Thursday, August 05, 2010

A hyperbolical tongue

“If I had a bomb, I would put it on London.”

There it was, in black & white, in yesterday’s Times.

Well the guy who said it owns a seafood business in Louisiana, & he is angry at BP. So its understandable hyperbole, no need for alarm.

But if he had brown skin & a beard & a turban?

Or an Irish accent.


"I have a hyperbolical tongue: it catches fire as it goes. I daresay I shall have to retract," said Will. George Eliot: Middlemarch