It was Bruce Feirstein, wasn't it?
I also like Nietzsche's "Insanity is rare in individuals, but amongst groups, parties and nations it is the rule"
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 10 May 2011, 11:11, 1 reply, 15 years ago)

Possibly, my source on the matter is not reliable
Nice bit o' Nietzsche, there.
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Tue 10 May 2011, 11:12, Reply)

one of my favourite "little chuckle" moments in literature
is in Carl Hiassen's Christopher Brookmyre's* "Not the End of the World" when they have a deep-sea research boat over the Marinas Trench called "Gazes Also"

*I get confused now I'm WELL OLD.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 10 May 2011, 11:18, Reply)

This is too clever for me
Can you relate it to football or dancing somehow?
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Tue 10 May 2011, 11:25, Reply)

Sorry
it's probably the most famous of Nietzsche's lines. It's about how those who deal with and study evil cannot avoid being tainted by it.

"Battle not with monsters, lest you become a monster, and if you gaze into the abyss, the abyss gazes also into you"
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 10 May 2011, 11:28, Reply)

Oh I have heard that... must admit I didn't make the connection
Not seeing the football or dancing references though, so let's call it a draw.

*flees*
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Tue 10 May 2011, 11:33, Reply)

I like a bit of Hiassen
Currently reading 'SCAT', but I've also read 'Not The End of The World'.

I got into reading him after I ran out of Christopher Brookmyre's.
(Reverend Fister "a disciplined fuckwit", Tue 10 May 2011, 11:31, Reply)

I think I went the other way round
but your post has reminded me that "NTEofTW" is actually Brookmyre and not Hiassen. Schoolboy.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 10 May 2011, 11:41, Reply)

Ah, of course it is. So we both like Hiassen and Brookmyre then!

(Reverend Fister "a disciplined fuckwit", Tue 10 May 2011, 11:58, Reply)