Shiloh Brings The Shroud
Posted on February 23, 2018 by Royal Rosamond Press
Last night I watched The Revolution on 60 Minutes. I have arrived. I am The Gideon Computer that captured Berkeley Bill Bolagard. But – William escaped! He emerged from the Labyrinth as William Stuttmeister, who saved his kin’s genetic material from being put in a ass grave, their tombstones used for gutters.
The third riches man in the world descends from…..
So when Fritz Hoffmann married Adele La Roche in 1895, the couple’s new last name became “Hoffman-La Roche.”
A year after getting married, Fritz founded a pharmaceutical and chemical company which he called, Hoffman-La Roche.”
La Roche is from Basel where allegedly the Rosamond family sprang – like a wolf. Rosemary Rosamond married Victor William Presco the great great grandson of Carl Janke The Founder of Belmont which means ‘Beautiful Mountain’. Belmont was captured by mayors and city council folks. Eric Reed overrode the Janke history, and installed his history. He worked for Genentech that sprang from Roche. The name La Roche is associated with the Rougemont Knight Templars who owned the Shroud of Turin, which upon DNA testing was conducted. Roche and Genentech are employing Artificial Intelligence. I heard about BARD. I’m gong to write Roche and ask them to put all information on healings Jesus performed, and see what AI comes up with. Could it be – real? If not, we have to move on. The planet is burning up.
John ‘Rougemont Knight Templar’
Obituary: Eric Reed, local boy who did well for himself and others
At M-A, Mr. Reed met Laura Tower, who he later married. After graduating in 1986, he enrolled at the University of California at Santa Cruz with plans to major in history, his mother said.
Four years later, he graduated with a bachelor’s degree in biology, whereupon he immediately signed on as a research associate with the South San Francisco biotech firm Genentech.
He never left, his mother said. He acquired a master’s degree in business administration in biotechnology from Santa Clara University in 1999 and his responsibilities at Genentech included management positions in molecular research.
https://www.cbsnews.com/video/revolution-sunday-on-60-minutes/
Roche, Genentech Commit up to $12B to Recursion for AI-Driven Drug Discovery
Oregon – The NFT State
Posted on February 3, 2022 by Royal Rosamond Press
When I become Governor of Oregon I will go to great lengths to make the Beaver State the Capital of NFTS.
In 1987 I came back to Oregon in order to get into The New Hope program at Serenity Lane in Eugene. I wanted to finish my two novels. Getting sober was very key. I completed my short story titled ‘Chameleon Art’ that had proven to be very prophetic (as is most of my writing) in that I invented Digital Art.
John Presco ‘Father of Digital Art and Literature’
Reading from ‘The Gideon Computer’
Posted on January 2, 2014 by Royal Rosamond Press
Here is John Gregory Presco reading from his novel ‘The Gideon Computer’. This is a time capsule for my grandson, Tyler Hunt, the son of Heather Hanson.
Copyright 2014
Prologue
Chapter One
Part Two
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In The 1990s, The Third-Richest Person On The Planet (Behind Gates And Buffett) Was… A Swiss Orchestra Conductor???
By Brian Warner on June 7, 2021 in Articles › Billionaire News
Let’s travel back to June 1995 and take a pop quiz. Who were the three richest people walking the planet in the middle 1995? I expect even the casual CelebrityNetWorth reader would be able to name the top person. With a net worth of $22 billion, the richest person on the planet in 1995 was Microsoft founder Bill Gates. I actually think a lot of people will correctly guess the #2 richest person in 1995. With a net worth of $16 billion, that title went to Warren Buffett.
But who was the third richest person the world in the middle of the 1990s?
Larry Ellison? Nope.
One of the Waltons? Nope.
One of the Koch brothers? Nope.
Some Saudi king or prince? Nope.
Would you believe me if I told you that the third richest person on the planet was a random Swiss orchestra conductor name Paul Sacher?
(Photo by Erich Auerbach/Getty Images)
Early Life
Paul Sacher was born on April 28, 1906 in Basel, Switzerland. He was the son of train station cargo worker.
Paul began studying violin at age 6. He paid for his education by giving violin lessons to kids. He studied music at the Basel Conservatory under world-renowned conductor, Felix Weingartner.
In 1926 – at just 20 years of age – Paul founded the Basel Chamber Orchestra. Within a few years the orchestra also featured a chamber choir.
In 1933, Paul founded a school called the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis, which he envisioned as an institute to study all kinds of classical music.
Hoffmann-La Roche
This detour will make sense in a moment…
When a Swiss couple married 100 years ago, it was common practice for the bride and groom to adopt a hybrid hyphenated last name. For example, if Joe Smith married Jane Doe, their post-marriage names would be “Joe Smith-Doe” and “Jane Smith-Doe.”
So when Fritz Hoffmann married Adele La Roche in 1895, the couple’s new last name became “Hoffman-La Roche.”
A year after getting married, Fritz founded a pharmaceutical and chemical company which he called, Hoffman-La Roche.
In its early years the company produced, packaged and sold various vitamins. Roche was actually the first company to synthesize vitamin C for mass marketing.
Today, Roche is the largest pharmaceutical company in the world, generating around $60 billion in revenue in 2020.
Have you heard of the American biotech company Genentech? Genentech is wholly owned by Roche.
The company is primarily known for its cancer and HIV treatment drugs but here’s a quick list of drugs developed and/or patented by Roche over the decades:
- Valium
- Lithium
- Tamiflu
- Rohypnol
- Boniva
- Accutane
Fritz Hoffman died on April 18, 1920. Upon his death, his son Emanuel inherited full ownership of the family business.
Maja Stehlin
One year after his father’s death, Emanuel Hoffman married a sculptor/art enthusiast named Maja Stehlin. Emanuel and Maja soon put together a collection of works from painters like Max Ernst, Pablo Picasso, Joan Miro and Paul Klee.
Emanuel and Maja had two children; Luc and Vera.
Tragically, Emanuel died in 1932 in a car accident at the age of 36.
Upon Emanuel’s death, Maja inherited full ownership of Roche.
And in 1934, Maja remarried a local musician named Paul Sacher.
Paul eventually adopted Maja’s two young children, Luc and Vera.
Paul Sacher – Unlikely Billionaire
With his newfound wealth, Paul took his passion for classical music to a whole new level. He paid for orchestras to travel the globe. He commissioned more than 80 new classical works and funded continual public performances at his Basel Chamber Orchestra.
Paul also launched the Paul Sacher Foundation which, among other actions, curated a library in Basel that included the world’s most important collection of musical manuscripts. Today the library houses manuscripts and letters from dozens of classical music’s most important composers.
When Paul wasn’t indulging his passion for classical music he was overseeing Hoffman-La Roche. He spent more than six decades as a board member, playing a crucial role in steering the company from a post-WW2 low point to global domination.
Maja died in 1989 at the age of 93. At that point Paul became the largest individual owner of Hoffman-La Roche. That is how Paul Sacher, humble violinist/orchestra conductor, became one of the wealthiest people on the planet.
Immediately after Maja’s death Paul was worth around $7 billion.
At the time Paul Sacher died on May 26, 1999 at the age of 93, he was worth $13 billion. He was the richest person in Europe. For all of the 1990s up to his death, Paul Sacher was the third-richest person in the world behind only Warren Buffett and Bill Gates.
Upon Paul’s death, a roughly 9% stake in Hoffman-La Roche was divided by his step-children. Today the fifth generation of Hoffman heirs, an estimated 15 people, control a roughly $40 billion fortune. They are one of the richest families in the world. Each year those 15 heirs split roughly $700 million in dividends alone 🙂
https://www.roche.com/stories/harnessing-the-power-of-ai/
Harnessing AI
Genentech and Roche are currently applying ML across disease areas and therapeutic modalities, with the goal of creating better models for drug discovery that are predictive, generative and interpretable. This trifecta of model characteristics could be used to predict whether a specific molecule can access a target; generate a molecule to bind to that target; and explain how the target and molecule interact with each other.
“For example, ML has become an invaluable tool to discover relationships from cellular profiling data at massive scale,” says Barbara Lueckel, Head of Research Technologies, Roche Pharma Partnering. “And we are also seeing exciting progress in using ML to predict protein structures, eventually bearing the promise for new drug design of complex molecules.”
For example, Genentech scientists in our AI/ML, infectious disease and computational chemistry departments are also using AI to discover new antibiotics. To eliminate bacterial pathogens, antibiotics must penetrate the outer layer (the membrane) of the target. But pathogens have developed ways to keep antibiotics out, and determining which antibiotics can penetrate the membrane can be a laborious process. So, Genentech scientists are using AI technology to examine the chemical structure of billions of potential antibiotics and determine which ones have the potential to bypass the pathogen’s membrane and eliminate it. Then they can synthesize those and test them in the lab.
F. Hoffmann-La Roche AG, commonly known as Roche, is a Swiss multinational healthcare company that operates worldwide under two divisions: Pharmaceuticals and Diagnostics. Its holding company, Roche Holding AG, has shares listed on the SIX Swiss Exchange. The company headquarters are located in Basel. Roche is the fifth-largest pharmaceutical company in the world by revenue[5] and the leading provider of cancer treatments globally.[6][7]
The company controls the American biotechnology company Genentech, which is a wholly owned affiliate, and the Japanese biotechnology company Chugai Pharmaceuticals, as well as the United States-based companies Ventana and Foundation Medicine. Roche’s revenues during fiscal year 2020, were 58.32 billion Swiss francs. Descendants of the founding Hoffmann and Oeri families own slightly over half of the bearer shares with voting rights (a pool of family shareholders 45%, and Maja Oeri a further 5% apart), with Swiss pharma firm Novartis owning a further third of its shares until 2021. Roche is one of the few companies increasing their dividend every year, for 2020 as the 34th consecutive year.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fritz_Hoffmann-La_Roche
Fritz Hoffmann-La Roche, later Fritz Hoffmann-von der Mühll (1868 – 1920), was a Swiss businessman who founded the pharmaceutical company F. Hoffmann-LaRoche & Co.
Early life[edit]
Fritz Hoffmann was born in Basel, Switzerland (French: Bâle) on 24 October 1868, the third child of Friedrich Hoffmann and Anna Elisabeth Merian.[2] His godparents were his maternal grandfather Johan Heinrich Merian von der Mühll; his uncle, the Mayor of Basel, Carl Felix Burckhardt von der Mühll; and Anna Von der Mühll.[3] His family were wealthy businesspeople from Basel’s social elite (“the Daig“),[4] and they provided both employment experience and investment at the beginning of his business career. In the 1870s and 80s he completed primary and high school in Basel and then completed an apprenticeship at a bank in the francophone part of Switzerland.[5] When he returned to Basel in 1889 he entered a second internship at a pharmaceutical company.[6] Between 1891 and 1892 he stayed in London, and between 1892 and 1893 in Hamburg to further his experience in chemistry-related business.[6] Upon his return to Basel his father became a shareholder of his former employer, who then gave Fritz a leading position in the business.[7]
On 2 May 1895, Hoffmann married Adèle La Roche (1876–1938). It was a common practice in Switzerland for married couples to hyphenate the name, so from this point he was often referred to as Fritz Hoffmann-La Roche.
https://www.celebratelife.roche.com/explore/moments/
https://www.geni.com/people/Ad%C3%A8le-Charlotte-La-Roche/6000000017503114039
The Swiss Presidential Guard
Posted on March 24, 2022 by Royal Rosamond Press
I found in this day The Swiss Templar Guard in order to protect this, and all future Presidents of the United States while they are in Europe supporting the causes of NATO.
The Rosamond family has been traced to the Rougmont family of Switzerland and members of the Rebleutenzuft Guild that is not connected to any armed militia, and is neutral. President Biden will have to present a case of Unity, and inform all American Citizens why it is vital were back Ukraine and support NATO. Some black citizens resent monies given to Ukraine, and believe this money should be used to help the poor in the U.S.
Unity will defeat the common enemy.
John Presco
Joe Biden had his hands full when he walked out the White House to start his four-day swing through Europe. Two cell phones were stacked together in one hand; a pair of his signature aviator sunglasses in the other. Over the thumping rotors of the waiting Marine One helicopter, a reporter asked Biden if he’s concerned about Russia using chemical weapons in Ukraine. “I think it’s a real threat,” Biden said, turning toward the spinning blades of the chopper and putting the glasses on.
Folgend einige Impressionen unserer Stube:
In an emotional address to the Swiss people on Saturday — which was livestreamed at a solidarity rally outside the Federal Palace in the capital, Bern — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky called for tougher sanctions on oligarchs and asked, “Why can’t we live like the Swiss?”
Why it matters: Switzerland is famously neutral, but not when it comes to the war in Ukraine.
Driving the news: Swiss President Ignazio Cassis spoke at the rally on Saturday, praising the Ukrainian people’s spirit of resistance but drawing a rebuke from the right-wing Swiss People’s Party (SVP), which provides two of the Swiss government’s seven ministers.
- “A demonstrating federal president is the last thing Switzerland needs,” the SVP said. One of the party’s leading figures has called for a referendum to ban sanctions to preserve Switzerland’s neutrality.
Yes, but: The Swiss population broadly supports the sanctions against Russia, and all three major newspapers published editorials over the weekend calling for additional steps, like ending Switzerland’s reliance on Russian gas.
- Unlike during the 2015 migrant crisis, solidarity with Ukrainian refugees is also high.
During his speech, Zelensky specifically called on Swiss multinational Nestlé, the world’s largest food company, to end its business in Russia.
- “We have stopped all imports and exports from Russia, except for vital products,” a spokesperson told Blick.
- He also called on Swiss banks to freeze oligarchs’ funds and for Switzerland to expel Russian President Vladimir Putin’s supporters.
Worth noting: The Swiss Federal Department of Police and Justice has responded to media reports that Putin’s “secret wife” and their children might be hiding out in a luxury chalet in the Alps, saying it has “no indication of the presence of this person in Switzerland.”
E.E. Zunft zu Rebleuten2 – Im Zeichen des Wolfs (rebleutenzunft.ch)
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The guild was founded in Basel between 1364 and 1366. It was integrated into the municipal guild system as a half or part guild with the gray cloths to form a “split guild” . In 1453, the council ordered the separation of the two half-guilds, with the Rebleute taking over the guild house “zur Glocke” on Freiestrasse that they had jointly acquired.
At that time, great importance was attached to viticulture in and outside of the city. In the Middle Ages, wine was one of the staple foods, like bread and meat. In the 15th and 16th centuries, the thriving city of Basel attracted many newcomers, including winegrowers from the neighboring vineyards and from eastern Switzerland.
Johann Rudolf Wettstein was accepted into the Rebleuten guild in 1610 together with his father, who had immigrated from the Zurich area at the time. In 1620 he became councilor to Rebleuten, in 1635 the council elected him chief guild master and ten years later mayor of the Freistand Basel. The culmination of his statesmanship was his posting to the Peace Congress in Münster and Osnabrück . The Swiss Confederation owes its independence from the German Reich to him. It was solemnly recognized by the great powers in the Westphalian peace treaty of 1648.
In the 17th century there was a lack of young people among the Rebleute. Representatives of other professions were accepted into the Rebleutenzuft: merchants, officers, scholars. In 1678 the last Rebmann was elected guild master. Without exception, his successors were members of the families involved in the municipal government. In 1798, the Confederation of States broke up in the wake of the French Revolution. The mayor and council transferred their functions and powers to the new National Assembly. This was the end of the political function of the Basel guilds. However, the compulsory guild was able to hold on for the time being. Anyone who wanted to practice a craft in Basel had to be a master craftsman and belong to the relevant guild. Only due to the revision of the Federal Constitutionunrestricted freedom of trade and commerce also achieved a breakthrough in Basel in 1874.
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In addition to the vine workers, the following professions are referred to the guild: upholsterers, merchants, shepherds, typographers. The guild of Rebleuten maintains the traditions handed down. It is a community of Basel citizens committed to improving the quality of life for the residents of the city of Basel. The guild is politically and denominationally neutral. However, it is clearly committed to the principles of a free, democratic society. She maintains the sociability among the guild members and the hospitality with professionally related guilds in the city, in the rest of Switzerland and in the region. She wants to support the members of the guild in social, economic or health emergencies, maintain contact with them and enable them to actively participate in the guild’s activities.
It promotes an awareness of responsibility for the city of Basel. If possible, she tries to contribute to the maintenance of the local language, the «Baseldytsch». It owns a historical guild treasure and uses its proceeds for the benefit of the guild and non-profit, charitable purposes. It gives education grants for sons and daughters of guild members, support payments to needy widows of guild members and burial funds for deaths in families of guild members.
Vogel Gryff 2020 im Live-Ticker – Telebasel
Zunftstube – E. E. ZUNFT ZU SCHUHMACHERN
Alex Wong/Getty ImagesU.S. President Joe Biden walks towards Marine One prior to a departure from the White House on March 23, 2022 in Washington, DC. President Biden is traveling to Europe to meet with NATO and EU leaders to discuss Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Every Dog Should Eat Fresh Food Not Burnt, Brown Balls.
The stakes are high for Biden’s trip. There are growing concerns inside the White House that Russia may escalate the war and cause massive civilian casualties in Kyiv or in the coastal city of Mariupol, which Russia has been shelling for weeks. The U.S. has pushed back against requests for North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) countries to enforce a no-fly zone in Ukraine over worries that such direct combat could escalate into a broader war. But experts warn that a Russian escalation inside Ukraine could change that calculus for Western allies.
In the meetings in Europe on March 24 and 25, Biden will discuss Moscow’s potential use of chemical or biological weapons in Ukraine, how countries should respond to possible Russian cyber attacks, and how to deal with recent Russian rhetoric on nuclear weapons. He’s attending an emergency summit at NATO headquarters in Belgium and meeting with leaders of G7 countries and the European Union. Before returning to the U.S., Biden will visit President Andrzej Duda in Warsaw, Poland, on the eastern edge of the NATO alliance. Poland, which shares a border with Ukraine and Russia’s ally Belarus, has borne the shockwaves of Russia’s month-long war, taking in 3 million refugees and becoming the main pathway of weapons moving through to bolster Ukrainian defenses.
On the trip, Biden will also be trying to get allies to make sure financial punishments they’ve already put in place continue to pinch the Russian economy. The sanctions on Russian industry and financial transactions won’t mean much if Russia finds ways around them. Biden wants to see European allies tasking investigators and prosecutors with robust sanctions enforcement actions. “What we would like to hear is that the resolve and unity we’ve seen for the past month will endure for as long as it takes,” Biden’s National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan told reporters on March 23 aboard Air Force One on the way to Belgium.
But while Biden has largely kept NATO allies unified in their response so far, this trip will test the group’s resolve. There are disagreements among the U.S. and its allies on the extent of the current sanctions against Russia and the next steps. Finding ways to reduce Europe’s dependence on Russian oil and gas has been the subject of “intense back and forth” over the past fews days, Sullivan said, and is another “substantial topic of conversation” for Biden on the trip.
Biden banned U.S. purchases of Russian oil and gas on March 8. Germany and other European countries that rely more heavily on Russian energy imports have largely kept Russian fuel flowing. The Biden White House thinks Europe can do more to wean itself off from Russian energy. The U.S. wants Germany, for example, to go further in cutting off Russian energy purchases. White House officials have considered closing the U.S. banking system to electronic transfers paying for Russian energy but won’t take that harsh step without agreement from allies whose domestic energy supply is reliant on Russian gas and oil.
Germany, for its part, is looking for ways that the U.S. and other allies could ease the impact on the German economy if there are further reductions in the purchase of Russian energy. The U.S. has surged delivery of liquified natural gas to Europe in recent weeks, but European leaders want more assistance for investing in alternatives to Russian supplies. European countries also want to share the expense and effort of resettling refugees fleeing Ukraine. More than 10 million people have fled Ukraine in the fighting, and Europe is looking to the U.S. and other allies for ways to share the cost and impact of such a rapid mass migration.
Looming over Biden’s meetings is the question of how far China will go to prop up Russian President Vladimir Putin’s war in Ukraine and how allies should respond. So far, the White House has not seen evidence of China providing weapons or ammunition to Russia to help with the invasion, Sullivan said. But there’s increasing concern that China could take financial steps to blunt the longer-term impact of sanctions on the economy in Russia, a close trading partner. Biden wants to talk to allies to ensure “there isn’t systematic sanctions busting,” Sullivan said. “I don’t want to use the microphone to threaten, I just want to say this is something we are vigilant about.”
Putin’s aggression on NATO’s doorstep in Ukraine has clarified the alliance’s mission to protect Europe from invasion. Now, Biden wants to see NATO allies follow through on their commitments to boost military spending and deployment of troops and equipment in Eastern Europe. Military commanders from NATO countries are looking at what size troop deployments are needed over the next several months to protect Europe’s borders with Russia.
Given that Poland’s border with Ukraine is being used to resupply weapons from European countries to Ukrainian forces, Poland is one NATO ally currently in Russia’s crosshairs. Biden’s visit to the country at the end of his trip carries powerful symbolic weight for reaffirming the U.S. commitment to NATO and to Poland, says Steven Durlauf, a professor at University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy. “They’re on the firing line; If Russia goes crazy and actually crosses a NATO border, it’s going to be theirs,” he says. Biden clasping hands with Poland’s president in Warsaw at this moment, “is largely symbolic,” Durlauf adds, “but this is the time when symbols carry weight.”
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The Wolfen Guild of Rosemondt
Posted on October 1, 2012 by Royal Rosamond Press
I have immortalized my family. Above are photos of the EE Zunft Rebleuten Guild of Basel whose emblem is a dancing wolf. Fremasonry has its roots in the guilds. Notice the cote of arms behind glass in top photo. William Morris said the sons of the House of Wolfen are best suited to tell the tale of their battle with the slave masters of Rome.
Jon Rosamond Wolferose
“Erhart de Rougemont who bought in 1495 “the house called Rebleuten-Zunft in Basle in the Freistrasse.’
Peter Rosemond had seen in print the letters from Erasmus to Gotschalk Rosemondt. He noticed that a seal used by a
Rosemont in Holland, bearing a jumping fox, was like an emblem he had noticed in a wall of the house Rebleuten-Zunft in Basle. This seal
dated back to 1430,
This James (or Jacob, for these names were once interchangeable) was the son of Hans Ulrich
Rosemond, born 1623, a weaver; who was a son of Hans, a weaver, born
1581; who was a son of Fred Rosemond, born 1552, a weaver, member of
town council and a local captain; who was the son of another Hans
whose date of birth is not known, but he too, was a weaver and became
a citizen of Basle in 1534. His father was Erhart de Rougemont who
bought in 1495 “the house called Rebleuten-Zunft in Basle in the
Freistrasse.’ Peter Rosemond further reported information from the
Records Office in Basle that “before Basle the family resided in
Holland up to 1338, and it is said they descended from the estate
Rosemont, near Belfort, in France, where also the village Rougemont
is found.” A family coat-of-arms was registered in Basle about 1537
when the first Hans became a resident there. A reproduction of this
coat-of-arms in the writer’s possession shows a weaver’s crook
conspicuously, and it will be remembered that in Ireland our people
were linen weavers and farmers, and that Edward, the elder, was a
weaver in this country. Peter Rosemond had seen in print the letters
from Erasmus to Gotschalk Rosemondt. He noticed that a seal used by a
Rosemont in Holland, bearing a jumping fox, was like an emblem he had
noticed in a wall of the house Rebleuten-Zunft in Basle. This seal
dated back to 1430, whereas the coat-of-arms above mentioned dates
from 1534, it seems. Peter Rosemond died September 22, 1930. This is
but a sketch of what he wrote.”
To Arms Ye Wolfens
Posted on February 28, 2020 by Royal Rosamond Press
I have failed to get the Mayor and City Council of Eugene and Springfield interested in the real connection between the Miller Brothers, the Pre-Raphaelites, William Morris, and J.R. Tolkien. This would be a boon for all of Lane County – and Oregon! I am not sure what the problem is, but, if I press The Mighty Proud & Ignorant’ they will try to hurt me, like the Kimites and Alleyites, who insist they own all the answers.
“No need to look anywhere else – buster! The days of your curiosity are over. so get back in your little cell, Old Man! Prophet – my ass!”
I think jealousy in involved, because this looks like Big Stuff, and, it is not being presented and exploited by Big People, thus the Wee Ones can own permission to get on board in a safe and puny way. I will pay a penalty for making them look – small! If I would just die, or, go away, then there tiny input will suffice. The feeding frenzy over Nothing, will go on. The ongoing homeless problem will define us. They are all powerless! Not I. I came up with a solution for one homeless person. I did my Civic Duty. Consider Gulliver’s Travels.
J.R. Tolkien was deeply influenced by William Morris’s The House of Wolfen. Morris was a Pre-Raphaelite and great friend of Dante Gabriel Rossetti whose last name is translated thus in French…..ROSAMONDE. I will be safely accused of self-grandizing by invoking this name that was popular amongst the Brotherhood. Rossetti painted a version of Fair Rosamond, and his friend, Swineburne wrote…..ROSAMUND QUEEN OF THE LOMBARDS.
I have been so busy running my little town newspaper, and being a real prophet out to thwart the Mad Man in The White House, that I have neglected the little essay Joaquin Miller wrote about his Dinner with Rossetti. I had not noticed the mention or the poem Evangeline written by Longfellow the friend of Nathaniel Hawthorne, who wrote about my ancestor, John Wilson, in The Scarlet Letter. This work, and the writing of Washington Irving inspired me to write ‘A Rose Among The Woodwose’ which is a continuation, a splicing, a Time Machine that takes up where Longfellow left off….the telling of the Great American Tale and Spirit…that the Mad Woodwose and Wood Master, Jaquin Miller took to England, at the suggestion of Ina Coolbrith, the head of the Oakland Library. Did she know Jack London?
Cease! I have written too much! The Candy-coated Consumer can only take so much. They want QUICK BITES of candy full of Stars. Many want Quick Jesus Candy from a Con Artist and Lunatic. They want A Hit and a Toke! They want to swallow The Ring, then, go for The Ten Minute Ringtone Crown.
Miller’s dinner with Rossetti preceded Tolkien’s discussions with his friend C.S. Lewis. This is my discovery that connects Lane County with Britain. This is an amazing cultural link that has to be ignored and rejected because it makes me powerful.
John Presco
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