Library day
The local library, a couple blocks from the house, is open until 8:30. And tonight, while in the queue ordering some books to be shipped over from the central library, I spotted some light reading, The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksander Solzhenitsyn. I read “the Light that Fades” by Kipling and it was such a downer I had to read the soles of my shoes for four days. This promises to at least give me some tactics to use on my liberal brethren.
The Gulag Archipelego is one of my favorite books to recommend to people who ask me (in all seriousness) “What’s so bad about Socialism/Communism.” If you’d like to read my review it’s here:
http://bymytroth-rantings.blogspot.com/2008/03/gulag-archipelago.html
If Kipling depressed you be prepared to slash your wrists after reading Gulag.
As a kid (13 or so, 1971) my parents took me to see the movie, “One Day in the life of Ivan Denisovich.” I think I caught a just cold watching it, it was shiveringly terrifying and I’m not sure what lesson they were trying to impress with it or if it was just Liberal Cruelty – a teachable moment of what the future would hold.
“If Kipling depressed you be prepared to slash your wrists after reading Gulag. ”
Isn’t that the book where Solzhenitsyn say that they don’t eat their food, they have communion with it?