And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Wednesday, February 14, 2024
Needs an overstuffed club chair, a dog, and a glass of bourbon
It's a bookstore.
ReplyDeleteIn that case, carry in a lawn chair and annoy the hell out of the proprietor.
DeleteA bookstore is just a library with permanent take-out privileges.
DeleteBookstores are going the way of the phone booth. And I used to spend a fortune on books.
ReplyDeleteNow I don't keep them, read 'em and pass them on.
Full Bookshelves are like a wine cellar to be savoured at the right occasion
ReplyDeleteSeems like people who actually read for entertainment "are going the way of the phone booth."
ReplyDeleteChicken and egg.
DeleteName your ten most favorite current living authors.
Literature is mostly dreck these days.