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2020-03-29 a
I've added text to two lines of dialogue of the fable, The Equinox Issue - Love in the Time of Corona. That post is designated as, 2020-03-20 a. Otherwise, the 98.6% of you who are not familiar with the Talmud would not have seen that power is the unifying theme of the story.

Digression #1 - I rubricated the additions to the dialogue.

Digression #2 - Lest I seem more obscure than usual, to rubricate, means to write or print in red.

Digression #3 - You do not know how much it saddens me to have to define, rubricate. There was a time in Europe, the cradle of Western Civilization, when all scholars knew the words: rubricate, rubrication, and rubricator. They knew those words because they read daily from illuminated manuscripts and incunabula. Such works contained rubrics and rubrications. Such works, of course, were written in the language of the people of the wide place, Latium. That language takes its modern name from that plain, now a part of Lazio. That language predates the settlement along the Tiber with its seven hills. Its literature did not begin with the story of a lupa that suckled Romulus and Remus.

Digression #4 - I am not a laudator temporis acti, a praiser of time past. It is important to know of scholars and Scholastics, of schools of thought and of scholarship because we are entrusted with a magnificent heritage. Now, however, I feel that Medievalists have a renewed purpose in academia and the world at large. Why? We live in another Dark Age. This intellectual Dark Age began about 100 years ago during World War I and intensified after World War II. Nowadays, a college degree, including most Ivy League degrees, signifies you have received training and indoctrination. Those diplomas do not signify you have received an education. I am not the first to issue such lamentations. The best chronicle of the decline of educational standards and the subsequent devaluation of a college degree is Decadence and Renewal in the Higher Learning, An Episodic History of American University and College since 1953, penned by Russell Kirk and published in 1978. That tome should be read by the parents of all well-prepared high school students and those parents should then read that book out loud to their teenagers before they start college. That month of bedtime reading should prepare their young minds to examine critically the sham education they will receive in the four years between orientation and graduation.

Since Kirk’s book was printed in 1978, the barbarian takeover of the Ivory Tower has accelerated and currently most college and university administrators and instructors in the U.S. are Cultural Marxists and Postmodernists.

Digression #5 - In The Equinox Issue - Love in the Time of Corona, 2020-03-20 a, I did not reveal anything not publicly known by mentioning that the biological daughter of Webster Hubbell, the former Mayor of Little Rock, Arkansas, lives there with her family. Chelsea has done surprisingly well considering she is the daughter of two sociopaths and three adulterers.

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