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Merry Christmas David!
Thank you for the great quotes and "Along the way".

"And so, looking at what happened to Maxim, I doubted that technical progress fosters the progress of human beings. The second exists independently of the first and, in all honesty, most likely does not exist. The steam engine makes travel more convenient but wayfarers themselves become no better."

or (most importantly) what made the current life bad. Perhaps that was why the fighters stopped speaking about a better life and replaced it with a new life. Many people back then doubted that it would be better, but nobody doubted that it would be new."

If one of those components is lost, you may await great misfortunes."

so the letters could be read clearly even at a distance, but then the flame devoured them, leaving nothing."

Willful history:
"History is becoming ever more willful and I can no longer cope with it. But you, O brother, are a philosopher: perhaps you will understand something about it."

I enjoyed this one!
Especially the part where the bees get involved in the act: "Or that it [childbearing] would be fulfilled in a less sinful manner, such as budding."
Imagine that. No fun island.

Das tut wirklich richtig weh.

".. for young Willie McBride it all happened again. And again and again and again and again."
music.youtube.com/watch?v=ntt3...

Seems to me The Judge was also a rabble magnet. Or maybe it's the other way round?