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Bobok
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Nowadays humour and a fine style have disappeared, and abuse is accepted as wit.
I am thinking of making a collection of the bons mobs of Voltaire, but am afraid it may seem a little flat to our people. Voltaire’s no good now; nowadays we want a cudgel, not Voltaire. We knock each other’s last teeth out nowadays.
The wisest of all, in my opinion, is he who can, if only once a month, call himself a fool � a faculty unheard of nowadays. In old days, once a year at any rate a fool would recognise that he was a fool, but nowadays not a bit of it. And they have so muddled things up that there is no telling a fool from a wise man. They have done that on purpose.
I don’t like to hear people who have nothing but a general education venture to solve the problems that require special knowledge; and with us that’s done continually. Civilians love to pass opinions about subjects that are the province of the soldier and even of the field-marshal; while men who have been educated as engineers prefer discussing philosophy and political economy.
I am thinking of making a collection of the bons mobs of Voltaire, but am afraid it may seem a little flat to our people. Voltaire’s no good now; nowadays we want a cudgel, not Voltaire. We knock each other’s last teeth out nowadays.
The wisest of all, in my opinion, is he who can, if only once a month, call himself a fool � a faculty unheard of nowadays. In old days, once a year at any rate a fool would recognise that he was a fool, but nowadays not a bit of it. And they have so muddled things up that there is no telling a fool from a wise man. They have done that on purpose.
I don’t like to hear people who have nothing but a general education venture to solve the problems that require special knowledge; and with us that’s done continually. Civilians love to pass opinions about subjects that are the province of the soldier and even of the field-marshal; while men who have been educated as engineers prefer discussing philosophy and political economy.
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Sep 29, 2017 10:04AM
You are so right. Sigh!
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Re/Bobek, I am unfamiliar but in reading your review comments on the book by Dostoevsky, I suspect that you meant to include the phrase bon mots, roughly translated as witticisms. Also, at least to my own way of thinking, it is important to allow citizens of whatever country to offer their opinions on areas that are not native to them. We have become increasingly specialized & it is important that we all endeavor to reach out beyond our own profession or area of familiarity but also to continue to listen carefully to those whose area we are addressing. Bill
