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The weather is mostly sunny. There is a possibility of showers and thunderstorms in the morning, followed by more of the same in the afternoon. temperatures in the upper 80s. 5 to 10 mph winds from the northeast. Rain is 70% likely.Monday night: mainly clear after midnight, with a risk of showers and thunderstorms in the evening. 60s to 70s lows. 5 to 10 mph winds from the northeast. There is a 50% chance of rain.
Today at a Glance:
At 210 Airport Executive Drive, Palm Coast, the District Headquarters is where the three-member East Flagler Mosquito Control District Board meets at 10 a.m. Agendas can be found here. Here are the email addresses of the district’s commissioners and employees. The public is welcome to attend the meetings.
The Flagler County Commission convenes at the Government Services Building, located in Building 2, Bunnell, at 5 p.m. Agendas and materials for meetings are available here. Here is a list of the five county commissioners along with their email addresses.
Through a 12-step program, Nar-Anon Family Groups provide hope and support to friends and family of addicts. They meet at the Fellowship Hall Entrance of St. Mark by the Sea Lutheran Church, located at 303 Palm Coast Pkwy NE, Palm Coast, at 6 p.m. See the website, www.nar-anon.org, or call (800) 477-6291. Visit this link to find virtual meetings.
Byblos: The second volume of the Library of America’s edition of Hemingway’s works has finally arrived. It is a good, large volume (LOA tomes have been getting thinner in recent years, which is a sad departure from the days when we could acquire 1,500-page books on Jefferson, Franklin, Parkman, and Adams). Unlike the Library, 700-page books don’t convey literary grandeur so much as a hint of commercial greed. It contains a few letters from 1927 to 1932, the time period covered in the collection, as well as Men Without Women, A Farewell to Arms, and Death in the Afternoon. I’m not sure about Death, but it will force me to read Farewell a third time. Hemingway was simply too fond of the bullfighting ritual for my taste, too fond of the fabrications surrounding it, the metaphors for cowardice and courage, when I can’t help but see just plain animal cruelty and one-sided brutality not much different from cock-fighting or similar aberrations. Spain’s national sport is not a game, but a ritual of danger, as Barbara Tuchman wrote. I’ll stick with Catherine Barkley and Frederic Henry. Although they are already tragic, one of the characters Neil King Jr. encountered in his excellent memoir American Ramble, which recounts his walk from Washington, D.C., to New York City in the immediate aftermath of both COVID-19 and his cancer, described Hemingway using a marginal note that someone had left on a page of Farewell to Arms: Like a vial of dead flies, yet delightful. Why did Boston police once forbid Scribner’s Magazine from publishing passages from Farewell? Even though I read the book for the first time in high school, I am unable to recall any erotic passages that would stick in my memory. However, why does Hemingway have Henry refer to Othello as a “n”? According to my own notes from my most recent reading, it is the sole overt slur in the novel, but why even that? I enjoy this: You’re smart. No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They don’t become wise. They become cautious.
P.T.
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The coward dies a thousand deaths, the brave but one?Naturally. Who made the statement?I’m not sure.She said that he was most likely a coward. He had little knowledge of the brave, but he was well-versed in cowards. If a brave person is intelligent, he may die two thousand deaths. He just doesn’t bring them up.
From Hemingway sA Farewell to Arms(1929).
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