A 1907 example of the word 'eunuchry'

Illinois State Register Sun, Sep 29, 1907. Page 17

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The word 'eunuchry' in 1943

In 1943, the Swiss newspaper Volksrecht stated: "We reject spirit eunuchry. Away with mental castration which goes by the name of spiritual neutrality!" This was widely reprinted — for example, here in the Molong Express and Western District Advertiser, an Australian newspaper.

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The word 'eunuchry' in an Australian newspaper in 1922

Truth (Brisbane, Queensland, Australia), Nov 26, 1922

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The word 'eunuchry' used by novelist Thomas Wolfe, 1935

Of Time and The River (1935), a novel by Thomas Wolfe

Excerpt:

On the last morning when his sons came, Gant was there on the high porch of the hospital, among the other old men who were sitting there. All of the old men looked very feeble, shrunk, and wasted, their skins had the clear and frail transparency that men get in hospitals, and in the bright tremendous light of morning and October, the old men looked forlorn.

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Their smiles and looks were pitiful in their sense of childish trust, of growing hopefulness, of wondering disbelief, but there was something shameful in them, too. In these feeble smiles of the old men there was something pleased and impotent, as if they had been adroitly castrated in the hospital and shorn of their manhood. And for some reason, one felt suddenly a choking anger and resentment against some force in life which had betrayed these old men and made them impotent--something unspeakably ruthless, cruel, and savage in the world which had made these old and useless capons. And this anger against this unknown force suddenly took personal form in a blind resentment against doctors, nurses, internes, and the whole sinister and suave perfection of the hospital which under glozing words and cynical assurances, could painlessly and deftly mutilate a living man.

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"Have you ever thought, Eugene, that the great enemy of life may not be death, but life itself?" Starwick continued. "Have you never noticed that the really evil people that one meets--the people who are filled with hatred, fear, envy, rancour against life--who wish to destroy the artist and his work--are not figures of satanic darkness, who have been born with a malignant hatred against life, but rather people who have had the seeds of life within themselves and been destroyed by them? They are the people who have been given just enough to get a vision of the promised land--however brief and broken it may be--"

"But not enough to get there? Is that what you mean?"

"Exactly," Starwick answered. "They are left there in the desert, maddened by the sight of water they can never reach, and all the juices of their life then turn to gall and bitterness--to envy and malignant hate. They are the old women in the little towns and villages with the sour eyes and the envenomed flesh who have so poisoned the air with their envenomed taint that everything young and beautiful and full of joy that lives there will sicken and go dead and vicious and malignant as the air it breathes. They are the lecherous and impotent old men of the world, those foul, palsied creatures with small rheumy eyes who hate the lover and his mistress with the hate of hell and eunuchry--who try to destroy love with their hatred and the slanderous rumour of their poisoned tongues. And, finally, they are the eunuchs of the arts--the men who have the lust, without the power, for creation, and whose life goes dead and rotten with its hatred of the living artist and the living man."

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A 1927 example of the word 'eunuchry'

Culpeper Star-Exponent (Culpeper, Virginia) - Mar 17, 1927. Page 9.

Letter to the editor, sent by Thomas Lomax Hunter of King George, Virginia:
"Our slip of paper is then hnaded over to one of the attending eunuchry, who feeds it into the maw of ballot box. This is called voting. ...Our huge, unwieldy, intricate democracy...down to its swarming myriads of peepers, snoopers and publicly-supported official eunuchry now clearly needs a receiver."

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Old Coca-Cola sign at Columbus Circle (NYC)

In 1906, Coca-Cola began bottling outside the US. The three other countries where bottling began were Canada, Cuba, and Panama.

In 1922, Coca-Cola began using the slogan "Thirst Knows No Season."

In 1931, Haddon Sundblom created the first illustration of Santa Claus with a Coca-Cola.

The Coca-Cola sign at Columbus Circle in Manhattan goes back to about 1938. It was created by Douglas Leigh.

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Go to Trains.com to see it in November 1951.

Here it is in August 1957.

This sign is mentioned in my poetry book, Attis & Aleph!

More about the history of neon signs (sygns.com) and specifically in New York City (NY Neon).

Protests in India: The word 'andolan'

On February 8, 2021, India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi coined the phrase ‘andolan jivi’ [professional agitators]. S.N. Sahu explains:

"The phrase ‘andolan jivi’ is particularly insulting to Ambedkar [B. R. Ambedkar, 1891-1956]. One of the key components of his legacy is embodied in his iconic slogan, ‘Educate, Agitate, Organise’. Those three electrifying words were his concluding utterances at the All India Depressed Classes Conference held in Nagpur in 1942. Seventy-nine years later, when the Prime Minister of India denounced agitation and sarcastically said in the context of the prolonged farmers’ agitation that the protesters are “andolan jivis”, he denounced Ambedkar himself."
— S.N. Sahu, Modi's Phrase ‘Andolan Jivi’ Ridicules Ambedkar’s Slogan, ‘Educate, Agitate, Organise’, The Wire, Apr 14 2022

Today, there are protests:

"Speaking as a proud andolanjeevi (Modi’s derisive name for people like me), I confess that when it all began, I was wary too. I worried that we were heading into another Anna Hazare moment – that so-called anti-corruption movement, which, regardless of its early intentions, eventually gifted us three terms of being ruled by a political party that has destroyed every institution in this country, one that sees no separation between itself as a political party and the government of India, one that respects neither the country nor its citizens, and one that has shamed us internationally and brought India to its knees.

But my suspicions about the Cockroach Janata Party were allayed when I saw the hostility of the mainstream media towards them. That, to me, was the first and most reassuring sign. I was thrilled that Abhijeet Dipke was from a Dalit community, and even more thrilled that that wasn’t what anybody was focused on." — Arundhati Roy, Cockroach Democracy: Unarmed and Dangerous: The student protesters who have swarmed Delhi are showing us a different future for India, Equator, July 23, 2026

The protests are about a lot of different things.

Protests are spreading across India demanding the resignation of the country’s election chief. Opposition parties and civil society groups want Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar to resign over alleged voter list manipulation.

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— The Associated Press (@apnews.com) October 8, 2026 at 5:45 AM

Insane story out of India

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— Mehdi Hasan (@mehdirhasan.bsky.social) October 14, 2025 at 4:03 PM

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The International Criminal Court still waits for Netanyahu

Shortly after Trump won the U.S. election, while Biden was still in office, the International Criminal Court issued a warrant to arrest Netanyahu.

"Today, on 21 November 2024, Pre-Trial Chamber I of the International Criminal Court (‘Court’), in its composition for the Situation in the State of Palestine, unanimously issued two decisions rejecting challenges by the State of Israel (‘Israel’) brought under articles 18 and 19 of the Rome Statute (the ‘Statute’). It also issued warrants of arrest for Mr Benjamin Netanyahu and Mr Yoav Gallant."
Press Release: 21 November 2024
Situation in the State of Palestine: ICC Pre-Trial Chamber I rejects the State of Israel’s challenges to jurisdiction and issues warrants of arrest for Benjamin Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant

"Poland effectively wants to commemorate one genocide, and celebrate one ongoing - and the latter's architect - by inviting Netanyahu to Auschwitz memorial event and promising not to arrest him." Bluesky

"Among American Jews, 53% do not have confidence in Netanyahu... The only U.S. religious group to demonstrate confidence in Netanyahu is white evangelical Protestants." www.jta.org/2025/04/09/u...

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— Joel S. (@joelhs.bsky.social) April 11, 2025 at 3:11 PM

"...last night the BBC finally dedicated a serious chunk of its main news programme, the News at Ten, to the issue [of starvation in Gaza]. ... Particularly shocking was the BBC’s failure in this extended report to mention even once the fact that Israel's prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, has been a fugitive for months from the International Criminal Court, which wants him on trial for crimes against humanity. Why? For using starvation as a weapon of war against the civilian population." The BBC's timeline "managed to pin the blame not on Israel, even though it is the one blocking all aid, but implicitly on Hamas. Verify's reporter asserted that in early March Israel "blocked humanitarian aid demanding that Hamas extend a ceasefire and release the remaining hostages". He then jumped to 18 March, stating: "Israel resumes military operations."" But, "in fact, Israel never honoured the ceasefire" and it "broke the ceasefire precisely so it had the pretext it needed to return to starving Gaza's civilians" which it is doing to prompt them to breach "the short border with neighbouring Sinai sealed by Egypt." ... Yesterday, an Israeli government minister once again made clear what the game plan has been from the very start. “Gaza will be entirely destroyed,” Bezalel Smotrich, the finance minister, said. Gaza’s population, he added, would be forced to “leave in great numbers to third countries” – in other words, Israel intends to carry out what the rest of us would call the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians, as it has been doing continuously for eight decades."
— Starvation in Gaza is so bad even the BBC is covering it – and reporting it all wrong: The BBC's role is not to keep viewers informed. It's to persuade them a clear crime against humanity by Israel is, in fact, highly complicated geopolitics they cannot hope to understand, Jonathan Cook, Substack, May 7, 2025

On September 24, Jewish Currents sent this from Josh Nathan-Kazis:

"You couldn’t ask for a more fitting representation of Israel in the Netanyahu era than the scene that just played out on the floor of the United Nations: As the Israeli prime minister took the stage, most of the world silently fled the room while a few fanatics up in the rafters shouted “Am Yisrael Chai,” tunelessly, over and over again.

Netanyahu’s material was mostly rehash: He told the story of his martyred brother at great length, predicted the fall of the Islamic Republic of Iran, said Israel was fighting the “barbarians.” All the old hits.

What was new was a galling attempt to undercut world leaders’ growing discomfort with settler violence in the West Bank with astounding lies. Netanyahu said the violence was the work of “a handful of young juvenile delinquents who throw stones, who chop down olive trees, occasionally they light some fires,” and said that “the number of casualties per year, maybe two, three,” is nothing compared to the “thousands of attacks against the peaceful settlers.” These are immense falsehoods that, in their immensity, suggest that Netanyahu is not trying to convince anyone; he’s just playing to his tankies."

‘Baseless Lies Meant to Sanitize His Genocide’: Mamdani Hits Back After Netanyahu’s Attacks During UN Speech: “No lie can change the fact that he remains the subject of an International Criminal Court arrest warrant alleging war crimes and crimes against humanity,” New York City’s mayor said of the Israeli prime minister. Brett Wilkins, Common Dreams, Sep 24, 2026

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Democracy requires underlying values and commitments

Thomas Zimmer yesterday:

"One prominent voice in the camp of those who opposed what they diagnosed as liberal or leftwing “alarmism” has been Shadi Hamid: After the 2022 midterm elections, he successfully leveraged his reflexive anti-“alarmism” into a position as a columnist and a member of the Editorial Board at the Washington Post. Hamid declared that liberals should finally stop indulging the “great moral panic” of pretending that democracy was under assault from the MAGA Right. He offered what he called “democratic minimalism” as an alternative framework. “Democracy,” Hamid argued, “is a mechanism for regulating conflict through elections. It requires no commitment to specific substantive ends.” It should therefore be “de-coupled from the liberal and progressive outcomes that liberals and progressives think it should produce,” and instead conceptualized as “a system and means of governing and rotating power with no prejudice to substantive ideological outcomes.”

In essence, Hamid demanded we regard democracy as just a set of procedures, not as something that entails any substantive commitments. In practical terms, this would reduce democracy to, first and foremost, elections – and since there are, in this understanding, by definition no bad outcomes resulting from democratic procedures, any election result would therefore also have to be considered good from a democratic point of view. Put differently, if Americans make Trump president via an election or Germans put the AfD in charge of a state government, then that is not only something all (small-d) democrats need to accept, but they ought to consider it a normatively positive democratic outcome."

However, he says, democracy involves underlying values, not just a procedure that looks like you're taking a vote. (bolding mine)

"Democracy does not just mean elections. In today’s widely accepted parlance, this means a system of equality before the law, in which all citizens have a right to participate in the political process as equals; a system playing by majoritarian principles, in which all sides clearly renounce violence and agree to respecting the rules as laid out in the constitution; a pluralistic system seeking negotiation and compromise between differing interests in which the status of the individual is not determined by what they look like, what they identify as, who they pray to, who their parents were, or how much wealth they have accumulated. An election outcome that threatens that system – because it empowers forces that are explicitly vowing to undermine it, that are at war with the very idea of a pluralistic society of equals and instead committed to a vision of a hierarchical ethnostate – is therefore very much not good for democracy. Can we please refuse to play willfully naïve?"

— Thomas Zimmer, Warnings and Lessons from the Struggle Against Trumpism, Democracy Americana, September 5, 2026

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'But now the enemy is people' (John O'Hara)

"But now the enemy is people," John O'Hara wrote in a novel about the Pennsylvania elite in the early 20th century, people whom you'll find "trading...the ophidian [serpent-like] devious for the classic simple."

"A parent is sweepingly protective of his infant's existence; but after the baby days are over, the threats become single threats, calling for defensive measures singly, a measure to a threat; vigilance and defensiveness always, but each threat of harm dealt with individually. And, of course, each hope to be dreamed and planned over by itself. In the beginning years the father's fears are for bugs, and the less visible the worse the fear, but not much can be done about them. In the later years the bugs are still there, but now the enemy is people, and some of them no more visible than the most dangerous bugs, and as little to be done about them. But of course there are the good and the kind and the loving among the people, the serenely good, the impetuously kind, the continually loving, who trust their own goodness and kindness and loving without suspicious questioning or ultimately contemptuous analysis, or denying the positive, glorifying the evil, marketing the poison, or trading nothing for something, the gag for the joke, the sneer for the laugh, the fancy lie for the plain truth, the ophidian devious for the classic simple. But of course of the good, the kind, the loving, there are exactly too few, exactly, and among them are traitors as well as converts."

— John O’Hara (1905-1970), Ten North Frederick (1955)

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I've published books, and my next one will be Attis & Aleph: Poems of the Daimonic. It's about a man in 1930s New York who was fascinated with what the idea of eunuchs meant to him. He couldn't finish writing his book, but I finished writing this one. It's advice to overthinkers. It talks about how to see your project in a new way and take the paths that will bring happiness and completion. I need your pledge on Attis & Aleph so that I can reach minimum funding and this book can happen!

It's part of the Book Bazaar 2026, a crowdfunding event on BackerKit, Oct 29–Nov 19.