This is a quote from a memoir by Dorothy Wordsworth, reflecting on a trip she took with two famous poets, her brother, William Wordsworth, and their similarly gifted companion, Samuel Taylor Coleridge. We sat upon a bench, placed for the sake of one of these views, whence we looked down upon the waterfall, and over the open country ... A lady and gentleman, more expeditious tourists than ourselves, came to the spot; they left us at the seat, and we found them again at another station above the Falls. Coleridge, who is always good-natured enough to enter into conversation with anybody whom he meets in his way, began to talk with the gentleman, who observed that it was a majestic waterfall. Coleridge was delighted with the accuracy of the epithet, particularly as he had been settling in his own mind the precise meaning of the words grand, majestic, sublime, etc., and had discussed the subject with William at some length the day before. “Yes, sir,” says Coleridge, “it is a maj...
If she had a conscience, then she wouldn't have taken a job with Trump. Neither Trump nor anyone who works for him is worth criticizing; they are all beneath contempt. This is a man who is kidnapping children from their parents who seek asylum. Masha Gessen has a column at the New Yorker website saying that it is a form of state terror, in which Putin also engages (although his victims are not asylum seekers). Maybe I've missed it, but I haven't read of a single politician, including any Democrat, who has criticized Trump's kidnapping.
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