There are times when you have to choose between being a human and having good taste.
- Bertolt Brecht
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It's the Sunday after the midterm elections in the United States. The American people have had enough of the Iraq War. Finally. So here are two poems, the first from Stephen Crane (1871-1900); the second, from Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956):
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Primo Levi The Periodic Table
Konrad Lorenz King Solomon's Ring
Tom Stoppard Arcadia
Richard Dawkins The Selfish Gene
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