If This Isn't Nice, What Is?

First annotation on Jan 17th, 2024.

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One trouble, it seems to me, is that the majority of the people who rule us, who have our money and power, are lawyers or military men. The lawyers want to talk our problems out of existence. The military men want us to find the bad guys and put bullets through their brains.Jan 17 2024 11:02PM
I should like to give a motto to your class, a motto to your entire generation. It comes from my favorite Shakespearean play, which is King Henry VI, Part Three. In the first scene of Act Two, you will remember, Edward, Earl of March, who will later become King Edward IV, enters with Richard, who will later become Duke of Gloucester. They are the Duke of York’s sons. They arrive at the head of their troops on a plain near Mortimer’s Cross in Herefordshire and immediately receive news that their father has had his head cut off. Richard says this, among other things, and this is the motto I give you: “To weep is to make less the depth of grief.”Jan 17 2024 11:03PM

What is it the slightly older people want from the slightly younger people? They want credit for having survived so long, and often imaginatively, under difficult conditions. Slightly younger people are intolerably stingy about giving them credit for that.Jan 17 2024 10:53PM
What is it the slightly younger people want from the slightly older people? More than anything, I think, they want acknowledgement, and without further ado, that they are without question women and men now. Slightly older people are intolerably stingy about making any such acknowledgement.Jan 17 2024 10:53PM

The real trouble with the wife, as far as the husband is concerned, may be that she isn’t enough people. The real trouble with the husband, as far as the wife is concerned, may be that he isn’t enough people.Jan 17 2024 10:59PM

“I was a victim of a series of accidents, as are we all.” “I’m a space wanderer named Kurt.” “So it goes …”Jan 17 2024 11:01PM

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