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1st Lt A.Y.  Soderstrom USAF, 2021, 'Direct Military Conflict with China May Not Happen―and Why There Are Worse Outcomes', Journal of Indo-Pacific Affairs , 152-156   ARGUMENT "Thucydides originally wrote about the Peloponnesian War between Athens, the rising power, and Sparta, the hegemonic power. As Athens continued expanding its empire, Sparta became afraid for its independence and position. The war became inevitable once fear was so deeply instilled in Sparta. With China being a rising power and the United States being a current hegemonic power, it seems that war could be a high possibility. If media outlets keep spreading misinformation or twisting facts, a fear may be deeply instilled in either country, leading to war involving direct military conflict. However, in Ancient Greece, warfare was done [ONLY] by direct military conflict. They did not conduct cyberattacks, have nuclear weapons, or other means short of war that may not be as personal as bombs leveling build...

  A DRUNK MAN LOOKS AT THE THISTLE  By Hugh M'Diarmid AN INTERLINEAR Scots―English VERSION based on the  William Blackwood & Sons, Edinburgh & London, 1926 edition (The Project Gutenberg eBook, Hathitrust Digital Library) (1)   A Drunk Man    p1 v1; p4 vv24-25; p5 v27. I amna' fou' sae muckles as tired ― deid dune. I am not 'full' [drunk] so much as tired ― dead done [exhausted]. It's gey and hard wark' coupin gless for gless It is great and very hard work matching [keeping up, tilting up] glass for glass Wi' Cruivie and Gilsanquhar and the like With [personal name] and [personal name] and the other drinkers, And I'm no' juist as bauld as aince I wes. And I am no longer as bold ['fierce', youthfull] as I once was. .................. But that's aside the point! I've got fair waun'ert . But that is beside the point! I have got quite 'wandered' [uncertain of my whereabouts,                   ...

'But I be where extremes meet' Hugh MacDiarmid in A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle  (1926) "Hugh MacDiarmid came into being in 1922 [Christopher Murray Grieve having in 1922 adopted the pseudonym 'Hugh MacDiarmid']: the year, as is often noted, in which James Joyce's Ulysses  was first published in book form, in which T.S Eliot's The Waste Land  first appeared, and which saw the first publication of Virginia Woolfe's first novel in her mature modernist style, Jacob's Room ".  (D. Goldie, 2011, The Edinburgh Companion to Hugh MacDiarmid ) "His adoption of the Scots language [Lowland Scots, as distinct from Highland Gaelic]   in 1922   was a turning from the language of Empire, globally spoken English, to the language of some sections of a tiny country [a deliberate swerve into linguistic oddity]; it was at least as much a movement towards the unpopular [a move into inaccessibility] as it was a gesture of identification with his own people ....