The Trump administration lies about terrorist attacks.
The Curious in Ecstasy or Shoelaces, by Louis François Charon, 1815. Satire of English fascination with South African-born Saartjie Baartman who was exhibited under the name Hottentot Venus. The British Museum, London.
Foreigners
Volume VIII, Number 1 | winter 2015
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Miscellany
Having come to the U.S. through Portugal, French pilot Antoine de Saint-Exupéry wrote and illustrated part of The Little Prince—one of the best-selling works of fiction of all time—in a twenty-two room mansion on Long Island in 1942. “I wanted a hut,” he reflected, “and it’s the Palace of Versailles.”
By nature, men are nearly alike; by practice, they get to be wide apart.
- Confucius, c. 500 BCLapham’s
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