Who can fathom the soundless depths?
Jules Verne, riffing on the Book of Ecclesiastes in his 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
A commonplace book: an old-fashioned literary diary for recording interesting items from reading you've done. I use mine to record snippets from reading, conversation and life in general. (The early 2003 entries are from a period some years ago -- before the blog age -- when I tried an online commonplace book as a straight web page.)
Saturday, March 26, 2016
Sunday, March 20, 2016
Capitalism is a partnership between governors and merchants that secures the power of both.... merchants grow rich because state power protects them or looks away when the time is right.
Martha Howell, The New York Review (April 7, 2016)
Martha Howell, The New York Review (April 7, 2016)
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