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Two rather interesting pieces on the Buckleys

October 27, 2015 by at 3:17 pm

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  1. JOB says
    October 28, 2015 at 7:36 am

    “I tried to read him when I did because I thought of him as the opposition and I wanted to know what the opposition said and thought, or I thought I did, but too often it was too awful, too enraging, to finish. I knew civilized people were supposed to read the ideas of people who disagreed with them and at least think about them. In this way I was not so civilized.”

    This passage tells us all we need to know – that the mind which stops in uncivilized Paris 1789, disregarding Cicero and Quintilian, can never produce truly great writing.

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  2. Brian Jobe says
    October 28, 2015 at 6:48 pm

    Yeah, that column on AIDS and tattoos wasn’t his best.

    Still, all that fawning over Pat is … so Gay.

    Thanks for the tip. I depend on you and JOB for these pieces on the fringe of journalism. Which is to say, anything not posted at National Review or Real Clear Politics.

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  3. Big Jon Bully says
    October 31, 2015 at 9:33 am

    Thanks Broderick, great stuff.

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  4. Big Jon Bully says
    October 31, 2015 at 9:34 am

    Thanks Broderick, great stuff per usual

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  5. Big Jon Bully says
    October 31, 2015 at 10:08 am

    So, newspapers are dead; the novel is dead; Leonard Cohen said that man and woman are a shining artifact of the past and now blogging is dead. Everything is death. The best lack all conviction…

    You’re a real bummer, man.

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