a baby with a hammer

Tue Oct 26 16:50:08 UTC 2010

1997 C. Fred Alford _What Evil Means to Us_ (Ithaca: Cornell U. P.) 4: A man
with a method is like a baby with a hammer. Everything looks like a nail. I
trust I am not this baby, but my method frames the manuscript.

Nearly 1000 Raw Google hits.  Nothing earlier at GB.

JL

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