The Rockville Variations

Read this book to:<ul><li>See <i>The Rockville Variations</i> of El Greco's Fabula and Michaelangelo's Last Judgment.<li>Understand mysterious Indian castes and Jewish secret societies.<li>Learn about those famous and naughty 17th century French salons.<li>Get some pretty good information about Christian relics.</ul></p><p>What some well-known people said:<br>There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it.<br>--Denis Diderot</p><p>There are only two kinds of money in the world: your money and my money.<br>--Milton Friedman</p><p>There are two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and laziness.<br>--Franz Kafka</p><p>On one issue at least men and women agree: They both distrust women.<br>--H. L. Mencken.</p><p>The faults we first see in others are the faults that are our own.<br>--Honore de Balzac</p><p>To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization.<br>--Bertrand Russell.