连读 So what the Venus transit allows us to do is to study a known system, where we know Venus,...
连读 Now, who wouldn't want to live in that country? That's a great line in an inaugural addres...
连读 Of course it's ignoring the fact that at least half of those people died to preserve slave...
连读 And if you're one of those, fine, that's great. I had that stage, too. I will confess, if ...
连读 But what is all that nostalgia about for those battlefields?
爆破 Or is it because this experience in American history is ultimately about loss? Are we attr...
爆破 And by loss I mean defeat but also loss in terms of human life, treasure, proportions of c...
爆破 If you took the 620,000-odd Americans who died in the Civil War, you moved it ahead to the...
爆破 Now Americans will never sustain four million casualties in a war, I would argue. I can't ...
爆破 Unless Osama bin Laden is coming through that window. Who knows, maybe he will one day. Wo...
叠合 But I don't think Americans will ever sustain that kind--but four million--if you came, pe...
叠合 Lost causes somehow represent the rebel spirit, a rebellious spirit, an insurrectionary sp...
叠合 Now, the watch says I only have about two minutes. So let me leave you here.
叠合 But in 1850 or 1840s America you could find both extremes of, on the one hand, a tremendo...
叠合 In Whitman's Democracy, as well as several other Whitman poems, you can find this limitles...