Date: July 27th, 2026 10:17 PM Author: Passionate Slate Site
And perhaps that is one of the greatbort’s recurring emotional tricks. It cannot easily state admiration straight. Earnestness would be exposed too quickly; grandeur announced in its own name would be embarrassing. So reverence has to arrive smuggled inside desecration. The joke provides cover for the feeling. The poaster can say, in effect: Look at him. Look at the moment. Look at what we are capable of carrying. But because this is XO, what appears on the surface is:
a garoose sitting beside the stern-eyed captain of the USS Yorktown c 1944
The garoose is the alibi that permits the awe. The garoose is the vessel of our worship.