“The colonel, poor devil-we knew him afterwards-is now dead. It is strange that he is dead. There is something repulsive to me in the thought of him lying dead: such a humiliating, somehow degraded corpse. Death has no beauty in Italy, unless it be violent. The death of a man or woman through sickness is an occasion of horror, repulsive. They belong entirely to life, they are so limited to life these people.”
D.H. Lawrence, “John” , 1916.
“Nothing was more painful than to see him standing there is his degraded, sordid American clothes, on the deck of the steamer, waving us good-bye, belonging in his final desire to our world, the world of consciousness and deliberate action. With his candid, open, unquestioning face, he seemed like a prisoner being conveyed from one form of life to another, or like a soul in trajectory, that has not found a resting place.
What were his wife and child to him: they were the last steps of the past. His father was the continent behind him; his wife and child the foreshore of the past; but his face was set outwards, away from it all-whither, neither he nor anybody knew, but he called it America.”
D.H. Lawrence, « John » 1916.
AS FOR POTTY TRAINING COMMUNICATION IS A TWO-WAY STREET: 66.47% THERE!
I am making progress in the potty-training department. Let me rephrase that by saying WE are making progress. The responsibility for depositing my bodily fluids and substances in the right place is a two-way street. You can’t expect a puppy to act solely on admonishments and criticisms that will miraculously enable us to “do the right thing” as that Spike Lee movie was titled.
Alright, I know guilt when the mark isn’t where it should be and that is a component of the potty-training mindset but have some compassion as my puppy bladder is tiny. Success in puppy training is puppy signalling you when puppy has to go. It could be a bark, a nudge or movement towards the nearest door leading to “outside activities”. Dear humans look and TRAIN YOURSELVES for these signals. Puppy TRAIN YOURSELVES to impart these signals. Humans should REWARD puppies not only for “doing business” outside the home but for giving you the “gotta go signals”.
I am 66.47 % towards success as pertains to potty training. Quite amazing since my arrival at Bob and Fay’s it was juice and poop at will with no guilt and regrets. If I have ‘an accident” these days I got the guilt but often, yes often, Bob and Fay don’t pick up on the signals I give yet it may be me not giving the signals or giving them too late.
Let me make myself clear POTTY TRAINING IS A TWO-WAY STREET!
Dog no perfect. HUMAN NO PERFECT!
Patience can only truly be a virtue with two-way communication!
“I had seen a sailor who had visited that very island, and he told me that it was the custom, when great battle had been gained there, to barbeque all the slain in the yard or garden of the victor; and then one by one, they were placed in a great wooden trenches, and garnished round like a pilau, with breadfruit and coconuts. And with some parsley in their mouths were sent around with the victor’s compliments to all his friends, just as though these presents were Christmas turkeys.”
Herman Melville, “Moby Dick”, 1851.
“I cherish the greatest respect towards everybody’s religious obligations, never mind how comical. And could not find it my heart to undervalue even a congregation of ants worshipping a toad-stool; or those other creatures in certain parts of our earth, who with a degree of footsmanism quite unprecedented in other planets, bow down before the torso of a deceased landed proprietor merely on account of the inordinate possessions yet owned and rented in his name.”
Herman Melville, “Moby Dick”, 1851.
“It is in the spirit that marriage takes place. In the flesh there is connection; but only in the spirit is there a new thing created out of two antithetic things. In the body I am conjoined with a woman. But in the spirit my conjunction with her creates a third thing, an absolute. A Word, which is neither me nor her, nor of me or her, but which is absolute.”
D.H. Lawrence, “Il Duro”, 1916.
“The Italian people are called ‘Children of the Sun’. They might better be called ‘Children of the Shadow’. Their souls are dark and nocturnal. If they are to be easy, they must be able to hide, to be hidden in lairs and caves of darkness. Going through these tiny, chaotic back-ways of the village was like venturing through the labyrinth made by furtive creatures, who watched from out of another element. And I was pale, and clear and evanescent, like the light, and they were dark and close, and constant, like the shadow.”
D.H. Lawrence, “The Spinner and the Monks”,1916.
“He’s a queer man, Captain Ahab-so some think-but a good one. Oh, thou’lt like him well enough; no fear, no fear. He’s a grand, ungodly, god-like man, Captain Ahab; doesn’t speak much; but when he does speak, then you may well listen. Mark ye, be forewarned; Ahab’s above the common; Ahab’s been in colleges, as well as ‘mong the cannibals, been used to deeper wonders that the waves; fixed his fiery lance in mightier stranger foes than whales.”
Herman Melville, “Moby Dick”, 1851.
“Every mental state, even madness, has its equilibrium based on self esteem. Its disturbance causes unhappiness; and Captain Hagberd lived amongst a scheme of settled notions which it pained him to feel disturbed by people’s grins. Yes, people’s grins were awful. They hinted at something wrong, but what? He could not tell; and this stranger was obviously grinning-had come on purpose to grin. It was bad enough on the streets, but he had never been outraged like this.”
Joseph Conrad, “Tomorrow”, 1902.
“An ordinary person in the USSR has no prospects except for being trapped in misery and trudging directly toward the grave. All of the friends and even casual acquaintances we talked to were in a bleak mood: there was nothing ahead, just emptiness. No goals to set, nothing to look forward to. We knew the “ideological educators” were the only ones pretending to have an answer…there was only one possible solution: to get out. But our children need a future. They cannot be left on the dead-end street of Soviet reality, with its terrible soul killing hopelessness and the total indifference of others- a reality in which no one gives a damn. We must save the children! We must escape no matter the cost. Our children must have a better life, It’s our duty.”
Vladimir Rott, “In Defiance of Fate Book 1 Joy from Sadness”, 2009.
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