Jim’s Reviews > Notebooks, 1942-1951 > Status Update

Jim
is on page 208 of 284
Profligates who are virtuous in their principles. True. But practically and for the moment I prefer a rake who kills no one to a puritan who kills everyone. And the thing that above all I have never been able to accept is a rake who wants to kill everyone. (Trump?)
— Dec 28, 2020 09:23PM
3 likes · Like flag
Jim’s Previous Updates

Jim
is on page 109 of 284
What better can a man wish for than poverty? I didn't say destitution nor yet the hopeless labor of the modern proletariat. But I don't see what anyone can want more than poverty with the possibility of activity in leisure.
— Dec 27, 2020 09:01PM