Billmon: The Grand Delusion

There will be played in Germany a drama compared to which the French revolution will seem but an innocent idyll. At present everything is quiet; though here and there a few men create a stir, do not imagine them to be the real actors in the piece. They are only the little curs who chase each other round the arena, until the appointed hour when the gladiators appear to fight for life and death. And the hour will come.

Heinrich Heine
1834

I decided to step away from my computer for a few days and catch up on my reading – I’m getting tired of looking at the same set of book covers on the left side of my page, and figured I should either read a couple of them or stop pretending and take them down.