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Master and Baiter

NOT MY PHOTO...(just one of the billions of photos of the man who is today more famous than God. He might even be more famous than the Beatles...)

 

I was re-reading one of my favorite books, Patrick O'Brian's Master and Commander, and came to a place where Stephen Maturin was describing Donald Trump to Jack Aubrey: "Oh, he was a dull, ignorant, superficial, darting, foolish, prating creature in himself, to be sure, but I found him truly fascinating. The pure bourgeois in a state of social ferment. There was that typical costive, haemorrhoidal facies, the knock-knees, the drooping shoulders, the flat feet splayed out, the ill breath, the large staring eyes, the meek complacency; and, of course, you noticed that womanly insistence upon authority and beating once he was thoroughly drunk? I would wager that he is very nearly impotent."

 

OK...Stephen was actually describing Mr. Ellis, but it works brilliantly for The Donald... And for those unfamiliar with the Aubrey/Maturin books, Stephen Maturin is a surgeon -- that's why his description tends toward the anatomical...

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Uploaded on August 26, 2016