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"... we long for something of substance to oppose us. Something to contain us or to stay our hand. Otherwise there are no boundaries to our own being and we too must extend our claims until we lose all definition."
— Dec 07, 2025 01:32AM
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Oliver
is on page 386 of 426
I love this line about a Mexican ballad or "corrido":
"[The corrido] tells what it wishes to tell. It tells what makes the story run. The corrido is a poor man's history. It does not owe allegiance to the truths of history but to the truths of men."
I'll be thinking of this next time I hear a spun tale on the news. You spout nothing but a corrido! A tale designed to tell the story you want to tell.
— Dec 12, 2025 05:07AM
"[The corrido] tells what it wishes to tell. It tells what makes the story run. The corrido is a poor man's history. It does not owe allegiance to the truths of history but to the truths of men."
I'll be thinking of this next time I hear a spun tale on the news. You spout nothing but a corrido! A tale designed to tell the story you want to tell.
Oliver
is on page 292 of 426
"... most men were in their lives like the carpenter whose work went so slowly for the dullness of his tools that he had not time to sharpen them."
— Dec 09, 2025 09:40AM
Oliver
is on page 230 of 426
"The road has its own reasons and no two travelers will have the same understanding of those reasons."
— Dec 07, 2025 01:22PM
