When the master’s daughter had bad news to impart—such as having run over another peasant and damaged the carriage—she would write him a letter and leave it by the hearth, knowing he would use it to kindle his fire: a trick she’d learned from his majordomo. #TolstoysTalesofTrump
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That’s a nice combination of Tolstoy and F Scott Fitzgerald’s Daisy. So sad so true.
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“They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.”
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I appreciate this memorial about my father by @ggrenwald above any I have read today--for his comprehensive review of his bio & history, for his attention to themes generally overlooked about his post-Vietnam life, but particularly for deep appreciation of his human qualities.🙏
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Here's my @RollingStone article on Daniel Ellsberg, the heroic Pentagon Papers leaker who died today at 92:
"We’re Told Never to Meet Our Childhood Heroes. Knowing Daniel Ellsberg Proved That Wrong"
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