Wednesday’s Child: Just a Couple of Quotes
“The Bolshevik mentality is as old as history. Cain, in the Old Testament, had the mind of a Bolshevik.”
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Ignorant Bliss,
Revolutionary leftists are forever praising European social policies to the skies and condemning the rednecks who despise foreigners and the Americans who respect them without knowing one significant fact about any country, tradition, or person in any European country.
Augustine, Book II. 1-7
The second book of The Confessions is perhaps the best known, because it has given us the mythical story of a terribly dissolute young man who eventually overcame his carnal temptations.
Italian August 31 VOCABULARY
Let us prioritize our learning. The most important part of the lesson is the grammar, the least important is the reading. This week we can cut back the reading to about five pages. In addition, instead of trying to learn all the vocabulary, I’ll select the most important.
“Poetry” by John Shelton Reed
My old friend and unedited co-conspirator, John Shelton Reed, has taken to writing what he calls poems. I’ll say this for him, he has outdone his role models, J.Gordon Coogler and the Great McGonnigle. If this first specimen fails to incite howls of protest or calls of “Someone get a rope,” I’ll post several more.
A Garden Variety Revolutionary
But no American political leader has displayed the revolutionary mania for renaming so openly as Donald Trump.
Italian August 21
Uses of the subjunctive, a compound verb or two. 10 more pages. Feedback requested before proceeding further
Shreds and Patches: A San Francisco Bay Blues Parenthesis, Part One
had by the age of 21 had enough experience of beats, Bohemians, and hippies to satisfy any cravings for the counter-culture
