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A Meme is Worth a Thousand Words

Posted October 6, 2021 By John C Wright

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Preface To the Hesitating Purchaser

Posted October 5, 2021 By John C Wright

Another favorite preface of mine, and a pleas to the wary bookbuyer, was penned by Robert Louis Stevenson as front matter for his immortal TREASURE ISLAND. With the moxie of Lucretius, he pens his plea in poetry, at the same time praising his forebears, promising wonders, and defying time and fashion.

All in all, a most professional, humble, yet bold entreaty. God send more quills like this to scribble on the pages of the world!

To the Hesitating Purchaser

“If sailor tales to sailor tunes,
Storm and adventure, heat and cold,
If schooners, islands, and maroons
And Buccaneers and buried Gold
And all the old romance, retold,
Exactly in the ancient way,
Can please, as me they pleased of old,
The wiser youngsters of to-day:

-So be it, and fall on! If not,
If studious youth no longer crave,
His ancient appetites forgot,
Kingston, or Ballantyne the brave,
Or Cooper of the wood and wave:
So be it, also! And may I
And all my pirates share the grave,
Where these and their creations lie!”

― Robert Louis Stevenson

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Preface

Posted October 4, 2021 By John C Wright

This is the preface to the 1914 novel THE KING OF ALSANDER by James Elroy Flecker.

The preface shows such sardonic yet gay good sense that one is tempted to make it the preface of every romance.

In Flecker, I sense a kindred spirit to my own, including a penchant for certain turns of phrase. Read on, O reader:

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Eyewitness on the Front Lines

Posted October 3, 2021 By John C Wright

This video was recommended to me in the comments. I have no prior knowledge of Ryan Turnipseed, and do not know his thoughts on other topics, but his report of the condition of the current youth is so sobering, and his suggestions for resistance so wise, that I thought it worth repeating: