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Sep. 26th, 2009
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Sep. 26th, 2009 06:04 pmDo not utter libel, speak what is of good report.
Do not say evil things, speak well of people.
One who utters libel and speaks evil,
Men will waylay him with his debit account to Shamash.
[That is - I think - they'll point out all of his faults and crimes.)
- The Babylonian "Counsels of Wisdom", c. 1500 BCE. From W.G. Lambert, Babylonian Wisdom Literature, Oxford University Press, 1960.
Do not say evil things, speak well of people.
One who utters libel and speaks evil,
Men will waylay him with his debit account to Shamash.
[That is - I think - they'll point out all of his faults and crimes.)
- The Babylonian "Counsels of Wisdom", c. 1500 BCE. From W.G. Lambert, Babylonian Wisdom Literature, Oxford University Press, 1960.
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Sep. 26th, 2009 08:12 pm"The modernists extended this misconception by declaring fantastic narrative to be intrinsically childish... There should be a word - 'maturismo', like 'machismo'? - for the anxious savagery of the intellectual who thinks his adulthood has been impugned."
- Ursula Le Guin, New Statesman, 2006
- Ursula Le Guin, New Statesman, 2006