flatten-out

Updated: June 5, 2025

Your position is not heroic; at best, it is only pitiable; at worst, it is detestable. Athanasius contra mundum is grand only in cases where the snag is right, and the mundus wrong. Then persecution becomes the second-highest form of blessedness the highest form, of course, being the ability to turn round and flatten-out the persecutor.

Joseph Furphy - Such Is Life