Be Careful What You Write

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.

2 thoughts on “Be Careful What You Write

  1. As one of the high priests of the Cult of Reason, that explains why Diderot died from gastro-intestinal problems.

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