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" 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"

Caesar took charge of most elections and decided most court cases. He ...settled scores, rewarding supporters, and auctioning opponents property.The senate appeared increasingly irrelevant. Some groused they lived in a monarchy masquerading as a republic...

"The list of abuses was impressive. Royal functionaries appropriated lands, requisitioned houses, pocketed monies, confiscated boats, ordered arbitrary arrests, levied illicit taxes, they devised sophisticated extortion rackets"

"it was neither the first nor the last place in the world where a decline in power translated into an enormity of symbols..."

" ....current aberration in the white house...."

"There are no crimes,"he mumbled afterward, "when no one is left alive".

Rereading. Not sure what's wrong with me. I'm rereading more than reading new to me this year. I'm too old for this.

Some things in this world just ain't ment to be, not in the times we want 'em to, and the heart has to hold it in this world as a remembrance, a promise for the world to come. There's a prize at the end of all of it, but still, that's a heavy load to bear.

Some things in this world just ain't ment to be, not in the times we want 'em to, and the heart has to hold it in this world as a remembrance, a promise for the world to come. There's a prize at the end of all of it, but still, that's a heavy load to bear.