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.
His early WWII stuff is good but some of the later WWII stuff is flawed by some serious self-plagiarism of his earlier works. Entire paragraphs and sections reused. Is it plagiarism if you copy your own stuff, or is it something else? I dunno, but it sure is lazy.
Read it and later visited the log cabin tavern on the Natchez Trace where Lewis took his own life. Spooky vibes there. But cathartic in a way to read Jefferson describe a good friend with almost superhuman gifts crippled my melancholia many generations before our own. This has always been a broken world. We should take comfort that we are not alone in our struggles and sometimes triumph where even great men are broken against the rocks.
Worth it!! Excellent read.
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ReplyDeleteGood read on the actual journey, but he had a lot of 90s style weird moralizing. Best to skip the intro and the end and just read the journey part.
ReplyDeleteHis early WWII stuff is good but some of the later WWII stuff is flawed by some serious self-plagiarism of his earlier works. Entire paragraphs and sections reused. Is it plagiarism if you copy your own stuff, or is it something else? I dunno, but it sure is lazy.
DeleteAbsolutely outstanding read!
ReplyDeleteRead it and later visited the log cabin tavern on the Natchez Trace where Lewis took his own life. Spooky vibes there. But cathartic in a way to read Jefferson describe a good friend with almost superhuman gifts crippled my melancholia many generations before our own. This has always been a broken world. We should take comfort that we are not alone in our struggles and sometimes triumph where even great men are broken against the rocks.
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