so i would read dick and jane all the way up to julius caesar. when i came to a word difficult, he would say work with it little sister. he wouldn't jump in and tell me. he would let me work it out so i did. i learned to jump into words. that built my confidence, grandmother and ggrandfather were from the old school. i can remember borrowing $25 from my grandmother. i was taking out my checkbook to pay her. she said no, darling, don't give me a little piece of paper. what did i give you. i said a 20 and a 5. so bring me that. they went to the light company and paid their light bills. they went to the department store and paid whatever. they went there once or twice a week to take care of business. the process of going through things, my grandmother would take me to the library. all along the way there were places where we couldn't go to the andrew jackson hotel, we couldn't go to morten's cafeteria. there was a paramount theatre, we had to go in the back door, separate water fountains. it was a very negative experience. when i got to the library,

story tells but if you read the play, the great example that i particularly like in the life of julius caesarhere's a great description of cleopatra on the nile river. it's terrific. shakespeare took to the english translation and rewrote it and put it in one of the great scenes. if he did that today the modern author that keeps getting stretched out 75 years now since we have to get put talk's permission because if you put in the blank verse he would change some things where there's so much overlap and sorry we have to get his permission. he says you are a very successful playwright, an obscure greek historian. [laughter] it's a good copyright business. a tremendous bonanza for lawyers. i emphasize the fact all academic writing one builds on the academic field of the more you realize they've borrowed tremendously from their predecessors and the more difficult you may get a copy to appropriate at the same time that you are increasing the financial words to the new creator. there's a lot in there that i would like to quarrel with. [laughter] whatever the virtue of judge posner on what copyrigh

profiteer, the private banker i oppose gaining power there are a false power of gold, a relic of julius caesar. they want to stabilize the power by developing a money system where gold is not the only anchor for the value of the currency. he's not alone. during the years that the federal reserve act was debated and written, 1910, 11, 12, irving fisher made a name for himself on the topic. he had a scheme of his own. he's the best known american economist of the first half of the 20th century, and once fisher got wednesday that edison was working on something they met a few times and discussed the issue. what's an interesting sideline there is they both were interested in vegetarian diets and very careful with what they ate, and they ended up speaking on much on diet as economics and money, but fisher gave one books to edison, edison wrote him, on the whole, i like it. you're wrong in spots. i marked it all up. they were interested in the currency problem. fisher invited edison to go to congress to present the plan. edison demured. don't know why. it may be that by that time, which was late 192

they gain power through thick tissues and cause value dipped into gold, gold is a relic of julius caesarand interest as an invention of state. so edison wants to stabilize the purchasing power not by fixing prices up by developing a system, a money system where gold isn't the only anchor for the value of the currency. now he's not alone. during the years the federal reserve act was being debated and pretend, 1910, 11, 12, irving fisher had made quite a name for himself in the search for stable money, had written books on the topic and had devised a scheme of his own. irving fisher was the best-known american economist at the first half of the 20th century and once fisher got wind that edison is working on something, they met a few times and discussed the issue. what is an interesting sidelight there is that they both were interested in vegetarian diets and were very careful with what they ate and i ended up speaking possibly as much on the diet as economics and money. but they sure gave one of his books to edison. edison said i read your book. i think you're wrong in spots and i marked a

he support the senatorial forces with his soldiers to fight against julius caesar. he was defeated and he was well aware of what caesar plan to do. name the, pardon him. and by pardoning him as he's done with others, he removed his authority and power as a symbol of resistance. so as a consequence he retired to his chamber, it's very beautifully written. he goes in, he reads plato's dialogue twice, and meditates on a, thinks about it, he then asks for his sword to be brought. you can feel the drama, expectation building, and then they don't want to do it. he demanded. it is brought him. the doors are closed to he falls on it. and expires but here comes the doctors to push his intestines back and he cares them to be sure he will die. he has to die. because he will die the last free man in rome and he wanted to make a point. the republic has been undone. the republic has been killed. another one of his allies who was killed a few years later was beheaded was marcus cicerone. cicerone had an enormous influence on the subsequent cultures that emerged in europe for a var

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