500 Yearsd - The Monday Morning Memo

Young King Henry VIII was in the 10th year of his reign and still married to his first wife, Catherine of Aragon, when Magellan set sail in 1519.

“…He had decided that the German retreat across the Ruhr meant the war was over, and he was not interested in counter-argument. He dismissed Diddens’s halfhearted insistence that in fact they were still enemies, saying he could not speak for Diddens but that a priest could not have enemies any more than a hog butcher could be a vegetarian.

He had gone half the distance to the gate of the churchyard when he seemed to remember something, a possible difficulty. He turned back to the jeep, considering the three Americans. He pointed to my grandfather. ‘You will find a shovel in the toolshed,’ he said. ‘An excellent shovel with long experience.’…”

- Michael Chabon, Moonglow, p. 142. Chabon is one of those authors where you can turn to a page at random and immediately begin reading passages like this. Which is, in fact, what I did. - RHW

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