diligence is to magic as progress is to flight

hi all!

since someone has to follow 'blue millions', i thought i might type up some of wcw's thoughts on george washington (from in the american grain), because what's more unimpeachable than a founding father?

"The surveying contract which took him to Duquesne and the wilderness thereabouts was, however, the other side of the question. In this he must have breathed a more serious air which cannot but have penetrated to the deepest parts of his nature. The thing is, however, that in his case it did not, as it might have done, win him permanently to that kind of an existence. There was in his nature a profound spirit of resignation before life's rich proposals which disarmed him. As he expressed it, to him it was always his "vine and figtree", home and quiet, for which he longed. Stress he could endure but peace and regularity pleased him better. There must have been within him a great country whose wild paths he alone knew and explored in secret and at his leisure.

Resistance was, I believe, his code. Encitadeled. A protector of the peace, or at least, keeper of the stillness within himself. He was too strong to want to evade anything. That's his reputation for truthtelling. It was a good scratching to him to take it on and see himself through. He knew he would come through."

should that be a song on the radio i would be dedicating it to catherine. love to all of you - let's talk soon -