“Everywhere I see people who talk continually about themselves. Their conversation is a mirror which always shows their own conceited faces. They will talk to you about the tiniest events in their lives, which they expect to be magnified in your eyes by the interest that they themselves take in them.” – Montesquieu, “Letter 50,” Persian Letters (trans. Betts)
No, he’s not talking about Facebook
Published inLit & Crit
Oh dear.
We owe so much to the French.
Levon gone. My Cherokee soul is wailing for that Ozark music man.
Good that he was able to be with us as long as he was and to give so much from his store of talent.
Yes. Heart and soul and skin in the game .