“I was the Wilson who could hit,” Ike shot back, before warning, “That’s between you and me.”
that's awesome. I wish there were footage of his at bats. Good read.
I can't decide whether this sentence is really beautiful or unbearably pretentious.Seemingly unaware that some people might view such legerdemain as a lapse in his world-renowned personal character, Eisenhower later reminisced about the episode as if it were a youthful picaresque caprice.
English has been atrophying since it moved to the British Isles. Have you ever read/listened to "Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue" by John McWhorter? It shows a great evolution of, as well as the "why" of the English Language - why it does the weird things it does that no other germanic (or latin based) language does.
I listened to it, as read by the author (available on audible). I found it very entertaining and informative without being too dry or too generalized.