drew but they're nice i swear and colosseum jumbotron simbacam debut
don't deny you'd also imagined agile young goat in tight white robe 270° into roundhouse kick when first heard
karate
kid.
snow leopard cannot roar
am the garden that will not be tended & oh shit did i just capital
bikeshare pedal over a dead rat both crossed my mind in not too
distant linear time
might be suited by
lenin-hating liberal bumper sticker, that v-bearded robespierre just wanted everything himself. dive bar stale beer smells alright
let facts be submitted to a candid world
the manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors..for beverage purposes is hereby prohibited
read the shooting of dan mcgrew and other poems by robert w. service
each man worked like a demon,
as prow to rudder we raced;
the winds of the wild cried "hurry!"
the voice of the waters, "haste!"
were you ever out in the great alone,
when the moon was awful clear,
and the icy mountains hemmed you in
with a silence you most could hear;
with only the howl of a timber wolf,
and you camped there in the cold,
a half-dead thing in a stark, dead world,
clean mad for the muck called gold;
while high overhead, green, yellow and red,
the north lights swept in bars? -
then you've a hunch what the music meant...
hunger and night and the stars
and i know at the dawn she'll come reeling home
with the bottles, one, two, three -
one for herself, to drown her shame,
and two big bottles for me,
to make me forget the thing i am
and the man i used to be
read..
soon he became the center of the new york artistic colony that wished to study photography
brady photographed 18 of the 19 american presidents from john quincy adams to william mckinley. the exception was the ninth president, william henry harrison, who died in office three years before brady started his photographic collection. brady photographed abraham lincoln on many occasions. his lincoln photographs have been used for the $5 bill and the lincoln cent
the father of photojournalism
representative democracy..a system in which inferior men dominated their superiors
an open critic of economics
an elitist rather than a racist
a nation too long at peace becomes a sort of gigantic old maid
the other magnificos of the eighteenth century
did not support the new deal
in 1931, the arkansas legislature passed a motion to pray for mencken's soul after he had called the state the "apex of moronia"
once called marriage "the end of hope"
he sometimes referred to himself in the past tense, as if he were already dead
america, where democracy, as defined by mencken, is "the worship of jackals by jackasses"
defining puritanism as "the haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy"
the "booboisie", his word for the ignorant middle classes
what real scientists do, which is to simply directly look at the existence of "shapes and forces" confronting them instead of (such as in statistics) attempting to speculate and use mathematical models
there are so few people on earth worth knowing
(3) robert gottlieb, the art of editing no. 1 interviewed by larissa macfarquhar
vintage plastic handbags, of which he has a notorious collection
the editor's relationship to a book should be an invisible one
what we left on the cutting room floor still makes me blush
he's married to an actress, and he has a very theatrical manner
every writer should have tattooed backwards on his forehead, like ambulance on ambulances, the words everybody needs an editor
i can get people interested in robert moses once, but not twice
i was supposed to do a biography of fiorello laguardia
it was really quite startling
the more you have surrendered to a book, the more jarring its errors appear
my life is reading. in fact, i was about forty years old when i had an amazing revelation - this is going to sound dumb - it suddenly came to me that not every person in the world assumed, without thinking about it, that reading was the most important thing in life
you can't be the one who says, send him to hong kong at this point, let him have a love affair with a cocker spaniel
(4) the october crisis
charles de gaulle..standing on a balcony in montreal, shouted "vive le quebec libre"
trudeau replies, "just watch me"
a communique to police advising that pierre laporte has been executed refers to him derisively as the "minister of unemployment and assimilation"
in 1968-69, trudeau had seriously considered pulling out of nato
(5) the tasmanian tiger
both sexes had a pouch
the skull is noted to be highly convergent on those of canids
its olfactory bulbs were not well developed
the thylacine jaw was too weak to kill sheep
surprisingly feeble jaws
(6) the west african griot is a troubadour, the counterpart of the medieval european minstrel
an endogamous professionally specialised group or caste, meaning that most of them only marry fellow griots, and pass on the storytelling tradition down the family line
(7) toothpicks, targets, falchions, beards of all ages, vizards, spectacles! sir what you lack
although opium was difficult to cultivate and process, it was the perfect merchandise for maritime trade; it was compact and light, and stable enough to travel long distances in ships' holds
in bengal and bihar..millions died of famine in 1769-70, after productive farmland was transformed into poppy fields through coercion by the east india company
kipling toured the ghazipur opium factory in 1899, and wrote an essay about it. orwell was born in bihar, where his father was a sub-deputy opium agent. dickens's essay on opium in households words is a classic example of victorian both-sidesism..tagore wrote an article on what he called 'the death traffic in china'
(8) the longest presidential address in history
netanyahu brought trump a golden pager, in reference to the israeli operation against hizbullah; starmer arrived with a letter from king charles. on friday, 26 february zelensky got out of his car wearing a black tactical sweater. 'oh, you're all dressed up,' trump said
(9) the china of 2008 has been transformed
in the late 1970s china generated less than 2 percent of the world's economic output. in 2023 it accounted for roughly 34 percent of global manufacturing exports
consensus shatters
the new infosphere (a term that encompassed the as-yet-uninvented internet)
(10) the greatest mass revolt in europe before the french revolution
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