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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)
Perhaps, like those who cannot dream without external assistance, movie critics have spent so much time in artificial pretentiousness that they are incapable of feeling emotion on their own.
ReplyDeleteAgreed 100% on all of the above.
I liked it. The wife hated it.
ReplyDeleteWe both loved the film. I've recommended it to everyone I like. Everyone else gets told that "Jonah Hex" is 100% Oscar-bait tour de force.
ReplyDeleteSome of those "everyone else" are going to come looking for you, PMS.
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