Thursday, August 04, 2005

I just love the little people

Says Peggy Noonan, and then she unleashes this amazing statement about the legend of John Henry:

No one knows exactly how much of the story of John Henry is true. But it's a wonderful country that makes such men, and if he wasn't real it's a wonderful country that makes such stories.


It's wonderful that the country makes fictional characters? I didn't know we invented the invented.

Not to mention the ending of the John Henry story, as I know it, isn't all that happy.

Someday, maybe Peggy will stick to the fictional railroad theme and visit Russia so she can make like Anna Karenina.

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