Archives for August 20, 2019

From 2009: 

Pops: A Life of Louis Armstrong, which comes out in December, is about to go to the printer. This means that I still have a few more days in which to make changes in the text–though not large or frivolous ones. The Unwritten Law of Last-Minute Fixes is that they should only be made to correct actual factual errors, so I’ve been rereading Pops with a gimlet eye to see if anything slipped past me….

Read the whole thing here.

“It is so stupid of modern civilization to have given up believing in the devil, when he is the only explanation of it.”

Ronald Knox, Let Dons Delight