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Present and imperfect of the verb “to be”, enclitic words, and contrary to fact conditions.
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Wednesday’s Child: Freedom, More or Less
Last week I sought to enlarge on an insight of Anthony Powell’s, arguing that individual liberty is something of a hermetic communion like serious literature.
Greece in November
We are tentatively planning a small group trip to Greece of about 10 days for November 2025. The rough plan is to arrive and spend perhaps three nights in Athens and see the usual sights, then a bus will take us to Nauplion/Nafplio on the East coast of the Peloponnesus and from there visit Mycenae and Epidauros, and perhaps Tiryns and/or Nemea
Can Trump Bring Peace in Our Time?
The theme of my articles here is peace. Because the alternative is nuclear war. It’s the main reason I loathed Biden, and whoever really was running his regime.
Wednesday’s Child: Who Needs Freedom?
My father used to tell me how, when he was a boy in the 1930’s, he came upon a cobbler plying his craft in Moscow. The man was an Azeri, quietly industrious like many of his race and, just as important, perennially sober.
Old Wine in New Bottles, Part I: The Kids Are Not All Right [sic]
In any decent society, patterns of deference are the foundation of the social order: the young defer to the old, females defer to males, parents defer to children. Any senior member who allows his juniors or inferiors to treat him with contempt or indifference is undermining the order and potentially rearing a sociopath who will prey upon his fellows.
Old Wine in New Bottles, Preface II
Most of us, when we were children, tried to explain away some deviation from parental norms on the grounds that “All the other kids are sporting a ducktail and wearing leather jackets or smoking dope and listening to Hendrix.”
