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[David Eric Smith]

I don’t actually have direct sourcing on the Churchill quote.

That is one of Cormac McCarthy’s favorite attributions, so I have heard it a few times over the years.  I should find out in what context it was said.

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> On Oct 12, 2020, at 5:44 PM, uǝlƃ ↙↙↙ <gepropella at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Ha! Yes, the question always boils down to whether or not one gives the metaphor-maker the benefit of the doubt and assumes they don't foist targetless metaphors upon us. The tragic mistake of a modernist is to think other people are NOT zombies, absent of any content at all. "He can't possibly be as empty-headed as he seems. So there must be some deep structure we could tease out if we had the energy."
> 
> I've never heard the Chruchill quote, where's it from?
> 
> On 10/12/20 2:01 PM, David Eric Smith wrote:
>> I think it is a grand metaphor, meant to bring in the whole of one of the briefest postal correspondences in the literature of science.
>> 
>> Boltzmann to his publisher:  ?
>> Publisher back to Boltamann: !
>> 
>> What did Churchill say?  The two things that modern man would worst miss were a classical education and the horse.
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