ATDTDA (2): Echoes of the Holocaust??
Tim Strzechowski
dedalus204 at comcast.net
Sun Feb 11 22:44:48 CST 2007
"In Austria," the Archduke was explaining, "we have forests full of game, and hundreds of beaters who drive the animals toward the hunters such as myself who are waiting to shoot them." He beamed at Lew, as if mischievouly [sic] withholding the final line of a joke. Lew's ears began to itch. "Hungarians occupy the lowest level of brute existence," Francis Ferdinand declared -- "the wild swine by comparison exhibits refinement and nobility -- do you think the Chicago Stockyards might possibly be rented out to me and my friends, for a weekend's amusement? We would of course compensate the owners for any loss of revenue" (ATD, p. 46).
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