Mon. Misc.

"...trial by existence could cause us much of our pride."

--Harold Bloom

Txs comment by Bernadette last post! Her use of "trials and tribulations" (of racehorse owneship) reminded me of Harold Bloom's quote above from his late book, at age 71, "Genius", a compilation of Blooms top 100 literary geniuses in the Western Cannon. Shakespeare, Chaucer, Goethe and such. As usual with him, there's difficulty distinguishing Bloom's genius from those he writes about. Absolutely brilliant stuff and a surprise unless some of Bloom's several books are soon themselves considered cannon worthy. An all encompassing intelligence.

I'd say Bernadette summed up race horse ownership pretty well. Nice job of putting this into a few words! There's those that seemingly get lucky and then there's the rest of us. And, with the retirement of your last horse there's that liberation Bernadette noted. You'd actually have to own a horse and have made the effort to understand that one. I understood perfectly.

I am going to continue this blog for now. There are still plans. And also several relevant subjects stemming from retirement of my idiot animal who is quite happy causing havoc with his stallion behavior in his new digs in the 8th week post gelding.

In my liberation I seem to be posting less. There's an explanation for that one too.