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I use this statement in supermarket checkout lines when the citizenry
begins to whine about some minor infraction by another citizen ignoring
the appalling treatment they are receiving from their betters--- Iraq,
helath care, Jack Buyemoff e.g. Or miners dying from pols prostituting
themselves to big business, oddly not a victimless crime in metaphorical
usage.
I preface the statement with "as the poet says". If that poet turns out
to be me out of Pound, well, damn, I can certainly live with that. It
might be a jumble of Lenny Bruce and Pound, Lenny being another of my
heroes and an astonishing poet in his own right. CP
Carrol Cox wrote:
>Alphaville wrote:
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>><"In a regime of grand larceny, petty
>>larceny ranks as conformity.">?
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>>Given its from memory, more likely a paraphrase. Or Pound citing some
>>cheeky Han Dynasty PD. CP
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>There are some lines that express the same sentiment in one of the Pisan
>Cantos. I think they contain the phrase, "of grand larceny." I can't
>locate them quickly, however.
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>Carrol
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