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  • careful with those literary references

    ''Blair is not a wild-eyed Cassandra raising unsupported suspicions.'' Do Aeschylus some justice: Cassandra's curse for failing to bear Apollo a child was to tell the truth but never to be believed. She foretells in gruesome detail the murder of Agamemnon, as she had foretold the fall of Troy, but she was not believed in either ...
    Posted to The Spectator by Joe M. on August 31, 2007