More stumbling (photo files)… how did I do this self-portrait (in Mexico on my Captain Zero trip)? I’m not squeezing my junk but rather tripping a radio release device, with the camera on a tripod in the shallows.
Whilst fiddling with my review of RFK Jr.’s The Real Fauci, and ‘thumbing’ through fucking Amazon’s recommendations (boy do they have me wired!), I managed to get distracted by the title to George MacDonald Fraser’s memoir Quartered Safe Out Here, the recounting of his wartime life and times in World War II Burma. The title was the first domino leading to this (other) irrelevant post (the last was pretty meaningless too, if you recall).
I immediately recognized that Fraser’s title is from Kipling’s classic Gunga Din, one of the few poems I can get through (I in fact used to know it by heart), and the inspiration for one of the all time best buddy-adventure movies, of the same title….
You may talk ‘o gin and beer
When you’re quartered safe out here…
…much later in the tale, the penultimate stanza goes like this…
‘E carried me away
To where a dooli lay,
An’ a bullet come an’ drilled the beggar clean.
‘E put me safe inside,
An’ just before ‘e died:
“I ‘ope you liked your drink,” sez Gunga Din.
So I’ll meet ‘im later on
In the place where ‘e is gone—
Where it’s always double drill and no canteen;
‘E’ll be squattin’ on the coals
Givin’ drink to pore damned souls,
An’ I’ll get a swig in Hell from Gunga Din!
A quarter century later, another self portrait, done in a similar fashion. Somehow these images relate to my taste in poems and fiction.
In context, still puts a lump in my throat. Anyway, I ended up reading the damn thing, which I hadn’t done for over half a century. Here it is.
There is only one other (poem) that knocks me out like Din: ‘The Cremation of Sam McGee’ by Robert W. Service. Here that one is. Either or both will annoy some of you, as would the Flashman tales, Fraser’s series of historical novels featuring the cowardly poltroon Harry Flashman’s ridiculous adventures through the various 18th century wars, from Napoleonic to Little Bighorn (of which Harry was the sole white survivor).
There are a dozen Flashman titles and I’ve read/listened to them all multiple times. I can’t believe, in these ‘woke’ times, that Amazon still carries them. (I mean if you think ‘Gunga Din’ is… politically incorrect…)
Anyway, I put Quartered Safe Out Here on pause to recommend to you all Fraser/Kipling/Service, knowing without doubt that by doing so I’ll lose still more subscribers, but also knowing at least one of you out there will wind up thanking me.
Allan
thank you very much
NYC mayor-elect Eric Adams just announced today that he will keep Mayor Bill de Blasio’s mandates that anyone who works in a private business in New York City must get however many mRNA injections that NYC says. “Vaccine and testing, vaccine and testing, vaccine and testing,” Adams said. despite the fact that both have been proven failures. Eric Adams is Bill de Blasio 2.0. It just amazes me that everything is a lie, and the regulations are clearly unconstitutional, and the courts do nothing. Curtis Sliwa plainly said that he would not have vaccine mandates, and he couldn’t get even 30% of the vote? And the New York Post, knowing that Adams was going to poison New Yorkers and promote myocarditis in school children, endorsed Adams anyway? What city, state, country, world am I living in?
Yes, it’s truly a crazy world and it’s the humans at the bottom of it. Thing is, it’s soooo obvious. We’re preaching to the choir here but that’s actually ok. There is a layer to this existence that ‘knows’ about those who think critically. I do believe that. For evidence of this (if indirect) watch this. Prepare to have your minds blown:
https://www.bitchute.com/video/WidMJTGIVyHO/
Tell me that isn’t up there with the Mandela Effect (in a good way) in terms of high strangeness.
https://www.bitchute.com/video/mpedHAUf18Ey/
That is mind-blowing all right. Truth and resolute of a supernatural realization. Water is universal and reflective of intelligence. It’s not a concept.
This was my new year’s hope that worldwide supernatural events would bring us together. Bring it on + more.
Somehow Consciousness is showing up as the visible from the Invisible.
This is great and important to follow up on. Awesome Allan.
Everyone’s IQ just jumped up a notch in Wisdom. It reminds me that viewing
rays of light changes light. Consequently, what we think is as important as what we do. It’s been written water is from the Spirit.
Get better Allan. We need
you to stir it up for fun and answers
during this mess for a continued
happening in a possible
Happy New Year!
I guess we all become sacrificial and end up losing
in the end, but gaining invincibility. Gunda Din is ironic
and normal at the same time, as the meaning of life.
It gave me a real sense of coherency somehow.
It reminded me of the Angelic conflict which will continue until Good wins.
We all have eternal consciousness.
Encouragement with clarity is all the books by Dr. David R. Hawkins, starting with Power vs. Force: The Hidden Determinants of Human Behavior
As far as delving into who’s up to what’s best for us or who isn’t,
Dr. Hawkins is a good place to start to acquire good judgments
for taking an actual position on whether those folks know the real truth
or not. Also, whether one knows the visible and the Invisible, or not.
Witnessing supernatural events is an awakening leading to becoming
a truth seeker seer.
Oh, and the positions of politics and science are always changing.
What was bad is now good and vice versa. Yesterday’s rock-solid
truisms become today’s ridiculousness.
Looking forward to Quartered Safe Out Here.
Thanks, Allan!
Thank you Allan.
Gunga Din. Perfect.
Great post!. Haven’t read any Kipling in a long time. I remember enjoying his poem, “Overland Mail” among his many works. Gunga Din is superb.
THANK YOU for the recommended reading! My father read both to us kids. His favorite was The Cremation of Sam McGee though. You bring back fond memories Allen 🙂
i read some of the Flashman novels, beginning when eight of the eventual twelve had been published. They were good fun, and instructive as to what historical fiction can do. (E.L. Gore Vidal’s Burr (1973) is way better). i never thought of Fraser in any other context, although plainly he had had military experience and it makes sense he ‘d have tried his hand at ‘non-fiction.’ Thanks for pointing me to his memoirs.
i suspect the reason he won’t be canceled anytime soon is that the character is a cad. (well played by Malcolm McDowell in ’75). That is, we’re supposed to shake out heads and tsk-tsk at him. The feminists and what-not cannot prove we may be doing so with sneaking admiration.
* shake our heads
My theory is they just haven’t read them. They just keep an eye on titles… at some point they’ll have A.I. reading everything that comes through. Then it will be poof for good old Flashy. It’ll be a shame too. Most of what I know of that era is from those books.
3 Days of the Condor.
Already happening… probably decades ago.
I presume that the major publishing houses only are “permitted” to stay clear of the actual truth.
Personnaly i trust nobody in the mainstream, and most of popular people in the alternative media are suspicious…if they are popular it is not by chance. What Franck said about Russia reversing the gas flow in the Yamal pipeline smell really bad for 2022. “Attachez votre tuque avec d’la broche”….””Hold on to your beanie hat with barbed wire”…BTW found this on Amazon, necessity is the mother of invention: https://www.amazon.ca/Senose-bonnets-dhiver-unisexes-boutons/dp/B08GS4B842/ref=sr_1_2_sspa?keywords=Beanie+Hat&qid=1640712800&sr=8-2-spons&psc=1&spLa=ZW5jcnlwdGVkUXVhbGlmaWVyPUEyMERWOURTQTgyTVUyJmVuY3J5cHRlZElkPUEwNzI4MTYwTEFJMFAxUDBIWVBOJmVuY3J5cHRlZEFkSWQ9QTAxMjExNDAxV043NTVFWlIyOUVaJndpZGdldE5hbWU9c3BfYXRmJmFjdGlvbj1jbGlja1JlZGlyZWN0JmRvTm90TG9nQ2xpY2s9dHJ1ZQ%3D%3D&language=en_CA
Thanks Jean-Francois! – I have been hunting for that again too.
Folks, this enterprising & on to it young guy (only 28) was stormed and murdered by the law just a couple of months ago. Because he was wide awake and had the answers & remedy to the current worldwide scourge problem.
https://youtu.be/3joI5hldJjI
And they called his death “heart attack” FFS.
I hope the tooth pain is going away quick Allan, great photo’s as usual too! 🙂 …..that particular mask you have is an awesome idea! 😀
Here, we still have far too many Bozo the Clowns wearing masks on the streets and in their cars galore. If another brain was put into their head, – it would be lonely.
I don’t mean to insult anyone (esp those you really do mean well) but I got an email with this:
‘When I was doing his website, I was quizzing him on when they started using gloves in dentistry. Seems like a no-brainer that they use gloves today. But they only started using gloves in the early ’90s, cause of the HIV outbreaks. Before that, the profession was called “wet hand dentistry.” Charming, eh?’
I answered:
‘Actually, there is probably no need for gloves any more than masks. Same principal.
What exactly are you worried about, given you’ve no doubt stuck your tongue down a few throats?’
this is STILL ANOTHER example of not paying attention to this blog. If you’ve washed any toxin off your hands, and given that BACTERIA ARE NOT THE CAUSE OF ILLNESS,….
see what I mean?
People simply do not think… maybe they are no longer capable.
Our Uncle Luke, now ten years dead, could still recite Sam McGee from start to finish at 85 years of age. What a treat. Every one of us listening, no matter how old or young marvelled at it and loved the feat. Thanks for this Allan.
Yes, I knew that one by heart as well. When I was about 10 years old. It slowly faded, like so many other fond memories.
A second post! It’s almost like you’re back!…Did you see NBA player LeBron James’s tweet? Three Spider-men (named Covid, Cold and Flu) all pointing at each other, as if to say they are all the same…Look, I knew this was bollocks from the start. Friends of David Goldberg predicted the whole thing, said they’d scare the public with something, but the real danger would be the vaccines they’d put in everyone…Did you see the video of a woman at a beauty salon, her cell phone flashes, and then she’s knocked out? It’s on BitChute in several places, such as cindygaray “5G & China, What Really Happened?” Pretty scary if they can do that to anyone…Still nothing from the NY courts on Mayor Bill de Blasio’s vaccine mandates on private employers. It seems obviously unconstitutional that he can mandate experimental mRNA gene therapy on anyone.
Yes, and I’ve seen other signs, too.
The narrative begins to fall apart.
Anti-lockdown and anti-vaxx rallies are massively on the rise here in Europe, and more and more countries reject the EU laws. The currency of Turkey, a fringe-Nato member and fringe-EU member, is falling apart. With millions Turks living in EU countries.
Industrial and even grocery store companies are announcing supply chain troubles, and Russia has reversed the gas flow in the Yamal pipeline, spelling trouble for Germany and Austria.
I would say, brace for impact.
Glad to hear Russia’s doing that. I don’t know what kind of international sanctions it’s going to take to get the particularly evil non-US countries – Germany, Austria, Australia! – to back down. I hate to think all the good Germans died in WWII, yet it may well be the case!
This is what they found in the vaccine (start at 1:27:20) https://www.brighteon.com/8b8b5488-f751-4e49-9f28-630edccf37f0 . First time i saw this video was on Odysee and Rumble, than it disapear, after I found it on Youtube than it disapear, now its on Brighteon if it disapear search for “press-conference-death-by-vaccination.undeclared-components-of-the-covid-19-vaccines-2021-09-20″….the biopsy analysis at the beginning is also pretty scary…when a pathologist with 40 years of exprerience say he dont have a clue at what is looking at I think we have a problem Dr Watson.
Thanks, folks, for getting us back on track. Jean, yes, that one is worth multiple viewings!
The scary and discouraging aspect of RFK Jr.’s book is related to what you say. I really want to like the man, especially after his ‘debate’ with that evil fuck Dershowitz, but he (RFK) is contributing to the op big time.
So far, this is the single most difficult thing to convince my wife of… controlled opposition; and that control is enforced by tools most cannot comprehend.
How do you think the guy’s controlled opposition? I heard him on some Fox radio show syndicated locally, it was kind of heartbreaking & sad, hearing RFK Jr. get the message out (host already onboard) in his quavering voice (1 year earlier he sounded fine), guy can barely stop from sounding like Katharine Hepburn, so I don’t see what harm he can bring … or what deception he’s casting on all of us … by his going forth with this (show?) trial in L.A. (Camelot can’t get no respect no mo’!) A soap actor suing ABC with RFK as his defense…!
When Highersidechat Greg asked him about Germ theory (Dr Cowan, etc.) he totally evaded the question and said he’s (RFK) is not ‘qualified’ on that subject. Utter bullshit and an obvious LH response.
You are right Allan. His weak “very careful not-to-take-a-position” reply to Greg Carlwood’s question is at 46min.
https://www.thehighersidechats.com/robert-f-kennedy-jr-the-real-anthony-fauci-aids-covid-the-medical-industrial-complex/
He knows not to go there as the pursuit of this truth would spell the end of allopathic medicine and all its derivatives.