whitepigeon's Diaryland Diary

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pauline

Goodbye to Paul Johnson, a stone-warm Conservative who wrote the most charming autobiography of my late-last-decade readings and whom few of my S'lake clambake friends would humor, despite his excellence on many touched topics.

“Shelley’s love was deep, sincere, passionate, indeed everlasting...but it was always changing its object.” 

“Science has many uses. Its chief one, however, is to provide long words to cover the errors of the rich: ‘Kleptomania,’ for example.”

“The pilot, Francis Gary Powers, had been issued a suicide pill, but he was also provided with a parachute, and he used it.”

7:45 a.m. - 2023-01-13

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