Free Speech™. It’s non-negotiable. ‘I disapprove of what you say, but I am prepared to risk a five-year-old child’s death for your – alright, my – right to say it.’
(A purveyor of racist provocations and knight of liberty cowering in an armour-clad toilet leaving a toddler to face an axe-wielding madman? The gods of metaphor are generous.)
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‘A principal rule for writers, and especially those who want to describe their own sensations, is not to believe that their doing so indicates they possess a special disposition of nature in this respect. Others can perhaps do it just as well as you can. Only they do not make a business of it, because it seems to them silly to publicize such things.’
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
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