Author Archives: rdavies

(Montag reading from Dickens’ David Copperfield) “There can be no disparity in marriage like unsuitability of mind and purpose. I had endeavoured to adapt Dora to myself and found it impracticable. It remained for me to adapt myself to Dora, … Continue reading →

18.5 minute gap in Nixon tapes.7 hour gap in Trump’s White House call logs.

(from 1967 to 2022) Greatest luck I ever had.

(like something The Incredible String Band might have written in the late ’60s?)

The above 1971 list suggests what were once considered classics that olde school readers might have taken out from libraries and actually read. But by 1971, some 51 years ago, I recall only the following books were still being read … Continue reading →

every time our limitless-spending, wastrel PM gives out more, seemingly endless billions without a second thought? Is anyone going to be on the hook for this spendthrift’s economic munificence down the road?

(The suspenseful 1940 AA Best Picture, his first shot in America by legendary director Alfred Hitchcock starring Joan Fontaine and Laurence Olivier with Judith Anderson as Mrs. Danvers–above right–and George Sanders as the evil ‘cousin’ of Rebecca) (from the Premiere … Continue reading →

“Culture, the acquainting ourselves with the best that has been known and said in the world, and thus with the history of the human spirit.” Why would anyone bother with/settle for less? “Ah, but a man’s reach should exceed his … Continue reading →

Kenney, Trudeau, Putin, Trump.