Quentin's Weeknotes 10/12/19-10/18/19
Quentin’s Weeknotes:
Try to understand the science. Try to tell the truth. Try to find a medium in which to tell the truth. Try to extend the envelope in which you will be permitted to tell the truth. Prophecy is over. Persuasion is over. Action is the last thing left. Rebellion is the last thing left. Stay steady in the face of it all. Do what you can. Write that. Record that. Try to pass helpful messages between practical, determined people.
- I read archaeologist Paul Mullins' lengthy blog post on recent (and historical) attempts to exhume the body of gangster John Dillinger in Indianapolis. Dillinger’s fame as a criminal and his legacy have spurred many ad-hoc (and sometimes vandalizing) memorialization efforts, including possibly the removal of his body or parts theoreof from his grave. Mullins uses the recent efforts by Dillinger’s descendants to exhume the body for verification as a vantage point for thinking about fame, spectacle, memorialization, and death, and the ways in variable ways in which we remember public figures.
