My favorite speech

In my life I have met exactly one person who, while sane and hale in all other respects, despised Thomas More. The author of UTOPIA has a particular high place in the hearts of all science fiction writers, being the father of fictional commonwealths from FIRST MEN IN THE MOON to NINETEEN EIGHTY FOUR to THE DISPOSSESSED.

Here is the speech on giving the devil the benefit of law from A MAN FOR ALL SEASONS.

About John C Wright

John C. Wright is a practicing philosopher, a retired attorney, newspaperman, and newspaper editor, and a published author of science fiction. Once a Houyhnhnm, he was expelled from the august ranks of purely rational beings when he fell in love; but retains an honorary title.

October 10, 2011 @ 5:27 pm

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