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How to make the days more real than the trees… the light…?
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“Unintended consequences” in History
What would by some be named the American Civil War, most believed would end in a few months…
Those on all sides going to war in 1914 believed they would be home by Christmas…
Certainly, the English would not finally declare war on Hitler’s Germany with the invasion of another country Poland… The Wehrmacht would take Moscow before needing winter gear…
Certainly Moscow would rule Kyiv within a week or two after February 24, 2022…
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Saint Peter’s Square, April 26, 2023

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Monsterless Days
Monsters, now widely disbelieved… one can at least thank the nights for ambiguities.
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American gravitas? 
In whom is to be found gravitas amid a society pursuing “happiness” by its common creed?
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Trump or Gregory Peck?

Captain Ahab acted by Gregory Peck has more reality than President Trump in real life.
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Ivan and Ahab

Compare the literary characters of Ivan Karamazov and Captain Ahab, and their relations to God, meaning and design in Creation.
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“What a day!”?”
Has “a day”, with no violent storms, social disorder, war,… no inherent character? 
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“Father, forgive them…”?: Trump, Putin, Netanyahu, et al.
Father, punish them, for they knew what they do.

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Whereas I was inside outside Californian “spirituality”, and then Russia/n… I now need be above mundanity.