Monday, August 10, 2026

Good Books and Books


C. S. Lewis commented on a library which divided its books into two categories.

Good Books.
Books.

Famous Five would certainly be books, and so would P. G. Woodehouse. But not Tristram Shandy.

Good Books was more elusive. What quality is it that some books have at once (Ulysses or Finegan's Wake by James Joyce) and others acquire by age?

Difficulty.

This is the reverse of an observation on Homer, by Honor Cargill-Martin:

Who really wrote the Odyssey and the Iliad? Ancient historian answers your questions about Homer
Honor Cargill-Martin | 10 Aug. 2026
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mk4TTFJJDfo


Once upon a time, Homer would have been "Books" ... or in her words:

So people are literally being raised on this stuff and that means that the texts are very familiar to them. They're not intimidated by them.


CSL intended to get people to stop frowning on popular literature (provided it isn't unchaste or over the top cruel), and Honor Cargill-Martin's observation comes in pretty handy in this context.
/HGL

C'est quoi "Marran Nordique" ?


En suédois on ne dirais jamais "nordisk marran" on dirait "judisk Christen" ou "christen Jude" en présumant que la personne soit aussi de la Suède ou de la Scandinavie.

Mais, pourquoi ce terme ? Parce qu'en français on ne dit justement pas "Juif chrétien" ou "Chrétien juif" à part le cas spécifique de Jews for Jesus ou Messianic Jews.

Donc, le terme est calqué sur le terme "Marran" (tout court) pour désigner une tradition familiale stablement intégrée dans le Christianisme et d'origine souvent lointaine juive.

Reste à dire en quoi les Marrans nordiques, comme je les appelle, diffèrent des Marrans.

Tout d'abord, racialement, linguistiquement. Ils parlent une langue nordique et sont de la partie judaïque des ancêtres typiquement ashkénazes. Pas tellement les langues latines, pas tellement les origines sépharades.

Ensuite, la religion typique, Luthéranisme ou "frikyrkor"* (tout entre Luthérien dévot mais pas liturgique en Svenska Missionsförbundet et Pentécotiste, à travers les Méthodistes et les Salvationnistes). Les convertis du Judaïsme ont un obstacle de moins de s'intégrer dedans que dans le Catholicisme. Ou deux.

Pour un Luthérien, il n'y a pas de langue sacrée dans le quottidien** et donc pas de vrai rival à l'hébreu dans sa vie religieuse. Et en plus, l'hébreu est obligatoirement étudié en tant que langue biblique (langue du texte d'origine), à même titre que le grec et à l'exclusion du latin.

Mais depuis quelque temps, au moins les Lumières, les Luthéranismes et Anglicanismes ont en plus eu une perte de l'idée que l'Église ait remplacé l'ethnicité juive comme lieu formel de "peuple de Dieu" ...*** Je choisis mes mots. Je ne dis pas que les Goïm ait remplacé les Juifs ethniques en tant que peuple de Dieu, je dis que le clergé catholique a remplacé le clergé cohanique, le Sacrifice de la Messe les sacrifices du Temple, et que l'ethnicité par contre a été élargie en d'abord Juifs et Samaritains (dont les descendants sont les Palestiniens), mais ensuite les Goïm aussi. Cette idée manque par contre du Protestantisme d'après les Lumières, d'où pas mal de Marrans nordiques qui imaginent que leur Judaïté les fasse encore partie d'un "peuple de Dieu" autre que le peuple chrétien.

Et parce que les Juifs ont, historiquement, été davantage intégrés dans la communauté luthérienne, ou moins, selon les points de vue°, et aussi parce que les conversions du Judaïsme ont été volontaires (davantage qu'en Espagne 1492) on n'a pas soupçonné du crypto-judaïsme. Un homme d'origine judaïque que se dit Chrétien est cru sur parole.

Dernièrement, il y a une mode de judaïser, comme il y a une mode de paganiser. Je ne ressens aucun besoin de me faire circoncire à cause des origines judaïques, ni de pratiquer les halakhot selon la lettre°°, comme à cause des origines ethniques, côté Beowulf, je ne ressens aucun besoin de faire un "blot" (sacrifice païen) ou de chanter à Odin ou porter un marteau de Thor. Mais la chose est, ceux qui ressentent des tels besoins, ils n'ont aucun problème, ni légal, ni social, de le faire. D'où le fait que ceux qui se reclament Chrétiens ont des très fortes raisons d'être crus sur parole.

Ethniquement, suis-je plutôt Suédois ou Marran nordique ? Je ne sais pas. Et je n'ai pas tellement besoin de savoir. J'ai présumé que ma mère était 1/8 et moi 1/16 hébraïques. J'ai pu me tromper.

Mais culturellement, je suis Enfant de troisième culture°°° entre mes origines, l'Autriche et l'Allemagne, avec influences de la Romanie et des États-Unis. Et d'Angle-Terre. Et j'ai cherché mon équilibre dans un Catholicisme de France et d'Irlande. Monseigneur Lefebvre ayant eu Éamonn DeValera comme serveur de Messe, j'ai rien à redire.~ Probablement en plus avant le Concile. Donc irréprochable du point de vue catholique.

Hans Georg Lundahl
Paris
St. Laurent~~
10.VIII.2026

Romae, via Tiburtina, natalis beati Laurentii Archidiaconi, qui, in persecutione Valeriani, post plurima tormenta carceris, verberum diversorum, fustium, ac plumbatarum et laminarum ardentium, ad ultimum, in craticula ferrea assatus, martyrium complevit; ejusque corpus a beato Hippolyto et Justino Presbytero sepultum fuit in coemeterio Cyriacae, in agro Verano.

* Administrativement, le Catholicisme en Suède compte ou comptait avant 2000 aussi comme une "frikyrka" (à prononcer frîtchurca / frîchyurca avec un accent fort sur la première syllabe, moins fort la deuxième et encore moins fort la dernière), car ne pas étant "statskyrka" (remplacez "frî" avec "statse"), Église d'État, mais pour la plupart des Suédois, on le distingue, ainsi que l'Orthodoxie, très nettement des choses comme ça. La différence liturgique et théologique est notée.

** Une de mes raisons de devenir Catholique, d'ailleurs.

*** Une de mes découvertes en tant que Catholique, une fois converti.

° "Davantage intégrés" en tant que moins se sentant étrangers, "moins intégrés" comme ayant davantage gardé un statut spécial.

°° Chaque Catholique pratique les halakhot génuines selon l'esprit, comme les viandes permises nous rappellent 1) d'accepter les deux Testaments, 2) de les séparer, 3) de les méditer. "Pas de cheval, pas de lapin" = il faut accepter les deux Testaments comme vrais, ni le Judaïsme qui n'accepte qu'un, ni le paganisme qui n'en accepte aucun mais une pluralité de divinités. "Pas de chameau" = il faut séparer les deux Testaments, pas les mélanger. Je ne deviens pas Musulman, je ne redeviens pas Messianic Jew. "Pas de porc" = il faut méditer la loi, pas juste la croire. (Chose à améliorer).

°°° https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enfant_de_troisième_culture

~ Par contre, côté "comment doit on se positionner au pape" je préfère maintenant "Michel II est pape et on doit l'obéir" à "Léon XIV et pape mais on ne doit pas l'obéir" ...

~~ C'est aussi la date de l'apparition de la Vierge de la Miséricorde, mais la fête est le 24 septembre.

Monday, July 27, 2026

Tiergarten 4, Aktion mortelle ... fasciste ?


Quoique ce soit de certains meurtres disputés par Faurisson, sur lesquels une certaine législation plus sotte que gaie me un peu cloue le bec (j'ai d'autres trucs à dire qui m'importent davantage et je n'ai pas envie de perdre mes blogs pour trop de franchise là-dessus), on n'a pas l'habitude de nier l'Aktion T4 sur les handicapés, ni l'eugénisme qu'on pratiquait déjà 6 ans plus tôt, à partir de février 1934.

Et je suis très loin de justifier ces pratiques.

Le problème devant moi est un peu je me déclare d'accord avec "fascisme" (en termes assez général pour inclure Mussolini avec réserves, Franco, Dollfuss et Schuschnigg, aussi des présidents constitutionnels comme Éamonn DeValera, Juan Perón, les septièmes fils lui diront merci, Józef Piłsudski, mais je valorise également Gasperi, Adenauer, Franz Josef Strauss), et certains vont me reprocher eugénisme ou euthanasie.

L'idée de l'eugénisme, de stériliser des gens trisomiques ou atteints de surdité héréditaire, ou encore des gens ayant vagabondé, et encore, si possible, davantage, de tuer des gens parce qu'ils sont un fardeau (et le fardeau peut être réel), ça me dégoûte énormément.

Si quelqu'un voudra me citer une allocution officielle du Duce où il défend ou propose ce genre de choses je rayerais le bon Benito* de ma liste de bons homme d'état.**

Entretemps, je voudrais faire considérer que l'idée de faire ce genre de choses ne venait nullement de l'Italie à un homme qui aurait dû rester peintre, mais de l'Angleterre et de l'Irlande du Nord. Et des États-Unis. Pour l'eugénisme, c'est déjà documenté que la Virginie stérilisait dès 1924. En Buck v. Bell*** un certains Wendell Holmes Jr.° décidait en 1927 d'accepter la pratique dégradante. Mais quid de l'euthanasie pour les faibles et malades ?

En 1931, un certain George Bernard Shaw l'avait suggéré. Il est cité dans cette vidéo :

The Not So Secret Society Running Britain
Josh D | 23 July 2026
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_PCyFLAwrc


Ayez la bonté de ne pas me comparer à GBS ou à HGW, malgré le fait que je partage deux initiaux avec ce dernier. Je préfère nettement GKC et son ami Hilaire Belloc./HGL




* Le mauvais Benito étant Juarez ... le père du Duce l'admirait, moi non.
** Il s'y trouve, comme dit, avec des réserves.
*** https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buck_v._Bell
° https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_Wendell_Holmes_Jr.

Thursday, July 16, 2026

If Anyone Thinks I Grossly Misunderstood Tolkien ...


I mean, some of my readers unfortunately place Isaac Asimov over Tolkien.

They are probably less familiar than I with Tolkien's Letters. But they don't need to take my word for it:

"Middle-earth is NOT an imaginary world!"
Truett J. Billups | 16 juil. 2026
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x24IGkr7FP0


PS, a little correction against the idea of Tolkien being Anarchist or Communist:

No, the Shire is not 'Communist'
Ink and Fantasy | 18 July 2026
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6CaPXssJMs


It can be noted that quotes in this video describe the synonym of pipeweed as "leaf" ... confirming what Tolkien said of Nicotiana./HGL

Monday, July 13, 2026

How Many Muslims Would Be OK With This?


HalalZilla | Muslims Fasting for Just One Hour in Murmansk, Russia
https://www.halalzilla.com/muslim-fasting-for-just-one-hour-in-Murmansk-Russia/21825


First of all, this info seems off:

When Ramadan falls in the summer months, the theoretical fasting time can be as short as one hour—or even nonexistent—because the sun barely dips below the horizon before rising again. Conversely, if Ramadan occurs in the winter, fasting could extend for more than 20 hours!


I'd say the opposite, though not a Muslim. It's when it's dark that they are allowed to eat.

But here is the more serious solution:

Many Muslims in Murmansk follow the fasting hours of the nearest city with a normal day-night cycle, such as Moscow, or use the timings of Makkah and Madinah as a reference.


The problem is, the Quran did not foresee this.

And actually, the problem for Ramadan in summer is, there is not even one hour night in Murmansk:

13 July 2026, Murmansk
https://www.timeanddate.com/sun/russia/murmansk


Night:
Not for this day

Astronomical Twilight:
Not for this day

Nautical Twilight:
Not for this day

Civil Twilight:
Not for this day

Daylight:
00 h 00 - 00 h 00, Total:24:00


23 July, there will be night in Murmansk. Or at least twilight, Sun below the horizon. 21 May, there was that too.

Over 30,000 Muslims including Azerbaijanis, Tatars, Bashkirs, Kazakhs and Uzbeks live in Murmansk.


Eid Al Adha marked in Murmansk
27.10.2012
https://azertag.az/en/xeber/eid_al_adha_marked_in_murmansk-79248


So, all these Azerbaijanis, Tatars, Bashkirs, Kazakhs and Uzbeks are doing a thing I think many Black and Arab Muslims wouldn't do: fast in a way not foreseen by the Quran.

When Ramadan falls in summer, any Muslim living there would need to in order to survive. 21 May to 23 July is too long not to eat. It's 62 days, longer than Jesus fasted from food. Was that Qoran really written for people around the world? As Christians, we don't have this problem, fasting rules are set by the Church and can be bent to things like this by the Church.

Hans Georg Lundahl
Paris
Pope St. Anicletus
13.VII.2026

Romae sancti Anacleti, Papae et Martyris, qui, post sanctum Clementem Ecclesiam Dei regens, eam glorioso martyrio decoravit.

Wednesday, July 1, 2026

Predecessors of Jan III Sobieski and Austrians


HGL's F.B. writings: Why Don't they Teach Gynaecology in These Schools? · Φιλολoγικά/Philologica: Predecessors of Jan III Sobieski and Austrians

In the III Generation, I'll only deal with the king before Sobieski, and I trace him back to his grandparents in the I Generation. In Generation I, I start with Sigismund III Vasa and his wife Anne of Austria, and her siblings, and trace their marriages and children in the II Generation. I omit any marriage that is neither in Austria nor in Poland, and I count ages only of first marriages in that statistic (but the second marriage of Sigismund III was the first marriage of Constance of Austria, so it's counted on the female side).

I Generation

Sigismund III Vasa 20 June 1566 – 30 April 1632 N.S. ⚭Anne of Austria, Queen of Poland 16 August 1573 – 10 February 1598

In April 1592, the betrothal was formally celebrated in the Imperial Court in Vienna; on 4 May, a proxy wedding was celebrated, after which Anna and her mother departed for the wedding in Krakow. Anne became the first wife of Sigismund III on 31 May 1592.


Constance of Austria 24 December 1588 – 10 July 1631

Her older sister Anna was the first wife of King Sigismund III Vasa. After her death Constance and Sigismund were married on December 11, 1605.


Maria Christina, Princess of Transylvania 10 November 1574 – 6 April 1621 ⚭ Sigismund Báthory 1573 – 27 March 1613

On 7 February 1595, it was received in Graz the formal petition of marriage between Maria Christina and Sigismund Báthory, ruling Prince of Transylvania, by the nobleman Stephen Bocskay. ... The formal marriage took place in Weissenburg on 6 August, and soon after Maria Christina moved to Transylvania.


Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor 9 July 1578 – 15 February 1637 ⚭ Maria Anna of Bavaria 18 December 1574 – 8 March 1616

On 23 April 1600, Maria Anna married her first cousin[1] Ferdinand, Archduke of Inner Austria at Graz Cathedral. This marriage reaffirmed the alliance between the House of Habsburg and House of Wittelsbach.


Eleonora Gonzaga 23 September 1598 – 27 June 1655

The official wedding ceremony took place in Innsbruck on 2 February 1622[2] and celebrations were quite modest. Ferdinand II and Eleonora, who were accompanied by relatives, were married in the chapel of the imperial palace.


Margaret of Austria, Queen of Spain 25 December 1584 – 3 October 1611 ⚭ Philip III of Spain 14 April 1578 – 31 March 1621

Margaret married Philip III of Spain, her first cousin, once removed, on 18 April 1599.


Leopold V, Archduke of Austria 9 October 1586 – 13 September 1632 ⚭ Claudia de' Medici 4 June 1604 – 25 December 1648

After her husband's premature death, she was married, on 19 April 1626, to Leopold V, Archduke of Austria, and thus became Archduchess consort of Austria.


Archduchess Maria Maddalena of Austria 7 October 1589 – 1 November 1631 ⚭ Cosimo II de' Medici 12 May 1590 – 28 February 1621

In 1608, the 19-year-old Maria Magdalena was married to Cosimo de' Medici, Grand Prince of Tuscany.


Tomasz Zamoyski 1594 – 7 January 1638 ⚭ Katarzyna Ostrogska 1602–1642

He married Katarzyna Ostrogska in 1620 and had three children with her.


II Generation

Władysław IV Vasa 9 June 1595 – 20 May 1648 ⚭ Cecilia Renata of Austria 16 July 1611 – 24 March 1644

She married Władysław on 9 August in Vienna by proxy, and then in Warsaw in person on 12 September 1637, and the same day was crowned at St. John's Cathedral.


She married at 26 and had three children the one surviving oldest surviving to age 7.

Marie Louise Gonzaga 18 August 1611 – 10 May 1667

Under the pressure of the French government and other Western nations, Marie Louise Gonzaga finally married Władysław by proxy on 5 November 1645.[3] The proper wedding of Marie Louise and Władysław IV took place in Warsaw on 10 March 1646.


She married at 35 and had no children while her first husband lived.

John II Casimir Vasa 22 March 1609 – 16 December 1672 ⚭ Marie Louise Gonzaga (as already mentioned, widow after his brother).

Two years later, on 20 May 1648, Marie Louise was widowed by the sudden death of Władysław IV. John Casimir was eventually elected the next King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania by the parliament, and married her on 30 May 1649.[3] During an 18-year marriage with John Casimir, she gave birth to two children, Maria Anna Teresa and John Sigismund, who died in infancy.


Meaning, both of them died in infancy.

Anna Catherine Constance Vasa 7 August 1619 – 8 October 1651 ⚭ Philip William, Elector Palatine 24 November 1615[1] – 2 September 1690[2]

However, Anne Catherine Constance finally married Philip William, heir of the Count Palatine of Neuburg and later Elector Palatine, in Warsaw on 8 June 1642.


Ferdinand III, Holy Roman Emperor 13 July 1608 – 2 April 1657 ⚭ Maria Anna of Spain 18 August 1606 – 13 May 1646

Maria Anna had left Madrid for Vienna in December 1629, fully three years after her engagement and nearly five years after the proposal for marriage was first mooted. ... In Vienna on 20 February 1631, Maria Anna was married to King Ferdinand of Hungary-Bohemia. The festivities lasted a whole month. The marriage was described as friendly. Maria Anna was described as happy-tempered, friendly and intelligent, and she relieved the feelings of the rather melancholic Ferdinand.


Maria Leopoldine of Austria 6 April 1632 – 7 August 1649

In Linz on 2 July 1648 Maria Leopoldine married the widowed Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand III, thereby becoming Empress of the Holy Roman Empire, Queen of the Germans, Queen of Hungary and Queen of Bohemia. The wedding ceremony was splendid.


Ferdinand Charles, Archduke of Austria 17 May 1628 – 30 December 1662 ⚭ Anna de' Medici, Archduchess of Austria 21 July 1616 – 11 September 1676

Following failed plans for Anna to marry Gaston, Duke of Orléans, she was instead engaged to Ferdinand Charles, Archduke of Further Austria. In 1646, Anna left her native Florence for Innsbruck to be married. On 10 June, she was married to her double first cousin Ferdinand Charles.


Archduchess Maria Anna of Austria 13 January 1610 – 25 September 1665 ⚭ Maximilian I, Elector of Bavaria 17 April 1573 – 27 September 1651

On 15 July 1635 at the Augustinian Church, Vienna, Maria Anna married her uncle, Maximilian I, Elector of Bavaria, whose previous wife, Elisabeth of Lorraine, had died a few months earlier. The wedding was celebrated by Franz von Dietrichstein, Bishop of Olomouc.


Philip IV of Spain 8 April 1605 – 17 September 1665 ⚭ Mariana of Austria 24 December 1634 – 16 May 1696

In 1646, Mariana was betrothed to her cousin Balthasar Charles, Prince of Asturias, heir to the Spanish throne. His death soon afterwards left her without a prospective husband and her widowed uncle Philip IV without a successor. The solution was a marriage between Philip and his niece on 7 October 1649 at Navalcarnero, outside Madrid.


Sigismund Francis, Archduke of Austria 27 November 1630 – 25 June 1665 ⚭ Hedwig of Sulzbach 15 April 1650 in Sulzbach; died: 23 November 1681

She was married on 3 June 1665 per cura in the court chapel of Sulzbach to Archduke Sigismund Francis of Austria-Tyrol (1630–1665), who after his brother's unexpected death had resigned from his ecclesiastical positions in order to marry. The marriage was never consummated: while travelling to meet his bride, the Archduke fell seriously ill and died in Innsbruck twelve days after the marriage.


Michał Wiśniowiecki бл. 1575 — початок 1616 ⚭ Regina Wiśniowiecka 1589-1619

In 1603, at the age of 14, Regina married Polish-Ruthenian magnate Michał Wiśniowiecki in the city of Suceava, Moldavia.


Jeremi Wiśniowiecki 1612 – 20 August 1651 ⚭ Gryzelda Konstancja Wiśniowiecka 27 April 1623 – 17 April 1672

Gryzelda married Prince Jeremi Michał Wiśniowiecki h. Korybut on 27 February 1639 in Zamość and had one son, Michał Korybut Wiśniowiecki, King of Poland.


III Generation

Michał Korybut Wiśniowiecki 31 May 1640 – 10 November 1673 ⚭ Eleonore of Austria, Queen of Poland 21 May 1653 – 17 December 1697

Eleonore married King-Grand Duke Michael Korybut Wiśniowiecki, king of Poland and grand duke of Lithuania, on 27 February 1670 in the Jasna Góra Monastery.


I'll be giving the minima, the lower quartiles, the medians, the higher quartiles and the maxima.

Died
Men
30 33 34 34 39 40 41 42 43 45 48 52 58 60 65 74 78
01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17
Women
17 24 26 30 31 32 32 39 40 41 42 42 44 44 46 48 55 55 56 60 61
01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21

Men, 30, 39, 43, 58, 78
Women, 17, 32, 42, 48, 61

Married first time
Men
18 18 21 21 22 22 26 26 26 26 28 29 34 40 42
01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15
Women
14 14 14 15 15 16 16 16 18 18 19 20 21 22 24 25 25 26 29 35
01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20

Men, 18, 21/22, 26, 28/29, 42; two out of fifteen age 18.
Women, 14, 15/16, 18/19, 24/25, 35; eight out of twenty below 18, further two out of twenty 18, so ten out of twenty 18 and younger, down to 14.


Yes, in the cultural background before John III Sobieski came to rescue Austria, teen marriages, especially on the female side, were a thing. And neither the King of Poland, Grand-Duke of Lithuania, nor Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor, were Muslims. Some may note that John III Sobieski was, in 1684, named Fidei Defensor, by Pope Innocent XI. Defender of the FAITH, not of the "faiths" ...

Hans Georg Lundahl
Paris
Feast of the Most Precious Blood
1.VII.2026

Festum pretiosissimi Sanguinis Domini nostri Jesu Christi.