[lbo-talk] On Obama's personal choice

[// ravi]

On Aug 8, 2011, at 2:00 PM, lbo83235 wrote:
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> “Attention to health is life’s greatest hindrance.” – Plato (427-347 BCE)
> “Plato was a bore.” – Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)
> “Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal.” – Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910)
> “I’m not going to get into the ring with Tolstoy.” – Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)
> “Hemingway was a jerk.” – Harold Robbins (1916-1997)
> “Harold Robbins was a prophet of a sensibility that used to be scorned.” – Camille Paglia (1947- )
> 

Harold Robbins? WTF? This list seems to show that Tolstoy was at the apex of the Bell Curve of literature/philosophy. :-)

	—ravi