Oh So Good

This, from Tony Woodlief:

"Last night I read Dorothy Sayers's essay, "Why Work?", and came across this thought, which puts me in mind of the recent federal Economic Stimulus Payment(which, if anyone from the IRS is reading, I still have yet to receive):

'A society in which consumption has to be artificially stimulated in order to keep production going is a society founded on trash and waste, and such a society is a house built upon sand.'

Or you could consider Dave Barry's assessment of the situation. (HT: Lori M.)"

Dorothy Sayers was an amazing person. Running for the bomb shelter one night during a WWII air raid, she grabbed a Dante translation from the shelf to keep herself occupied. Disgusted with the translation (for, of course, as one of the first women awarded a degree at Oxford, she'd read it in the original Latin) she went on to do her own translation. Her Peter Wimsey/Harriet Vane detective novels are some of the finest 20th Century detective fiction, she was a playwright and Christian apologist - the list goes on and on. A remarkable woman.

Thanks for the quote, Tony.