The stupidities
of comparative dullards.
who can stand fury?
From the preface to Saint Joan, By George Bernard Shaw.
If Joan had been malicious, selfish, cowardly, or stupid, she would have been one of the most odious persons known to history instead of one of the most attractive. If she had been old enough to know the effect she was producing on the men whom she humiliated by being right when they were wrong, and had learned to flatter and manage them, she might have lived as long as Queen Elizabeth. But she was too young and rustical and inexperienced to have any such arts. When she was thwarted by men whom she thought fools, she made no secret of her opinion of them or her impatience with their folly; and she was naive enough to expect them to be obliged to her for setting them right and keeping them out of mischief. Now it is always hard for superior wits to understand the fury roused by their exposures of the stupidities of comparative dullards.
Not wanting to take sides of the argument on this Sunday Morning, because it is Sunday Morning, I put forward the thought that today’s Haiku can be embraced by either side of the argument.
No Haiku For You 