Author: natilee shock

When I walked out of the train station in Barcelona, I was confronted with a machine gun. Someone in the Guardia Civil was interested in looking at my papers (and I don’t mean my writing). The gun was hanging off his shoulder and swinging slightly like a compass needle. He was wearing an odd-shaped helmet. Read More

One has to be a lowbrow, a bit of a murderer, to be a politician, ready and willing to see people sacrificed, slaughtered, for the sake of an idea, whether a good one or a bad one. – Henry Miller Henry Miller (1891 – 1980) had no use for politics, unless you believe the personal is political, in Read More