Cheeni found that ironic :). And for every such empire builder type who died poor, there's no shortage of his peers who started out poor but died filthy rich. I wish we could say this was about natural justice coming home to roost after all that oppression ..
-- srs (blackberry) -----Original Message----- From: John Sundman <[email protected]> Sender: [email protected] Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2012 17:29:26 To: <[email protected]> Reply-To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [silk] aqvavit On Feb 23, 2012, at 5:56 AM, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: > The delicious irony is how each of the inhuman conquistadors, Christopher > Columbus, Francisco Pizarro, Hernan Cortez all ended up either shipped back > to Spain in chains, or put to death or died begging for a living. Dear list: I hope to have something poetic and profound to say about this "delicious irony" at some point in the recent future, if I don't forget what I want to say or run out of time. Meanwhile, thank you all for this excellent discussion. jrs
