Another proud member of the irony-based community.
What harm can a book do that costs a hundred crowns? Twenty volumes in folio will never cause a revolution; it's the little portable volumes of thirty sous that are to be feared. If the gospel had cost twelve hundred sesterces, the Christian religion would never have been established.-- Voltaire (apropos of Diderot's Encyclopedia)
"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)
So should Palin should lower the price she charges for her speaking engagements or the price of the ticket to hear her speak? ;)
ReplyDeleteThat would cause a revolution in her bank balance, or rather, would cause a counter-revolution therein.
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