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May 30, 2017
Alexandria used to be a lively place in Lawrence Durrell's day, full of Brits, Greeks, Jews, gays...
All gone. And now Islam is king on a field of corpses, and the place is a crashing bore.But no one in the new Alexandria reads Durrell, and you'd have to be - what? - seventy to have even a dim recollection of the way it was. The point of time is that it passes, and what is gone is lost from memory. Your three-score-and-ten fly by, and everyone younger than you accepts the here-and-now as the way it always was. The Ruin of England :: SteynOnline
Posted by gerardvanderleun at May 30, 2017 9:48 AM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.
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Jim Leach, affable RINO who was, briefly, Chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities, used to lecture based on the "Alexandria Quartet."
His contention was that transnationalism and multiculturalism would neutralize Islamic terror, and other such claptrap. I never had an opportunity to point out that the Alexandria that Durell portrayed had been dead 80 years by the time Leach did his lectures. He and I talked about college wrestling, instead.
Posted by: Don Rodrigo at May 31, 2017 3:12 PM
How many armored divisions do "transnationalism" and "multiculturalism" have?
Posted by: Casey Klahn at May 31, 2017 5:48 PM