sins of the fathers/rewards of inheritances

[degringolade]

 

Blue sky day today, already 60℉ and barometer looks to be steady at 30 in/Hg.  Need to walk a little today.

 

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There are a couple of out of date books that I really think need to be brought back to the thin gruel that is literary output these days.  

The Ugly American By Eugene Burdick and William J. Lederer

And

The Quiet American by Graham Greene

I think that these go back to an older time and place that really never went away, except for the fact that the bad guys in these novels won in the real-life mirror world that we inhabit.

I am going to think on my memories of these two books and after pondering for a bit, I might just write a piece on them and the way they dropped slowly out of the discussion as we began to believe that our imperial aspirations were actually coming true.