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The Glass Bees (Ernst Jünger)

The Worthy House (Charles Haywood)

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The Importance of Firm Ground in the Present

Zapparoni was able to illustrate and accomplish something which most of our circle took a lifetime to do. He has in him the core personality of Alfred Krupp, or of John D. Rockefeller, or of Henry IV. The miserable failure of all of his subsequent endeavors is proof enough that Zuckerberg is no Cornelius Vanderbilt. When younger wrote, this type of man seemed like the certain future but that type is long gone.

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