i see..? What if I prefer my donkeys without midichlorians but also sans peur ?
(With specific reference to the lore about Junot, what sort of mentalism afflicted the Duke of Abrantes? Compared to Bessieres)
(With specific reference to the lore about Junot, what sort of mentalism afflicted the Duke of Abrantes? Compared to Bessieres)
That sure puts "founder mode" gripes in perspective — Napoleon was trying to run an empire, yet externally not only did he have General Winter as an enemy, but internally he couldn't even leave his direct reports alone unsupervised without them getting into each others' wives' beds.
Bessières showed himself to advantage on the latter point because not even his wife was aware of his affair (apolitically with an actress) only discovering it when going through his papers to settle his estate. After a quick glance at his fr.wikipedia page, it seems Bessières may have been a good example of a successful "bigcorp hire"[2]: lacking the audacity and prowess of the other Marshalls[3], he made up for it by staying out of trouble and staying loyal. (the latter point, and Bessières having left no fortune, suggests he may even be placed among the clueless?)
[0] had not my Goddonkey sang froid? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41482398
[1] brag: I've seen Bayard's panoply with my own eyes
[2] he even started out on the royalist side, and unlike Murat and Junot, wasn't already part of Napoleon's crew for the "whiff of grape".
[3] compare Bernadotte, Murat, Poniatowski, Saint-Cyr, ...
Gotta drop the discreetly placed marshal’s baton angle for now since i cant even find a half decent example pair lol
renaissance: https://c8.alamy.com/comp/2H4WND3/moscow-russia-02nd-mar-201... (I want to show you the baton here, but if you find other views of this statue you'll find Gattamelata agreed with Crazy Horse on ponytails)
napoleonic: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/de/Le_maréc...
in our time: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/da/Ch...
and of course the riding crop is very reminiscent of a baton: https://images.fineartamerica.com/images/artworkimages/mediu...
EDIT: https://people.com/thmb/ZJaQKjc4HVLggDfDH-DeTRMtz50=/4000x0/... (here Charles can also channel his inner Hector, via his pseudo-greaves)
other examples:
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/56581/56581-h/images/illus1....
https://people.com/thmb/RwFHUIN5BrzehzaJ9Ib41nhw8eE=/4000x0/... (you can tell it's a popular rag because they really could've chosen a more flattering moment, ie a few seconds before or after, to publish)
EDIT: can't resist adding this pair; mirrored at birth?
https://salsaworldtraveler.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/ds...
https://media.gettyimages.com/id/1257966015/photo/windsor-un...
i recall a soviet movie whose title was something like “King and Cartman” but i can somehow neither find it nor recall the romantic era poem that it was based on
Once upon a time in Odessa, Schiller or Hoelderlin might have been the rage.. ?
(You might have missed that Sir William above hacked (together) the gentlemen’s dues that gate-kept riffraff)
Lagniappe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSc3fVBjYks
Sir William, had he been in Uncle Sam's service, would've been a "mustang": the DoD equivalent of a brumby (and apparently uncommon —to the point of uniqueness?— in His Majesty's service).
Whether this was general policy[0] or specifically due to his Achilles' Heel[1] (the dutch say "now the ape['s arm] comes out of the cuffs") is difficult to discern from a single article, however.
Lagniappe: https://www.kiplingsociety.co.uk/poem/poems_eastwest.htm
> And thou must make a trooper tough and hack thy way to power / Belike they will raise thee to Ressaldar when I am hanged in Peshawur!
[0] compare COL Benjamin Davis'[2] command of the 51 FIW (as it was then) in 1950.
[1] I'd thought the unorthodox baton grasp was what you'd meant to convey with that pic...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_O._Davis_Jr.#Creator_...
[0] Did Kipling delve into early pair programming advice?
> > I'd fly him with a make-hawk. He's in yarak
[1] any link to EES' Kimball Kinnison?
Lagniappe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njHNHbK9jDI&t=75s
EDIT: well, the cops are obviously not Starovery; I was a little disappointed that Ivan Grozny (when with Shurik) was not obviously one.
[he didn't live with as much hypocrisy as Pete Townshend (currently 79), for Lasalle only made it to 34]
Peripheral (conflationary?) debate from the reams of orthographically- or otherwise challenged HN scholarship:
(especially because I know that already in the 1980s audiences would yell out "too late" when they sang that line)
compare https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Weinberg#%22Don't_trust_a...
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It makes perfect sense that a Caesar wouldn't trust anyone who seemed to be "sleeping on sticks and tasting gall" (臥薪嚐膽); armed rebellions are expensive, and someone who (by stock and flow analysis) clearly can't build up a war chest or hire spies or corrupt your guys can be trusted to the extent that they won't do much harm whenever they ultimately betray that trust.
In very early feudal days, a king would wander around his kingdom with his retinue, using up each vassal's surplus in high living, and then moving on to the next.
Louis XIV is credited with flipping that script: by running an extravagant court, he made sure that (even if his vassals themselves had to return to their own properties to administer them from time to time) their wives and children were close to the court, and a good portion of the revenue from their properties was flowing towards Versailles to support the court life to which they all had become accustomed.
In Victorian days (in addition to commissions having been bought, not awarded) the posher cavalry units also used to apply a variation on this principle: setting unit mess dues higher than the army salary effectively kept the riff-raff out.
In our days I've heard a VP Sales explicitly say he likes his top producers to have expensive hobbies, because it keeps them hungry (and working for him; they might get poached by an established rival, but they're highly unlikely to go to a startup and work for relative peanuts).