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An anticlimax indeed, but hardly grand. The NYT piece was a perfunctory, going-through-the-motions rubber hatchet job. Reading betwen the lines, and looking a
by tuatoru 6y ago
An anticlimax indeed, but hardly grand.
The NYT piece was a perfunctory, going-through-the-motions rubber hatchet job.
Reading betwen the lines, and looking at his random application of the forms of a hatchet job (out-of-context quotes, misleading connections, scare quotes, etc), Cade what's'isname's heart was not in his work at all; perhaps he only wrote it under duress.
Richelieu[1] it was not.
1. Qu'on me donne six lignes écrites de la main du plus honnête homme, j'y trouverai de quoi le faire pendre.
If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him.