Monday, May 31, 2010

Fireman

Paradoxically, both someone who sets fires and someone who puts them out.

"But here were several fine trials; among others several brought in for making it their trade to set houses on fire merely to get plunder; and all proved by two little boys, who did give so good account of particulars that I never heard children in my life."

Samuel Pepys, Diary (July 4, 1667).

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