Magni Formica Laboris

When we asked him what he was reading, he sighed and mentioned a book on the economic wars of the future, author and title unknown to me. "Better to read 'Don Quixote,'" I said to him. "Everything's in there." Now, the 'Quixote' is a book that is not read nearly as much as is claimed, although very few will admit to not having read it. With two or three quotes, Clinton showed that he knew it very well indeed. Responding, he asked us what our favorite books were. Styron said his was "Huckleberry Finn." I would have said "Oedipus Rex," which has been my bed table book for the last 20 years, but I named "The Count of Monte Cristo," mainly for reasons of technique, which I had some trouble explaining. Clinton said his was the "Meditations of Marcus Aurelius," and Carlos Fuentes stuck loyally to "Absalom, Absalom," Faulkner's stellar novel, no question, although others would choose &qu

I've been interested in the appeasement policy of the British right before WWII.  It should be worth some time, given what the wikipedia writers had to say about it: The term is most often applied to the foreign policy of the British Prime Minister  Neville Chamberlain  towards  Nazi Germany  between 1937 and 1939. His policies of avoiding war with Germany have been the subject of intense debate for seventy years among academics, politicians and diplomats . The historians' assessments have ranged from condemnation for allowing  Hitler  to grow too strong, to the judgement that he had no alternative and acted in Britain's best interests. At the time, these concessions were widely seen as positive, and the  Munich Pact  among Germany, Britain, France and Italy prompted Chamberlain to announce that he had secured " peace for our time ". [3] The onus, which I felt placed on me upon reading the bolded text, to get off my ass and start studying reminds me of somethin