A quotation from Gordon Hewart

Nothing is to be done which creates even a suspicion that there has been an improper interference with the course of justice.

Gordon Hewart (1870-1943) British politician and jurist; Lord Chief Justice of England (1922-1940)
Rex v Sussex Justices, ex parte McCarthy, [1924] 1 KB 256, [1923] EWHC KB 1, [1924] KB 256 (1923-11-09) [unanimous decision]

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A quotation from La Rochefoucauld

Some reproaches praise; some praises reproach.
 
[Il y a des reproches qui louent, et des louanges qui médisent.]

François VI, duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) French epigrammatist, memoirist, noble
Réflexions ou sentences et maximes morales [Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims], ¶148 (1665-1678) [tr. Bund/Friswell (1871)]

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A quotation from Joseph Addison

“Censure,” says a late ingenious author, “is the tax a man pays for being eminent.” It is a folly for an eminent man to think of escaping it, and a weakness to be affected with it. All the illustrious persons of antiquity, and indeed of every age in the world, have passed through this fiery persecution. There is no defense against reproach but obscurity; it is a kind of concomitant to greatness, as satires and invectives were an essential part of a Roman triumph.

Joseph Addison (1672-1719) English essayist, poet, statesman
Essay (1711-06-26), The Spectator, No. 101

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C'est pas pour nous vanter, mais le podcast de l'émission de mercredi (Pyongyang City Rockers #355) est disponible.
Interviou de dame Hélène à l'occasion de la sortie de son Perspective #9, programmation musicale en rapport (donc bagarre). Amusez-vous !
https://pyongyangcityrockers.wordpress.com/2024/09/18/평양-city-rockers-355-perspective-et-copinage-18-09-2024/

#Perspective #zine #hardcorepunk #hardcore #punk #Axxident #Cafard #InMyEyes #LesRemplaçants #NaatloSutila #Pisse #PlanetOnAChain #ProMess #Reproach

On est content, ce soir y a Hélène qui déboule avec le nouveau numéro de son zine Perspective, et pour aller avec, une programmation musicale bien bagarre comme elle sait faire.
Rendez-vous 20h. sur Campus Lille 106,6fm, ou alors en DAB+ (7C) si t'es vers Arras-Béthune-Lille, ou alors en streaming dans ton web grâce au www.campuslille.com !

Perspective City Rockers : https://pyongyangcityrockers.wordpress.com/

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Hier soir c'était le #327 de #PyongyangCityRockers, on recevait Hélène la dame qui fait le zine #hardcorepunk Perspective, de retour après 15 ans d'absence... discussion sympa et musique bagarre de nouveau !

Le podcast est là : https://pyongyangcityrockers.wordpress.com/2024/02/21/평양-city-rockers-327-perspective-21-02-2024/

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Taiwan tells Elon Musk it is ‘not for sale’ after latest China comments
Reproach comes as Taiwan says it has detected a large number of Chinese aircraft crossing into its air defence identification zone
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/sep/14/taiwan-elon-musk-china-comments-response-all-in-summit-los-angeles #taiwan #NFS #elonmusk #reproach

@lauren

How long until each news headline is followed by "This story brought to you by Alka-Seltzer" ?

#reproach #neutral #independent #objective

Wordle 592 5/6

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Millard has tried to heed his father’s #reproach

“You are weak, Millard. You are susceptible to the wiles of loose women and libation. You have no self-discipline,” his father had said in a searing lecture that May morning when he was summarily dispatched to Boston University to study economics.

“Make something of yourself,” his father had said. “Prove you are worthy.”

Millard could feel the heat on his face even after all these months.

#MastoPrompt #WIP #HiramFalls

Rapprochement

My god, and
Literally so
You’d think we
Were Catholic
The way you
Monastically intone
Project and hurl
The improperia
Like guided
Munitions
Sent to wound
Subdue and silence
You ever and
Always however
Beyond reproach
Immaculate perfect
Beautifully proper
I used this knowing
Both for and against you
That time you
Broke your hip
Came to live with me
Those half dozen months
In periodic throes
Of dementia I watched you
Suffer delirium tremens
Regain most of your mind
I cooked for
Cleaned up after
Ferried you to
Appointments
Guided you through
Various therapies
You’d get your back up
Willfully from time to time
I would need only remind you
How smart you were
How elegant and graceful
How accomplished
You’d shape shift
Right before our eyes
Recalcitrant to accommodating
Puffed up and swelling
Effrontery pointing outward
Ingested transmuted
Alchemically became
A magic potion
By all the gods
You were something

@tanweer dar
#MastoPrompt
Tuesday 17 January 2023
#reproach
#SmallPoems #Poetry #MicroFiction #SmallStories

@tanweerdar

In the shadows, the cold is remorseless and
Full of reproach. 'Go away,' it says, 'and
Find the sun on this crisp morning. Don't
Linger here in the dark. Go, and leave me
Alone.' I can't find the way out of this
Forest of melancholy, and don't want the
Light to find my eyes and blind me with
The defined and sharp contours of reality.
I sit on the snow by the icy tree, and close
My eyes and ears. No more...

#MastoPrompt #reproach #SmallPoems #Poetry #MicroFiction #SmallStories

@tanweerdar

On the bed, old man's morning stretches,
I close my eyes, and the years wind back,
All those empty days, and the board games
On top of the wardrobe. I reproach myself
For all the lost hours and afternoons I have closed
Myself away from my children to do
Nothing more than write my imaginations
On to lots of bits of paper.

#MastoPrompt #reproach #SmallPoems #Poetry #MicroFiction #SmallStories

For all the love we gave Donny
His absentmindedness regularly earned reproach

Donny lived in the world moment by moment
his innocence so easily overlooked

Despite the certainty of Walter
and the blitzkrieg of his invectives

Donny lived until he could live no more

#MastoPrompt #reproach #dudeism

motive shapes destiny

fear's intensity overwhelms
so we hate correction's shame
blinded to what care might
lurk beneath the sneering mask

yet we find ourselves delighted
when love's gentle reproach
affirms our worth
by correcting our path

#MastoPrompt #reproach

#Reproach
My haiku skills are
Beyond reproach, I tell ya’
Five, seven, five, right?

#MastoPrompt #Haiku #Smallpoems

Reproach - an Acrostic

Resentment boils deep
Endlessly replaying
Perhaps you could explain
Reason your way out of it
Only you could hurt me this way
And you did, relentlessly
Can I ever forgive you?
How can you expect me to?

#MastoPrompt #Reproach #Poetry

I hadn't spoken to him in 10 years, and I wasn't sorry that this was the case. He was a stubborn and obtuse man, who thought he was beyond reproach, never being reflective enough to realise that years of anguish would eventually take their toll on the people he was meant to love and care for.

We had an argument, but it wasn't just a little tiff. He couldn't see the years of hurt and anger that had been simmering beneath the surface. The pain inside me ran deep. But I had enough, and just because I had to endure this as a child and as a teenager, I was older and wiser now. I would protect myself and my family, no matter the cost.

I did not have to subject myself and my children to his hysterical outbursts. I did not have to deal with not knowing what would happen from day to day when the slightest thing would tip him into a fit of rage. I did not have to deal with his duplicitous and disingenuous behaviour, and watch my siblings be afraid. I deserved better than this, and I would never be subject to this again.

He left that day, and I was grateful.

#MastoPrompt #Reproach #shortstory

In the vein of slam poetry
#reproach #MastoPrompt @tanweerdar

Social media beyond reproach but I’m going to need a new coach. The dude who owns the other site is a cockroach. Fighting, biting, living in the darkness. Running away in the light always behind the scene but never in sight. Always wanting attention and trying to pick a fight. Looking forward to more humane engagement, not excrement. Time for a new approach. Time for a “re-proach”

You #reproach me. And I, like anyone else, am not beyond reproach. But hear me out, please! My behaviour and my actions were in self-defense, I swear. The cockroaches incessantly encroached into my personal space. And oh how they multiplied. What’s more is they were cock-sure of themselves, those roaches, they knew the power they had over me. They mocked me! So when they finally broke into my brain. I burnt it all down. YES I did it! But Sir's, they are still alive.

@tanweerdar #Mastoprompt