Ottoman Dreams: Why Are Americans Surprised by Turkey’s Islamic Turn?
Dear Dr. Bones,
Somebody critical who is also concerned for the fate of the alone Heimatland Gottes might do a fun compare-and-contrast starring Neocomrade (fifth class) D. X. Solway, terrible infantry of Qannádî Literature, and one of those Latino Lit. “magic realists” from the wrong side of the other border.
“When snowbacks meet wetbacks, then comes the tug of war.”
“So far from V. Ye. Zhabotinsky, so near ‘the Democrat party’ !”
And so on, and so forth.
But seriously, the unhappy unhome of Bigot and Laval [1][2] has, in the fullness of time, brought forth an interesting, if perhaps slightly hubrid, neofruit in the shape of this NC5 DXS mechanism.
To talk Turkey with a Qannádî neogent of literary pretensions is enough to make a geographer’s head spin as well as her globes and astrolabes, so I’ll just notice that the snowbacks, unlike the wetbacks, do not seem to mind letting us holy-Homelanders™ grab a historically unwarrantable monopoly on the words ‘America’ and ‘American’. Just look how it has seemed good to Roger Kiddiemaster Padjaama to label this fresh slice of neobologna!
With the Solway mechanism, I fear, there is always the parochial possibility that it would not, part of the time, prefer the Party base an’ vile to forget that it is any sort of alien at all.
A misjudgment of which we shall, I trust, never be guilty.
Healthy days.
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[1] The obit A. D. 1708 Laval is not to be confused with the died ABCE 1945 one, naturally. Father Zeus forfend such a mix-up! “I knew Pierre Laval, and he was no Montmorency!”
[2] Poor M. du Chauvin seems not to have any connection with Hyperborea West. Indeed, Big LEW, the Learnèd Elders of Wiki, suggests that Old Nick may even lack connection with the former or pre-Rovan Real World. But Father Zeus knows best.
LEW notes en passant that “Researcher Gerard Puymège … argues that the figure of Chauvin continues the long tradition of the mythological farmer-soldier or Miles Gloriosus from ancient times in Greek mythology,” which suggests tweo things to the present coarse and illiterate keyboard:
(1) that M. de Puymège (“who?”) might conceivably profit from a tourist-class ticket to Cincinnati OH, and
(2) that one may as well admit the honourable and gallant M. Jean de Martinet ( obit 1672) into the Solway Gallery of Colonialiana. Especially now that the Neos*m*tes of Tel ’Avîv have finally exhibited some proper Sea Might!
The hero of Century XI/XVII/LIV lacks Qannádî connexions, though you should bear in mind that ’twas only the Sun King himself who never set on la nouvelle France; most of his subjects appear to have been scarcely aware of the snowdump’s existence.
