Memorandums from Mary

Sunday, October 1, 2023

Fit to be Tied (in a Straitjacket)

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Korean War vet Randle McMurphy (Jack Nicholson) thought he could control his situation (by transferring from prison to a mental hospital) in...
Saturday, September 23, 2023

A 40,000-book Personal Library

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I recently read Packing My Library: An Elegy and Ten Digressions by Alberto Manguel. However, I was left with two burning questions after f...
Saturday, September 16, 2023

Condemned to Repeat the Past, Part Two

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As I pointed in my previous post; there were some similarities between the 1918 Spanish Flu pandemic and the current COVID-19 pandemic . In ...
Saturday, September 9, 2023

Condemned to Repeat the Past, Part One

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Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. —George Santayana, The Life of Reason (1905) Edvard Munch did a series of se...
Monday, September 4, 2023

A Shrine to Nativism or to Democracy?

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In high school, in the Midwest, I learned about the concept of Manifest Destiny. This was the idea that White Americans were ordained, by Go...
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