Proverb for paranoids

[Murthy Yenamandra]

Steely provides us the original version:
> "The innocence of the *creatures* is in inverse proportion to the
> immorality of the *Master*."

I agree with steely in that a reversal of the sentence would screw up
the meaning (even though it might be mathematically equivalent - we're
not talking math here and there's a distinct direction of implication),
but there is no reason to attribute the misquotation to Mascaro's evil
intention to corrupt us all.

Two, I don't have my copy here to check the context, but does any one
want to comment on why the proportion is *inverse* here and not direct?
The inverse proportion works for creatures that're created by the master
(and are his extensions), but not creatures that're enslaved by the
master.

Murthy

-- 
Murthy Yenamandra, Dept of CompSci, U of Minnesota. mailto:yenamand at cs.umn.edu
              "Things fall apart; the center cannot hold.
               Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world"