"fascistic disposition" paragraph

[Paul Mackin]

On Sat, 2003-05-10 at 15:31, pynchonoid wrote:
> --- Paul Mackin <paul.mackin at verizon.net> wrote:
> >It means one
> > fewer from the poor

Major Burns recognized himself.

P.
> 
> 
> [...] Piscator. You know, Gentlemen, it is an easy
> thing to scoff at any art or recreation; a little wit
> mixed with ill nature, confidence, and malice, will do
> it; but though they often venture boldly, yet they are
> often caught, even in their own trap, according to
> that of Lucian, the father of the family of Scoffers: 
> 
> 
> Lucian, well skilled in scoffing, this hath writ, 
> Friend, that's your folly, which you think your wit: 
> This you vent oft, void both of wit and fear, 
> Meaning another, when yourself you jeer.  
> 
> If to this you add what Solomon says of Scoffers, that
> they are an abomination to mankind, let him that
> thinks fit scoff on, and be a Scoffer still; but I
> account them enemies to me and all that love Virtue
> and Angling.  [...] 
> 
> 
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