Fun City
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Foreign tourists are coming up to me on the streets and asking, “Marilyn, you have so many different kinds of inequality in your country. How can I tell which are socially acceptable and which are not?”
You will be superseded / By San Pellegrino
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[She] advised women to overcome a man’s passion for clubs with “a passion of a different nature, which Providence has kindly planted within us; I mean, by inspiring [a man] with the love of fireside enjoyment.”
“My plan of instruction is extremely simple and limited. They learn, on week-days, such coarse works as may fit them for servants. I allow of no writing for the poor. My object is not to make fanatics, but to train up the lower classes in habits of industry and piety.”
You’re a danger, Harry. You’re a danger.
The translators of this short book invited me last year to a conference on politics and morality. Naturally, I was curious, but then they insisted I act as discussant to this Giorgio fellow — an Italian. I hadn’t heard of him, and to be honest, I couldn’t make heads or tails of his prose. Not recommended.