So Christmas presents were distributed at Kath’s folk’s house, and lo, there was much happiness. I received an interesting assortment of stuff, including a little wind-up bowling game, a walking and growling King Kong (it took me a while to figure out how to position his arms so that he didn’t fall flat every time he moved) and an assortment of books including–most intriguingly–a book of correspondence between John Adams and Thomas Jefferson. Jefferson’s final letter to Adams, likening themselves to the Argonauts, is both amazing and depressing–amazing because of the poetic way in which he frames their participation in the American revolution, and depressing when one considers how far the holders of the highest office in the land have fallen in their ability to express themselves with anything approaching intelligence, much less poetry.
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