When a language creates -- as it does -- a community within the present, it does so only by courtesy of a community between the present and the past.

That's not the same thing as saying that the latest account that he gives should be unmistakably taken as the whole truth and nothing but the truth. I wouldn't say he never wanted to be followed or be called a leader. (But) he probably wanted it less than it seemed at the time.

When a language creates -- as it does -- a community within the present, it does so only by courtesy of a community between the present and the past.

I think the wish to disassociate from the cult of self is a good human impulse,

The storm's sitting right on top of it, from the Oklahoma border to St. Louis. I-44 is pretty covered right now,

It's real dim and dark in certain areas. We'll make it more pleasing.