Words&Dirt

“––Ruling passion strong in death, says Joe, as someone said.

––That can be explained by science, says Bloom. It’s only a natural phenomenon, don’t you see, because on account of the…

And then he starts with his jawbreakers about phenomenon and science and this phenomenon and the other phenomenon.”

––Ulysses, by James Joyce, pg. 303

“Here is the great catch-22 of American politics: as long as low-income people do not vote or participate politically, they will be scapegoated. But as long as both major parties continue to ignore the problems of low-income citizens, the poor will see politics as irrelevant and won’t vote or join the political process. The politicians who get elected will continue to ignore their needs.”

––Outsider in the White House, by Bernie Sanders and Huck Gutman, pg. 175