[lit-ideas] Re: On the prospect of World Peace
- From: Eric Yost <eyost1132@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 05 Sep 2006 16:05:01 -0400
Dear Lois Ann Clark,
I admired your overland expedition. Thomas Jefferson must be
very proud of you.
You are also quite right to point out the so-called
printer's errors in my book. Certainly we expect flaws in
all things human, but you have no idea how many times I have
had to tell people that my wife is not nasty, brutish, and
short.
The revision--alas!--has fared no better. Certainly my quill
is blunted with protestations that "Whores" are not the
"state of nature" from which brewed Savarin will rescue us.
Nor am I inclined to give peas a chance. Yet my social
contract with the publisher admits few remedies.
Felicitously,
Thomas Hobbes
> War being the natural state of affairs, peace has only
been the result of a superior force or a decisive defeat.
Dear Mr. Hobbes,
I read your book when it came out. This revised version
could use some editing.
Yours sincerely,
Lois Ann Clark
Department of Logical Antiquities
Mutton College
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