Running Across The Town Square, Books Under Cloak

Somewhere in these pages over recent months (and just from memory, so I might not be able to point to where exactly right away) in quite a number of places, there will be phrases along the lines of '...and I have visions of running through the town square as the fire burns, with a stack of important books tightly held under my arm.'

However in all likelihood these books will be only of importance to me. And maybe a handful of others around the globe.

This is Trinity College Library, Dublin, not 'Trinity Hall' Cambridge...

You know, even such tomes as 'the Picatrix' are around in multiple copies and it is only a rare, a very rare range of titles, for which few or only one or two completely intact copies still remain to us. Professor Jonathan Bate (Professor of English Literature, Oxford) was on a Sky Television news backgrounder this week talking about god only knows what, I don't remember, but I do remember one particular phrase he uttered in running: 'as the classics drift away from us and are forgotten...'

See what I mean? This is THE head of English Literature at Oxford University right now. He received his first degrees from Trinity Hall, Cambridge. Why did he say that...? 'drift away and are forgotten...'

What does he mean? These things serve merely the purpose of artifacts? Is that what he means?

You can afford to forget something if it had no integral function of itself, and served only as an artifact, apart from which the core knowledge entailed was well enough known to everyone or at least to a sufficient number of experts.

Dr Pieczenik

Now here I'm going to dove-tail in another, yes another, reference to my earlier article respondent who mentioned that Charteris was not (or at least not credited as, or not widely believed to have been) a screenwriter for any Bond movie: Dr Steve Pieczenik, the US Intelligence psychologist who worked on some original regime changes in the Middle East decades ago now, was also on his YT channel saying that JFK had read '6 Days Of The Condor' liked it, but failed to appreciate it's significance as it might have applied to himself. Now as you all know 6 Days Of The Condor was made into the movie 3 Days Of The Condor and the book was originally published in 1974, long after Kennedy was assassinated. So was Dr P wrong? Was he mistaken? He seemed to be quite positive and definite in what he was saying.

The original manuscript you see, albeit written by James Grady, a personal friend of Dr Pieczenik's, was penned in outline form much earlier on by Lee Metcalf, the Senator and Congressman who started or helped start the DIA - the US Defense Intelligence Agency.

I could I suppose be altogether condescending and patronizing and appear as if turning personal folklore into fact, but here, here, let me offer all of you just this - and when you read it, read it very carefully, taking note of when I posted it here, and what happened shortly thereafter. Things are not always what they seem, are they, gunny...

And so, yes, a few more incidents are coming up the turnpike shortly, and we will indeed be speaking of them beforehand. 

Quoted, from this Blogspot, of Thursday 14 Feb, 2019:

"Thomas Sheridan recently produced a short series of YouTube articles about his visit to Sri Lanka, from where he brought back a small figurine of 'Kali' and then he just groaned that it had been badly smashed when it went through customs in Dubai... Well, it is common practice for almost all the Muslim personnel there to literally deliberately smash small idols - and they are known to do it regardless that some naiive traveler is simply passing through there. Sheridan is a widely-acknowledged expert on some aspects of British folk religions and what is termed Irish paganism, and he is a very fact-based, logical thinker on those subjects."