Sunday, July 06, 2008

Intellectuals

I am still a little too upset to write about Roger losing to Superman, so I am going to take the easy way out... hat tip to my brother Steve for this thought for the day:

-"Je suis un intellectuel. Ça m'agace qu'on fasse de ce mot une insulte: les gens ont l'air de croire que le vide de leur cerveau leur meuble les couilles" (Simone de Beauvoir "Les Mandarins")

["I am an intellectual. It irritates me when this word is turned into an insult: people seem to think that the emptiness of their heads gives them bigger balls"]

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