American sports fans: De-fense! De-fense!
British sports fans: all right lads, I've just worked up a song to the tune of DeBussy's Clair de Lune about an opposing player's drunk driving charge, I'll count us off:
@BookTheftGuy@JNatt1311 Where you live – that's an astonishingly beautiful land. But I didn't claim that 'old' is better than 'new', only (following your own terms) that 'older' is more appealing than 'bigger', generally speaking. I love new little things, and big new things, too.
“Some Scipio Americanus will leave to posterity the problem of conjecturing where stood once the ancient and splendid city of London."
Thomas Jefferson in 1815, looking to the future with hope.
Incredible find - in my barbershop of all places I see this first edition of Lewis’s Preface to Paradise Lost. I’ve been looking for this online for how long, and there it is, sitting in a barbershop as decor!
I asked how much I could buy it for and he gave it to me for free 😭