From "Osaka's Shinsaibashi Shopping Street." Language Log, via Volokhia.
Monday, January 09, 2012
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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)
I think I have shopped at that store. Or maybe I am thinking of shopping trips with the ex-wife.
ReplyDeleteP.S. I picked Bama in the first game due to home-field advantage, and picked LSU in this game for the same reason. Wrong both times?
Bama came for revenge. Tigers came to pick up their trophy. Oops.
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