Comments on: Remembering

By: Daryl Vernon

Daryl Vernon — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 22:53:23 +0000

whatever its source, it’s a bad one, poppies in our garden bear absolutely no resemblance to wheels, blades, fans, or you-know-what, they rather look drunken before they twist to opening in exquisiteness, a metaphor for creativity excluding an evocation of mechanism, stupid choice by the Legion

By: Camille Labchuk

Camille Labchuk — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 17:16:11 +0000

It’s from the Canadian Legion website.

By: Daryl Vernon

Daryl Vernon — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 17:10:10 +0000

an anecdote comes to mind: our neighbourhood has many elderly residents who lived through the most unspeakable of horrors that the swastika was a banner for, and when some next-door sweet Hindu neighours a few years ago acquired a new car, they decorated it prominently with their benign version of a swastika, but erased it when told of the possible offence taken at misperception in this neighbourhood, they really had not been aware of, or of the extent of, that at particular occidental imagic perversion

By: Daryl Vernon

Daryl Vernon — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 17:04:43 +0000

maybe choose a different poppy image, the one you have is strangely evocative of what many of those 100,000 must have thought they were fighting; although a deeper view of euro/amero-based wars ’til today does yield at root a conflation of ugly motives, so keeping the image is probably unintentionally ironic that way … but why be unwitting?