“The picture of a White House teeming with fanatics gets even clearer with O’Neill’s depiction of the Bush brain trust’s dogged devotion to cutting taxes for the wealthy.”
Well, I was reading Tom Robbin’s Jitterbug Perfume, but I just finished the 1000th reread last week. pity, probably would have been better, but too drunk to research tonight.
From Pat:
Instructions:
Grab the nearest book.
Open the book to page 23.
Find the fifth sentence.
Post the text of the sentence on your blog along with these instructions.
“But I want to keep her!” [Lamb, the gospel according to Biff, Christs childhood pal]
fucking great book, that one.
cheers all.
b
ps - caveat - i haven’t updated the listening, reading, watching stuff in ages. listening - new skinny puppy (yes, really) - good. m83, great. reading - huffington, greene, and robbins for the upteenth time. watching - kill bill 2, matrix (all of them, the reconsidering round) and west wing.
oh, and wendy…. i love you truly, deeply, and until the end of time.
fuck off, it’s the first time i’ve ever gotten mushy on here.
ps. ps - fuck it, did it anyways. from the best book EVER written, jitterbug perfume by tom robbins -
“This is hard for me to express, my lord, but I shall try.”
23rd page, 5th paragraph. Not the best part of the book, I’ll admit. so let me give you a better few from the same page…
“This is hard for me to expres, my lord, but I shall try. The kings of your ancestors have been celebrated around many a bonfire. But celebrated for cunning and brawn. Wisdom, true knowledge, has been the province of the necromancer alone. You have changed all that, and Noog does not like it. You must forgive what I am about to say, for it is fact. There are men inside these city walls more powerfully built than you, Alobar; more adept with the spear. Men who can run faster, hurl a stone farther, face an awesome enemy with an equal abundance of trembling, and pacify a harem with as sturdy a shaft. But you, well, while I cannot imagine how you have acquired it, you have a brain. Time and time again, you have demonstrated your unusual ability to see inside of men and to interpret the silent pleas they aim at the stars. In the past, many kings RULED ttthis people. You have GOVERNED them.”
strangely appropriate, don’t you think?
