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#151
02-07-2014, 11:17 PM
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Patty and I were watching Bill Mahrs' show tonight and PJ O'Roarke was shilling his new book, 'The Boomers'. Finally one his books I may actually pay good money for.
 Naw, I'll wait for it at the next AARP raffle. 
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I don't know half of you half as well as I should like, and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve. - Mr. Underhill 
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#153
02-08-2014, 03:33 PM
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Finally finished 'Autobiography of a Supertramp'. It's very good, a story of a Brit (Welsh?) who among other things came to the US and travelled the country as a tramp around the turn of the last century. His writing is compellingly severe after a fashion:
"As we neared the coast [of the US] we had a thunderstorm, and I was suprised and somewhat awed at the sound of its' peals, and at the slower and larger flashes of lightning. Nature, it seemed, used a freer and more powerful hand in this country of great things than is her wont among our pretty little dales, and our small green hills. I thought the world was coming to an end, and in no way felt reassured when an American, noting my expression, said that it was nothing to what I would see and hear if I remained long in Gods' own country of free and law abiding citizens.' Pete
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#154
02-08-2014, 04:22 PM
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Hey, the SO just got the mail and I got a package. Kiplings' 'Stalky & Co' and a Mel Torme CD! Thanks Robbin!!
Pete
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#156
02-08-2014, 05:28 PM
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As long as the roots are not severed, all will be well in the garden.
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#157
02-09-2014, 07:58 PM
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Reading "After the Berlin Wall" by Christopher Hilton. Interesting read about the reunification of Germany. As always, it was not so one sided a thing as western propaganda would have us believe. Not at, and I'm not counting those up high who lost there jobs and political positions through the disappearances of the GDR, were as happy with being taken over by the west as we were lead to believe.
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There never Was a Good War or a Bad Peace. - Benjamin Franklin.
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#158
02-09-2014, 08:15 PM
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the Stalkey short stories are great fun..... a nice diversion...the Kipling web site has the notes to help explain the obscure contemporary references.... Beetle is the character based on Kipling himself. I will have to track down the full set of stories...this edition cut 4 of the stories but is a great read nonetheless next on the Kipling agenda is The Jungle Book lol
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#159
03-17-2014, 10:44 AM
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War and Peace
Leo Tolstoy a recent reprint by Canterbury Classics of San Diego. On the way to jury duty NPR was saying how anything within reach of you at the moment was brought over in a container ship from China. The book was in the front seat... I got curious.... printed in China.
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#160
03-17-2014, 02:01 PM
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Getting back to Paul Tillich's "Love, Power and Justice" and I know I will have to read it at least twice to absorb it all.
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Great minds discuss ideas; Average minds discuss events; Small minds discuss people. Eleanor Roosevelt
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