4th July 2008: Heartland - American Debate, VanAbbe Museum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

Info:

http://www.vanabbemuseum.nl/heartland/americandebate/

http://heartland.vanabbe.nl/

Otto doesn’t look like Hitler at all, does he?

Check this out:

http://www.catsthatlooklikehitler.com/cgi-bin/seigmiaow.pl

“the fact that I had a permanent fiancé was little compensation for his absence: I had never thought about it, but summer was Dilly by the fishpool smoking string, Dill’s eyes alive with complicated plans to make Bob Radley emerge; summer was the swiftness with which Dill would reach up and kiss me when Jem was not looking, the longings we sometimes felt each other feel. With him, life was routine; without him, life was unbearable. I stayed miserable for two days”

Lolita: “I was a daisy fresh girl and look what you’ve done to me”

Humbert: “I looked and looked at her, and I knew, as clearly as I know that I will die, that I loved her more than anything I had ever seen or imagined on earth. She was only the dead-leaf echo of the nymphet from long ago - but I loved her, this Lolita, pale and polluted and big with another man’s child. She could fade and wither - I didn’t care. I would still go mad with tenderness at the mere sight of her face”

The sixth rule: 6. We will discuss an armistice whenever either of us calls “halt.”

Notice the wording, “We will discuss an armi­stice!” Some men are quitters by nature, and some women run up the white flag too soon! With us it requires a unanimous vote of two before we finally sign the truce. Sometimes silence is not golden. It may be a pale shade of yellow.

If you agree to these rules, then a sense of fair play is an absolute must all the way through to the end. Without good sportsmanship on both sides you can’t have the kind of “good, clean fight” which our rule-label bears.

Yet, as we have seen, some things in marriage can go either way. Some men want to stay up all night and push the adversary around!

How can you end it if you want to quit and he wants to continue? Here is one move for cease-fire which seldom fails for us. It goes like this—”I’m be­ginning to see what you meant! But I’ll need some time to think this over. Please, let’s make up now so I can consider awhile how you could be right!” (He could be, you know!)

If this doesn’t get through, your marriage may be sicker than you think! Perhaps you need help from experts outside to go far down inside and set­tle more serious problems than rules such as these could ever cure.

Note: http://katara.wordpress.com/2008/06/15/shedd-letters-to-karen-6/