Miss Mary had been able to draw a map of the United States from memory, known the entire periodic table by heart, taught school in a one-room schoolhouse, brewed healing teas, and sold what she called fitness powders her entire life. Dime by dime, dollar by dollar, she’d put her sons through college, then put Carter through medical school. Now she wore diapers and couldn’t follow a story about gardening in the Post and Courier.
Grady Hendrix, The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires, p. 60
Out of Babel 
Well, that’s just discouraging….
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But so well put!
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Misanthropic?
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I call my weekly quotes “misanthropic” because they take a jaundiced view of the human condition. Some are more misanthropic than others. Occasionally I post a “philanthropic” one.
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Ah.
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Aw, Miss Mary 😦
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