Another proud member of the irony-based community.
"Mysterious Jackson area lawyer's blog about history, literature, and whatever irks him." -- NMC
"Just a hypersensitive pantywaist probably of Gallic descent who still suffers nightmares over what Gaius Julius did to your people 2,000 years ago." -- Kingfish
And therefore, reader, I myself am the subject of my book; it is not reasonable that you should employ your leisure on a topic so frivolous and so vain.
-- Montaigne, Essays, "To the Reader.""I shall see myself, I shall read myself, I shall go into ecstacies, and I shall ask -- Is it possible that I have so much ésprit?"
-- Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols.... the torturer has become – like the pirate and slave trader before him – hostis humani generis, an enemy of all mankind.
-- Filártiga v. Peña-Irala, 630 F.2d 876, 890 (2d Cir. 1980)
Well, John Wycliffe is refreshingly more esoteric than an oaken stake, although I enjoyed working over Eddie Cicotte and Arnold Rothstein.
ReplyDeleteOne thing that came to my mind in this was the brief back-and-forth you and I had when you quoted one of the judges saying they figured out who they wanted to win, first. This is exactly where that leads.
And personally, I'm moved to quote Bogart in "Treasure of the Sierra Madre," "If you're going to think that way, we're going to have to tie you up at night."
oh, and thanks for the link.
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