[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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