MWFrost

From a review in the Washington Post of a book by Joseph Contreras about Mexico:

The dictator Porfirio Diaz, who ruled Mexico for three decades in the late 1800s and early 1900s, is often credited with saying, “Poor Mexico, so far from God, so close to the United States.” If Diaz were alive today, Contreras writes, he might say, “Poor Mexico, so close to the United States, so far from a relationship based on true equality and respect.”

And maybe William Faulkner, were he alive today, would say, “The past is not dead. In fact, it’s not even, like, really all the way behind us such that it no longer influences the present.”

And Talleyrand would probably say “This is worse than a crime, it is a mistake, which you’d usually not think of as being something worse than a crime, but for me to consider the mistake worse than a crime means that my judgements reflect cold-blooded calculations of self-interest.”

There’s a Style Invitational contest in here somewhere.