George Bagby

History, literature, and reaction in Old Louisiana

[George Bagby @TallMenBooks]

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Southern Concerns: Shorter Writings of W. L. Fleming: https://t.co/nBjF1EePZ4
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History of Reconstruction in Louisiana:
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[George Bagby @TallMenBooks]

They say, "Why don't you teach? We need teachers!" They don't understand. You have to be a communist, and if you are not, you live in constant fear of your life. Once you taste the sweet life outside of that oppression, it is hard to justify going back in.

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The Finns have a language impossible to learn. They herd reindeer, eat large amounts of fermented fish, and, evidently, pioneered cellular phones in the third world. Coincidence? They may be secretly ruling the world. I demand an investigation.

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One good thing about the film: our people have gathered that Homer is important and must be read properly.

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The Fathers of New England by Charles Andrews is available from Tall Men Books. Andrews' classic work on the pioneers of the Northeast is a great introduction to their idealism and vision. https://t.co/2xaRAbqpDZ

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The Authentic Life of Billy the Kid by Pat Garrett is available from Tall Men Books. Sheriff Pat Garrett was the Kid's former friend turned lawman and his killer. This controversial biography includes an original foreword. https://t.co/aekC4GUK9Z

[Monuments Across Dixie @Across_Dixie]

💍 Man proposes in front of a Confederate monument in Covington, Ga.

🎉She said yes.

🫡Normalize this Southerners

#Neverforget
#confederate #bettersouth #southern #confederateflag #sonsofconfederateveterans #scv #civilwar #oursouth #southerner #Dixie

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@TheGeorgiaWhig The powers that be declared my edition of Pike's Prostrate State would not be available on my own website, but Amazon does publish it. I can offer any interested party a better deal, however.

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"The issue ultimately involved is whether there is a source of truth higher than, and independent of, man; and the answer to the question is decisive for one's view of the nature and destiny of mankind."

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It was William of Ockham who propounded the fateful doctrine of nominalism, which denies that universals have a real existence. His triumph tended to leave universal terms mere names serving our convenience. -Richard Weaver, Ideas Have Consequences

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@AuronMacintyre Weaver also attracted criticism for isolating Ockham for the subversion of the West. He wasn't Orthodox, but he was certainly one of "our guys."

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You mention Social Security and they say it is no problem. It is essential to their dream. It is a non-negotiable. It cannot be bankrupt. Their world would collapse, so it must be solvent. They would sacrifice their own children.

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

In Alabama a man said "Roll Tide" to me as a greeting.

Later that same day, the same man said "Roll Tide" as a goodbye.

I asked a woman at the store what it means.

She said, "Roll Tide."

I asked what it means.

She said, "It means Roll Tide, sugar."

So I began collecting evidence. I kept a list. I am not embarrassed about the list.

I have now heard "Roll Tide" used as: hello. Goodbye. Thank you. I am sorry. Congratulations. That is unfortunate. I agree. I disagree. And once, in a hardware store, as a complete set of instructions for installing a ceiling fan.

I heard it said at a funeral.

It was appropriate. It was the most appropriate thing anyone said that day.

I began using it. Carefully at first, the way a man handles a borrowed sword.

I said it to a cashier. She said it back.

I said it to a police officer who had stopped me for a broken taillight.

He looked at me for a long moment. He looked at my face. He looked at my taillight.

Then he said it back, and nodded once, and did not write the ticket.

I wish to be extremely clear that I am not claiming those two events are related.

I am also not claiming they are unrelated.

A man at a gas station heard my accent and asked where I was from. I told him Japan.

He said, "Roll Tide."

He meant welcome. I knew he meant welcome. There was no ambiguity at all.

I have been in Alabama eleven days.

I have one word.

It has been enough for everything.

I have started saying it in other states.

It does not work in other states.

I said it in a warehouse store in Oregon. One man turned around.

He was from Alabama. He said it back. We did not speak after that. We did not have to.

I say it anyway.

[Stephen Wolfe @PerfInjust]

"I think love for one’s country means chiefly love for people who have a good deal in common with oneself (language, clothes, institutions) & in that is very like love of one’s family."

~ CS Lewis

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@BonifaceOption How is it possible their version of Chani is so abrasive and bitter? I have yet to see these movies because I find the depiction of Chani so off-putting.

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@_jburden Alexander Mercouris

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@bedeofbritannia I know his occasional writings are valuable because it was revealed to me in a dream.

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I had a dream that I met Sir Flinders Petrie and he looked and acted like Hugh Griffith. I had discovered his hilarious occasional writings and was working to republish them.