Trieste goes downhill.....

[Michael Bailey]

attempting to build on what
 Mark Kohut  wrote:
> That the Miltary Frontier was non-existent does, I think, support your
> "dreamworld" obs very strongly.....I assumed the basic facts were
> otherwise.....the Neo-Uskoks are not only paranoid, but out of touch with
> reality and riding a lost vision of the past.(1)
>

One of Heinlein's Fair Witnesses might point out there are
no other mentions of these neo-Uskoks except as occasions for
a Cyprian "side trip" in his duties in Trieste, and the data on them
is nebulous --

I'm not a Fair Witness (though I do play one sometimes)
but indeed am inclined to go beyond the text, and perceive their
beacons as anti-beacons, and their very existence as a Cyprian invention,
or maybe Theign/Cyprian, to justify funding requests.

(and a conspiracy buff might note that the term "al Qaeda"
was quite likely invented, and definitely popularized, by US intelligence,
and sniff a possible parallel)

and Keith, if he were still active on the list, would probably note
that I am tripping...(miss ya, Keith)

> I do think TRP is making the point from within his 'vision'  that "The
> Macedonian Question" involved fighting over land that had long existed under
> one "natural" peoples?.....How do you see that possibility?
>

another "Question" termed so by bureaucrats/Press/general Public,
at one time, was the "Negro Question" - so (by a commodious vicus
of recirculation...er, oops, wrong list...I mean, by a Kenosha-Kid
exhaustive allusion search) one sash of meaning thrown up*
by the phrase "Macedonian Question" is that of ethnicity
versus nationality...

,,,which I think Mark has mentioned, and which is reinforced
by some of the Wiki references which mention how the Uskok
bloodline was still going strong...

* as in, "I ran to the window and threw up the sash"
in the poem "The Night Before Christmas"
(which I remember reading something about while chasing
references last night...hmmm...that it was originally titled
"A Visit From St Nicholas" and by Clement Clark Moore
who was an anti-abolitionist and owned several slaves ...but is this
P-related other than in the sense that almost everything is?
Nah, I'm just trippin' tonight...)