[lit-ideas] Re: A history of the decline and fall
- From: david ritchie <profdritchie@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 1 Oct 2017 20:30:44 -0700
On Oct 1, 2017, at 8:01 PM, Omar Kusturica <omarkusto@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Nice guess, but Spengler is a a faint of copy of Gibbon.
On Mon, Oct 2, 2017 at 4:48 AM, John McCreery <john.mccreery@xxxxxxxxx
<mailto:john.mccreery@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
Spengler?
"Revenge is profitable, gratitude is expensive."
The man could turn a phrase.
Can’t claim to have finished the whole thing, but some parts stick.
I hadn’t heard of Spengler, peasant that I was, till I came to America.
Somehow he is better remembered here.
David Ritchie,
Portland, Oregon
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