20-08-2013, 11:36 PM
Nathaniel Heidenheimer Wrote:Also you quote Theodore White on LBJ the day of the assassination: "On the flight the party learned that there was no conspiracy, leaned of the identity of Oswald and his arrest; and the President's mind turned to the duties of consoling the stricken and guiding the quick" That phrase ending in "guiding the quick" is that an allusion to some famous quote that I am missing? Also what do you think White means when he says guiding the quick. Does he offer any specifics there?
It's "quick" as in "the quick (the living) and the dead."
Charles Drago
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If an individual, through either his own volition or events over which he had no control, found himself taking up residence in a country undefined by flags or physical borders, he could be assured of one immediate and abiding consequence: He was on his own, and solitude and loneliness would probably be his companions unto the grave.
-- James Lee Burke, Rain Gods
You can't blame the innocent, they are always guiltless. All you can do is control them or eliminate them. Innocence is a kind of insanity.
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Co-Founder, Deep Politics Forum
If an individual, through either his own volition or events over which he had no control, found himself taking up residence in a country undefined by flags or physical borders, he could be assured of one immediate and abiding consequence: He was on his own, and solitude and loneliness would probably be his companions unto the grave.
-- James Lee Burke, Rain Gods
You can't blame the innocent, they are always guiltless. All you can do is control them or eliminate them. Innocence is a kind of insanity.
-- Graham Greene