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envy, malice, bitterness in the Moscow mood and the Jews.

May 22nd, 2024.

Introduction. I believe that a number of people, if I have May 22nd, 2024. Introduction

I believe that a number of people, if asked about the Moscow mood,

would describe it as a devil-may-care attitude

coupled with a satiric bite.

I think this is accurate so far as it goes,

but I want to begin by distinguishing two different kinds of devil-may-care attitudes.

Not only should they be distinguished, they really need to be distinguished sharply.

One is the attitude of Narnians in Tashban.

Quote, and instead of being grave and mysterious like most Kalarmines,

they walked with a swing and let their arms and shoulders go free

and chatted and laughed.

One was whistling. You can see that they were ready to be friends with

anyone who was friendly and didn't give a fig for anyone who wasn't. Shasta thought

he had never seen anything so lovely in his life. the horse and his boy.

This is a method for resisting the calamine way

without turning yourself into the calamine way.

It is also enormously attractive to people like Shasta.

But the other devil may care approach is surly and bitter, filled with rancor, and has a

catalog of grievances under each arm. When engaged in the give and take of a comment thread,

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