Wordplay 10/13/23

One last bit of housekeeping before a roughly two-week break.

Scatology 1

If they’d given him an enema, they could have buried him in a matchbox.

Christopher Hitchens on the passing of Jerry Falwell (Sr.) via Andrew Sullivan

Scatology 2

So full of shit his breath makes acid rain

Bruce Cockburn on the Rev. Ian Paisley (an Orangeman rabble-rouser in “the troubles” of Northern Ireland)

Literature

Literature in itself knows more than the theory of literature knows.

Jon Fosse, 2023 Nobel Laureate for Literature

“Resistance”

Progressive-speak for antisemitic attacks on Jews by Palestinians and Hamas. (See Harvard Shrugs at Jew-Hatred – WSJ)