Gun control related articles

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/07/world/americas/mass-shootings-us-international.html

Also New Yorker article

https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/a-mass-shooting-in-texas-and-false-arguments-against-gun-control

Péguy says

'Tout commence an mystique at finit en politique.'

Charles Péguy.

Republican Party is..

Carl Albert on Gerard Ford vetoing public works bill;

"..Herbert Hoover..equally conservative Republican President has again demonstrated the lack of economic unterstanding and human sensitivity which has enshackled the Republican Party:

LBJ's encomium to FDR

On the 20th anniversary of FDR's death on Apr. 12, 1965;

"...In some mysterious ways he could reach out, and where there was fear, came hope; where there was resignation, came excitement; where there was indifference, came compassion.

 And perhaps we can remember him most, not for what he did, but for what he wanted to do. We are trying to do it still. And I suppose we always will; as will many others to whom he is just a name and a picture in a book."

Dunno who wrote this, but it's a masterpiece. LBJ really was a true successor to FDR.

Again immersing on French/Russian themes

La peau douce [videorecording] / Janus Films ; MK2 Diffusion ; scénario original de F. Truffaut et Jean-Louis Richard ; mise en scène, François Truffaut ; Films du Carrosse-SEDIF-SIMAR.	39009056254879	DUE 05-15-17	SOF
	Silence de la mer (Motion picture)	39009056552488	DUE 05-15-17	SIL

War and peace / Leo Tolstoy ; translated with notes by Louise and Aylmer Maude ; revised and edited with an introduction by Amy Mandelker.	39009040480051	DUE 05-27-17	FIC TOLSTOY,L
	Was revolution inevitable? : turning points of the Russian Revolution / edited by Tony Brenton.	39009051584213	DUE 05-30-17	947.0841 WAS
	Lenin on the train / Catherine Merridale.	39009051594170	DUE 05-30-17	947.0841 MER
	Montaigne : a life / Philippe Desan ; translated by Steven Rendall and Lisa Neal.	39009051556930	DUE 05-30-17	92 MONTAIGNE,M DES
	A history of modern French literature : from the sixteenth century to the twentieth century / edited by Christopher Prendergast.	39009051584189	DUE 05-30-17	840.9 HIS

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Propertius Elegies 4.8

Cum fieret nostro totiens iniuria lecto,
mutato volui castra movere toro.
Phyllis Aventinae quaedam est vicina Dianae,
sobria grata parum: cum bibit, omne decet.
altera Tarpeios est inter Teia lucos,
candida, sed potae non satis unus erit.
his ego constitui noctem lenire vocatis,
et Venere ignota furta novare mea.
unus erat tribus in secreta lectulus herba.
quaeris discubitus? inter utramque fui.

Ulysses

Hades episode is hilarious.

Useful sentences like;

eiaculatio seminis inter vas naturale mulieris

p. 214, Oxford pbk, Wandering Rocks episode

From Ovid

Et ignotas animum dimittit in artes.

Ovid, Metamorphoses, VIII, 188

On solitude

From Helen Macdonald's H is for Hawk

"The cure for loneliness is solitude"

- Marianne Moore

T.S. Eliot's grumpy response on poetry

Do you think poetry is a necessity to modern man?


No.


What in modern life is the particular function of poetry as distinguished from other kinds of literature?


Takes up less space.


'Answers to the Three Questions', Chapbook, 27 (July 1922), 8.