"C. G. Estabrook" wrote:
>
> Twenty-five years ago Christopher Hitchens [sic] began a defense of Noam Chomsky
> [sic] as follows:
>
> "In his imperishable Treatise on the Art of Political Lying, published in 1714,
> Dr. John Arbuthnot laid down a standard for falsifiers and calumniators that has
> yet to be excelled:
Then it would have been in many ways a collective project of the Scriblerus 'club,' and prbably contains contributins from Bolingbroke, Oxford, Pope, Swift, & a few others. The 'club' broke up with the death of Anne.
Carroo