[Avodah] Tzvei dinim to bitel torah

[mkopinsky at gmail.com]

On 7/6/07, T613K at aol.com <T613K at aol.com> wrote:
> I have a book about famous literary insults and put-downs, and in it there
> is a story about Voltaire.   He wrote to someone he greatly  disliked:  "I
> am
> sitting in the smallest room in my house.  Your  letter is before me.
> Presently it will be behind me."
>
The smallest room *in* my house?   What was the *out*house doing *in* the
house?  I think that mistake gives away the fact that this quote was not
written by Voltaire, but by someone who himself had indoor plumbing, and
ascribed it to Voltaire, making the same mistake that someone made about
the GRA.

(P.S. Notice that we call him the GRA, not the GRE, even though his name
was Eliyahu.  Thus, the SME (quoted by RZS in another thread) should be
acronmy-ized as SMA.)


KT,
Michael