Proverb for paranoids

Murthy Yenamandra yenamand at cs.umn.edu
Mon Feb 10 09:52:11 CST 1997


> "The innocence of the *creatures* is in inverse proportion to the
> immorality of the *Master*."

Well, I looked up the section with the proverb and it definitely looks
odd. According to the context, the proportion is not inverse. Either
this is a mistake (say it ain't so, Mr. P!) or I'm missing something.

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"



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