Ron, excellent musing, especially when referring to the Greek tragic world! However, you have allowed some, totally discredited, Serbian political propaganda, concerning their "relatively good" and "indeed heroic" treatment of "their Jews," by contrast, etc. Any verified sources? Or - just cheap Serbian propaganda? (Google: Helen Delich Bentley) In August 1942, the Serbian Fascist/Nazi government proclaimed, joyfully, that Belgrade is "the first JUDENFREI city in Europe! Of 12.000 Belgrade Jews only 1.100 survived (95% of Serbian Jews were exterminated). "Relatively good"? "Indeed heroic"? Please be a bit more careful with your data and the sources... Ivo Soljan, Michigan
Such a beautiful installment: this captures much of what I have wanted to express about the current crisis in Palestine/Israel—and much I didn’t even know that I wanted to express. For me, reading, like writing, is not so much the discovery of what one already knows, but the discovery of what one doesn’t know that one knows. A work of wonder. Thank you.
The country is "polarized" between people who believe in climate change and worry more about guns than they do about drag queens, on one side, and people who threaten libraries and deny the results of the 2020 election, on the other. It's a false equivalence and I'm really, really tired of it.
Ron, excellent musing, especially when referring to the Greek tragic world! However, you have allowed some, totally discredited, Serbian political propaganda, concerning their "relatively good" and "indeed heroic" treatment of "their Jews," by contrast, etc. Any verified sources? Or - just cheap Serbian propaganda? (Google: Helen Delich Bentley) In August 1942, the Serbian Fascist/Nazi government proclaimed, joyfully, that Belgrade is "the first JUDENFREI city in Europe! Of 12.000 Belgrade Jews only 1.100 survived (95% of Serbian Jews were exterminated). "Relatively good"? "Indeed heroic"? Please be a bit more careful with your data and the sources... Ivo Soljan, Michigan
Such a beautiful installment: this captures much of what I have wanted to express about the current crisis in Palestine/Israel—and much I didn’t even know that I wanted to express. For me, reading, like writing, is not so much the discovery of what one already knows, but the discovery of what one doesn’t know that one knows. A work of wonder. Thank you.
Thanks, Larry. A rich dose —or cure—of historical memory in grim times.
I vote for Putin as Speaker. I mean, he couldn't hurt things any worse than they are, and people would listen to him--or ELSE.
And, it might distract him from Ukraine a bit....
It's pretty good stuff, huh boys and girls. Yessir.
The country is "polarized" between people who believe in climate change and worry more about guns than they do about drag queens, on one side, and people who threaten libraries and deny the results of the 2020 election, on the other. It's a false equivalence and I'm really, really tired of it.