One should say nothing, because everything offends.This is similar to Gilleland's Law, first propounded in 2010 — Everything offends someone.
On ne devrait rien dire, parce que tout blesse.
"A peculiar anthologic maze, an amusing literary chaos, a farrago of quotations, a mere olla podrida of quaintness, a pot pourri of pleasant delites, a florilegium of elegant extracts, a tangled fardel of old-world flowers of thought, a faggot of odd fancies, quips, facetiae, loosely tied" (Holbrook Jackson, Anatomy of Bibliomania) by a "laudator temporis acti," a "praiser of time past" (Horace, Ars Poetica 173).
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Friday, December 29, 2017
Survival in an Age of Political Correctness
Jules Renard, Journal (March 20, 1909; tr. Louise Bogan and Elizabeth Roget):