This situation is now as old as anything

[sovay]

I am behind on posting about politics, NecronomiCon, and movies, I am exhausted and I have to catch a bus for a doctor's appointment right now, but Brandeis University has had to close its campus because of bomb threats and I am not happy. That is my non-sectarian, quota-busting, Jewish-sponsored alma mater, with a school calendar that shifts each year to the Jewish holidays and Hebrew on its university seal. In this political climate, I have a hard time thinking it's a coincidental crank call. Please explain to me again why it won't work if I inscribe אמת on the forehead of the nine-foot bronze statue of Justice Louis D. Brandeis and ask it to lay down some old-school crusading social justice on this country.

[edit] The campus has reopened, but I'm not sure I shouldn't still do it anyway.

Comments

[asakiyume]

That's terrible. I like your idea of animating the statue of Justice Brandeis.

We just saw a quote by him, coincidentally, on a building in Holyoke.

[sovay]

I like your idea of animating the statue of Justice Brandeis.

I can't remember ever thinking it before, but all of a sudden it was apparent what a good golem he would make.

We just saw a quote by him, coincidentally, on a building in Holyoke.

Nice! What was it?

I found some wonderful pictures of him while looking for a good one of the statue.

[asakiyume]

I don't remember! I was just now searching pictures of the building (the Holyoke War Memorial Building), but the pictures I find only show the front of it, and the quote was on the side.

Next time I'm in Holyoke, I'll look.

Those are great photos--I like the one with the canoe and with the kids in the corn.

[sovay]

Those are great photos--I like the one with the canoe and with the kids in the corn.

I'm fond of the one of him by the window, where he looks incredibly young despite being older than I am now.

[tree_and_leaf]

I think you should go for it, tbh.

[moon_custafer]

^^^^^^

[sovay]

I think you should go for it, tbh.

I'm really not sure I have any reasons not to, except maybe it not working. Even so.

[tree_and_leaf]

Surely it's worth a try?

[choco_frosh]

I have a feeling it might start by squishing some of the current and former members of the university administration. Not sure if you think that's a good reason to skip trying it, just saying'.

[yhlee]

*support support*

[sovay]

*support support*

Thank you.

*hugs*

[zdenka]

Seems like a good time for a golem to me.

[negothick]

All the years I spent there, and never thought of a Justice Brandeis golem--and it's such a perfect match, since the Prague Golem was made for justice. . .

[sovay]

All the years I spent there, and never thought of a Justice Brandeis golem--and it's such a perfect match, since the Prague Golem was made for justice. . .

It makes you wonder about the university itself. Seriously, with אמת written everywhere, I don't see how you can not expect golems.

[cmcmck]

We saw Rabbi Loewe's tomb in Prague and heard the legend about the golem still being up in the rafters of the 'Old New' Synagogue.

You can't have too many golems!

[gwynnega]

A Justice Brandeis golem sounds like just the ticket.

[sovay]

A Justice Brandeis golem sounds like just the ticket.

I almost can't believe there hasn't been one already.

[pameladean]

Brandeis, thou shouldst be living at this hour. Yeah.

P.

[sovay]

Brandeis, thou shouldst be living at this hour. Yeah.

I'll settle for dybbuk if I have to, but we've got the statue.

[ladymondegreen]

One wonders if attempting to create the golem might draw the soul of the original man into the replica, thereby actually creating a self-haunting dybbuk.

[sovay]

One wonders if attempting to create the golem might draw the soul of the original man into the replica, thereby actually creating a self-haunting dybbuk.

I would consider that a more than acceptable result.

[pameladean]

Well, yes, it does seem more efficient that way.

P.

[lemon_badgeress]

Please explain to me again why it won't work if I inscribe אמת on the forehead of the nine-foot bronze statue of Justice Louis D. Brandeis and ask it to lay down some old-school crusading social justice on this country.

....has anyone who says so TRIED?

[sovay]

....has anyone who says so TRIED?

I do not know that anyone has, although I can't imagine I'm the first person to think of it. Increasingly I am trying to think how to go through with it for the symbolism if nothing else without being arrested by campus police.

[kore]

....it totally worked for Jack Kirby (metaphorically?)

[sovay]

....it totally worked for Jack Kirby (metaphorically?)

Until I clicked on the link, I thought you meant there was a superhero version of Louis Brandeis, which would also have been cool, but the idea of Captain America in the golem tradition had never occurred to me and is fascinating.

[julian]

I would like to endorse this idea most heartily. Louis Brandeis for the defense! (Of the USA.)

[sovay]

Louis Brandeis for the defense! (Of the USA.)

From your lips to his ears!

[selidor]

At the very least, it's a hell of a poem-story. One can do a lot with a grease-pencil?

Grief, I wish all this wasn't happening to your country. I just keep wishing for more flowering of the America I know, the one where people are kind and generous and build & create amazing things, and less of this hurtful vampire America that is showing its parasitic fangs.

[sovay]

At the very least, it's a hell of a poem-story. One can do a lot with a grease-pencil?

I'm really thinking about it.

I just keep wishing for more flowering of the America I know, the one where people are kind and generous and build & create amazing things, and less of this hurtful vampire America that is showing its parasitic fangs.

Thank you. I appreciate that people are still managing to build and create in despite of the fangs, but I wish they didn't have to. I wish I didn't have to. I know how we got here, but I hate it.

[coraline]

Oh my goodness that image of the judge is amazing. I'd read that story :)

[sovay]

Oh my goodness that image of the judge is amazing. I'd read that story

Thank you. I will see what I can do.

[nineweaving]

Brilliant!

Nine

[sovay]

Brilliant!

I'm pretty sure I can make it happen as an art project, but I really do want it for real.