Stephen Harper speaks on the Nexen Deal in China

East is east and west is west and never the twain shall meet. I believe it is peace for our time. I like Mr. Gorbachev.  We can do business together.  Alberta Firewalls.  Richmond is easier for photo-ops.  Norman Bethune was an entrepreneur.  I am in control here. Revenues are the people’s great saviour. Sovereignty is for Dummies.  Next stop: Pluto.

Madame de Staël tweets a Letter to the Globe and Mail

Bonaparte was very much aware that the Parisians made jokes about his new nobles, but he also knew that their opinions would be expressed only in the form of mockery and not in violence.  They did not venture beyond the ambiguity of puns; and just as in the Orient one is reduced to allegory, in France people sink even lower, limiting themselves to the rattling of syllables.

Source: Madame de Staël, Ten Years of Exile, tr. Doris Beik (Toronto: Doubleday, 1972), p. 90.