I was history major because of attention deficit disorder. I have always found that some of the most interesting things I know I found on my way to looking up something else.
Today, on the way to looking up something else ( regarding the poetry of Thomas Wolfe, if you haven't stopped reading by now ) I discovered :
Jeremy Clyde - half of Chad & Jeremy ("Yesterday's Gone") circa 1964-66 - was the great-great-great-grandson of Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington.
T.S. Eliot won two Tony Awards ( posthumously ) for poetry used in
Cats"perpetual pills" were little balls of antimony that were swallowed expressly to irritate the bowel and relieve constipation - after which they could be retrieved and re-used. ( I offer this information freely to any candidate scrambling for ways to reduce health-care costs )
Just thought you needed to know ...
Charles Hankey
Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
- Thomas Hardy
Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm-- but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.
-- T. S. Eliot
Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for lunch.
Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.
- Ben Franklin
Pardon him, Theodotus. He is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.
