Posted by Eugene Volokh:
I Am Glad To Live in a Country
http://volokh.com/archives/archive_2005_06_05-2005_06_11.shtml#1118270943
in which the President does not say things like:
Let us stop drinking from the enchanted waters of Lethe, which
strike with amnesia those who want to quench their thirst, and let
us dare to taste those 'fresh waters that run from the Lake of
Memory' -- as the words say on the golden bars of the disciples of
Orpheus, that bard of metamorphosis and of ascending reincarnation.
([1]The Telegraph (U.K.), quoting the new French Prime Minister,
Dominique de Villepin; thanks to [2]Best of the Web for the pointer.)
In fact, maybe that should be our reaction any time President Bush is
mocked for misspeaking: "Hey, at least it's not 'Let us stop drinking
from the enchanted waters of Lethe . . . .'"
References
1.
http://opinion.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2005/06/05/do0510.xml
2. http://www.opinionjournal.com/best/
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