Late morning. You were up early to read sections of the Sunday paper
and have breakfast, then upstairs with Jadah leading, a nap with Jadah
comfortably snuggled within your arms. You finished another chapter of Wolff's Fire
and Fury while Carol has turned on an old movie, The Rock (1996),
and Jadah is encircled under the corner of a light blue and white blanket on
the bed. Once the film is completed you are both off to the basement to work on
cleaning up before those are brought in to clean up and clean out. - Amorella
** **
Chapter Twenty of Fire and Fury is aptly titled "McMaster
and Scaramucci". Bannon's name could also easily have been added. The
context is about the "never Trumpers" against the "First
Trumpkins" and the wills of Bannon and Trump. This chapter unlike the
previous was a difficult read. So many small battles within and adding or not
adding troops in Afghanistan without. All this had to be added by Wolff but to
me the somewhat petty events just
reinforces the ridiculousness of the whole human WH setting. Human beings a
mess some of their own making and some not . . . my mind rolls back to the many
writings of Jonathon Swift, the great satirist of the eighteenth century . . . "Satire is a
sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but
their own" (JS). The irony on thinking satire is Fire and Fury is for the most
part about humanity in the nonfiction.
** **
You got a little carried away, my boy. - Amorella
1157 hours. My heart is a little too
close to Swift's in this instance.
Earlier you had left over pizza for
lunch, basked your brain on mostly nothing until Carol suggested an ice cream
while also doing a couple errand. After such you are home again, Carol is
watching television while you were reading chapter twenty-one on Bannon and
Scaramucci.
** **
Chapter Twenty-one was
more interesting because the reading flowed better. The key or one of the keys
in this chapter is that Scaramucci was hired for communications and ten days
later he was fired. Who fired him? General Kelly who was hired and had slipped
in during a meanwhile. Spicer and Priebus were out during those same ten days.
The ins and outs are not fiction. The rest of it doesn't appear to be fiction
either. If the events are too ridiculous to be real, they aren't. We are all a
part of the same species. Look at our history. We have survived some 300,000
years or so as humanoids. How we continue to do this, to survive as a species,
seems to defy the odds, just take Trump for instance. He's still the President
of the United States.
** **
The sun is in its daily retreat, at least locally. You see so many
parallels between the happenings in Fire and Fury and continued real
daily headlines in the national and international newspapers as well as in BBC
World News that it is difficult to focus on the 'Fake News' in and between the
lines of Fire and Fury. - Amorella
1736 hours. Reading one or two
chapters a day is fine, anymore and I'd burn out. Real life is what it seems. Fire
and Fury may not be exactly real life in a two-dimensional mode but it's pretty
close, close enough.
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