it's a good day to start a relisten of Blowback season one

the real Kennedy curse is that they all carry with them the lathe of heaven, but are incapable of imagining a better world in which they're also still alive

imagine spending decades skillfully navigating the complex political calculus of the holy roman empire, getting yourself appointed as the archbishop of Salzburg, and then your portrait ends up looking like "okay children now draw the town dunce"