Mastodawn

“I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit #Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.” - #E.B.White

Brian Small Dec 5

#CharlottesWeb #EBWhite #OneMansMeat #OneMansMeatFreedom #EBWhiteFreedom #FreedomEssay
#AntiFaBooks

bsmall2 Nov 17

> ... the free spirit of man is persistent in nature; it recurs, and has never successfully been wiped out, by fire or flood.. Being myself a knight of the goose quill, I am under no misapprehension about “winning people”; but I am inordinately proud these days of the quill.. the hypodermic which inoculates men and keeps the germ of freedom always in circulation.. capable of infecting others by mere contact and example.
https://housedivided.dickinson.edu/sites/teagle/e-b-white-on-freedom-and-democracy/#:~:text=I just want to tell,standing next to him thinks.
#EBWhite got me thinking of Albert Camus and Noam Chomsky on #HumanNatureAndFreedom.
#WriterFreedom

E.B. White on Freedom and Democracy – Knowledge for Freedom seminar

bsmall2 Nov 17

"That's Some Pig!" --- E.B. White
about Wilbur but the ambiguitiy with this photo is hard to resist...

https://www.lawdork.com/p/gregory-bovino-is-exactly-who-eb-white-warned-of

#EBWhite on #GregBovino #ThatsSomePig

/HT @chrisgeidner

bsmall2 Nov 17

> I just want to tell, before I get slowed down, that I am in love with freedom and that it is an affair of long standing and that it is a fine state to be in, and that I am deeply suspicious of people who are beginning to adjust to fascism and dictators merely because they are succeeding in war. From such adaptable natures a smell rises. I pinch my nose...
https://housedivided.dickinson.edu/sites/teagle/e-b-white-on-freedom-and-democracy/#:~:text=I just want to tell,standing next to him thinks.

https://www.lawdork.com/p/gregory-bovino-is-exactly-who-eb-white-warned-of
#EBWhite #SinceritySmell #EBWhiteFreedomEssay #EBWhiteOnFreedom
/HT @chrisgeidner