Weekend 528.0 (Barnet)
A quote from the The Brothers York by Thomas Penn: “The fog lent the fighting a more desperate edge than usual. Hand-gunners and archers fired at the invisible enemy at Continue Reading →
Category Archives: Quotes
Henry VI
“A man who could, on occasion, assert his royal will and make decisions, but whose interests were not those of most medieval kings, being far more focused on his afterlife Continue Reading →
Profiles in Leadership: Kamala Harris
“So Ukraine is a country in Europe. It exists next to another country called Russia. Russia is a bigger country. Russia is a powerful country. Russia decided to invade a Continue Reading →
Weekend 526.0 (palaces made of lime and stone)
“People simply refused to believe what was happening…” Finished The Brothers York by Thomas Penn. Some more quotes, substitutions, archeological curiosities, and final thoughts (and what comes next). Quotes “Late Continue Reading →
Weekend 523.1
“Judica me, Deus, discerne causam meum de gente non sancta.” Psalm 42 Quotes from The Brothers York: An English Tragedy by Thomas Penn: “Meanwhile, shortly before sunset on Thursday 18 Continue Reading →
Adolf Hitler or Justin Trudeau?
“The small, fringe minority of people who are on their way to Ottawa, who are holding unacceptable views that they are expressing, do not represent the views of Canadians who Continue Reading →
Weekend 521.3
“It’s been remarked many times that Walt was Mickey, Mickey was Walt—and nowhere is that more evident than in the iconic scenes of Mickey eagerly improvising an airplane and taking Continue Reading →
In manifestos and the darkly allusive language of prophecy…
“Across the country, people struggling to make a living — from the propertied gentry to smallholders and labourers — were sick of a ruling class that had become a byword Continue Reading →
Weekend 521.1
“Many other works belong, so to speak, to all the world, but the world has cast them aside, or slandered them, or mangled them beyond recognition. The world will have Continue Reading →
Weekend 506.0
(1) Two from T.S. Eliot: “Longer and darker the day, shorter and colder the night. Still and stifling the air: but a wind is stored up in the East. The Continue Reading →