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Originally Posted by eschwartz;2924921
I could've told him that for free.
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And, since the IQ of a mob is the IQ of its most stupid member divided by the number of mobsters, [...
-- Maskerade, by Terry Pratchett
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In this case, since they all read it and still signed it, it suggests that none cracks the triple digit barrier on their own anyway.
It seems that the only thing worse than stupidity is self-absorption.
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No group of authors as diverse or prominent as this has ever come together before in support of a single cause.
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Yeah, they really think that.
It has been pointed out that they aren't even close:
http://www.thepassivevoice.com/09/20...comment-250758
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I know some of these guys are old enough to remember Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. I suspect some of them probably signed petitions supporting him. You want a list of prominent authors, here’s a list the most prominent of the hundreds of writers who signed petitions supporting Solzhenitsyn (from his NYT obit):
Jean-Paul Sartre, Graham Greene, Muriel Sparks, W.H. Auden, Gunther Grass, Heinrich Boll, Yukio Mishima, Carlos Fuentes, Arthur Miller, John Updike, Truman Capote, and Kurt Vonnegut.
So, I think Author United might want to reconsider their own conception of their own relative prominence.
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