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Monday, July 28, 2008
I Don't Want To Die An Idiot
Guy Davenport, The Hunter Gracchus and Other Papers on Literature and Art (Washington: Counterpoint, 1996), p. 215:
Je ne veux pas mourir idiot. French student demanding that Greek be put back in the curriculum.