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GO TO MASTER INDEX OF WARFARE “IS IT POSSIBLE WE WERE WRONG FROM THE START IN VIETNAM?” Our Quaker President is also on record as opinioning: “I’d rather use the nuclear bomb.... The nuclear bomb. Does that bother you? I just want you to think big, Henry, for Christ’s sake.... You’re so goddamned concerned about the civilians, and I don’t give a damn.” — President Richard Milhous Nixon, on tape, 1972 VIETNAM ATOM BOMB “Fiddle-dee-dee, war, war, war, I get so bored I could scream!” —Scarlet O’Hara HDT WHAT? INDEX MY LAI TED BUNDY GO TO MASTER INDEX OF WARFARE After an air-raid on North Vietnam, President Lyndon Baines Johnson chortled “I didn’t just screw Ho Chi Minh. I cut his pecker off.” Of course, our President actually had not only not used his “Johnson” to subject Ho Chi Minh to homosexual rape, but also, he had not sexually mutilated his counterpart with a knife. Actually there was no severed body member damaging the lining of his suit pocket, or his desk drawer. Our President had merely been an American homosocial and done that of which he spoke in fantasy, cleanly, and in the American way — by proxy and by machinery. HDT WHAT? INDEX TED BUNDY MY LAI GO TO MASTER INDEX OF WARFARE 111 BCE The Chinese conquered what is now northern Vietnam. THE FUTURE IS MOST READILY PREDICTED IN RETROSPECT Ted Bundy “Stack of the Artist of Kouroo” Project HDT WHAT? INDEX MY LAI TED BUNDY GO TO MASTER INDEX OF WARFARE 939 CE China ended its rule over the Vietnamese and an independent state was established. CHANGE IS ETERNITY, STASIS A FIGMENT Ted Bundy “Stack of the Artist of Kouroo” Project HDT WHAT? INDEX TED BUNDY MY LAI GO TO MASTER INDEX OF WARFARE 1553 In DES MERVEILLES DU MONDE, Guillaume Postel declared the Oriental understanding to be “the best in the world.” CHINA JAPAN KOREA INDIA VIETNAM DO I HAVE YOUR ATTENTION? GOOD. Ted Bundy “Stack of the Artist of Kouroo” Project HDT WHAT? INDEX MY LAI TED BUNDY GO TO MASTER INDEX OF WARFARE 1802 Nguyen Anh came up with the name Vietnam. From this year into 1820, the Emperor Gia-Long would be uniting that nation. “NARRATIVE HISTORY” AMOUNTS TO FABULATION, THE REAL STUFF BEING MERE CHRONOLOGY Ted Bundy “Stack of the Artist of Kouroo” Project HDT WHAT? INDEX TED BUNDY MY LAI GO TO MASTER INDEX OF WARFARE 1806 One of the earliest English illustrated books on Vietnam, John Barrow’s A VOYAGE TO COCHINCHINA, IN THE YEARS 1792 AND 1793: CONTAINING A GENERAL VIEWS OF THE VALUABLE PRODUCTIONS AND THE POLITICAL IMPORTANCE OF THIS FLOURISHING KINGDOM; TO WHICH IS ANNEXED AN ACCOUNT OF A JOURNEY, MADE IN THE YEARS 1801 AND 1802, TO THE RESIDENCE OF THE CHIEF OF THE BOOSHUANA NATION, BEING THE REMOTEST POINT IN THE INTERIOR OF SOUTHERN AFRICA ... (London: Strahan and Preston, for T. Cadell and W. Davies in the Strand) with 19 color-printed aquatint plates with additional hand-coloring by T. Medland after Samuel Daniell and W. Alexander and two folding engraved maps, the first a hand-colored plan of the harbor and town of Rio de Janeiro, the second a “Chart of the Southern Extremity of Africa.” The volume is dedicated to fellow traveler and chronicler Baronet Staunton, and describes the outward voyage of the expedition as it stopped at Madeira, the Canary Islands, Rio de Janeiro, and Tristan da Cunha on its way around the Cape and then at Batavia on the island of Java before arriving in Cochinchina, otherwise known as Vietnam. The volume’s historical overview of Vietnam was based on a manuscript by Captain Barissy, a French naval officer. John Barrow noted along the way that Captain Cook’s Resolution had been transformed into a smuggling whaler, operating under the French flag. The volume’s description of an expedition into Bechuanaland in the interior of South Africa from Cape Town was based on a manuscript by Pieter Jan Truter. HDT WHAT? INDEX MY LAI TED BUNDY GO TO MASTER INDEX OF WARFARE This 1806 publication would be checked out by Henry Thoreau from the Harvard Library on September 30th, 1834. SIR JOHN BARROW THE TASK OF THE HISTORIAN IS TO CREATE HINDSIGHT WHILE INTERCEPTING ANY ILLUSION OF FORESIGHT. NOTHING A HUMAN CAN SEE CAN EVER BE SEEN AS IF THROUGH THE EYE OF GOD. Ted Bundy “Stack of the Artist of Kouroo” Project HDT WHAT? INDEX TED BUNDY MY LAI GO TO MASTER INDEX OF WARFARE 1818 John White, sailing from Salem, was reaching a port named “Saigon” on the southern coast of Asia and attempting to negotiate there a trade agreement for sugar. He would fail due to the Emperor Minh Mang’s isolation policy: foreigners equal trouble. He would bring back home with him some Vietnamese spears that one may now view at the Peabody Museum in Salem. “HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE” BEING A VIEW FROM A PARTICULAR POINT IN TIME (JUST AS THE PERSPECTIVE IN A PAINTING IS A VIEW FROM A PARTICULAR POINT IN SPACE), TO “LOOK AT THE COURSE OF HISTORY MORE GENERALLY” WOULD BE TO SACRIFICE PERSPECTIVE ALTOGETHER. THIS IS FANTASY-LAND, YOU’RE FOOLING YOURSELF. THERE CANNOT BE ANY SUCH THINGIE, AS SUCH A PERSPECTIVE. Ted Bundy “Stack of the Artist of Kouroo” Project HDT WHAT? INDEX MY LAI TED BUNDY GO TO MASTER INDEX OF WARFARE 1820 February 14, Monday: In Vietnam, from this point until 1841, the emperor Minh Mang would be reversing 1 the policies of Gia-Long, and expelling the Christians. 1. This policy was, of course, a mistake, since as we all know, in this world there is nothing quite so nice –or quite so rare– as a Christian.
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