{"id":66248,"date":"2019-09-12T16:55:43","date_gmt":"2019-09-12T16:55:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=66248"},"modified":"2019-09-12T17:12:42","modified_gmt":"2019-09-12T17:12:42","slug":"scotland-wales-ouroboroi-and-doublequotes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=66248","title":{"rendered":"Scotland, Wales, Ouroboroi and DoubleQuotes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[ By <strong>Charles Cameron<\/strong> &#8212; a sprinkling of intriguing pieces ]<br \/>\n.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Wales:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><\/strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/merthyr.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"602\" height=\"193\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-66249\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/merthyr.png 602w, https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/merthyr-300x96.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 602px) 100vw, 602px\" \/><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That&#8217;s a comparison, by <strong>Chris Roberts<\/strong> &#8212; Brexit Party rally [left] vs Welsh independence rally [right].<\/p>\n<p>A fine <strong>DoubleQuote<\/strong> in images, and rich food for thought.<\/p>\n<p>**<\/p>\n<p><strong>Scotland:<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Advisers to the Scottish government recommended canceling protections enjoyed by wandering sand dunes in Aberdeenshire<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Sand dunes as an endangered species? &#8212; again, food for thought!<\/p>\n<p>Indeed:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Beautiful word, &quot;psychscape&quot; by <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/terriloewenthal?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@terriloewenthal<\/a> noit to mentionj her photos at top of <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/2Q1LRY9bMZ\">https:\/\/t.co\/2Q1LRY9bMZ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; hipbonegamer (@hipbonegamer) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hipbonegamer\/status\/1171833811128029184?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 11, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>**<\/p>\n<p><strong>Wordage:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On the topic of words, these came up in a discussion on Twitter: <em><strong>fict, fact, fuct<\/strong><\/em> &#8212; the latter from <strong>Ali Minai<\/strong>, for a statement claimed to be factual by <strong>Trump <\/strong>&#8212; and <em><strong>fiction, faction, faketion<\/strong><\/em> &#8212; the latter from <strong>Cynthia<\/strong>, for a fiction <strong>Trump<\/strong> claims is true?<\/p>\n<p>**<\/p>\n<p><strong>Strategy:<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Even Frederick II of Prussia, who was in the enviable position of being strategic thinker, supreme decision maker and commander-in-chief in one, could not implement the Strategy of short, sharp wars that he himself thought most desirable.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s from <strong>Beatrice Heuser<\/strong>, <em>The Evolution of Strategy: Thinking War from Antiquity to the Present<\/em>, via <strong>PR Beckman<\/strong> posts it..<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>**<\/p>\n<p>Now, how about a couple of <strong>ouroboroi<\/strong>?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Turmoil-Science-Project.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"452\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-66251\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Turmoil-Science-Project.jpg 960w, https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Turmoil-Science-Project-300x223.jpg 300w, https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Turmoil-Science-Project-768x570.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I hope a school child did this one, not a too-clever adult..<\/p>\n<p>And:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Its-a-sign-ouroboros.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"602\" height=\"338\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-66250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Its-a-sign-ouroboros.png 602w, https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Its-a-sign-ouroboros-300x168.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 602px) 100vw, 602px\" \/><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That&#8217;s from the film <strong>Mississippi Grind<\/strong>. The character cries, &#8220;It&#8217;s a sign, it&#8217;s a sign.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>I told you <strong>ouroboroi<\/strong> were <strong>significant signifiers<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ By Charles Cameron &#8212; a sprinkling of intriguing pieces ] . Wales: That&#8217;s a comparison, by Chris Roberts &#8212; Brexit Party rally [left] vs Welsh independence rally [right]. A fine DoubleQuote in images, and rich food for thought. ** Scotland: Advisers to the Scottish government recommended canceling protections enjoyed by wandering sand dunes in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[526,932,627,630,67,1479,127,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-charles-cameron","category-children","category-doublequotes","category-language","category-movies","category-ouroboros","category-strategy","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66248"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66273,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66248\/revisions\/66273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}