Howard Zinn
Isn't he wonderful. Heard him before. Loved the mentions of Mark Twain & Helen Keller. Who in the heck knew that stuff? Carefully tailored fame.
From memory an autodidact, not uni grad.
You notice the size of the nib on Trumpet's signature quill? See the pour of lustrous black from the Fordham grad who cheated his way into Penn.
Remember Prof Blainey only a decade & half back during Howard's time, Bush's sheriff, banging on relentlessly about the advance of civilisation, impossibility of holding back against lesser cultures, refusing the black armband version of history. Still not dead the old bastard, god forgive me. (The voice of Bab at my back.)
My Pentel ENERGel 07 flows like a dream. Brought 20-25 refills with me out here, as well as half dozen pens; near the end of the supply after such an extended stay. Disdain inferior product. It took the Japs some good while to refine the technology for their nibs. Not to be taken for granted. You drop or even knock them, goodbye the cascading outpour from the heart.
His skin treatment in the shot here, as well as the autocue either side he swivels to read from like a halting schoolboy. You can imagine years ago how long he practised that tag, curls, hooks and flourishes to die for. No statesman in history has anything to compare, Theodore Roosevelt poss coming closest.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_L7U0R0oSM
Michael Gove
Knew the name but never laid eyes on the man previously, nor heard that voice and those rhythms.You feel humanity has been cruelly trapped and overpowered by malign forces of darkness causing such numbers to be herded into the language of this fellow's marauding ancestors. Stuck there we are like insect specimens in aspic. Three minutes of the twelve was as much as could be borne. You begin to think of the possibility of the revenge of the natural order currently working away on that island through this pandemic, the late interventions by BoJo all too little. Did you hear his recent freedom-loving guff contrasting Brits / Germans & others?!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VV42soUXW_g
NB. Replies to mail from George
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