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Category Archives: Books
What I learned reading the original Grimm’s Fairy Tales
I’m a fan of the television show “Grimm” so I wanted to read some of the original source material. Here’s what I learned: The end justifies the means. Life is cheap. Money and power can buy happiness Women are property. … Continue reading
Twain on Censorship
“But the truth is, that when a Library expels a book of mine and leaves an unexpurgated Bible lying around where unprotected youth and age can get hold of it, the deep unconscious irony of it delights me and doesn’t … Continue reading
Happy Birthday Mark Twain
From the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain: Once I said to myself it would be a thousand times better for Jim to be a slave at home where his family was, as long as he’d got to be a … Continue reading
I Guess You Could Do That
Heard by my brother at the end of The Twilight Saga: New Moon: Girl in the theater: “WHAT, we have to wait until the next movie to see what happens?” My niece, whispering: “No, you could just read the books.” … Continue reading
The Idiot’s Guide
I sometimes go over to Google Books to see what pops up. I saw this. My first thought: You’d have to be a complete idiot to believe for even one second that this is anything but bullshit.
