Normally it is pretty easy to insert a quote from a classic book when I write a post. But last time, I dropped the ball. It finished as:
Of course Gandhi-on-Wheels gets his compensation by visualizing Mobility as a consumer good and status symbol, and then by falling in love with the insatiability of mobility. So it really is just a re-incarnation of the very thing he thinks he is rebelling against.I forgot to pull in a quote from Edmund Burke, in his classic "Reflections on the Revolution in France":
Seldom have two ages had the same pretexts and the same modes of mischief. Wickedness is a little more inventive...The very same vice assumes a new body. The spirit transmigrates; and, far from losing its principle of life from its change of appearance, it is renovated in its new organs with the fresh vigor of a juvenile activity.By the way, somebody recently asked me, What is a classic book or movie? My answer was similar to what a Supreme Court justice said about pornography: 'He couldn't exactly define it, legally, but he could recognize it when he saw it.'
"'Classic.' A book which people praise and don't read." — Mark Twain
ReplyDeleteAn ironic statement by an author who is considered classic by some people. I don't care for him that much. He was trying too hard to be an entertainer.
DeleteI don't know....I think Animal House and Blazing Saddles are classics. Since it's the holidays, I'll also submit Die Hard and Bad Santa.
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