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Originally Posted by HoopyFrood  Woo! Now that's a title -- you just don't get them like this anymore  Reminds me of the full title of Robinson Crusoe. |
LOL... yes, indeedy! But, you know... I love books with titles like that. Heck, i love old books... the leisurely way they have of approaching things, the often meaty, deeply thoughtful (and metaphorical or allegorical) way they have of addressing things, so that the books have such richness of meaning....
Morton... well, this one is very much a bit of self-justification (he was one of the earliest people to be kicked out of this country... not only for setting up the infamous Maypole of Merrymount and scandalizing the Puritans by having pagan dances and such... but by selling hard liquor, gunpowder, guns, and ammunition to the Indians.... Well, he
was showing the true entrepreneurial spirit....
)