“Don’t you think that the Dutchmen have behaved bravely at last?” Yes I do, and it was what I foretold to Genl Gates, when he asked me in a letter for an opinion concerning the future conduct of them after the taking of ’Statia. I can easily conceive that You was loaded as an Atlas with a mountain of cares, and I am glad they have not reduced you to atoms. I was rejoiced to have it confirmed that you was recovered but after hearing how ill you was and wanting that confirmation for a long time, I quieted my own misgivings and endeavoured doing the like as to others by arguing, from the silence of the New York papers that you was not dead, and that it would have been known and published had it been so. I was in a tolerable flow of spirits, being mercifully favored by Heaven with a comfortable share of health, but the receipt of it made a considerable addition and being informed that Jerry Allen was going to France and so to Holland, as soon as the wind admitted, I concluded upon seizing the opportunity for making a quick return, and upon being as communicative to You as You have been to me. 1 My good old Friend, who I began to fear from his long silence, had nearly forgotten me, through the multitude of more capital European figures occasioning a diversion. Between four and five Deacon Mason called and brought me one from. Was up early and went to Boston in the morning after letters, could meet with none, and returned home to dinner. Aunque solo sea porque esta lectura coincidió en aquella época con mi crush por System of a Down.Įn fin, que a veces uno se arriesga y gana y otras se arriesga y no.Last evening I heard that a vessel was arrived from Amsterdam.

Me parece una comunidad muy atrayente y luchadora.

Quizá porque habla de la comunidad armenia en Estados Unidos después del 'éxodo' que emprendieron después del genocidio de principios de siglo XX y que se silenció arteramente. Por eso digo que en este caso me arriesgué y lo disfruté. Quiero decir, que aunque no suelo leer las contras, alguna información me ha llegado, ya sea sobre el autor, ya sea sobre el contenido, ya sea sobre la importancia de la obra (en el contexto actual o en contextos pasados). Mi forma de escoger lecturas no atiende a un criterio fijo y en pocas ocasiones me lanzo sin tener información previa de lo que voy a leer. No tanto en el cómo leo sino en el qué leo.

Nunca he llegado a pensar mucho en mi comportamiento como lector. Este es un libro con el que me arriesgué.

King of the Bottom by William C. Gordon