{"id":9383,"date":"2010-07-19T18:35:48","date_gmt":"2010-07-19T22:35:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=9383"},"modified":"2010-07-19T18:35:48","modified_gmt":"2010-07-19T22:35:48","slug":"more-on-the-de-baptising-hair-driers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/more-on-the-de-baptising-hair-driers\/","title":{"rendered":"More on the de-baptising hair driers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"visibility: hidden; width: 0px; height: 0px;\" src=\"http:\/\/counters.gigya.com\/wildfire\/IMP\/CXNID=2000002.0NXC\/bT*xJmx*PTEyNzk1NzYwNTk2OTEmcHQ9MTI3OTU3NjA2MzQwMiZwPTEyNTg*MTEmZD1BQkNOZXdzX1NGUF9Mb2NrZV9FbWJlZCZn\/PTImbz*zMmUzNjNhN2M4YmU*ZjkzYWQ3MTNhODk4YTFkYWU3MCZvZj*w.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"0\" height=\"0\" \/><object id=\"ABCESNWID\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"344\" height=\"278\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"quality\" value=\"high\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"allowNetworking\" value=\"all\" \/><param name=\"flashvars\" value=\"configUrl=http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/video\/sfp\/embedPlayerConfig&amp;configId=406732&amp;clipId=11185937&amp;showId=11185937&amp;gig_lt=1279576059691&amp;gig_pt=1279576063402&amp;gig_g=2\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/assets\/player\/walt2.6\/flash\/SFP_Walt.swf\" \/><param name=\"name\" value=\"ABCESNWID\" \/><embed id=\"ABCESNWID\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"344\" height=\"278\" src=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/assets\/player\/walt2.6\/flash\/SFP_Walt.swf\" name=\"ABCESNWID\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" flashvars=\"configUrl=http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/video\/sfp\/embedPlayerConfig&amp;configId=406732&amp;clipId=11185937&amp;showId=11185937&amp;gig_lt=1279576059691&amp;gig_pt=1279576063402&amp;gig_g=2\" allownetworking=\"all\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" quality=\"high\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>For someone who enjoys mocking, Edwin Kagin manages to take himself and his overweening pretensions <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/28029857\/\">dreadfully seriously<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>William Blake summed up this kind of nonsense 200 years ago; although, unlike Edwin Kagin, his targets had a modicum of intellectual coherence:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Mock on, mock on, Voltaire, Rousseau:<br \/>\nMock on, mock on: \u2018tis all in vain!<br \/>\nYou throw the sand against the wind,<br \/>\nAnd the wind blows it back again.<\/p>\n<p>And every sand becomes a Gem,<br \/>\nReflected in the beam divine;<br \/>\nBlown back they blind the mocking Eye,<br \/>\nBut still in Israel\u2019s paths they shine.<\/p>\n<p>The Atoms of Democritus<br \/>\nAnd the Newton\u2019s Particles of Light<br \/>\nAre sands upon the Red Sea shore,<br \/>\nWhere Israel\u2019s tents do shine so bright.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For someone who enjoys mocking, Edwin Kagin manages to take himself and his overweening pretensions dreadfully seriously. 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