(urth) The Politics Of Gene Wolfe

Son of Witz sonofwitz at butcherbaker.org
Wed Mar 18 11:49:20 PDT 2009


>-----Original Message-----
>From: brunians at brunians.org [mailto:brunians at brunians.org]
>Sent: Wednesday, March 18, 2009 11:46 AM
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>Subject: Re: (urth) The Politics Of Gene Wolfe
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>> On Mar 18, 2009, at 1:17 PM, brunians at brunians.org wrote:
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>>> Of course criminals, by definition, aren't very bright,
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>> Bernie Madoff always struck me as a rather smart man.
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>Use of past tense noted.
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>He wasn't smart enough not to get involved in a Ponzi scheme.

He's said he knew what he was doing and he knew that "this day would come", so I guess the only stupid thing, in terms of his own benefit, was to not die or go into hiding before that day came.  What an asshole.






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