Terry Karney ([info]pecunium) wrote,
@ 2009-07-03 16:40:00
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Time, flowing like a river
A biography of one of the greatest men this country has ever produced:

Time wastes too fast: every letter / I trace tells me with what rapidity life follows my pen. The days and hours / of it are flying over our heads like clouds of a windy day never to return...

He died, 185 years ago tomorrow.

Someday, may we see his like again.

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[info]iclysdale
2009-07-03 08:58 pm UTC (link)
That's fabulous - I hadn't seen any of Maira Kalman's stuff, and am now at some point going to have to waste a lot of time there.

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[info]wcg
2009-07-03 08:59 pm UTC (link)
Do you know the story about the little jibe John Kennedy made, the evening he had a bunch of Nobel laureates to dinner at the White House? "Never has this table witnessed a greater average intelligence, except perhaps when Thomas Jefferson dined alone."

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[info]pecunium
2009-07-03 09:26 pm UTC (link)
Yes.

I think he was right.

Edited at 2009-07-03 09:26 pm UTC

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[info]bifemmefatale
2009-07-03 09:56 pm UTC (link)
I hope, if we ever see his like again, that his like declines to own other humans, like his own wife's half-siblings and his own offspring.

He was a great thinker and writer, among many other things, but he had large flaws as well.

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[info]pecunium
2009-07-03 10:04 pm UTC (link)
No man is all of a piece, and on that one he saw some of his conflictions.

I don't say he was a paragon, but he was something different from the normal run of Man.

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[info]txanne
2009-07-04 02:26 am UTC (link)
Thank you; I wouldn't have found that on my own. We may not see his like again, but we can tell our children what to strive for.

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[info]asimovberlioz
2009-07-04 05:00 am UTC (link)
Isn't it 183?

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[info]pecunium
2009-07-04 06:55 am UTC (link)
He died in 1826.

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[info]harimad
2009-07-05 01:38 am UTC (link)
I assume you know the story about Adams' deathbed statement about his colleague-turned-enemy-turned-correspondent Jefferson?

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[info]pecunium
2009-07-05 03:42 am UTC (link)
And the reciprocal. They had a great, if difficult, respect for each other.

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