In our important discussion below, Roger pointed out something that I should have known - because the book is on my shelf - but didn’t, which is that one of the many useful appendices in Hal Draper’s splendid series on Karl Marx’s Theory of Revolution is a discussion of hair. It’s over the fold.
Mark Kaplan, on the pub.
Leo Huberman, American socialist, founding co-editor of Monthly Review, born 17 October 1903, died 9 November 1968.
More post-election analysis from Mel P, over here.
Étienne Cabet, French utopian socialist and author of Voyage en Icarie; born in Dijon, France, 1 January 1788, died St Louis, Missouri, 8 November 1856.
My basic assumption is that the House of Representatives seems to be so thoroughly gerrymandered these days that even a big swing to the Democrats is unlikely to dislodge the Republican majority. But I’ll be very pleased if Tuesday proves me wrong.
I don’t think I’ve got much to say about patriotic festivals of anti-Catholic bigotry invovling fireworks this year, except to report that I recently flipped through Garry Wills’s Witches and Jesuits — his reading of Macbeth as a gunpowder play — and it’s splendid.
Sen Katayama, alternatively Sugataro Yabuki, founding member of both the American and the Japanese Communist Parties; born in Japan, 1859, died in the USSR, 5 November 1933.
It’s getting colder and wetter and darker outside, which means that muddy pawprints are becoming a bit more common around the house.
Enkidu stills seems to spend most of the day outside, doing whatever cat things he does out there, and checks in with me twice a day, at breakfast time, and whenever he gets in late at night, when he usually comes to wake me up to say hello.
Andromache, by contrast, tends to stay indoors and purr, happy now that I’ve restored a steady supply of tuna-flavoured catfood, rather than the chicken-themed muck I was trying to get her to enjoy.
Anyway: here’s Andromache washing Enkidu’s head a few minutes ago. Notice the rather complicated cat-toy-glove-thingummy.
More of the same:
A brief pause:
Headwashing resumes:
Enkidu shows off his clean head:
