I've been rereading "Candide"

Good to see you back on the forum. Please stick around a while, we missed you.

Thanks, glitterbag!

Dlowan sent me a note a week or so ago and I've been poking around. This morning I saw the sad news about Set and Beth's sweet dog and posted for the first time in a long while.

I'll try to stick around for a bit!

I thought of you a while back, Boom.

I tried "I can't believe it's not butter" for the first time. It was . . . a . . . spiritual experience.

Upon this rock of congealed oils I have built my church and the gates of Hades cannot overpower it.

Voltaire would surely approve!

I was too young when I read Candide. I ought to read it again, myself.

If nothing else it gave us the wonderful word panglossian. Political commentators relish the opportunity to use that.