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Mildred Bevel's journal entries.
HerStickinessPrinciple + cobweb ___
High on Morphine and other drugs for her illness. Callisthenics too.
She was on Peracelsus's treatment. From the journal entries, Andrew taught her the rules of investments and she came alive with results. Surprising twist with her suggestion that her what if 1 of the 4 keyboard operators could be bribed. "He did just that." Fortune made. It's1926

I had a hard time imagining why Hitler disliked so many people. Anabelle wondered then asked,
"Who does he like?"

Anabelle wasn't afraid of most people but the new girl in school, Betty was hers to fear.

You're right. It was easy to abandon this at first.
I am nicely surprised so far. Interesting way of presenting.
I, as reader had to put some work in to decipher what's really going on here.

He reminds us about what to take seriously. He gives us a way to think rationally knowing that irrationality is always on the forefront.
He covers so much in a short 'space' -makes me wonder about too much.
Well written and the Princeton audio is exceptional, reading this book made me wonder about the author -he is writing from several places and even at mid 40's when this book was written. He was born in 1972.

fast read. good distraction.

Menacing dialogue between Father Vereker and Jack Higgins, who shows particular persistence in looking through the graveyard headstones.
6th November, 1943. Still searching for Charles Gascoigne at Saint Mary's, Higgins is willing to ask sexton Laker Armsby. They meet up with George Wilde over a pint but Higgins drinks a large vodka and tonic. No one wanted to discuss Steiner. MysterySets in as ArthurSeymour steps in

we are past due on the urgent need to recognize the right to cognitive liberty over our brains and mental experiences..
How does cognitive liberty improve as time goes by - neurotechnology is fast becoming a part of our everyday lives.
Pausing the dying process by Cryonics -190 customers have plunked down between $80000 an $200000for brain- or whole-body preservation services -2022 research data.

1934 -- Everett Greenwood's shack. He always preferred trees to people.
Here he entertains tapping maple syrup from one of his maple trees.

Published 2019.
Jake Greenwood's job is Forest Guide at the greenwood Arboreal Cathedral. This is on an island of the Pacific Coast of British Columbia. When Jake gives her speech to the pilgrims, she can talk about Earth's dust storms but never talk about causes. The year is 2038.

Lyman Ward is a Historian. He enters the story describing himself as his caregiver sees him as she preps him for bed. Confined to his wheelchair, the description is filled fith action and sound.

The view from Columbia Street I have seen, but much obstructed and changed. As she saw it a hundred years ago there were no grimy warehouses thrusting up from the waterfront, there was no Brooklyn Bridge, no Statue of Liberty, no New York sky¬ line. Somewhere I have read that in 1870 the tallest building in Manhattan was ten stories.

Starts 1921 with Elsa marrying Rafe and moving in with his family; she 25, he 18. She devoted to him, his family and farming -3 children later and dealing with the Dust Bowl -I thought that history well covered and vivid descriptions following. Three generations of family with emotion, conflict and desire to survive.

Four principles of Logic:
1)Principle of Identity-- Tell what it is
2) Excluded Middle--It exists or doesn't exist. The lamp is on the desk or it isn't.
3)There is sufficient reason for everything.-Larry's mother and father are the cause of his very existence.
4) The Principle of contradiction.- He is physically in New York even though his thoughts are in Washington but he is not in both places at the same time.

I don't know what this author believes but I'm rereading this in detail just because it's on my shelf I need to understand this book independent of his other writings.
Logic and language are inseparable. Logic is about reality. Logic is about truth.
A) We must pay attention are alternate expressions. B)Get our facts straight. Facts can be Events or Things (C) Be mindful of the origin of ideas..

28 years later.


"War is the tao of decption....." --the Art of War.

Battleships would be more than useless by 1930.

By 1914, Roosevelt tried to diffuse the crises that began as the Japanese formed hostile alliance with Mexico -he knew the Japanese posed a threat... He devised a plan to send the main US battle fleet on a goodwill tour around the world A practice run will be good as the navy will discover failures, blunders, shortcomings in time of peace and not on time of war. They departed December 16 1907. By 1930, battleships

They came from every region of the country but within a year or two their accents and dialects were wrung out of them. --US Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland. Teenagers goal to be turned into fighting men.
1903-Kitty Hawk-Wright Brothers
1906-Great Britain launched HMS Dreadnought.
**President Theodore Roosevelt was fascinated with the Japanese.

The pupils ganged up on the brother and ambushed him They fled thrilled by their violence like Tom Barry's guerillas in the Civil War he (the Brother) taught them in class.
"Years later, I met him walking in the street, his eyes glued to the pavement as if looking for somethin he'd lost.... He had a tremor when he shook my hand. Both of us with scars; his above the eyebrow, mine invisible."

The other brother beat the pupils with his cane and Byrne recalls pressing his fist into his eye to dull the pain of the beating then a cloud of purple ringed with gold would appear, then darkness. He bit his nails and the skin around them down to 'bloody stumps' Very tragic!!... Hands felt like on fire for a humiliated eternity. .. His imaginings from stories like "The Wind In the Willow" saved him.

In this memoir, Byrne reminisces on his childhood through personal stories For example at the Christian Brothers' school for older boys, where he was sent at age ten. The good and bad part iinclude the history you learn of the old castle, where Oliver Cromwell kept horses in 1649. He massacred the Irish people; what the Irish thought of the English; his favorite teacher, Brothe Brennigan and the other Brother.

The bio of the Prime Minister, Asquinth before he became Prime Minister and all his affairs and two marriages; who he wined and dined.
"The Prime Minister promised that Britain would withhold the laying down of the four contingent dreadnoughts until the pace of German construction made it imperative."
Metternich telegraphed Berlin to explain the German program in detail. Tirpitz opposed. the Kaiser agreed with

Followed by a distant roar of hundreds of thousands of voices raised in hope and acclamation.