tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1656921634940224775.post6022783066988758357..comments2024-02-11T15:29:31.409-05:00Comments on Richard's Pretension: “O sweet and lovely wall, Show me thy chink”Richard Bellushhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10108081864942272619noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1656921634940224775.post-2065662236250241762015-11-08T16:38:00.257-05:002015-11-08T16:38:00.257-05:00Walls were very effective before cannons, and were...Walls were very effective before cannons, and weren't useless after their arrival. They slow the attacker down at the very least.<br /><br />I suppose you're right about the dirt. It just needs to be patient.Richard Bellushhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10108081864942272619noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1656921634940224775.post-14868373220322967532015-11-08T11:56:47.330-05:002015-11-08T11:56:47.330-05:00I like your idea that walls are as key to the deve...I like your idea that walls are as key to the development of civilization as farming and government. It makes sense that the walls would be the key to group folks together and that would force them to work together to achieve that common goal. <br /><br />I also agree that walls are also a tempting target. Obviously if someone went to the work of building a wall in the first place, they must have something pretty good on the other side of it. I'm guessing that is why the dirt keeps trying to invade. You have something it wants.Roman J. Martelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09545497713474664555noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1656921634940224775.post-81334480118645427702015-10-25T14:33:56.821-04:002015-10-25T14:33:56.821-04:00It's hard not to like Robert Frost.
As for en...It's hard not to like Robert Frost.<br /><br />As for entropy, to stir in more metaphors, lately I feel in a Late Roman Empire phase. You know: receding back toward the core at Constantinople. Occasionally I reverse the decay in a spirited push-back, but never regain all of the ground that was lost in the last pull-back. The good news, I guess, is that the Empire went on like that for a very long time. But eventually for each of us it is 1453.Richard Bellushhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10108081864942272619noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1656921634940224775.post-7499054470336218132015-10-25T13:08:16.504-04:002015-10-25T13:08:16.504-04:00So it is... and nice to hear the judgments kept se...So it is... and nice to hear the judgments kept separate. <br /><br />Those of us with minority political philosophies have good reason to do so, of course. I'd have a pretty sparse music collection if I boycotted artists who didn't share mine. I wouldn't have had many dates either. Richard Bellushhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10108081864942272619noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1656921634940224775.post-19136100708233495082015-10-25T13:04:48.911-04:002015-10-25T13:04:48.911-04:00You did a good job on the wall. One or two things...You did a good job on the wall. One or two things in life are always reliable: change and entropy. I guess how we deal with both defines us in some ways. I'll admit I deal with them in various ways and to various degrees. Some change and decay I expect, the ones that take somebody else's expertise at times frustrates me. I guess it depends on the situation and what's at stake. <br /><br />The Robert Frost poem is interesting, one neighbor wants to keep rebuilding the wall, and the other not so much. I guess as humans we build mental walls around us as well to some degree. El Voxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05985563041511492981noreply@blogger.com