Charles Smith’s Reviews > The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914 > Status Update
Charles Smith
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Between Oscar Wilde and Richard Strauss one would wonder [cogitate] how we do not have Auteur Provocateur as a classification. Picasso and Dali had great incitement and Freud and Jung enumerated the receipts.
— Feb 23, 2026 10:07PM
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Charles Smith
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That chapter on The Hague says so much about the importance of Rudolph Diesel; Standard Oil; Steel and The whole international poker game where EVERYONE is cheating.
— Feb 22, 2026 09:18PM
Charles Smith
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Now I am looking forward to reading that Panama Canal book.
— Feb 21, 2026 09:03PM
Charles Smith
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The omissions talked about in the forward have me fortunate I read The Curious Case of Rudolph Diesel.
— Feb 17, 2026 10:23PM
