Skip the B.S. by Skip Eisiminger “Is man an ape or angel? My lord, I am on the side of angels.” —Benjamin Disraeli “The local devils are better than angels from abroad.” —Arab…

Skip the B.S. by Skip Eisiminger “Dear Madam: Will you please let this nigger boy have some books by H.L. Mencken?”—Note forged by Richard Wright “Thanks to my books/for their incandescence/that saved me…

Skip the B.S. by Skip Eisiminger “Civilized man has built a coach but has lost the use of his feet.”—Ralph Waldo Emerson “I take walks to keep an eye on things.”—Annie Dillard CLEMSON…

Skip the B.S. by Skip Eisiminger “They [al Qaeda] cut off our heads. We put water on their face.”—Erich “Mancow” Muller “I was . . . ready to prove that this [waterboarding] was…

Skip the B.S. by Skip Eisiminger “We must restore to poetry the force of narrative.”—James Dickey “Abstractions are best understood in a story.”—Anonymous CLEMSON South Carolina—(Weekly Hubris)—6/27/11—The deeper I sally into my “anecdotage,”…

Skip the B.S. by Skip Eisiminger “Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.”—Vincent Van Gogh “Skip likes the quare thing that snaps the routine—in…

Skip the B.S. by Skip Eisiminger “On the train . . . [the Negro’s place] is in front; on the ship it is below; on the streetcar it is in the rear; and…

Skip the B.S. by Skip Eisiminger “Nature is where yokels lived, idiotikos, as ancient Greeks used to call the unfortunates who lived outside the polis.”—Charles Simic “A leaven of wilderness is necessary for…

Skip the B.S. by Skip Eisiminger “May God protect us from hairy women and beardless men.”—Arab proverb “Not having to worry about your hair anymore is the secret upside of death.”—Nora Ephron CLEMSON…

Skip the B.S. by Skip Eisiminger “A corpse on the road of night . . . .”—Richard Burton “A circumambulating aphrodisiac . . . .”—Christopher Fry CLEMSON South Carolina—(Weekly Hubris)—4/25/11—My paternal grandfather’s speech…