The Politics Of Gene Wolfe

Son of Witz · 18 Mar 2009, 18:49 · from 2009-March.txt.gz

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From: sonofwitz at butcherbaker.org (Son of Witz)
Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2009 18:49:20 +0000
Subject: (urth) The Politics Of Gene Wolfe
Message-ID: <W206011314273151237402160@webmail8>


>-----Original Message-----
>From: brunians at brunians.org [mailto:brunians at brunians.org]
>Sent: Wednesday, March 18, 2009 11:46 AM
>To: 'The Urth Mailing List'
>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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