Things I've Learned While Learning Other Things

Thomas Carlyle Henry Kissinger Bob Dylan

Thomas Carlyle A bore Nightmare at a cocktail party Self centered Bob Dylan

Women Smoking Cultural Bans Feminist Movement Sigmund Freud's Nephew Torches of Freedom Campaign

Thomas Carlyle The French Revolution Opposed abolition of slavery Great Man Theory of History Rule Britannica and more...

Thomas Carlyle Power, Strength, Authoritarianism John Stuart Mill Magnum Opus Burn the Manuscript Tenacity Joseph Smith And More...

Jean Borotra 19x Grand Slam Winner 6x Wimbledon Champion French War Veteran WWI & WWII POW Collaborator with the Nazis? French Legion of Honoree Tennis Hall of Fame Redemption 

Wimbledon Champion  Jean Borotra Vichy France French Collaboration Shame Vengeance Jackbooted Nazis in Paris Payback

Castle Itter Waffan SS US Troops & Wehrmacht & French POW'sjoin together to fight SS Troops Weirdest Battle of WWII Jean Borotra saves the day Chaos at WWII's End

Jean Borotra Joseph Stalin Stalin's Son Stalin refuses trade for son with Hitler Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp Castle Itter in Austria High Profile Prisoners

Jean Borotra Wimbledon Champion War Hero Sachsenhausen Prisoner Nazified France Vichy Government Minister of Sport Marshal Petain

The Life of Jean Borotra, Monsieur B Wimbledon Champion 19x Grand Slam Winner 1 of 10 Winners of the Career Grand Slam Triumphs & Travails

Koestler Suicide pact with 3rd wife #MeToo Movement Posthumous claims of Rape Rethinking a man's legacy No Defense Possible & No proof provided Salvador Dali distinguishing fabulous art from disgusting man

Koestler Stalin, Stalinism Russian Political Commissars Totalitarianism Jean Paul Artre Criticism Concentration Camps Darkness at Noon Commissar & the Yogi Camus

Arthur Koestler Darkness at Noon Evils of Stalinism NY Times embarrassing Coverage Walter Duranty & his Tainted Pulitzer Prize 14 years BS Coverage of wonders of Russia No apologies    Joe Biden was intellectually up to snuff NYTimes

Arthur Koestler Devoted Communist Stalin Hater 3 Prison Camps in 3 years in 3 different nations Stephan Zweig Suicide Pacts Best Selling Author

Richard Montague Rough Trade Cold Case Living on the Razor's Edge Dying on the Razor's Edge

Richard Montague Rough Trade Gay Sex gone bad LAPD as Neantherthals Paki Bashing Perverts Got what they deserved

Richard Montague Roth Trade Gay Sex Consensual Sex Turned Assault The Thin line: Pleasure vs Terror

Richard Montague Dark Side Rough Trade Gay Sex Unpredictability & Danger Violence & Sexual Stimulation

Richard Montague Bob Crane Video CameraEquipment Stand Dual Life Sex Scandal Filing escapades without prior consent Beaten to death John Henry Carpenter Cold Case

FUGU Japanese Samarai & Shogun Era Delicacy that will kill you 1 Delicacy meal at risk of Death Emperor Hirohito Black Market Trade Offs 1200x more poisonous than cyanide

Richard Montague S&M World Sex with Strangers Violence Unpredictablility of what happens next FUGU

Richard Montague U Cal Berkeley  UCLA Pain & Pleasure Mixed Signals Freud Madame Curie Dante

Richard Montague California Culture Charlie Manson Era Sex with Strangers Sado-Masochism Logic & illogical & irrational Violence 'Contracts' implicit / explicit violated

Punishment of the Boats Scaphism Mitridates 17 Days of torture King Artaxerxes Absolute power Milk & Honey Crucifixion would be more humane