However, if what the viewer was looking at was an accurate reflection of Vermeer’s circumstances, what family would possess such luxurious items and in such short supply? A family in collapse and methodically selling or having their effects repossessed. Who of influence and means would want such a scene staring their guests in the face? The whole thing is a buzz kill. I mean, it’s one thing to have a show of middle class existence as long as the chins on the women are multiplied, the babies well fed and the assorted flora and fauna succulent and gleaming. But Woman in Blue Reading a Letter has all the celebratory feel of an unwed mother imprisoned in a convent and reading a summons that her unborn child will become a ward of the state and the fallen woman will be lucky to get the position of scullery maid.
I’m quite enjoying this series. Using ‘excellent’ as a subtle dig reminds me of The Lexicon of Intentionally Ambiguous Recommendations (L.I.A.R.). For example: http://www.ling.upenn.edu/~beatrice/humor/ambiguous-recommendations.html
Also, I’m guessing that between now and the original writing of this captivating tale you’re probably much more likely now to suspect that the Atlanta Olympics Bombing etc. was all a big hoax.
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Of course- I’m adding an addendum after the final chapter to review the changes in my own perceptions since 2011 even though the series posted here at POM is about 98% the original release-
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Regarding the Atlanta Olympics bombing, it’s interesting how little interest the authorities took in solving the case. As is apparently quite common they will ask anyone who was taking pictures or video to contact them, and then not bother to follow up on it. A local I know suspected at the time that it was done by the son of someone highly connected, since they weren’t making much of a real effort. I guess now we know why that was. There really was “nothing to see here.”
Only one person was allegedly killed, even though they counted a cameraman who allegedly had a heart attack while running to cover it. I thought at the time how extremely foolish it was to blow it up into such a big deal, which would seem to have the effect of inviting more of the same. Then of course, the laughable story that Eric Rudolph, a modern day Bonnie Prince Charlie, was behind it. He was a convenient catch all for several things. Well before I had any inkling of all this fakery, I figured Rudolph was a fictional character. But my suspicion was that the cops were using him as an excuse to look like they were competent. Oh, the bliss of ignorance!
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I spent a bit of time looking into this yesterday. Rudolph was also the fall guy for a few other bombings, including one of an abortion clinic. In that one, a nurse named Emily Lyons was allegedly severely injured by the blast. I looked into her story, and it sure seems legit. That is to say, the pictures seem to show genuine injury that more or less matches the description of what happened, as far as I can tell. Here is her website: http://www.emilylyons.com/webs/emily/
I’m not saying this lends more credence to the Atlanta bombings as something real. But if these injuries are real, then it leaves us with some interesting questions. For example, perhaps this bomb was real (planted not by Rudolph but by some intelligence agents) but not intended to harm anyone and she got caught in the crossfire by accident? Or deliberately? Or perhaps her injuries were from some other event at some other time and they placed her in this story? Or it was fake and I’m just not sharp enough to see it. If that’s the case, I can at least say that they sure faked injuries a lot better back in the 1990s…
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O’er glancing this Rudolph’s bio, he’s another McVeigh-like concoction tasked with actually pushing forward the abortion/gay agenda- So loathsome is he and his politics that everyone runs to the other side of the issue in sympathy for the victims- He’s no more a prisoner in Super Max than McVeigh was a victim of lethal injection-
As for injuries, it is very possible to just pay injured people to pose as victims for one fake event or another- Studying any video interviews of said victims might reveal whether they even know what they are supposed to be victims of- A good editor can make anyone look like a victim of “terrorists” when in fact they were in, say, a common car accident-
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