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Were I to begin this post by exhorting Lord Black to maintain a firm grip on his soap while performing his ablutions when finally domiciled in the penal institution of the court's choosing... Then again.
The Oxford English Dictionary, that never-emptying font of wisdom, describes hubris as "presumption, originally towards the gods; pride, excessive self-confidence" and, as of Monday, also Conrad Black.
I am amused that a man who takes such a manifestly banal and loquaciously prolix delight in his own linguistic dexterity should prove so completely oblivious to the role his own behaviour has played in his downfall. Indeed, it delights me. That he should face his own legal travail while finishing an autobiography of Richard Nixon and fail to see the parallels between them or garner a single lesson from perhaps the greatest fall from grace of the 20th century is almost one irony too many, it threatens to overwhelm the spiritual palate with the richness of the schadenfreude there evoked.
Then again, couldn't have happened to a nicer guy.
The Oxford English Dictionary, that never-emptying font of wisdom, describes hubris as "presumption, originally towards the gods; pride, excessive self-confidence" and, as of Monday, also Conrad Black.
I am amused that a man who takes such a manifestly banal and loquaciously prolix delight in his own linguistic dexterity should prove so completely oblivious to the role his own behaviour has played in his downfall. Indeed, it delights me. That he should face his own legal travail while finishing an autobiography of Richard Nixon and fail to see the parallels between them or garner a single lesson from perhaps the greatest fall from grace of the 20th century is almost one irony too many, it threatens to overwhelm the spiritual palate with the richness of the schadenfreude there evoked.
Then again, couldn't have happened to a nicer guy.
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