Shortest Tale in Western Literature
Cuando desperto, el dinosauria estaba alli.
(When he woke up, the dinosaur was still there.)
-- Augusto Monterroso
(When he woke up, the dinosaur was still there.)
-- Augusto Monterroso
Libertarians, My Libertarians!
Cruel to be kind means that I love you . Because, while I think you are mistaken, your hearts are in the right place -- yes, even you, Silas -- unlike some people . This Breitbart fellow (discussed in the link above), by all appearances, deliberately doctored a video of Shirley Sherrod to make her remarks appear virulently racist, when they had, in fact, the opposite import. I heard that at a recent Austrian conference, some folks were talking about "Callahan's conservative turn." While that description is not entirely inaccurate, I must say that a lot of these people who today call themselves conservative give me the heebie-jeebies.
And his other book, The Black Sheep, is a "small volume of extremely short fables." A theme? An example of one fable - The Tortoise and Achilles -
ReplyDeleteFinally, according to the cable, last week the Tortoise arrived at the finish line.
At the press conference he declared modestly that all along he had feared that he was going to lose, since his competitor was right on his heels.
As it happened, one ten thousand trillionth of a second later, like an arrow and cursing Zeno of Elea, Achilles crossed the line.
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