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"Trumpism is not a protest against how the world works. It is a rejection of the very concept of knowing how the world works."

"...‘Bird On The Wire’ appearing at funerals as a slightly more bookish alternative to Sinatra’s ‘My Way’.."

"English is not an especially good language for daring experiments with form or for pure style. There is a burgheresque stolidity to it. When I think of the lyrical richness and sheer romanticism or mysticism possible in the other languages I know, I am again startled anyone attempts the lyric or visionary mode in English." —Jayaprakash Satyamurthy via

"In a sense we defeated the Confederacy last night. But this time we must get Reconstruction right and not let it get sold out the way it was in 1876-7."