TRTR: Racking my brain over The Rackignitons....

[Ian Livingston]

Okay, doesn't directly address the question, but it seems relevant
nonetheless to your intro to the question:

"Thinking's a dizzy business, a matter of catching as many of those
foggy glimpses as you can and fitting them together the best you can.
That's why people hang on so tight to their beliefs and opinions;
because, compared to the haphazard way in which they're arrived at,
even the goofiest opinion seems wonderfully clear, sane, and
self-evident. And if you let it get away from you, then you've got to
dive back into that foggy muddle to wangle yourself out another to
take its place."

Dashiell Hammett in The Dain Curse.

On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 7:51 AM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Where do some thoughts come from,  I ask myself, in ways that won't much
> interest you plisters?
>
> But, last evening I was ill, chills and fever and waking up often and once when
> I did I had this thought:
> Do you know what isn't in The Recogntions, given its time frame?
>
> McCarthyism.
>
> Pervades TRP; compare and contrast.
>



-- 
"Less than any man have I  excuse for prejudice; and I feel for all
creeds the warm sympathy of one who has come to learn that even the
trust in reason is a precarious faith, and that we are all fragments
of darkness groping for the sun. I know no more about the ultimates
than the simplest urchin in the streets." -- Will Durant