Scott in winterquarters, October 1911
We could have come through, had we neglected the sick.
Scott of the Antarctic was not of the generation that could neglect the sick.
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essentially a rephrasing of a brilliant post at: http://bouphonia.blogspot.com/2010/03/calm-despair.html
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What a poignant and powerful connection.
Word verification: inglety
(I'm certain Mr. Wordman got the connection with England, but just in case, in Turkey they call England Ingiltere. I think it's similar in other languages.
Why should we be concerned with the sick? What a lunatic idea! Let them eat cake.
I was awestruck at the juxtaposition, for it reminded me of different times and attitudes.
If we were to ignore them, we could - in the words of Scrooge - thus decrease the surplus population. And the gradual death by famine and disease is tolerable, while abortion is not.
Is this hypocrisy? Or is it some worse moral blindness?
Ruth...where does "inglety" appear? I thought it was in my post, but if it is, I seem to have a curious blindness to it.
It was the word verification thingy that you have to put letters into to prove you're not a robot.
Oh, those things. Anyone that uses such lingo would seem to be a mech from odd time-space espy...(there, I used "espy", and that's very Dr. Robotica.)
Ig leads to Iglet - a small Ig - and add -y for the adjective. Sounds suspiciously Inuit.
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