Misc. bloviating

[Mark Kohut]

It seems that until the word 'bloviating' came to rest so easily
to describe some of us on the plist, it had a surge into
the cultural bloodstream in the US in the twenties when it
was often used to describe Harding's bloviating. 
 
And, even less relevant to anything, in reading around in some stuff
about Dante, as I try to decide whether 'by indirection to find my direction out"---
that is whether to read that trilogy (so to miscall it) , I find at least three scholars,
& biographers who describe the later Dante as "bitter"...which shouldn't have surprised me,
but did, as I reflect on what I know is in that trilolgy, especially the hellish parts.....
 
Seems Dante suffered around a Jackobean-like Revenger's Tragedy kind of Montague-Capulet situation,
 threatened to be hanged (and worse) if he ever came back to his hometown, meanwhile
torture and death being played out all around him.