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My generation remembers that all we have rests on the struggles of those who came before. Yours seems to believe there was no generation before. There are the aged and the young, and the world will forever belong to the young, and the young
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“There is now nothing which more brings home to me the passage of the years than to meet a grown man who does not recall, as his strongest memory, the horror that the news produced”
― An Instance of the Fingerpost
― An Instance of the Fingerpost
“We had become inured to the most horrendous of sins, and thought of them as instruments of policy.”
― An Instance of the Fingerpost
― An Instance of the Fingerpost
“It was a hot day and the Ferris wheel was turning in the air like a thermometer bent in a circle and given the grace of music.”
― Trout Fishing in America / The Pill versus the Springhill Mine Disaster / In Watermelon Sugar
― Trout Fishing in America / The Pill versus the Springhill Mine Disaster / In Watermelon Sugar
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A group to discuss historical fiction involving sailing ships--think Patrick O'Brian or C.S Forester--and the Golden Age of Sail. Ahoy! Photo: Brig ...more
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