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"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)
WHILE YOU WERE OUT
ReplyDeleteTo further drive home the point that he is a clueless twit, today Randy Barnett post on Volkh began with the following sentence:
"For my money, Glenn Reynolds is one of the most interesting thinkers of my generation and today’s Internet age."
Seriously. He said it.
Y'know, I saw that this morning, and almost devoted a blog post to how that quote drives home the point that Randy Barnett is a clueless twit.
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