hans castorp

Classicist in literature, royalist in politics, Catholic in religion. Editor and writer. Husband of one and father of five. Alte kaker. In need of prayer.

[The Great and Unmatched Tim Carney @TimCarneySTL]

@MaxTwain24 A very serious and important historian don’tcha know?

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@kalezelden Parce, Domine!

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@kalezelden Interesting that the two greatest writers of the last century in English prose and poetry were Irish.

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@kalezelden Reread it a couple of months ago (after 50+ years). An incredible combination of meticulous description, astonishing imagination, audacious thought, and riveting prose.

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@libsoftiktok Enough already, Chaya.

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@SteveSkojec I'm here.

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@SethAMandel Mister, we could use a man like Meyer Lansky again.

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@IVMiles Grant Wacker, Heaven Below, Harvard UP.

[Philosophy Matters @PhilosophyMttrs]

The world’s most dangerous gang

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@Econ_Marshall in a local magazine. He wa unique and irreplaceable.

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@Econ_Marshall founder. There is no teacher in my life who taught me more than he did. I last saw him two years ago when he was in New York for the high holidays, and las spoke to him a few months ago when an article he had written about his love for the Holy City was published magazine

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@fontaine_j53254 @feelsdesperate @KeenanPeachy Yeah, that’s why they do so badly in physics.

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@BlueBoxDave Thank you for this from a fellow mischling, whose mother kept a blue-and-white JNF pushke in the kitchen for our loose change.

[The Pillar @PillarCatholic]

#Breaking: Cardinal Raymond Burke received a letter this week detailing changes to his residential status in Rome, @pillarcatholic has confirmed.

https://t.co/PJhmogC85x

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@MLMucci @FeserEdward And this is untrue?

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@nytimes In his infernal sauna, Walter Duranty is smiling.

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@SteveSkojec
At last, something to brag about.

My Vocabulary Size is about: 【30503】! What about you? https://t.co/DqkvdkUzU8 #EnglishVocabularySizeTest

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@Telemarkos1954 @SamAdlerBell @KnowYrEnemyPod It is a novel.

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@Telemarkos1954 @SamAdlerBell @KnowYrEnemyPod LT knew Chambers.

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@Telemarkos1954 @SamAdlerBell @KnowYrEnemyPod Lionel Trilling, The Middle of the Journey