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Melissa999
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You changed your signature line, so I can't explain the first part without it Melissa.
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Books on the 'History of France' had not been written for decades until the one I am reading.
I am only up to Eleanor of Acquitaine and Henry II.

I spend too much time on here answering questions of pretty blondes!


Yes, I can always change back to how it was though smile Perhaps not many were interested in the History of France ? Thus the lack of up to date books. Pretty Blondes ? I don't know any pretty blondes apart from one, and she doesn't frequent this site.
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Yes, I can always change back to how it was though smile Perhaps not many were interested in the History of France ? Thus the lack of up to date books. Pretty Blondes ? I don't know any pretty blondes apart from one, and she doesn't frequent this site.


Melissa, a lot of people were interested in the History of France, but the French philosophy of history since deconstruction is that no one's history can be unbiased and, therefore, no one can EXPLAIN anything in it with finality. So why write it?
But they are apparently beginning to see things differently.

Oh I know a few blondes here personally who are at a bare minimum, "pretty."

Your signature line is again:
I had a breakthrough this morning, I looked in the mirror and said "whatever....."

I think you are not just seeing a "whatever." I know what you look like and you are certainly not a "whatever." Others agree with me too. OK, maybe "with morning hair," you are a "whatever" till you put it back in place. But I would say that is a state of "privation."
Melissa999
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Quote by Dancewithme


Melissa, a lot of people were interested in the History of France, but the French philosophy of history since deconstruction is that no one's history can be unbiased and, therefore, no one can EXPLAIN anything in it with finality. So why write it?
But they are apparently beginning to see things differently.

Oh I know a few blondes here personally who are at a bare minimum, "pretty."

Your signature line is again:
I had a breakthrough this morning, I looked in the mirror and said "whatever....."

I think you are not just seeing a "whatever." I know what you look like and you are certainly not a "whatever." Others agree with me too. OK, maybe "with morning hair," you are a "whatever" till you put it back in place. But I would say that is a state of "privation."


I'm sure they were, or perhaps are is more apt. Of course nothing can written that can be claimed to be the definitive and final version of history. New data continues to be be brought to light as researchers dig ever more and information is brought to light that was previously buried.

lol.... a few blondes , well that is better than no blondes !

Yes, I can of course and most likely will change my signature in line with how I'm feeling, perhaps tomorrow as to change it now would make this thread lose part of it's point.
In the world's harsh wear and tear many a very sincere attachment is slowly obliterated.


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Quote by Melissa999


Yes, I can of course and most likely will change my signature in line with how I'm feeling, perhaps tomorrow as to change it now would make this thread lose part of it's point.


If I may jump in uninvited, "I had a breakthrough this morning, I looked in the mirror and said whatever....." is not necessarily a bad thing is it? You are looking in the mirror and accepting who you are fully, good and bad.

Anyway.

Did you know that nearly every poem of Emily Dickinson can be sung to The Yellow Rose of Texas? Try it! It's fun!
Melissa999
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If I may jump in uninvited, "I had a breakthrough this morning, I looked in the mirror and said whatever....." is not necessarily a bad thing is it? You are looking in the mirror and accepting who you are fully, good and bad.

Anyway.

Did you know that nearly every poem of Emily Dickinson can be sung to The Yellow Rose of Texas? Try it! It's fun!


That's fine. Yes, to be honest I don't disagree with signature, it is as you say !
In the world's harsh wear and tear many a very sincere attachment is slowly obliterated.


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I've just finished The Barefoot Investor: The Only Money Guide You'll Ever Need by Scott Pape. Absolute must reading for any Aussies just starting out, or of course, short of a coin. Good principles for everyone else too, but the specific financial product and taxation advice may not be applicable.

And now I'm starting The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson.
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Downloaded it on a whim! It's proved very interesting
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Just finished Conversations With Friends, which everyone seems to be raving about, and hated it. Didn't like the characters (I don't need the main characters to be likable, but I do want them to be interesting), and thought the things they were concerned with--all the characters were in acedamia or the arts--were trivial and self-involved. No one said anyone interesting, the just talked past each other. Maybe that was the point, that people don't communicate, but their lives and thoughts were so abstracted and theoretical.

Just started The Clockwork Alice by DeAnna Kippling. An updating of Alice in Wonderland, with Alice as an adult back in Wonderland.
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Thanks for the recommendation, Verbal. It's really good.

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I'm reading Red Cavalry by Isaac Babel.





Isaac Babel is probably the most underrated writer of the 20th century. Born in an Odessa ghetto, Babel was an early supporter of the Bolsheviks. He joined the Red Cavalry unit during the Russian Civil War and experienced horrible shit when his unit invaded Western Ukraine to counter the invasion of Poland in 1920. Semi-autobiographical, Red Cavalry is a collection of short stories that detail the experiences of the soldiers. Very dark and very violent...his tales were pretty much swept under the rug by the Stalinist regime after he was tortured and murdered for being a "Trotskyist." His writings only really started to pick up traction after the fall of the Soviet Union in the early 90s.





Definitely worth the time if you are a fan of Russian literature or have any interest in history.
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I'm reading Red Cavalry by Isaac Babel.





Isaac Babel is probably the most underrated writer of the 20th century. Born in an Odessa ghetto, Babel was an early supporter of the Bolsheviks. He joined the Red Cavalry unit during the Russian Civil War and experienced horrible shit when his unit invaded Western Ukraine to counter the invasion of Poland in 1920. Semi-autobiographical, Red Cavalry is a collection of short stories that detail the experiences of the soldiers. Very dark and very violent...his tales were pretty much swept under the rug by the Stalinist regime after he was tortured and murdered for being a "Trotskyist." His writings only really started to pick up traction after the fall of the Soviet Union in the early 90s.





Definitely worth the time if you are a fan of Russian literature or have any interest in history.


Damned if that doesn't look intriguing.
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The great Gatsby.
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Different Loving by Brame, Brame and Jacobs
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Reading this right now.

Don't let the low brow title get you.... this is quite a dry, academic, historical breakdown of the history of class in America.

It is quite interesting though, especially in the context of modern day. If I could sum this book up in one sentence it would be that it is "a repudiation of the myth that America is or has been a classless society."

The American Dream is not and has never been an issue of equality. America inherited a class inequality from Britain and put their own spin on it in order to compliment the changing demographics of a growing society. Beginning from the earliest settlers, and continuing through the mid 1800s, rich slave owning plantation owners were controlling or limiting the rights of poor white "squatters or crackers" who constantly were used to keep certain people in power.

Sound familiar?

Throughout the 1800s, rich politicians gained votes by:

a) Convincing the poor white voters (when they were allowed to vote) that the politicians were "just like them." They would regale voters of tales of how they grew up in a log cabin, ply them with free whiskey and dress down to seem more "down to earth."

b) Convincing poor white voters that the people keeping them from achieving prosperity were not the rich slave-owners but the slaves themselves. After all, it's the black people that are the problem, not the people that buy and sell them....

This train of thought achieved new levels after emancipation and the poor white populace were forced to compete with newly freed black slaves. What could go wrong?

It's hard not to see parallels with our modern society, when the Republican party constantly uses social issues to gain the support of poor, uneducated white people in order to pass legislation that further benefits the rich.

It's a bit of a laborious read, but I would recommend it for anyone interested in a historical perspective on the modern political climate. Even if you are not into modern politics, it's a fairly decent history lesson that focuses on a lot of the stuff that is often disregarded in high school history class.


End Note:
For the people that will take immediate offence to the title.... White Trash was a term coined in 1821 by rich plantation owners to describe the people that were forced to live on less that desirable land that was available to them. It is actually a derivation of the term "rubbish-people" which was coined by Thomas Jefferson who was referring to poor whites who he considered to be an entirely different race of humans.
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Quote by DamonX


Throughout the 1800s, rich politicians gained votes by:

a) Convincing the poor white voters (when they were allowed to vote) that the politicians were "just like them." They would regale voters of tales of how they grew up in a log cabin, ply them with free whiskey and dress down to seem more "down to earth."


For instance, Abraham Lincoln, born in a log cabin and supposed to be a country lawyer, was actually a very rich corporate attorney. He was highly successful representing the big railroads. George Washington set up a free whiskey booth not far from the polling place. That was actually pre-American Revolution when he ran for elections in colonial Virginia, but the practice was common and continued for several decades into US history. And over 90% the poor guys dying on battlefields for rich slave owners did not own slaves.

I can say that discovering much my family history in America, which started in the 1600s, is a slow rise up from white trash. I am one-quarter Cherokee because so many of the British immigrant men I descend from, living on the frontier, scraping out an existence in the southern Appalachians, married Cherokee women as there were no British women available and it garnered goodwill with the Cherokee. Obviously, my Cherokee ancestry was here a lot longer. smile

One side of my family slowly rose up through education, working as tutors, teachers, professors and few ministers. The other side rose through a combination of education, business, and propelling into politics. They all started poor.

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The southern states during the first nearly 100 years (and after really) pushed a propaganda of state loyalty over federal loyalty. That actually existed in the northern states in the beginning but the federalist ideas of government grew faster there. You can see this in historical documentation and newspapers throughout the early decades. You'd most often see it written 'the united States of America'. In northern states that version had crept out of use by the Civil War but not in the south. The end of the Civil war was the end of seeing the USA referred in that manner. The 'states rights' does pop up again and again, mostly used by the far right now, but used to be to suppress Black rights during segregation and the civil rights movement.
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Was reading MURDER & MAYHEM IN THE CRESCENTA VALLEY by GARY KEYES & MIKE LAWLER


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Winter's Bone By Daniel Woodrell who seems to write stories primarily set in the Southeast Missouri Oazark region. The movie which was nominated for a few academy awards was also the break out performance for Jennifer Lawrence. Bother movie and film are worth while.

The story involves a 17 year old girl in search of her meth cook father who is missing and presumed dead. Mystery would be a strong descriptor.... It's more a a character study of a society in decay.

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