The pseudonym "Philo Vaihinger" has been abandoned. All posts have been and are written by me, Joseph Auclair.

Thursday, June 23, 2016

Why imprison?

Fitzstephan asks the Continental Op what good does it do, putting people in prison.

He replies it relieves congestion.

Driving in traffic would be much worse without it.

Reading Dashiell Hammett, The Dain Curse, 1928.

A propos of Defoe's view of the same subject in his Moll Flanders, 1722.

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