The Bishop and the Butterfly: Murder, Politics, and the End of the Jazz Age
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    Quiz: Guess who wrote this?

    By amike on Mon, 03/09/2009 - 11:29pm |
    I'm too old for quickies...but this is just too good to resist.  Some folks have enjoyed my ventures into literature and history.  I've got something more substantial I'm working on-a multi-part look at popular media and the "common man," but in the meantime...here's a little quiz.  Who wrote:

        "Depression," as ..... ....... has said, "shows man as a senseless cog in a senselessly whirling machine which is beyond human understanding and has ceased to serve any purpose but its own." The worse the machine behaved, the more were men and women driven to try to understand it. As one by one the supposedly fixed principles of business and economics and government went down in ruins, people who had taken these fixed principles for granted, and had shown little interest in politics except at election time, began to try to educate themselves. For not even the comparatively prosperous could any longer deny that something momentous was happening.

    Lord willing, and the creek don't rise and this doesn't fall off the front page in the next 15 hours, I'll return and if nobody has the correct answer I'll spill the beans.