The extraordinary Republican debate last night called to mind Shakespeare and Kierkegaard. "How is that?" you may ask, puzzled, but perhaps also impressed, that I can find pearls in such a swinish pigsty. Well, as we will all recall, in Act One Scene 5 of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, the Fool, Malvolio, says "Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage." Kierkegaard renders this, as the Motto for his Philosophical Fragments, BETTER WELL-HUNG THAN ILL-WED, which we can all agree perfectly sums up Trump's message yesterday evening.
Marvel if you can at this Republican Primary season. We shall never see its like again.
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Danny Klein and I sent a satirical op-ed piece yesterday to the Boston Globe, which has often printed our op-eds. After last night, I doubt this one will see the light of day. The reality is more bizarre than the satire. Tom
These are difficult times for satirists.
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