Dagger in hand

A man of prodigious fortune, coming to add his opinion to some light discussion that was going on casually at his table, began precisely thus: "It can only be a liar or an ignoramus who will say otherwise than," and so on. Pursue that philosophical point, dagger in hand.

--Michel de Montaigne, Of the art of discussion.



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Tuesday, October 01, 2002
 
COMMIT MURDER, BUT MAKE NO SPEECHES; POISON PEOPLE, BUT WRITE NO FAXES...
What a bonehead Barbara Streisand is. Leave aside her tiresome tendency to harangue her fellow travellers. On that score, the rest of us can quote something a fictional version of a classical Roman actually did say: "I have never been the friend of Cerberus, and I need not be ashamed of his howling." The real irony is that now she's destroyed even the much vaunted "artistic" credentials on which her only claim to intellectual heft rests. I mean, the passage doesn't even sound like Shakespeare. And her attempts to brazen it out just make it even worse. How can you extol as "beautifully written" something containing the following sentence?: "It both emboldens the blood just as it narrows the mind." I guess to be fair though, compared to the fax she sent anything sounds like Shakespeare.


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