Fyodor Saw It

[kairos12]

I recently came across this from "Notes from Underground."

"would not be the least surprised if suddenly, out of the blue, amid the universal future reasonableness, some gentlemen of ignoble or, better, of retrograde and jeering physiognomy, should emerge, set his arms akimbo, and say to us all: 'Well gentlemen, why don't we reduce all this reasonableness to dust with one good kick, for the purpose of sending all these logarithms to the devil and living once more according to our own stupid will!' That would still be nothing, but what is offensive is that he he'd be sure to find followers: that's how man is arranged."

1864.

Merde.

[Ocelot II]

1. "Retrograde and jeering physiognomy."

Nailed it, Fyodor.

[kairos12]

2. That is an incredible turn of phrase.

I had to cogitate on that one for a while.

[Buckeyeblue]

3. Doesn't that to some degree describe every republican president elected after Nixon?

Except the first Bush. But they have all run as anti-government, free the white people candidates. Trump was more blunt in his intentions to burn it down but that's what they all wanted to do.

[Island Deac]

4. Merde

Merci, Dostoevsky.

[mitch96]

5. The term " wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross"? comes to mind.. uff..Merde is right...nt

[Mme. Defarge]

6. Mille fois merde!