European Herring Gulls

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    “Americans want action for their money. They are fascinated by its self-reproducing qualities if it’s put to work.... Gold-hoarding goes against the American grain; it fits in better with European pessimism than with America’s traditional optimism.”
    —Paula Nelson (b. 1945)

    “No contact with savage Indian tribes has ever daunted me more than the morning I spent with an old lady swathed in woolies who compared herself to a rotten herring encased in a block of ice.”
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    “blind wantons like the gulls who scream
    And rip the edge off any ideal or dream.”
    —Louis MacNeice (1907–1963)