Much cogitation my friends, much thought, profound, deep and mostly circumlocutious. As Hopkins wrote:

I WAKE and feel the fell of dark, not day.

What hours, O what black hoürs we have spent

This night! what sights you, heart, saw; ways you went!

And more must, in yet longer light’s delay.

With witness I speak this. But where I say

Hours I mean years, mean life. And my lament

Is cries countless, cries like dead letters sent

To dearest him that lives alas! away.

I am gall, I am heartburn. God’s most deep decree

Bitter would have me taste: my taste was me;

Bones built in me, flesh filled, blood brimmed the curse.

Selfyeast of spirit a dull dough sours. I see

The lost are like this, and their scourge to be

As I am mine, their sweating selves; but worse.

BUT, ’twas never for long that thine own blogger was ever in self pity. No, not whilst another brew beckoned enticingly from within devil’s fridge and called, softly, gently…persistently: come drink me Pat for I am yours, and we are one, though ’tis up to you to drink of me and make. it. so. And so I shall, and did. No dull dough will sour this selfyeast of spirit but flame, torch and illuminate – the Night! And into the night we should go.

Four score and four years past was born a man like many other in many respects not showing much at all that would mark him different. Yet, his life held much the same. That’s the normal course of events so let’s not read to much into it. Still, there’s blogs to be written, songs to sing, grog to be drunk, oysters to be eaten, and so, in due course it came upon that man’s mind the idea to make his way upon the earth and avoid legal entrapments like a defamation suit, or racial vilification law.

So it is in this venture that M4 Monologue shall set upon another course and re-introduce our erstwhile blogger Billy Nudgel, who has suggested, and we the editors accepted, his proposition of a weekly series much in the theme of Plutarch and his “Lives“. As such, next week, if Billy is up to it, shall be the introductory episode of “Nudgel’s Lives”, possibly researching in an opening salvo Keren Hayesod.

Keren Hayesod – UIA, in partnership with the global Jewish community, works to further the national priorities of the State of Israel and Israeli society, with special emphasis on advancing weaker communities; nurturing disadvantaged and marginalized youth; encouraging aliyah; implementing rescue operations; and connecting young Diaspora Jews to Israel and Jewish life.

That’s who they are my friends, and it is fine and upstanding work to be sure, something to be emulated no doubt by our much admiring and fawning White people and our State of…well, I’ll leave it up to Billy to nominate the White State set aside, as at the moment I’m bereft of information on that score.

So, with much hope, a lot of faith, and some misgivings, I welcome Billy Nudgel and his “Lives” to the M4 fold. May you bring out the best in us Billy.

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