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Weather: After 2:00 pm, there is a 40% chance of showers and thunderstorms. Sunny with a high of over 94 degrees.Before 8 p.m. on Thursday, there is a 30% chance of showers and thunderstorms. With a low of about 77, it is mostly transparent.
A Quick Look at Today:
The Drug Court convenes before Circuit Judge Dawn Nichols at 10 a.m. in Courtroom 401 of the Kim C. Hammond Justice Center, located at 1769 E Moody Blvd, Building 1, Bunnell, the Flagler County courthouse. Drug Court is accessible to everyone. View the participation agreement here and the Drug Court manual here.
Palm Coast’s Central Park, located at 975 Central Avenue, will host Model Yacht Club races at the Pond from noon to two o’clock. Participate in the races with your own model yacht or watch Bill Wells, Bob Rupp, and other Palm Coast Model Yacht Club members race. The club meets every Thursday at the pond in Central Park and there are no dues to join.
Palm Coast Concert Series, Town Center Stage, 1500 Central Avenue, 6–8 p.m. This free community event features local bands and brings people together to make lifelong memories. Landfall tonight.
Notably: I’m not always sure how to interpret Andr Gide’s journals. It can be difficult to tolerate the pre-war self-absorption and self-consciousness, even though his writing is as limpid as it gets. A few years before to 1914, I am reading the pages. Knowing his past—which is also ours, but from a safe distance—is strange for us future readers. He has no idea what is speeding toward France in 1910. No sign of the impending disaster. Despite being ruthlessly conservative and vehemently anti-Semitic, it is the lovely Poque in France, and it was really lovely. Although his supporters prefer to claim that he was not a fervent anti-Semite, I regret to inform you that Gide was one of them. As though bigotry comes in many levels. Though he would kill anyone who called it that, this gay man produced some of the first liberating and never libertine masterpieces of gay literature while hunting young flesh, frequently underage flesh, in the nighttime shadows of Paris. Although Gide supported Dreyfus, he continued to despise Jews, at least during those formative years, in contrast to his friend the obnoxious Paul Valery. He experienced both of the world wars. Perhaps World War II made him reconsider. Without a conversion of some kind, I can’t envision the Nobel committee giving him the prize in 1947. (It recognized him for his thorough and artistically noteworthy works, which depicted human issues and circumstances with a daring love of truth and astute psychological insight.) When I arrive, I will report back. I might not know how to interpret Gide. But after he hits you with those amazing sentences below, in the quotation zone, you can’t stop thinking about what he said. Although the quote dates to 1889, the year the Eiffel Tower soared above the Trocadero and the Champ de Mars, I don’t remember seeing any mention of this in the papers. On the tiny Parisian skyline, he likely thought it was an unforgivable act because he knew him.
P.T.
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There was a lot of excitement on the Pont-Royal this evening because a child had fallen into the river. They merely grabbed his cap as they dove in right away. When I returned a half hour later, night had arrived and the area between the boats and the embankment was dark. I descended to the very edge, where I saw a big, dark, and silent washhouse across from it, followed by a lot of water that you could hear but could hardly see because everything was already dark: it lapped against the boards in an enigmatic manner. The boat that lurks in this black hole is ominous, and the underside of the washhouse boat has two invisible silhouettes of long, scabbed, hunched men within. Cars swooned above, laughing heartily.
From the Journal of Andr Gide, July 20, 1889.
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