

2 Debauched by success

Each day good taste loses a touch more of its influence, but bad taste goes on insensibly gaining ground.

When style seems to have won out over substance, most times it is a crass and smug manner that has won out over subtle style, as in the case of Chesterton. Gaudy writers boast that they love form, but they are just enamoured of its crude effects. Style too has its hypocrites and pharisees, who confuse it


of law.' But each timid conformist now parrots the platitude that precepts are made to be transgressed. The ordinances of art are as trite and disregarded as the ten commandments.

Our iconoclastic age has smashed art and set up kitsch on its gilt plinth.

In vigorous eras artists make strong works, though they may hold incorrect views on art. In spent eras they can do nothing great, even if they hold the right ones. They glean leaden lessons from golden instructors. We have now swallowed such a crop of faulty postulates, what could purge us but the dawn of a new dark age of unlearning?

It's often said that if Shakespeare were alive today he would be a copywriter or a screenwriter. But that is just the reason that there canegalitarian sentimentalism, and a trunk of nineteenth century naturalism bulging with a paunch of workaday detail.

The one lesson that contemporary novelists have learnt from modernism is a concern with all the various ways to spin a story. But the stupidity of story was the very thing from which modernist experimenters aimed to free art.

Most recent verse is cryptic yet prosaic, mystification illuminated by flashes of cliché. Its jumbled platitudes scarcely repay the decoding. Poetry used to be the verbal audacity that you couldn't risk in prose. Now it's the autobiographical inanities that you couldn't get away with in prose. It is a trite reel of personal anecdotes that lacks a continuous narrative.

BEAUTY

**38 Beauty**

Beauty lives solely in its proper element. A swan out of water looks like a clumsy


to buy an exclusive view of it if we knew that others set a value on it.

Beauty should shock us out of our habitual ways of perceiving. But often it hardens us in our habitual ways of desiring.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and what all beholders find beautiful is their own image radiating from the objects they have got.

Beauty is a rare visitor from the realm of being to our world of time and becoming. No sooner has it entered our corrupting atmosphere but it starts to sicken and decay. It is a spark of eternity, which soon sputters and goes out in our thick and filthy air.

We have a disgusting bent for manufacturing ugliness where there was once beauty, and a charming gift forthe rear.

Time wages a war on beauty which leaves no survivors. It will soon be treating the young with the same careless brutality that they treat their seniors.

STYLE

Contents

Poetry and prose

Style

Style and self

Irony

Character

The best style is plain, terse, various, intense and strange.

Short plain words, short plain clauses and sentences, plenty of verbs with plain personal subjects, firm connectives to rivet it together, all galvanized against the rust of cliché. These build a prose which is sturdy and aerodynamic. But it needs imaginative fire to make it fly.

An artist frames a style to give calm sensuous form to an imagined pattern of delirious beauty. It is a way of speaking to the soul through the conduit of the senses.

Thought gives form to the chaos of reality. Language gives form to


the gunpowder, style is the match.

9 Natural style

Artifice is art's nature. To write plainly calls for great artfulness. And to write unaffectedly, you have to forsake nature. You reach spareness by an extravagance of effort.

Simplicity is so foreign to our nature, that we can come at it only by way of an elaborate self-alienation.

Not one thing about writing is natural. And if there were, it would be the lazy conventionality which phrases every thought in the first cliché that comes to mind. Set out to write artlessly or extempore, and what you make will be a hotchpotch of habit and fashion. But most readers think a style looks natural if it conforms to the unnatural catchphrases that they are used to hearing.

Only a seeming artist aims at seemingwe were infusing them with more depth, since this is the sole kind of depth that we see in life.

Great writers give us few clues as to the physical appearance of their characters, not because they want to leave us free to visualize it, but because it is of no account.

KNOW YOURSELF

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Self-knowledge

Costs of self-knowledge

Self-deception

If you have gained real self-knowledge, you suspect that others have not.

Most of us know our hearts so partially that we don't doubt that we know them in full. 'I know my heart,' crowed the incorrigible self-deceiver Rousseau. Which do we stand in more need of, to misapprehend who we are, or to assume that we comprehend who we are?

We could redeem most of our faults or misfortunes if we used them to learn what


yet how little of the truth they bring to light. Those who boast that they're an open book would be dismayed by what there is to read in them.

Some people put on a front of secrecy to hide that they have no secrets, and some put on a front of unreserve to hide that they do. They hoist a bright curtain of ostentatious directness in order to screen their real selves.

Keep your secrets sealed away, and they will keep you more imprisoned. Yet they may yield up to you the key to unlock the chambers of your heart. Secrets ferment your self-knowledge in the dark. And repression finds out and brings to light far more than openness.

16 Self-concealment

Few of us are alert to all the secrets that we'reis love's dark similar. It has its fervid romance and its long fractious marriage. All love will end in mourning, and that will cast you back to the first ardour of your love.

Grief, like sex, floods our flesh with an irresistible inundation. They both work by a kind of imagination, mingling memory and fantasy, guilt and desire.

Loss, like love or poetry, imbues the most exiguous details with meaning, and inspires a rhapsody of superabundant suggestion.

We have three sovereign balms, truth, love and death. And when knowledge hurts and love goes, death is all we have to do the work.

16 Cheap comforts of the emotions

At times I grope for some gaudy consolation to hide how soon I was consoled by a mere toy. And at times I need it


you go on struggling when that has miscarried. You find that what you live for you can easily live without. You will, as Austen said, 'live to exert, and frequently to enjoy' yourself.

27 The lucid pit of despair

To despair is to be both burningly awake to life and worse than dead. It is to know that in order to go on, we must have hope, and yet that there is no hope.

Despair is an experiment to test if we have the strength to live without the staff of lies and illusions. In the lucid pit of despair you at last come to believe what you have long known to be true. World-weariness is the nausea which comes over us when we have evacuated all the lies that helpfill up their solitude.

Sometimes you have to flee into company so as to stop thinking about other people.

Loneliness is boredom imprisoned by embarrassment and protracted into hopelessness. But true solitude is a buoyant pride consecrated to some worthy endeavour. Loneliness is a fast, solitude is a rich feast. Insularity is a parching desert, but seclusion freshens you like an oasis in life's populous wilderness. You feel lonesome when you fall in with the wrong company, though the wrong company may be your own soul. And you are most friendless when you have no more to say to yourself.

The grand house of solitude soon sinks to a slum of lonesomeness, if not maintained in good trim. Like friendship, it must be kept in constant repair.

MEMORY

**48 The hollowness of memory**

We


as Augustine argued, nor are we what we forget or what we have repressed. Are we not much more than each of these, but all of the things that we think, dream, hope, love, desire, own or aspire to?

Year by year our recollections are clarified by our illusions. The eyewitnesses of the resurrection incised it on their hearts in sharp but incredible and conflicting details.

49 The haunting

We each die a second death, first the death of the flesh, and then of the world's remembrance of us.

Grief foreshortens the perspective of our pain, but distances us from our lost joys. The death of those you loved may seem like yesterday, but their life an age ago. Their going stays with you, their life is what you've lost. Do weof illusions than the rest of the fields of thought.

Natural religion gives fanciful causes for real effects, such as the existence of an ordered universe. In the revealed religion of miracles and messiahs not even the effects are real.

Mysticism is a rhetorical genre. And like all rhetoric it begins with the trope of rejecting rhetoric and all mere words. Yet even for the most god-intoxicated mystics the point of their intercourse with the divine is to blather about it to their fellow mortals.

Why does the Lord delegate rich minds like Pascal to act as his apologists, and then fit them out with such fatuous arguments?

The one great God of monotheism is narrower than any single god in a vast polytheistic pantheon.

A monotheist has a single idea, and it


the tomb, when the false megalomaniac was raised up by Paul and the evangelists.

We know Jesus was a fraud from how eagerly he touted for disciples and how fiercely he insisted that we must have faith in him. His personality type was not that of a self-effacing sage but of a manipulative and self-aggrandizing cult-leader. As Kierkegaard wrote, 'A man who could not seduce men cannot save them either.'

Jesus has all the marks of a parochial charlatan, the narrow horizons of thought, the fierce invectives against his competitors, the tight band of mesmerized dupes, the claim to miraculous powers, the contempt for forms and customs that don't suit his own convenience, the inevitable stab in the back, the dividing of the world into those who are for medon't have to do a thing to change our souls.

36 Hallucination and hearsay

A faith begins in hallucination, but soon fades into hearsay.

After the first divine visitation a revelation is mere hearsay. Faith without words would be dead.

'Faith cometh by hearing.' We don't believe because we see but because we hear the professions of those who do believe. And then we begin to see once we believe. 'Ghosts,' says Scott, 'are only seen where they are believed.' Faith is a derangement of the senses. Believing is seeing. The saved don't have faith because they've seen miracles. They see miracles once they have got faith. And if they don't see miracles, then they have no real faith. 'And he did not many mighty works there, because of their unbelief.'

Thomas is


commands you to try to dupe him. He wants you to act as if you were selflessly labouring for the sake of your fellows and not coveting an eternal prize. 'When thou doest alms, let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth, that thine alms may be in secret, and thy father which seeth in secret himself shall reward thee openly.'

In order to win salvation, both you and God need to pretend to bluff each other. You feign to hold that you have not earned your place in paradise, and the celestial paymaster feigns not to note that you are feigning. We act out our salvation in this life and the next as a farce of mutual deception.

The entrance to heaven will be an unbecomingall you want to do is get out of it. Absorption in the here and now is a luxury praised by those who have something more enjoyable to do. Most of us have good reason not to live for the present hour.

Happiness is racing to a future which it will never reach, and misery is fleeing from a past which it can't get clear of.

6 Deferring life

I waste my days deferring happiness and galloping past pleasure. Happiness is no more than the promise of happiness. It never gives itself to us as a present possession. 'Man never is, but always to be, blessed,' as Pope wrote.

Our world of instant gratification is by the same token a world of indefinite deferral. We can't wait for anything, not even the


no choice but to stay in the game, the losers in the hope of recouping what they have lost, the victors to win yet more and to reap the fruits of what they have won. Even the dying are still in love with the world which is killing them. Those who seem stoical in enduring the pangs that are sure to end in death may just be too attached to life to let it go.

Life gave us nothing that was worth having. And death will take from us nothing that is worth keeping.

11 Merciful death

Life shows us so little pity, that we have to hope that death will show us some mercy. But would life treat us so untenderly, if it didn't know how callous we are?

'No manfor eternity.

Life has played us such filthy tricks, we may well fear that death won't be the last of them. Since this life is hell, it might stretch out till the crack of doom. We may wake to find that the nightmare will have no cease. The thought that it won't go on for ever is all that could keep a sane person going.

Death, like most good things, comes too late for many of us, but at least it does come.

Try to run from your troubles, and you will need to strain all your muscle to lug them with you.

The light drizzle of small irritations will in time drench you as thoroughly as a sudden downpour of woe, yet it still feels quite different.

13 Narrowing unhappiness

The heavyhearted have


vain.

It is the fall and not the being down that hurts you worst. So some fear most of all to ascend once more from shade to sunshine. 'Drowning is not so pitiful,' Dickinson wrote, 'as the attempt to rise.'

Some shallow people would rather feel dejected for seeming deep reasons than be cheerful for superficial ones. They cling to their heartachings, rather than grant that they could heal them. They prefer to put up with a lifelong ailment than go through a quick and painless cure.

We suffer too much, and we can't suffer enough. When our ills yield to such quack tonics, aren't we tempted to disparage even our health? The incurable has so much more dignity. We have to pretend that life gushes with horrors, so as toin themselves, or else to inveigle their satellites to have faith in them. They know that hope sells and that what is sold is hope. If you want to get rich, you need to have hope. And if you aim to inspire hope, you need to believe.

Our optimism yokes the force of our naive self-belief to the cunning of our worldly self-seeking.

The success of optimism confirms the pessimist's worst fears. How does such a meretricious creed win so much trust?

Few of us waste our expensive pessimism or our arduous hopes on anyone's plight but our own.

We love to appear to hope against hope when we know that the failure of what we hope for will not touch us.

Optimists charm us, because they shine back to us our own


yet I care for so little. And I care for so little, because I crave so much.

It's not hard to lack. But it's killing to lose. It is, as Pascal says, 'horrible to see all that one owns slipping away.' It may be easy to renounce success, but it's tough to live without it.

Some people give up their claim to all life's silvered baubles, and then solemnly spend all their force on some cause which is as arduous as it is absurd. They resist the world's blandishments, but are seduced by its asperities.

ILLUSORY SELF-INTEREST

**8 Illusory interests**

We are hustled on by our mad compulsions, and held back by our irrational inhibitions. There are two kinds of people, the crazy and the dead. 'Madness is in their hearts while theyour deft self-interest is the dupe of our simpleminded self-regard.

A selfish person, as the proverb says, will burn down your house to roast his eggs. But blusterers will burn down their own house, to show that they know how to roast eggs more skilfully than you.

Some people are so conceited, that they don't deign to walk on two legs. So they hack off the limb of their self-interest, to show how nimbly their self-regard can hop to and fro on one.

We are too selfish to repent the wrongs that we do to others. And we are too smug to regret the harms that we do to ourselves. The very damage that we do ourselves saves us from recognizing that we were the cause of it.

SUCCESS AND FAILURE

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Causes of


world by telling ourselves agreeable lies and then cajoling others to share them. You gain a fortune, not by generating the most value, but by inflating the price of what you sell and then persuading a throng of buyers to pay it.

We couldn't achieve half our real success, if we dropped our self-deceptions.

Since we are all impostors, we all need to pretend to be taken in.

The sole truth that we put any trust in is success. So why should we care how false we have to be to get hold of it?

In order to function soberly in the world, we need to stay drunk on the cheap liquor of hopeful self-belief.

If you lack the wit to deceive yourself, you are not cut out to find real success invalue too high?

Winners can afford to rate their worth much higher than it is, and losers can't afford not to.

Success may be a flatterer, but failure is no friend.

All the world declares that it is better to deserve success than to attain it. And all the world behaves as if the opposite were the case. And yet those who fail to win any garlands feel all the more certain that they must merit them.

9 We learn the wrong lessons from success and failure

When I fare well, I conclude that I have too much flair to fail. And when I fail, I conclude that I have too much decency to do what I would need to climb. If I prevail, I take it that the world dares not gainsay


whom he cannot live.'

Those who see that the world is false and empty still crave its false and empty respect.

10 The perspective of egoism

Our ego frames the perspective by which we gauge all that we think good and estimable. 'Egoism is the law of optics in the realm of our feelings,' as Nietzsche wrote. 'What is closest appears large and weighty.' Anyone who dwells far from me and from the world that I project seems to dwell far from reality. 'Whoever lives at a different end of town to me,' Swift said, 'I look upon as persons out of the world, and only myself and the little scene about me to be in it.'

I exist only in the minds of others, but they exist for me in mytorments, conceit comforts

Pride is obnoxious to itself and all the world. The proud are dangerous, but the presumptuous are disarmed by their own presumption. Pride is a querulous radical, conceit a complacent tory. Pride is solitary, conceit is clubbable. Smug people are more straightforward, less venomous and too vain to be vindictive. The conceit that makes them deaf to real derision makes them receptive to feigned praise. Stroke their ego the right way, and they will purr like kittens. So long as they're sufficiently flattered, they will be quite amicable. And since they're always flattering themselves, they are friendly and accommodating.

I'm stung by my pride, since I have to justify it. But I'm comforted by my conceit, because it justifies me. 'Pride, a noble passion,' Lichtenberg says, 'is


words to fix the outline of our shape, and they stretch it farther than we reach.

I reckon myself richer for each of my belongings. And I reckon my belongings so rich because they are mine. Custody is nine tenths of how we rate a commodity. Our beaming self-satisfaction gilds all the dross that we manage to scoop up.

22 Everything adds to our self-regard

It is so necessary for me to think highly of my own gifts, that it's lucky that I find it so easy.

We so hunger to think well of ourselves, that we would starve if such stingy rations failed to fill us. We thirst for praise, yet such quick sips of it slake us. There's no need to make your truckling too subtle, since most people's appetitethrough the whole world. So why is the mouth honour of five flunkeys enough to turn our heads?

Fake praise is good enough for me, if I trust it will last. And if a flattering semblance stays fixed, I'll be glad to take it for fact.

7 We praise the mediocre

We can make out small and commonplace talents with our own eyes. But we need to be taught to see great and noteworthy excellencies. We must be trained to discern which are the original minds by those whose minds are in no way original.

We dote on cheap and second-rate things. But we coldly commend the best, since we love only what is like us. We voice our awe for what is great because we have no choice. I prefer to


me praise, because they know that I do. Yet I'm pleased even by plaudits that I sense I have not earned the right to.

I love to receive flattery, since I know that it tells the truth, even if the giver disbelieves it. And I can bear to spoon out flattery, because I know it lies, though it never fails to hit its mark. 'We give others praise in which we do not believe,' said Jean Rostand, 'on condition that in recompense they give us praise in which we do.' People may not be sincere in the applause that they give me, but at least they are right to give it. And how are they to know that I am due far more than the applause that they givewhen they shine.

Some people who seem inordinately proud are just excessively shy. But most of those who seem uncommonly shy still nestle an overgrown pride in their breast. They curl up into shyness, not because they doubt their own flair, but because they don't trust the world to grasp how remarkable they are. They may seem to be uncertain of their own talents, but they in fact suspect that the world is too unwise to do them justice. When they drop their guard, they don't let show their submerged diffidence, but lay bare their buoyant vainglory. Give them the occasion, and their conceit will more than rise to it, and any occasion will do.

Hermits dream of adoring crowds who wait at the mouth of their cave to hear


mistakenly meek. I want them to doubt what my forced humility feigns to believe, and yet still see that I am humble at heart. I'm convinced by my own self-effacement, but I trust that others won't be. I hope that this is the one pose of mine that they will have the sense to see through. I count on them to read between the lines of my lowliness, and I'm chagrined when they take it literally. 'He who speaks humbly of himself,' wrote Multatuli, 'grows angry if you believe him and furious if you pass on what he says.'

I presume that my meekness will make people see how much they have underestimated me. But unfortunately I overestimate how insightful they are.

HUMILITY

**9 Shame and humility**

A creature that was genuinelythe test of incessant experiment.

The proud feel that they must defend the steep price that they set on their own merits. But they scorn most of the usual undertakings that could prove it to their peers, and so they spend their force on the rare exploits which fail to.

15 The rewards of vocation

High aims work you like a navvy and shackle you to anxiety, but show you all mercy in the end. If you don't reach them, then you don't matter. And if you do, then nothing else matters. Fame will ransom you from obscurity, or obscurity will ransom you from scorn. In the grave, as Housman wrote, 'silence sounds no worse than cheers.'

Time is both the justest and most lenient judge. It pays the deserving their due,


admiration. But those who aim to climb can't afford not to. We learn by genuinely esteeming what merits our respect. But we please and thrive best by pretending to prize what does not. We rise in the world by lowering our standards. 'Among the smaller duties of life,' said Sydney Smith, 'I hardly know of any one more important than that of not praising where praise is not due.'

Creators have to use both the veneration which prompts them to emulate and the daring which spurs them to deviate. Their task, as Hopkins said, is to 'admire and do otherwise.'

19 Independence and imagination

The best we can hope to attain is neither true humbleness nor true heroism but a mere semblance of them. But by aspiring to nobility we maystakes, and the rich have no need to win. Yet both will stop at nothing to boost their odds in the game.

The poor, who can't afford it, must pay for all that they get. And the rich have the privilege of possession, who are too jaded to enjoy it.

The poor can't see why the rich won't flick them a few scraps from their vast treasury. And the strong can't see why the weak don't just die and leave the world to them who are strong enough to make use of it.

14 Love and money

Constant in our selfishness, we grow inconstant to one another. How wantonly we wound the hearts of those we love, in our hunger to glut our own with the coarse stuffs which won't content us


keeps us in too much of a spin to learn how best to placate it. I'm scuttling so furiously to grab what I want, how could I find time to chart the most undeviating route to reach it?

Wealth frees you from every kind of captivity, save that of having to waste all your time labouring to stash up more of it.

16 Competitive desire

It is by struggling with others that we learn what we want for ourselves. And when we take part in the struggle we learn to want more and more.

Life is a mad scramble for things that we wouldn't want if we didn't have the chance to heap up more of them than others.

We could easily get what we want, but we waste our lives jostling toare incorruptible. But it's the corrupt that are indispensable. It is they who keep the world spiralling so smoothly. The self-sufficing are too proud to submit and too disengaged to rebel.

We betray routinely in order to get what we want, not purposely to spread our beliefs.

The world is not content just to see pure hearts defiled. It wants to see them of their own free will defile themselves. And it pays a high stipend to those who have a gift for respectably depraving the innocent.

How keen I am to be corrupted, if I get the chance. And how sullenly I hug my virtue, if I don't. Some people weren't made for this world, and yet were not made for a better one. Are there any more pitiful than


If they were not, there would have been no need for them. Suicides know that their life will go on interminably, if they don't put a stop to it this day.

Are suicides more desperate to evade their future or to annul their past?

We are rats in a maze scampering to locate the way out but forbidden to take the nearest one.

31 Cowardice loves cruelty

Cowards prize the cold aggression of their protectors, too craven to fear that they might one day use it to hurt them. They cheer on any kind of cruelty that makes them feel more secure. It's thus that the faithful adore their god.

People are willing to take a lot of risks in order to feel safe.

Bullies are not cowards. But cowards love a bully, socruelly, not because we feel others' pangs too piquantly, but because we scarcely feel them at all. Most of us are saved from being cruel not by our sympathy but by our indifference. We are too heartless and insensible to take pleasure in maltreating people. Only those who feel what others suffer could enjoy torturing them. We picture the pain of others too dimly to savour occasioning it or to writhe in rapport with it. And we need responsive victims to pique our sadism. Torturers do not waste their torments on stones.

Cruelty calls for as much imagination as kindness, and far more than we are prepared to lend it or than our everyday niceness asks of us.

Children love to play at cruelty. It tickles us when we are


scald me, but I refuse to part with them. And though my virtues don't cost me a cent, I'm glad to get rid of them. 'Vice,' as Colton wrote, 'has more martyrs than virtue.' Right is so easy, but wrong is still so seductive.

SELF-INTEREST

**5 Self-interest plays the role of all the virtues**

We daub our self-interest in the livid tints of vices and virtues. And we curse those who scrape these back to lay bare the dun stuff that underlies it. We gild our interests with a thin flake of goodness, to distract the eye and to extract a dearer price for them. Careerism robes itself in the decorous outfit of integrity to walk up and down in the world.

Our greed disciplines us better than our self-knowledge. We arehow childish they are. They have rigged out their own immaturity with the gear that's tailored to master the world's immaturity.

There is nothing that we know less than our own self. And there is nothing that we can control less than our own will.

12 How strong the weak must be

We have to be strong enough to hold on, since we are too weak just to let go.

Man of bronze. He was so weak and liable to wounds, that he had to encase his heart in brass, and then dig from that carapace all that was soft and human. Why wonder that what he made of himself should ring so hollow? He shuddered at the least touch. So he had to muffle himself so that mere life wouldn't deafen


much. We who make the worst use of everything have no doubt that we deserve to have the best of everything.

27 The rewards of justice

I wish that justice governed the world, and at times I fear that it might. 'Life is never fair,' Wilde said, 'and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.'

It is the just who get their comeuppance in this world. The corrupt stride on from one shining triumph to the next.

How swiftly mischief turns the whole world upside down. Yet what long centuries we have taken to rip up rooted injustices. 'Haste is of the devil,' says Muhammad, 'slowness of God.'

28 Duty

I have to make too much of the urgency of some of my obligations in order torich are happy to deny themselves.

3 Self-pity

When howling misery rains down on me, I rush to shelter in the squat cabin of people's concern, which I'm keen to quit as soon as the hurricane's past. Though I'm too smug to feel sorry for myself, at times I act as if I did, as a feint to glean others' aid or attention.

Our self-pity is a performance which we put on for others as much as our pity for others is a performance which we put on for ourselves.

You have dipped low indeed, if you can find a narcotic in the pity of others, or need to in your own.

I don't feel sorry for others, because I care too frigidly for their troubles. I don't feel sorry for myself, because


I think too warmly of my own importance.

Our own imaginary woes torment us. But the real woes of others scarcely touch us.

4 We pity to savour our own good fortune

When I condole with someone, I add the balm of an unsullied conscience and the piquancy of a dram of discomfort to my contemplation of their distress, which I would elsewise not feel at all.

The cold flint of our pity for others strikes few sparks for them. But it whets the pleasure that we take in our own good fortune.

I give alms as a small toll to ride on the highway of my self-approval.

Some of us holiday in compassion as an emotional tourism through others' anguish, which takes us on a brief scenic bypass from the broad highway ofoften than conscience makes us cowards.

My conscience likes to scold me, since it is too weak to stop me. I'm willing to lend it a hearing, on the proviso that it comes too late to hold me back from doing what I want to. I bear with its stings, but kick back when it tries to put a brake on me. And I chafe at its prohibitions, but lounge in its regrets. I leave it its teeth, but draw its venom. So when it bites me, I feel more righteous and more alive.

Conscience is a still small voice, because it has grown hoarse with repeating admonitions to which we pay no heed.

The pure and upright treat their foes with punctilious fairness, that they might be free to curse


them with a good conscience. Or else they claim to be encumbered by principles so much more stringent than those of their opponents, that they have a right to act unscrupulously so as to even the odds.

12 The confidence of justification

We hide our mean acts and motives in the dark. Yet we have no doubt that we would be vindicated if we were judged by God who knows our secret springs. If he showed forth our true value we would be seated at his right hand. We may think that we want to be saved, but all we want is to be rewarded.

My scrupulosity must have the eyesight of a lynx, since it can make out none but my most microscopic flaws. It penalizes my small misdemeanours punctiliously,in conceit

We are all born equal in conceit. And so we are obliged to avow that we are all born equal. 'There are no grades of vanity,' as Twain points out. We have each been apportioned the same sum of it, to offset the manifest disparities of our talents and fortunes. Conceit cuts us off from others, and yet is common to us all. It makes us think we must be extraordinary, but it is one of the most ordinary things about us. It is the great leveller, which clips us back to equality while congratulating us on our uniqueness. Each of us now has an entitlement to the security of being equal and the vanity of feeling special.

Now that we are all equal, each of us has


they wish, since it knows that it can trust them all to think alike. 'People,' says Kierkegaard, 'never use the liberties they do have, but demand those that they don't have. They have liberty of thought, they demand liberty of speech.'

In a tyranny all are forced to think the same, and in a republic all are free to choose to. 'America,' as Tocqueville wrote, 'is a country where they have freedom of speech but all say the same thing.'

Intolerant societies keep alive the diversity between cultures. Tolerant societies which permit diversity within their borders reduce the globe to an undifferentiated mass.

When lawgivers censor artists for moral or political ends, they free them from ministering to moral or political aims. Censorship has hitherto been the sole contribution that thebook. And the whole of heaven heaved to bring forth the Quran.

All noble societies know that life is a means and not an end.

Humankind makes good its claim to be here by its few inhuman exceptions. Life is justified only by what transcends it.

We have made for ourselves a material opulence and a spiritual squalor. And we are so proud of our handiwork.

We used to be captives of the material squalor which we couldn't escape. Now we delight in the spiritual squalor which we have chosen.

All epochs are spiritually impoverished. But the great ones have enriched their heirs with works which made up for their poverty of soul.

41 The creative class

The ruling class lends a state its order. The middle class lends it its force. It grows pregnant