Sunday, February 20, 2005

Letter to Karl Marx from his Leipzig publisher

Writers get no respect...


Dear Herr Doctor,
You are already 10 months behind with the manuscript of Das Kapital, which you have agreed to write for us. If we do not receive the manuscript within 6 months, we shall be obliged to commission another to do this work.
- Letter to Karl Marx from his Leipzig publisher

(From The Paris Review and the late George Plimpton)