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Alperovitz, Gar. What Then Must We Do? Straight Talk about the Next American Revolution, Chelsea Green Publishing, White River Vt. 2013 (205pp. $27.95)  Crouch, Colin. Making Capitalism Fit for Society, Polity Press, Malden, Massachusetts, 2013 (192pp.) Something terrible is happening to our country and its…

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Vodun is the supreme factor in the unity of Haiti. It came to crystalize, in the dynamism of it’s cultural manifestations, the past of the African on native soil,his martyrdom in the colonial hell, the heroism of the knights in realizing the miracle of 1804….

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All factions have reason to worry if the broad majority of citizens lose that mysterious sense of felicity and exuberance they once had in the presence of natural grandeur—the feeling of having known it before, of being linked to it via thousands of centuries before…

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There’s a sense of being young and, all of a sudden, the opposite feeling, of not being young, and of having used up a series of people who loved me. One person makes a declaration of love and the other remains relaxed and gently affectionate…

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The typesetter who sets my book is as important to cultural life as I am. B. Traven

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What is man but a little soul holding up a corpse? Malcolm Lowry “Under the Volcano”

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Never write more clearly than you can think. Niehls Bohr

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Terror consists mostly of useless cruelties perpetuated by frightened people in order to reassure themselves. Engels, Letter to Marx 4 September, 1870

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The mental music while fishing was always the cello.   Jim Harrison “The Big Seven”    

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Little items like literature suffocated in the sweep of history. He did recall that the summer after graduating from college before he joined the state police he had read Shakespeare. It was the pure language that stupefied him. He would be in a diner reading…

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