Day: October 3, 2019

Would you be perfect ,agonised unspared?

Would you  be the Chosen of  the Lord
With eyes that see, with ears that hear  the Word
Burdened by  the Tablets ,in great Awe

Would you   ache to feel the Roman sword
To wear a crown of thorns on your head bared
Would you be the Chosen of  the Lord?

Would you like to hear Kind David’s chord
To write the Psalms  which  only grief can bear
To  hear God’s wish  from  Burning Bushes awed?

Would you  persevere   when hunted, scared
No praise for  good,  and tortured, unprepared
Would you be the Chosen of  the Lord?

Would you be perfect ,agonised  unspared
When God has hidden  in a  fox’s lair
Yet may whisper to  the ones with ears?

Would you like to  cleanse the world with tears
To  walk  condemned to death    and no-one cared
Would you be the chosen of  the Lord
To sense his message,  bless us with its awe?

 

 

 

What is quiddity?

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Ian McEwan

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/quiddity

 

Quiddity

noun

quid·​di·​ty | \ ˈkwi-də-tē  \
plural quiddities

Definition of quiddity

1: whatever makes something the type that it is : ESSENCE
2a: a trifling point : QUIBBLE
b: CROTCHET, ECCENTRICITY
SynonymsDid You Know?Example SentencesLearn More about quiddity

Did You Know?

When it comes to synonyms of “quiddity,” the Q’s have it. Consider “quintessence,” a synonym of the “essence of a thing” sense of “quiddity” (this oldest sense of “quiddity” dates from the 14th century). “Quibble” is a synonym of the “trifling point” sense; that meaning of “quiddity” arose from the subtler points of 16th-century academic arguments. And “quirk,” like “quiddity,” can refer to a person’s eccentricities. Of course, “quiddity” also derives from a “Q” word, the Latin pronoun quis, which is one of two Latin words for “who” (the other is “qui”). “Quid,” the neuter form of “quis,” gave rise to the Medieval Latin quidditas, which means “essence,” a term that was essential to the development of the English “quiddity.”

Examples of quiddity in a Sentence

 for all of her quiddities, she is a very wise and generous lady Rembrandt’s genius was his unparalleled ability to render a person’s quiddity in a single portrait.

Recent Examples on the Web

Our skulls are like space helmets; we are trapped in our heads, unable to convey the quiddity of our sensations.— Jason Pontin, WIRED, “Thought-Reading Machines and the Death of Love,” 16 Apr. 2018But not even there, Lawrence thought, could Cézanne entirely overcome convention—Hortense still being somewhat of an image as opposed to sheer quiddity.— Rachel Aviv, The New Yorker, “The Lurchingly Uneven Portraits of Paul Cézanne,” 21

Crime and Brexit

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Photo by Denner Trindade on Pexels.com

 

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/oct/03/sister-murdered-girl-nina-alice-gross-brexit-police

Extract

“We are talking about a very small number of people who have committed violent and sexual offences,” Gross says. “If we leave the EU without a deal people will be put at risk. We need some sort of guarantee that we will continue to be part of the system we’re part of at the moment. We need a proactive rather than a reactive system.”

The databases the UK currently has access to include ECRIS – the European Criminal Record Information System – and Europol allows UK police and immigration officials access to information about violent killers and sex offenders, and vice versa. If the UK leaves the EU without a deal, access will end. But amid discussion of food shortages and medical hold-ups, the security implications of that fact have been lower on the agenda.

Gross fears that women and girls will be disproportionately affected if the monitoring system for this small but highly dangerous group of offenders is abandoned.

She and her family are at pains to emphasise that they support freedom of movement and are profoundly dismayed that Alice’s case has been exploited for what they view as xenophobic purposes.