<<LBJ's words were in quotes. nice try though>>
So what? You lifted the quote and the reference to Caro straight out of that blog without crediting the original writer - who does not seem to be you. Didn't they teach you to cite your sources in astrophysicist school?
Well, I said, there is a story which I remember to have heard, and in which I put faith. The story is, that Leontius, the son of Aglaion, coming up one day from the Piraeus, under the north wall on the outside, observed some dead bodies lying on the ground at the place of execution. He felt a desire to see them, and also a dread and abhorrence of them; for a time he struggled and covered his eyes, but at length the desire got the better of him; and forcing them open, he ran up to the dead bodies, saying, Look, ye wretches, take your fill of the fair sight.
I have heard the story myself, he said.
The moral of the tale is, that anger at times goes to war with desire, as though they were two distinct things.
classics.mit.edu
Time to move on.... |
