January 18, 2007
Our Dimmed Passion for Liberty
I love John Mortimer’s Rumpole stories and especially this line from Rumpole and the Alternative Society:
“I had brought a number of law reports on the question of agent provocateur and was interested to discover that it was the old hanging judges who regarded these beasts with particular disfavour; it’s odd how gentler days have somehow dimmed our passion for liberty.”
One of my favorite lines from that same story that I often use on my girlfriends (though never on She Who Must Be Obeyed):
“You look as glamorous as an unmade bed.”
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