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Johno Johno

Get your copy here, and expect lower productivity from certain ministers in the days to come. Neal Stephenson is the voice of my generation, if by generation you mean my narrowly defined psychotopographical coordinate.

Other readings of Minister Johno of late:

Wow... America, America, America. Even when I'm reading a French writer she's writing about America. Ah, what the hell. Other countries are dirty and they talk funny and they don't have the right kind of coffee-- it's too thick and bitter-- and the beer's warm or it's too cold and the clothes fit funny and what's with their money and why can't they just speak english like normal people?

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I just finished Volume Four of Stephen King's Dark Tower series, so I am very ready to jump into a massive tome chock full of historical goodness. I shall pick it up on the way home, and read it on the Metro.

The Dark Tower is just as good as Burton claimed it to be. Go figure.

Johno, while you're reading on America, why don't you get a copy of Tocqueville, and I'll get a copy of Tocqueville, and we'll have dueling Tocqueville posts for the next several months?

Buckethead Buckethead

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Deal.

I got my copy, and read the first few chapters last week. How silly of me to leave him off my list!

The PROBLEM with T. is this: he visited the US at a crucial moment in its history, after the crises of the early republic had passed, and before the crises slavery, Jacksonian democracy, and machine politics reared their heads. He also swept a lot aside in his beautiful blanket assumptions.

The net effect is that he is the giant boulder nobody can ever see around when discussing American politics, and yet he talking about an ideal America that never existed in fact.

Duelling Tocqeville at ten paces: you're on!

Johno Johno

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