I think I am going to intersperse other topics with little gems from this compact tome, in dribs and drabs.
I am no longer thinking even a little about alerting anyone here to anything in particular.
I gave up on that a long long time ago.
After a career of 40 or so years, it seems, he did too!
Bravo! It just seems to me that maybe he would have been better off just playing golf!
A lot of the stuff that I think will come out from reading the book, and I know this will sound strange to say, I knew for years now, somehow, instinctively, like an animal, prowling in the dark, in a dense jungle, that senses, by smell, even, before a sound, much less sight, the near approach of yet another beast of prey;
and knowing it did me as little good as it has the country, or Western Civilization, for that matter, for a lot of different reasons, spelled out over the years, on this blog.
and knowing it did me as little good as it has the country, or Western Civilization, for that matter, for a lot of different reasons, spelled out over the years, on this blog.
It really is only a personal matter of taste, in reading material, and a dogged impulse, a compulsion, to express myself, without regard for the audience one way or the other.
You could also think of it, on a different level, as a dogged impulse, to contend in a more or less useless way, in a long ongoing struggle, going back well over 100 years, for nothing less than survival, which I nevertheless have long sensed, and known even, that we in the West cannot and will not win.
You could also think of it, on a different level, as a dogged impulse, to contend in a more or less useless way, in a long ongoing struggle, going back well over 100 years, for nothing less than survival, which I nevertheless have long sensed, and known even, that we in the West cannot and will not win.
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