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Laughter & Madness

“He was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad.”

–Rafael Sabatini, Scaramouche, 1921.

Indeed…

The quotation was many years ago inscribed over the doors to a building at Yale University, then, reportedly, covered up as being too plebeian–Sabatini was considered a “popular” author, not a literary one, by many. It was later restored.

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Of Foolhardiness

“I hope no man will call me timorous; and yet I’ld as soon be called that as rash.”

Dr. Peter Blood, about to become Captain Blood, commenting on the dangers of blind faith in the face of contrary reality in Captain Blood Returns, “The Blank Shot,” by Rafael Sabatini, 1930.

In other words, wear your mask!