Thomas_More
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A friend’s explanation.
” … It [handwriting] is an art cultivated throughout the whole body, expressed through the finely tuned fingers; keyboarding is a skill, utilitarian but not aiming for beauty. It is probably more useful than penmanship for taking notes because it is speedier but it lacks specificity and individual expressiveness. All pages typed on the same keyboard will look the same, with varying serifs, perhaps.
I remember how proud I was at 4 when I learned to read, and a few months later, when I started printing my own words and stories. Cursive came later and I was prouder yet. Even though my writing has rambled far from the ideals of the Palmer method which I was taught, every deviation has been meaningfully designed, every curlicue and flourish. It belongs to me, not to a piece of storebought hardware. It is easily identifiable when an card from me arrives in the mail. Keyboarding is a lesser achievement.”In spite of Trump, and before any deal can be agreed, the UK and EU appear to be pressing ahead with their Russophobia.
I get the UK’s stubbornness, but I still don’t understand the EU’s, given that it, and Germany especially, was three years ago hesitant to go along with US (Biden) policy (scrapping Nordstream and buying US gas).
Why is the EU so gung-ho now?
This is the third time I’ve asked this here.
My last word:
“Books offer a tactile experience that screens simply cannot replicate.”
If you have never had a life with books as I have and only want text, then you might as well just print text from your computer and staple it.
Fair enough – for you.
Well, except for two, there are no more bookshops in the combined towns where I live, and the one near me has to mostly stock plushes, novelties and jigsaw puzzles in order to survive.
As for buying books online, one has to check and check again to ensure one is getting a real book, and not a print on demand non-book consisting of photocopied pages glued together.
So all this is serious, then? The US will take Greenland and wants Canada?
It isn’t just a bad joke?I wasn’t intimating any support on my part, just saying that the same framework, propaganda-wise, as Mao’s nationalistic displays was in place on the KMT side too. And the music catchier!
Chiang’s cult was under way as Mao’s was. He also had plans in place for the seizure of Tibet.But, even so, I don’t think the tyranny over everyday life would have approached Mao’s peasant tyranny.
I wish I still had the book of speeches to quote from, but we are talking about my childhood years. All I can tell you is that it was a blue paperback called Speeches of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek.
“Books offer a tactile experience that screens simply cannot replicate.”
When the hysteria of a month ago has died off a bit, why are tabloids like the Express bringing back the Putin bugbear?
Do they have an especial link to the military?
In earnest, or more money-grubbing through fear-mongering?
https://news.sky.com/story/nato-must-shift-to-wartime-mindset-secretary-general-warns-13272162
