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He’s crossing the Delaware now. He’s view or telling of early American history is very waspy and fairly banal. He’s smart but not soaring smart. Just ok smart.
He pays lip service to his white male privilege but it’s more an unquestioning existence
— Feb 07, 2025 03:55AM
He pays lip service to his white male privilege but it’s more an unquestioning existence
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Fermor and King, the walking writers, like to use people to get free things out of them. It seems to give them some sense of satisfaction.
— Feb 08, 2025 04:02AM
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Whereas A Time of Gifts was peopled with congeniality (King recommended it), Ramble follows a trail of conflict, persecution and alienation. Fermor depicts Dutch, Germans, Czechs, Jew and gentile in 1933 as kind, welcoming and endlessly fascinating but King’s 21st century suburban Americans are frightened at worst and dogmatic at best. Compare and despair, I suppose.
— Feb 03, 2025 01:59PM
