Could anyone in the midst of the "Jazz Age" have accurately predicted the Republicans attitude during the first decade of the next century? In the opening lines of "Save Me the Waltz," Zelda Fitzgerald wrote: "Most people hew the battlements of life from compromise, erecting their impregnable keeps from judicious submissions, fabricating their philosophical drawbridges from emotional reactions, and scalding marauders in the boiling oil of sour grapes."
Wait! Didn't Louis G. Carroll (AKA Charles Lutwidge Dodgson) say it better? In the poem "The Walrus and the Carpenter," he wrote:
""The time has come,' the Walrus said,
"To talk of many things:
Of shoes -" and ships -" and sealing wax -"
Of cabbages -" and kings -"
And why the sea is boiling hot-
And whether pigs have wings.'"
Now the disk jockey will play "Mrs. Robinson," Charlie Manson's "Oh Garbage Dump!," and Marianne Faithfull's "The Ballad of Lucy Jordon." We have to go see the film "Blue Valentine," because some scenes were filmed in Scranton Pa. Have an "adequate" type week.
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