“The great appear great because we are on our knees. Let us rise”: a timely essay by his Irishness @fotoole.bsky.social on the project of imperialism and national vanity as lampooned in “Gulliver’s Travels.”
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Like Gulliver in Lilliput, “greatness” in the political realm depends on the existence of a group deemed puny or weak.
Reading @fotoole.bsky.social on “contemporary sublime politics.” He articulates much of what I was thinking when making the cutout, “Lilliputian Men and Root Bound Plants” in 2024
ICYMI: “For and Against a United Ireland,” a book commissioned by @arinsproject.bsky.social, received the Ewart-Biggs Prize earlier this spring.
Authors @fotoole.bsky.social and @sjamcbride.bsky.social also spoke to packed crowds on a U.S. tour.
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Happy birthday to Anoushka Shankar!
“…George Harrison, whom Anoushka refers to as ‘Uncle George.’
‘He says he’s the president of my fan club,’ Anoushka giggles.” - Associated Press (1998)
More at harrisonarchive.tumblr.com/post/8189602....
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“When greatness is evoked as the natural condition of the nation, equality is humiliation. Because greatness can be measured only by comparison, it cannot exist on the level.” —@fotoole.bsky.social
“Trump’s constant reference to the idea that the world has nothing better to do but sit around and laugh at America is not incompatible with American exceptionalism—it is a kind of backhanded compliment to it.” —@fotoole.bsky.social
Our 6/25 issue is now online, with @dchiasso.bsky.social on writing away from AI, Meghan O’Gieblyn on raising AI, Geoffrey Wheatcroft on Labour’s losses, @mmschwartz.bsky.social on the purloined papyrus, @fotoole.bsky.social on the president’s “greatness,” and much more.
Fintan O'Toole
George Harrison Archive
Like Gulliver in Lilliput, “greatness” in the political realm depends on the existence of a group deemed puny or weak.
