Philip K. Dick - Degraded Histories

At the annual used book sale sponsored by the San Francisco library I got a very large pile of old biographies, memoirs, and out-of-date collections of local anecdotes. These books always fascinate me. Perhaps what I like is analogous to what Pedro the Ghetropolitan likes in his buildings. Their abandoned passages contain evidence of forgotten life. Weird, pathetic, or unintentionally idiotic scenes give me a feeling not of superiority, but of friendliness. There's a melodramatic and yet trivial significance that is bizarrely comforting.

Ghetropolis

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Wireless Coaching

I've read the stories about Bush's earpiece at Salon and Is Bush Wired?. Football fans may appreciate this reference, to the first time wireless coaching was used, by the legendary Paul Brown of the Cleveland Browns.

From My Friend Robespierre by Henri Beraud, 1825

"The most extravagant idea that can enter a politican's head is the belief that all a people need to do to spread their own laws and constitution is to enter another nation with a sword."

--Maximilien Robespierre, December 21, 1791 The quote was found in an interesting, haphazardly written novel-in-the-form-of-a-memoir rescued from the tottering piles at the San Francisco Library book sale.