Three Journal

I’m back mining entries from 1991 for my Three Journal. Which is always very depressing. How could I write so poorly? I cannot help thinking, “If I had done some decent work then, maybe it would have saved me when I handed the journal to Dr. G.” The best defense that I can cook up is that the writing reflects the fact that I was naturally suffering a severe depression. But I think that is reaching. There just isn’t much here. Too much injun to thrive in this civilization…

It occurs to me that this material will also make for relatively dull reading in my Three Journal, even though I am trying to gather only the best material. When it comes to the Three Journal, I was not going to include any of the copied and pasted poetry from my show blog. I wanted to keep the Three Journal more personal than that. However, maybe those poems can spice up the 1990s for me, sweetening that reading for me. I am also thinking about putting some of my book blogging there, some fun fiction, such as “1984” and “American Psycho”, and maybe some of the personal musings of Sylvia Plath and Fernando Pessoa.

1790s Jefferson and Hamilton

“Each of us perhaps thought well of the other man, but as politicians it was impossible for two men to be of more opposite principles.”

-- Thomas Jefferson, speaking of Hamilton

It was practically a blood feud between these two giants of the revolutionary generation. As two historians, Elkins and McKitrick, wrote, “Of all the events that shaped the political life of the new republic in its earliest years, none was more central than the massive personal and political enmity, classic in the annals of American history, which developed in the course of the 1790s between Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson.” In terms of partisan politics, as Mr. Chernow writes, “The Federalists saw themselves as saving America from anarchy, while Republicans believed they were rescuing America from counterrevolution.”

{Source: Ron Chernow, “Alexander Hamilton”}

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