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Friday, August 4, 2017

The Writer's Life 8/4 - I Like Ike

On the reprehensible, unprecedented leaks designed to dethrone President Trump: "Hell hath no fury like a swamp scorned." The often used quote is adapted from The Mourning Bride, a play by William Congreve. It actually reads: ""Heav'n has no rage like love to hatred turn'd / Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd." It premiered in London in 1697.

On the descent of Venezuela into a totalitarian state - and its apologists: "It was not that socialism failed, it was the lack of socialism." Wojciech Jaruzelski. Several years ago I read or heard someone say that the reason socialism has failed so miserably so often is that the wrong socialists were in charge. I was unable to find that quote. Maybe I dreamed it.

On Chris Christie, Anthony Weiner, Bill de Blasio, Hillary Clinton, Charles Schumer, Eliot Spitzer and so many others - this is the type of person politics attracts. I wouldn't want to be anywhere near any of them. G. K. Chesterton: "It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged."

"Pessimism never won any battle." - Dwight David Eisenhower. It's hard, Ike, really hard to be optimistic these days.

My thanks to the woman who bought Precious Gifts and Zoya by Danielle Steel, to the woman who bought a book in Russian, to the gentleman who chose In Contempt by Christopher Darden, the prosecutor's behind the scenes look at the O'J. murder case; to the woman who bought a Heather Graham thriller; and to the man and woman who donated a paperback each.
Vic's Sixth novel: http://tinyurl.com/zpuhucj 
Vic's Short Works: http://tinyurl.com/jy55pzc
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