A lightning rod atop a church tower is the strongest conceivable vote of no confidence against dear God.Hat tip: Kevin Muse.
Ein Blitzableiter auf einem Kirchturm ist das denkbar stärkste Mißtrauensvotum gegen den lieben Gott.
"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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Tuesday, July 09, 2024
Vote of No Confidence
Karl Kraus (1874-1936), "Sprüche und Widersprüche," Die Fackel, Doppel-Nummer 272-273, X. Jahr (15. Februar 1909) 40-48 (at 43, my translation):