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"the fabled birth of minerva from the brain of jove was hardly more sudden or more perfect than the financial system of the united states as it burst forth from the conception of alexander hamilton."

this is soooooo dramatic

'for security reasons, beckwith assigned hamilton the code number "7" in reporting their talks back to london -- a precaution that later led to preposterous charges that hamilton was a british agent.'

call me hamilton. alexander hamilton.

i've always wondered about the "creator of the coast guard" line in the musical, finally i have an answer

sometimes i think i've recovered from hamilton playing nonstop ([my voice cracks] see what i did there?) in my head, then i get chance to read another 1% of this biography and i'm right back where i started

'when a story appeared that delegates were colluding to bring the duke of york, george iii's second son, from britain to head an american monarchy, hamilton traced this absurdity to a letter sent "to one james reynolds of this city"--the first reference he ever made to the man whose wife would someday be his fatal enchantress.'

real life is filled with as many poetic coincidences and foreshadowing as fiction

here he is (speaking for six hours at the constitutional convention)

i remain normal

‘lest laurens experience a jealous pang, hamilton added a few months later: “in spite of schuyler’s black eyes, i have still a part for the public and another for you,” and he promised he would be no less devoted to his friend after marriage than before.’

ok……..

‘i venture to tell you in confidence that by some odd contrivance or other your sister has found out the secret of interesting me in everything that concerns her… she is most unmercifully handsome and so perverse that she has none of those pretty affectations which are the prerogatives of beauty.’