26 October 2012

Against Despair

"There's only one great evil in the world today. Despair.”

Evelyn Waugh, Vile Bodies (1930)

7 comments:

  1. Sir James Redhouse26 October, 2012 22:37

    And yet, the destruction of Western Civilization leads us step-by-step into desperation.

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  2. They said we couldn't stop the Persians, couldn't defeat Hannibal, or stop the Moors in France, won't survive the first day in the Holy Lands, couldn't sail around the globe, or defeat Napoleon, couldn't achieve flight, or reach space, land on the moon...

    You know. I am sick and tired of hearing what we are not capable of doing when we are capable of everything.

    The future is bright to those with the killer instinct to go out and take it.

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  3. "The future is bright to those with the killer instinct to go out and take it."

    Is this a quote from an Islamic terrorist?

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  4. And we know how well the '30s turned out.

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  5. @ Anon 19:15

    No.

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  6. DEK ~ Indeed. But the final dénouement, of course, happened in the mid-1940s.

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  7. Where is Mr. Chatterbox when we need him?

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