Fwd: A quote for God, country, and Yale?

[Joel S. Berson]

 From another list, a possible quotation for the
YBQ (I'll be embarrassed if it's there already).

(At least the soup can did not burst and spatter the wall.)

Joel

>From: Andrew Brown <lists at C18.NET>
>Subject: [C18-L] Voltaire for 4.5 million sterling
>To: C18-L at LISTS.PSU.EDU
>
>Sotheby's kindly send me a mail whenever they have some Voltaire
>coming up for sale. This morning's message is illustrated by a can of
>soup, and Voltaire is indeed there, behind the scenes :
>
>"After seeing the soup cans, Henry Geldzahler, director of the
>Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York at the time, declared to
>Warhol: "You are the Voltaire of America. You are giving America just
>what it deserves ­ a can of soup on the wall!" (cited in: Andy Warhol
>and Pat Hackett, Popism, London 2007, p. 45)"
>
>AB
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