Meme copied from Rfachir

[fpb]

You know how sometimes people on your friends list post about stuff going on in their life, and all of a sudden you think "Wait a minute? Since when were they working THERE? Since when were they dating HIM/HER? Since when???" And then you wonder how you could have missed all that seemingly pretty standard information, but somehow you feel too

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[affablestranger]

Hobbies are good. I try my best to keep them inexpensive.

Good luck with lowering your weight, my friend. It took me some time to get mine moving in the direction I wanted it to go and then some time to develop the proper habits to maintain the trend, but it does a world of good and feels fantastic. Also, good luck with the essays (and the computer).

My condolences about your friend Franco. Losing such a friend is a terrible thing. I empathize.

[joetexx]

You've got me curious about the specific time frame 1918 - 1923.

Does your projected book end with the hyperinflation, or the beer-hall putsch?

[fpb]

Didn't notice this question before. The settlement of the hyperinflation, and the beer-hall putsch, were part of a general pacification. 1923 is the year in which the Russian and Turkish wars eventually cease. My point is that the war in general did not cease with the surrender of the German army; for one thing, the Germans did everything in their power to sabotage any settlement, and for another the powers they had released - both Lenin's Bolsheviks and Ataturk's Young Turks had ultimately to do with Berlin - continued their own parts of the war until a real settlement, very unlike the paper of Versailles, and thoroughly negative for the Allies. By October 1923, all the premises of the catastrophe to follow had been lain

PUTSCH AND PASTA

[joetexx]

I had completely forgotten that I posted this