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This, after all, was Switzerland, where everything works; Switzerland, where trains run like clocks, and clocks run like watches, and watches are synchronous with the pulse of the universe; Switzerland

August 15, 2018 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

La Place de la Corcorde Suisse – 3/5 Stars This is an odd little book. Over all, I liked it, but it’s limited in its scope and appeal. John McPhee has written a long profile (likely an extension of a long-form essay/reportage) on the Swiss Army. He begins with the same kinds of assumptions probably most non-Swiss people have about the Army, that there’s a kind of in born joke to the whole thing, but then goes from there. The most important thing to say […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Non-Fiction Tagged With: black klansman, john mcphee, la place de la concorde suisse, ron stallworth, the ivankiad, vladimir voinovich

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