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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Saturday, January 11, 2003
 
I can't believe it took me so long to find this, which is the Tolkien thread to end all Tolkien threads. I'm way late to this party, but I'm going to have to come up with a worthy contribution...


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