Babe Didrikson Zaharias

Loosen your girdle and let er fly!

It's not just enough to swing at the ball. You've got to loosen your girdle and really let the ball have it.

In my stunted career as a scholar, I'd read promissory notes, papal bulls and guidelines for Inquisitorial interrogation. Dante, too. Boccaccio... But after 1400? Nihil.

His style has the desperate jauntiness of an orchestra fiddling away for dear life on a sinking ship.

Primate and elephant and even pig societies show considerable evidence of care for others, parent-child bonding, solidarity in the face of danger, and so on.