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# Wednesday
- URL: https://thedailyeudemon.com/37643/
- Published: 2015-08-19T06:27:23.000Z
- Updated: 2015-08-19T06:27:23.000Z
- Author: Eric Scheske
- Tags: Miscellaneous, #wpChunk

![Kauffman](https://storage.ghost.io/c/ea/fd/eafdb338-c9b6-4f87-8363-78ab94cc3a18/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Kauffman-300x209.jpg)

Some more great passages from Kauffman's *Poetry Night at the Ballpark and Other Scenes from an Alternative America: Writings, 1986-2014*:

Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote his wife, “I want nothing to do with politicians–they are not men; they cease to be men, in becoming politicians. Their hearts wither away, and die out of their bodies.”

Prostitution is legal in Nevada but mandatory in D.C.

Kerouac subscribed to and avidly read National Review and once appeared on William F. Buckley, Jr.'s “Firing Line,” where he drunkenly uttered the immortal words, “Flat-foot Floogie with the floy floy!” He painted pictures of the Virgin Mary and Pope Paul; he disliked the Vietnam War as well as its protesters: “I'm pro-American and the radical political involvements seem to tend elsewhere. . . . This country gave my Canadian family a good break, and we see no reason to demean said country.”

Ray Bradbury's Dandelion Wine (1957) \[is\] the finest evocation of a boyhood summer I have read.

Like H.L. Mencken, Gore Vidal, Ernest Hemingway, and other original Americans, Bradbury “had the advantage,” wrote Russell Kirk, “of never attending college,” which “constricts people,” in Bradbury's words.

Fire Captain Beatty explains to the late-blooming rebel Montag: “Heredity and environment are funny things. You can't rid yourselves of all the odd ducks in just a few years. The home environment can undo a lot you try to do at school. That's why we've lowered the kindergarten age year after year until now we're almost snatching them from the cradle.” (Not that the well-meaning advocates of mandatory preschool have any such thing in mind . . . )

Was there ever a more startling film debut than Robert Duvall's turn as Boo Radley?

After enduring the Bolshoi Ballet, \[John F. Kennedy\] told an aide, “I don't want my picture taken shaking hands with all those Russian fairies.”