A Memoir of the Occupation
What happened to my native land after the Americans came. An exercise in comparative demonology.
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Excerpt: “Know this – that no men ever fought better than those who have stood by me.” (opens the original)
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(This is an excerpt from chapter one of my forthcoming book, the title of which is I Will Make Known My Lineage. My lineage is Southern; my people are Confederate; I’m glad we fought against that damned old rag of theirs and I only wish we’d won. And it would have been better for the world if we had. Deo vindice, and memory eternal to the soldiers of the Confederacy)<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!HING!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:
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Author’s note: Twas in the year of 2015, the ninth day of the month of July. ’m perched at a trading desk on an upper floor of a grim tower in the canyon of lower Broadway in Manhattan, my face and torso irradiated by the four monster monitors flashing real-time financial data via Bloomberg. The 10-year Treasury note yielded 2%; I’m sure corporations were printing notes and bonds by the billions what with rates at those levels.All at once, a Red Head erupted from the Bloomberg: a headline of eig
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