There is an Expression: "throwing money out of the window"

Do people actually do that at times?

This morning, I asked a neighbour who was sipping from a mug in her window if she could spare some coffee. She was drinking tea and didn't wait to hear if that was interesting. She decided to throw me one euro from the window, I said one fifty is what it costs, namely in most bakeries and bars around, and she ended up throwing me 1€30. I actually didn't use them there, but here at the Nanterre University Library, I used them in a coffee machine, 0.60 for a long coffee (American coffee, as opposed to espresso), 0.55 for a chocolate and I had some bread from yesterday in my bag, which I didn't know.

But why does the expression seem like a synonym of wastefulness?

Streets have gutters. Coins roll. Bills fly away in the wind if no one holds them.

Here is how to avoid that. A coin inside a plastic bag or an envelope can't roll. The plastic bag or envelope stops it from moving. If you ever need to throw down a bill to someone, do the same, and weight it with a coin so it doesn't blow away.

Now this is very far from saying I'd accept any kind of guardianship over my finances when it comes to receiving my heritage from mother.

The people who have pretended (yes there are some "sow Prussians" like that in Sweden) that, just because I'm still in the street have no idea what good I have been doing, to myself or others, no idea of what evils I have been avoiding, and also no idea what evils have been done to me to make my life more expensive than it need be. If lice mean you loose tissue every day, which they can mean after a long infestation and (imposed) delays in getting rid of them (people have disarranged showers and clothe washes and arranged recontamination), that means you need more food. This has led to gout over time.

Again, if you tried to print and sell my texts, you would definitely not be proverbially "throwing money out of the window" you would be first earning money for yourselves.

To some people it seems OK to deny someone a recompense for his work, just because someone could say of him "giving him money is throwing money out of the window" ... my sole and primordial task in being in the street hasn't been and will not be getting off the street as soon as possible at all with whatever arrangements in the "continuity of care" ideology. My priority has been and will remain staying sober (not meaning totally abstinent, there were uses for alcohol before the gout), and staying productive.

I have never been the hopeless man who had nothing to do and no prospects. I loose hope not over lack of prospects, but over prospect after prospect getting deliberately ruined and pushed aside by people whose false shame about my being in the street should be turned against themselves who have by this evil been keeping me in the street. I do want to get off the street as the "conspiracy peddling" (from their pov) writer I am, and not as someone "sobered up" from that as other ones have sobered up from actual drunkenness. People who want to dictate not just to themselves and each other, but to younger and freer people in their families and to other groups as far as they can influence them that my problem was some kind of drunkenness and my solution is now "documented" to not be my liberty, these people are my problem, these people are my enemies.

Hans Georg Lundahl
Nanterre UL
St. Bernard of Clairvaux
20.VIII.2026

In territorio Lingoniensi deposito sancti Bernardi primi Claraevallensis Abbatis, vita, doctrina et miraculis gloriosi, quem Pius Octavus Pontifex Maximus universalis Ecclesiae Doctorem declaravit, et confirmavit.

À Mme / Mlle Z, d'une assoc.

Il y a 21 ans, j'ai croisé la frontière entre Charleroi et Lille · Qui dit pas que la soupe est chaude, s'il se brûle la bouche, il est malhonnête (dicton "Yugoslave", pays qui n'existe plus) · À Mme / Mlle Z, d'une assoc. · Quelques trucs aujourd'hui · Le Muss qui m'aggressait aurait pu être simplement instable

Je suis surtout essayiste. Et dialogueur (en écrit), j'écrit et je me débat sur des sujets.

Par contre, il m'est arrivé aussi de faire un peu de poësie ou des nouvelles aussi :

Poësie et chanson | Poesis et cantus | Poetry and song
http://enfrancaissurantimodernism.blogspot.com/search/label/poesis%20et%20cantus

En lengua romance en Antimodernism y de mis caminaciones : Story-telling - Racontars
http://enfrancaissurantimodernism.blogspot.com/2011/12/story-telling-racontars.html

Et de composer un peu de musique instrumentale :

musicalia : index générale, general index
http://hglundahlsmusik.blogspot.com/2009/08/general-index.html

Pour les droits de ce qui relève de moi, d'abord en écrit :

Conditions, comment les imprimer/how to print them
http://nov9blogg9.blogspot.com/p/conditions-comment-les-imprimerhow-to.html

Ce genre de mention (ne coïncide pas avec une des variantes de creative commons déjà existantes) prend la place de "Copyright, tous les droits réservés" ...

Ensuite en compositions :

What's the deal? C'est quoi ce truc?
http://hglundahlsmusik.blogspot.com/2008/11/whats-deal-cest-quoi-ce-truc.html

(SACEM m'a refusé d'aider d'enrégistrer des compositions pas encore jouées, j'ai dû faire mon propre truc : ce qui est écrit en bas du blog a été d'abord été avalisé par une agente de SACEM à Marseilles :

Conditions d'utilisation
Compositeur, je mets à la disposition des solistes mes œuvres classiques, baroques ou galantes, qui se trouvent ici.

Elles sont libres des droits patrimoniaux, néanmoins, celui qui le souhaite peut verser une participation sur le compte, qui se trouve sur Donativo. On peut également me contacter par le my guestbook, ou par des commentaires sur ce blog.

Au plaisir de vous rencontrer !

Hans Lundahl

mais je pense que j'ai été trompé sur la signification juridique de "libres des droits patrimoniaux", d'où la clarification auquel je donne le lien. Mon but, comme souligné par "néanmoins etc." a été de clarifier que d'abord je ne donne pas de droit monopolistes à quelqu'un et ensuite, vu que SACEM a des conditions d'adhésion qui me sont inaccessibles, que je confie la rémunération à la bonne volonté des instrumentalistes qui font usage de mes compositions.

J'espère que What's the deal? C'est quoi ce truc? suffise pour clarifier ça.)

Pour mes projets de romans : Chronicle of Susan Pevensie et Conversations in a Scottish Krak sont, les deux, incomplets. En plus, pour Chronicle of Susan Pevensie, il s'agit d'une œuvre dérivée, et si les droits de Chesterton sur Père Brown sont déjà hors jeu, il y a toujours les droit des héritiers de C. S. Lewis et d'Enid Blyton, et mon conseil là-dessus est Copyright issues on blogposts with shared copyright. Aussi valable pour mes dialogues. En gros, je ne vais pas vous faire le procès si vous appliquez mes conditions là-dessus, mais pour Susan Pevensie, les héritiers de CSL et d'EB pourraient le faire, et pour mes dialogues, par example Matthew Hunt ou James Bogle pourraient le faire.

Ceci n'est pas le cas sur mes essais, genre New blog on the kid: Is there a Fifth Corner? · Creation vs. Evolution:How Much Tectonic Movement Was There in the Flood? ou Certains lisent la Bible en anglais, même sans être anglophones ou Se souvenir est une art · Pour mes tables de carbone 14 .... Ça relève de mes droits, voir simplement Conditions, comment les imprimer/how to print them.

Hans Georg Lundahl
Paris
Premier Vendredi de la Novène de Pentecôte
15.V.2026

PS, ajouté à Nanterre. J'ai corrigé le titre, et pour préciser ce que je pensais avec "libres des droits patrimoniaux" : a) ce n'est pas libre de droits tout court, juste des droits patrimoniaux, dans le sens précis que si Amandine Beyer joue une telle à Paris Bercy Arena et ne me paie rien, elle n'aura pas SACEM au dos ; b) ce n'est pas sans espoir raisonnable de bienfait patrimonial, juste des droits juridiques patrimoniaux, dans le sens que si elle ne me payait rien, elle aurait peut-être honte. Item, si Lang Lang jouait une composition des miens au Metropolitan Opera, il aurait honte de ne me payer rien. Et si pourtant ils le feraient, ils ne pourraient de toute manière pas bloquer d'autres de jouer mes morceaux qui me payeraient. Pour les écrits argumentatifs, item, et là pas juste pour l'argent, mais aussi pour le contexte. Si un psychiatre imprime un essai avec une psychoanalyse dégradante, un autre pourrait imprimer l'essai avec son contexte logique dans mes autres essais. Ce que j'ai à craindre ne vient pas de mon insouciance, mais du non-respect de mes dispositifs, d'une volonté abusive de me bloquer pour me "protéger."/HGL

Il y a des gens qui peuvent faire leur métier sans l'internet

Des gens pour qui, sans doute, l'accès à l'internet est proportionnelle à une surveillance qui n'est que contreproductive pour eux.

Un écrivain sur internet a une autre situation.

Se rendre invisible pour un écrivain, c'est l'équivalent pour une boulangerie de ne pas ouvrir les portes.

On ne mange pas du pain qui est enfermée dans une boulangerie fermée.

On ne lit pas les textes d'un écrivain qui se rend invisible ou qui rend ses écrits inaccessibles.

Il y a des bons conseils qui ne le sont pas.

J'ai marre des gens dont l'intérêt est de me rendre invisible pour que leur point de vue soit entendue et la mienne non./HGL

With the Vast Majority of Views in Commie Vietnam, I Wonder Why a Canadian is Bent on Keeping Me Back

Assorted retorts from yahoo boards and elsewhere: Influencers are not clergy, scandals aren't reasons to change longstanding discipline · New blog on the kid: With the Vast Majority of Views in Commie Vietnam, I Wonder Why a Canadian is Bent on Keeping Me Back

In case it isn't clear, Brian Holdsworth is Canadian.

How to Spot Unfit Christian Influencers
Brian Holdsworth | 6 Febr. 2026
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fe1SMmCO90

STILL nope and no again!

Influencer is still not bishop and a bad influencer, having no responsibility for the spiritual life of the audience is not doing actual damage, unless their legitimate pastors are allowing it.

I don't know anyone who lost the faith over Voice of Reason, and I don't think there will be anyone either.

Plus with this kind of thing, stating "so and so isn't living his faith very well" can become a way of silencing someone for other reasons.

[I tried to add the below, down to second quote, and the above was already gone.]

Uh 1:58 Mike Winger, who is a Protestant 2:00 apologist with a prominent YouTube 2:02 channel, seems to almost be converting 2:04 his channel into investigative 2:06 journalism dedicated to exposing moral 2:09 corruption that he is aware of in 2:11 evangelical Christianity. And already he 2:14 has a lot of pretty upsetting stories to 2:17 tell.

Sounds a bit like what would interest Calvinists.

1) There is no formal spiritual direction, except a collective one.
2) There is no sacrificial clergy.

MEANING

Every pastor among them is first and foremost an influencer, like a Rabbi or an Imam.

This in turn means, influencers are seen as pastor wannabes, and obviously scrutinised accordingly.

PROBABLY

at some point, someone told someone who then told someone, there is compromat on me from my past, and if I'm accepted as an influencer, it will come forward.

"And that will damage the faith"

No, I don't think it will, and I don't think the amount of compromat is quite what some think it is.

I'M GETTING PRETTY TIRED (and sick too) of being told while not being told why a prolific an intellectual apologist in my case has absolutely to be kept back.

I'm being told it by suggestion. But I'm also not being told it, because you are not specifically mentioning me.

AND it is not as if I just imagined being held back, it's 14 700 + posts, over six millions of views*, very few changes of mind, a pretty solid word count per day, and I am not being answered, not being promoted, but also not explicitly countered.

The non-explicit countering involved in not answering me (while by suggestion still answering me in private) is pretty close to what Pope St. Pius X described as a "conspiracy of silence".

*[The viewers from mainly Nam last week, see Trois semaines. The week to 21.I.2026 has 31,01 k overall, but 7,55 k from Nam. The week to 28.I.2026 has 41,19 k overall, but 8,3 k from Nam, which was actually second country, after Singapore, 20,81 k that week. AND the week to 4.II.2026 has a total of 36,09 k, but of these 21,79 k are from Nam.]

"I've often felt 0:40 dismayed by the culture of celebrity 0:42 that gets attached to evangelistic work 0:45 and and all the trappings that come 0:47 along with it, which, let's be honest 0:50 here, they're utterly incompatible with 0:52 apostolic work,"

Oh, yeah?

Venerable Fulton Sheen? So much of a celebrity that the Dracula cape in Tomb of Dracula is arguably based on how he wore a cape once upon a time.

And good friends with precisely another celebrity, Billy Graham.

You are arguably calling one of the two following celebrities, also good friends with each other, a Pope and a Saint: Wojtyla and Dalai Lama (yes, Tenzin Gyatso is still wearing that title).

Incompatible would mean Fulton Sheen and Karol Wojtyla were doing Evangelism wrong. I'd agree about Wojtyla, but for a very different reason or set of reasons. But probably you'd neither agree about Wojtyla nor Sheen, meaning your sentence is in contradiction with your positions otherwise.

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More content in this format, link to video and comments, sometimes on side issues, on the blogs: Assorted retorts from yahoo boards and elsewhere (ENG) Wherein the label Brian Holdsworth Répliques Assorties (FR) Antworten nach Sorte (DE)

En 2023, je discutais la définition d'un apologète avec un Al Lundy

What's an Apologist?

Il était parfaitement d'accord avec moi que, pour être apologète, on ne dépend pas d'une nomination de l'Église (comme clergé ou sacristain ou catéchiste), et on n'a aucun besoin d'un mode de vie spécifique (clergé ou vie consacrée), un laïc sans être nominé par l'Église peut bien être un Apologète.

Ceci étant le cas, ce même Al Lundy n'a pas à prétendre de dénoncer quelqu'un comme une fraude pour s'appeler apologète catholique.

Ou, plus précisément. Nous ne sommes pas d'une même foi, nous ne sommes pas d'une même église, même si les deux on prétend appartenir à la même Église que St. Pie X et Fulcran Vigouroux en 1909. On a les deux le droit de nous dénoncer mutuellement comme non-catholiques. Et s'il se présente comme diacre, j'ai le droit de dénoncer les ordinations Novus Ordo comme d'une validité au mieux douteuse.

Mais je n'ai pas le droit de prétendre qu'il n'ait pas la position de Diacre dans sa paroisse, ou qu'il soit en réalité un voleur. Et lui de son côté n'a pas non plus le droit de me dénoncer comme fraude si je me qualifie d'apologète catholique. Apologète n'est pas plus une marque déposée que philosophe ou écrivain (il ne s'agit pas de l'office clérical de l'Ancien Testament, simplement d'un métier exercé par journalistes, romanciers, et en mon cas par des essayistes, à mes heures poëtes).

Si la paroisse du quartier où je me trouve voudra prétendre que je ne suis pas Catholique, parce que Tradis, ce ne sont pas Catholiques, parfait, c'est leur droit.

Ce qui n'est pas leur droit est de me taxer de fraude ou d'incompétent en tant qu'Apologète parce que j'ai une autre connotation pour l'Église catholique ou pour la Foi catholique que la leur. Et s'ils voudraient me "corriger" par Al Lundy, plutôt que de me reconnaître apologète (d'un autre catholicisme que le leur, j'imagine), alors c'est une forme de fraude*. Ce serait fraudulent de leur part de prétendre tactiquement que je ne le serais pas, parce que l'Église ne m'ait pas nominé tel, et ce serait fraudulent de leur part de prétendre que je sois un ignare qui n'avait pas compris les systèmes théologiques d'un A L ... au contraire, c'est parce que je les comprend que je ne crois pas que la hiérarchie qui les permet et qui les privilégie devant la théologie classique, ce pour cette raison que je considère que cette hiérarchie n'est pas catholique.

Mon interaction avec le youtuber A L se trouve sur God's Truth is Brighter than a False Choice of Compromise, en dialogue.

Je suis donc un homologue de Matthieu Lavagna, pas en la loyauté vis-à-vis la même hiérarchie, mais dans la fonction, qui, comme dit, ne dépend pas d'une nomination quelleconque par l'église. Et si je n'ai pas trouvé sa théologie tellement fade que celle d'A L (encore, mais ça pourrait être parce que je n'ai pas encore entendu Lavagna sur le sujet), je pense qu'il a des lacunes dues au fait de se trouver dans la même communauté ecclésiastique que lui, obéir aux mêmes (pseudo-)hiérarques.

Hans Georg Lundahl
Paris
St. Jean
27.XII.2025

Apud Ephesum natalis sancti Joannis, Apostoli et Evangelistae, qui, post Evangelii scriptionem, post exsilii relegationem et Apocalypsim divinam, usque ad Trajani Principis tempora perseverans, totius Asiae fundavit rexitque Ecclesias, ac tandem, confectus senio, sexagesimo octavo post passionem Domini anno mortuus est, et juxta eamdem urbem sepultus.

PS, l'homme qui me demanda aujourd'hui "vous allez bien" (le lendemain de cette publication), s'il imaginait que ceci parlait dans l'autre sens, il n'est pas mon ami./HGL

PPS, A L a nié être Al Lundy./HGL

* En plus d'être une indélicatesse.

This Date 2019

1) Refuting Gene Kim on Slow Apostasy and Perhaps More
https://assortedretorts.blogspot.com/2019/09/refuting-gene-kim-on-slow-apostasy-and.html

2) Benno Zuiddam's View of Catholicism and Creationism
https://creavsevolu.blogspot.com/2019/09/benno-zuiddams-view-of-catholicism-and.html

3) Un propos à propos l'âge nubile et le Moyen Âge
https://nov9blogg9.blogspot.com/2019/09/un-propos-propos-lage-nubile-et-le.html

4) Humanists UK vs History, I'd Say
https://filolohika.blogspot.com/2019/09/humanists-uk-vs-history-id-say.html

Metatron is responding to Destiny after the latter responded to one by Metatron, where Metatron had taken up one by Destiny from 2019.

Apparently, the one by Destiny to which the last one of Metatron is, he complained that Metatron had taken up one from as long ago as 2019.

Destiny's basically presuming everyone, including himself, changes opinions very much in six years and is no longer responsible for what he said 6 years ago. I disagree. If I have not explicitly revoked sth I stated six or twelve or eighteen years ago, or earlier than that, you can presume I still hold to it.

In other words, I hold myself to a higher standard than Destiny holds himself to. Want to refute any of above? Be my guest and try. But before you just assume I may have changed my mind, here are more recent posts agreeing with each of above. That's why I numbered them, numbers match:

1) Newman's Famous, Famous Essay, a Weak Spot in the Catholic Armour? (First Half of Video)
Sunday, September 14, 2025
https://assortedretorts.blogspot.com/2025/09/newmans-famous-famous-essay-weak-spot.html

No, as I said to Gene Kim, a universal Church adding change after change until it adds up to apostasy can't happen, if Christ founded it, and that means a visible one.

2) Sündfluth oder Gletscher Revindicated?
jeudi 4 septembre 2025
https://creavsevolu.blogspot.com/2025/09/sundfluth-oder-gletscher-revindicated.html

Yes, Catholicism historically really is Young Earth Creationist. While 7DA once were the only YEC in American Protestantism, many Catholics and Catholic writers were YEC since forever.

3) In Some Jurisdictions, Having Sex with a Girl Age 14 is a Crime
Wednesday, 17 September 2025
https://nov9blogg9.blogspot.com/2025/09/in-some-jurisdictions-having-sex-with.html

Yes, the 14—12 rule for consent and marriage was correct. No, this doesn't mean a consenting virgin can be first culled and then jilted without this being a crime.

4) Non, dans la controverse de Valladolid, on n'a pas décidé que les Noirs n'avaient pas d'âme
Monday, 18 August 2025
https://nov9blogg9.blogspot.com/2025/08/non-dans-la-controverse-de-valladolid.html

Yes, we do in fact owe civilisation to Catholic believers who would today be classed as Fundamentalists, and not to Freethinkers, over most centuries.

The changes freethinkers have made as of recent centuries are often enough not to my taste.
/Hans Georg Lundahl

To Whoever Tries to Tell Me I Write "Wrong" (Not Meaning I Am Wrong About a Subject, Which Would be a Matter for a Debate)

Assorted retorts from yahoo boards and elsewhere: Replying to advice from Cameron Riecker · Mentor / Mentoree Dynamics Changing with Age Pyramid · New blog on the kid: Is There Traditional Property in the Digital Sphere? · To Whoever Tries to Tell Me I Write "Wrong" (Not Meaning I Am Wrong About a Subject, Which Would be a Matter for a Debate)

What No One Tells You About Writing as an Author Over 40
Best Serving Author | 31 Oct. 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1T9JdNgBZe8

A question, Sir.

Does Young Earth Creationism add value to your life?

If it does, I think you should care. Whether you believe it's correct, are curiously on the fence or passionately opposed, but not into the marginalising tactics.

If it doesn't, you are not the kind of person (I don't mean "mental type" or "genomic type", I mean social type) whom I'm writing for, and so you are not in a position to tell me whether my writing will or won't add something to someone's life.

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Oh, I'm solving more than one problem in Young Earth Creationism ...

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I'm Politely Begging You to Write Nonfiction
Writing with Andrew | 21 July 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIP_hLaLnLo

It seems you have a tendency to limit essay writing to personal (real life) experience.

I HAVE heard a story, which I have never verified either by history or topography, otherwise known as being on the spot, to the effect that the French Academy accepted the accident of the absence of Molière from its records with a magnificent gesture. It may have been only a tradition about something that somebody planned to do; it may even have been only a tale of somebody about what ought to be done; but it is exactly the sort of tradition that would represent the nation; and it is exactly the sort of thing that Frenchmen would or could have done. The French Academy, founded by Richelieu for the establishment of classical literature in the country, naturally passed over a wandering play-actor and playwright like Molière; just as Oxford and Cambridge would have passed over a wandering play-actor and playwright like Shakespeare. But here the story, even if it is only a story, strikes the note that only the French can strike. For it was said that the French Academy erected in its inner courts a special statue of Molière, with the inscription “Rien ne manque à sa gloire; il manque à la notre” ... and if you want to know what is the difference between the atmosphere of France and England, both of them very jolly atmospheres in their way, you have only to imagine anybody making, or even anybody suggesting, a public apology of that sort to Shakespeare. Can you imagine a huge statue of Shakespeare in Balliol Quad, inscribed with the statement, “Shakespeare never went to Balliol.” Can you conceive even Cambridge rearing a colossal monument to Dickens, to celebrate the fact that he never had a University education — or indeed any other education? If that story about Molière is true, or even if it is a true parable or fable, there is an obvious moral to the fable. The English rather ignore defeats; the French rather exaggerate defeats; but the French do sometimes have the talent of snatching victories out of defeats.

I HOPE it is not a secret arrogance to say that I do not think I am exceptionally arrogant; or if I were, my religion would prevent me from being proud of my pride. Nevertheless, for those of such a philosophy, there is a very terrible temptation to intellectual pride, in the welter of wordy and worthless philosophies that surround us to-day. Yet there are not many things that move me to anything like a personal contempt. I do not feel any contempt for an atheist, who is often a man oflimited and constrained by his own logic to a very sad simplification. I do not feel any contempt for a Bolshevist, who is a man driven to the same-negative simplification by a revolt against very positive wrongs. But there is one type of person for whom I feel what I can only call contempt. And that is the popular propagandist of what he or she absurdly describes as Birth-Control.

LAST year, the representative of all that remains of the Holy Roman Empire was murdered by the barbarians. As an atrocity it has been adequately denounced; and it breeds in some of us rather a dumb sort of disgust, almost as if it had been done not by barbarians but by beasts. Perhaps the only further fact to be noted, on that side, is the fact that this is the only kind of effort in which these clumsy people are not merely clumsy. The Nordic man of the Nazi type in Germany is a very slow thinker, and incredibly backward and behind the times in science and philosophy. That is why, for instance, he clings to the word “Aryan,” as if he were his own great-grandfather laboriously poring over the first pages of Max Muller, under the concentrated stare of the astounded ethnologists of later days. He is slow in a great many things; as, for instance, in releasing prisoners who are admittedly innocent; or in answering questions put by foreign critics or Catholic bishops. We have good reason to know that he is slow in paying his debts; to the point of ceasing to pay them. He is very slow in bringing about the Utopia that he promised to the German people; the complete financial stability and the total disappearance of unemployment. He is slow in a thousand things, from the length of his meals to the lengthiness of his metaphysics. But in one thing he is not slow but almost slick. He is swift to shed innocent blood; he really has a certain technique in the matter of murdering other people; and the prospect of this sport alone can move him to an animation that is almost human. Hitler really killed quite a creditable number of people for one week-end holiday; and the assassination of Dollfuss did show some touch of that efficiency, which the Nazis once promised to display in other fields of activity

These incipits are from three essays within The Well and the Shallows, an essay collection by Gilbert Keith Chesterton.

He is NOT speaking about his personal experience, or only tangentially, like in introducing the subject (I have heard a story).

Grazie, Metatron!

@metatronyt
Go Get A REAL JOB 🙄🤬🤓#metatron #youtuber #haters
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/hJFexpOuARU

Il aurait dû se lancer dans le streaming directement, pas mettre de l'argent à côté par un autre travail qu'il ne maîtrisait pas

Grand amateur de jeux vidéo, le jeune voulait se lancer dans le streaming. Pour ce faire, il travaillait comme brouetteur dans une entreprise pour mettre de l'argent de côté.

"On ne dort plus" : la douleur de la mère de Matis, le jeune ouvrier mort enseveli sous du goudron brûlant
Sylvain Allemand | ven. 18 juillet 2025 à 3:21 PM UTC+2
https://fr.yahoo.com/news/ne-dort-douleur-m%C3%A8re-matis-132106170.html

Il y a des gens qui me conseillent de prendre un autre travail d'abord .../HGL

PS, citons un peu plus:

Selon le média local Ici Loire Océan, l'homme de 19 ans travaillait sur le chantier de réfection d'une route d'un lotissement lorsqu'un camion, plein de bitume chaud à 200°C, ne l'a pas vu et l'a enseveli.

On aimerait savoir que le camionneur n'était pas en quelque querelle avec Matis. Ou quelque désaccord profond. Les deux étaient Catholiques ? Ou les deux sécularistes ?/HGL

"You Will Never Climb Alone"

Posted on a certain door of a certain facility with a stick-it.

It was kind of foreseeable I might use that toilet.

And it is not the first time that I get the impression that things add up around me as answers to me, while not mentioning me and not purporting to have anything to do with anyone in particular.

Getting an income as a writer is per se not what one would call climbing. One might consider it climbing compared to being homeless, sure, but it is not the usual definition of climbing.

Suppose I wanted to be a trader. I would need to make a good impression on very many people, I'd need to get the trust and sympathy of lots of people, I'd need to depend on lots of inside information, and therefore have a wide network. But, in fact I don't want to be a trader. And similarily, I don't try to be a spy. I don't hope to tower into power. I'm not into the kind of things that need networking.

I also don't try to live the kind of life that a certain GM did when a certain VS was among the ones he had in some sense groomed. French people may know what I am talking about. If I came into some kind of affectionate relation with an underage girl, I'd probably try to wait till she was of age. In fact, that is part of what may have been happened, except it begins not to add up, since if that had been the problem she should now actually already be of age (she didn't state she was underage, it was my guess at the time). So, I wonder why I'm basically ghosted, if she simply thinks me totally unattractive, she could just say so ...

I got shocked that there came to be such a hullabaloo about Alex Jurado, not over a girl who is 14 now, which I could understand as having some kind of legal ramifications, in many states they would probably not be able to marry, but over a girl who was 14 seven years ago, and so is of age now, even on the US 21 years limit. He denied it happened, not saying he is lying, but if he is, the right and perfectly sufficient thing to do would be to go and marry her, unless she was meanwhile with someone else or was meanwhile in a non-Catholic religion.* Or a nun.

If Catholicism in the US is so Puritanic as to find someone unacceptable as an Apologist for something that happened seven years ago and apparently didn't lead to anything beyond sexting if that's not a fabrication, then getting along in US Catholicism might need more networking than I thought. It's not as if he were Abbé Pierre. If it had happened now, as I thought yesterday and beginning of today, I might simply have advised them to go to a state where she could marry at age 14. I think this is way more important than state run support for exposed mothers to be seamlessly pro-life. The legislations from the Progressive Era are putting 14 year old unwed mothers in harm's way.

But I happen to not be in the US. I also happen to be in the country where Abbé Pierre was active. I also happen to be not exclusive on Apologetics.

Now, Abbé Pierre for some time was an abuser, but his foundation found out, and from that point on, they put pretty drastic security measures into place to make sure it didn't happen again. They may have heard a rumour of someone assessing me as a pedophile (some Swedes** would do that for my words about marriage of 14 year old girls), have identified the Apologetics part of my writings wrongly as an attempt to make my living as a kind of religious figure (I'm in fact a layman and hope to marry), and put some of those security measures into place about me.

That would be abusive. If I were the victim of such a network, I might need a whole network to break free from it.

But I'm going to talk about breaking free from networks now. Other than that of Abbé Pierre. And apart from breaking free from that one, if needed.

I have stated more than once that I'm a writer. That does not mean "I want to be a writer later on, when I have learned" it means some things are already being read and are on my view perfectly fit for print. (Obviously not on the view of certain US Catholics). It also doesn't mean I want to be any kind of writer that a network might decide on. Where I come from, writing is not foremost done on the orders of a network and also not to suit a network. A writer who did that would on my view be like a pub that served the beer of only one big brewery (I think such tying of pubs is illegal now, unless a pub is directly owned by the Guiness factory, it cannot be contracted to serve only Guiness, good as that beer is, it can however be obliged to serve Guiness according to Guines standards). You walk in, you hope to find any beer that the good taste of the pub owner may have inspired him to acquire, and you are shocked to find he cannot serve Kilkenny because he has a contract to Guiness. You maybe find Kilkenny preferable to Guiness. You may find Michele Guiness is wrong about Palestinians of Gaza (her bias would be understandable, if not correct). And yet you cannot get your Kilkenny, it's either Guiness or water or remain thirsty. That's a tied pub, and they don't exist any more. I don't want to be a tied writer any more than some pub owners want to be tied pubs. Or if, then to a local brewery (again very natural if the brewery and the pub have the same owner).

So, I don't want to be tied to novel writing alone, just because a network thinks my essays are worthy to be reused in certain facilities. In novel writing, if I take it up again, I don't want to be tied to the Isaac Asimov style, just because a network prefers that to Tolkien and C. S. Lewis, authors that still mean a lot and meant even a lot more when I grew up, to me. In music composition I don't want to be tied to an obligation to be able to play what I write, because a network thinks a composer who can't do that is a fraud, and I also don't want to be tied to the Schönberg style (which may have provoked the prejudice just alluded to ... a pianist who writes for piano in the Schönberg style at least is supposed to have tried whatever he wrote on his own ears, I tend to prefer well explored harmonies over those of Schönberg, not to mention Stravinsky or Alban Berg***).

Similarily, as a Catholic, I cannot be spokesman for a network of Jews, Muslims, Freemasons, Evangelicals or so, even informally, in my writing, unless very partially, like saying "some Jews could be in or preparing for the state of grace, since a Mass Conversion is upcoming" when Sungenis says it isn't or like saying "an Evangelical doesn't need to be Anti-Catholic very actively or even to deny the Real Presence," when some Catholics say they do and even associate Young Earth Creationism with that, for that reason. No, I don't affirm Hislop's cranky ideas and I also don't deny Holy Mass. Currently, partly no Mass in Paris is celebrated in communion with Pope Michael II, partly at certain parishes (I would say both an SSPX one and a Novus Ordo one), I would be putting myself at risk if they ally with psychiatry, about like going to Mass in LA may be risky for a Latino, simply because the priest can't block ICE out from all precincts.

So, do I actually need a big network? It could be useful for distribution, but as to produce something in a sellable and buyable form, I'd need one musician able to make a monetised music video or a few persons doing selection of texts plus some minor other editing and printing and binding, when it comes to essay collections.

I'm not looking for things as big as power or as classrooms. I'm not that kind of climber. If they say "you cannot climb without us" either that's an unintelligent observation or a criminal menace to my liberties.

Hans Georg Lundahl
Paris, Marguerite Audoux
St. Alexius of Rome
17.VII.2025

Romae sancti Alexii Confessoris, ex Euphemiano Senatore progeniti. Hic, prima nocte nuptiarum, sponsa intacta, e domo sua abscedens, ac, post longam peregrinationem, ad Urbem rediens, decem et septem annos tamquam egenus in domo paterna receptus hospitio, nova mundum arte deludens, incognitus mansit; sed post obitum, et voce per Urbis Ecclesias audita et scripto suo agnitus, Innocentio Primo Pontifice Maximo, ad sancti Bonifatii Ecclesiam summo honore delatus est, ibique multis miraculis claruit.

PS Some guys are, very clearly, pretending to be giving me advice about a carreer I could chose, shouldn't chose and haven't chosen yet. I get this video suggestion: Monetising Your Hobby Really Is A Terrible Idea (Apologies to Abby Cox) after which I come to this one: Monetizing Your Hobby is a Terrible Idea. In fact, I have already chosen writing as a carrere, a long time ago, I am doing it as full time work, not as a mere hobby, and I am keeping it up while being exposed to harrassment at work, like a brawl breaking out outside the cyber right now, so no, it is absolutely NOT that I have so far been doing writing as a hobby and absolutely am not prepared for what it would take to have it as a work. I am doing it as a work. I am just being prevented from earning money from it, by slanderers who pretend I am squandering time on a hobby instead of doing work. There very clearly is a network hellbent, and I chose that word very deliberately, on preventing my writings on being sufficiently widely read to make an impact on society and so also sufficiently widely read to allow me sales of pages of paper so as to give me an upkeep. I have not taken their mark and they are forbidding me to "buy and sell" in the sense of making money independently./HGL

* See news story: UPDATE: Catholic influencer denies claims of ‘grooming’ underage girl: ‘Complete fabrication’
By Francesca Pollio Fenton | CNA Staff, Jul 15, 2025 / 15:28 pm
https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/265361/catholic-influencer-denies-claims-of-grooming-underage-girl-complete-fabrication

** I left Sweden too late to have stayed out of legal trouble there, and no, the trouble was NOT about grooming or attempting to do so. It was self defense against psychiatry, more specifically against a policeman having brought me to a doctor for examination (against the doctor too, but that wasn't added to the charges).

*** I may add, I made a bad experiment in the Stravinsky style, back in 2005, got it played and was shocked it was in fact in the Alban Berg style. No, I don't have absolute ear and don't know exactly what my compositions sound like until they are played. But I did know that composition should not have been played in a church, and am still bitter not only that my venture became dragged into a sacrilege, but also that this is still held against me, as if that sacrilege was my fault. I did try to stop the man from playing it on the organ, I was not more clueless than that about what I had written. This was within five or six weeks after Corpus Christi.

Gratitude et liberté d'expression

Pour certaines cultures, l'écrivain ou le poëte est un fonctionnaire et porte-parole de ceux qui le soutiennent.

Pour le monde Chrétien, déjà au Moyen âge, non, déjà depuis l'Antiquité, ce n'est pas le cas toujours. La vérité passe devant la communauté.

En plus, dans le monde moderne, ça arrive pas mal souvent qu'on change communauté ou qu'on est soutenu par une autre communauté que la sienne, ou par une mélange de communautés, ou les deux.

Pour moi, les deux est le cas.

Que des Juifs me font du bien ne m'oblige pas à taire ma critique de Tovia Singer. Que des Musulmans me font bien ne m'oblige pas à taire les massacres en Syrie ou au Nigéria. Que des Français me font bien ne m'oblige pas à mettre les Alaouites de la Syrie sur le même pied que les Chrétiens, ni d'avoir entre groupes Chrétiennes les mêmes positions que ceux qui divisent les Alaouites des Sounnites. Et encore pas d'être Républicain ou de me ranger sans réserve dans les rangs d'un des Monarchismes.

Je pense que, au moins les Français, pas mal des autres Occidentaux, le comprennent.

Et je ne me range très certainement pas dans la Maçonnerie.

Hans Georg Lundahl
Paris
Vendredi de Quatre-Temps du Carême
14.III.2025

"Words are cheap," they say, "they are a dime a dozen" (well, actually, at that rate ...)

Production February 2025, 120 738 words, 120 738 / 12 = 10 061.5 dimes, or 1006 USD 15 cents.

It wouldn't be a windfall gain either. January, 129 238 words, 129 238 / 120 = 1076 USD 98 cents.

Up to April*, not counted yet.

May, 133 793 words, June 62 694 words, July 71 459 words, August 83 674 words, September 129 703 words, October 132 300 words, November 101 299 words, December 105 901 words.

Eight Months

133 793 + 62 694 + 71 459 + 83 674 + 129 703 + 132 300 + 101 299 + 105 901 = 820 823 words.

820 823 / 120 = 6840 USD 19 cents.

Anyone citing the proverb, do you have ...

6840 + 1006 + 1076 = 8922 USD
98 + 15 + 19 = 132 cents

... 8923 USD 32 cents?

Would come handier than remarks like that./HGL

PS, I'm not selling my blogs so someone else can dispose uniquely of them. My conditions are A little note on further use conditions. The latest person who saw them made a remark, which I answered:

Other:

Oh like if I use or print what you wrote is free? And you are welcoming donations if people like to contribute?

Me:

kind of

if you make good money, technically you could not give me a cent, but I count on honesty

not giving me a cent is more like for those starting up and still struggling

I don't believe everyone is honest, but I count on some people being so, and on some who struggle today to be able to pay tomorrow or next year.

It would only be a naive imagination of everyone being honest if I totally needed every printed copy that was sold to give me royalties./HGL

* Last year.

Une mémoire d'enfance ... la chambre rouge

En famille, une chambre a toujours été appelé "Röda Rummet" en famille. Ma grand-mère était certainement hautement consciente que c'était une référence à un roman (de 1979) par Strindberg, elle l'admirait. C'est à cause d'elle que j'ai regardé Mademoiselle Julie en télé, elle ne voulait pas louper un Strindberg. Ma mère le savait, bien entendu, mais elle était moins enthousiaste. D'abord, qu'elle était la raison d'être de cette chambre chez nous?

Vers sept ou huit ans ou quelque, j'attrapai la varicelle. Or, la varicelle, comme la variole, c'est une menace à la vue des yeux, à cause des fièvres qui montent ou quelque chose comme ça. Une manière d'épargner les yeux pendant la varicelle, connue de ma mère, interne d'un hôpital de Malmö, executée par les deux, c'est de baisser la lumière et idéalement la filtrer juste en lumière rouge. Cette chambre avec papier peint en rouge et rideaux tirés a dû faire l'affaire. Le papier peint restait en rouge jusqu'à la fin de mon séjour là-bas, et la chambre s'appellait "Röda Rummet" ou "la chambre rouge" ... dans la référence de Strindberg, il s'agot plutôt du "cabinet rouge" ...

Titeln "Röda rummet" syftade på en i rött inredd lokal som fanns och fortfarande finns[5] i den stockholmska restaurang- och varietéinrättningen Berns salonger, där August Strindberg och andra samhällsrevoltörer träffades och diskuterade. Medlemmarna i denna bohemiska krets lider alla brist på pengar. Om än i nöd så är de emellertid segervissa och arbetar träget med att utveckla sig som författare, konstnärer eller vetenskapsmän. Överdåd, opposition och nonchalans är några utmärkande drag. Gestalterna hade sina förebilder i verkligheten. En liknande krets av fattiga unga män, som alla hyste förhoppningar om att kunna slå sig fram som författare eller konstnärer, hade tidigare skildrats i en roman av den franske författaren Henry Murger – Scènes de la vie de bohème (1851).

Je vais vous traduire, car l'article n'existe pas en wikipédie française, probablement parce que le roman n'a pas été traduit.

Le titre "Röda rummet" fit référence à un cabinet meublé en rouge qui se trouvait et toujours se trouve* dans l'établissement de restauration et de variété de Stockholm, nommé Berns, où August Strindberg et d'autres révoltés de la société se rencontrèrent et discutaient. Les membres de ce cercle bohémien** sont tous en panne pécunière. Bien que dans le besoin, ils se sentent tous assurés de la victoire, et ils travaillent de manière acharné de se développer en tant qu'écrivains, artistes ou scientifiques. Des leurs caractéristiques sont l'extravagance, l'opposition, la nonchalance. Les personnages avaient leurs modèles dans la réalité. Un cercle très pareil de pauvres jeunes hommes, qui tous abritent leurs espoirs de se défendre comme écrivains ou artistes, avait été décrit par l'écrivain français Henry Murger – Scènes de la vie de bohème (1851).

Si on regarde bien le Cabinet rouge* de chez Berns, je doute qu'un tel cercle aurait pu s'y installer de nos jours. Mais à l'époque, c'était possible, juste comme à l'époque que ma mère étudiait à Vienne, on pouvait chez Demels (je pense) dépenser pour un seul café, redemander de l'eau et lire tous les journaux, au moins c'était le cas pour les étudiants qu'elle connut. Y compris elle-même.

Tout ce monde, c'est assez inconnu, peut-être même incompréhensible, pour pas mal de Musulmans, pour lesquels un pauvre n'a n'y à fréquenter des choses chics, n'y d'avoir des ambitions littéraires (au moins pas s'il est Chrétien).

Entretemps, si je n'aime pas la prose des années 80's en littérature suédoise (débutées en 1879, comme dit), et surtout sa figure de proue Strindberg, j'aime davantage la poësie et la prose d'un écrivain qui pourrait être son père, ou en certaines familles son grand-père, né 59 ans plus tôt.

Johan August Strindberg, né le 22 janvier 1849 à Stockholm et mort le 14 mai 1912 dans la même ville, est un écrivain, dramaturge et peintre suédois.

Per Daniel Amadeus Atterbom (Åsbo, Östergötland, 1790 - Stockholm, 1855) est un universitaire et homme de lettres suédois du XIXe siècle.

Évidemment, Atterbom était patriote et monarchiste, un peu peu de sympathie avec la cause ouvrière, ce que j'étais aussi avant de devenir Catholique et fan de Chesterton, et fasciste, plutôt que simplement conservateur libertaire. Mais pas mal de symmathie avec les causes des paysans. Åsbo [ôcebou] est un endroit avec aujourd'hui une église (luthérienne) et 763 habitants sur une aire de 116 et demi km carrés de terre et encore un peu d'eau. Plutôt comme une commune corse que les mémoires de la commune au XIII, ces quartiers là par contre assez proche de l'enfance de Strindberg ...

Hans Georg Lundahl
Paris
St. Lucain, martyr
30.X.2024

Lutetiae Parisiorum (?) sancti Lucani Martyris.

PS. Si quelqu'un ait pensé que les Inklings étaient à peu près une loge, non, c'était justement un cercle littéraire, ambitieux, et dont l'ambition n'était pas de se hausser de la pauvreté (à part à la limite Charles Williams) mais de rester Chrétiens en écrivant bien et de se publier./HGL

PPS, j'ai contacté le diocèse de Paris pour savoir si St. Lucain est bien martyrisé en région parisienne ou en Loigny la Bataille ... pas de réponse ...

* Berns : Röda Rummet
https://berns.se/sv/eventlokaler/roda-rummet/

** Sens quasi-original, pas celui de Bohemian Grove ! En fait, c'est déjà pas tout à fait le sens original, car avant "la vie de bohème", il y avait les Bohèmes en roulottes, avant les Bohèmes en roulottes, la Bohême, aujourd'hui partie occidentale de la République Czeque, et connue comme Bohême depuis le Moyen âge, dans la Basse Antiquité ou le Haut Moyen âge la Boioheimia, origine des Bayouvars (ou Bavarois) et encore avant ça résidence des Boii, tribu celte.

Diverse People are Pretending I'm Irresponsible, And Have No Idea of What I'm Doing, If I Think I Can Live as an Author

Assorted retorts from yahoo boards and elsewhere: Yes, One Can Be a Writer Without Affording a Secretary · I Think I Know What I am Looking For as Income Pretty Well · A Psychologist Pretended to be Expert on Fact Checking Skills · Language · New blog on the kid: "He obviously wants to self publish, why doesn't he just go to Amazon KDP?" · Diverse People are Pretending I'm Irresponsible, And Have No Idea of What I'm Doing, If I Think I Can Live as an Author

Some people like to spread rumours.

For instance, someone yesterday gave money definitely intended for me, and she was unsure if she should call me "Monsieur" or "Madame" ... I am not transsexual, I was also not born a girl, so, the answer should be obvious. Given I have a beard, I am somewhat surprised she wanted at first to call me "Madame" ...*

But that aside, some people who are not themselves into writing or selling books seem to have been given very precise ideas about what I would really need to do in order to be a writer.

One of them was, get a business, a SIRET. My hunch is, this does not necessarily come into play as long as I'm not earning very much. Here is a view I just found on youtube:

Do I need an LLC to publish my book? | Author LLC Requirements
M.K. Williams | 23 oct. 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vPFqtw6W1Q

1) In order to be a writer, there is no requirement to actually have an own limited liability company;
2) but after some degree of success, after earning some degree of money (which came to the novelist who made the video 4 years after her début), it can be very useful to you.

While requirements might vary from country to country, this should be valid for France** too.

Hans Georg Lundahl
Paris
St. Roman of Rouen
23.X.2024

Rotomagi sancti Romani Episcopi.

* There are obviously evil people pretending I'm cross-dressing, to which I've answered:

Assorted retorts from yahoo boards and elsewhere: Swiss Guards · Φιλολoγικά/Philologica: Not Female Clothing · So, Women Don't Wear Those Breeches in Austria?

... but if that gentle and frankly bourgeois lady was wondering, those evil people arguably are not just gipsies envious of my success at begging or Muslims angry that I drink alcohol and do not take employments, it would also need someone more influential. A policeman? A shrink? Both? More than one of each?

** So, why am I writing this in English? Over the last 12 months, my viewership in Hong Kong has been 9.5 times that in France, my viewership in the US 8.8 times that in France, my viewership in Singapore has been 4.85 times that in France, and that's just three countries where English is spoken more than French, where I'm viewed in these together 23.15 times as much as in France. Add UK, Ireland, Canada (except Québec), add Germany (except near the border) and Austria and Italy ...

"He obviously wants to self publish, why doesn't he just go to Amazon KDP?"

Assorted retorts from yahoo boards and elsewhere: Yes, One Can Be a Writer Without Affording a Secretary · I Think I Know What I am Looking For as Income Pretty Well · A Psychologist Pretended to be Expert on Fact Checking Skills · Language · New blog on the kid: "He obviously wants to self publish, why doesn't he just go to Amazon KDP?" · Diverse People are Pretending I'm Irresponsible, And Have No Idea of What I'm Doing, If I Think I Can Live as an Author

I have actually (probably more than a year ago) been tipped about Amazon KDP.

I concluded back then it would be a trap, for other reasons. Here is how M. K. Williams describes a trap I hadn't even completely reckoned with:

now it's 5:52 been a year and Amy's book is selling 5:55 well on Amazon she has great reviews ...

when she goes to take those same 6:18 files and the same ISBN and upload them 6:21 elsewhere she can't because Amazon owns 6:23 [that] ISBN and the other platforms won't 6:25 accept it so she could fib and cheat the 6:28 system and use a new free ISBN but when 6:31 the bookstores who want to stock the 6:33 book or the libraries search for that 6:34 book it comes up as a totally new book 6:36 with no reviews

NEVER use the "free" ISBN from Amazon KDP, IngramSpark, or any other platform! | Self-Publishing Tip
M.K. Williams | 27 March 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojSAxJzk1Zs

The one self publishing I am in fact doing is, for free, on my blogs.

The re-publishing, which would be read by people paying to read, should be:

• in physical books on paper;
• by editors (myself in principle not excluded, but that can't happen as long as I have no appartment, and I prefer to have no appartment from the social system, since that precludes giving your flat as adress of a company including obviously a publishing company) and not on the Amazon KDP market
• possible exception for a local self publishing company where I can negotiate conditions.

It should definitely NOT be a question of push-button publishing. For the reason stated above, but also:

• I have by my conditions given a right to every reader to become my (traditional!) publisher (already extant traditional publishers not excluded), and self publishing by Amazon KDP or any similar platform for pushbutton publishing would automatically deprive them of that right, since I would enter a contractual obligation to have given no previous copyright related obligations;
• I know that Pope Michael I used Amazon KDP to republish old books not by him, apart from the copyright implication in pretending a booklet of Nine Papal Condemnations of Heliocentrism (with pre-Conciliar Imprimatur!) was a book by himself, he also fared ill in the sales, and if he concluded "that's how things are" I'm not with him: I think the processing of feeds on Amazon, including Amazon KDP gets some manual input, and I think that those inputs did not favour the visibility of his republishing. I told him he ought to make a publishing company, with paper editions. Apparently he didn't (or at least he didn't extend to me to republish things of mine, despote having vetted lots of posts as doctrinally sane).

So, anyone who pretends that I'm simply too lazy to do the proper initiatives to get my things going, or incoherent, is wrong. I am simply not volunteering for walking into booby traps that do not serve my purpose, and that could hinder it a lot later on.

Now, a French publishing company did publish a French translation of Revd. Victor P. Warkulwiz.* A Catholic (and Novus Ordo, or just possibly Extraordinary Form, so, to Novus Ordos, a priest). They were selling through Chiré. And I contacted Chiré to ask whether they were reprinting it. That's when I discovered Chiré themselves were not that publisher, and the publisher was a no longer extant company. I tried to get hold of them and the new company who had bought their rights was not answering me. So, the French translation for his book is for copyright reasons tied up with "épuisé chez l'éditeur" / "out of stock with the publisher" ...

This is one of the things I try to avoid by my conditions. "Everyone who wants" = no exclusivity on the copyright. You want to publish my Geocentric stuff and go broke tomorrow? As long as you comply with the conditions I've expressed as applying for most of my blogs (three from 42 are no monetary remuneration sought for, all three of them are small), that's not a problem. Because the day after tomorrow, someone else could want to publish them, and you had no exclusivity but just a general licence. Which equally applies to the other guy. When he wants to take up the cause you forsook (by choice or by weakness), he's not hampered by the rights I gave you, because those rights did not exclude him.

Now, some guys in traditional publishing, but ALL platforms for push-button publishing would not see it this way. "If I don't get exclusivity, why should I send you royalty" ... well, a general licence, if you take action and profit from it, is worth something. I even leave it up to you to decide how much it is worth and how much you can afford (intended mainly as a bonus to young aspiring publishers). That's why voluntary royalties are also part of my conditions.

I know perfectly well why I am making the conditions I make, and I also know that I am NOT in a very clumsy and naive way expressing a wish to actually go e-book through the process of push-button publishing. Now you should know that too.

There are other ways in which people have pretended to "question" my ambition to be a writer. Am I a megalomaniac gambler who thinks I can become as famous as Tolkien? Whether I can or not is not the issue. This time of history is not so measly against authors that only the very, very, very best and most known can survive. 5000 authors and translators were having that as their insurance policy for old age in France, back in 2016. I am very certain that you don't know 5000 contemporary people in France who strike you as equally famous as Tolkien. Probably not even 5, certainly you don't know 5000, and that alone makes them less known than Tolkien. Even so, they gain a livelihood from writing and translating books.

Or other way, a writer needs to write every day, could this homeless man really keep up a writing routine? Stephen King writes 2000 words per day, Neil Gaiman 1500. For September I published over 4300 words per day.**

But I think the main pretense for "not taking me seriously" in my project to get my blog posts republished breaks down to three. The one closest to this post is already dealt with, I have conditions that exclude pushg-button publishing, and I have conditions that are probably not attractive to most big traditional publishers.

The other two would be:

• who'd be interested in reading what a homeless person has to say?
• why should YEC and Geocentrism be published?

To the first, I'd answer it should by now be a very interesting thing, since I could have been off the street 14 years ago, if certain other people (at St. Nicolas du Chardonnet) hadn't totally blocked all my attempts at getting a publisher through the parish. So, if fourteen years on a row I remain homeless because of a refusal to publish me (not just that one, but several since then), I think this puts the question on its head. Except to some Hindoos who'd think being homeless shows a bad karma incompatible with the good karma necessary to be a writer. Is that the real rationale for that parish?

To the second, I'd answer, because it's true. It's Evolutionism and Heliocentrism that deserve to find no publisher. If lies find too many publishers and truth finds none, how is that not being in the last days, when those refusing to take a mark cannot buy or sell? But the form of the objection boils down to a left wing "holy war" on "disinformation" ...

So, the perfect excuse for the enemies I have, those who think homelessness should inspire more modesty than shown by writing, and those who think Christianity should not be accessible, is to point to some fatal flaw or omission in what I did myself. There isn't that. There is just a huge amount of people keeping watch and blocking around the very correct initiative I took.

Hans Georg Lundahl
Paris
St. Thérèse of the Child Jesus
3.X.2024

Sanctae Teresiae a Jesu Infante, ex Ordine Carmelitarum Excalceatorum, Virginis, peculiaris omnium Missionum Patronae; cujus dies natalis pridie Kalendas Octobris recensetur.

* I partly cover the story, for those who read French, in this blog post:

New blog on the kid : "Sola Scriptura" ... erreur réelle mais moins grave de Luther, accusation fictice contre Catholiques fidèles
Sunday 16 June 2024 | Posted by Hans Georg Lundahl at 16:46
https://nov9blogg9.blogspot.com/2024/06/sola-scriptura-erreur-reel-mais-moins.html

** New blog on the kid: Production September 2024
Monday 30 September 2024 | Posted by Hans Georg Lundahl at 16:30
https://nov9blogg9.blogspot.com/2024/09/production-september-2024.html

Need Fanzines Start Fancy?

Check out the technical difference between Vinyar Tengwar 1, 1988, and Vinyar Tengwar 50, 2013:

https://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Vinyar_Tengwar_1

https://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Vinyar_Tengwar_50

Fanzines can start out with very modest means, and become fancy as subscriber numbers rise and as resources accumulate accordingly./HGL

Si quelqu'un voudrait me dire ne pas avoir les connexions pour être éditeur ...

Je ne vous aide pas avec le bac ... · Le genre d'existence que j'aimerais ... · Comment un sdf a-t-il l'idée ou la prétention de devenir doct, de se constituer en expert ? · Une idée antichrétienne · Je n'ai jamais dit à qui que ce soit "je veux rester en marge de la société" · Si quelqu'un voudrait me dire ne pas avoir les connexions pour être éditeur ...

Je disais "connexions" car pour connaissances en termes de savoir-faire, je peux donner un petit supplément.

... si alors quelqu'un me voudrait dire ça, que pourrais-je répondre si je n'étais pas trop essouflé et on ne me coupait pas trop la parole ?

Je pourrais répondre avec une question :

Hachette, sont-ils éditeurs parce qu'ils ont des connexions ? Ou ont-ils des connexions parce qu'ils sont éditeurs ?

Et j'imagine que certains me diraient "les deux" ... surtout il faudrait avoir les connexions pour être maison d'édition ! Au moins le diraient ceux qui m'auraient posé cette objection.

Et en certains pays, sous certains régimes, ce serait la bonne réponse. Dans un pays communiste, on est obligé de faire parti du PEN-club pour avoir le droit d'écrire, au moins c'était le cas avant 1990, et peut-être encore en Chine rouge et Corée du Nord. J'imagine que ce genre de restriction pour simplement être quelque forme d'écrivain implique aussi des restrictions pour être éditeur.

Newsflash, et ce n'est pas du fake news. La France n'est pas un pays communiste. Je ne pense pas qu'il soit même obligatoire d'être membre du Syndicat* national de l'Édition, vu qu'ils n'ont pas mis ça sur leur** page, sauf qu'il y a une législation sociale à suivre.*** Il semble que les deux régimes prévus ne couvrent pas un troisième cas, que je trouverais très intéressant, la cooperative.°

Bémol° :

Une Scop (société coopérative et participative ou société coopérative de production) est une société dont les salariés sont les associés majoritaires. Elle peut avoir la forme juridique d'une SA : SA : Société anonyme , d'une SARL : SARL : Société à responsabilité limitée ou d'une SAS : SAS : Société par actions simplifiée. Elle peut être créée dans tous les secteurs d'activités mais nécessite un agrément du ministère chargé du travail.

En Suède elle ne le nécisseterait pas. Là, les cooperatives sont beaucoup plus normalisés que ça. J'ai été stagiaire dans une coopérative qui justement était liée à une maison d'édition. Qui vient de fermer.°° Je leur avais proposé de faire quelque chose avec mes écrits, pas de réponse (je pense que c'était avant de leur fermeture donc en 2022).

Si en 2020 j'avais eu un appartement dans le secteur privé (car les bailleurs sociaux ne permettent pas de domicilier une entreprise d'édition chez soi, le couple Tellenne, dont la femme est connue pour son rôle dans La Manif pour tous, a été évicté pour non-observation de cette règle, le mari ayant un périodique), j'aurais probablement essayé une édition chez moi, car j'imagine que le suivant est à partir d'un certain nombre d'exemplaires ou un certain chiffre d'affaires :

L’éditeur, commerçant, doit se faire immatriculer obligatoirement aux assurances sociales des travailleurs non salariés non agricoles.

Mes conditions permettent à d'autres, immatriculés ou non, de profiter de mes textes contre rémunération volontaires, "paiements de droits d'auteur volontaires" (en français c'est un peu paradoxe, vu que le droit de l'un et le volontaire de l'autre ne sont normalement pas compatibles). Le truc est, si j'avais écrit un petit truc, ça pourrait s'avérer une très mauvaise affaire, quelqu'un pourrait s'emparer d'une grande publication sans me payer le sou, et couper les plus honnêtes dessous (j'ai peut-être trop litéralement traduit "undercut" ?), c'est à dire faire un plus bas prix que ceux qui me paieriaient. En réalité, j'ai une production assez importante, accessible en parallèle (ou pour l'instant uniquement, mais dans le cas en parallèle) sur le web. Je pourrais donc me plaindre auprès de mes fans. Vu que les publications seraient des républications, et qu'il est coutûmier de noter la publication avant dont on a tiré un texte (par exemple un receuil d'articles, on note les journaux ou périodiques et les numéros dont on les tire, le lectorat sur papier pourrait avoir vite accès à la première publication, gratuite.

Et je parie qu'il y a des gens qui trouveraient davantage commode de feuilleter des pages ! Il y a au minimum les vieux, qui "ne font pas les blogs" (sous-entendu ni écriture ni même lecture) et ensuite pas mal de jeunes qui n'accessent mes blogs en smartphone, format vraiment pas idéal, et il se peut aussi que les articles que je trouve bon d'aller ensemble (ou qu'un éditeur de moi trouvera bon d'aller ensemble) n'auraient pas été pourvus de liens entre eux* et pour les trouver ensemble il vaut mieux les avoir dans un volume de papier.

Hans Georg Lundahl
Paris
St. Ignace de Loyola
31.VII.2024

Romae natalis sancti Ignatii, Presbyteri et Confessoris, qui Fundator exstitit Societatis Jesu, atque vir fuit sanctitate et miraculis clarus, ac religionis catholicae ubique dilatandae studiosissimus; quem Pius Undecimus, Pontifex Maximus, caelestem omnium Exercitiorum spiritualium Patronum constituit.

* Φιλολoγικά/Philologica : Parutions en 1934 (selon la wikipédie) · Correspondence de Hans Georg Lundahl : Non-réponse par SNE · New blog on the kid : On essaie de me donner des astuces sur la publication

** https://www.sne.fr/le-b-a-ba/

*** https://www.sne.fr/le-b-a-ba/legislation-sociale/

° Par contre :

https://entreprendre.service-public.fr/vosdroits/F31328

°° Pour les suécophones (dans d'autres circonstances, l'homme sur l'image aurait pu devenir mon beau-père, mais sa femme avait une sensibilité féministe sur ce qui constitue "pédophilie" — la fille avait quatorze — et ne voulait donc pas être ma belle-mère, j'espère qu'elle a fait sa vie entretemps), voyez cet article :

https://www.nwt.se/2022/02/14/varmlands-aldsta-bokforlag-torleif-styffes-montana-forlag-lagger-ner-efter-35-ar-edea2/

Are Some Catholics Testing My Resignation?

Check this clip by Michael Lofton:

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/IqJlleA4d3w

There are LOTS of disappointments that fellow Catholics, clergy and lay, could have spared me over the last decade.

Michael Lofton certainly knows I am watching, I have reached out to him with comments since October, and he hasn't answered. Including on e-mails.

IF some clergy want to test my resignation, for one reason or another, and IF they would in doing so want to remind me I need to resign to God's will, which seems in line with some things they already did, Michael Lofton would certainly be someone they could use as a mouthpiece, and he doesn't need to mail me because they know and he knows, I am watching him, and won't miss this clip.

Now, on certain types of venture, testing someone's resignation might be an idea.

Bl. Lucy of Narni had stigmata, and she definitely was tested to the utmost as to her resignation.

St. Bridget of Vadstena was certainly a less resigned person, but her patience was tested too. She was a prophetess, and behind papacy returning from Avignon to Rome.

Stigmata and prophecy are supernatural things, charisms, they come from God. And the Devil likes to fake them. And doing one's work for God with such a life may take the whole life, so being resigned up to when one dies is actually not a loss. And one symptom of such things not being from God but faked by the Devil is lack of resignation.

I have not claimed any such strictly supernatural vocation. I am a writer, not a prophet. I want to marry, not be a monk. I want to feed my family from my writing, not just my own person from God's providence providing a bare minimum. I am not denying God has kept me alive. But I feel very sure someone else than God is keeping me back. And it so happens, God keeping me alive in such a case is repairing for me, just part of what certain others are destroying for me.

That destruction would for instance involve:

• clergy pretending I'm heterodox
• when this doesn't work, pretending my writing is prophecy
• and that the prophecy must be tested
• which involves testing my resignation "to God's will"
• which can be done by exposing me to evil men's will. Like their own.

It would also involve clergy pushing this before laymen, like my colleagues in apologetics, like Michael Lofton, like Matt Fradd, like Trent Horn.*

Considering how much Jimmy Akin has spent on attacking a truth of the faith, namely Adam being created directly from the soil, not procreated by non-human parents, and its by now apparent corrolaries of Young Earth Creation, I am not sure I'd consider him a colleague, and the same goes for Karl Keating.

All of above certainly have profited from support from clergy. But none of above are employees of clergy. Some of them have patreon for their videos on youtube as a major income. This means, being an apologist for the Catholic faith does not depend on being promoted by the clergy. It is not a clerical or monastic state. It is in a very real sense private enterprise, and there is no canon law against that.

This means, trying to test me and test my spirituality "before allowing me to become" a Catholic apologist is simply robbing me of the income I could already have as the Catholic apologist and writer that I am. Or at least, it is basically doing that, I am not a prophet and can not answer for whether some of the guys were under some kind of pressure, like Putin telling Bergoglio he would invade Ukraine if I weren't held back (with a fine shade of irony in posing as "the one restraining" and casting me for the role as someone who can only appear when "the one restraining" is out of the way). Wait ... Ukraine already is under a threat of invasion and parts of it are invaded ... no, that isn't it.

It is a very evil habit of certain cults on the Evangelical side, and ma and me went out of one when it began to show signs of it, to try to run the lives of lay members. It's an even more evil thing to do so by intriguing for disappointments and then doing emotional blackmail or even gaslighting against one not satisfied with the results of their actions. If Catholic clergy start doing that kind of thing to people, and it seems they may have done so, that is a sign, among some others (like accepting Evolutionism) that they are not Catholic any more.

Hans Georg Lundahl
Paris
St. Agnes
21.I.2023

Romae passio sanctae Agnetis, Virginis et Martyris; quae, sub Praefecto Urbis Symphronio, ignibus injecta, sed iis per orationem ejus exstinctis, gladio percussa est. De ea beatus Hieronymus haec scribit: "Omnium gentium litteris atque linguis, praecipue in Ecclesiis, Agnetis vita laudata est; quae et aetatem vicit et tyrannum, et titulum castitatis martyrio consecravit."

* Or Anthony Stine, or Kennedy Hall. Not specifically as a youtuber, but as a content provider.

Comment un site gratuit peut devenir des pages payantes

• Le principe est : un même texte peut se trouver à la fois sur l'internet et sur des pages de papier. LE grand exemple est la Sainte Bible - chaque version que je trouve sur l'internet, je pense qu'il existe aussi en version papier, à part peut être les "interlinear" (hébreu et grec avec anglais) ou on peut clicquer les chiffres du lexique biblique de Strong et arriver à ce lexique biblique. Quoique la Bible est sainte, ce mode de double existance n'est pas possible que ce soit techniquement, que ce soit juridiquement, que parce qu'elle est sainte.
• Le deuxième principe est un accord entre un producteur de contenu sur le web et un éditeur qui imprime ses choses. En mon cas, non seulement cet accord pré-existe en forme d'une licence générale, mais cette licence générale a été beaucoup vue. Je reviens à pourquoi ça ne me prive pas de revenus.
• Ensuite, l'éditeur ou le bloggueur avec son éditeur (en mon cas la licence permet l'éditeur de le faire) choisissent des textes à publier sur papier.
• Ça génère des revenus que l'éditeur partage avec l'auteur - le plus souvent selon un contrat.
• Et en mon cas, la licence générale permet à un éditeur de commencer unilatéralement, sans me consulter et même sans me payer. Pourquoi n'est-ce pas une "inconscience" ou une manière de me priver de revenus ? Pour trois raisons :
  
  
  • le nombre de textes est tel que pour un texte non remunéré il peut y avoir d'autres éditeurs qui font des éditions rémunérés sur d'autres textes;
  • la non-exclusivité fait qu'un éditeur qui ne me remunère pas ne peut pas même empêcher d'autres à éditer le même texte;
  • et la possibilité de commencer sans de me remunérer permet à des start-ups - même en français on appelle des entreprises en démarrage ainsi - de me remunérer plus tard, quand leurs finances seront mieux (sans que leur demarche prive bien entendu d'éditeurs plus avancés comme entreprises à éditer d'autres textes).

Voir aussi :
Conditions, comment les imprimer/how to print them
http://nov9blogg9.blogspot.com/p/conditions-comment-les-imprimerhow-to.html

Copyright Laws and Casuistry

"Ultracrepidarianism" · Who Coined the Term, Anyway? · Copyright Laws and Casuistry

A. Copyright Law and Catholics
https://www.betrayedcatholics.com/free-content/2-ethics-in-catholic-writing/copyright-law-and-catholics/

Here is a little thing I disagree on:

None of what appears below — in whole or in part — may be used without the express and written permission of the author.

Why do I disagree? Because, this is contrary to:
a) the age old practise prior to modern copyright laws
b) the content of current copyright law.

To the latter, she feels we are obliged:

As Rev. Francis J. Connell, writing for “The American Ecclesiastical Review” stated in the 1950s: “Theologians agree that the civil laws upholding the right of an author to the benefit of his writings and forbidding others to publish them without permission bind in conscience, because such laws are a reasonable determination of the natural-law right of a person to the fruits of his intellectual genius, (Aertnys-Damon, Theologia moralis, Turin, 1950)…When a writer plagiarizes, publishing as his own what is taken from another’s published writings, this is a sin against justice… a mortal sin if [harm] is great…One who illicitly publishes another’s writings, or portions of them, to the financial detriment of the author…is bound to restitution. Some hold that this obligation binds only after a court sentence, but the more probable opinion is that even prior to such a sentence, this obligation must be fulfilled by the guilty party, (Aertnys-Damon).”

Now, the civil laws of the United States, whereof Theresa Stanford Benns is a citizen, do agree for fair use excerpts, even without prior permission.

I do not intend in any way, shape or form to present myself as having myself written what T. S. Benns wrote. But whether myself or Pope Michael (whom she helped elect) or Introibo blogger (who compared her to a surgeon forgetting a scalpel in a patient) should have the right to criticise and therefore quote her conclusions.

Now, let's be clear on some backstory. She quoted a Casuist as saying:

The following is taken from “The Casuist,” Vol. IV: “All theologians are agreed that an author or writer, architect or draftsmen has a strict right to the fruits of his genius. And this right of ownership in the fruits of one’s intellectual labor is founded in the law of nature. For if it be the law of nature that men have a right to the labor of their hands, with much more reason ought they to have an exclusive right to the labor of their brains. And if the good of civilized society requires that a man be secured by law in the peaceful possession of whatever property he has acquired by his industry, with much more reasons must we hold that the good of civilized society requires that men be secure in the peaceful possession of that higher and more valuable property, namely the results of intellectual and artistic talent. ... The editor quotes Rev. Tanquerey as his source for these comments. The editor also adds that such theft is a sin against the seventh commandment and full monetary restitution must be made.

In old Roman law, your ownership to a text ceased the moment someone else held it in his hand. This means, if you wanted to make a profit, you made a deal with a bookseller. He made a payment, you had your money and now he owned your text - a bit like comic strips writer selling to newspapers. Once the bookseller had sold a copy, he could not stop anyone else from actually copying and selling as freely as he liked.

In a royal privilege, during the Ancien Régime, in order for authors to be able to devote more time to their second work, the Ancien Régime arranged that (for a period of ten years?), the author had monopoly on the monetisation of his text, and any bookseller wanting to use it needed to have an arrangement with him. For inventors, the patent law was somewhat different, the author of an invention had 15 years right to his invention, and it was forfeited if within 1 year he had omitted to take measures to make it fruitful.

As to literary authors, writers, there was a "formalisation" of such rights (concerning theatre authors) by the laws of the French Revolution: 17th Jan. 1791 gives control over performances for life and up to five years after death as to his heirs, 24th July 1793 reproduction rights for life and ten years after for his heirs.

Who was this Rev. Tanquerey? Did he live before the French Revolution? No.

The Reverend Father Adolphe Tanquerey, S.S., D.D., (1854-1932) was born in Blainville, France and joined the Society of St. Sulpice at the age of 18.

He was not a historian, not a Medieval scholastic, possibly not even a canonist. The one work by him that always turns up is:

THE SPIRITUAL LIFE
A TREATISE ON ASCETICAL AND MYSTICAL THEOLOGY
by the Very Reverend Adolphe Tanquerey, S.S., D.D.
https://www.ewtn.com/catholicism/library/spiritual-life-12635

According to Barnes and Noble, the passage quoted being from there, he also taught Dogmatic theology:

His best known works include the three-volume Synopsis Theologiae Dogmaticae and comprehensive one-volume treatise The Spiritual Life.

Barnes and Noble : The Spiritual Life: A Treatise on Ascetical and Mystical Theology
by Very Rev. Adolphe Tanqueray S.S.D.D.
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-spiritual-life-very-rev-adolphe-tanqueray-ssdd/1121811519

It is possible he was also habilitated to speak on moral theology as to the copyright legislation, and did so in a less known work, but it is also possible that in that area, "he spoke as an ultracrepidarian."*

Now here is a thing I do agree on:

Many have questioned the “proprietary” attitude of Catholic writers today who copyright their works and insist that others honor their wishes concerning the use of their material. In doing so those questioning this right seem to intimate that such behavior is not in keeping with the Church’s own attitude on the matter. Far from being the case, it was the norm prior to the false Vatican II council for Catholic writers not only to copyright their works but to be paid for their writing.

It may be mentioned, I totally honour her wish to get paid for her work, I do not intend to reprint and sell it without her permission. I do not think anyone printing and selling this essay would be pretending to reprint and sell her work, since it is my work, commenting on hers.

Today, “Traditionalist” Catholics seem to think that writers should be happy to donate their works to the “movement,” or to posterity for the sake of the faith. This is not a choice as much as it has become a reality. Few outlets exist for those writing about the true faith, and what outlets there are can seldom afford to pay its writers.

This is a thing I have intended to mend. What has been blocking me is also a liability to others.

Note, the description depends a bit on how far from the true faith you think some Novus Ordos are, who in fact are making money from Apologetics (Mark Shea comes to mind). I would say his "Making senses of Scripture" is at least in the risk zone (I haven't read it, but kind of judge by what he said on literalism on other occasions) of putting the spiritual senses above the literal one, not just in importance for the Christian life, which is true, but also in veracity information given, which is false. But "Mother of the Son" would arguably be a very good book on why we should honour the Blessed Virgin precisely as we do.

I have actually not approached TAN books yet ... I maybe should. However, when I state (as I do) that Theistic Evolution involves either a total shallowness about what Adam as first man means, or a fairly depraved view on how he "grew up" once you start to accurately think about it, I have fears, this would not be the top priority of people who accept as Popes the Theistic Evolutionists Wojtyla, Ratzinger, and now Bergoglio.

I have approached Pope Michael, and I think it is somewhat reckless of him to allow Amazon to make not just the printing, but also the marketing of his books. Like the US bishops can rely on TAN, like the pre-apostasy papacy (and the antipopes after them) can rely on Libreria Editrice Vaticana, like the French speaking bishops of France and Belgium can rely on arrangements to publish books at once in Paris and in Leuven (spelled Louvain in French), so His Holiness should have a bookseller who actually serves his interests for the faith, not just a contracter, Amazon, largely run by (and manipulating algorithms against him) people who are total strangers to the faith. I also found it somewhat disingenious to make a new catechism, as he did a few years ago, while loudly claiming he stands by the Catechism of Trent and the four versions of the Baltimore Catechism (by Fr. Januarius De Concilio), and while neglecting apologetics, not to his papacy as such, at least his site is still vocal about that, but to things he has stood up for, like Geocentrism and Young Earth Creationism. The latter being where I come in. I stood for both while I was still a Palmarian (before October 2002). My going from Palmarian to moderate Feeneyite, from Feeneyite to Ratzingerite "at last a pope materialiter and formaliter" from that to Romanian Orthodox (Neohimerite jurisdiction), from that to FSSPX, from that to briefly wavering between Sede and Ratzingerite and from there to accepting Pope Michael the last seven years, all this has not affected my idea, that the Church Fathers and Scholastics were right, and so is a plain reading of the Bible, and modernism is wrong.

Speaking of Young Earth Creationism, and Geocentrism, we may see some kind of rationale in Introibo blogger's relectance against him in what he used to be:

I'm a former New York City science teacher and current lawyer, so why am I writing a blog on theology?

New York City - so blue state. What can we know of science teachers in blue states? They usually promote Evolution (but he could have refused and lost his job over that**) and they nearly always to absolutely always promote Heliocentrism.

My own arrangement about copyright is actually a limited version of Creative Commons with voluntary Royalties as an option for remunerating me. There are six or so accepted versions of Creative Commons (with or without requirement of faithful reproduction, for attribution, for non-profit use only***) and my own version would be a seventh - no requirement of non-profit only, but instead an option for voluntary copyright royalties.

I do not think T. S. Benns can complain of anything I stated about the content of her text to be incorrect, since I used copy and paste, and I also do not think she could reasonably pretend I am (if this be printed and sold as books) earning money from her work.

Now, her rationale for a requirement as given being:

It is only logical to ask anyone intending to use a work to which considerable time and research has been devoted to request permission to use it. That way the author can check the posting or printed material to make sure the copy agrees with the original. Anyone whose intentions are honorable concerning such intended use of another’s material should not object to asking permission and allowing the author to check the resulting use. It is the responsibility of every Catholic writer to see that if their work is quoted, it is quoted properly.

Well, the quotes are by copy and paste, and the opportunity to check them, and contradict my use, if she judges it fraudulent, or careless, or otherwise incorrect, is given in another way, namely a notification. Introibo will have one too, even if he will arguably not bother to publish it in the comment section.

As I have already alluded to my copyright conditions being a species of Creative Commons, namely attribution and text integrality (but not original format°) required from anyone pretending to give my text, monetary use both allowed and encouraged, and this especially in relation to voluntary royalty payments. Obviously, giving my text and commenting on it are two different operations. But some people who think I need to be objected to (since they disagree with me) and who may have read me (during three months, the daily readership of my 40 blogs, big and small, has been 1700 per day, somewhat under 1000 of which from France) have been unnecessarily shy of citing me with a reference to where my text is (for the moment being, that's the internet). Perhaps due to a mistaken idea that even citations would require my previous permission.

To be fair to T. S. Benns, before the internet, a prior request was actually needed : the paper publication once printed could not be modified after criticism of a cited author, and so the request meant "I intend to publish a book on paper, and I would like to have your permission to quote you, so you can check I am not misquoting you" - any quotations made prior to such a permission would have been only in the citing author's manuscript, and hence unpublished, private use, and he would have been able to rewrite the manuscript after permission of the cited author depended on this. In this era of internet, I am by definition not mis-citing (unless it be by strategic truncations°°) any passage, since I use copy and paste, and by definition, if T. S. Benns feels mis-cited, I can change the post afterwards to suit her requirement of exact citation - if only by adding a PS or in the case of very bad errors a square of warning above the text.

Hans Georg Lundahl
Paris
St. Désiré of Langres
23.V.2022

Apud Lingonas, in Gallia, passio sancti Desiderii Episcopi, qui, cum plebem suam ab exercitu Wandalorum vexari cerneret, ad Regem eorum pro ea supplicaturus accessit; a quo statim jugulari jussus, pro ovibus sibi creditis cervicem libenter extendit, et, percussus gladio, migravit ad Christum. Passi sunt autem cum ipso et alii plures de numero gregis sui, qui apud eamdem urbem conditi sunt.

* If that is how Introibo blogger would have it stated. ** The speculation is meant to be a compliment, to desist from thinking the worst of him. If he insists with pride that he actually taught some kind of Theistic Evolution, we'll have to believe him. *** If each version that has a ban on modification automatically involves a requirement of attribution, this makes it six, three versions around these requirements, times two around non-profit only or not. ° The original format is the internet, and it is usually for free. The format that would give some reusers, and via voluntary royalties me too some money would be the paper format. Here are my conditions, as linked to from my main blog and applicable to most of my blogs:

hglwrites: A little note on further use conditions:*
https://hglwrites.wordpress.com/a-little-note-on-further-use-conditions/

°° I am not aware of any.