Monday, January 15, 2018

Sic transit gloria mundi …

 Nigeness: Van Loon and Cronin.

I read Van Loon when I was a kid and liked his books. I wasn't aware of contempt for the "masses," as he called them ("Any formal attack on ignorance is bound to fail because the masses are always ready to defend their most precious possession - their ignorance"). 
I remember seeing the film version of Cronin's The Keys of the Kingdom and liking it lot.

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