Posted on 07/20/2009 11:30:36 AM PDT by C19fan
The National Review cruise around the Mediterranean these last ten days included Rome, Dubrovnik, Corfu, Ephesus, Athens, all places where our civilization took shape. Ruins from the classical period, mosaics and painted rooms, medieval fortresses, churches and cloisters, sculpture, pictures, variously amount to a statement of what mankind at its best can create, and what these works tell us about ourselves and why they are worth visiting and preserving. And then almost the first thing I encounter back on shore is the obituary in the Daily Telegraph of one Dashiell Snow. This told a sad story, but more than that, it was a negation of everything wed been seeing and doing on the way round the Mediterranean, a sort of anti-cruise.
I had never heard of this poor Dash Snow, needless to say.
(Excerpt) Read more at pryce-jones.nationalreview.com ...
I wonder what reform school he attended in Georgia?
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