{"id":26995,"date":"2013-09-06T05:46:33","date_gmt":"2013-09-06T05:46:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=26995"},"modified":"2013-09-06T05:46:33","modified_gmt":"2013-09-06T05:46:33","slug":"for-joy-and-sorrow-doublequotes-in-the-wild","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=26995","title":{"rendered":"For joy and sorrow: DoubleQuotes in the Wild"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[ by <strong>Charles Cameron<\/strong> &#8212; without access to joy, how shall we carry the burdens of despair? ]<br \/>\n.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.moillusions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Jimmy_Hendrix_Grafitti_Optical_Illusion.jpg\"><br \/>\nvia <a href=\"http:\/\/bmurraytweet.likes.com\/the-20-best-graffiti-optical-illusions\">Bill Murray likes<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>**<\/p>\n<p><strong>DoubleQuotes<\/strong> are juxtapositions that have a powerful impact.  Our minds and hearts are drawn naturally to seeing parallels and contradictions, making comparisons between ideas and creative leaps from one idea to another, and since this is a very basic human cognitive ability, I&#8217;ve developed my own <a href=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=26896\">DoubleQuotes format for presenting striking juxtapositions<\/a>, and use it frequently in my posts here at Zenpundit.  But I also collect strong examples of such juxtapositions when others make them, and call them <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=24681\">DoubleQuotes in the Wild<\/a><\/strong>.  <\/p>\n<p>Today, I&#8217;d like to double up on my wild DoubleQuotes, and having offered you <strong>Jimi Hendrix<\/strong> (graffito juxtaposed with tree, above) to bring you joy, now offer you the poignant example from a Serbian Orthodox monk (Aleppo, Syria, then and now, below) to bring you sorrow:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p>Tragedy of the civil war in <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23Syria&amp;src=hash\">#Syria<\/a> in two pictures which say more than many words. Photos of the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23Aleppo&amp;src=hash\">#Aleppo<\/a> market <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/SHL1t9oS3r\">pic.twitter.com\/SHL1t9oS3r<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Sava Janjic (@SavaJanjic) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SavaJanjic\/statuses\/375683860651966465\">September 5, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>**<\/p>\n<p>Music, munitions &#8212; we may think them unequal combatants, yet as <strong>von Clausewitz<\/strong> puts it:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>One might say that the physical seem little more than the wooden hilt, while the moral factors are the precious metal, the real weapon, the finely-honed blade.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8212; or in somewhat more recent terms, as <strong>Michael Herr<\/strong> noted in his book <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Dispatches-Michael-Herr\/dp\/0679735259\">Dispatches<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Whenever one of us came back from an R&#038;R we&#8217;d bring records, sounds were as precious as water: Hendrix, the Airplane, Frank Zappa and the Mothers, all the things that hadn&#8217;t even started when we&#8217;d left the States.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8230; <em>sounds &#8230; as precious as water<\/em> &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ by Charles Cameron &#8212; without access to joy, how shall we carry the burdens of despair? ] . via Bill Murray likes ** DoubleQuotes are juxtapositions that have a powerful impact. 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