23-03-2013, 01:33 AM
Jim DiEugenio Wrote:Charles Drago Wrote:Throwing books in the trash?
Literally?
Don't you have a fireplace?
Actually, I don't.
Good to know.
If I may: Given your position in our community in the role -- among others -- of defender of free speech and expression, you might want to think twice about stating that you trash books.
Books are sacred. At least to me. All books. I would no sooner burn/trash Mein Kampf than I would JFK and the Unspeakable. For examples.
Charles Drago
Co-Founder, Deep Politics Forum
If an individual, through either his own volition or events over which he had no control, found himself taking up residence in a country undefined by flags or physical borders, he could be assured of one immediate and abiding consequence: He was on his own, and solitude and loneliness would probably be his companions unto the grave.
-- James Lee Burke, Rain Gods
You can't blame the innocent, they are always guiltless. All you can do is control them or eliminate them. Innocence is a kind of insanity.
-- Graham Greene
Co-Founder, Deep Politics Forum
If an individual, through either his own volition or events over which he had no control, found himself taking up residence in a country undefined by flags or physical borders, he could be assured of one immediate and abiding consequence: He was on his own, and solitude and loneliness would probably be his companions unto the grave.
-- James Lee Burke, Rain Gods
You can't blame the innocent, they are always guiltless. All you can do is control them or eliminate them. Innocence is a kind of insanity.
-- Graham Greene