Edward Abbey was fired as editor of the University of New Mexico’s literary magazine, The Thunderbird, after printing the following Denis Diderot quote on its cover:
Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.
He attributed it to Louisa May Alcott. I don’t know if the firing was due to the misattribution, or to the content of the quotation.
As one of the high priests of the Cult of Reason, that explains why Diderot died from gastro-intestinal problems.
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Luckily, Checker 5-6-7, reason is something you’ll never have to deal with.
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