Published in Group Writing“Nothing is simpler than to kill a man; the difficulties arise in attempting to avoid the consequences.” — Rex Stout, Too Many Cooks
Quote of the Day: Stout on Avoiding Consequences
I have to like it just for the Nero Wolfe reference.
I read that.
Satisfactory.
I’ll take it. 😉
Hmmn, counter-reference?
Of course. I am a lifelong Wolfe fan, who is unfortunately resembling him more and more as I get older. As Archie says, I could get a job in a physics laboratory as an immovable object.
Asimov called it “Behind the teacher’s back.” You can break the rules, as long as it’s done behind the teacher’s back.
In other words, you can do anything, just don’t get caught. I think it applies to the quote . . .
Just have two beers!
Yeah. Let’s not talk about that. It is sad when one of us has had to special order a bigger, stronger chair.
I not only look like him, my nephew stays with me and I cook fancy meals every Sunday. Except I suspect we resemble Leo Haig and Chip Harrison more than Nero Wolfe and Archie Goodwin.
At this time of my life I’d rather have a Fritz Brenner than an Archie Goodwin. I have an equivalent to Theodore, an old friend who has been gardening here for 36 years. We even have a couple of orchids going in the greenhouse, a Cattelya and an Odontoglossum.
As I recall, Wolfe sniffed at Cattelyas, and not in the good way.
In line with the the QOTD, here is a related quote, a personal favorite, from Wallace Stegner’s Angle of Repose:
“…I know no way of discounting the doctrine that when you take something you want, and damn the consequences, you better be ready to accept whatever consequences ensue.”
And, no, Jeffrey Epstein did not kill himself.
Yeah, but his death was one of those consequences of his seizing what he wanted.