14-08-2011, 03:00 PM
Jan Klimkowski Wrote:Steve - we'll have to disagree.
I stand by my description of the cod dialogue as overblown, anachronistic, and hugely unlikely.
Jan,
I wholeheartedly agree, and I've made this point before.
This is pure fiction which is fact-based only in the minimalist sense. The dialogue is third-rate and clearly invented to conform to the demands of a pre-existing book proposal.
The major error is that it attempts to ascribe to historical figures insight that was not achieved until decades later -- reminiscent in this regard to claims that JFK was speaking of Illuminati and such when he made what on DPF and elsewhere is the now-infamous "secret societies" speech.
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If an individual, through either his own volition or events over which he had no control, found himself taking up residence in a country undefined by flags or physical borders, he could be assured of one immediate and abiding consequence: He was on his own, and solitude and loneliness would probably be his companions unto the grave.
-- James Lee Burke, Rain Gods
You can't blame the innocent, they are always guiltless. All you can do is control them or eliminate them. Innocence is a kind of insanity.
-- Graham Greene