Re: the post about using literary references to bolster an argument, a three-judge panel for the DC court of appeals selected a brilliant Lewis Carrol quote to underscore the absurdity of the Bush administration's position that detainees can be kept in Gitmo with little or not evidence. Bush lawyers, employing the ever-popular repetition strategy (it works well in law school), contended that because accusations made against a Chinese Muslim appeared in three separate secret reports, they must therefore be true.
The court's answer, courtesy of the NYTimes:
"The court compared that to the absurd declaration of a character in the Lewis Carroll poem 'The Hunting of the Snark': 'I have said it thrice: What I tell you three times is true.' "
Avid readers, Disney-movie watching children, and hallucinogen aficionados around the world will understand the potency of this reference.
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