This document provides an in-depth analysis and speculation about the hanging of mutineers from the ship HMS Dromedary, comparing details from Melville's Billy Budd novella. It considers representations of the hanging in historical artworks and examines phrases used by Melville to theorize that one of the mutineers, possibly modeled after Billy Budd, may have escaped by slipping his handcuffs and freeing himself from the noose. The document constructs an elaborate hypothetical scenario of how this may have occurred and explores various textual clues and historical sources to support this conjecture.
This document provides a summary of Anwyl Cooper-Willis's portfolio from May 2009. It includes summaries of several art installations and projects, including:
1. Nowhere/Somewhere/Everywhere, which explores themes of human ego and power through models of structures like filing cabinets.
2. Requiem for a Tank, which includes rubbings taken from an decommissioned tank to represent stillness and past military power.
3. The Legend of Alice Downham, a video installation that tells a humorous story with dark undertones through still images, inspired by works like La Jetée.
Topics in Cetology - 1904 (Moby Dick Chapter 32) Herman MelvilleTaradash
This document is the foreword to a 1904 book titled "Topics in Cetology" by C.M. Ishmael. It provides an overview of cetology (the study of whales) and outlines a proposed system for classifying different whale species. The foreword discusses the lack of organization in cetology and introduces a classification system with three main sections (Folio, Duodecimo, Octavo) that will outline different whale types. It acknowledges the challenging nature of classifying the constituents of such a complex topic.
Examine how nature is discussed throughout The Open Boat.” Loo.docxcravennichole326
Examine how nature is discussed throughout “The Open Boat.” Look at the literary critical piece by Anthony Channell Hilfer. Once you have established your own ideas, consider how Hilfer discusses nature in the short story and analyze the following questions: What does nature mean to the men aboard the boat? or Do their perceptions of nature shift throughout the story? Why or why not?
Do their perceptions of nature shift throughout the story? Why or why not?
Write down a loose response about what I think of the question and what I remember of the story.
ICE method.
I introduce the citation
C the citation itself
E explain its meaning to your argument.
The scenes shift with no discernable rhyme or reason. Crane invites every reader in. Critic Anthony Channell Hilfer disagrees with point, saying, “Crane’s image is an accusation of the putative picturesque spectators” (Hilfer 254). Hilfer’s challenge goes against what Crane is trying to do, by making nature a copilot through the reading.
3. Nature as Protagonist in “The Open Boat”
Anthony Channell Hilfer
Texas Studies in Literature and Language, Volume 54, Number 2, Summer
2012, pp. 248-257 (Article)
Published by University of Texas Press
DOI:
For additional information about this article
[ Access provided at 9 Apr 2020 17:36 GMT from Marymount University & (Viva) ]
https://doi.org/10.1353/tsl.2012.0012
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/476402
https://doi.org/10.1353/tsl.2012.0012
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/476402
Anthony Channell Hilfer248
3. Nature as Protagonist in “The Open Boat”
The bottom of the sea is cruel.
—Hart Crane, “Voyages”
As many critics have argued, questions of perspective and epistemology are
central to Stephen Crane’s “The Open Boat” (Kent; Hutchinson). The story’s
first sentence famously clues us to this: “None of them knew the color of
the sky” (68). But behind the uncertainties of perspective is a determinable
ontology, a presence, or rather, I shall argue, a sort of presence, the existence
of which implies a rectified aesthetic response. This response emerges, how-
ever, from negations, denials, and occultations: what is not seen, who is not
there, and what does not happen.3 Here again, when we look at nature we
behold things that are not there and miss “the nothing that is.”
Fully as much as Stevens in “The Snow Man,” Crane is concerned
with certain conventions of representation: personification, the pictur-
esque, the American sublime, and the melodramatic, which although it
does not inform “The Snow Man” is played on in Stevens’s “The Ameri-
can Sublime.” Crane’s story is intertextual with nature poetry, sentimental
poetry, hymns, and landscape art, as well as with Darwinism, theological
clichés, and, less obviously, theological actualities. For the most part these
conventions add up to what the Stevens poem declares is “not there.” To
get to “the nothing that is” we must first traverse this ocean of error. Doing
so helps keep our p.
Examine how nature is discussed throughout The Open Boat.” Looronnasleightholm
Examine how nature is discussed throughout “The Open Boat.” Look at the literary critical piece by Anthony Channell Hilfer. Once you have established your own ideas, consider how Hilfer discusses nature in the short story and analyze the following questions: What does nature mean to the men aboard the boat? or Do their perceptions of nature shift throughout the story? Why or why not?
Do their perceptions of nature shift throughout the story? Why or why not?
Write down a loose response about what I think of the question and what I remember of the story.
ICE method.
I introduce the citation
C the citation itself
E explain its meaning to your argument.
The scenes shift with no discernable rhyme or reason. Crane invites every reader in. Critic Anthony Channell Hilfer disagrees with point, saying, “Crane’s image is an accusation of the putative picturesque spectators” (Hilfer 254). Hilfer’s challenge goes against what Crane is trying to do, by making nature a copilot through the reading.
3. Nature as Protagonist in “The Open Boat”
Anthony Channell Hilfer
Texas Studies in Literature and Language, Volume 54, Number 2, Summer
2012, pp. 248-257 (Article)
Published by University of Texas Press
DOI:
For additional information about this article
[ Access provided at 9 Apr 2020 17:36 GMT from Marymount University & (Viva) ]
https://doi.org/10.1353/tsl.2012.0012
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/476402
https://doi.org/10.1353/tsl.2012.0012
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/476402
Anthony Channell Hilfer248
3. Nature as Protagonist in “The Open Boat”
The bottom of the sea is cruel.
—Hart Crane, “Voyages”
As many critics have argued, questions of perspective and epistemology are
central to Stephen Crane’s “The Open Boat” (Kent; Hutchinson). The story’s
first sentence famously clues us to this: “None of them knew the color of
the sky” (68). But behind the uncertainties of perspective is a determinable
ontology, a presence, or rather, I shall argue, a sort of presence, the existence
of which implies a rectified aesthetic response. This response emerges, how-
ever, from negations, denials, and occultations: what is not seen, who is not
there, and what does not happen.3 Here again, when we look at nature we
behold things that are not there and miss “the nothing that is.”
Fully as much as Stevens in “The Snow Man,” Crane is concerned
with certain conventions of representation: personification, the pictur-
esque, the American sublime, and the melodramatic, which although it
does not inform “The Snow Man” is played on in Stevens’s “The Ameri-
can Sublime.” Crane’s story is intertextual with nature poetry, sentimental
poetry, hymns, and landscape art, as well as with Darwinism, theological
clichés, and, less obviously, theological actualities. For the most part these
conventions add up to what the Stevens poem declares is “not there.” To
get to “the nothing that is” we must first traverse this ocean of error. Doing
so helps keep our p ...
PRESENTING THE ORIGINAL PYM PUZZLER in which was first posed the question PURPORTEDLY answered in the MATCH OF THE MILLENNIUM issue, as to whether the mysterious Western masterpiece "THE TRAPPER'S LAST SHOT'" is actually the artwork of WILLIAM TYLEE RANNEY as is conventionally and even universally accepted, or in fact does not -- as if FAR MORE LIKELY -- represent the work of a completely DIFFERENT WESTERN ARTIST, and one at east as good as RANNEY, maybe better, and who was a friend of JOE MEEK, whom all reasonable minds must agree, is actually represented in the painting , as he makes his lonesome transcontinental journey through MONTANA, and the headwaters of the Missouri River, ON HIS WAY TO WASHINGTON CITY, D.c., to beg for Federal aid for teh American settlers in Oregon !!
Swift uses Gulliver's voyage to Brobdingnag to satirize and critique human nature and society. Gulliver finds himself dwarfed by the inhabitants of this land, giving him a tiny perspective that strips away the pretenses and grandeur of human affairs. When Gulliver describes gunpowder and cannons to the King of Brobdingnag, hoping to impress him, the King is instead horrified by the destructive power of these weapons and refuses to adopt such technologies, showing how perspectives can differ greatly on issues depending on one's frame of reference.
This paper analyzes Herman Melville's Moby-Dick through a political theory lens, viewing Captain Ahab as a modern tyrant. It begins by establishing Ahab's role as the sovereign ruler of the ship Pequod, analogous to a nation-state. It then examines Melville's references to Plato and uses Plato's "Ship of State" metaphor to frame Ahab as the helmsman guiding the Pequod. Finally, it argues that the Pequod serves as Ahab's "ivory house" or castle, cementing his position as the tyrant King Ahab.
The document discusses how in 1914, a small group of English, French, and German men lived isolated on an island without regular news from the outside world. They had been unaware for 6 weeks that the countries of these men were now at war with each other. The introduction explains that during times of war, people's mental pictures of the world often do not match reality, as there is a delay between when events happen and when news of them spreads.
This document provides a summary of Anwyl Cooper-Willis's portfolio from May 2009. It includes summaries of several art installations and projects, including:
1. Nowhere/Somewhere/Everywhere, which explores themes of human ego and power through models of structures like filing cabinets.
2. Requiem for a Tank, which includes rubbings taken from an decommissioned tank to represent stillness and past military power.
3. The Legend of Alice Downham, a video installation that tells a humorous story with dark undertones through still images, inspired by works like La Jetée.
Topics in Cetology - 1904 (Moby Dick Chapter 32) Herman MelvilleTaradash
This document is the foreword to a 1904 book titled "Topics in Cetology" by C.M. Ishmael. It provides an overview of cetology (the study of whales) and outlines a proposed system for classifying different whale species. The foreword discusses the lack of organization in cetology and introduces a classification system with three main sections (Folio, Duodecimo, Octavo) that will outline different whale types. It acknowledges the challenging nature of classifying the constituents of such a complex topic.
Examine how nature is discussed throughout The Open Boat.” Loo.docxcravennichole326
Examine how nature is discussed throughout “The Open Boat.” Look at the literary critical piece by Anthony Channell Hilfer. Once you have established your own ideas, consider how Hilfer discusses nature in the short story and analyze the following questions: What does nature mean to the men aboard the boat? or Do their perceptions of nature shift throughout the story? Why or why not?
Do their perceptions of nature shift throughout the story? Why or why not?
Write down a loose response about what I think of the question and what I remember of the story.
ICE method.
I introduce the citation
C the citation itself
E explain its meaning to your argument.
The scenes shift with no discernable rhyme or reason. Crane invites every reader in. Critic Anthony Channell Hilfer disagrees with point, saying, “Crane’s image is an accusation of the putative picturesque spectators” (Hilfer 254). Hilfer’s challenge goes against what Crane is trying to do, by making nature a copilot through the reading.
3. Nature as Protagonist in “The Open Boat”
Anthony Channell Hilfer
Texas Studies in Literature and Language, Volume 54, Number 2, Summer
2012, pp. 248-257 (Article)
Published by University of Texas Press
DOI:
For additional information about this article
[ Access provided at 9 Apr 2020 17:36 GMT from Marymount University & (Viva) ]
https://doi.org/10.1353/tsl.2012.0012
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/476402
https://doi.org/10.1353/tsl.2012.0012
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/476402
Anthony Channell Hilfer248
3. Nature as Protagonist in “The Open Boat”
The bottom of the sea is cruel.
—Hart Crane, “Voyages”
As many critics have argued, questions of perspective and epistemology are
central to Stephen Crane’s “The Open Boat” (Kent; Hutchinson). The story’s
first sentence famously clues us to this: “None of them knew the color of
the sky” (68). But behind the uncertainties of perspective is a determinable
ontology, a presence, or rather, I shall argue, a sort of presence, the existence
of which implies a rectified aesthetic response. This response emerges, how-
ever, from negations, denials, and occultations: what is not seen, who is not
there, and what does not happen.3 Here again, when we look at nature we
behold things that are not there and miss “the nothing that is.”
Fully as much as Stevens in “The Snow Man,” Crane is concerned
with certain conventions of representation: personification, the pictur-
esque, the American sublime, and the melodramatic, which although it
does not inform “The Snow Man” is played on in Stevens’s “The Ameri-
can Sublime.” Crane’s story is intertextual with nature poetry, sentimental
poetry, hymns, and landscape art, as well as with Darwinism, theological
clichés, and, less obviously, theological actualities. For the most part these
conventions add up to what the Stevens poem declares is “not there.” To
get to “the nothing that is” we must first traverse this ocean of error. Doing
so helps keep our p.
Examine how nature is discussed throughout The Open Boat.” Looronnasleightholm
Examine how nature is discussed throughout “The Open Boat.” Look at the literary critical piece by Anthony Channell Hilfer. Once you have established your own ideas, consider how Hilfer discusses nature in the short story and analyze the following questions: What does nature mean to the men aboard the boat? or Do their perceptions of nature shift throughout the story? Why or why not?
Do their perceptions of nature shift throughout the story? Why or why not?
Write down a loose response about what I think of the question and what I remember of the story.
ICE method.
I introduce the citation
C the citation itself
E explain its meaning to your argument.
The scenes shift with no discernable rhyme or reason. Crane invites every reader in. Critic Anthony Channell Hilfer disagrees with point, saying, “Crane’s image is an accusation of the putative picturesque spectators” (Hilfer 254). Hilfer’s challenge goes against what Crane is trying to do, by making nature a copilot through the reading.
3. Nature as Protagonist in “The Open Boat”
Anthony Channell Hilfer
Texas Studies in Literature and Language, Volume 54, Number 2, Summer
2012, pp. 248-257 (Article)
Published by University of Texas Press
DOI:
For additional information about this article
[ Access provided at 9 Apr 2020 17:36 GMT from Marymount University & (Viva) ]
https://doi.org/10.1353/tsl.2012.0012
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/476402
https://doi.org/10.1353/tsl.2012.0012
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/476402
Anthony Channell Hilfer248
3. Nature as Protagonist in “The Open Boat”
The bottom of the sea is cruel.
—Hart Crane, “Voyages”
As many critics have argued, questions of perspective and epistemology are
central to Stephen Crane’s “The Open Boat” (Kent; Hutchinson). The story’s
first sentence famously clues us to this: “None of them knew the color of
the sky” (68). But behind the uncertainties of perspective is a determinable
ontology, a presence, or rather, I shall argue, a sort of presence, the existence
of which implies a rectified aesthetic response. This response emerges, how-
ever, from negations, denials, and occultations: what is not seen, who is not
there, and what does not happen.3 Here again, when we look at nature we
behold things that are not there and miss “the nothing that is.”
Fully as much as Stevens in “The Snow Man,” Crane is concerned
with certain conventions of representation: personification, the pictur-
esque, the American sublime, and the melodramatic, which although it
does not inform “The Snow Man” is played on in Stevens’s “The Ameri-
can Sublime.” Crane’s story is intertextual with nature poetry, sentimental
poetry, hymns, and landscape art, as well as with Darwinism, theological
clichés, and, less obviously, theological actualities. For the most part these
conventions add up to what the Stevens poem declares is “not there.” To
get to “the nothing that is” we must first traverse this ocean of error. Doing
so helps keep our p ...
PRESENTING THE ORIGINAL PYM PUZZLER in which was first posed the question PURPORTEDLY answered in the MATCH OF THE MILLENNIUM issue, as to whether the mysterious Western masterpiece "THE TRAPPER'S LAST SHOT'" is actually the artwork of WILLIAM TYLEE RANNEY as is conventionally and even universally accepted, or in fact does not -- as if FAR MORE LIKELY -- represent the work of a completely DIFFERENT WESTERN ARTIST, and one at east as good as RANNEY, maybe better, and who was a friend of JOE MEEK, whom all reasonable minds must agree, is actually represented in the painting , as he makes his lonesome transcontinental journey through MONTANA, and the headwaters of the Missouri River, ON HIS WAY TO WASHINGTON CITY, D.c., to beg for Federal aid for teh American settlers in Oregon !!
Swift uses Gulliver's voyage to Brobdingnag to satirize and critique human nature and society. Gulliver finds himself dwarfed by the inhabitants of this land, giving him a tiny perspective that strips away the pretenses and grandeur of human affairs. When Gulliver describes gunpowder and cannons to the King of Brobdingnag, hoping to impress him, the King is instead horrified by the destructive power of these weapons and refuses to adopt such technologies, showing how perspectives can differ greatly on issues depending on one's frame of reference.
This paper analyzes Herman Melville's Moby-Dick through a political theory lens, viewing Captain Ahab as a modern tyrant. It begins by establishing Ahab's role as the sovereign ruler of the ship Pequod, analogous to a nation-state. It then examines Melville's references to Plato and uses Plato's "Ship of State" metaphor to frame Ahab as the helmsman guiding the Pequod. Finally, it argues that the Pequod serves as Ahab's "ivory house" or castle, cementing his position as the tyrant King Ahab.
The document discusses how in 1914, a small group of English, French, and German men lived isolated on an island without regular news from the outside world. They had been unaware for 6 weeks that the countries of these men were now at war with each other. The introduction explains that during times of war, people's mental pictures of the world often do not match reality, as there is a delay between when events happen and when news of them spreads.
Pirates, Free eBook. For your entertainment, from the pages of history. Gloucester, Virginia Links and News website. http://www.gloucestercounty-va.com Visit us.
This document summarizes stories of great historical figures who were underestimated or their abilities doubted due to their small physical stature or unimpressive appearances. It discusses how figures like Agesilaus, Talbot, Frederick the Great, and others proved their greatness through their actions and abilities despite their outward appearances not matching expectations. The document uses these examples to argue that one should judge people by their character and minds rather than their physical forms.
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1. The document defines various literary terms and devices, providing examples for each. Terms include acronym, act, adaptation, aesthetics, agrarian, allegory, alliteration, and others. Definitions are given in 1-2 sentences with accompanying images or additional context in some cases.
2. Examples are used to illustrate literary terms, drawing from works like Hamlet, The Wizard of Oz, Lord of the Flies, and more. Some definitions further explain subtle distinctions between similar concepts.
3. A variety of terms are defined relating to style, genre, narrative elements, poetic devices, and more. The document serves as a reference for understanding foundational concepts in literary analysis.
The first edition of Yakshaprashnam, a nation-wide solo written quiz championship, was held across 15 campuses around the country on 11th October, with over 250 participants and conducted by NIT Silchar quiz club
The Island Of Doctor Moreau by H.G. WellsPicture Blogs
The document is a chapter summary for The Island of Doctor Moreau by H.G. Wells. It provides an overview of the first 3 chapters:
Chapter 1 introduces the narrator Edward Prendick and how he ended up adrift at sea after a shipwreck, surviving for 8 days on a lifeboat with two other men.
Chapter 2 details his rescue by a passing ship, the Ipecacuanha, and meeting its passenger Montgomery who nurses Prendick back to health and tells him about their destination.
Chapter 3 describes Prendick's unsettling encounter with a misshapen, hairy man who emerges from the ship's hatchway, his strange face deeply shocking Prend
The document provides a quiz with various trivia questions and their answers. Some of the questions are:
1) Which sea-craft is depicted in Jules Verne's "20000 Leagues Under the Sea"? The Nautilus.
2) Which country has the world's largest herd of wild camels, estimated at 750,000? Australia.
3) What solution did Shigetaka Kurita derive for expressing feelings in brief text-based communication? Emojis.
Some see in Defoe;s famous work an early novel, others an adventure story. Could it also be an allegy, as Doefoe himself adopting viepoint of Crusoe himself suggests. If so, we should an allegoy to be something more than a stilted or artificial device.
This summary provides the key details from the document in 3 sentences or less:
The document announces the title "CARPE DIEM’12" and includes a list of words and their etymologies or definitions. It explores the origins and historical meanings of words like "coward", "charlatan", "burlesque", and "bucolic" through brief explanatory passages. The document is an informative reference for understanding the roots and evolution of various terms.
Edmund Elmendorf may have owned a slave according to a historical receipt, raising questions about the reality versus fiction of legal documents from the time period of Herman Melville's short story "Bartleby the Scrivener". The story describes Bartleby and other clerks copying legal documents, but details of their work are vague and their actions may have included forging documents. This Puzzler challenges readers to investigate whether any fictionalized court cases were produced and if Bartleby himself was fictionalizing legal documents through his "stone-wall reveries".
With Falls City, in Polk County, Oregon lying dead center along the line of the line of east-west traverse of the moon's shadow from the coming August 21 eclipse, we thought it appropriate to commemorate this historic event with the publication (by uploading) of this LOST issues of the PYM PUZZLER -- MISSING PERSONS !
Falls City (Oregon) is one of Oregon’s gemstones-of a–town, which – about a century ago, was about the burgeoningist logging and lumber-milling towns on the Little Luckiamute River, in the foothills of the Coast Range, in western Polk County. TAKE NOTE: the City took its name from a particularly powerful waterfall on that same Little Luckimaute river, west and upriver a spot, from the heart of where the town was built: for it is there that the Little Luckiamute not only “falls” but – in its natural state – is largely propelled where it is funneled through a congestion of rocks on the banks at the brink of the falls – creating an especially spumey cataract of some 40-50 feet.
HOWEVER, at the time of the events in question in This Week’s Puzzler, the Little Luckiamute was dammed – a development enplaced during the late 1800’s – as pictured above. Water in the reservoir behind the dam, was diverted via an aquaduct of tongue-and-groove fir boards, to power the sawmill on the south bank of the Luckiamute … BUT THERE'S SOMETHING MYSTERIOUS GOING ON HERE ... FIND OUT INSIDE !!
DESCRIPTION OF THE MOUTH OF THE COLUMBIA RIVER -- Capt. Wm. Black (1813) Roch Steinbach
H.M.S. Racoon, Capt. Black, enters the mouth of teh Columbia River Nov. 30, 1913 to take possession of Astoria, during the War of 1812 !!.
I transcribed this extraordinary document a decade or so ago, from a photostatic copy held in the collection of the Oregon Historical Society. Apparently there are gaps in the text, or in the imagery of the text, or perhaps I just need to get back in and finish the job??? This is my complete effort at the time, and includes Capt. Black's description of critical repairs to teh Raccoon at at Angel Island, as well as of Mission San Francisco in early 1814, Monterey etc., and rather extensive material on Black's relationship with the Mexican government at the time... A HUGE DOCUMENT, totally underexposed...
IT'S ALL IN THE MINES !! -- RE-OPEN THE BUREAU OF MINESRoch Steinbach
The document discusses the history and evolution of the U.S. Department of Commerce. It argues that under Secretary Herbert Hoover in the 1920s, the Commerce Department was reorganized to better promote American business and productivity. Hoover brought in efficiency principles and sought to standardize industries. However, over the 20th century the Commerce Department shifted towards data collection roles and away from stimulating economic productivity. The document calls for restoring Hoover's vision by reorganizing Commerce and reopening the Bureau of Mines to refocus on core economic functions.
HOOVER'S BUILDING CODE COMMITTEE REPORT -- 1925Roch Steinbach
AS EARLLY AS THE 1920'S there were widespread complaints in the construction industry, about inconsistency in the way building codes were being implemented. In 1920 the Senate Select Committee on Reconstruction and Production concluded: "The building codes of the country have not been developed upon scientific data, but rather on compromises; they are not uniform in principle and in many instances
involve an additional cost of construction without assuring most useful or more durable buildings. TWO YEARS LATER, new Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover reported to Congress that conflicting building codes were increasing construction costs by 10 to 20 percent. Hoover appointed a Building Code Committee to draft recommendations that could be
used by local governments in preparing codes. The committee worked with the National Bureau of Standards until 1933, when funding was curtailed.
HERE., BY WAY OF ILLUSTRATION IS A REPORT ISSUED BY HOOVER'S BUILDING CODE COMMITTEE IN 1925 ....
HERE IT IS !!!! PART 3 OF THREE FROM SYM-ZONIA'S SUMMER OF SYM.-ERGY ~~~ (2014) with it's original BONUS COVER !!!
YES, it's a fact: THE PYRAMID LAKE INDIAN RESERVATION as it turned out, is shaped just like the outline of a KEY!!! making it beyond any doubt the TRUE KEY of the TRUCKEE RIVER... But we all know there's little sense in having a TRUE KEY until you can also match it to its TRUE LOCK !! So JOIN Native American UNK-KNOWN, Stephanie Beckon, Randy Kajtushka and the regular cast of experts, along w/ COL. JOHN CHARLES FREMONT, as they do what they can to assist Rupert Roget (Ret) former surveyor of Coon County, Oregon, to locate the TRUE LOCK that can UNLOCK your SUMMER OF SYM-ERGY !!!
TONY CHAITKIN: THE COUP -- KENNEDY & TRUMP: THEN & NOWRoch Steinbach
1) The document discusses a coup against President Trump similar to what happened to JFK, with forces trying to block Trump's aims of partnership with Russia and ending wars.
2) It then discusses Allen Dulles and Lyman Lemnitzer who betrayed President Roosevelt and later President Kennedy, working with British intelligence to pursue separate peace deals with Nazis and shift Germany's forces against Russia, America's ally.
3) Dulles and Lemnitzer met secretly with Nazi general Karl Wolff in 1945 behind Roosevelt's back, undermining Roosevelt's policy of unconditional surrender and post-war cooperation with the Soviet Union.
CAPT. GEO FLAVEL -- WRECK & PERIL OF THE GEN'L WARREN -- LONG FORMRoch Steinbach
The General Warren, a steamship owned by Abernethy & Clark, sank off the coast of Oregon after attempting to cross the Columbia River bar during a storm. The ship was overloaded with loose wheat cargo and took on water quickly. When it turned back to Astoria harbor, the ship became unmanageable in the strong tide and storm conditions. Captain George Flavel, the bar pilot, beached the ship on Clatsop Spit, but it was already breaking apart in the heavy surf. Many passengers and crew drowned in the sinking, though some were able to get to shore in the ship's one remaining lifeboat.
In the last “Christmas in Richmond” issue of YANKEE SCOUT, our heroes George, the Fugitive Slave and Pvt. Calif Newton Drew, sub. nom “Sam” the slave, after a late night playing a Christmas Eve coloreds-only ball, in some large but unidentified warehouse down on the Richmond waterfront, had just pushed off from somewhere along the Richmond docks, quiet on this Christmas morning, out onto the frigid waters of the James River, as they make their desperate clandestine getaway from … RICHMOND, SEAT of the CONFEDERACY !!As part of the escape plan, Pvt. Drew is now thoroughly disguised in black-face makeup that was expertly applied by none other than George the slave himself, who, as an African-American, has an expert’s insight into this sort of thing, and who – being a barber – also cut Pvt. Drew’s hair “so short you could hardly see it.” [See last issue ! – Ed.] Now, with this baffling role-reversal, Pvt. Drew looks the spittin’ image of a strong young Ni….Ne….ne… ni … n-n African-American man, and is a suitable street-companion for George. Thus united in intent, and now largely in appearance, the two fugitives are stuck together like brothers, and ready to execute their common plan !!!
WILL THEY ESCAPE THE TENTACLES OF THE SLAVE STATE?
This document provides context around Private Henry Drew's capture and imprisonment in Richmond, Virginia in late 1863. It describes how Drew was scouting for the Union Army near Mine Run, Virginia when he was captured by Confederate forces. He was then escorted by train to Richmond and taken to the office of the provost marshal, Major Elias Griswold. The document also provides historical details about street layout in Richmond and references a contemporary guidebook to help locate Confederate government offices that had been distributed around the city due to the expansion of the administration.
DRAFT ONLY -- PROPOSAL FOR A RE-ORGANIZED COMMERCE DEPTRoch Steinbach
THE U.S. ECONOMY NEEDS, IN PART, a Commerce Department re-organized along the lines of the one created by Herbert Hoover, during his service as Commerce Secretary. This Cabinet office became the engine to America's "Arsenal of Democracy" on the outbreak of WWII,
What Roosevelt appreciated in Hoover's Commerce Dept., was , however, was the extraordinary development and increase of influence that had accrued to Commerce, once it was helmed by a serious, hard-boiled U.S. mining engineer, responsible for successfully and profitably extracting mineral ores from the “bosom of the earth” using the most ingenious, leading-edge but reliable subterranean excavation, construction, mineral extraction technologies – and hard labor: Hoover himself had gotten his start working in the mines near Nevada City, California where he pushed mine-cars bodily, or manually, for a living. He also had to track the latest chemical-assaying techniques, work out cost-benefit projections for the latest milling machinery, guarantee the maintenance and upkeep of equipment, safety of existing shafts, and the digging of new ones, and personally create the “interfacing” of often–inaccessible mine-owners digs, by seeing to the construction of stub lines to the nearest rail-connections, in order to ensure transfer of ores to milling and processing plants sometimes scores or hundreds of miles away; and bring it all to work employing sometimes strife-ridden labor: all to start and then maintain productivity, not merely as against a fluctuating market demand, but sometimes also against all the physical, geological and material resistance that Mother Nature could compile to thwart him. The role of the mining engineer, in interfacing between hard, natural & physical contingencies and the masses of economic mankind, in order to render the former economically fruitful to the latter, is little appreciated today, when business often is reduced to playing by or adjusting man-made rules … creating new manners of valueless fictional papers is seen as showing business acumen.
HERE IT IS -- PERHAPS THE APEX of internet-based online historical puzzling, the classic CAUGHT ON TYPE !! issue of the PYM PUZZLER, edited by A.P. Dromgoole. This timeless issue craftily discloses, almost for the first time, the true but hidden history of the California Gold Rush, which opened not in 1849 with an exodus of New Englanders from the EAST Coast, but INSTEAD in August, 18848, with an exodus of OREGONIANS from the PACIFIC coast, -- from the Willamette Valley, in particular, heading south to California. The story begins when a strange single-masted vessel moors along the waterfront in Oregon City, just below the Falls, and begins buying up all the supplies in town !!! Why? SOON ENOUGH word leaks out of the gold strikes in the Sacramento valley, and before long wagon-trains are forming up locally, and men are leaving behind their well-tended fields and crops,their homesteads, and even their wives and children, for a long-shot chance to STRIKE IT RICH !! Amongst these men are some significant figures, who will soon make their mark on California history -- most notably the Honorable "P.' who makes a point of soliciting into his company, one young man, Charlie Putnam: the unknown, nondescript typesetter for the only newspaper being published on the Tualatin Plains in 1848 !! But just who was "The Honorable P" and why did he want to bring Charley along, of all people in the valley? Luckily some of their conversation was CAUGHT ON TYPE !! So perhaps you can find out, in why .... Only in PM PUZZLER -- CAUGHT ON TYPE !!
In which was addressed for the first time in World history ''Who was the Perpetrator of the Perplexing Plats of the Umpqua River Watershed" and how & why did create such wild, colorful and geeky oddball municipal plats for the cities and towns of Douglas County -- for instance "DRAIN" !! FEATURING A
PERTINENT GUEST CONTRIBUTION FROM ASS DR. BECKON !!
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This document summarizes stories of great historical figures who were underestimated or their abilities doubted due to their small physical stature or unimpressive appearances. It discusses how figures like Agesilaus, Talbot, Frederick the Great, and others proved their greatness through their actions and abilities despite their outward appearances not matching expectations. The document uses these examples to argue that one should judge people by their character and minds rather than their physical forms.
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1. The document defines various literary terms and devices, providing examples for each. Terms include acronym, act, adaptation, aesthetics, agrarian, allegory, alliteration, and others. Definitions are given in 1-2 sentences with accompanying images or additional context in some cases.
2. Examples are used to illustrate literary terms, drawing from works like Hamlet, The Wizard of Oz, Lord of the Flies, and more. Some definitions further explain subtle distinctions between similar concepts.
3. A variety of terms are defined relating to style, genre, narrative elements, poetic devices, and more. The document serves as a reference for understanding foundational concepts in literary analysis.
The first edition of Yakshaprashnam, a nation-wide solo written quiz championship, was held across 15 campuses around the country on 11th October, with over 250 participants and conducted by NIT Silchar quiz club
The Island Of Doctor Moreau by H.G. WellsPicture Blogs
The document is a chapter summary for The Island of Doctor Moreau by H.G. Wells. It provides an overview of the first 3 chapters:
Chapter 1 introduces the narrator Edward Prendick and how he ended up adrift at sea after a shipwreck, surviving for 8 days on a lifeboat with two other men.
Chapter 2 details his rescue by a passing ship, the Ipecacuanha, and meeting its passenger Montgomery who nurses Prendick back to health and tells him about their destination.
Chapter 3 describes Prendick's unsettling encounter with a misshapen, hairy man who emerges from the ship's hatchway, his strange face deeply shocking Prend
The document provides a quiz with various trivia questions and their answers. Some of the questions are:
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2) Which country has the world's largest herd of wild camels, estimated at 750,000? Australia.
3) What solution did Shigetaka Kurita derive for expressing feelings in brief text-based communication? Emojis.
Some see in Defoe;s famous work an early novel, others an adventure story. Could it also be an allegy, as Doefoe himself adopting viepoint of Crusoe himself suggests. If so, we should an allegoy to be something more than a stilted or artificial device.
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The document announces the title "CARPE DIEM’12" and includes a list of words and their etymologies or definitions. It explores the origins and historical meanings of words like "coward", "charlatan", "burlesque", and "bucolic" through brief explanatory passages. The document is an informative reference for understanding the roots and evolution of various terms.
Edmund Elmendorf may have owned a slave according to a historical receipt, raising questions about the reality versus fiction of legal documents from the time period of Herman Melville's short story "Bartleby the Scrivener". The story describes Bartleby and other clerks copying legal documents, but details of their work are vague and their actions may have included forging documents. This Puzzler challenges readers to investigate whether any fictionalized court cases were produced and if Bartleby himself was fictionalizing legal documents through his "stone-wall reveries".
With Falls City, in Polk County, Oregon lying dead center along the line of the line of east-west traverse of the moon's shadow from the coming August 21 eclipse, we thought it appropriate to commemorate this historic event with the publication (by uploading) of this LOST issues of the PYM PUZZLER -- MISSING PERSONS !
Falls City (Oregon) is one of Oregon’s gemstones-of a–town, which – about a century ago, was about the burgeoningist logging and lumber-milling towns on the Little Luckiamute River, in the foothills of the Coast Range, in western Polk County. TAKE NOTE: the City took its name from a particularly powerful waterfall on that same Little Luckimaute river, west and upriver a spot, from the heart of where the town was built: for it is there that the Little Luckiamute not only “falls” but – in its natural state – is largely propelled where it is funneled through a congestion of rocks on the banks at the brink of the falls – creating an especially spumey cataract of some 40-50 feet.
HOWEVER, at the time of the events in question in This Week’s Puzzler, the Little Luckiamute was dammed – a development enplaced during the late 1800’s – as pictured above. Water in the reservoir behind the dam, was diverted via an aquaduct of tongue-and-groove fir boards, to power the sawmill on the south bank of the Luckiamute … BUT THERE'S SOMETHING MYSTERIOUS GOING ON HERE ... FIND OUT INSIDE !!
DESCRIPTION OF THE MOUTH OF THE COLUMBIA RIVER -- Capt. Wm. Black (1813) Roch Steinbach
H.M.S. Racoon, Capt. Black, enters the mouth of teh Columbia River Nov. 30, 1913 to take possession of Astoria, during the War of 1812 !!.
I transcribed this extraordinary document a decade or so ago, from a photostatic copy held in the collection of the Oregon Historical Society. Apparently there are gaps in the text, or in the imagery of the text, or perhaps I just need to get back in and finish the job??? This is my complete effort at the time, and includes Capt. Black's description of critical repairs to teh Raccoon at at Angel Island, as well as of Mission San Francisco in early 1814, Monterey etc., and rather extensive material on Black's relationship with the Mexican government at the time... A HUGE DOCUMENT, totally underexposed...
IT'S ALL IN THE MINES !! -- RE-OPEN THE BUREAU OF MINESRoch Steinbach
The document discusses the history and evolution of the U.S. Department of Commerce. It argues that under Secretary Herbert Hoover in the 1920s, the Commerce Department was reorganized to better promote American business and productivity. Hoover brought in efficiency principles and sought to standardize industries. However, over the 20th century the Commerce Department shifted towards data collection roles and away from stimulating economic productivity. The document calls for restoring Hoover's vision by reorganizing Commerce and reopening the Bureau of Mines to refocus on core economic functions.
HOOVER'S BUILDING CODE COMMITTEE REPORT -- 1925Roch Steinbach
AS EARLLY AS THE 1920'S there were widespread complaints in the construction industry, about inconsistency in the way building codes were being implemented. In 1920 the Senate Select Committee on Reconstruction and Production concluded: "The building codes of the country have not been developed upon scientific data, but rather on compromises; they are not uniform in principle and in many instances
involve an additional cost of construction without assuring most useful or more durable buildings. TWO YEARS LATER, new Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover reported to Congress that conflicting building codes were increasing construction costs by 10 to 20 percent. Hoover appointed a Building Code Committee to draft recommendations that could be
used by local governments in preparing codes. The committee worked with the National Bureau of Standards until 1933, when funding was curtailed.
HERE., BY WAY OF ILLUSTRATION IS A REPORT ISSUED BY HOOVER'S BUILDING CODE COMMITTEE IN 1925 ....
HERE IT IS !!!! PART 3 OF THREE FROM SYM-ZONIA'S SUMMER OF SYM.-ERGY ~~~ (2014) with it's original BONUS COVER !!!
YES, it's a fact: THE PYRAMID LAKE INDIAN RESERVATION as it turned out, is shaped just like the outline of a KEY!!! making it beyond any doubt the TRUE KEY of the TRUCKEE RIVER... But we all know there's little sense in having a TRUE KEY until you can also match it to its TRUE LOCK !! So JOIN Native American UNK-KNOWN, Stephanie Beckon, Randy Kajtushka and the regular cast of experts, along w/ COL. JOHN CHARLES FREMONT, as they do what they can to assist Rupert Roget (Ret) former surveyor of Coon County, Oregon, to locate the TRUE LOCK that can UNLOCK your SUMMER OF SYM-ERGY !!!
TONY CHAITKIN: THE COUP -- KENNEDY & TRUMP: THEN & NOWRoch Steinbach
1) The document discusses a coup against President Trump similar to what happened to JFK, with forces trying to block Trump's aims of partnership with Russia and ending wars.
2) It then discusses Allen Dulles and Lyman Lemnitzer who betrayed President Roosevelt and later President Kennedy, working with British intelligence to pursue separate peace deals with Nazis and shift Germany's forces against Russia, America's ally.
3) Dulles and Lemnitzer met secretly with Nazi general Karl Wolff in 1945 behind Roosevelt's back, undermining Roosevelt's policy of unconditional surrender and post-war cooperation with the Soviet Union.
CAPT. GEO FLAVEL -- WRECK & PERIL OF THE GEN'L WARREN -- LONG FORMRoch Steinbach
The General Warren, a steamship owned by Abernethy & Clark, sank off the coast of Oregon after attempting to cross the Columbia River bar during a storm. The ship was overloaded with loose wheat cargo and took on water quickly. When it turned back to Astoria harbor, the ship became unmanageable in the strong tide and storm conditions. Captain George Flavel, the bar pilot, beached the ship on Clatsop Spit, but it was already breaking apart in the heavy surf. Many passengers and crew drowned in the sinking, though some were able to get to shore in the ship's one remaining lifeboat.
In the last “Christmas in Richmond” issue of YANKEE SCOUT, our heroes George, the Fugitive Slave and Pvt. Calif Newton Drew, sub. nom “Sam” the slave, after a late night playing a Christmas Eve coloreds-only ball, in some large but unidentified warehouse down on the Richmond waterfront, had just pushed off from somewhere along the Richmond docks, quiet on this Christmas morning, out onto the frigid waters of the James River, as they make their desperate clandestine getaway from … RICHMOND, SEAT of the CONFEDERACY !!As part of the escape plan, Pvt. Drew is now thoroughly disguised in black-face makeup that was expertly applied by none other than George the slave himself, who, as an African-American, has an expert’s insight into this sort of thing, and who – being a barber – also cut Pvt. Drew’s hair “so short you could hardly see it.” [See last issue ! – Ed.] Now, with this baffling role-reversal, Pvt. Drew looks the spittin’ image of a strong young Ni….Ne….ne… ni … n-n African-American man, and is a suitable street-companion for George. Thus united in intent, and now largely in appearance, the two fugitives are stuck together like brothers, and ready to execute their common plan !!!
WILL THEY ESCAPE THE TENTACLES OF THE SLAVE STATE?
This document provides context around Private Henry Drew's capture and imprisonment in Richmond, Virginia in late 1863. It describes how Drew was scouting for the Union Army near Mine Run, Virginia when he was captured by Confederate forces. He was then escorted by train to Richmond and taken to the office of the provost marshal, Major Elias Griswold. The document also provides historical details about street layout in Richmond and references a contemporary guidebook to help locate Confederate government offices that had been distributed around the city due to the expansion of the administration.
DRAFT ONLY -- PROPOSAL FOR A RE-ORGANIZED COMMERCE DEPTRoch Steinbach
THE U.S. ECONOMY NEEDS, IN PART, a Commerce Department re-organized along the lines of the one created by Herbert Hoover, during his service as Commerce Secretary. This Cabinet office became the engine to America's "Arsenal of Democracy" on the outbreak of WWII,
What Roosevelt appreciated in Hoover's Commerce Dept., was , however, was the extraordinary development and increase of influence that had accrued to Commerce, once it was helmed by a serious, hard-boiled U.S. mining engineer, responsible for successfully and profitably extracting mineral ores from the “bosom of the earth” using the most ingenious, leading-edge but reliable subterranean excavation, construction, mineral extraction technologies – and hard labor: Hoover himself had gotten his start working in the mines near Nevada City, California where he pushed mine-cars bodily, or manually, for a living. He also had to track the latest chemical-assaying techniques, work out cost-benefit projections for the latest milling machinery, guarantee the maintenance and upkeep of equipment, safety of existing shafts, and the digging of new ones, and personally create the “interfacing” of often–inaccessible mine-owners digs, by seeing to the construction of stub lines to the nearest rail-connections, in order to ensure transfer of ores to milling and processing plants sometimes scores or hundreds of miles away; and bring it all to work employing sometimes strife-ridden labor: all to start and then maintain productivity, not merely as against a fluctuating market demand, but sometimes also against all the physical, geological and material resistance that Mother Nature could compile to thwart him. The role of the mining engineer, in interfacing between hard, natural & physical contingencies and the masses of economic mankind, in order to render the former economically fruitful to the latter, is little appreciated today, when business often is reduced to playing by or adjusting man-made rules … creating new manners of valueless fictional papers is seen as showing business acumen.
HERE IT IS -- PERHAPS THE APEX of internet-based online historical puzzling, the classic CAUGHT ON TYPE !! issue of the PYM PUZZLER, edited by A.P. Dromgoole. This timeless issue craftily discloses, almost for the first time, the true but hidden history of the California Gold Rush, which opened not in 1849 with an exodus of New Englanders from the EAST Coast, but INSTEAD in August, 18848, with an exodus of OREGONIANS from the PACIFIC coast, -- from the Willamette Valley, in particular, heading south to California. The story begins when a strange single-masted vessel moors along the waterfront in Oregon City, just below the Falls, and begins buying up all the supplies in town !!! Why? SOON ENOUGH word leaks out of the gold strikes in the Sacramento valley, and before long wagon-trains are forming up locally, and men are leaving behind their well-tended fields and crops,their homesteads, and even their wives and children, for a long-shot chance to STRIKE IT RICH !! Amongst these men are some significant figures, who will soon make their mark on California history -- most notably the Honorable "P.' who makes a point of soliciting into his company, one young man, Charlie Putnam: the unknown, nondescript typesetter for the only newspaper being published on the Tualatin Plains in 1848 !! But just who was "The Honorable P" and why did he want to bring Charley along, of all people in the valley? Luckily some of their conversation was CAUGHT ON TYPE !! So perhaps you can find out, in why .... Only in PM PUZZLER -- CAUGHT ON TYPE !!
In which was addressed for the first time in World history ''Who was the Perpetrator of the Perplexing Plats of the Umpqua River Watershed" and how & why did create such wild, colorful and geeky oddball municipal plats for the cities and towns of Douglas County -- for instance "DRAIN" !! FEATURING A
PERTINENT GUEST CONTRIBUTION FROM ASS DR. BECKON !!
THIRD PART OF THE TRILOGY famously begun in SYM-ZONIA -- WATERSHED MOMENT !!, in this issue Michael C. Goldengate returns with further details on the mysterious survey plats of DOUGLAS COUNTY, Oregon, and the Umpqua River basin, wherein are uniquely found the works of a figure known to posterity only as the B.O.U.B. And, in particular, Goldengate probes into what may be tender areas in the personal history of the B.O.U.B., when his survey work shows a departure from a generally happy-go-lucky disposition, and takes a turn towards the darker side of life, as seen in his "Brooding Burnt Umber" period. What happened to the B.O.U..B.to cause him to create such gloomy, despairing survey plats???
RECENT RUMORS FROM THE WHITE HOUSE will fall with welcome on the ears of Oregon's "agricultural" community (U.S. Department of Forestry is in the USDA !!) throughout the state, especially in Southern Oregon'd mostly mountainous counties like Jackson, Josephine, Coos, Curry and Douglas, where, along with mining, logging has always been the economic bedrock that kept county services viable.
AT SYM-ZONIA, we the remnant followers of Michael C. Goldengate (ska "Stargate") and Stephanie Beckon herself, which to commemorate the occasion of the possible pending return of protectionism for domestic manufactures and serious industry, with the re-release of this stupendous "DRAIN" issue, and its discussion of the extraordinary history of BOHEMIA COUNTY, Oregon which had its proposed county seat in the town of DRAIN, itself -- with a key contribution form Ass Dr. Beckon herself, addressing teh question of whether Drain, Oregon isn't in fact the location of the REAL Oregon Vortex.
NOTE: THIS ISSUE IS IN FOLLOWUP to the August 19, 2012 "WATERSHED MOMENT" ISSUE, which will appear later.
Following the decisive Battle of Rappahannock Station on the Rappahannock River, on November 7, 1863, General Lee and the Army of Northern Virginia, DEFEATED, have now RETREATED further into Virginia, abandoning their Winter Quarters in Culpeper County, and continuing on south into Orange County, taking up new positions, and establishing his camp south of the Rapidan River in Orange County, near an overflown creek, known as Mine Run. Union Gen Meade gives Gen. John Sedgwick one last campaign assignment.
The Mine Run Campaign, so-called, was the General Meade's last-ditch effort to engage Lee's Army before the full onset of the Winter of ‘63-64. But Lee's new Winter Quarters south of Mine Run were so formidably defended -- by swamplands to the northwest, mingling with the overflown ice-cold waters of Mine Run itself, and a dozen other small creeks and sloughs; and furthermore blocked with thickets of slash and timber – “abattis” -- that the Army of Northern Virginia was completely impregnable to standard attack here!! The landscape was incomprehensible to military tactics, and thus thwarted every strategy: therefore, skirmishes dominated the "campaign" and isolated limited engagements marked the end of the 1863 fighting season, with Meade throwing in the towel.
Such indeterminacy does not make for STANDARD military literature -- but Pvt. Drew's narrative of scouting MINE RUN, and other relevant action, can be counter-pointed with other accounts to realize a vivid vision of the wintertime action !!
McNARY-HAUGEN -- 1927 HIGH SCHOOL DEBATE HANDBOOKRoch Steinbach
THIS 1927 PAMPHLET IS INSTRUCTIVE on at least two counts, FIRST, in that it details the finer points of public debate concerning the possible advantages and potential disadvantages of the passage of the McNary-Haugen farm surplus bill, vintage 1927, for the establishment of a National Ag Bank, and in doing so -- that is because of the extraordinary level of mastery of public policy issues represented by the prompts in this text -- it also makes for an embarrassing reminder of the catastrophic falloff in the calibre of American public education over the ensuing 90 years, and also in American public political debate in general. Certainly it also illustrates something all of Washington has forgotten, that the U.S. economy has a historical & widespread cultural foundation in serious scientific agriculture and in the pursuit of improvements both in cultivation techniques and in policies that benefited the FARMER.
IT JUST SO HAPPENS that Mr. Schmidt's Google "Search" engine, has buried most such texts in which the merits of McNary-Haugen are treated: even Congressional Record Reports and hearings are unavailable. There are some texts available for access at the Hathitrust, but these require a subscription to get access. This particular unusual text I obtained myself, and scanned in a digital scanner some time ago, as appears from the irregularity of the page positioning. It should be a good text to begin considering whether an updated McNary-Haugen type of Ag Bank might still be of use to American farmers in his quest for price parity.
WITH THE OROVILLE DAM emergency spillway threatening to give way releasing a deluge and possibly Feather River downstream into a literal SHIT RIVER threatening MARYSVILLE and YUBA CITY and numerous other tranquil settlements downriver, its may be worth recalling that the denizen of MARYSILLE were once obliged to adventure into the remotest and most inaccessible regions of the Pacific coast to find SHIT RIVER itself, which was then merely mythologicial....
YES -- FANS, this is the story that started it all !!
IT'S A DESPARATE tale of Civil War deprivations and FORAGING by the half-starved men of the 6th Maine Infantry, one of the regiments in Brig-Gen's Winfield Scott Hancock's historic First Brigade that saw good service at Williamsburg and White Oak Swamp earlier in the advance of Gen. McClellan's 1862 Peninsular Campaign, and only more recently skirmished with Rebs at Second Battle of Bull Run !!
THE BATTLE-SCARRED men now make their way through a war-ravaged District of Columbia on their way to a certain rendezvous with the Army of Northern Virginia under command of Gen. Robert E Lee -- first at the battle of South Mountain, and shortly thereafter at ANTIETAM. But meanwhile, the men of the U.S. Army must EAT and as they enter Southern-sympathetic MARYLAND the citizens HOLDOUT on them, and official provisions are scarce, and what there is, is limited to Lincoln' s HARD-TACK and SALT PORK -- and if they want to sink their teeth into any fresh meat, the men are obliged to take DESPARATE MEASURES !! And then, they see the answer: Now ...
FIND OUT HOW THEY STOLE THE GOOSE, KEPT IT SECRET, AND THEN COOKED IT GOOD ....
THE DEBATE CONTINUES in advance of eager intellectual investigation to solve the question of the TRUE authorship of "William Tyee Ranney"'s under-appreciated Wild West masterpiece, "THE TRAPPER'S LAST SHOT" -- which, it is asserted by Interim Editor Dromgoole, actually shows Oregon Pioneer Father JOE MEEK on special embassy to Washington City, encountered and encircled by a marauding band of BLACKFEET Indians. SPECIAL ISSUE includes a blockbuster reader contribution, revealing a hidden "R" on the horse's saddelback -- BUT also establishing that the artist possessed advanced equine experience, tending once again to suggest it was JOHN MIX STANLEY, and not W.T. RANNEY, the stay-at-home, who executed this fine painting.
GUEST ESSAY -- WHAT IS AMERICA TO THE WORLD -- by TONY CHAITKINRoch Steinbach
A PRIMER ON REAL AMERICAN IDENITY:
Treasure trove of core historical truths on the founding and development of the uniquely scientific & cultural American identity, sketched by one of our top tier historians, this essay is written in a simple & direct style for a new generation of audience. Chaitkin begins with the English -- then intrinsically American -- history of the industrial revolution and its core leadership in the person of Benjamin Franklin -- inventor, scientist, publisher, economist diplomat, and advances into the key intellectual alliances that underlay the American Project for liberating mankind -- finding a kind of early apotheosis in Nichols Biddle's management of the Second Bank of the United States (1816-1836), and realized in Lincoln's administration, and again under FDR and Kennedy. Chaitkin then demonstrates the spread of the American ideal to Germany, Russia, and the nations of South America.
This article is straightforward and without footnotes -- but fact-check Chaitkin's hard-nosed accuracy and this essential distillation of history, against some of the author's copiously documented works, such as the book "Treason in America" or his co-authored, "Unauthorized Biography of George Bush", as well as a prolific list of articles in Executive Intelligence Review magazine.
Business law for the students of undergraduate level. The presentation contains the summary of all the chapters under the syllabus of State University, Contract Act, Sale of Goods Act, Negotiable Instrument Act, Partnership Act, Limited Liability Act, Consumer Protection Act.
The Future of Criminal Defense Lawyer in India.pdfveteranlegal
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This document briefly explains the June compliance calendar 2024 with income tax returns, PF, ESI, and important due dates, forms to be filled out, periods, and who should file them?.
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What are the common challenges faced by women lawyers working in the legal pr...lawyersonia
The legal profession, which has historically been male-dominated, has experienced a significant increase in the number of women entering the field over the past few decades. Despite this progress, women lawyers continue to encounter various challenges as they strive for top positions.
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Being a Paper Presented at Business Recovery and Insolvency Practitioners Association of Nigeria (BRIPAN) on Friday, August 18, 2023.
Lifting the Corporate Veil. Power Point Presentationseri bangash
"Lifting the Corporate Veil" is a legal concept that refers to the judicial act of disregarding the separate legal personality of a corporation or limited liability company (LLC). Normally, a corporation is considered a legal entity separate from its shareholders or members, meaning that the personal assets of shareholders or members are protected from the liabilities of the corporation. However, there are certain situations where courts may decide to "pierce" or "lift" the corporate veil, holding shareholders or members personally liable for the debts or actions of the corporation.
Here are some common scenarios in which courts might lift the corporate veil:
Fraud or Illegality: If shareholders or members use the corporate structure to perpetrate fraud, evade legal obligations, or engage in illegal activities, courts may disregard the corporate entity and hold those individuals personally liable.
Undercapitalization: If a corporation is formed with insufficient capital to conduct its intended business and meet its foreseeable liabilities, and this lack of capitalization results in harm to creditors or other parties, courts may lift the corporate veil to hold shareholders or members liable.
Failure to Observe Corporate Formalities: Corporations and LLCs are required to observe certain formalities, such as holding regular meetings, maintaining separate financial records, and avoiding commingling of personal and corporate assets. If these formalities are not observed and the corporate structure is used as a mere façade, courts may disregard the corporate entity.
Alter Ego: If there is such a unity of interest and ownership between the corporation and its shareholders or members that the separate personalities of the corporation and the individuals no longer exist, courts may treat the corporation as the alter ego of its owners and hold them personally liable.
Group Enterprises: In some cases, where multiple corporations are closely related or form part of a single economic unit, courts may pierce the corporate veil to achieve equity, particularly if one corporation's actions harm creditors or other stakeholders and the corporate structure is being used to shield culpable parties from liability.
Synopsis On Annual General Meeting/Extra Ordinary General Meeting With Ordinary And Special Businesses And Ordinary And Special Resolutions with Companies (Postal Ballot) Regulations, 2018
Sangyun Lee, 'Why Korea's Merger Control Occasionally Fails: A Public Choice ...Sangyun Lee
Presentation slides for a session held on June 4, 2024, at Kyoto University. This presentation is based on the presenter’s recent paper, coauthored with Hwang Lee, Professor, Korea University, with the same title, published in the Journal of Business Administration & Law, Volume 34, No. 2 (April 2024). The paper, written in Korean, is available at <https://shorturl.at/GCWcI>.
सुप्रीम कोर्ट ने यह भी माना था कि मजिस्ट्रेट का यह कर्तव्य है कि वह सुनिश्चित करे कि अधिकारी पीएमएलए के तहत निर्धारित प्रक्रिया के साथ-साथ संवैधानिक सुरक्षा उपायों का भी उचित रूप से पालन करें।
1. Mutiny on the Dromedary -- III.
Billy Bud, an Albatross? Melville had described Billy’s hanging in chapter 26 this way:
“In the pinioned figure arrived at the yard-end, to the wonder of all no motion was apparent,
none save that created by the ships’s motion, in moderate weather so majestic in a great ship
ponderously cannoned.”
The H.M.S. Dromedary mounted 44 guns, which might qualify the Dromedary as “ponderously cannoned” --
but, of course, so might any of scores of other British vessels of the age. At any rate, it is the ship’s motion, not
her identity that is the focus of this line from Billy Budd. The ship’s ocean-going motions – yaw, roll, and pitch
-- were the motions of all on board, who compensated instinctively, via a certain attunement of the inner-ear, or
the acquisition of their “sea-legs,” to highly complex motions that could only have been interpreted, on land, as
instability. Cf. “Sway”, “surge’ and “heave”. But these same motions were more “ponderously” imparted to the
suspended bodies of the three mutineers, whose pendulous weight[s], elevated, and extended at the end of the
yard-arm, would undergo corresponding acceleration of their movement, and amplification of inertial forces ..
and more swinging. Etc. But, speaking as matter of physics, probably, this motion would have been observed
by the crew, but almost hardly “noticed,” inasmuch as it was both inevitable, and non-operational. An
execution like this on ship-board, must have been felt in many ways, not least of which would be a sense of a
loss of “hands”. No longer part of the functioning of the ship; but now more part of the environment through
which the ship navigated – the three figures are thus more akin to weather “portents” than any ordinary rigging
or fixtures. And they are certainly no longer bound by military or naval discipline.
Hanging out an Iffigy: I mentioned the Orchardson & Armytage representations as a hanging in “iffigy” ….
And it is: but, while a hanging in effigy is symbolic, figurative, of a lynching that is not going to take place, in
part precisely because the effigy is; this “iffigy” is a representation of a military execution of a death sentence
that has taken place – but only within this conjecture. The existence of the hanging in iffigy represented by
Orchardson and Armytage is only a “possible fact” and so it is only an ideal object for the conjecturing mind –
addressing questions on many levels, such as : 1) is such a hanging actually represented by the three foggy
block and tackle; and 2) if so, did the artist(s) intend to represent an actual hanging on ship-board, vis-à-vis
Napoleon; and 3) if so, did such a hanging take place at some time; and 4) if so, is it possible to reconstruct or
conceptualize the events of such an event. To do so, would be to suspend an entirely new conceptual “iffigy”.
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It should be clear that only by answering the first question in the conjectural affirmative, can the mind advance
to the second question, and only by answering that in the conjectural affirmative, advance to the third, and then
on to the fourth. So the mind passes through, and accepts as necessary parameters, at least these three levels of
“pure” conjecture – three nested working hypotheses -- in order to be able to “operate” at the level of the fourth,
where an ideal conception – or geistenmasssen – of what actually happened, can, theoretically, be potentially
worked out. Or not worked out.
These same nested questions must be answered for virtually every text or drawing or document that might
conceivably become a facet in the construction of a conceptual object, or geistenmassen.
Thus, the Armytage engraving is one such; the Snow watercolor of the U.S.S. Somers under way, with two
mutineers hanging from the yard-arm, is another. Billy Budd itself is a clear third; and the complete transcripts
of the Somers mutiny courts martial a fourth. The proposed inter-relationship that fuses doubt into certainty;
that catalyzes amidst confusion, the otherwise intractable inconsistencies in the material – the lines along which
they lay true to one another – is the actually working hypothesis as to historical fact, no matter our sense of
“improbability” at that proposal.
How many texts must be examined? Thousands? And how many of these may be considered to have “facets”
recoverable from their matrix of material? Hundreds?
That working hypothesis may have to be junked. But – even if it is sustainable, it can only be so relative to its
power to generate, or sustain, or support extensions upon itself, and to crystallize or solidify the loose bits
among the material on which it is founded. So, making the suggestion of an escaped mutineer in Admiral
Snow watercolor, is a curious and air-headed proposal only until you can identify how such a mutineer might
have escaped. And that was a serious and really daunting conundrum for some time.
That is until a certain conception appeared …
Last time an answer appeared and was presented -- also in iffigy -- according to which Billy Budd was matched
almost totemically with the albatross that dived down towards the sea into which he dropped. The albatross,
with is bony creak, and double-jointed wings, seemed to support the conjecture that by a certain acrobatical
contortion – one that he alone may have been physiologically endowed to execute – the real Billy Budd
basically popped out his shoulder-joints and somehow slung his entire very slender, young and pliant lower
body through the loop of his arms – all the while being handcuffed “ in the darbies.” Within this preposterous
iffigy, he thereby brought his arms mobile in front of his torso – probably with some major chafing of the wrists
– and so was able to reach the hangman’s rope and lift himself to relieve the choking of the noose around his
neck. Was he able also to free his hands? Or did he swing into action still shackled by the darbies?
As down on the deck, the V.A.L.V. sputtered and spewed, the mate’s pipes sounded loud and shrill some frantic
call to arms, and as chaos and enthusiasm broke out among the crew, Billy moved first to relieve his fellow
impressed American “mutineers.” Probably hanging from the yardarm -- this time by his knees – suspended
over the ocean swells, he used his own noose to lasso one comrade around the legs, maybe moving the noose up
towards his torso, and so hiked and hoisted his weight upward, relieving the pressure on that man’s noose…. In
iffigy, anyway. A frenzy of sheer joy swept through the impressed members of the crew of the Dromedary, and
also their technically English counterparts, as the brutality of the Master and Commander was shattered.
Did it happen? And, in the alternative, what happened next? Did he save both his fellows?
Such is the conjecture of the albatross, who led a mutiny on the Dromedary. Bold, but with just a dash of the
absolutely absurd. The question is, can it work? Can this hypothesis function as such, to catalyze and
crytallize relationships identified between existing texts, to reveal new ones therein, and also bring new
materials into alignment, laying out new facets and complimenting the existing ones? Let’s check:
3. Billy in the Halter: Melville had stated in Chapter
26, that , “At sea, in the old time, the execution by
halter of a military sailor was generally from the
foreyard.” In this sequence, as throughout the
novella, Billy’s bearing and speech is in every
particular polite, diginified and spiritual. Even in
dying and in death, he is unmuffed: refusing to
make a spectacle: – we covered this – “In the
pinioned figure arriving at the yard-end to the
wonder of all there was no motion apparent.”
The figure shown at right, is one way to imagine
Billy Budd, the perfect sailor now at the yard-arm
and catching “the full rose of the dawn” : his head
is bowed in compliance, his hands folded behind his
back – so duty-bound, they would certainly remain
clasped there, out of respect for his sentence, even if
the darbies slipped. Then, his heels clicked together
toes out …. As if to say, “God bless Captain Vere!”
would also be written on his undersea locker, to
which the “shotted hammock” would ferry his body.
As earlier noted, Melville highlighted this very
climatic passage, with the conversation between the
purser and the assistant surgeon, which takes up
chapter 27 “A digression” which reads in part:
“Even if we should assume the hypothesis
that at the first touch of the halyards the
action of Budd’s heart, intensified by
extraordinary emotion at its climax , abruptly
stopped – much like a watch when in
carelessly winding it up you strain at the
finish , thus snapping the chain – even under
that hypothesis how account for the
phenomenon that followed?”
“You admit, then that the absence of
spasmodic movement was phenomenal?”
“It was phenomenal, Mr. Purser, in the sense
that it was an appearance the cause of which
is not immediately to be assigned.”
“But tell me, my dear sir, pertinaciously
continued the other, “was the man’s death
effected by the halter, or was it a species of
euthanasia?
Why such an incredible scenario …?
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4. Billy in the Darbies: Also, as earlier noted,
Melville’s other focus on the motionlessness of
Billy at execution, seems “tied up” with his wrists
being tied, “pinioned” behind his back, by the
darbies -- “darbies” being British sea-slang for
handcuffs. The poem which utterly concludes Billy
Budd is titled “BILLY IN THE DARBIES” and is
followed by the declaration
Though, now with an eye to this very overemphasis,
we have to ask, was it also the END OF BILLY?
That is, the real Billy?
The question was asked, whether, if, in the interface
between the Armytage engraving and the missing
mutineer in the Snow watercolor of the U.S. S
Somers, and certain passages in Billy Budd, there
was reason to suspect that one of the mutineers
escaped execution: the Albatross.
END OF BOOK
Supposing an answer in the affirmative, the obvious
next question was the “how” by which such an
event might have been accomplished. And the first
obvious answer to come to mind, is of course that
Billy slipped the darbies – and why not?
If the material suggest that one of the mutineers
slipped his bonds and escaped, to stage a certain
form of “diffection” from – or of – the British
Admiralty, wouldn’t it be far more probable that –
in his last struggles – he slipped off the darbies and
then managed to free himself from the noose as
well? The purported relevance of the albatross as
being bony and double-jointed would go almost as
as far to justify an escape from “the darbies” as any
other form of escape – perhaps. Indeed, with a
focus on the darbies, we might just dispense with
the superfluous albatross idea entirely, and propose
a simple sleight of hand on the part of one of the
convicted. No “double-jointed” nonsense
necessary. Hang the blokers; snag the flippin
albatross, and make an albatross pie out of him, per
Patrick O’Brian. See, H.M.S. Surprise.
However, the figure at left may, in all likelihood,
illustrate the experience of men of the early 19th
Century American navy, who understood what
generally happens to man convicted of death by
“the halter”. Even if he successfully manages to
“loose the darbies at the wrist” during execution by
hanging, he is evidently so pre-occupied with the
businesss of flinching and contorting, or his life
already so attenuated from asphyxia and hypoxia,
that when he successfully struggles from the knots,
and the ropes fall loose, there’s no further capacity
to reach even involuntarily for his neck to try to
open the noose – much less to hoist himself up on
the line, and relieve the pressure that way.
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5. In this image of the hanging of the mutineers of the U.S.S. Somers, we see these first two figures depicted.
In the middle is Billy in the Halter: a representation of the parody of perfunctory seamanship Melville made, in
Billy Budd. He appears to have died under orders! And not only that, but done so a minute or two early --
before his comrades fell in line. And if not, he is thinking to himself, “God bless you, Captain Vere …” And
trying to expire without a wiggle.
On the left is “Billy in the Darbies” the figure whose arms are “pinioned” at the wrists, and who asks to have
the darbies loosed. After struggling free, slipping the handcuffs, he is convulsed with pain, and completely
helpless to complete his own rescue, or help his comrades.
On the right, a third figure seems to be tense in frame, perhaps already swinging his feet back, perhaps as if
about to make a calculated move – but one of strictly “local” motion. Beyond him, high in the air, a certain
larger seafowl, dark wings -- apparently jointed. Something seems to be surfacing out of the depths …
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“The Turning Point ... was the Mast”: Scene change [This material is cribbed from my Notes of July 4,
2008, Francis Gregory and the USS North Carolina, and of September 2, 2008, Midshipman Spencer’s Code
and the USS Dolphin. ] As mentioned earlier, J. Fenimore Cooper threw himself head-first into the
controversy over the propriety of the discipline which Lieut Alexander Slidell MacKenzie meted out to the
alleged mutineers aboard the Somers, not only in correspondence, but in the press, and through pamphleteering
and polemical commentaries. The bitterness of his criticism of Lt. MacKenzie overflowed into his
contemporaneous historical works “The History of the United States Navy” and in short related texts, such as
The Battle of Lake Erie, in which he continued his attacks on MacKenzie. One important part of Cooper’s
porpoise – uh, corpus, called The Cruise of the Somers (1844), is more difficult to locate, but is a must-read. It
appears that Cooper had got his sea-legs on board the U.S.S. Hornet during the War of 1812, [See, Emmons,
Fredoniad, Canto VI, Cruise of the Hornet] where he and others of certain New England families were trained
to counter-act the exercise of the British policy of impressment, both in actual naval combat and through art
and argument. So he knew his sailing ships. And was familiar with the issues.
On September 17, 1843, in the aftermath of the Somers mutiny court-martials, Cooper, wrote to an unknown
correspondent, but probably “Sturgis,” an old seaman, regarding the Somers mutiny: “The turning point in
the whole affair was the loss of the mast.” By which he refers -- or seems to refer -- to the loss of the main
royal topgallant mast on the Somers, which dismasting MacKenzie claimed, in testimony, was deliberately
caused by Spencer and his cronies, as a preliminary maneuver to the mutiny. Before that same week was out,
however, Cooper had finished a new book, and commented in another letter to Sturgis, of September 22, 1843,
that “Ned Myers” was printed. The tale was billed as the sea ventures of “an old seaman”, and was subtitled
“A LIFE BEFORE THE MAST”. Of course, the title hearkened to Richard Henry Dana’s “Two Years Before
the Mast”, which had been recently published, and Cooper is thought to have wanted to ride in Dana’s wake, to
hefty book sales.
But the title also seems to suggest a life lived until a hanging at the yardarm, or the mast. That is, “A Life
Before the Mast” might mean … “A Life Ending at the Mast.”
Schematic of the Somers: At any rate, some time ago, these materials suggested that the “reality” which was
being pre-eminently encoded and communicated in the commentary and documents on the Somers mutiny
might have to do with the brigantine’s masts, which naturally feature rather prominently, first because of the
“loss of the mast” episode before the mutiny was revealed, and also because Spencer, Cromwell and Small were
eventually run up the mast at the yardarm. Turning to printed and online sources, I looked for a clear
schematic or silhouette of the Somers with its masts -- something like the beautiful naval drawings of the
Grampus and the Hornet which I found early this year [Spring, 2008], with their ensigns inverted “in distress”.
Google those. These were produced for ships that had been lost at about the same time: i.e., Grampus down in
1843, Somers in 1847. I found NOTHING. Hmmmm. Spencer had sought a transfer to the Grampus ….
Turning to the primary source material of the mutiny itself, there is a rather crude but informative woodcut on
the cover of the “Greeley & McElrath” 1843 publication of the “INQUIRY INTO THE SOMERS MUTINY”
[Google Book] Inside the booklet, there is, thankfully, an initial diagram “SECTION REPRESENTING THE
BERTH DECK” (page 2) followed by another “SECTION REPRESENTING THE SPAR DECK” (page 3).
And these show the positions of the mainmast and the foremast, relative to the launch and cabin, etc.
But flipping through the pages, the actual schematic should appear toward the back of the pamphlet, p. 44
captioned “THE UNITED STATES BRIG-OF-WAR SOMERS”, with the description:
The above engraving accurately represents the appearance of the SOMERS as she sits
upon the water -- She is a beautiful craft of 266 tons measurement ....
only... there is no engraving.
7. No picture. No nothing. Just the legend to the picture. There is on page 44, [q.v., Google Book edition] an
itemization of the components of the rigging and cordage, with the size of the sails, length of the masts, etc.
But nothing comprehensive: there is not in the primary literature, apparently in existence a precise nautical
diagram or profile of the Somers with her masts. This is all the more striking, given the centrality of the
relationship of the rigging and masts to the inquiry and later court martial proceedings, and especially in
view of the fact that the layout of the ship’s decks are given in detail, although these are less important to the
understanding of the events which lead to the arrest of Spencer and his cohort.
Even the authors of books on the mutiny have nothing to illustrate their books: Harrison Hayford’s “The
Somers Mutiny Affair” depends for its cover artist, on a crude sketch, probably done by an artist at his
publisher Prentice-Hall,-- or some 10-year old ; and Buckner F. Melton’s 2003 volume “A Hanging
Offense; The Strange Affair of the Warship Somers”, has a small jacket illustration of the U.S.S. Potomac!
Egads. Philip McFarland’s “Sea Dangers: The Affair of the Somers” (1985) has a better illustration, a two-
toned print – of the now famous 1843 watercolor of the Somers, the same painting uploaded now on the
web, captioned “The USS Somers with the bodies of three alleged mutineers hanging from the yardarm
(courtesy, Rear Admiral Elliot Snow, USN; US Naval Historical Center).” The same image doctored by
Wikipedia, that I have used recently. McFarland however does not mention the source of the illustration on
his cover, nor credit the Navy for license to use it, etc. There are only these two illustrations of the Somers,
and one other – which is available on the U.S. Navy website.
This third one is described as a colored sketch of the Somers, by a crewman of the USS Columbia ( Photo #:
NH 97588-KN (Color) ) U.S. Brig Somers (1842-1846) Photo #: NH 97588-KN (Color)
But there is no nautical profile …..
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8. That’s Odd-- the Mainmast: However, in comparing the three “extant” representations of the Somers,
first, the image above, sketched by a crewman on the USS Columbus; and second the watercolor of 1843
(furnished by Rear Admiral Elliot Snow, USN) and the third, the woodcut or engraving on the cover of
the 1843 Tribune sponsored “Greeley & McElrath” “INQUIRY INTO THE SOMERS MUTINY” [Google
Book; and see below] note that there is a rather obvious similarity, in that on each picture, one sail is furled
or tied up-- and it’s the same sail on each boat: it is the lower rear sail, on the Main mast, which technically
is simply called the Mainmast. In the 1843 engraving, on the cover of the Tribune-related pamphlet, note
that the mainsail is completely furled, just as it is in the sketch preceding, by the Columbia sailor:
The resemblance between the last two images is close: angle of perspective almost identical, and it seems
likely one is a copy of the other. In both, the starboard “mainyard” away from the viewer, is obscured.
What had Melville Said? About Billy Budd? Here it is, in Billy Budd, chapter 26:
At sea in the old time, the execution by halter of a military sailor was generally from the
foreyard. In the present instance, for special reasons the mainyard was assigned …”
READ CAREFULY: For “special reasons,” Billy Budd was hung of the yard of the mainmast. Of course, the
sails were furled for an execution. As in – for instance -- the last two images of the Somers with mainsails
furled. When shown from the other side, the mutineers can be seen. Q.V. the Admiral Snow watercolor so
often reproduced. And so once again, we can ask, was Billy Budd actually hanged aboard the Somers … ?
Now, prepare to get really arcane, as we look at an early letter-form code. Not for the faint of heart:
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Midshipman Spencer’s Code: One of the fascinating features of the Somers mutiny story is the simple but
effective play-cipher that Spencer used to secrete the development of his mutinous plans. The scrap of paper
on which he encrypted the names of the middies and sailors on board, was said to be kept in his razor case,
or in a fold in his neckerchief, and has been transcribed and … “translated” on p. 4 of the “INQUIRY”
pamphlet, under the caption “SPENCER’S PROGRAMME,” [a very curious translation, too] and elsewhere
therein, p. 31 as well, etc. This list is sometimes called his “sheet-anchor of Greek code.” Spencer,
basically, transliterated the names of the relevant junior officers out of English/Roman alphabet characters,
into Greek letter characters so, for instance, “McKinley” reads M’Xενλυ; “Green” is rendered Γρεεν,
“Spencer” himself is Sπενcερ and so on. Spencer had matriculated at Geneva College before joining the
Navy, and had had at least first year Greek, it would seem.
However, Mids. Spencer’s Greek rendering of the sailors’ names are not always direct transliterations, but
sometimes phonetic renderings – as sounded -- or miss-renderings of the officers names. Most notably, the
Purser’s steward, Mr. “Wales” becomes not Yαλες [there is no direct equivalent of “w” in Greek] but
U’αλες – with a modern style “U” instead of the anticipated Greek letter Upsilon (Υ); but the name also
picks up a trailing aspirant mark -- the floating comma -- indicating a dropped aspirated English “h” and
calls for the reading “whales”. Wales to Whales? That’s an easy joke among the middies. And where
have I seen that recently? Whales? Oh yes: The V.A.L.V. But, come to think of it, Spencer never uses a
capital Upsilon Υ, Sigma, Σ, etc. and uses a Chi X, in place of Kappa K. There are lots of irregularities …
And then again, when breaking the men up into categories of the Sερlαιν “Certain” and Δουlφυλ “Doubtful”
participants in his new mutiny, Spencer entirely drops the “b” out of “Doubtful” suggesting (to me)
something other than ordinary transliteration – but, again, more like an aural -- or poetic? -- rendering of the
(unsounded) “b”. As a result, “Doubtful” which should look like Δουβτφυλ, looks more like thus: Δουlφυλ.
Δουlφυλ – ? Hmmm. Do a doubletake: There are no tau’s -- τ -- in this code! For some reason, Spencer
has avoided Greek “tau” τ – completely. While he uses Greek lambda λ for letter “l” he breaks the pattern
and opts for a roman letter “l” italicized, to represent the English letter “t” where the Greek letter “tau” τ ,
would have been expected. So what ought to be Sερταιν appears as Sερlαιν; what ought to be Δουβτφυλ
becomes Δουlφυλ. And it seems both of these idiosyncracies “inhere” in this word, Δουlφυλ.
At this point, one might be tempted to .. jump out a window. Instead, doublecheck the names on the list for
other inconsistencies … and you might notice that among sailors and middies included, none of them has
the letter “t” in his name. That is, none except Smith, whose “th” will answer to Greek theta, θ. Sμιθ.
And Van Brunt? Or is it Van Brunel? But there is no Tom, no Timothy, no Walter, no Bart; No Milton,
Hampton, Weston, or Walton. No one else has a “t” in his name. Henry Wiltham and Richard Hamilton
– both with “t” in their names -- were arrested when the Somers docked ( see p. 6 of the INQUIRY) but they
appear nowhere on Spencer’s list of the Sερlαιν “certain” or the Δουlφυλ “doubtful”. Why not?
So, very deliberately, nowhere does Spencer use the Greek letter tau -- T or τ -- in his code. Which
forces the question, was the code selected to cipher the names of the men; or, rather, were the “mutineers”
selected on board the receiving vessel, U.S.S North Carolina, so that the code could be deployed, but its real
encryption go undetected? Were they chosen in part because they had no “t”’s in their names? Yes:
“Spencer” used Greek “lambda”, λ, L for English l“L”. But he used italic Roman “l” – never capitalized --
for English “t”. This indicates a different function for the “code”: i.e., to enable the word “doubtful” to
morph into the word “doulphul” -- δουlφυλ. The code was actually devised primarily to “encrypt” this
word: Δουlφυl, as a companion to U’αλες. (I say primarily, because, e.g., the word “steerage” – σlεεραγε -
- looks too close to “sleepage” meaning “berth deck” to be accidental.) And since Spencer is rendering this
with the ear, not with the eye --”doulphul” becomes “doleful.” Then, since “doulphul” is twice capitalized,
Δουlφυλ, Spencer‘s “Doulphul” becomes “Dolphin” -- an English word borrowed from Greek. See Henry
V, for Shakespeare’s precedent punning on the English dolphin with French title, dauphin.
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The Doleful Dolphin: Among the many fascinating things about the Somers mutiny “INQUIRY” record,
are Mackenzie’s never-ending efforts at self-justification, which Cooper attacks so vigorously in all his
writing on the Somers mutiny. One of MacKenzie’s routine methods is to cross-examine witnesses at the
Inquiry, on their general familiarity with his practices for treating the crew; so, for instance, he asks the
Assistant Surgeon Leecock1
whether he, MacKenzie, always sent Leecock ashore to buy fresh fruit for the
men, and made sure the men were always getting fresh fruit, good medicine, rum, etc; or he asks a steward
or ward-room clerk about whether his discipline is too harsh, etc. None of this is relevant to a defense on the
charges of the Inquiry, but it goes into the record without a word from the Judge Advocates or the court.
MacKenzie also tries to enter other basically inadmissible character evidence (after all, this is only a fact-
finding process) such as his own statements about his own excellence, and endorsements from former
officers who served with him. One of these appears in the INQUIRY record for the SEVENTH DAY (pp.
28-29) is a long-winded self-serving statement from Mackenzie on the history of mutinies! beginning with
the HMS Bounty and continuing through the wreck of the French vessel, Medusa, but concluding with a
rather long discussion of MacKenzie’s own command of the USS Dolphin. I’ll spare you the details. Well
-- for now. See INQUIRY, p. 29. It’s not entirely clear whether the court admitted MacKenzie’s character
evidence self-serving statement -- it seems so. But, is this the Dolphin at issue? The doleful Dolphin?
A hint in the affirmative occurs on p. 22, the FIFTH DAY, right hand column, which is one of those sections
which doesn’t copy/paste readily from Google Book. The whole column deals with Gregory’s receiving
vessel, U.S.S. North Carolina, and then with another effort by MacKenzie to justify his actions based upon
the mutiny of the H.M.S. Bounty and the Medusa, during which ne asks to introduce a new character witness,
Lt. Charles Henry Davis. The court is unready to receive the testimony of Lieut. Davis until after
MacKenzie finishes his own testimony -- but, although I can’t read everything -- I was unable to see that
Lieut Davis was ever called. It doesn’t appear that he was. MacKenzie mentions that the two of them
served together on the same vessel, for two years -- but the vessel is not named. (Note, that this same Lt.
Charles Henry Davis was the first translator of Gauss’ De Motu. Hmmmm…)
Dolphins and Whales: As it turns out, Lieutenant Charles Henry Davis served on the U.S.S. Dolphin
ca. 1821-23 searching the Pacific for the mutineers of the whaleship Globe. Δουlφυλς and U’αλες ?
Yes, dolphins and whales. Here, of course, is just what we were hoping for: no resolution whatever, but a
further multiplication of sources, and a deepening of the entire field of investigation. (And a Gaussian as a
maritime pirate-chaser!!) There is, by a happy chance, a whole shelf full of books on the Globe mutiny,
including Gibson, “Demon of the Waters: the True Story of the Mutiny on the Whaleship Globe” (2002) and
Heffernan, “Mutiny on the Globe” (also 2002). I have these already – plus a file on the Globe as thick as a
slice of whale blubber -- . I think because they are considered remote source material for Moby Dick, behind
the ”Whaleship Essex” sources. The central text, however, is probably Paulding’s Journal of a Cruise of the
U.S. Schooner Dolphin (1831). Q.v.
So, we have to conjecture that the entire Somers mutiny “record” and the Billy Budd “history” which are
serving to focus our attention on this unknown event, which is forming under the working title, “Mutiny on
the Dromedary” may have to be refracted yet again, and again, by such a series of careful reading of the
considerable lore, of the mutiny on board the whaleship Globe. Is this a body of “history” like the Somers
mutiny texts? Is it also a careful construct by some unsung masquermind? To determine this, the texts must
of course be read in “immersion” form, to be mastered, and only then “deconstructed” or analyzed.
The Payoff? For anyone who may have hung in there this far, there ought to be a payoff ….
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Leecock, θε Δοκlερ on Spencer’s list, must have been guilt-stricken, for he killed himself on April 1, 1843,
with a shot through the right eye. QUERRY: after Leecock fired his pistol through his right eye, did he have
one or two eyes that were “left”? Cf. Jupiter in E. A Poe, The Gold Bug.