All Purls. No Swine.
Blood had run down into the fella's face and eyes. He was laying there just groaning and calling for a medic. I took water from my canteen, got some bandages, and I washed his face. And when that blood was washed from his eyes, his eyes came open. Man, he just lit up. He says,… Continue reading QOTD: “I felt it an honor to serve my country, God and country, same as the rest of them. The only thing, I just didn’t want to take life.”
A bit of a repost from almost exactly a year ago. Like Angela herself, I think it's aged pretty well. The same can't be said for Strictly Come Dancing, once a hugely popular BBC program. ("Dancing with the Stars" is the US copycat edition.) Ever since the Fall of 2023, "Strictly" has been mired in… Continue reading Happy 80th Birthday, Angela Rippon!
...Pearls before swine." Wealthy socialite, well-known conservative, staunch anti-Communist, former U.S. Ambassador, playwright, politician and all-round doyenne (a word much underused these days) of all things mid-twentieth century and American, Clare Boothe Luce died thirty-seven years ago today, on October 9, 1987. She was eighty-four years old. Her extraordinary life, which began under the stigma… Continue reading Quote of the Day: “Age before beauty…
I can't tell you how much I feel this. I really tried. I read all of them: The Mayor of Casterbridge Far From the Madding Crowd Tess of the d'Urbervilles Jude the Obscure Et Cetera But, when it came down to it, electronically, virtually, or boookishly, I just couldn't. And yet. Here's Hardy the poet… Continue reading Oh, Thomas Hardy. Such a dreadful novelist. Such a sublime poet