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# Thursday
- URL: https://thedailyeudemon.com/37423/
- Published: 2015-07-16T06:59:14.000Z
- Updated: 2015-07-16T06:59:14.000Z
- Author: Eric Scheske
- Tags: Miscellaneous, #wpChunk

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/ea/fd/eafdb338-c9b6-4f87-8363-78ab94cc3a18/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/Random-Passage-from-Reading-225x300.jpg "Random Passage from Reading")

A Few Random Passages

I enjoy works that impart broader truths in the context of a narrower subject. A great example from Kingsley Amis' *Everyday Drinking*:

> Never despise a drink because it is easy to make and/or uses commercial mixes. Unquestioning devotion to authenticity is, in any department of life, a mark of the naïve–or worse.

Amen to that. Obsession with the authentic is like an obsession to be humble. It slashes itself off at the knees.

Aye, the ankles.

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One of the most-humorous phrases from Michael Lewis' *Boomerang*. I don't even remember the context, but the reference cracks me up every time I think of it: "The fiercely scatological Martin Luther."

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Here's a passage from Mencken about George Washington. I don't know if it's true, but HLM was an honest writer: "He drank whisky whenever he felt chilly, and kept a jug of it handy. He knew far more profanity than Scripture, and used and enjoyed it more. He had no belief in the infallible wisdom of the common man."