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...your land. You will be asked to pay for these plows over a period of years. You will also get fertilizer and it will be wise for you to pay for it each year, if you can. Remember you must help each other. Those of you who have a donkey must lend it to those who haven't. You must do that . . . until those without a donkey can plant enough fodder for a donkey to eat. Then we shall distribute donkeys...
...time, Ross clearly feels a futility in the brand of liberalism he professes. In this confusion of feelings, he apparently could not decide whether to satirize or eulogize his intellectual liberal hero; so he did both. The result is a hectic sort of politico-literary game of tail-the-donkey, combining some elements of post office. What rescues the book from total muddlement is his ironic conception of the intellectual liberal as "the man who lived backward...
...Author Ross had been satisfied merely to pin the tail on his pseudo-liberal donkey, his book might have been a very witty one. As it is, he all too often confuses the silly ass with some of the hard-headed heroes of U.S. history, and starts throwing him political kisses. A man can look mighty foolish kissing a donkey...
...little facility." He kept a string of race horses, and pets by the dozen: jays, apes, badgers, squirrels, marmosets, turtle doves, and a raven which he taught to answer the door. In an inventory of goods filed with the Siena tax collector in 1512, Il Sodoma also listed "a donkey that talks theology to the priests...
Dashingly, painted in bright colors, the huge Canvas swarms with festive Bruxellois, many in carnival costume. Almost lost in the riotous shuffle is the dejected figure of Christ mounted on a donkey. The quiet center of a scene as shrill and unsettling as an ambulance siren, He is one week from Golgotha...