[lbo-talk] Emily on Credit

[dredmond at efn.org]

Quoting joanna bujes <jbujes at covad.net>:


> As Emily [Dickinson] put it,
> 
> How dreary - to be - Somebody!
> How public - like a Frog -
> To tell one's name - the livelong June-
> To an admiring Bog!

A great quatrain from one of her earliest poems is surprisingly apropos to the
credit/mortgage bubble:

Mortality is fatal -
Gentility is fine,
Rascality, heroic,
Insolvency, sublime! (pg 6, Emily Dickinson, collected poems, T. Johnson edition)

-- DRR