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On Oct 14, 5:59*pm, Giles wrote:
After some hundreds of pages of Edmund Morris's "Colonel Roosevelt" (it's impossible to tell just how many on this stupid Kindle) we come to the inevitable denouement. *Teddy has died and been buried. Morris says, "Given the poignancy of his sufferings over the last year, a considerable minority of Roosevelt-haters elected to keep their opinions private for the time being. *Even H.L. Mencken reserved fire. *'The man was a liar, a braggart, a bully, and a fraud,' he wrote a friend. *'But let us not speak evil of the dead.'" Nearly stupefying. Cluelessness on a scale hitherto encountered only here, in these pages.....or sardonic wit worthy of Twain, Wilde or.....yes.....Mencken. Either way, nearly stupefying. * * * * ![]() giles Joe the Elder offers----well at least he took some interesting hikes in South America--[where he almost died] --did he not do something about parks that we have enjoyed ? Seems he lived to accomplish rather than worry about comments upon his death ! |
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On Oct 15, 8:41*am, Injun Joe wrote:
On Oct 14, 5:59*pm, Giles wrote: After some hundreds of pages of Edmund Morris's "Colonel Roosevelt" (it's impossible to tell just how many on this stupid Kindle) we come to the inevitable denouement. *Teddy has died and been buried. Morris says, "Given the poignancy of his sufferings over the last year, a considerable minority of Roosevelt-haters elected to keep their opinions private for the time being. *Even H.L. Mencken reserved fire. *'The man was a liar, a braggart, a bully, and a fraud,' he wrote a friend. *'But let us not speak evil of the dead.'" Nearly stupefying. Cluelessness on a scale hitherto encountered only here, in these pages.....or sardonic wit worthy of Twain, Wilde or.....yes.....Mencken. Either way, nearly stupefying. * * * * ![]() giles Joe the Elder offers----well at least he took some interesting hikes in South America--[where he almost died] He also took some other interesting hikes......where a LOT of things died. --did he not do something about parks that we have enjoyed ? So I've heard.....though all that took place before the stage in his life covered by "Colonel Roosevelt." Seems he lived to accomplish rather than worry about *comments upon his death ! Interesting observation......could be read a number of distinctly (and importantly) different ways. I'll take it straight up. Yes, he accomplished rather a lot. Perhaps more than any other well-known public figure in American history.....so far. That said, probably few others gave much more thought to comments about their deaths.....and that ain't necessarily a bad thing. giles. who has not yet lived to accomplish his own demise.....but is working on it. |
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