William A. Masters
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William A. Masters
@bmasters46
Husband, dad, decorated combat veteran, trial lawyer, fiscal conservative, deontological liberal, learning from Dostoevsky about utilitarian utopian socialists
The average person is more likely to be struck by lightning than they are to commit voter fraud. Seriously. That's a real stat. I'm voting NO on the SAVE America Act.
this guy has zero business being Secretary of Defense. completely unfit intellectually, morally, temperamentally.
Going out to eat was a special occasion
I read the first hundred pages of The Road last year, and read the first hundred pages of Blood Meridian this year, and in both instances, gave up, because the books never clicked. Lyrical writing, but the characters are reduced to way down Maslow's hierarchy, and the tone is so relentlessly bleak, with almost no humanity breaking through, it was difficult to feel anything besides the flint clicking against the cold steel in the overwhelming darkness. I know many of you love it, but to me, it's overwrought, overstylized, and overhyped.
About to start Blood Meridian for the first time. Give me all your best advice.
@bmasters46 Ted Lieu is a true Patriot. 🔥
Who are some of your favorite short stories authors? 1. Robert E. Howard 2. Edgar Allan Poe 3. Ernest Hemingway 4. Flannery O'Connor 5. Guy de Maupassant Who are some of your favorites?☕️📚
“In writing about the many books she loved, Virginia Woolf could be a good Johnsonian critic. On Joyce’s Ulysses, she is at her rare worst: snobbish, resentful, a touch frightened. And wrong, absolutely wrong. The Jesuit-trained James Joyce was erudite beyond measure and so gifted as to be almost the fusion of Dante and Shakespeare. That was his vaunting ambition. It was beyond reach.” —Harold Bloom, Bright Book of Life
Virginia Woolf’s diary entries on James Joyce’s Ulysses: “An illiterate, underbred book it seems to me; the book of a self taught working man, and we all know how distressing they are, how egotistic, insistent, raw, striking, and ultimately nauseating. … I finished ‘Ulysses’ and think it is a misfire. Genius it has, I think; but of the inferior water. The book is diffuse. It is brackish. It is pretentious. It is underbred, not only in the obvious sense, but in the literary sense. A first-rate writer, I mean, respects writing too much to be tricky; startling; doing stunts.”
Gavin Newsom's wife is mentally ill. This isn't how a normal person speaks... she reminds me of Tim Walz's wife. Why are they all like this?
The Normans weren’t French. They were Normans - a people formed from Viking settlers who took land in northern Frankish territory under Rollo in the 10th century. They adopted the local language and some Frankish customs, but that didn’t change where they came from. Their roots were Germanic, Viking at the base, mixed with the Franks - the same wider Germanic stock as the Anglo-Saxons across the Channel. By 1066 they were known as Normans, literally Northmen. Not French, but a distinct people shaped by both sides of their origin. 🏴 ᛟ
Virginia Woolf’s diary entries on James Joyce’s Ulysses: “An illiterate, underbred book it seems to me; the book of a self taught working man, and we all know how distressing they are, how egotistic, insistent, raw, striking, and ultimately nauseating. … I finished ‘Ulysses’ and think it is a misfire. Genius it has, I think; but of the inferior water. The book is diffuse. It is brackish. It is pretentious. It is underbred, not only in the obvious sense, but in the literary sense. A first-rate writer, I mean, respects writing too much to be tricky; startling; doing stunts.”
trump has no idea what he is doing. America lost 98,000 manufacturing jobs during his first 12 months in office.