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Title: Truth never dies, it just gets new teeth
Review: Chicken soup for the spleen!Damn. And I thought I had a bleak perspective and a cutting cacpcity for quick critical insight- Karl leaves me and everyone else in the dirt. A comedian could quite possibly mine an entire erudite, Dennis Miller-esque routine from this book. Kraus' witticisms are as spot-on today as they were when he edited Die Fackel (The Torch), in Vienna about a century ago.My only beef- it's a lot of dough for not a lot of tree-gut. I mean 918 aphorisms? these aren't sprawling, long-winded Nietzschian aphorisms. They're quick. And this is a page turner... Ah well, it still gets the 5 for being so damn right!Hey- if you think people (by and large) are lying, manipulative, weak, dishonest scum- this is a book for you. Great essay by the translator too!
