Talib

“Well, sir," said Uncle Henry, "I'll tell you. They took a piece off the lump of lead they made their bullets of, melted it over the fire in the hearth down at the schoolhouse till it would run like water, and poured it in that groove. When it cooled off, there was a long streak of solid lead, about as big as one of our lead-pencils nowadays. They'd break that up in shorter lengths, and there you'd have your lead-pencils, made while you wait. I tell you, in the old days folks knew how to take care of themselves more than now.”
― Dorothy Canfield Fisher, Understood Betsy

“After all, modernity is above all things convinced that it owes nothing to the past, that is has made itself, that what matters is what is happening right now. Indeed, this is the meaning of the freedom, power, and progress that we all prize...”
― Michael Allen Gillespie, The Theological Origins of Modernity