Some More Nice Writing

--"a zap to the synaptic cleft" (John Leonard)

--"a slice of the strange" ("   ")

--"Alone in literature, we find sanctuary"  ("    ")

--"and a muffled barking of dogs"  (Joan Didion)

--"unremarkable good looks"   ("  ")

--"and dreams about bigger houses, better streets"   ("   ")

--"cutting both their losses and their hopes"  ("   ")

--"I wouldn't believe Donald Trump if his tongue were notarized."  (Alair Townsend)

--"He invited them over for a carne asada cookout..."  (Jennifer Medina)

--"at the still point of the turning world"  (T.S. Eliot)

--"Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold.."  (William Butler Yeats)

--"Wisely and slow. They stumble that run fast."  (Shakespeare)

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The Atlantic

I have been reading a number of good articles in The Atlantic (from my local library's online database). I especially like the articles by the editor-in-chief, Jeffrey Goldberg. They seem able to show, better than most newspapers and magazines, what are the moving parts of the MAGA movement.

Reading the articles help keep me quasi-sane.

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Trump

I've been thinking about President Trump again. Months back I was beaten down thinking about him and about the gains he and his followers have had. Yet, it seems the tide is turning, indeed.

He seems beaten down, and tired. He has always been good--stunningly good--at dealing with the pushback on all of his lies. Now, his age coupled with the mountain of lies are coming home to roost. And he's starting to flail wildly in an effort to look poised and in control. 

He is beginning to look unpoised and out of control. Maybe the arc of the universe does bend toward justice.

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Nice Writing

I'm just typing up some interesting phrases and sentences that I find euphonic.

--"dumping out prodigious amounts of rain" (Peter Brannen)

--"The concreteness of the scene carries the burden of the meaning." (Chris Anderson"

--"a disturbing sense of mental disorientation" (Robert Atwan)

--"petty crimes and murder across a desperate American landscape" (Richard Sandomir)

--"We're all dying in increments." (Roger Ebert)

--"It's a colossal miscalculation." (Roger Ebert)

--"a waltz-length white wedding dress" (Joan Didion)

--"a frail and unhinged casualty of modern life" (Nathan Heller)

--"trim back on the magnitude of your ambition" (Jon Franklin)

--"enriching the story with new revelations" (David Sassoon)

--"For all the drug-addled extravagance" (Peter Richardson)

--"No views, no food." (David Brooks)

--"alongside a state-of-the-art waterpark" (Eric Adler et al.)

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