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Bapton Books Aphorisms
Observations on Place and Time:
historiography, the countryside, and the
writers art
Markham haw Pyle
!M" "emyss
Bapton Books
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References to:
The Bapton Books Sampler: a literary chrestomathyAmazon UKAmazon US
The Transatlantic Disputations: Essays & ObservationsAmazon UKAmazon USPaperback on demand
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MSP, on East Texas:
East Texas is the esternmost extension of the !"d So#th$
%ot the E"dest So#th, the Tideater of &ir'inia and the
(aro"ina )o (o#ntr*, the "ands of tobacco, rice, and indi'o,
b#t of the broad kin'doms of the (otton So#th$ +f *o# fo"d a
map of the So#th a"on' the "ine of the Mississippi rier, *o#
create a s*mmetr* "ike a Rorschach inkb"ot: the co#ntr* at
an* 'ien distance from the rier, east or est, matches
a"most interchan'eab"*$ East Texas is red dirt - not red, in
sober tr#th, b#t the oran'e of r#st, hich it basica""* is,
ferro#s oxide - and ma'no"ias and aza"eas and do'oods,
o"d fie"ds "on' since cottoned.o#t, far from the Mississippi
Rier bottom"ands that ere /rich as six feet #p a b#""0s ass0: a
"and of ho's and homin*, and a tan'"ed, 'rim past of s"aer*
and se're'ation$ +t co#"d as easi"* be the co#ntr* as far
eastards of the Mississippi as it is est: it o#"d fit a"" too
readi"* into the area beteen 1randon and Meridian,
Mississippi, hard b* the 1ieni""e %ationa" 2orest$
)ike the rest of the So#th, it possesses hat America as a
ho"e does not: histor*, een b#rdensome histor*, ori'ina"
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sin, the aftertaste of o"d defeat and seated rebirth$
34 And it is a p"ace here the eocatie can appear
aro#nd an* t#rn5 isib"e from the hi'ha*, in a c"earin' in
the omnipresent oods 6for b* the time *o# reach San 7acinto
(o#nt*, the c"a#strophobic pines, rank #pon rank, hem *o#
in comp"ete"*8, is a shot'#n shack ith a h#'e si'n o#t front$
+t is painted ith "etterin' "ar'e eno#'h that /he ho r#ns
ma* read,0 and it deno#nces, b* name, a nei'hbor ho had
apparent"* cheated the resident in some dea"in': /---- Has no
HoNour, it reads, fo""oed b* a fe stark detai"s$ The
mi""enni#m has come and 'one and the o"d tradition of
/postin'0 the cheat and the coard "ies on, tho#'h the d#e"s
and barn.b#rnin's that o#"d hae fo""oed in the o"d da*s
are no more, thanks to the i'i"ance of sheriffs$ The past and
the present interpenetrate in stran'e fashions in 9eep East
Texas$
34 And then e are back in An'e"ina (o#nt*, at )#fkin,
on ; So#th, ro""in' a"on' past ho#ses that hae been
roadside "andmarks to me a"" m* "ife, some of them roadside
"andmarks to m* father before me, for a"" his "ife5 headin'
back to ork, or 1onn or Tok*o or
Ko"oon5 b#t *o# can neer =#ite "eae it behind$
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?M@@ on @intertide and memor*:
+t is of co#rse a e"".orn est to sa* that one or another
ins#fficient"* demotic persona'e has stepped don from this,
that, or the other thin' /to spend more time ith his
possessions05 after a"", there is an entire po"itica" part* - and
seera" ha"f.ones - deoted to the po"itics of en*$ This is
rather a si""* dismissa" of an important tr#th, one borne home
#pon #s as the inter eather forces #s to sti""ness and
contemp"ation: from time to time, it is 'ood for one to sit
=#iet"* and be aare of, become reac=#ainted ith, hat one
possesses - if on"* to make certain that these materia" obects
do not in fact possess one$
34 >et it is a"so an #na""o*ed p"eas#re to m#se - and in a
ho#se necessari"* oerst#ffed b* the testamentar* a'aries of
inheritance in a d*in'.o#t and no "on'er n#mero#s fami"*,
there is m#ch to m#se #pon - it is p"easant to m#se #pon
hat materia" obects hae to te"" one$ @h*, for examp"e, is it
p"easant to the e*e to "ook #pon p"ate and c#p and sa#cer,
Rockin'ham and (ron 9erb*, chaste"* hite and de"icate"*
adorned ith banded 'o"d and #nobtr#sie f"oers5 h*,
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#p"iftin' 6in sma"" doses8 to obsere and respond in a simi"ar
manner to the inention and craft of the Bimmermans and
1a"thasar %e#mann in pi"'rima'e ch#rches decorated in the
essobrunnermanner5 and *et, h* into"erab"e to confront a
s#rfeit of confectionar* hite and 'i"t c"obber in a co""ection
some thrice.damned 'reat.a#nt "#mbered one ithC @h* are
f"#ted pi"asters ith (orinthian capita"s in a room so
'enera""* satisf*in', from the Pazzi (hape" onardsC 6And,
come to think of it, h*, o h* is (#i""iDs0 Ama"ienb#r' so
damned anno*in'C And h*, for that matter, is hat0s "eft of
%orfo"k
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et there is
more to it than these e"ements$ Een did + not kno hich
sma"" ?"o#cestershire ch#rch the paintin' portra*ed, + sho#"d
take p"eas#re in knoin' and reco'nisin' - from its
characteristic "andscape settin' and its characteristic
architect#re, the set of its spire and the f"oor p"an, and a"" the
eidences of m* sense of si'ht - that this is a ?"o#cestershire,
r#ra", "ar'e"* %orman parish ch#rch$
2or, *o# see, one can come - =#ite readi"* - to reco'nise
these thin's: the characteristic fami"* feat#res of East An'"ian
ch#rches, Somerset ch#rches ith Somerset toers, 9eon
ch#rches ith their a''on.roofs and remnants of
roodscreens and their /9eon rin's0 of six$ Een so, one can
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train the e*e to reco'nise, ith p"eas#re, the c"#es of fie"d.
patterns, or a""s, or farm 'ates, or the a* in hich a roof is
thatched, or ho a chimne* is b#i"t and here it is p"aced,
and be ab"e to kno at once in hich co#nt* one is$ A sense
of p"ace is a thin' 'ood in itse"f$
>et it is 'ood in its effects as e"", and in hat it "eads to$
!ne be'ins to think, and to onder$ !ne ma* be moed to
become an anorak in some passionate interest, and that is a
er* 'ood thin' to be$ ?issin'0s
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(o"erid'e and 1#rke a"ike ere pioneers of critica"
sthetics$ Think for a moment of ho the simp"est c#"tiation
of taste - no: more than that: the most basic contemp"ation of
h* one "ikes one thin' and not another - can become a
so#nd fo#ndation for a "ife e"" "ied in action$ @inter. and
eather.bo#nd, e ma* take the 'ift of #ncoenanted time to
think$ @e ma* be'in b* thinkin' of the characteristic notes of
En'"ish m#sic, the chromaticism of the En'"ish schoo"5 or of
the deep interre"atedness of p"ainchant and En'"ish poetr*, in
scansion and in diction5 or #st h* it is that r#ra" p#rs#its
hae en'endered 'reat "iterat#re$ !r, a'ain, *o# ma* see East
An'"ian par'etin' - and in it see fear in a handf#" of d#st, ash
on an o"d man0s s"eee, a croned knot of fire$ >o# ma* see
the inter trees, bo#'hs bare, and think of ho akin the* are
to fan.a#"tin' in *o#r parish ch#rch$ And s#dden"*, thro#'h
these =#otidian obserations, a"" heaen and he"" come
r#shin' in$ @e ma* 6and *o# certain"* o#'ht to do8 be'in to
ino"e o#rse"es ith (ommon ?ro#nd F En'"and in
Partic#"ar, or the Societ* for the Protection of Ancient
1#i"din's, ith a ater meados tr#st or the RSP1 or
herita'e rai"a*s or o"d mi""s$ >o# ma* soon find *o#rse"f
campai'nin' for "oca" distinctieness, ith (ommon ?ro#nd5
or #nderstandin' that (h#rchi"" as honest"* horrified that
the poor ere "eft in circ#mstances that a"most a"a*s meant
/neer seein' an*thin' bea#tif#", neer eatin' an*thin'
sao#r*, neer sa*in' an*thin' c"eer0 - and h* this is a
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tra'ed* that m#st be redressed5 *o# ma* een be'in to think
that, a"tho#'h a ri'ht char"e* in man* a*s, o# ma*, for examp"e, conc"#de that
chi"dren of a"" races 6een barbarians s#ch as m* peop"e,
Ancient 1ritons and mara#din' Saxons and the occasiona"
&ikin' and, orse sti"", a fe &ikin's speakin' a dia"ect of
Ro#ennais 2ro'8 are trained b* s#rro#ndin' art - or the "ack
of it: that m#ch of hat is rep#'nant in o#r time is the
prod#ct of 1r#ta"ism and #'"ification, of s*nthetic tosh, bad
ritin' and bad m#sic he"d o#t as 'ood, and bad art
p"astered a"" oer the shodd* concrete a""s$
1est of a"", *o# ma*, refreshed, rechar'ed, and en"i'htened
b* this enforced contemp"ation in the depth of inter,
act#a""* start #oin" somethin' abo#t these i""s and ei"s, and
assist in the on"* orthhi"e ork, that of 'iin' bread in
p"ace of stones to those spirit#a""* and inte""ect#a""* starin'$
Remarkab"e, rea""*, hat one ma* "earn from a SGres
coffee serice in an id"e moment$ !r, as 9ame 7#"ian mi'ht
hae noted, a haze"n#t$
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?M@@ on honest an'"ers:
Sha"" + abandon m* riersC Sho#"d ?od for'et
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2or to the tr#e an'"er, ho o#"d kno his rier, a""
seasons are apt, a"" kno"ed'e precio#s, and a"" thin's ork
to'ether for 'ood$ +t as not b* chance that !#r Saio#r
so#'ht his first discip"es amon'st fishermen$ And +
remember, a"so, a kinsman of mine in cent#ries past, a 'ood
honest (h#rchman and an an'"er, a ph*sician in
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and "earn of it, and be the better for it, in mind and in spirit$
So, %o: the hatch is not a"" that it mi'ht be, for if it is arm
eno#'h and ear"* ith it, it is a"so in a time of dro#'ht5 and,
%o: + don0t 'et to the rier as often as + sho#"d ish$ 1#t these
thin's do not make this a poor *ear: the* are an #n"ooked.for
opport#nit* to de"e *et deeper into the secrets of the rier,
and 'ro ise$
Reoice, then, in a"" seasons, *e fishers$ The %orl# the river
is both you an# ', (n# all mankin#, are either $ish or $ry) @e m#st
ie it ith #dicio#s "ooks, and 'et isdom hi"st e ma*$
And to a"" honest an'"ers, then, + ish, as o#r master +zaak
ished #s "on' a'o, /a rain* eenin' to read this fo""oin'
9isco#rse5 and that if he be an honest An'"er, the east ind
ma* neer b"o hen he 'oes a.fishin'$0
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?M@@ on (he"tenham:
Those ho ent to the tro#b"e of 'oin' to (he"tenham and
those ho b#t atched it as tin* ima'es f"ickerin' #pon '"ass
ma* e"" hae p"aced their a'ers on the races$ >et those
ho had a f"#tter on (appa 1"e#, those ho had a bit on
9enman or Ka#to Star, or, "o*a""*, on 1arbers Shop 6
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itC @h* e"se is so m#ch of the best ritin' concerned ith
bees and farms, ith an'"in' and sta"kin' and shootin' and
h#ntin', ith horse, horn, and ho#ndC +t o#"d be a rash
man indeed ho s#''ested that the interests of the #rban and
s#b#rban mind hae created a bod* of "etters to ria" Rier
1ank and the @i"d @ood, ciderin' ith Rosie, an'"in' ith
@a"ton and (otton, h#ntin' ith 2"#rr* Knox0s ho#nds or
shootin' at A#sso"as, or farmin' and beekeepin' ith &arro,
(o"#me""a, &er'i", (obbett, and Adrian 1e""$ Simp"* to
mention the !eor"ics is to make the ar'#ment certain, itho#t
so m#ch as mentionin'
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?M@@ on the e"ementa" co#ntr*side:
>et so "on' as peop"e take their ideas from #rban "eader.
riters, the data of their senses i"" remain secondar* at best
in formin' their #d'ements$ Statisticians and ana"*sts can
insist in rin'in' tones that the %2U, an'"ers, shootin' parties,
the (o#ntr*side A""iance, preserers of pheasants, h#nts, and
the 1AS(, do more for conseration than the ho"e of the
par"iamentar* )abo#r Part* and the entire readership of the
'n#epen#ent, b#t their oices i"" fa"" on deaf ears so "on' as
een aard.innin' i"d"ife photo'raphers, "ike so man*
@atsons, /see, b#t do not obsere0$
2or m* on part, + sho#"d "ike to hae the 'reater part of
the )abo#r Part*, most )ib9ems, and not a fe Tories, /re.
ed#cated0 b* their bein' forced to spend 'reat sathes of
2ebr#ar* and March next, in "ambin' season, standin' in
m#ck as a co"d rain pisses don, dea"in' ith pro"apse in
ees or ith their arms ha"fa* #p sheep0s tats fee"in' for
the fore"e' of a "amb str#''"in' to be born$ The*, and the
co#ntr*, and the co#ntr*side, o#"d be remarkab"* the better
for it$
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MSP on fie"d sports:
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(onsistenc* c#ts deep$ @e o#"d none of #s be here, + ask
*o# to remember, had ear"ier 'enerations sh#ddered and
t#rned aa*$ A fa""en race in a fa""en or"d, e o#"d be
that sti"", b#t other than e are$ (onsistenc* i"" re=#ire the
seerance of more ties than those that bind *o# to the 'rocer$
2or those ho do not hae a ocation for e'etarianism,
hoeer, rea"it* is e=#a""* adamant$ +t does not matter ho
e"" *o# dine in a cand"e."it cocoon, ith obse=#io#s aiters
brin'in' the chef0s best efforts reerent"* to *o#r tab"e$ +f *o#
are to no#rish an* appetites "ess 'ross than mere br#te
h#n'er, if *o# are to feed *o#r so#", *o# m#st pick #p the
carin' knife$ >o# m#st enter the kitchen, and *o# m#st sit at
tab"e, ith *o#r e*es open$
+n a or"d "ar'e"* seered from the simp"e tr#ths of the
farm*ard, it is a necessar* part of eer* h#man0s ed#cation to
"earn hat o#r 'randparents kne as nat#ra""* as the* kne
the paths thro#'h a#t#mn0s forests$ + o#"d 'o so far as to
sa* that no one has a ri'ht to eat an* creat#re hich that
person i'nores a"ie$ Een the sa*in' of a ?race 1efore Meat
is b"asphemo#s in the mo#ths of those ho do not reco'nize
the enormit* of hat the* do, and m#st do to "ie$
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+t is essentia" to "earn the a*s of the beasts of the fie"d,
and the dim, stran'e or"d of fish, and the rh*thm of the
po#"tr* r#n$ +f + do not kno - not sentimenta""*, not
bookish"*, not at second.hand, b#t kno of m* on
kno"ed'e - somethin' at "east of the "ife of a beef steer or a
m#"e* b#ck, + hae no ri'ht to sa* hen and ho it sho#"d
die and ho it sho#"d be c#t and cooked hen it is dead$ %o
ri'ht b#t that of s#perior force and of #nthinkin' him and
desire, hich is b#t the tit"e c"aimed b* t*rants$
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MSP on historio'raph*:
Santa*ana0s dread arnin' to those ho do not
remember, di'est the "essons of, commemorate and "earn
from, histor*: that the* ho fai" to do so are doomed to
repeat it: app"ies to #s a""$ The se"ectie and partia"
miscomprehension of histor*, their on histor*, b* the
American peop"e has "ed to this sorr* present state of affairs$
+t is the fai"#re of historians and ed#cators to do their obs
proper"*, /itho#t fear or faor,0 that has created an America
in hich freedom is not mere"* taken for 'ranted, b#t
re'arded as a commodit* to be bartered for materia"
adanta'e$ An America in hich droo"in' peckerood
m#dsi"" trash can co.opt f"a's #nder hich 'reat and 'ood
men fo#'ht, and render them foreer befo#"ed in the e*es of
tho#sands and h#ndreds of tho#sands$ An America in hich
the '#ardians of "ibert* are treated ith the ind#"'ent
contempt directed at Kip"in'0s Tommy (tkins- #nti", as as
the case for Tomm*, the ba""oon 'oes #p and the sneers are
iped off cii"ian faces b* sheer panicked terror$ An America
in hich e are diided b* race and c"ass and herita'e hen
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e o#'ht, on a s#ccession of memoria" and re=#iem da*s
thro#'ho#t the ca"endar, oin hands, ra""* 0ro#nd, be sensib"e
to hat Mr )inco"n ca""ed the pio#s chords of memor*, there
beside /each patriot 'rae$0
This is the conse=#ence of the historian0s abdication of
a#thorit* and d#t*, and its reersa" i"" be dependent #pon
an increased, mass appreciation of realhistor*$ +t is a"so the
conse=#ence of the p#b"ic0s fai"#re to read: so#nd orks of
histor* are "ar'e"* aai"ab"e, accessib"e $$$ and i'nored$ This,
too, m#st chan'e, and one means is for #s a"" to ce"ebrate o#r
9a*s of Remembrance %ittin"ly,steepin' o#rse"es on these
appointed da*s in the 'reat ca#ses and sacrifices each
commemorates, as to"d b* so man* s#perb historians$
@hat, after a"", is a ho"ida* itho#t a "ectionar*C
Unti" then, + at "east 6/choose this da* hom *o# sha""
sere, b#t as for me and m* ho#se$$$08 - + at "east sha""
contin#e to obsere, in 'ratit#de and a"" h#mi"it*, these
ha""oed da*s of remembrance, and ork to sho the rest of
*o# h* *o# o#'ht ri'ht"* be in the next pe$
.et us no% praise $amous men
(n# our $athers in their "enerations )))
))) *or some %ere men o$ %ar,
(n# their "lory hath outlive# them)
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?M@@ on ritin':
1. There is no muse. Therefore, there is no sacred
chamber to prepare against her visitations.
@ritin' is not dependent #pon the a'aries of mood or
season or eather or p"ace or back'ro#nd noise$ 9ickens and
1eteman rote on trains$ A#sten rote in the midst of
'entee""* o""* fami"* #proar, par"o#r 'ames, and dai"* "ife$
Kip"in' and (hesterton rote thro#'h an* t#m#"t$ This
notion that one must, #arlin", simply m#st, my #ear, hae a
specia" cocoonith thin's positioned #st so and a north "i'ht
and, + don0t kno, a c"oisonnD mo#se pad or some damned
thin', is #tter ba""s$ @ritin' isn0t a sacred trance or a
sacrament or a mood or a M*sterio#s (omm#nion ith the
(nima /un#i, it0s a b"ood* ob, damn it a""$ ?et on ith it$
?et, in fact, on *er bike$ + remember - ith a horror that
persists een no - readin', some *ears a'o, of an American
a#thor ho, in a hardboi"ed e=#ia"ent to this idioc* abo#t
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process$ +0m amazed he made a "iin' at it$ This sort of thin'
is #n=#estionab"* id"eness, as e"" as ima'ination, operatin'
#pon "#x#r*$
%o, obio#s"*, if *o#0re ritin' on spec, and not
impe""ed b* the ant to make the rent or sett"e a "on'.
o#tstandin' bi"" ith the 'reen'rocer so he0"" a""o *o# into
the shop before *o# =#ite stare, *o# can, + s#ppose, take
*o#r priss*, precio#s time and rite on"* hen *o# fee" "ike
it$ +t shan0t be orth a damn, b#t *o# can do it$ 6+t shan0t be
orth a damn for seera" reasons$ 2irst of a"", *o#0"" ant to
edit it ith far more asted time than if *o#0d ritten it in
one 'o, and hadn0t a""oed it to become disointed and
episodic and itho#t f"o$ Second"*, *o#0"" cock that#p, that
necessar* editin', beca#se *o#0"" remember ho pleasant it
as to rite on"* hen *o# chose, and ere in a "oft* mood,
and *o#0"" therefore re'ard the ork *o# did as "oft* and
p"easant, seein' it thro#'h the 'a#z* c#rtain of nosta"'ia and
affection, and *o#0"" be b"ind to its manifest and manifo"d
fa#"ts$ And a'ain, hateer oerarchin' theme or mood or
arc it mi'ht hae had, *o#0"" hae for'otten, or at "east "ost
the immediate sense of, and the res#"ts shan0t be prett*
hoeer r#th"ess"* *o# believe *o# are editin' it$ 1#t that0s
*o#r "ooko#t: *o# can do this sort of thin' if *o# "ike and
haen0t the "ash of need to drie *o# on$8
@hat0s more, *o# are not ritin' on spec, rea""*, did *o#
b#t kno it, or as a /hobb*0 6did *o# b#t kno it8$ /%o man
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b#t a b"ockhead eer rote, except for mone*,0 said 9r
7ohnson, and it0s tr#e$ Either *o# rite and p#b"ish beca#se
*o# are seekin' credit or rep#tation or exchan'e, if not in a
monetised c#rrenc*, or *o# rite - a"" too often on"ine, in a
circ"e of m#t#a" #ncritica" ad#"ation - as a set of fie.fin'er
exercises, a'ainst the da* hen *o# toss *o#r MS oer the
transom of a p#b"isher: into hose s"#sh.pi"e it sha"", d#e to
the ices *o#0e ac=#ired b* ritin' and postin' on"ine and
bein' f"attered for it and fee"in' *o# ma* rite hen *o# fee"
"ike it, ineitab"* sink itho#t a trace$
This is h* dead"ines are so damned orthhi"e, or
sho#"d be ere the ostensib"e re=#irements enforced rather
better than the* are$ )ike the need to fi"" the c#pboards ith
food, these act to force *o# to rite not hen and as *o# "ike,
b#t to order, een if *o# m#st "oosen *o#r sta*s and breathe
deep of *o#r sme""in' sa"ts and act#a""* b#ck"e don and do
an honest da*0s ork hen *o#0d rather not, *o# poor,
de"icate f"oer, *o#$
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