Truth will not afford sufficient food for their vanity; so they have betaken themselves to error. Truth, Sir, is a cow which will yield such people no more milk; and so they are gone to milk the bull. —Johnson
This is of course the Age of Aquarius, and Garry Wills, for one, has not been quite the same since some time ago when Simon and Garfunkel told him that the words of the prophets are written on subway walls. When somebody shouts political slogans in a concert hall, Wills nowadays writes a column about it, and approves; and assures the reader that Beethoven would have approved too.
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