The Illustrious House of Ramires , by Eça de Queirós. A novel about an ineffectual nobleman writing an historical novel about his heroic ancestors. Queirós has been called the Portuguese Flaubert. Large Fees and How to Get Them : a book for the private use of physicians , by Albert V. Harmon, M.D. If you practice early 20th medicine and want large fees, this book is essential reading. If you don’t, there are still lessons in its amusing and unsentimental discussion of various topics, like in the chapter “The Bugbear of Ethics”, where Harmon advises “ethics in its place is a good thing...But there is such a thing as overdoing the ethical proposition”. Histrionics: Three Plays and Over All the Mountain Tops , by Thomas Bernhard. Bernhard once said “I despise actors, indeed I hate them, for they ally themselves at the least sign of danger with the audience and betray the author and completely identify with stupidity and feeble-mindedness. Actors are the destroyers and exte...
Of course, the "Conglomeration of Golf-Ball-Sized Volcanic Rocks Floating off the Coast of New Zealand" has now sought to lead a continent-sized union of floating volcanic rock conglomerations so that it may assert, via this vast supranational confederation, a level of global power and influence it could never achieve as merely a Belgian-sized floating volcanic rock conglomeration.
ReplyDeleteAn obvious ally of the rocks is the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, which most view as being roughly the size of Texas, but for me is roughly the size Zambia.
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