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Good and Evil, terribly deeply interfused.

30-Mar-11

A book review which goes out of its way to dish the dirt on Gandhi, of which there is apparently plenty.  Orwell apparently didn’t know the half of it.  This is no surprise to those who have lived long enough.  You can find really truly good people, but probably not if they have great achievements […]

The Humor and Relevance of Twain.

26-Mar-11

http://stephanepereira.com/categories/commercial/citroen-c4-ice-skater/ Of the odd things which George Orwell says about Mark Twain, to me the most remarkable is this: Mark Twain aimed at being something more than a chronicler of the Mississippi and the Gold Rush. In his own day he was famous all over the world as a humorist and comic lecturer. In New York, […]