[Avodah] Tzvei dinim to bitel torah
A & C Walters
acwalters at bluebottle.com
Sat Jul 7 13:11:46 PDT 2007
Should be correctly attributed to:
A letter from Max Reeger (1873-1916) to a critic.
'I am sitting in the smallest room of my house. I have your review before
me. In a moment it will be behind me.'
He was a composer of opera.
Most definatly not Voltaire
>
> > 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.
>
> Outhouse man dchar shmeih? Voltaire didn't live in some Lithuanian
> backwater. 18th-century Paris had indoor toilets.
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