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" herein lies the attractiveness of ethnic agitation: it's ease and accessibility. The Other is visible, everyone can recognize and remember his image. One doesn't have to read books, think, discuss: it's enough to just look. "

" she sifts through her memories, a though she is sifting through the rice at Serabai's house, removing the stones and hard pieces, leaving behind what is good and shiny"

Trying to finish as many unread books off my shelves as I can while I can, or let them go. Trying one last time......

A wild black swan in a cage
Puts all of heaven In a rage

____Robert Adamson, " After William Blake"

Dio ...."democracy sounded well and good but it's results seemed not to agree at all with it's title. Monarchy, on the contrary, has a unpleasant sound, but is a most practical form of government to live under...Easier to find a single excellent man than many."

Plutarch " No wild beast is more savage than man when his passion is supplemented by power"