{"id":5737,"date":"2024-03-10T07:47:30","date_gmt":"2024-03-10T14:47:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/?p=5737"},"modified":"2024-03-10T08:22:32","modified_gmt":"2024-03-10T15:22:32","slug":"this-is-getting-old","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/2024\/03\/10\/this-is-getting-old\/","title":{"rendered":"This Is Getting Old (Late For The Sky)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Everly Brothers – When Will I be Loved 1983<\/a><\/p>\n

Comparing this version to the source material from 23 years earlier<\/a>, it’s easy to see how even the creators of the song were influenced by Linda’s approach to it. She made it better. <\/p>\n

So bless her, for that among other things.<\/p>\n

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***<\/p>\n

It’s been a long elliptical and enjoyable loop into … sources, even if it did end up in the dire straits of a latter-day Yoknapatawpha on the macro level, and some personal cattiness on my part, on the micro. <\/p>\n

I don’t know whether that bitchy side of me is unhealthy, exactly, but I’d rather have my head in some other space early on a Sunday. <\/p>\n

So let me loop again, back onto my own crafted sources, influenced by a story I heard on a repeat episode of This American Life<\/a> yesterday. It’s a tale of literal heresy, not just against the Commander or a not-better Father, but against the Lord Hisself.<\/p>\n

I dwell in the sometimes radio-active fallout of all these people and all these things they made. <\/p>\n

\u201cone who
\nholds a doctrine at variance
\nwith established or dominant standards\u201d
\n(from Greek hairetikos<\/em> \u201cable to choose\u201d; hairein<\/em> \u201cto take\u201d)<\/p>\n

Thus for now I decide against the petty parts of my self, but to nevertheless embrace that self as h\u00e9r\u00e9tique<\/em> instead.<\/p>\n

Possibly it is the most foundational or primordial of my identities, but it says nothing about what I am for, only what I am against. <\/p>\n

What I am for<\/em> requires at least one doctrine of my own, to have and to hold. Fortunately I have at least two, even if it is unfortunate that the alpha and the beta are sometimes at odds with each other, and not just with the omega. <\/p>\n