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Act I, Scene 3 - Papaw: "The man's labor that did the work is in the work. You can't make it go away. Even if it's paid for it's still there. If ownership lies in the benefit to a man then the mason owns all the work he does in the world and you caint put that claim aside nor quit it and it don't make no difference whose name is on the paper."

I read 'the Remembrance of Things Past' and I remember nothing; I came out the door I went in, as the saying goes.

Did anyone else read Vollmann's piece in this month's Harper's about the FBI suspecting Vollmann was the "Unibomber"?

See, when you write a f'ing lot and don't use an editor, the FBI will notice...

"Do you want the Church organized or do you want a Spokesman, Cook, and Bottle Washer?" - Brigham Young responding to S Rigdon's offer to serve as Joseph's spokesman.

"You can and you can't,
You shall and you shan't;
you will and you won't --
And you'll be damned if you do,
and damned if you don't."

- Lorenzo "Crazy" Dow (Methodist circuit rider) deriding Calvinists.

After just the intro and part of Chapter 1, I'm absolutely hooked. This is not your Mormon grandma's hagiography of Brother Brigham.

To all my librarian friends:
http://vimeo.com/66169135