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I fell off for a bit, but here we are back at it again.

This book has like. Two great scenes. At the start. And like maybe 80% in. But the rest of it is so dry. How are there so many words and nothing is happening?

How I'm still following all this with the breaks I've head is beyond me

It's slow going if only because of life being as busy as it is, but I am enjoying the book

Needless to say I'm enjoying it. And at the same time it makes me look at how the state of things are now and sigh.

Split the party

But there the revolt halted, because in the America, which had so warmly praised itself for its "widespread popular free education," there had been so very little education, widespread, popular, free, or anything else, that most people did not know what they wanted--indeed knew about so few things to want at all.

And, most fatally and abysmally, his Solution guessed that men of superior cunning, of slyer foxiness, whether they might be called Comrades, Brethren, Commissars, Kings, Patriots, Little Brothers of the Poor, or any other rosy name, would continue to have more influence than slower-witted men, however worthy.

--they've realized that this country has gone so flabby that any gang daring enough and unscrupulous enough, and smart enough not to seem illegal, can grab hold of the entire government and have all the power and applause and salutes, all the money and palaces and willin' women they want.