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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Friday, October 11, 2002
 
TO ASK SOME QUESTIONS IS TO ANSWER THEM... Here's one from Ebert's review of The Rules of Attraction:
The parties are a lapse of credibility. I cannot believe, for example, that large numbers of co-eds would engage in topless lesbian breastplay at a campus event, except in the inflamed imaginations of horny undergraduates. But assuming that they would: Is it plausible that the horny undergraduates wouldn't even look at them? Are today's undergraduate men so (choose one) blase, Politically Correct or emasculated that, surrounded by the enthusiastic foreplay of countless half-naked women, they would blandly carry on their conversations?

Actually, I guess that's two. Speaking of perfect pairs.

Yes, folks, Chris is at work way the fuck too late tonight. And has been here since yesterday morning. Almost feels like I'm clerking again.


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