Tag: Renaissance

Europe Today: Inept, Embarrassing, Pathetic

By Eric Le Roy

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   When I was a young lad long ago in the bland, faceless, smugly prosperous America of the 1950s, I had an itch to be somewhere else. As I heard the expression put first on the TV series “Buffy the Vampire Slayer”, I would indulge myself regularly in a game called “Anywhere but Here.” The Germans have a beautiful word for it: Wanderlust.

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The Ghosts At The Door Of The Church

By Eric Le Roy

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Content 18+ I used to ask myself a question which, though I now know my choice, continues to nibble at me like mice in the basement of my psyche. The question was this: If I had the opportunity to live the life of every human being who ever existed – one by one – would I? I test my memory, twisting road that it … Read the rest