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The Sullivan Ballou Letter
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The Sullivan Ballou Letter
September 8, 2015 at 12:59 am
They are Re-running Ken Burns' The Civil War on PBS.  Episode #1 ends with this,





I first heard it 25 years ago and it never fails to move me.  The art of prose was far higher 150 years ago than it is today.
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RE: The Sullivan Ballou Letter
September 8, 2015 at 2:17 am
so romantic and heart breaking Sad
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RE: The Sullivan Ballou Letter
September 8, 2015 at 8:41 pm
Yeah. Wish I could write like that. Very moving, creepy soul stuff and all.
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RE: The Sullivan Ballou Letter
September 18, 2015 at 12:30 am
(September 8, 2015 at 12:59 am)Minimalist Wrote: They are Re-running Ken Burns' The Civil War on PBS.  Episode #1 ends with this,





I first heard it 25 years ago and it never fails to move me.  The art of prose was far higher 150 years ago than it is today.

 I feel the same way, very touching and real.

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RE: The Sullivan Ballou Letter
September 18, 2015 at 12:33 am
Meh...
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RE: The Sullivan Ballou Letter
September 18, 2015 at 2:17 am
(September 18, 2015 at 12:30 am)Godschild Wrote:
(September 8, 2015 at 12:59 am)Minimalist Wrote: They are Re-running Ken Burns' The Civil War on PBS.  Episode #1 ends with this,





I first heard it 25 years ago and it never fails to move me.  The art of prose was far higher 150 years ago than it is today.

 I feel the same way, very touching and real.

GC

Yeah.... that's when people knew how to write.  None of this OMG BFF LOL crap which conveys such deep thoughts!
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RE: The Sullivan Ballou Letter
September 18, 2015 at 3:40 am
(September 8, 2015 at 12:59 am)Minimalist Wrote: I first heard it 25 years ago and it never fails to move me.  The art of prose was far higher 150 years ago than it is today.


Been a long time since I last watched the series, although I own the DVD box. But I seem to remember this letter anyway. The art of prose certainly was higher than it is today, amongst those who could actually write.
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RE: The Sullivan Ballou Letter
September 19, 2015 at 1:16 pm
(September 18, 2015 at 2:17 am)Minimalist Wrote:
(September 18, 2015 at 12:30 am)Godschild Wrote:  I feel the same way, very touching and real.

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Yeah.... that's when people knew how to write.  None of this OMG BFF LOL crap which conveys such deep thoughts!

I've been reading some of Charles Dickens novels this year and find that the language carry over from England was still influencing the American language, and also the Irish, Scottish of the southern Appalachians, all a more pleasant language. Old English was still spoken by a few as late as the 1950's and 60's here in east Tennessee. People made fun of them calling them ignorant when they were actually speaking correctly for the most part a dead language.

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RE: The Sullivan Ballou Letter
September 19, 2015 at 1:26 pm
You don't want to get me started on what I see as the failures of the American educational system to teach basic literacy!
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