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Être un homme utile m’a paru toujours quelque chose de bien hideux. (*)

hide a stone among stones and a man among men — says Hidden Fortress.

POST coincidentally making me barf today: “The parade is scheduled for June 14, the 250th birthday of the U.S. Army and, coincidentally, Trump’s 79th birthday.”

Wayne C. Booth: “However impersonal he may try to be, his readers will inevitably construct a picture of the official scribe who writes in this manner — and of course that official scribe will never be neutral toward all values. Our reaction to his various commitments, secret or overt, will help to determine our response to the work.”

“‘The object of life is to make sure you die a weird death. To make sure that however it finds you, it will find you under very weird circumstances. To live that kind of life. . . .’” (Gravity’s Rainbow, Counterforce.)

“I went into bed with a headache and Sophocles; I came out with Sophocles alone.”