Sublime

He’d been around enough bullies to know that rage and pain needed to vent,

He’d be nothing. He wouldn’t even be 571. The real authorities could turn him into anything at all.

Both of them had strength below the surface; they were like quiet peasants owning enormous and unquarried mines.

But, reconciled by his success, he yet refused to forgo the privilege of criticizing this order. For the act of criticizing heightened his sense of importance,

you think, perhaps, of the plot of “The Most Dangerous Game,” in which a rich eccentric lures unsuspecting men to his island, to hunt for sport…Is this to be that kind of story?

It was a fear of the economic and social upheaval that might be caused by money losing its value that drove Britain to adopt "sound money" policies nearly 300 years ago. This move coincided with an unplanned switch to using gold instead of silver as the basis of money and, ultimately, to the accidental birth of the gold standard. Its &quo