Locator: 44608NETZERO.
This net-zero banking story sure turned out to be a bigger story than I ever thought it would be.
Talk about capitalism at work.
Once one US bank stepped back from net-zero banking, the dominoes began to fall immediately.
This was posted earlier:
Net-zero banking? Dead. Link here. Along with ESG and DEI.
And now today, link here.
The whole house of cards, to mix metaphors, is now going to fall, in quick succession.
This reminds me a lot of "the wall" coming down in 1989 -- the Berlin Wall.
Some, by the way, are equating the "return" of Donald Trump as significant as "the fall of the Berllin Wall." We'll get back to that later. See this post.
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Word of the Day
Obrigado.
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The Book Page
Portable Magic: A History of Books and their Readers, Emma Smith, c. 2022.
Another great book, bought sight unseen and not a bit unsatisfied. A top shelf book in this genre.
My notes will be posted here.
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The Fine Arts Page
Is this not sublime? Link here.
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A Musical Interlude
Link here. This one absolutely makes my day!
Stage direction in Shakespeare's All's Well That Ends Well.
"Tucket" is the English version of the Italian word toccata, from toccare, meaning to touch. In Renaissance Italy a "toccata" was also the royal or noble declaration. [It might be used to alert the audience something important was about to happen -- perhaps the riders were being called to mount, or perhaps royalty was about to enter stage right.] Its attention-getting style- so tuneful and attractive -- was soon to be adopted in teh early seventeenth century, in compositions of music, such as those of Corelli [Arcangelo Corelli, 1653 - 1713, some four decades after Shakespeare was writing] and Bach [J.S. Bach, 1685 - 1750 -- some seventy-five years after Shakespeare was writing.]
The toccata originated in northern Italy (think Tuscany, Florence) in the late Renaissance period (15th and 16th centuries). Shakespeare was writing in the late 16th century, early 17th century).
Folks are probably more familiar with this version.
So, if toccatas were originally written for organ, brilliant that Shakespeare turned to trumpets for his plays. Wow.
According to Richard Paul Roe, p. 199, "a tucket is a run of tuneful notes, generally on a trumpet."
Again, using a precise word.
