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...unsettling. "The first time I entered a low-seam coal mine was one of the most claustrophobic experiences of my life," says Gup. "You lie on your back on a metal sled, and the distance between the floor and ceiling is never greater than 40 inches. You're in utter darkness -- except for the light on your hard hat. You eat your lunch on your back with your pail on your belly. Twenty-four hours after you get out, the insides of your nostrils are still black with dust...
...argument between liberals and conservatives about what caused communism's fall and who got it right or wrong will go on for a long time. On the main cause -- the utter hopelessness of communism as an economic system -- both sides got it right in their hearts but somehow wrong in their heads. They knew communism couldn't work but forgot it. Of the two sides of the argument, though, it seems to me that conservatives were wronger here. They are the ones who kept emphasizing that military strength could grow indefinitely, no matter how decrepit the economy...
Lederer's book is packed with fascinating trivia--did you know that "it would take ten trillion years...to utter all the possible English sentences that use exactly twenty words"? There are entertaining jokes, puns and quotations, too. Like "Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body."--courtesy Richard Steele...
...left him in a state of terror, feeling betrayed and bewildered, shocked that he could utter the words with such ease, such normalcy, as if they had lost meaning, or maybe spelled something very different to him--I don't know...
Along the way we get to hear Ice utter such gems of dialogue as: "It ain't where you're from. It's where you're at," and "If you ain't true to yourself, you ain't true to nobody." Draw your own conclusions, but the Ice I know grew up in a suburb of Dallas, and his name was Robbie Van Winkle...