Tag: lies

Parting,a sonnet

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    I wear my heart displayed upon my face.
    Attentive readers find their meaning there,
    Where feelings thought too deep to be embraced
    Can shine demurely where they do not scare.

    As Freud observed we’re never quite disguised
    Betrayal is our body’s real motif
    The message comes conspicuous from the eyes..
    Bright sparkles or our tears of blackest grief.

    The answer to a question seemly leaps
    So Yes or No is visibly revealed.
    The blush that spreads so fast across the cheeks,
    Both bold and shy, unable to conceal.

    Your face tells me you lied when “Love” you wrote.
    Yet let us part with song as we are poets.

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― Hannah Arendt
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Speech

I am unable to find what I wanted to about Bion and thinking but I found something else

from which I copied a quote

 

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 It is too often forgotten that the gift of speech, so centrally employed, has been elaborated as much
for the purpose of concealing thought by dissimulation and lying as for the purpose of elucidating
and communicating thought. – Wilfred Bion

 

Cruelty to Hilary Mantel by Giles Coren in the Times yesterday

I am a great admirer of Hilary Mantel’s novels and have been for years so I know she has had appalling health problems.The drugs she’s on make her much fatter than before… but why should that matter?

Giles Coren, call her an “inflatable Ken Dodd ” and suggests she writes because she can;t get a man.Well if Giles Coren was the last man on earth I would not date him.

HM made a very intellectual and nuanced speech last week in which she mentioned the role of Kate Middleton in the Royal family.I am unsurprised by the tabloids reaction but very much by the PM.Ed Milliband and the Times.None have read her words.

Such cruelty  is common now but not all fat people eat much and I’d rather go to bed with an obese yet charming man than any of these cruel nasties…attraction has many aspects only one of which is conventional beauty.