Snicket and Favourite Quotes

[David <dfrankiswork@netscape.net>]

Barb wrote:

>  I'm glad you brought up Lemony Snicket, 
> Dave.  I've just begun the sixth book (I'm nicking my daughter's 
LS 
> books from her room--they're just too funny) and I believe that's 
> where the Squalors come in as characters.  

I'm only onto book 3 myself, the family finances requiring slow 
acquisition of books.  After my last post I realised that the 
Unauthorised Autobiography likely contains many references to later 
books.  I had been daft enough to think that it was a stand-alone 
book when I bought it.

Meanwhile people with a limited knowledge of the series should on no 
account visit www.lemonysnicket.com - they will never be able to 
escape!

> Another 
> thing I'm reading that offers me many chuckles is Dave Barry's 
Sort-
> of History of the United States, which tells us that after WWII, 
> President Truman wisely decided it was time to start the Postwar 
> Era.  

I hadn't heard of that one - we have a book from the twenties called 
1066 And All That.

The reason for the Crimean War reads as follows:

"1) Russia was Too Big, and pointing in the direction of India.

2) The Holy Places.  The *French* thought that the Holy Places (in 
*Palestine*) should be protected (probably from the *Americans*) by 
*Latin* monks, while the *Turks*, who owned the places, thought they 
should be guarded by *Greek* monks.  *Britain* therefore quite 
rightly declared war on *Russia*, who immediately occupied 
*Roumania*."

You'd think that after 150 years, great power thinking about the 
Middle East might have changed a bit, wouldn't you?

With all due respect

David