[lit-ideas] Re: Rapture
- From: David Ritchie <ritchierd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 25 May 2011 16:26:55 -0700
British Rail regret to announce that the Rapture Train has been cancelled.
There is, however, an ongoing ferret aspect:
"Hi! I am wondering if anyone would be capable of taking care of my pet ferret
until the begging of August."
I bought four books in a thrift store today, very beautiful, each from a series
titled, "Little Journeys." Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Philosophers
had a broken spine, so I didn't buy it. Little Journeys to the Homes of Great
Businessmen begins, "In Germany, the land of philosophy, when the savants sail
into a sea of doubt, some one sets up the cry, 'Back to Kant!' In America,
when professed democracy grows ambitious and evolves a lust for power, men say,
'Back to Jefferson!' In business, when employer forgets employee and both
forget their better manhood, we say, 'Back to Robert Owen!' We will not go
back to Robert Owen: we will go on to Robert Owen, for his philosophy is still
in the vanguard..."
They don't write 'em like that any more.
David Ritchie,
Where Rain Is
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