“Who ever wins a war as he would wish it?”
(Diomedes, in Scene 4 of Heinrich von Kleist’s Penthesilea, trans. Joel Agee)
I translated this play, and I’m happy to see it is alive in the English-speaking world. I thought of this same line in connection with Rumsfeld’s rhetoric!
the above was intended as a response to “kleist before rumsfeld”
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I translated this play, and I’m happy to see it is alive in the English-speaking world. I thought of this same line in connection with Rumsfeld’s rhetoric!
the above was intended as a response to “kleist before rumsfeld”