Bob Warr posted this on his blog a bit over a year ago. O. Henry wrote it over a century ago. The passage of time since either event occurred has not improved the situation. Bob doesn't mind my re-posting this. See I credited the source. Both sources.
Excerpt from "The Foreign Policy of Company 99" by O. Henry.
This was written over a century ago. The more things change, the
more they stay the same.
Jeffries is James J. Jeffries, noted boxer of the day.
In a college history class the professor explained that because we have a written constitution, with everything in one document, our civil rights are more easily abridged/denied/taken away, than say England, which has no ONE written document of it's laws and citizens rights and privileges...
ReplyDeleteGrace, there's a thought I believe I had never had presented to me. Hmmm.
ReplyDeleteIndeed, there is nothing new under the sun.
ReplyDeleteShelly, nor ever shall be.
ReplyDeleteSee how hard it is to write a good book. All five plots have already been used.
ReplyDeleteSharkey, I have long believed, still do, that in the world of fiction, and perhaps even broader than that, everything is derivative. I merely hope that I might hang some new trappings on the old framework. And indeed, the trappings may have been second-hand, too. But I hope not.
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