December 2011
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“The rioters and the social class to which they mainly belong thus have genuine...”
– Barbarians on the Thames by Theodore Dalrymple - City Journal
An interesting take on the causes of the UK riots…
I’ve enjoyed Dalrymble’s articles over the years, but have never searched his info on the internet until now. So I didn’t know that Theodore Dalrymple is a pen...
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“While eight flying reindeer are a hard pill to swallow, our Christmas story...”
– Six To Eight Black Men - Esquire — David Sedaris in 2002 describing the Dutch Santa Claus and his elves (slaves?) — an essay I was led to by this recent Slate feature on Holland in the holidays.
Zwarte Piet: Holland’s favorite racist Christmas tradition. - Slate Magazine via kwout
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Thinking of you, Sam, reading “The Underworld”…. I must read him myself. Embarrassing I haven’t so far in life….
Martin Amis on Don DeLillo in the New Yorker:
I love the work of Don DeLillo. That is to say, I love “End Zone” (1972), “Running Dog” (1978), “White Noise” (1985), “Libra” (1988), “Mao II” (1991), and the first and last sections of “Underworld” (1997)....