STOCK MARKET WATCH -- Thursday, 23 March 2023

[Tansy_Gold]

STOCK MARKET WATCH, Thursday, 23 March 2023

Previous SMW:
SMW for 22 March 2023




AT THE CLOSING BELL ON 22 March 2023


Dow Jones 32,030.11 -530.49 (1.63%)
S&P 500 3,936.97 -65.90 (1.65%)
Nasdaq 11,669.96 -190.15 (1.60%)

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Quote for the Day:

Such being our chief scene, the date of our story refers to a period towards the end of the reign of Richard I., when his return from his long captivity had become an event rather wished than hoped for by his despairing subjects, who were in the meantime subjected to every species of subordinate oppression. The nobles, whose power had become exorbitant during the reign of Stephen, and whom the prudence of Henry the Second had scarce reduced to some degree of subjection to the crown, had now resumed their ancient license in its utmost extent; despising the feeble interference of the English Council of State, fortifying their castles, increasing the number of their dependants, reducing all around them to a state of vassalage, and striving by every means in their power, to place themselves each at the head of such forces as might enable him to make a figure in the national convulsions which appeared to be impending.

Sir Walter Scott. Ivanhoe: A Romance. Archibald Constable and Company. © 1820.

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[Warpy]

1. Now there's a book I had to kick and claw my way thought when I was a kid

Scott was the master of dragging one sentence out to encompass a whole page of text.

[Tansy_Gold]

2. I read an abridged version . . .

. . . a billion years ago and remember almost none of it. Haven't read it since. But I have a LOT of classics in digital reprints and this one came up in another discussion elsewhere, so I thought I'd try the full version. I picked it up last night. That paragraph is the second in the book, and I literally laughed aloud at how appropriate to SMW it was.

[Warpy]

3. Yeah, you wouldn't think anyoine could make that historical period boring

but he managed. Thomas Costain was animated and diverting in comparison.

The book, which I decided to revisit about 20 years ago, thinking an adult would appreciate it more than a kid could, did not improve after that first page. It got worse. I chucked it halfway through, decided life was too short to waste on such a piece of ponderous literature. From the thrift shop it had come, back to the thrift shop it went.

[Tansy_Gold]

4. Costain was hit or miss for me, but . . . .

. . . . that was half a century ago. I think the last of his I read was Below the Salt in the early 70s; I still have that and The Darkness and the Dawn around here somewhere.