A man could stand up

The beach restores one to

responses of conviviality

and discretion, exertions

as natural (it is natural

to believe) as inhalation

and other delectations of

a pleasing walk. It's al-

ways reasonable to keep a

care for one's noggin, as

one might happen upon the

best directed flight of a

surprise.

He glanced aside and upwards: that coxcomb of phosphorence ... If you are lying down under fire - flat under pretty smart fire - and you have only a paper bag in front of your head for cover you feel immeasurably safer than you do without it. You have a mind at rest. This must be the same thing.

One can't know how much a

mane of paranoia could be

worth in an election, but

that affliction is not to

be recommended as policy.

As it rises this evening,

to claim the embrace of a

Party volunteering raptly

to be mad, it will not be

proper to mock its disab-

ling of the soul. It asks

for vaccination; it would

be ungenerous to condemn,

and not aspire to stop it.

Ford Madox Ford

A Man Could Stand Up --

1926

Parade's End

Alfred A. Knopf, 1961©

op. cit.

32nd President

  of the United States

1882 - 1945

Summer, 1897

ii  Damon Winter

    The New York Times©

    July 19, 2016