Thursday, December 12, 2019

 

Take a Simpleton

Wendell Berry, "The Long-Legged House," Essays 1969-1990 (New York: Library of America, 2019), pp. 14-65 (at 27, writing about one of his high school teachers):
Take a simpleton and give him power and confront him with intelligence—and you have a tyrant.

# posted by Michael Gilleland @ 3:22 AM


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