~" Spies from a big country say this or that countries has weapons. That is unacceptable said their leader, they invade. With the magnitude about equal to what Normandy invasion of the WW2 era has seen, occupied countries leader is killed

Then take over the country for a decade and have their NATO back them up, willing to leave only if they adopt the government as they have, What other nation would be allowed to do that? "~

But the world changes too, at many different scales.

The guy speaking in the Dalkey Archive quote is an American publisher, complaining that it's difficult to persuade Americans to read non-American authors.

I saw a slightly different angle in a John Barth interview. He was talking about complexity -- and the idea that 'complexity' made a novel harder to read, less entertaining, and therefore a bad thing. Yet, he said, we admire complexity in many other areas, including sports.

This is exactly what I often find myself thinking. I suspect some of the 'shock' is just a ritual expression of dismay from people who don't think things through. And some of it, of course, is idiocy.

Several if they talked about, express the big countries search for terror are a good idea, others took the less happy approach. The notes of hearsay was compiled from most of the frustrated talks because of the big countries belief that they could go anywhere they want

I was talking, mainly, about people who say "I am shocked by X" - in any context, when it isn't real, clinical shock, but a social convention to indicate dismay. I wasn't talking about geopolitics, though that can be part of it.

Zweiter punkt. The ability to see things from the point of view of other people is very valuable. It is more than a vaguely zen-hippy new-age-ish pablum: it's a survival tool.

Americans, because of their history of isolationism and exceptionalism (and wealth) have a habit of not getting other points of view. Sometimes they don't even know they exist.

I'm paraphrasing.

< I don't think you had a direction>

Innaresting. It's just a promo device from a time in the 1960s -- when people tried to turn an introverted beatnik with the voice of an angel into a boyband. But it shows that the 'vote for' tag had some currency outside politics.

And maybe helps to explain why Walker still makes astonishing music now, even when he chooses not to sing at all. How publicity scared him into recluse territory, and how voting is the last thing on his mind.

I have to confess there few Music in English I listen to, so my searches for possible likes are more limited

Most times I prefer the ones with subs or lyrics listed or shown on screen, if a voice confuses with a dialect I are still able to continue with the understandings of the song meaning

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jF_W...

Schiller (not Eric S.) and Beethoven will rethink that one nowadays.

Wagner - timeless for brave attackers

For some reason, I am reminded of the apocryphal story about an Irishman who applied for a job on a building site. The foreman, having some doubts about the applicant's ability, decided to test him with a question about building materials. "Can you tell a joist from a girder?" he asked.

was it the same irish guy who would fly to the sun with a spaceship? only at night time, of course.

The one I remember seeing, Svidler vs Williams, was more brutal. Williams played a dubious line in the classical Dutch and Svidler casually crushed him in about 18 moves.