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Set of 108 booklets or "little books" made by Robert Strobridge, CoL. Some give the maker as "L'Ermite de Brajac, Florimont-Gaumier, France." Contained in open-top cardboard box decorated with stripes of colorful paper.

Titles:"Pope Innocent III & Pope John Paul II" by Tony Judt (5/21/2012); "'Wise' Voices Before, During and After the Great Crash of 1929" (4/6/2012); "Talking with Your Fingers" by John McWorter (5/1/2012); "What We Have Failed to Grasp" by Tony Judt (5/22/2012); "After a while the little boy said, 'I love myself'" by Kathryn Timpany (12/6/2011); "Sam Goldwyn (isms)" by Richard Lederer; "from whence? and whither?"; "intellect independent of desire and appetite" by Thomas Merton; "You Have to Love Dancing" by Merce Cunningham; "I cannot disobey him in that, but..." (6/20/2012)

"Abigail Adams" (5/21/2013); "Unfettered by the U.S. Supreme Court, money broke the unions in Wisconsin" (6/9/2012); "National Insecurity" by Anthony Lewis (6/28/2012); "Is the United States Civilized? one well might ask"; "The Forgotten Wages of War!" by John Tirman; "A People's History of the United States" by Howard Zinn (10/20/2009); "Blaise Pascal" (5/21/2013); "Giliad: just that old Iowa town" by Marilynne Robinson (9/16/2011); "a few juicy jaundiced jabs at the notion of progress"; "We are all in this together" (11/26/2012)

"Infinite Responsibility" (10/6/2011); "Cruel and Unusual" (12/24/2011); "The European Union as heard above the perpetual utterance of American self-applause" by Tony Judt (5/22/2012); "Ominous Silence in the Senate" by Robert C. Byrd (6/28/2012); "Like the Autumn"; "Joseph Campbell" (4/16/2011); "The one true freedom in life is to come to terms with death" by William Sloane Coffin (12/21/2011); "A Very Olde European Joke" (1/15/2011); "A Savvy Seventeen Year-Old Has His Say" (10/11/2012); "Sara Maitland" (1/22/2013)

"Patriarchy and Sexism Dressed-Up as Doctrine" by Bob Keeler; "Vocabulary of the Deeply Wounded" by Gregory Boyle, SJ (11/1/2011); "Cardinal Martini" (11/1/2012); "Bruno (eight years old) asks his sister Gretel (twelve years old)" by John Boyne; "A Chinese Proverb" (1/27/2011); "Don't Move!" by Gregory Boyle, SJ (11/3/2011); "Those Who Forget Our (Evolutionary) History are Certain to Repeat It"; "some words on the subject of prayer" (6/7/2011); "What the psychiatrist told me" (4/27/2013); "woe to him who stands apart" by Norman Douglas (8/30/2011)

"Alice Walker" (5/29/2013); "W.H. Auden" (11/27/2012); "Fools Slush In..." (4/7/2012); "We are doing better on AIDS" (12/6/2012); "Marie Curie" (12/21/2013); "Be good the whole year, not just the first day"; "beyond imagining but it could be dreamed" by Hermann Hesse; "student writers worthy of a Pullet Surprise" by Richard Lederer (6/5/2010); "Marinate in the Vastness of God" by Gregory Boyle, SJ (11/2/2011); "do not fear the aging" by Lao-Tzu

"Looking Down from the Mayflower" (11/19/2013); "Some Thoughts on War"; "A Season of Hope More Than a Vain Imagining"; "Happiness According to the Book of Burns!" (10/12/2012); "Sophie's World" by Jostein Gaarder (6/11/2012); "Rachel Carson" (8/30/2012); "to avert the threat of nuclear war" by Mikhail Gorbachev (1/26/2012); "Upton Sinclair" (3/21/2013); "Dear School: Please eckuse John being. It was his Father's fault" by Richard Lederer (5/5/2010); "Without Violence" (12/31/2011)

"Dr. Paul Farmer" (12/6/2011); "at home everywhere" by Laurence Freeman, OSB; "Sonia Sotomayor" (4/22/2013); "Lily Tomlin" (2/26/2013); "Yogi Berra's Linguistic Screwballs" by Richard Lederer; "Full Body Scans at the Airport" (4/15/2013); "The Sole Purpose of Life" (3/31/2012); "If I had a son: A curmudgeon bachelor speaks" from Norman Douglas's South Wind (8/30/2011); "John Berger" (12/14/2012); "Reincarnation: A Reasonable Course" (3/19/2012)

"There is no justice in love" by Marilynne Robinson (9/17/2017); "As Fate Would Have It" by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (8/2/2011); "from Kaj Munk"; "Nationalism is What It is All About" by William Pfaff; "Phyllis Diller" (2/25/2013); "She Has a Simple Philosophy" (9/17/2011); "Idolaters: serving an image of the Divine" by Sri Madhava Ashish (7/11/2011); "The Root of Human Growth" by Jean Vanier (8/15/2011); "Loads of Laconic Lyric Laudation for Liberal Libation" by Summersdale (1/28/2012); "Finite Games" by James P. Carse (10/5/2011)

"Bards of Broadway" vol. 1 (8/9/2012); "Bards of Broadway" vol. 2 (9/17/2012); "He Giveth and He Taketh Away" bokbluster.com (3/20/2013); "The Pursuit of Anxiety" by Ruth Whippman (9/26/2012); "Blinding the Faithful" by Al Gore (6/11/2012); "The International Criminal Court" by James Carroll (3/31/2012); "Flannery O'Connor" (3/25/2013); "It is always dangerous to make predictions, especially about the future" by Will Rogers (1/6/2010); "Irish Bulls" by Richard Lederer (9/16/2009); "Inverted Totalitarianism" by Sheldon Wolin (5/23/2013)

"a very short (bedtime) prayer"; "from the journal of Krishnamurti" (1/16/2012); "John Dewey" (3/9/2013); "those irritating verbs-as-nouns" by Henry Hitchings (4/3/2013); "Christopher Hitchens" (2/4/2013); "The Underlying Social Contract" by Elizabeth Warren (2/23/2012); "Capitalism Hits the Fan" by Richard Wolff (2/28/2013); "to think critically and to challenge" by Chris Hedges (2/15/2013); "'Afghan Girl': The Story of a Photograph" (11/18/2013); "something that cannot be hidden in our time" by Gustavo Gutierrez

"The Divided States of America" (6/8/2013); "All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten" by Robert Fulghum; "Education makes a greater difference..." by John Adams (5/23/2013); "Hippokrates Speaks to the Guantanamo Medics"; "Guantanamo: Symbol of Hypocrisy" by Jonathan M. Hansen (1/18/2012); "It seems to me wrongheaded and dangerous" by Jared Diamond (11/7/2011); "Two Things Stand Like Stone" by Adam Lindsey Gordon (1/11/2011); "We need to be cleaner in every respect" by Mikhail Gorbachev (7/13/2012)

Robert Strobridge, CoL

c2009-2017

12.5" x 3.5" x 2.5"

Books

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