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The Blue Sky
The Blue Sky
Jealous, a poet once said that the skylark was free, mastering the blue sky; but that must be modified.
Those people who have soared aloft for the sake of freedom know what the skylark sees that makes it sing, they know why the smell of blood must mingle with freedom,
why revolution is a lonely thing why revolution is bound to be a lonely thing.
- Kim Su-Yong, June 15, 1960, tr. An Sonjae
(The people too will rise.)
Like all constitutional monarchies, the Restoration was a transitional regime; it used up its energies in self-made contradictions and was incapable of planning any sort of future for itself.
Willms, Paris from the Revolution to the Belle Époque Those little giveaways that tell you that you aren't reading a book from the traditional British school of historiography.
The Préfet of Police, who was living in a dream, wrote in his daily bulletin de Paris: 'the most perfect tranquility continues to reign in all parts of the capital. No event worthy of attention is recorded in the reports that have come through to me.'
Mansel, Paris Between Empires, describing the events of July 26, 1830. Marius Pontmercy, moonlighting as chief of police. Incredible.
Frog!fail.
