"At times, bullshit can only be
countered with superior bullshit."
-- Norman Mailer

"It may be that universal history is the
history of the different intonations
given a handful of metaphors."
-- Jorge Luis Borges (1951),
"The Fearful Sphere of Pascal,"
in Labyrinths, New Directions, 1962

Hexagram 39:
Obstruction

The Judgment

Obstruction. The southwest furthers.
(See Zenna Henderson.) 
The northeast does not further.
 (See Daniel Dennett.)
It furthers one to see the great man.
 (See Alan Turing.)
Perseverance brings good fortune.

From this morning's
New York Times:

Tim Weiner in today's New York Times:

"Mr. Hunt was intelligent, erudite, suave and loyal to his friends....

Everette Howard Hunt Jr. was born in Hamburg, N.Y., on Oct. 9, 1918, the son
of a lawyer and a classically trained pianist who played church organ. He
graduated from Brown University in June 1940 and entered the United States Naval Academy as a midshipman in February 1941.

He worked as a wartime intelligence officer in China, a postwar spokesman for
the Marshall Plan in Paris and a screenwriter in Hollywood. Warner Brothers had
just bought his fourth novel, 'Bimini Run,' a thriller set in the Caribbean,
when he joined the fledgling C.I.A. in April 1949.

Mr. Hunt was immediately assigned to train C.I.A.
recruits.... He moved to Mexico City, where he became chief of station
in 1950. He brought along another rookie C.I.A. officer, William F.
Buckley Jr., later a prominent conservative author and publisher, who
became godfather and guardian to the four children of Mr. Hunt and his wife, the
former Dorothy L. Wetzel.

In 1954, Mr. Hunt helped plan the covert operation that overthrew the elected
president of Guatemala....

By the time of the coup, Mr. Hunt had been removed from responsibility. He
moved on to uneventful stints in Japan and Uruguay. Not until 1960 was Mr. Hunt
involved in an operation that changed history.

The C.I.A. had received orders from both President
Dwight D. Eisenhower and his successor, President John F. Kennedy, to
alter or abolish the revolutionary government of Fidel in Cuba. Mr.
Hunt's assignment was to create a provisional Cuban government that
would be ready to take power once the C.I.A.'s cadre of Cuban shock
troops invaded the island.... 

He retired from the C.I.A. in 1970 and secured a job with an agency-connected
public relations firm in Washington. Then, a year later, came a call from the
White House....

Mr. Hunt’s last book, 'American Spy: My Secret History in the C.I.A.,
Watergate and Beyond,' written with Greg Aunapu, is to be published on March 16
with a foreword by his old friend William F. Buckley Jr.

Late in life, he said he had no regrets, beyond the Bay of Pigs."

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Throughout his career, he has
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-- Michael J. Loux,
Note 1 of Chapter 5,
"The Necessary and the Possible,"
in Metaphysics:
A Contemporary Introduction
(Routledge, second edition,
January 1, 2002)

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in those photos. It’s a philosophy
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"... and by '+' I mean artistic vision."